So far, as a guy, I’ve never tried having a morning routine as I thought it was for girls and people who cared too much about themselves. YEAH, I KNOW, SLAP ME! But reading into how beneficial it can be for you and that time alone is essential to keep growing, I said to myself that I was gonna go deep into it this summer.
So I did. And I’m working on it. Here’s my morning routine.
Wake up at 03.30. Waking up so early in the damn morning might be a nightmare for most of you. By no means am I telling you to do it. I don’t want you falling asleep in public, okay? I usually wake up at 05.00 to help my parents at the bakery and figured if I really wanted to do this right, I would have to wake up even earlier. It’s been 2 weeks and it’s been going great so far. If I want to wake up so early, I also have to sleep early. Somehow, I’m fixing my 18 years of fucked up schedule
Workout. The first thing that I do after washing my face and brushing my teeth is working out. I usually do a 45-minute workout. After the first 5 minutes, all sleep I first had is gone. I’ve also noticed I’ve been sleeping deeper and am not doing many mistakes at work.
Review my day. The night before I usually adjust my to-do list for the day. So what I like doing is reviewing the list again and prepare myself mentally for the tasks I need to get done.
Read a motivational article. Flipboard and Pinterest are great apps to find motivational articles. I usually make a board specifically for this end. I have many interests and, as an imperfect human, I can’t perform 100% on all of them. So when I feel like I am not performing very well in one area, I like to read an article to get my motivation up. For example, if I see that I’m not eating well, I would read an article about veganism/ vegetarian and why it’s important and how it has helped others. Being vegan/ vegetarian doesn’t mean you are automatically healthy Or when I know I’m not paying enough attention to my studies, I would read an article about how to study smarter. Also, if you are working on a specific goal, having your own list of reasons to get you motivated is a super plus!!!
Shower and dress up! I’ve noticed that showering and changing into actual clothes, no pajamas, no gym shorts, no baggy sweatpants, actually helps me to start my day right. Even if I’m gonna stay at home I’m more likely to be productive because I feel ready to work, the day is right in front of me and I’m going to make the most out of it.
Are you considering your own morning routine? Well, here are some steps you can take that have helped me so far:
What do you want to accomplish with the morning routine? This can help you figure out what you are willing to do as a routine. Do you wanna workout? Have a set mind? Read a bit for yourself? Study? Write? Maybe you just wanna take care of yourself and pamper yourself with love by drinking a nice cuppa, watching the sunrise, taking care of your skin.
References. There are a bunch of articles and videos on YouTube about morning routines. Maybe even your favorite youtuber or blogger already have one. Go over it and give it a try. You don’t have to follow everything if you think it’s not going to work for you. The best thing? You can always mix routines! Have fun figuring it out.
Have a night routine too. Waking up in the morning is difficult for most of us. So having a night routine can be very helpful as it prepares our nights on what’s to come the next day. With this one, you can also look for inspiration in articles and videos.
Of the rare times I actually write on pen and paper. I usually write on paper after 6 PM just to avoid harsh lights and sleep like a baby. I’ve always struggled with my sleeping schedule Specially after I got into college Damn you, college! Who else got a fucked up sleeping schedule? __________
I have to tell you guys since this lock-down started, I’ve been trying to keep sane. It’s been 5 weeks for me and the key to keeping me sane is cooking, reading and having routines. Today I want to share the latter with you.
MORNING ROUTINE
04.25 Drink 1 glass of water (1 min)
04.26 Arrange bed (2 min)
04.28 Weight check (1 min)
04.29 Stretching (15 min)
04.45 Read (30 min)
05.15 Get inspired (5 min)
Note: I wake up this early not because I want to, but because I have to help my parents at the bakery at 05.30. I realized waking up and immediately going to work makes me moody and it just isn’t the best way to start my day peacefully. Which is why I wake up an hour earlier.
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PRE WORK ROUTINE
7.00 Make and drink tea (15 min)
7.15 Workout (1 hour)
8.15 Make breakfast and eat (30 min)
8.45 Shower (10 min)
8.55 Change and get ready for studying/ work (5 min)
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WORK ROUTINE
9.00 Clean workspace (5 min)
9.05 Distraction proof (5 min)
9.10 Plan upcoming work and check calendar (15 min)
9.25 First Pomodoro (35 min)
10.00 Break (10 min)
10.10 Second Pomodoro (35 min)
10.45 Break (10 min)
10.55 Third Pomodoro (35 min)
11.30 Break (10 min)
11.40 Fourth Pomodoro (35 min)
12.15 Write down what got done, what didn’t get done and follow up tasks (10 min)
Note: My Pomodoros tend to be a little longer. I have been using this technique for about 2 years now, and realized 25 minutes was too short for me. I started to play around different times, and figured I am my most productive with a 35-minutes Pomodoro followed by a 10 minute break. That’s just what works for me.
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NIGHT ROUTINE
18.00 Shower (10 min)
18.10 Skin care (5 min)
18.15 Change clothes and pamper (10 min)
18.25 Clean bedroom (10 min)
18.35 Choose clothes for tomorrow (5 min)
18.40 Make and drink tea (5 min)
18.45 Write in Journal (15 min)
19.00 Log info to Samsung Health (10 min)
19.10 Listen to Podcast (40 min)
19.50 Meditate/ Breathing exercises (10 min)
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So that’s how I spend my days. Sometimes, I won’t do all 4 Pomodoros because I don’t have much to do. I do try not to work after 1PM, I like having my afternoon free to do what I want to do. Maybe I want to draw, or read, I also do some gardening around 5PM, but I just do things that I feel like doing. I’ve been doing this for about 2 months, and I honestly feel much better. Hope you guys get some inspo out of the routines that I have!
If you guys want to share your routines, feel free to do so and tag me! I really want to read what your routines are like!
today it’s sunny, very cold, and I finally have a new cute agenda from an Italian artist who makes cute drawings and designs you can find her here✨
also I’m in love with the way morning light comes through the window to fall on the coffee glass and creates long shadows on my kitchen table ☕ it just warms my heart
Idk I lost track with the studyblr community because I’m here from too long and I feel like an old woman trying to make her way through high school students
i have been receiving a lot of asks asking about my daily routine!! so i decided to do an update morning routine.
1. drink water and make my bed. i’m a huge lover of productivity and neatness so first thing i do is drink some water and make my bed, i sleep with a lot of pillows and plushies so i organize them too.
2. journaling. most of you know i keep a bullet journal which i use for everything, but lately i’ve been journaling more rather than doing to-do lists, i sometimes write some words that are in my head or writing affirmations for manifesting with the law of attraction.
4. brushing my teeth. an essential.
3. tea! my personal favourite is the energy matcha from yogi tea, i always add some honey instead of sugar and in autumn i’m loving adding just a bit of cinnamon on it which also works as protection. then i cuddle my puppy familiar for 5 minutes and give him a big kiss.
4. yoga and meditating. i don’t like sports but doing some yoga stretches to start the day help a lot. i also meditate to raise my vibration for the day.
5. i do my makeup and put my clothes on. my make up consists on only bb cream, mascara, eyebrow pencil and some lipgloss, i keep it pretty simple.
6. make my bag. usually i bring my current read, my phone, earphones, a water bottle and my purse
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This post is a little different, I thought I’d share my target morning ‘routine’. I’ve been trying to have productive mornings for god knows how long and this is what I want them to look like:
Wake up & get ready: 6am
Cup of tea & write: 6:30am
Go for a walk/run: 7am
Clean up: 7:30/7:45am
Breakfast: 8am
Start work at 8:30am
This would be days where I don’t start college early. If i start college at 9am, it would look like this:
Wake up & get ready: 6am
Cup of tea and write: 6:45am
Clean up: 7:15am
Breakfast: 7:45am
Leave for the bus: 8:15am
I currently wake up anywhere between 9-11am, so it’s going to be a challenge. But we like challenges!!
It is the morning following a wonderfully long night of love-making that ended far too soon. Having awakened before you I’ve been able to leisurely shower and dress before I begin to brush my teeth. In the process of this you walk beside me and catch my look in the mirror. I smile, despite the toothbrush in my mouth, and you smile back with a bit of a bold, slightly naughty look in your eyes.
You say “I want you to undo your pants and slide them and your panties to the floor, don’t step out of them, then put both hands on the counter, and keep the toothbrush in your mouth.” I have no idea what will follow but I trust you completely, so I do exactly what you say.
Keeping my gaze at all times through the mirror you tell me that seeing the toothpaste on the corners of my mouth reminded you of seeing your cum in and on my mouth. Right now you want me to use my imagination to expand the toothbrush to be another man’s cock, that my mouth is filled with your cum but accepting this new cock, so I must keep both in my mouth at all times, and gently, no biting - no teeth marks must show later.
With the pants restricting my ankles I cannot spread my legs much but you do spread them. You run your hands under my blouse with a very light touch, then down my legs, telling me not to move because you want to touch me and that the more I follow your directions the more I’ll enjoy it. I don’t move despite your lingering caresses to my inner thigh that inflame me, your fingers getting closer to my now very warm and moist pussy. Your eyes continue to hold mine as your fingernails slightly dig into my ass cheeks very low, opening all of me up.
I fight to keep the toothbrush/cock in my mouth, muted by it, the toothpaste/cum now slightly dripping down my chin. That sight pleases you, for one thing you know it wasn’t that long ago, nor will it be long from now, when that look will be actually from your cum in my mouth. Your eyes don’t leave mine till the last minute as you slowly bend your legs to a crouching position behind me. I can feel your breath on my pussy, my ass, my thighs. Your fingers caress the air above me while you tell me what you’re about to do, how you will lick and suck my pussy, my ass, and my clit. You tell me this in exquisite detail and it gets me very hot and wet.
Instead of doing what you just described you stand up, catch my gaze again, and spank me rather hard with a full hand once on my right ass cheek. You follow that several seconds later, seconds during which we both know precisely what you will do, with another to my left ass cheek. Then suddenly, almost instantly, you drop down and do exactly what you had described to me – licking and sucking me everywhere that most arouses me. It’s a major challenge for me to keep my mouth closed as I start gasping for air as you torturously excite me just to orgasm then drop back, again and again, till you tell me you want to feel me cum now and give a few big licks to my clit, leaving your tongue there for me to buck against as I cum and cum and cum.
After you have removed your tongue from my clit then licked my ass cheeks and my inner thighs quickly again, and once I’ve calmed a little, you stand and catch my eyes again. You see my face flushed with sexual satisfaction but moreover with gratitude, enjoyment, delight in being with you, love, desire, and so many other things beside. Looking at me intently through the mirror, almost penetrating me with the intensity of your eyes, you very slowly put your cock in my very ready pussy. I want to cry with the thrill, release my husky breaths, but my mouth is full so I cannot. Slowly, a little bit in, then out, a little farther in, then all the way out again, not quite as far, then out, and so forth you progress, till in one last thrust you are very deep in me, filling me. Your hands hold my hips like handlebars on a bike as you ride me, steering my hips in whatever direction you choose to increase your pleasure and mine. You have told me that you want me to enjoy this as much as I can, so you see and feel me experiencing several orgasms that flow often together.
Until you suddenly, without warning, withdraw your dripping cock, extremely hard, and before I’ve even fully registered that, you swat my ass, and again, and again, and again. Not really very hard, but enough to turn my ass hot pink, hot and pink. With your free hand you stick your finger in my pussy and thrust and search, then soon add a second finger, and yet a third. Then you withdraw them and immediately put one wet finger in my ass, and after several seconds, when you have felt me pushing back onto it a few times in true pleasure, you insert the second finger, and a half minute later the third. You have occasionally given me light slaps on my ass, sometimes even as you insert a finger, so my ass is hot, my pussy is swollen and dripping, and my tight hole is ready for your cock.
Again being sure of my gaze, you withdraw your fingers and place the tip of your cock just inside, just a little bit. You don’t move at all but I can tell you are rubbing yourself, enjoying being hard and seeing yourself beginning to enter my ass. Somehow your look tells me, when your hand stops rubbing yourself and you haven’t begun to move your hips, that it is up to me to impale myself on your hard cock, to create the pleasure for both of us. So I ease myself onto you a little bit, then pull away, then down farther with deep husky inhalations as you penetrate me further. My arms and back push me onto you till finally you are completely inside my ass, and all the while you have kept my gaze. I pull away from you then thrust back slowly, then faster as I see your face enjoying not only the physical feelings but the knowledge that I am bent over, fucking my ass on your cock, giving myself orgasms on you to bring you pleasure.
You grab my hips to steady them, stop them, and in a very quiet and soulful, caring, endearing voice you tell me that I have been really good, you are really proud of all I’ve done, that you are really hard because of me. Then you tell me that you want to show me how much I have pleased you. You remind me to look in your sweet and deeply gorgeous eyes, and then begin to thrust into my ass, beginning slowly, always going deep, and increasing in speed. You tell me how you fill me not just with your cock in my ass but because who you are fits so well into who I am.
Your hands begin to grip my hips more intensely and your thrusts become more assertive, almost aggressive in the passion. You see me cumming so very often from your thrusts into me, my mouth still muted by the toothbrush that you know I wish so very much at that moment really was another man’s cock deep in my mouth while you are deep in my ass. For the first time your eyes begin to stray as your face gets redder, your breathing deepens, and your thrusts become forces of nature, hurricane gusts crashing into the shore. But you do find a way to look me in the eyes when you manage to whisper, barely audibly, “I want to cum in you now.” That sends me bucking into you with a tidal wave of my own orgasm, which in turn takes you past the point of choice, beyond control, and into frantic thrusting screaming panting fireworks, shooting rockets of cum deep into my eagerly receptive ass.
You keep thrusting into me long after the lengthy fireworks have subsided, slowing the pace and intensity but savouring the tightness around your still very hard and excited cock. You are able to open your eyes again, as am I, and as we catch that gaze we both smile broadly, and you laugh with joy of a great orgasm, of knowing you gave me such pleasure, of the delight of still being in me and filling me, and of the conviction that we are just beginning our sexual play for the day.
Eventually you withdraw, hearing my whimper through closed lips and full mouth. That whimper turns to soft moans as you rub our juices together over my ass cheeks, caressing them in with incredible tenderness, respect, and thankfulness. Quickly your slick hand pulls back and you give the centre of my ass, the area surrounding where you were just deep within me, one very hard spank just to see my surprise. You follow that with a smile, bigger than before, bigger than ever it seems, and say, “Aren’t you done brushing your teeth yet? And for goodness sakes, Rachel, pull up your pants!”
Everyone needs a day off to relax and prepare their minds and bodies for new work and a stress-filled week ahead. A perfect day for rejuvenating is usually Sunday, and what’s better for a Potterhead than a Potterplaylist for a magical Sunday reset?
We have created a wonderful list consisting of a perfect Sunday reset routine, including a magicalPotterplaylist.
Make your bed, brush your teeth, wash your face, drink a tall glass of warm water, do a bit of dusting around your house or dorm room, maybe get some letters from the letterbox (or check your email, in case you don’t have an owl)… and lastly, don’t forget the magic words: affirmations. Start your day by writing down one thing you are grateful for. It only takes a minute, but its positive effects can last forever. We love these tracks since they are groovy and fun, perfect for a fresh start to your day while you tackle the basic to-dos.
This is a no-brainer. The more you exercise, the better you feel, and the more your body loves you. Although we are guilty of not giving a lot of our time to physical activity, even 15 minutes of exercise a day can be very beneficial for us in the long run. Also, it will make us look like the fit lords and ladies of Diagon Alley — who doesn’t want to look like that? Let’s start together: To a healthier version of us, let’s go!
Breakfast is supposed to be our heaviest meal, and that is something we often forget, which can lead to issues such as light-headedness or a stomachache.
Preparing some nice meals for your Sunday and for the week ahead can be advantageous for those of us who have a grueling Muggle work or study life. With these light and soulful Potter tracks, a task like this (at least for some of us) can become as easy as a swish and flick.
After spending a long week in the company of loud or boring Muggles — and probably a Saturday out with friends and family — some alone time is what we need to detox and unwind. Walking alone with these magical tracks will not just help you embrace solitude, but it will also make you connect more with nature and breathe in peace the fresh air that you were craving for a whole week. Plus, with the company of magical tracks like these, who wouldn’t like to walk alone?
Nothing is more relaxing than having a peaceful spa and relaxation day without any worries. Work will come and go, but it is important to take care of our mental and emotional well-being, or working will become a daunting task. So let’s not get inspired by Voldemort here, because besides power, we want peace of mind.
Read a book, light up your scented candles, do a pretty manicure, put on a face pack, meditate, or soak your feet in some warm water with bath salts. The choice is yours! But don’t forget to give yourself the ultimate relaxation you need. These wholesome tracks will surely add their charm to your pampering routine while you relax and have a good time.
Just writing this list was relaxing, and listening to the Potter playlist added some freshness to our senses. We hope you liked our magical Sunday reset and the Potter music suggestions for every part of the list! Make sure to take some time out for yourself at least once every week — you deserve it. Let us know your favorite part of this list in the comments below.
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A few study photos to get inspired both for me and you because it’s too hot and the weather is full of pollens. I’m slightly dreading reading Kierkegaard, not because I won’t understand but it’s so chunky and I’m not sure which parts I would use. But let’s dig into it for the next couple of days since my supervisor is ignoring me (yet again). It’s kinda nice to do my own research alone because I feel like I know the concepts I’m writing on better. But writing in my native language is a tricky job since I’m mostly talking and writing in English, which is also deteriorating. Wow okay, it seems like I’m full of anxiety but I’m also not. I’m living in a paradoxical study mood.
Anyway i hope this excites someone to complete their daily tasks!! :)
It’s obviously not morning anymore. I’ve forgotten to write down the films and tv series I’ve watched this month but there were a lot of interesting ones I’ve seen like The Batman. I’ll maybe share the reviews here when I manage to write on my blog. I’ve been studying on my desk for really long
