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Getting up. Ugh. Blah. Hiss. If you’re not a morning person like a certain husband of mine, you dread the alarm clock and you milk every last minute until you absolutely have to get out of bed and get going. So this below freezing morning, with a cold blockading my sinuses and lungs, it was extremely hard to stay committed to my no driving the kid to school policy. Not to mention that we’re still kind of two time zones back from our holiday traveling. The car called to me. “I have a heater…” it swooned. “Come on, just this once…” it beckoned. But resolve won out, and the third grade brigade and I bundled up and hiked it up the hill. But man, it was hard.
I wish I’d seen this article sooner but I was asleep.
Lifehacker’s Top 10 Ways to Upgrade your Morning Routine
No caffeine? No problem. I don’t drink coffee (some of you may have more of a problem with this than me, I realize this). Put the kid on a schedule? Yes. Can do. Push ups? Hmmmm. How about sit ups? Thinking? We’ll see. Save emails for later? Okay. I can do that.
Tomorrow is going to be easier, I just know it.
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I always set some oatmeal to soak and program the coffee machine the night before, so in the morning I can sit in bed and drink coffee and think until I’m ready to get up. It makes such a difference to wake up slowly and without panicking! But cold weather is just TOUGH.
Save the morning for thinking YES.
This is the reason my blog was fantastic (comparitively speaking) in retrospect in the old ’03-06 years, when I just opened a page and started typing before getting all structured and self conscious about it.
The Lifehacker “Upgrade Your Life” book has an embarrassment of riches on this very topic. My fave is setting a laptop to wake you up with streaming audio of the day’s weather and traffic.
You walked a third grader in freezing temps? You little Viking you!
Coffee has bad side effects — check online. It dehydrates, surges organs and depletes minerals, vitamins and electrolytes. It prevents deep sleep – needed for repair/rejuvenation. It results in greater exhaustion.