I am not a morning person.\u00a0 Never have been, never will be.\u00a0 For around 18 months I had a job that required me to be at the office at 6am and I had about a 35 minute commute.\u00a0 Everyone told me I would get used to it.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 I just got used to feeling like crap every day.<\/p>\n
Fast forward about 20 years.\u00a0 I have to be in the office at 8am and in spite of being in an entirely different state my commute is still around 35 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a0 I’m only slightly better at getting up and out the door on time as I was then.\u00a0 But I am taking a little better care of myself than I was back then.<\/p>\n
So what are 3 things you can do to make your mornings better?\u00a0 And yes, I actually do 2 of these most of the time!<\/p>\n
#1 Don’t hit the snooze.\u00a0 Me and the snooze bar were in a committed relationship for decades.\u00a0 \u00a0We have broken up, but not because I realized how bad it was for me (it’s really bad for you).\u00a0 I married a very light sleeper and the snooze drove him crazy.\u00a0 \u00a0So I stopped.\u00a0 I didn’t admit for years that it actually helps me feel more awake during my commute.\u00a0 \u00a0It really messes with your brain chemistry.<\/p>\n
#2 Have a consistent bed time.\u00a0 I am almost always in bed by 10pm.\u00a0 \u00a0And yes it’s usually close to this time on the weekends.\u00a0 My body is just used to it.\u00a0 Of course there are exceptions but a consistent bedtime is one of the best things you can do to help you fall asleep faster and stay asleep all night long.<\/p>\n
#3 Stay off your phone in bed.\u00a0 Yep, this is the one that I don’t do.\u00a0 I try to not doom scroll, but even if I’m just playing a casual game or watching videos that damn blue light is screwing up my brain.\u00a0 I have gotten some better with this at night because I’m reading more, but in the mornings?\u00a0 it’s replaced my snooze alarm.\u00a0 It’s not great.\u00a0 And I know it.\u00a0 But 2 out of 3 ain’t bad right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am not a morning person.\u00a0 Never have been, never will be.\u00a0 For around 18 months I had a job that required me to be at the office at 6am and I had about a 35 minute commute.\u00a0 Everyone told me I would get used to it.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 I just got used to feeling like crap every day. Fast forward… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice","category-bright-shiny-objects"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/sleeping-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}