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Monday morning ritual

Published January 19, 2009 | By Shawn

sleepy-kid

Or, maybe I should call it the prework ritual (in case you don’t get up in the morning to go to work).

I say this is my Monday morning ritual but it’s really what I do Monday through Friday:

  • Alarm goes off at 5am. Depending on what time I went to bed I’m either up a few minutes after it goes off or I hit snooze a couple times.
  • I immediately feed the dog and cat. The dog sounds like a vacuum cleaner when she eats.
  • I fix a small bowl of cereal for breakfast. The dog has finished her breakfast, usually, before I even pour my milk.
  • While the dog’s out for her morning dooky I’m eating cereal and catching up on email and tweets from overnight. If there’s enough cereal left I’ll peek at some of my feeds.
  • Let dog in. Begin bathroom ritual (brush teeth, shower, etc.).
  • I’m usually out the door at 6:30am.
  • I’ve got a 30 minute commute to work so I listen to NPR on the way. If I’m leading worship that coming Sunday I’ve got that weekend’s set playing in the car pretty much all week.
  • Stop at my Starbucks* for a grande Pike Place with light cream (the cream helps to cool it off a bit).
  • Arrive at the office usually just after 7am.
  • I use the quiet time in the office (people usually don’t start showing up until 8 or 8:15) to life journal. I’ve been using Evernote recently but may switch full time to YouVersion to record my journals.
  • Work begins.

That’s it.

Now, it’s your turn. Tell me about your morning (or prework) ritual(s). GO.

*I actually only stop at Starbucks a couple times a week but I listed it here since it makes my mornings seem more glamorous.

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  • http://justinhart.wordpress.com Justinh

    - Up at 5:30: Sunday is about the only day that I don't get up early
    - Catch up on emails, blogs, and tweets until about 6 (while having some breakfast and coffee)
    - Reading/Life Journaling with YouVersion for the reading and MS OneNote for the journaling
    - Finish getting ready
    - Leave at 7 or 7:30 am for work

    Mornings are my time for quietness, no tv, or music.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Pastor_T Pastor_T

    6:30am=Get up, take vitamin, brush teeth, make coffee (makes no sense to brush teeth then drink coffee, but oh well)
    7am=Get kids up, get Gabe in the shower, get Chaya a banana
    7:15am=Gabe outa shower, Gabes breakfast, Gabe dressed
    8am=Take Gabe to school
    8:10am=Back home, cartoons for Chaya, start school work or house work
    NEVER ENDING CIRCLE OF LIFE :-)

    I will occasionally drop by the Jave Cafe (about as close as we get to Starbucks) and have a LARGE Mocha Javacino. I have no idea what is in it, but it's cold and it's good.

    Also, as an assumed accountability partner, I must ask:
    WHERE'S THE FATBLOGGING?!!!

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/shawnw Shawn Wallace

    Justin, same for me. If I do any of that it seems to start my morning off in a weird way. I enjoy the stillness of the morning before the world comes alive.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/shawnw Shawn Wallace

    Haha, thanks dude. It's recorded, just not posted. It's going up tonight. Thanks for asking and keeping me accountable!

  • http://breezyneon.wordpress.com/ breezy

    Alarm goes off at 5am. Hit snooze button 3 times and get up at 0530 am. Take shower, get dressed, sometimes I eat at home, other times I grab stuff to take to work for breakfast and or lunch. Then it is usually a ritual of looking for either my keys, my i-pod, my name badge, or something that is not where it is suppose to be. Take the dog out for her business, then I leave by 0630 to get to work at 0700.

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