Your Morning Routine

[MsTinkerbelly]

Originally Posted by Smiling

I feel like this is the right way to start the day. I just don't know how to get there. I guess I need to discipline myself to push through the exhaustion and just get up as soon as the alarm goes off.


Orema, (or anyone else who manages to get up early on a consistent basis) are you naturally a morning person or do you have a secret that you could share with those of us who have trouble getting up in the mornings?

I'm taking notes!

When I was in high school I had to get myself up every day and take a city bus to school. My
Dad married a woman who lived a bit away from my high school, and I didn't want to change my senior year when we moved. I had to set my alarm clock across the room so that I would have to get out of bed to turn it off.

My morning routine NEVER varies, even if I have to be somewhere early, as the pets have to be taken care of before I do anything for me. If my routine gets thrown off, then I forget my pills or something equally as important as I stand in the middle of the room wondering what to do with myself.

[Orema]

Originally Posted by Smiling

I feel like this is the right way to start the day. I just don't know how to get there. I guess I need to discipline myself to push through the exhaustion and just get up as soon as the alarm goes off.


Orema, (or anyone else who manages to get up early on a consistent basis) are you naturally a morning person or do you have a secret that you could share with those of us who have trouble getting up in the mornings?

I'm taking notes!

Hey, Smiling ... Just seeing your posting. I am a morning person and love getting up before dawn, have been doing it since I was a teenager when I would get up to make breakfast for my father. I go to bed early. Usually around 8pm and am asleep by 9. I often wake up around 2am and cat nap till 4am. The later I go to bed, the later I get up, so I make a point of going to bed early. And, I don't have children at home—that would change everything. With children I would get up later and go to bed later (to keep an eye on them).