if you wake up at 4:00 then you have like 3ish hours of free time to wake up and do stuff before work or whatever. Tons better than waking up and forcing yourself awake with coffee to then take a 5 minute microwave heat shower to then rush yourself and your soaked slippy ass to the car where your hair looks weird and you look and feel like a wet skunk in a swamp summer.

Pass, i will take a cold shower in the dead of night, to then go out for a smoke while it's still dark, and come back inside to enjoy rice bowl in the atmospheric glow of my dim lighting (a must for waking up while it's still dark), the rest of the time is just spent waking up, catching the news, maybe a show or two. I love it.

please consider the method, it will exponentially increase your mental health, rushed mornings tend to make you feel "forced" and it causes stress over time, not helpful if you have to work a lot, and doing it will actually make you want to sleep instead of forcing yourself to do that aswell.

Don't force yourself, find balance in your life.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I know this wouldnt work for me but absolutely please if you're unhappy with your mornings or evenings try different sleep schedules within what your obligations allow.

Doesn't have to be getting up at 5, for me I'd ideally go to bed there but since my job doesn't allow me to start in the afternoon, I've found that showering in the evening and getting up at 8 to then be able to just get ready and go to work in <15 minutes works great. I'm a zombie after waking up until I get some exercise anyway, so after cycling to work I'm fine and I just need to minimize the effort needed before that.

Get up late, or wake up in the middle of the night to get all your free time before work instead of after, prepare everything you can before bed or take all your time in the morning. But if you feel like what you're doing right now sucks, try something else if at all possible.

[–] Kirsche_z@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

Absolutely, experimentation is better than following the steps of someone else anyways, not everyone will have the same experience.

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