6 years ago from Jonathan Brodheim, Designer at LoungeBuddy
Share your morning routine from the moment you wake-up to the the moment you open your first creative app (Sketch, PS, Illustrator, etc). If you have any workflows you use to make your mornings a bit easier, I would love to hear about them as well.
Then I usually get distracted and start doing work at around 3 PM. Go to sleep at around 12 PM and tell myself I'm not going to get distracted the next day. Well, guess what...
The Chop Suey joke deserves many more upvotes.
Wow you focus on being healthy, but your routine would be a healthy one only if it didn't involve chicken (meat/diary)
You know, I can already tell that it would be useless to argue with you. Have a nice day.
From there it gets pretty crazy. A lot of partying, a lot of fun. So excited.
Do you use a running app to log your runs?
I currently just use the Apple's Activity app which works well enough. I've tired Nike's app and a few other things, but none of them really stuck. I was actually considering switching to FitBit's app because if have a lot of friends with FitBits. That didn't last long though because FitBit and Apple don't get along so there is no direct integration from FitBit into HealthKit and vice versa without a 3rd party app.
2 hours of walking a day, that's awesome. Do you listen to a ton of podcasts on your commute?
Yeah, my Podcast list has all types of stuff. Design Details, Swift, Bitcoin, NPR How I built this, Machine Learning, and lots of podcasts around Swift and iOS development. I also have a couple of BS podcasts that are just entertaining.
I also use the time to call my Mom, Dad, family, friends, or whomever and catch up.
heck you must be ripped top to bottom
Nah, the snack wall at work kills all of that progress I make every morning :)
You dont' eat?
I eat when I get to work :). Usually oatmeal, fruit salad, cereal, granola, or yogurt.
I like this
Try out Zazn meditation app for iOS and let me know what you think.
Noted. But all these meditation apps are getting me stressed out :p
I like Headspace, its also nicely designed.
What I've learnt about DN users:
Not many of you have kids...
Mornings aren't quite so free with kids!
That was your choice, childfree discrimination is rife.
"discrimination"
Mine was an observation based on the comments I see.
I'm also making a statement based on my own experience of pre/post having kids.
Ben's original comment contained absolutely ZERO discrimination. Not sure when making an observation became an attack on anyone? Also, if you're that quick to jump to conclusions and get defensive, perhaps it's best to stay of the internet o_O
beep beep (8:30 AM)
Pro-tip: Shower before you head to bed on weekdays. You'll sleep better and save time in the morning. Other than that I've accepted that even with a solid 8 or 9 hours of sleep I'm never going to be a morning person.
Try getting less sleep. No really. Everyone is different but generally you need about 7-8 hours of sleep. I notice if I get more than 7:30 I feel lethargic. As if I got too much sleep.
Might be worth a shot, thanks for the tip :)
Get up late, get to work late, slack off
Sounds legit.
• Wake up around 5am
• Take shower and get dressed
• Make lunches for my kids
• Walk or bike to train to commute into the city
• Get iced coffee
• When slammed, work on train... when not, read Monocle
• Get to work a little after 8am
At 5AM? That's when I go to sleep.
Ha! I'm actually more of a morning person. When I do freelance, I'm usually up at 1am or 2am to do it. Around 8pm a switch goes off with me... and my quality goes the way of the shitter.
Wake up. Smoke. Freshen up. Dress. Commute. Coffee. Smoke. Emails. Read work priorities. Stand up. Work.
It's interesting to get insight into other people's routines, it's how I've evolved my own over years. Hearing what stuff they fit into their morning/afternoon/night motivates me to always be assessing and improving my habits.
avacado toast! wh000
Wake 'n' bake, strong coffee, do a skid leaving the carpark, then spend the day making shit look more pretty for people who don't know what do
Wake up when the Sun wakes up. Stretch and bike for half an hour. Get fresh. Eat healthy breakfast. Go through to-do list, then e-mails + newsletters. Read out loud the daily book summary on Blinkist.
Get to work.
i dont work until ~5pm the trick is to always stay a day ahead of the deadline
Between 5am and 6am - Wakeup (because the dog stares at me in the morning because she has to go out.) - Feed and take dog out - hower & get dressed - Make lunch or pack stuff to make lunch at office (we have a big open kitchen, mostly everyone cooks) - Wake up wife, prepare her something quick for breakfast.
6am - 7-7:30am - Commute to work ( I live 70 miles away from my office ) - Curse at traffic on highway - Curse at in town traffic
7:30 - 8am - Grab a coffee and read Designer News for a bit
8am - 9am - answer emails, update projects in PM suite, read unread Slack messages, check any updates in GitHub
9am - Greet team every morning, grab more coffee
My super streamlined morning routine: 1. Wake up as late as possible 2. Shower as quickly as possible 3. Joylent (4 min breakfast) 4. Walk to subway.
Currently: 1. Wake up 2. Brush teeth 3. Stretches 30 minutes 4. Have tea 5. Eat 6. Go out Would like/need to fit in meditation after 3.
Shit, Shower, Shave, Sketch(ing)
Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition, and yawn and stretch and try to come to life.
7-ish: wake up 7:35-7:45: first-third alarms go off. Get dressed etc. 8:20ish: walk 15-ish minutes to transit to take me to work 9:05-ish: arrive at work, make coffee, fill a 1.5L bottle of water, and hole myself up in a room somewhere to check Designer News and work till Scrum at 10:30.
If it's a holiday, I bathe.
ps: I'm less focused during the day when I don't workout in the morning.
Same, except work from home.
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