Rec | BE A MORNING PERSON

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Rec'd on 😃 HOW DO YOU BALANCE YOUR CREATIVE LIFE, WITH THE REST OF YOUR LIFE?

the problem that most people have with balancing their day job and creative work is that they do the day job part first, which means that (1) you’ve already given your most productive hours to The Man and (2) when you get done with 8 hours of bullshit, instead of getting to rest you now have to motivate yourself to do *more work*, which is immensely demotivating. in contrast, if you wake up early and do your creative work *before* the day job, you’ll have way more energy to give to your projects, and when you get home from The Man you get to rest easy knowing you already put in your hours for the day. even though i work freelance now i still implement this - wake up early, work out, do my writing, and *then* i worry about shit for my clients. i highly recommend it

@dotmatrices

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@KiAn

Honestly really smart. and with that, you get to go to bed early, which pairs super well with coming home from work exhausted

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@dotmatrices

@KIAN additional bonus - you are much less likely to be bothered by texts / notifs / etc in the early morning, which lends it even more to deep work

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@KiAn

@DOTMATRICES now the real question is, whats the best way of getting your body to get used to being a Morning person? Is it just as simple as biting the bullet and just doing it?

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@dotmatrices

@KIAN see my recent rec about doing something super hedonistic when you wake up lmao - try to get your pattern started on fri-sat-sun, and make sure you do something that is fun and engaging as soon as you wake up each of those mornings. i had to reset my cycle recently and playing wii games was perfect - it was fun enough to motivate me to get out of bed but still was mentally and physically engaging enough to wake me up

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