Ask HN: What's your morning routine? Be specific!

7:30 - turn off second alarm

7:45 - turn off third alarm

8:00 - hit snooze

8:10 - hit snooze

8:20 - hit snooze

8:30 - stumble to shower

8:40 - get dressed

8:50 - take dog out

9:00 - leave for work

9:15 - arrive at work where I'll grab some coffee and a piece of toast while checking emails

  0600 - Arise
  0605 - Do some exercise, in my house because I don't like the gym anymore.
  0650 - Have a shower
  0700 - Wake up girlfriend
  0705 - Start coffee, moka pot
  0710 - Start breakfast stuff. Toast, grapefruit, croissant - one of those, not all!
  0720 - Get the TV on. Sitcoms in the morning. Formerly Frasier, finished that so now it's Seinfeld.
  0820 - Quick cup of OJ
  0825 - Start getting dressed
  0845 - Set off for work
  0900 - Get to work
  0930 - Wake up

    T+0 Wake up feeling a little cold, Go to my office to start start reading/studying
    T+60 Get ready for my run, normally about 6 miles
    T+120 Back from run, it's normally light by now. Run bath. Check emails while it runs.
    T+135 Get in bath. Relax
    T+150 Get out of bath, change into dressing gown.
    T+160 Make breakfast.
    T+180 Lay breakfast table. Wake girlfriend for breakfast. Have sex.
    T+200 Have breakfast.
    T+210 Change into work clothes. 8:30 by this point. Read any commits that were made yesterday so I'm up to speed on other's work.
    T+255 Time to leave.
    T+260 Have a coffee at some wanky coffee shop, across the street from work
    T+270 Sign into work.

Check various things online in case another 9/11

Take some innocuous daily medication I have to take

Get dressed

Go to work

Get coffee

Get caught up with overnight emails

Get caught up with feeds, blogs, etc

Decide on the main thing that's going to happen for the day

Brush my teeth.

Feed the cat.

Read twitter and glance at email while I sit on the toilet.

Shave.

Take a shower.

Wake Steph up if it's a day when she didn't leave before I got up.

Get dressed.

Start some water boiling.

Clean out the coffee pot and grind some new coffee.

Read other things while I wait for the water to boil.

Make eggs and toast and coffee.

Eat breakfast.

Maybe practice a song on the piano if I have a few minutes.

Leave Steph's mom her pills and newspaper.

Start walking to BART.

  T=0 Wake up to alarm
  T+~3 Shower
  T+~13 Exit shower, begin other amenities e.g.: teeth, hair
  T+~17 Get dressed
  T+~20 Exit front door
  T+25 Get on train for work
  T+50 Get in work, do admin tasks like email.
  T+90 Get a coffee, knuckle down for longer tasks

  T=0 Get Up
  T+3 Basic clothes
  T+5 Cycle
  T+25 Shower at work
  T+35 Other amenities at work
  T+37 Get dressed
  T+40 Start admin tasks etc.

I start the shower on hot to let it warm up while I brush, and use the toilet. After a nice shower, I find my clothes and other things needed for the day. Running clothes if I'm running at lunch or after work.

I leave at 8:30 with my 7yo in the old truck. We have a nice little chat on the way to school. Usually about the game he's currently into on the iPad like Terraria, Minecraft, Yet it Moves, etc. I ask him if he's excited about school, and tell him to have a great day, and listen to his teachers.

We get to the school at 8:40, and I walk him to his class. Usually greeting the teacher with a "Buenos Dias!" (It's all Spanish)

I then stop at this awesome local coffee shop named Black Coffee Roasting Company. They roast their own beans, do pour-overs and make great americanos. I always have the single origin 12oz double americano. I've cut back since the 16oz, 4 shot americanos I used to drink made me feel jittery. They carry pastries from a great local French bakery named Le Petit Outre. I usually get a plain croissant. I pay with Square Order if it's working, and they all know me by name.

I'll sit down and look at the mountains while I read Hacker News on my iPhone and sip on my coffee.

I drive through downtown Missoula, and across the bridge, park at the office, walk in, check email, HipChat, and prep for standup at 9:40.

I feel blessed.

  7:00 - Wake up light gradually fades in
  7:30 - Alarm goes off 
         if I didn't already wake up by now, start getting dressed
  7:31 - Start preparing coffee (grind beans, prepare moka pot)
  7:35 - Finish getting dressed, wake up snoozing wife
  7:40 - Have coffee with some light breakfast
  8:00 - Kiss wife as she goes to work
  8:05 - Quick dishes after breakfast
         Good time to reflect or listen to podcasts etc.
  8:20 - Pack bag, coat etc. to leave
  8:25 - Walk to work
  8:50 - Arrive at work, plunder breakfast buffet if still hungry
  9:00 - Wake up over coffee and email at my desk

I read something, usually from Nautilus magazines, while I have my coffee and something to eat if I'm hungry. If I don't have leftovers or other plans I pull something out of the freezer to cook for lunch/dinner. Then I spend about half an hour walking to/from my daughter's mom's then kindergarten.

Eventually I get back home and will finally get to my computer, unless I also need to do washing or cooking in which case I'll be busy a bit longer.

On weekends I do no exercise and sleep in if I can.

These mornings specifically do not involve checking my phone, tablet or computer for anything more than seeing what time it is, working from home that stuff was defining all of my time until I set a proper routine.

1) (3-4 days a week)

- Wake up 6:30-6:45.

- Bathroom

- Put in contacts, brush teeth

- Put on shoes & sweatshirt, grab iPhone & iPad, immediately head to car

- Drive to either: Four Barrel, Sightglass, Le Marais, or St. Frank (4 best coffee shops in the city, me thinks)

- Order latte. Eat 1 British Rolo (real sugar, chocolate, awesomely sweet caramel)

- Sip latte. Check email. NOTE! No email until now. Much much much much happier this way.

- Continue drinking latte, go through Twitter & HN. That's about 60 mins worth. Head home and start day.

2) (1-2 days/week):

- Wake up 5:45-6:00

- Bathroom

- Put in contacts, brush teeth

- Get biking gear on

- Bike to either top of Hawk Hill (feeling energetic) or Philz in Sausalito (feeling less energetic). Be happy. Take pictures.

- Bike back and get coffee either at Le Marais or go straight home to shower and get ready for the day.

#2 is obviously a bit more healthy ;)

I listened to a few episodes of the Tim Ferris podcast and was perplexed at how insipid it was. I don't care what Tony Robbin's, or anyone else's, morning routine looks like. Or what "productivity hacks" people have, which usually amount to just sitting down and doing what needs to get done. And then there were the questions from listeners episodes with more tedious questions about personal routines. I would love for someone to answer personal productivity questions by saying "quit asking how other people are productive and go do something productive".

I just don't get it, but would like to know why it interests others so much.

I know i bath for 20min, winters are cold, i really like hot water shower for sometime

- Make something to eat (~5-10 minutes)

- Eat + write a page + draw something (~10 minutes)

- Make and drink something green (~10 minutes)

- Meditate (20 minutes)

- Get to work

Lately, I have been bumping exercise to mid-day or early evening. I don't check my email or read the news until late morning if I can help it. Sometimes I miss things.

If I'm particularly excited to get into something I will bump meditation to the post exercise slot later in the day. Some days I will make coffee or tea before working, but not every day.

6:10 - Shower, get dressed

6:25 - Wake up girlfriend if she's not already, start preparing breakfast for my 2 daughters

6:40 - wake up oldest daughter if she's not already

6:45 - eat breakfast with my girls

7:05 - clean up table and dishes

7:10 - change diaper and put the cloths of my youngest

7:15 - brush teeth, grab lunch, kisses to everybody and out the door around 7:20-7:30

COMMUTE

8:00-8:15 - arrive at work

  8:00 AM - alarm, check emails, tweets
  8:15 AM - wake up, brush teeth and bathroom
  8:35 AM - water plants
  8:40 AM - go out for a walk (chai)
  9:00 AM - shower
  9:20 AM - get dressed
  9:35 AM - catch an auto (tuk tuk) to office
  9:50 AM - breakfast
  10:10 AM - coffee and read emails, reply easy ones
  11:00 AM - attend daily stand up meeting
  11:15 AM - start the work

* If my girlfriend is not gone by the time I arise, I defer these steps until I'm alone. At the same time every morning, I interrupt everything at a pre-determined time to call my child with love and wishes for a good day.

* Brewed coffee or tea (no instant, or teabags) and cigarette.

* Check if there's anything interesting online (buildings exploding, religious nuts doing something crazy, more NSA hacks, Tony Abbot putting his foot in it again.

* Start the 9-5 rat racing for yet another day.

* Wish I had a fulfilling life.

630 Partner gets up, turns alarm off and gets ready for work

730 Alarm + Partner wakes me up and then heads to work

735 Alarm comes off sleep, wakes me up again

740 Alarm comes off sleep, wakes me up again. If I'm feeling energetic I'll get up now

745 Alarm comes off sleep, time to force myself to get up.

750 Bathroom and shower

810 Starting to run late, get dressed

815 Breakfast cereal and OJ

817 If it's fine out (and I can be bothered) put on motorbike gear

820 Leaving car or bike

825-830 Arrive at work

830 Make coffee

This cron job runs 5 days a week.

Make breakfasts.

Shower & dressed.

Begin commute and browse dailies. Fortunately I'm not dealing with different timezones at the moment, so email can wait 'til I get to work.

  7:10 - Alarm goes off
  7:15 - Wake up
  7:20 - Shower
  7:35 - Get dressed / sort hair out
  7:45 - Set off for work
  8:30 - Arrive at work

Hope there's coffee in the pot from yesterday that won't taste too bad after being re-heated

Get dressed

Eat something that can be prepared in five minutes or less

Brush teeth

Chase down the bus

By now I'm awake from running two blocks

Ride the bus for ~thirty minutes and read something stimulating (right now Ruby Under a Microscope)

Now an hour has passed

6:30 AM: Get up

6:30 AM - 6:50 AM: Check out emails, answer whatever is urgent. Check news.

6:50 AM - 7:20 AM: Workout and stretching.

7:20 AM - 7:30 AM: Breakfast.

This is usually followed by a quick shower and either more work from home until 9:00 AM, or going to the office directly.

And Then ................ WORK ! WORK ! Worrrrrk!

6:35AM - Get up again, use restroom, cook breakfast.

6:45AM - Eat breakfast.

7:00AM - Shower, shave, brush teeth, etc.

7:18AM - Get dressed, pack bag, grab lunch, kiss family goodbye.

7:30AM - Leave the house and walk to work.

8:00AM - Arrive at the office.

Exercise.

Shower.

Breakfast.

Creative writing(blogging or fiction).

Khan/Coursera videos or various programming exercises.

Then I'm ready for the main work for the rest of the day =)

Stop alarms at 8:20,25,30

Get up at 8:30

Jump in the shower for ~10 mins

Eat (if there is some breakfast to eat) ~ 10 mins

Teeth (and hair if I'm not too groggy)

Pack my bag and leave at 9:00

Walk to the nearest subway station ~8 mins

Arrive in class at ~9:27

06:20 - Wake up, have a quick glass of juice

06:25 - Go smoke a cigarette and check the news/weather

06:35 - Give medic pills to the dog

06:40 - Wake up girlfriend so she can take her breakfast

06:45 - Have a shower

06:52 - Brush teeth, Get dress and give kisses to everyone including dog.

07:05 - Head out to work

  Wake up via Sleep Cycle
  Brush teeth/ Wash Face
  Water/tea -> Food (+Fruit)
  Pack my Gym Clothes (+Fruit)
  Off to BART (Kindle/Nap)
  ...55 Minutes later arrive (+1 Coffee)
  Desk

  5:15 Wake up
  5:17 Brush teeth
  5:20 Put on workout gear
  5:22 Walk 200 meters down the road to Crossfit
  5:30-6:15 Crossfit

  05:21 - awake, need pee. try to go back to sleep
  06:00 - still awake, roll out of bed go to bathroom
  06:20 - alarm goes off.
  (there's more, but you did say 60 minutes)

Floss in the shower <-- huge win since it's the only way I've been able to floss consistently

Make tea & peanut butter toast

Check messages and stuff

Get dressed, make girlfriend breakfast

8:30 walk to work

Work needed morning. Get up. Dress. Brush. Work.

9:00: Wakeup, dress, protein shake

9:15: Walk to office

9:30: Standup at office

9:45: Uninterrupted coding until lunch

8:35 - Get out of bed (second iPhone alarm)

8:40 - Shower

9:00 - Get dressed

9:10 - Finish preparing Soylent (everything but oil done the night before)

9:15 - Leave for work

9:30 - Arrive at work

7:00am - shower, get dressed

7:15am - make breakfast and coffee

7:45am - begin the hour long drive to work

I'm a front end dev manager for a large company.

Skip school

Turn on the Atari

{run,don't run}

make coffee/tidy up/drink coffee

shower

make breakfast

eat breakfast over coffee and {math textbook, video lecture}

commute on bike

force a smile.

fight the urge to check my cell phone.

tell myself i'm happy to be awake and grateful to live in a stable place where my mind is not entirely in control of what happens.

tell my wife good morning. wait for the reply: "5 more minutes"

get out of bed. groan. shake around a bit.

walk down the hall to the bathroom. navigate away from the cats.

pee.

walk to the kitchen to wash my hands, because there's no sink in the bathroom because our contractors did a horrible job and we shouldn't have hired them. laugh at this.

feed the cats. half a scoop each of dry food.

walk back to the bedroom. my wife is still asleep. "good morning!" i say to her, again. she shifts her leg under the blanket, turns, moans and says 'five more minutes!'

i put on boxers, most likely the jeans i was wearing yesterday. i grab an undershirt from the underwear drawer, and go to the closet. the work shirts are in spectrum order. i pick one at random. put it on and roll up the sleeves.

go out into the kitchen. slice up some strawberries from the fridge, and eat them with yogurt. turn on the electric kettle for tea. open the cabinet to take two gummy fish-oil supplements and two gummy calcium/vitamin d supplements. pour the tea.

check the internet. look at facebook and twitter for notifications. check the price of bitcoin. make sure the world hasn't ended. sip the tea in case it has.

tell my wife i'm going to work, give her a kiss. she may be up now, she may not. if she's up, i'll snuggle her a bit and practice my chinese. zaoshang hao, xiao mao, i say.

get in my car. drive to work. the radio is probably on. i turn it off before getting on 101. i focus on my breath while i drive, and try to sit up straight.

i imagine the lives of the people who are on the freeway with me. i drive by the big hangar at moffet airforce base and imagine going on a rocket to mars. i imagine living there on mars, and then remind myself that i'm driving and should pay attention to that.

i go by the ellis exit and remember the startup we had on fairchild. the sense of hope and of purpose, the sense of stress and the sense of loss as it ended. i remind myself i'm not there any more, i'm still here, just driving. i smile.

i go by the shoreline exit for google. i remember how unhappy i was there, too. i let that fall from my mind, and keep going.

i notice my foot up on the dashboard. for some reason i have the instinct to put my left foot on the dashboard when i drive. i don't know why this is. i put it down because it shouldn't be up there.

i get off at willow road. maybe i'm listening to music now, finding something to amp myself up for the morning. i see the new facebook office across the street under construnction, and imagine doing yoga on top of the building until the end of the world, when i shoot off into space on telepathy-mind power, and navigate the stars looking for a good time. then i remind myself it's reality that matters now, as there's construction on willow and the left lane is closed.

i wait at the stoplight and fiddle with the radio. i remind myself i live in california now - not ohio! - and i work at _facebook_!

i iterate through the list of dreams that once seemed impossible which i've managed to accomplish, and remind myself there's still time for more.

i drop the car off at the valet outside building twelve, and those guys - the one with the short blonde hair and the other dude that seems to enjoy the broken seat because it leans back too far - and they say hey and ask how long i'll be at work.

6 or so, i say.

and then i go into the building.

make the bed

take supplements (tart cherry extract plus green super food flakes in water)

hit the gym (2-3 miles run plus weight training)

5:01 roll off your mom

5:02 get dressed

5:03 drive home

5:30 shower

5:40 coffee, muffin

5:50 pack lunch

5:55 turn off lights, etc..

6:00 leave for work

Stay in bed for 5 or 10 minutes

Alarm goes off

Shower

Do hair/brush teeth/take medication

Walk to bart, catching up on feeds/emails on the way there

take bart to work

t+10 shower

t+15 clothes

t+17 make soylent

t+18 chug soylent

t+20 brush teeth

t+25 walk to gym

t+90 gym routine for this day

t+95 walk to work

t+100 focus

Get clean

Get coffee

Check news

Check tech

Learn something new

Sometimes write project code

Go to work