improve my morning routine

I am on a business trip, in Berlin right now… I don’t know why mornings are so tough to me. It is super hard to get going. This morning I managed to wake up early and go downstairs to have breakfast around 8.30 am (the past three days I went to get breakfast only 5 minutes before they close it at the hotel)... I was all happy but then came back to the room and went back to bed and slept for another whole hour!
Somehow I managed to get in the shower and get dress but I can’t make myself work. I have to go to a meeting at 2 pm and it’s 11.30 already… I need to send out some emails to try to confirm more meetings for today. I NEED TO DO THIS. And it is not even all that hard… I do have another two big things to do today… and that I can’t even think of doing them and are even more important than getting more meetings… I don’t know why I am so tired all the time. I wonder if it’s time to look for a new job… I actually am very happy with the one I have, most of the time, despite the long hours and stuff, I truly think I have the best job in the world! Not many people think that of their job, do they?
Sorry for the long ranting…

today I woke up at 9 am and came downstairs to write some morning pages while sipping a coffee… it was nice, it felt good since I haven’t wrote in a few weeks but after that I started playing solitaire online and just fucked up the rest of my morning… for I didn’t do anything useful and I had a huge to do list to complete… even with “fun” things, I mean… not all of them were work… however, I get caught up on the couch and it is impossible for me to get up and start being active and doing things… I don’t know what it is but I don’t like it… I want to be more energetic and go out and do things… I do, it is not like I am at home all day every day but sometimes I have to drag myself out of here… I don’t want to be that way. I want to be super energetic and don’t waste my time playing solitaire online. :(

I have returned home after a work trip this weekend. From Monday on I have been waking up earlier than usual because I still have jet lag. Instead of jumping to the shower… I am coming downstairs to write morning pages… I will allow myself to do this only for this week. Next week I have to start again showering first. Maybe I could write the morning pages in bed or maybe I could do them once a week or something. :D

this is very important to me because I do waste precious time in the mornings… I have reeducated myself to shower first (before coming downstairs for coffee) and this alone was a huge improvement because I am showered and dressed by 9 am which is great. However, once I come downstairs for breakfast, checking emails and watching the news I get trapped in time somehow and I still leave the house at around 11 or 11:30 which is a total waste of my time.
I really need to work on this.

I’ve been doing so much better on this one. I’ve been taking a shower first, before coming downstairs for breakfast and this has been a very successful thing. It does cut out one hour from my previous morning routine.
The only bad thing is I’ve been going to bed late almost every night so it is taking me a lot of time and effort to wake up in the mornings. I have been snoozing a lot so I have to work on this but I am very happy with the other thing so overall the balance is positive. :D

Today, I totally overslept, however… I got in the shower first, before getting coffee. This is a habit I want to change. I started yesterday and I will keep it for 30 days straight and see if I can actually get the habit installed of showering first and having breakfast after. I think this will sure help improve my morning routine.
Let’s see how it goes.

I set my alarm clock at 8 and could not get out of bed until 9.30… I did not manage to do anything before having my cup of coffee… then watered the plants… waste a lot of time wandering around the house doing nothing… did not even check my emails and left around 11.30… so much for a good start.. I am so pissed at myself…:(

I normally set my alarm clock at 8 am and get out of my house not earlier than 11 am… that is a disastrous use of my time…
the first thing I do when I finally manage to get out of bed is to prepare coffee and then have breakfast… I spend almost an hour doing so and checking emails… going on facebook and 43things…
I think it would be much better if I could get in the shower BEFORE having breakfast… but I just cannot make myself do that because I really need my coffee to actually wake up…
I need to cut my prep time by half… and hour and a half should be more than enough to get ready to go out…
Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks!