Slow Mornings
One of the things I used to pride myself on was being able to get up & out quickly. I could get up, do all the normal morning stuff including showering and getting dressed, repack my bag, and be rolling out the door in 25 minutes. That was huge when I was traveling frequently. I say "used to" and "was", though, because I've drifted into a different morning habit over the past year-plus.
Now I find I've habituated to a slow morning routine. I swat the snooze alarm a few times, sometimes several times, and then sit up in an armchair for 30-45 minutes catching up on personal mail and web surfing while gradually waking up fully. Then I shower and dress. It's often 90 minutes from the time of my first alarm until I'm ready to roll.
What's changed? The obvious things. And no, I don't mean "getting older".
Coronavirus has killed business travel. Travel was always one of the occasions where speed and efficiency was important. I haven't traveled for work in nearly 18 months. (And it looks like even when business travel returns post-Covid it'll be way less frequent than before. But that's a topic for another blog.)
Coronavirus has also meant working from home. I only worked in my company office sporadically for the few years prior to the pandemic, but it was just often enough that I kept the habits of morning efficiency. Now with WFH being the new normal I've made different habits my new normal.
This morning I tried doing it fast to remind myself that I could. My "fast" wasn't really. I still snoozed my alarm a few times; then once I did get up, I still took 40 minutes until I was seated at my desk. Well, it's good enough for now. If and when frequent business travel or working in a company office becomes the new-new normal I'll re-readjust.
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Now I find I've habituated to a slow morning routine. I swat the snooze alarm a few times, sometimes several times, and then sit up in an armchair for 30-45 minutes catching up on personal mail and web surfing while gradually waking up fully. Then I shower and dress. It's often 90 minutes from the time of my first alarm until I'm ready to roll.
What's changed? The obvious things. And no, I don't mean "getting older".
Coronavirus has killed business travel. Travel was always one of the occasions where speed and efficiency was important. I haven't traveled for work in nearly 18 months. (And it looks like even when business travel returns post-Covid it'll be way less frequent than before. But that's a topic for another blog.)
Coronavirus has also meant working from home. I only worked in my company office sporadically for the few years prior to the pandemic, but it was just often enough that I kept the habits of morning efficiency. Now with WFH being the new normal I've made different habits my new normal.
This morning I tried doing it fast to remind myself that I could. My "fast" wasn't really. I still snoozed my alarm a few times; then once I did get up, I still took 40 minutes until I was seated at my desk. Well, it's good enough for now. If and when frequent business travel or working in a company office becomes the new-new normal I'll re-readjust.
[This entry was cross-posted from https://canyonwalker.dreamwidth.org/99074.html. Please comment there using OpenID. That's where most of the action is!]