This thread is making me feel unusually worthless. Waking up at 4am to do Wordle or Duolingo?
There is fairly good evidence for your sleep habits being pretty deeply embedded in us although they do change as you age.
Teenagers for example are wired to go to bed later and get up later.
Some people are genetically wired to get up at 0 stupid hour and others arent. So just getting up earlier may well just make you utterly miserable if you are wired the other way.
If you do try and change it then you need to do it slowly over time and pay as much if not more attention to going to bed earlier.
Since I've stopped drinking, I'm obviously waking up fresher/easier in the morning - usually anywhere between 5-6, regardless of alarms.
But, when drinking, I'd habitually stay up till around/gone midnight - now, I'm in bed for 10, asleep by 10-30-11 at the very latest
This thread is making me feel unusually worthless. Waking up at 4am to do Wordle or Duolingo?
I would take some of the virtue signalling posts in this thread with a hefty pinch of salt. Its all getting a bit "State of LinkedIn"
Get up at 6 am six days a week here, usually try and grab a lie in at least one day a weekend but it’s not compulsory.
If I’m working from home then it’s either an hour or so of bodyweight exercises or sometimes a walk out for a coffee. At weekends if I’m cycling then I like to be out the door before 7am.
It sounds weird but I find it easier to just get up earlier and take the decision making out of it, than to maybe get more sleep but constantly have to decide when to set an alarm.
I go to bed at 22.30 though lights out properly at 23.00. I prefer the time gained in the mornings over just watching TV at night but I do agree our preferred schedules are probably just inherent in us.
5:15, but only 2 days a week. CrossFit starts at 6-7, then to the office for a shower and working by 7:30-7:45.
Compressed hours means I can still be out before 5 on those days, but often end up staying till 5:30 other days.
Great in the summer with outside stuff at CrossFit- running, weights outside etc. But it can be hard in winter. I haven’t got the drive to train on my own at that time of day (having tried it many times!).
Up at 6 on a Saturday which isn’t too bad, and tend to play Sunday by ear depending on if at home or heading off somewhere.
some of these routines are alien to me. I'm a WFHer during office hours. I ve been a 12:30am to bed for as long as I can remember. I try and get earlier starts but it just means Im tireder as I always default to bed time at 12:30. I still want to break out of this but maybe its just the way it is. From 11pm to 12;30pm is just watching TV as well
Nope.
My "problem" is that flextime in the office means I can start at anytime 6 till 9.
So if I'm up, I can be in the office, and any activity either needs to justify not being paid the overtime, or why would I want to still be in the office after 4pm.
Office is moving locations this year and it'll tip my commute (by bike) from pintless and done in work clothes, to borderline worth getting changed and "well I'm on the bike now, may as well go the long way and put some miles in". So I think that'll encourage me to get up earlier and put in some miles as the difference between 4 miles and 14+ is going to be about the same as drinking my first coffee in my pants on the sofa Vs drinking it at my desk (fully clothed).
get up.
breakfast.
go out and do some trials for 2 hours to get my technique dialled....
oh, no, that's not me, that's martin hawyes.
When I needed to get my daughter up for school, I'd be up around 5:20, little bit of food, out for a ride by 5:45, back by 7:30, make sure she's up, shower, get her out for school at around 8:30, in the office for before 9. I'd do that 2-3 times a week.
Now, (trying 2-3 times a week at the moment!) up at 6:15, little bit of food, get the dog out the back garden for pee, sort biking stuff and out the door at 6:45, for an hour. shower, get dog out for a poop. second breakfast, get to my desk for before 9. If I'm up at 6am, I can get a full 1:45 out on the bike, though at the moment I'm only really good for an hour.
in summer I ride more in the evenings, in winter I find that if I'm up early my brain doesn't have the capability to argue with habit.
I’m not allowed to get out of bed before 6am as I might wake our 2 year old twins, according to my wife.
