What does your morning routine look like?

[bumbles]

Or whatever time of day you wake up :)

I am curious, because I keep hearing this "routines are so important" stuff. Also maybe looking for inspiration because mine is:
-oatmeal
-black coffee
-??

 

[blackemerald1]

Oat's, observe diary of tasks to do:rolleyes: Decide what must be done & move other tasks to another day... again.

 

[Esterio]

My morning routine starts out bad early and has usually gotten better after I get to eat some thing. I make myself a nice smoothy.

 

[Rani G2]

oatmeal
-black coffee
-??

@bumbles....Oatmeal sounds healthy.

For me its 5.50 a.m when I wake up. Porridge with Milk. Then Cold/ warm shower. Vitamin B12 and Magnesium. Out of the house to work.

 

[somerandomguy]

Stumble out of bed.
Feed cat.
On a weekday: make lunch, get dressed, eat a bowl of cereal, lie down on the couch for 15 minutes with the cat, go to work.
On a weekend: make coffee, make breakfast. Always the same breakfast: 2 sunny side up eggs, 2 slices of toast, black coffee. Then go back to bed.

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

• Wake up, do breathing exercises and stretches before getting out of bed...unless I have to pee really bad...then I go back and do them once I empty my bladder.
• Scrape my tongue with a copper tongue scraper, brush my teeth, wash my face, comb my hair. (or shower if I'm heading out early)
  
• Bounce on the mini-trampoline for a few moments....or for a song or two, depending on my energy level, pain level, and attention span.
• Hula hoop for a few minutes or a few songs....same as above.
  
• Start my hydration routine that consists of much H20/lemon H20, herbal infusions with things like stinging nettle/red clover/burdock root/ginger/etc., prep and make my fresh veggie/fruit juice, and get my break-fast fruit choice of the day ready to eat about an hour or two after I hydrate (I typically don't eat any solid food until 11ish or later, unless it's a nice juicy fruit variety of some sort).
• Take my B12/D3/DHA/EPA supplement...it's an all-in-one spray, making that easy to keep up with.
  
• Rub my favorite essential oil blend all over and get my diffuser necklace ready to help with the aromatherapy scene as I venture out into the synthetic chemical camouflage world of others.
  
• Take a walk on the land and pick berries or forage for other wild nourishment and talk to the birds and other animals I see along the way....and meditate/chant/sun bathe for about 20 minutes.
  
• Get online and see how much further the world has gone to hell so I know where/what/whom to avoid or where to rush off to in order to further nurture my being.
• Plan the rest of the days meals/self-care, prep some "finger food" snacks for when I venture out and about so I'm not tempted by old choices that make me ill and drain my energy, make any calls if I need to, then dive into the scary space known as my brain to see what the rest of the day can productively bring about....or just chill....whichever is most user-friendly in the moment.

This has been my morning routine for the past 3+ years as I've drastically changed my consumption habits, first for the health of it, then for the ethics of it, too, and has served me well, thus far...way the hell beyond what I ever thought was possible, given how far gone I was health-wise (weighing in at 324 lbs., miserable as f*ck, and almost bed-ridden).

I used to be a night owl, staying up 'til sunrise, sleeping in until at least noon-ish, eating as I was taught...lots of meat/dairy/eggs/coffee as soon as I woke up and for damn near every other meal, too, with even more coffee in between to "keep me going", never exercising on purpose, and was continually fighting off one miserable illness right after another, not to mention all the draining energies I was absorbing from all the beings I was consuming at the time.

It's not an easy routine to acclimate to after 4 decades of doing just the opposite, but it sure has improved the overall quality of my life. When I stray away from it, I definitely feel the difference.

Making most of it be fun things to me, and making all those plants taste really good, makes all the difference in the world. Hula hoops, the mini-trampoline, and nature exploration don't feel like "exercise", but rather just a fun way to start the day.

 

[DharmaGirl]

Get up when sun rises. Let the pullets out, let the chickens out, let the hen and chicks out. Check and fill all feeders and waterers, water the gardens. Go back inside, feed and water the dogs and cat, make coffee, check email, sometimes go back to bed and get some more sleep if I can. The sun rises a little before 5am now. Check Myptsd.com. Check backyardchickens. Then while drinking coffee, make a list of what I want to get done for sure, then other things if I'm not in too much pain.

 

[Friday]

When I’m doing well I have a whole series of interlocking routines. It doesn’t really matter what comes up through the day, because the framework is there to both move me through it, and adjust to things that come up... without my having to think about it. They just happen, because the routine snaps into place.

Setting up those routines is the hard part. Looking at what I need in my life, and what I want in my life, and building those suckers... and the framework for them to piece into.

Part of that is looking at my own personality. I hate exercising first thing in the morning... unless I’m living somewhere with a pool I can just fall into, OR I’ve been drinking the night before. If I’ve been drinking all I really want to do is go for a run, take a hot shower, & clean my house. So I have different first-thing routines if I’ve beem drinking, or not. I also have different first-thing routines if I’ve got a kid in school, or am working an early job, or a few other things.

A Trauma-Quirk of mine is that if I haven’t taken a shower, yet? I’m in survival mode. So even on days where what I want to do the moment I wake up is go for a run... FIRST I need to take a shower. Yes. Even if I’m just going to be taking another one in half an hour. I don’t fight this. It’s something I’ve played around with over the years, and taking a shower (or falling into a pool) first thing in the morning is something I NEED if I want my head on straight the rest of the day.

So right outside my bathroom is where my good choices start. (If I refuse to take a shower, I’ve just made a choice to tell the day to f*ck right off, and that’s not *usually* a good decision for me. It can be. But it usually isn’t.) Do I grab my gym bag and go for a run? Do I make breakfast and get kids to school? Do I get ready for work? Do I...

...if I have to actually THINK about those choices, much less go find the things I need for them, it’s going to be dinner time before I actually do jack shit. Possibly of next week.

 

[Changing4Best]

I usually set my alarm for 6 AM or so, but I am almost always awake far before that. I try not to eat until 6 though, or I might end up having 3 breakfasts! I do email, and such, while waiting for breakfast time.

Anyway, once 6 AM rolls around, I have 2 eggs, coffee with milk and maybe a half a piece of bread with hummus on it. Then I go read my devotional and pray. I write my prayers sometimes. I might nap after that for awhile. Then I go out and wait for the bus to work.

Work is usually great once I get there. I am awake by that time, thankfully!

 

[bumbles]

Thank you for the responses!

 

[Neverthesame]

For me:

• Wake up as late as possible for making it to work on time.
• Swear at phone for emitting the beeping noise I told it too earlier.
• Eat a couple cookies while getting dressed. (Picked up this bad habit from when I was on Elavil. Now I always crave sugar in the morning.)
• Trip over something on way to bathroom for morning wee. Swear at whatever I carelessly left there, as if it was anyone's fault but mine.
• Look at time, forget morning wee. No time. Must go work now, full bladder deterrs lollygagging.
• Tie boots, realise I forgot something, swear about being in a stupid rush as if it was anyone's fault but mine.
• Do the staggered half sleeping lurch walk thing to work.
• Get to the stupid f*cking intersection that screws you out of a green light if someone triggers it and you can't hit the button before it turns yellow.
• Stare incredulously up at the sky and shout at God for the one and only (different) car that gets to that intersection just ahead of me. Every. Single. NIGHT!! IT'S 2AM! THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE!!! f*ck YOU!! :mad:
• Realise how crazy throwing that fit looks at 2am... :confused: Wait quietly....:locktopic: for the stupid f*cking light to change again...:cautious:
• Haul ass to punch clock. Take deep breath. Crappy part over, work ain't so bad now. ;)

 

[ILoveLife]

Coffee, shower, out for a bit.