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Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by omayomay »

As a Person with ADHD:

- first thing i do is drinking big glass of water

- doing Sun Salutation yoga sequence, either 1 time or N times -as long as i am willing to do that day-

- spend first 15 minutes of working hour with coffee and writing a short todo for that day into paper.

I cannot emphasise enough how doing mindful exercises -even 1 minute!- regularly in the morning helps with my ADHD.

But here is my ADHD trap: I do yoga every morning, feel better, since i feel better stop doing them at some point because i don't think i need it. Downward spiral starts and i lost track of my ADHD.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by elseleigh »

I've recently retired. I get up between 0630 and 0700 and do fifteen minutes of core strength exercises. I create a new handwritten task list for the day, then have a long, slow breakfast (at least an hour, sometimes ninety minutes) while I read articles in my RSS feed.

When I was working, I got up at 0500 and worked for two hours (I usually set aside a challenging coding task for this slot the day before). Then the core strength exercises, task list and breakfast (although not as leisurely).

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by vinay_ys »

Find Zen in mundane daily repetitive tasks. Avoid all screens for first hour after you wake up (and the hour before you sleep). Stay focused in the moment – focus on your body and mind. First/last thing everyday, do these activities with mindfulness – personal hygiene, exercise, gratitude/prayer, set positive realistic intentions for the day, set intention to act, prepare, eat/pack fresh healthy food.

Then start your materialistic business end of your day. Learn to breathe and keep your mind calm and present throughout the day. Watch/catch yourself if your mind runs wild with background threads – try and disable background jobs in your mind for a few weeks.

If you have a spouse/partner, discuss these goals with them and ask for their cooperation while you are trying to change your habits. Have realistic expectations, and be generous towards others.

Coming to materialistic business hours of your day, focus on problem-solving and living in reality.

Work through your own personal Maslov's hierarchy of needs. Be strategic, be realistic, and try to build a reasonable position of confidence. Then, launch yourself further from there. Don't overextend yourself.

All the best!

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by secstate »

rich_sasha wrote: post #63

Meta: looking at these schedules, it is very obvious who has and who doesn't have children. My schedule is trying to squeeze about 30 hrs of parenting, work and sleep requirements into a 24h day.

Yeah, funny how the divisions appear when it comes to folks who have dependents (not just kids, adult dependents count too), and those who are el solo lobo.

I will add to your note a (hopefully) friendly reminder that parenting does not need to be as involved as some folks make it out to be. Some of the best parts of my kids days come when I just leave them alone in their room, ignore their "i'm bored" whinging, and do my own thing. It's not selfish, it teaches them to find their own motivations. My 8 year old fell back asleep on the couch for 20 minutes this morning after breakfast while complaining about being bored and is now building a marble run with a toy we had to dust off together this weekend.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by sexyman48 »

Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late. I use the side door. That way, Lumbergh can't see me. And after that, I just sort of space out for about an hour. I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work.

Office Space (1998)

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by p0d »

get up around 6 and pee...eat 1/2 homemade oatmeal cookie...drink glass of juice...eat rest of cookie...60g of porridge in a bowl with skimmed milk to bring it up to 240g...90s in microwave...cut up fat pear while waiting...add pear to warm porridge with a generous amount of honey...cup of regular coffee...read the news and other stuff...7, read bible in a year daily reading quietly outloud (as it helps me concentrate)...pray...save some thoughts to my private wordpress journal from my phone so not to bug my wife with my random musings...8, get ready for work [I was fat for 50 years of my life, now I am not...routine helps me but I am learning to stop boring my wife and kids about it...hence this outburst ;-)]

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by moltar »

secstate wrote: post #65
rich_sasha wrote: post #63

Meta: looking at these schedules, it is very obvious who has and who doesn't have children. My schedule is trying to squeeze about 30 hrs of parenting, work and sleep requirements into a 24h day.

Yeah, funny how the divisions appear when it comes to folks who have dependents (not just kids, adult dependents count too), and those who are el solo lobo. I will add to your note a (hopefully) friendly reminder that parenting does not need to be as involved as some folks make it out to be. Some of the best parts of my kids days come when I just leave them alone in their room, ignore their "i'm bored" whinging, and…

I wish that worked with my 4yo. He’ll whine and whine. And then feel rejected and start deliberately causing trouble to gain attention. Literally cannot be alone for a second.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

It depends if I am working at home or at the office.

I wake up without an alarm clock and the day starts here at 9:00. If I am at home I make it to the first meeting, if at the office it depends.

After getting up, a biofunction and a shower I take my pills. This is the only hard routine I set up. Also using the My Therapy app helps a lot in not missing this.

The cat makes sure I do not forget to give her her first breakfast.

And that's all. I do not think you need to have a routine to have a good life. And, only second, be productive.

I am French so there is a cultural aspect to it: productive is not the first thing that gets to my head when I think about my day.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by kody »

Wake up to my kid scream whispering at my baby to stop kicking me in the throat, change diapers make coffee and eggs, read a couple headlines about how it's the worst time in history to be alive, make lunches clean up breakfast and leave for work late to attend the daily all company hour long standup.

In all seriousness, sans young baby the most productive time of my life has been fitting exercise/side project time in between 4:30-6am. I made some real gains during that time and plan to get back into that routine once sleep isn't so rare.

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