Real advice: get your shit ready the day before. You won’t be stumbling around looking for socks if you found a pair last night. Of your clothes are already in the bathroom, you can walk straight from your bed to the shower. If your lunch box is already packed, you can just grab it from the fridge and go.
“I only need ten minutes to get ready.”
No honey, you don’t.
Somehow works out to: any task will take 15 min in the morning.
Get out of bed: 15 min
Shower: 15 min
Shave: 15 min
Get dressed: also 15 min
Breakfast: believe it or not, 15 min
Every extra snooze on the alarm clock has got to knock off one of those things till it goes down to: get dressed and run out the door.
That being said, I’m pathalogocally late every time for everything. A friend tried to drop the wisdom of this meme on me… “Why don’t you just leave earlier”. I can’t explain why, but it never works out that way no matter how hard I try.
Okay, now I get why Shaggy 2 Dope doesn’t like scientists.
I know it’s a shitpost but it’s real advice. Far to often people will try to ‘make up’ time by driving faster or more aggressive. So not only are you stressing yourself out by leaving too late, your now stressing out everyone near you in the road watching you be a jackass.
My friend says that for decades they thought the objective was to arrive at the precise time. Eventually they changed mental approaches. It was an interesting experience.
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They call it early maxing. Get with the lingo boomer headline.
Latecels getting timemogged by earlymaxxers.
I had a job where I was supposed to arrive at 8:00am. According to maps & normal traffic patterns, it should take me 25-30 minutes to get there from home.
If I left home at 7:30 it would usually take me 35 minutes and I would invariably arrive at 8:05am. Late.
No problem, leave earlier, right?
If I left at 7:25am it would take me 40 minutes and I would arrive at 8:05am.
If I left at 7:15am it would somehow take me 50 minutes and I would arrive 8:05am.
If I left at 7:00am …you guessed it, it would take me 65 minutes and I would arrive 8:05am.
It’s like I was destined to be there at 8:05am.
Eventually I negotiated with my boss to be there at 8:30am instead. I stared leaving my house at 7:45am and I’d usually get there by 8:15am. Early!
It was just the way the traffic worked out in my commute.
Because the roads are busier as people are trying to get there for the same time as you. If you leave later you are joining the end of that traffic, as it dies down. If you leave earlier you just become part of that traffic.
Either way, you are getting there at 8.05
Mine was the same way. trying to be there by 9AM meant that my hour commute, I should leave by 8. nope! and then 7:45? nope! how about 7:30? nope! even MORE traffic! I had to leave at 7, and if I was lucky, I’d sail right past the spot that usually had a massive traffic jam, and then I’d get into the office almost 45 minutes early 🙃 . But leaving at 7:15 would either get me there just on time, or 30 minutes late. It was nightmarish. Thank god I’m remote. (well actually thank me and my trauma therapist for filing out the proper AMA paperwork making me remote)
bro trust me, you just need to wake up earlier, trust me bro 4am is a sensible time to wake up, you only need 6 hours of sleep, you’re not maximizing your free time, you can skip breakfast and dinner trust me bro, you can fit in an extra two hours of work, plenty of time in the day 👌💪
Thats crazy talk.
I combine that with making sure my friends know I struggle with time dilation and so I make sure to give an eta when I’m out the door
“Man, I wish it wasn’t so hard to get up in the morning.”
“Try going to bed earlier.”
“NO!!!”
Whole life I had a very hard time waking up. Early just wasn’t for me.
Then I woke up to the house burning down around me, trapped in a basement.
Now I wake up between 5:30 and 6:00 am every morning without an alarm clock, in fight or flight mode, so I don’t even need coffee.
Not a solution that’s right for everyone.
That escalated quickly.
Sweet jebus, I’m sorry to hear that. You’re absolutely right though: “have you tried PTSD?” may not be right for everyone.
Umm. Sorry man. There are some good meds that can help with that, like Prazosin, which blocks norepinephrine, which is the fight-or-flight chemical. It also blocks nightmares from being remembered if taken at bedtime. And it keeps your blood pressure like, textbook perfect. If you have a doc you can ask. Good luck. I have PTSD which used to cause the same thing you have.
Growing up in a time where seeking mental health was heavily stigmatized, I haven’t sought any professional help for this. “Man up” and “Tough it out” was the rule for anything short of broken bones.
You are not the first to suggest getting help, but are the first who’s had similar experience.
I think it’s time I “Man up” and admit I need help, thank you
Good on you for admitting you need help. For what it’s worth DBT has been helping my wife stop waking up in terror in the middle of the night as much if you’re interested in non chemical solutions (neither course is bad)
You can get in bed earlier it doesn’t mean you’ll fall asleep
Stick to a consistent sleep schedule and regulate caffeine intake to less than 400mg
But also there are people that may need medication or just simply people that can’t do anything
Blackout curtains may also be necessary depending on when you need to be up
How would you even begin to know your caffeine intake
Basic math? Are you unaware of how much coffee/tea/soda you consume in a given period or did you forget the /s?
No, how the heck i am gonna guess how much caffeine is in my moka or espresso coffee? It depends how much grounded coffee i used, the quantity of water etc etc there is no fucking way i am goin to calc all that
I’m aware of the amount of coffee, but unaware of the caffeine content in that coffee
Coffee averages about 12mg per ounce. A quick estimate is better than nothing, so you can assume you should keep it below 36 oz per day, or 4 mugs, size dependant.
Filter coffee is around 150mg caffeine per cup.
Espresso 80mg per shot.
Thst should get you through the math of caffeine intake.
There’s a huge variance around this though. Size of cup, amount of ground coffee used, variety of coffee (robusta has much higher caffeine than arabica), how roasted it is… It might be around 150 mg per cup, but could easily be nearly half or nearly double that.
In my experience, judging from the subjective felt effect when drinking it, the amount of caffeine in filter coffee can vary by a factor 3x depending on brewing technique. I just came back from the U.K. and the hotel breakfast coffee there did less for me in three cups than a single cup from my Fellow Aiden coffee brewer at home. I used to cold brew coffee but had to stop because the apparently higher caffeine content gave me heart problems.
Caffeine pills. Alternatively, basically the same way you do alcohol
i feel theres also a pretty large variance in the population of caffeine sensitivity.
A cup of drip coffee is 150-200 on average. Multiply based on a pessimistic interpretation, then reduce.
You could also measure UV light absorbtion in the 260-280 nm band and compare to a calibration chart. That seems a lot more excessive than just estimating and working to reduce, as opposed to targeting a specific number.
Making a habit will make it easier though
I find that having a cat that religiously wakes you up somewhere between 6 and 7 every morning to be an incredibly effective bedtime retrainer. There’s only so many months you can be sleep deprived before going insane or collapsing.
He’s starting as early as 4 or 5 these days, Kitty please let me at least sleep until the alarm 🫠
That’s my cat now.
But my prior cat would sleep on my chest, forcing me to be even more late.
or you could get a job that starts midday
Yeah, those grow on trees.
Idunno, where I work they basically just pay you to show up if you’re on second shift
wherever i went, bus/trolley drivers were needed and it pays pretty well too
I can’t
This seems to fall into the Thanks! I’m cured! category, but I have gotten better over time at estimating how long it takes me to travel places.
It’s my destination’s fault for being too far away
Distance affects your timing? Personally if mine is further away my instinct to procrastinate just gets stronger
I’ll just be slower because I’m not as stressed