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Usually add watching NY1 news most mornings. As to mail I am using my iPad more and more including to post this comment; it means I can go outside right away in the morning without setting up my Mac. When no morning meetings, franjelica 2/3 Café/ 1/3 decaf coffee an important part. Banana, grapefruit sliced up bite site, and cereal usual home routine. Sometimes orange subs in for the grapefruit.

I take out the dogs and in summer tinker in garden before I get into the shower and start the day as long as I don’t have an 8 AM appointment. I’d like to know how other people do their morning things in a short period of time it appears that no matter what I do it takes me two hours —so forces me to get up early.

I use the bathroom regularly at 6:30 AM. Unfortunately I don’t wake up until 7

Meditation is a great morning routine for me.

I do the same as you, wake up and immediately check my phone before I get out of bed. Everything I read about stress management etc. says that is a terrible habit. I think Cayce has it right with meditation first. I am definitely going to try to change the immediate phone habit.

Switching out the eggs for some Lox is a start . I call routines Habit Patterns . Before I retired I had habit patterns that took over for different scenarios . Was it a game day ? Was I flying across the pond that night ? Or just completing the Honey Do list . Everyday started with a swim . A long ocean swim or laps in the pool . Once the cardio is done the world is my oyster . Now that I'm retired the cell phone stays plugged in somewhere until after lunch . The newspaper stays unread . The TV stays off . Preferably my mouth stays closed . After lunch it's Katy Bar the Door . It's about that time that the dogs come back through the woods . One day they brought back the head of a freshly killed deer . Stuff like that . The redwood Forrest and the creatures within are my morning entertainment . No ritualistic behavior . Just letting it happen . Like the animals around me . I'll tend to the Hops that we grow to make our home brew . Maybe text Fred and see if I can get his goat . No routine . The first 70 years were enough . Now it's my turn to flip off as many people as I can .

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LOL...how's that going? :-) I like that you don't see, read or hear anything till after lunch.

As a kid I was out the door with a can of coke!(I know, I know.but that was then, who knew?). Now, until I came out to LA I did not check my phone or my email before breakfast: fat free youghurt and berrises, or cereal and berries or eggs (unless I have a breakfast appt. then it is a vegetable omlette. As I said earlier since NY is thrwee hours aheas of me I mdo check my three email addresses.