Morning Rituals

Every morning millions of people wake up, wash their teeth, have breakfast (or more often a bite on the go) and are on their way to work. It is not surprising that this routine rarely gets interrupted; there must be some kind of major event for you to be allowed not to go to work. Of course simply because it is routine at some point it gets really difficult and boring to follow.

The tedious process of waking up early in the morning and then going to work is bearable during the summer and the warmer months. You wake up greeted by the sun, grab a quick shower, have a cup of coffee, some corn flakes and in the matter of minutes you are ready to go to work. But when the cold months came and especially when it is winter it is a completely different story.

You wake up early in the morning only to see that the sun has not risen yet. It is so cold outside your bed that your desire for a shower is squashed. You have breakfast and while you do that you dread the possibility that you will have to struggle with the bitter cold to clean the space in front of your garage from snow and ice. There are these and a myriad of other reasons why waking up early in the winter for work (a task which is normally unpleasant due to its nature) is really dreadful thing to do. Once again I am speaking solely of my experience.

So, how do you fight it? Well, there are many ways you could try, but only few will work.

Having a hot coffee is the absolute must. Without hot coffee in the beginning of your day you may expect nothing good from the day. Having a really tasty warm breakfast, yes warm one, can also help you. Listening to music, something with more liveliness and melody in it can also change things considerably.

But in the end it comes to what kind of person you are. My wife wakes up watching cartoons every morning, my brother goes jogging after waking up, my father just wakes up and he is fine even without coffee. I used to smoke a couple of cigarettes in my car with my coffee when I was on my way to work; now I am using an electronic cigarette instead but it is basically the same ritual.

Everyone has their quirk? and strange ritual? when it comes to early waking, but it remains an unpleasant fact of life for which we just have to find a way of getting over.