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.
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
Why though? It’s easier to change the ETA than the ATD.
“Man, I wish it wasn’t so hard to get up in the morning.”
“Try going to bed earlier.”
“NO!!!”
or you could get a job that starts midday
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
How would you even begin to know your caffeine intake
Caffeine pills. Alternatively, basically the same way you do alcohol
Basic math? Are you unaware of how much coffee/tea/soda you consume in a given period or did you forget the /s?
I’m aware of the amount of coffee, but unaware of the caffeine content in that coffee
Filter coffee is around 150mg caffeine per cup.
Espresso 80mg per shot.
Thst should get you through the math of caffeine intake.
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.
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.
That’s my cat now.
But my prior cat would sleep on my chest, forcing me to be even more late.
Mornings have their own golden rule:
Thou shall be sidetracked by random bullshit every goddamned time.
Humbug
