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The last hour of a day is hardly the finest. If you move it to the morning, you'll get to enjoy your day in three parts, not two: morning/body/mind/soul, afternoon/work, evening/play.
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I'm really glad my workplace has a gym in it. I use it during lunch hour daily and it works out great.
Same here. Being able to go for a swim, lift weights, using the climbing wall, etc. when stuck on a problem is great.
I can recommend the practice; for the last few years, I've gone to bed around 10pm every night, and gotten up at five before heading to work around nine. (Adjust to taste depending on your sleep needs; the important point is to give yourself a few hours to yourself in the morning.) In practice, this means moving discretionary time from last thing in the day to first thing, and I think there's great value in that. Aft…
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Same here. I believe this is due to will power depletion (plenty of studies conclude that will power is finite resource) and after our normal 9-5 drains away our will power, people have a heard time being self-motivated - very true for me at least.
Yeah, and if you use your will power before work, you run out of it earlier in the work day and you get less done at work.
I've been waking up at 5am for the past 5 months so I can head to the gym (my first telecom meeting starts at 7am). Because no one is ever going to bother me between 5am and 7am, I've been able to consistently got to the gym at least 3x per week (trying to bump it up to 5x per week for the new year). I started doing this because it was very difficult for me to consistently go to the gym after work. Things come up, I…
I've been doing this for years now and it's hard to imagine the old days when I used to wake up, shower, and run into work. At first it started with just waking up, making coffee with my aeropress, and sitting down to read a novel for up to an hour. The past 2.5+ years have been: wake up, stretch and pranayama for 20 minutes, meditate for 30 minutes, make tea/coffee, write for 30-40 minutes, shower and then off to wo…
Out of curiosity, what do you differently during your 30 minute meditation than during the pranayama?
My meditation is probably closest to what people call vipassana these days -- it's watching the breath or another meditation object without any active control of it (which isn't completely correct, as attention does affect the breath). Pranayama on the other hand is an active manipulation of the breath.
The most effective thing for my mornings has been motion. I don't "get more work done" in terms of sit and think time, rather, by making the first thing I do be jog a little, maybe pick up a coffee, and relax, then I can face everything else. The alternative is that I spend the first hour of the day in the way that I spend the last hour of the day, in front of a screen. Which doesn't seem to work well for me.
I can't read TFA, but wanted to note that there's an interesting statistic in the book Why We Sleep : Something like 30% of the population are hard-wired to be "night owls" and 20% early risers. The author hypothesized that this may be an evolutionary survival mechanism that allowed bands of humans to always have people who were awake or more likely to wake quickly if threatened after dark or in the early morning. Fo…
I'm unemployable just because of this. I cannot "work" in the morning or when my employer thinks I have to.