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What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by zupzupper »

damontal wrote: post #135
emiranda wrote: post #25

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…

Whenever I wake up at 5 am and work out I wind up hitting a brick wall at about 10 am and have to take much more caffeine than usual to keep going.

Do you eat breakfast in there somewhere?

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by kaybe »

siphor wrote: post #102
jolmg wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm confident you could work in the morning if you readjusted your sleeping habits. This subthread is about the possible/probable genetic reasons why some people have more trouble adjusting their sleeping habits to that of everyone else. Saying that he just needs to adjust his sleeping habits is not really helpful.

I would doubt genetic reasons until he tries without all the modern light/darkness. It’s insane how quickly my sleep schedule changes when I sleep in a tent and the sun is unavoidable at literally sunrise... I match the sun schedule pretty quickly, and then get out of it really quickly (1-3 days).

I think walking around outside all day and not having to concentrate really hard sitting in front of a screen also helps a lot.

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by nandemo »

ilamont wrote: post #18

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…

In TFA, "slow morning" doesn't mean waking up late. It means waking up early but taking your time before starting work. If you're a night owl you're probably not doing slow mornings.

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by moltar »

jen729w wrote: post #115
hexo wrote: post #23

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I'm unemployable just because of this. I cannot "work" in the morning or when my employer thinks I have to.

Okay so hear me out here. You can change. It’s not hard. I am the owliest of owls. All my life, I’ve been up till 2am and struggled to get out of bed, snooze the alarm, last minute, dash through the shower, hurry to work, no time to think, sit down guiltily at 9:01am. I hated that morning rush but whatever, “that’s just who I am”. Now, I’m 42, so maybe age makes this easier. But my girlfriend is an early riser, and s…

I don’t think everyone can do this. I’m generally an early riser (~ 7). I tried shifting to 5 am but was unsuccessful. I went to bed earlier. But the mornings were miserable. I did it for a month without change.

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by oh_sigh »

hexo wrote: post #109
oh_sigh wrote: post #86

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I was a night owl from the time I was 16 until 33(sleep 2-3-4AM until 10AM-11AM-12PM), and then I adjusted my sleep cycle to be an early riser(sleep 11-6). It took about 4 days before I felt physically right. The hardest part was lifestyle adjustments around the differing hours. I don't believe I have any kind of special power. OP sounds depressed with a self-defeatist mindset. He considers himself unemployable becau…

I was fired from last job just because I couldnt stick with morning schedule and basically "had my own". I was supposed to be at work by 10am (LOL, we had standups at 10:45), and I just couldnt do it. Sometimes I came to work at 9, sometimes at 11:30, until they were fed up with this. I felt physical discomfort from this - vomited twice in the morning (I suppose it was from stress) and developed tick in the left eye…

Why can't you wake up at 7:30AM, be with your birds and start your day for the next 1.5 hours, and then get into the office before 10AM?

It sounds like you have other problems that are preventing your employment that are not related to you being a night owl(I don't even think you're a night owl...you self-admittedly wake up at 730-830am).

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by LawnboyMax »

emiranda wrote: post #25

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 heard this "energy boost" point many times and never understood it.

I tried waking up at 5 AM for a morning workout for a year (with proper 8-9 hour sleep at night) and I would always feel tired for the remainder of the day, especially for a few hours right after the workout. Maybe this depends on the type of a workout. I was doing mostly powerlifting with heavyish postworkout meals.

I am now working out a few hours before my bedtime and it is perfect. I get tired and physically can't stay up late after an evening workout; it really helps with keeping my schedule stable (i.e. not staying up late in front of a screen).

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by damontal »

zupzupper wrote: post #141
damontal wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whenever I wake up at 5 am and work out I wind up hitting a brick wall at about 10 am and have to take much more caffeine than usual to keep going.

Do you eat breakfast in there somewhere?

Yeah. It’s not lack of eating I drink plenty of water too.

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by eaurouge »

damontal wrote: post #135
emiranda wrote: post #25

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…

Whenever I wake up at 5 am and work out I wind up hitting a brick wall at about 10 am and have to take much more caffeine than usual to keep going.

For your workout, do you do weights only? If so, try adding some high intensity aerobics like running and see if that makes a difference.

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by SllX »

AlwaysRock wrote: post #99

Goodness. I don't think I've ever met anyone else who values the slow morning as much as I do. If I could I'd go into work around 10:30AM every morning. I need 7.5 hours of sleep at least. Really 8.5 to be at my best. That means I'm going to bed at 11PM and waking up at 7:30AM ideally. If I'm going to be at work by 9AM then I have to rush around to do everything. I've cut my morning activities down to do so but I'd l…

Out of curiosity, why not move your bedtime back a couple of hours? My own bedtime is 2230-0630 and I have been contemplating moving it back earlier to get more out of my morning as I tend to start work between 0730 and 0800.
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