Any tips for having more energy and focus throughout the day?
How do you guys start your mornings?
Do you take any supps or make any dietary changes for getting the most out of your day?
>be me
>21
>sleep 10-12 hours on days I don't have to get up early for work
>irregular sleep schedule because of work
>unless I'm on stims always feel like I could go for a nap
>don't remember the last time I woke up before noon unless it was for work
I want to be more like one of these Jocko Willink type characters who wake up at 4am and start getting shit done. Is it all a matter of discipline? I feel like I'm falling behind in this adulthood game
Wake up at 5am, flash a light in your eyes, and brew some coffee.
Don't do drugs. Not even alcohol.
Have a non-negotiable time you wake up every morning, get out of bed right away and create a morning routine. You may need more iron if you're feeling sluggish throughout the day.
sleep 8 hours, no more, no less.
brush teeth and wash face/take shower
make breakfast
eat it
and then start doing shit.
>>37040066
>Have a non-negotiable time you wake up every morning
This is the hard part for me, unless I have some obligation where other people depend on me (work), it's nearly impossible for me to convince my sleepy brain to get out of bed and start doing shit.
>wake up at 8am sharp
>eat a serving of oatmeal I prepared monday of that week
>finish oatmeal, make shake
>work out, chug shake, and get on 4chan
>11pm attend classes and then my part time job
>get home and shitpost until 9pm, when I lay down and listen to moe jazz on repeat
>stop music at 10pm
>contemplate suicide until I fall asleep
>repeat
It's not hard OP, just find a good schedule that works for you. Some people just can't follow a fixed schedule, and that's okay
>>37040066
This.
Routine, especially in the morning, is incredibly important.
Some light morning exercise helps.
Try as hard as you can to keep a regular healthy sleeping schedule, it matters more than you think.
Productivity guides are usually waste of money and time but this one actually describes a pretty sound way of organizing yourself in order to get shit done.
Also, well-thought-out routines really are very helpful.
I can't sleep or wake at consistent times, so my life is a continual nightmare of waking at 3AM or 6PM or whatever with no relief or escape.
just snort a fat rail of meth in the morning an get shit done
>>37039980
eat more - healthier
>>37039980
Orange juice. I can't make it without it. Coffee puts me on edge and makes me angry.
>>37040198
sauce?
>>37040198
I find it helps if you have a consistent bed time. It makes getting up at the same time much easier.
>>37039980
It's a matter of discipline, but I didn't develop the discipline to wake up at 4 am daily while getting 8 hours of sleep a night and getting all my shit done until I hated my living situation so much my first thought was to get out of my house.
>>37042457
iiniku ushijima
>>37042265
thanks man ill check it out
Wake up and immediately get up and do something, can be brushing your teeth or making a cup of coffee, do this for a couple of days/weeks until it becomes a habit.
If you want to be a morning person, the best way to go about it is to just start doing it.
>>37039980
>sleep 10-12 hours on days I don't have to get up early for work
How many hours do you sleep when you do have to get up early for work
>>37040198
>>37039980
>wake up when alarm goes off
>swallow a few caffeine pills or some modafinil
>go back to sleep
>get woken up "naturally" about half an hour later and be unable to go back to sleep
Repeat until you start waking up at the right time without alarm clocks or stimulants, usually starts happening after about a week but can take over a month to fully solidify as a habit. Speaking from experience trying to catch up on sleep whenever you don't have to wake up early just makes the problem worse.
The only way to conquer shitty sleeping patters is to wake up at the same time seven days a week, every week, you'll probably end up going to bed at crazy times like 4pm for the first week but eventually you'll adapt and start feeling well rested, stimulants, flux and non-narcotic sleep aids like melatonin, taurine and glycine are cheap and will also help a lot.
Wake up, immediately pop modafinil 200mg.
Set for the day after that.
>>37039980
>ushijima will never do jav
what did we do to deserve this?
>>37042395
>get shit done
The secret is to not take it until you're out the door and on your way to work/school, otherwise I end up calling in sick and cleaning/masturbating for 12 hours straight until my dick swells up to a 7 inch circumference flaccid and then refuses to get completely hard for the next two weeks
>>37040066
the time to wake up isn't the hard part for me, it's the hard bed time. I can get up at 6 daily, but if I stay up anywhere from 9 to midnight my lack of sleep eventually catches up with me.
>>37044575
>woke up
>took modafinil
>went back to sleep expecting it to wake me up when it kicked in
>slept for another six hours
>mfw
>>37039980
My dad is very much like this. He was career Army, not Jocko, but closer than most Army guys. Voluntarily joined infantry during Vietnam. I woke up at 5AM once and he was mowing the yard, and he'd already taken care of other shit. Here are a few things he told me that I wrote down and do my best to take to heart:
"Don't overthink it, just fucking do it."
"You have to be disciplined. I wake up every day at 5:00 with everything set out for me to go int the morning, so if I have to get up at 4:30 and take care of an emergency I'm ready to walk out the door."
"You need more than coffee to get the blood flowing. I do 15 push-ups right out of bed, get to work early, do 50 more and take care of my day's work in the next 90 minutes. By 2PM, 3PM, I get to do what I want."
"Do what you gotta do first, then do what you want. Work hard, play hard; but, you have to work hard first. Get your shit done."
"How'd I do it? I don't know, I just did it. You read a book about it? That's great. While you were doing that, I did it and 18 other things."
There are others, but I think those are the most relevant. He gets shit done like nobody's business. Hope it helps.
>>37040198
>wake up
>it's 6 pm
>don't get up until 10 pm
>stay up until 2 pm
>wake up
>it's 6 pm
>able to stay up until 2 pm again
I hate this
>>37039980
There's no substitute for sleep when it comes to energy levels.
You really need to set a sleep routine as much as your work will allow.
Try things like bio lights and white noise to sleep better and try not to oversleeping even on days it's possible.
It's about having better sleep not necessarily more.
>>37044614
Don't worry about it, I found that if I set a very strict time to wake up(exactly 5am every morning) and forced myself to not nap or sleep until after sunset I eventually started going to sleep at 10pm automatically and started waking up without needing an alarm, once my sleep schedule was stable I also reintroduced a 30 minute siesta after lunch
>tfw sleeping 2 hours less than I used to and yet feeling more well rested than ever before
>>37044621
Where do you get modafinil
>>37044678
That fucking cat is great
>>37044641
>Voluntarily joined infantry during Vietnam
Wouldn't that make your dad about 75 years old?
>>37044680
I got it from my doctor once, cost me like $10 per 100mg pill, now I get it from modafinilcat (Google it, posting a link can get me b& for advertising) it comes from India so it's already pretty cheap but Pajeet drops the price even further if you pay with bitcoins
>>37044697
Early 60s, he joined during the last couple years of ground troop involvement.
>>37044485
4-8, I work weekend mornings so if I decide to have a social life the night before I have to sacrifice some hours
>>37044575
>>37044621
Do you guys have scripts or are you not from the US? I ordered some off a UK website once, it came a month late and I noticed minimal effects.
>>37044614
I have both, in the morning I don't want to wake up and at night I don't want to go to sleep
>>37044641
screenshot, thanks
>>37044588
I don't even have yellow fever, but I love this girl
>>37039980
I recently stated getting up earlier and doing Radio Taiso before starting my day.
>>37044641
If he volunteered for the army, he can't be that smart.
Also, "just do it" is a Nike slogan, not good advice.
>>37044990
You don't have to be smart to have your shit together and be disciplined mang.
I get what you're baiting at doe
>>37044778
Can I have your dad
>>37040198
HNNG PLEASE TELL ME SHE HAS A DICK
>>37040206
Moe jazz? Link me senpai
>>37044915
>I noticed minimal effects
Modafinil results in very little jitteryness or tweakiness like you get from high doses of caffeine or amphetamine, that's part of why it's so popular, it also potentiates other stimulants so if modafinil alone isn't enough combine with a SMALL dose of another stimulant like a cup of tea or 5mg of amphetamine, that'll get you tweaked as fuck
>>37044557
Are you in the US?
>>37040206
>>37045392
You mean lolijazz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCodVbucTbo
>>37044915
Why is it Asian girls always stand pigeon-footed when they are trying to look sexy? I fucking hate it. It makes them look physically retarded.
>>37045728
Asian men love signs of youth, like school uniformsm and lacking the motor skills to stand right. Might also explain why all their porn actresses sound like they're crying.
>>37045728
This actually has origins from the Tang dynasty in China. From some just utterly inexplicable reason, the Tang artists classified beauty into the following tiers of increasing value: natural, fragile, and sickly. This is why, if you ever go to China or look at Chinese art from that era, everything from the gold fish to the doge statues to the people all looked really gross (for modern standards), and why it was so popular for girls to bind their feet, for dudes to lop off their dicks, etc.
And because China was so insanely influential at the time, the idea of sickly beauty being top tier just sort of stuck to all the surrounding nations. Which is why japs painted their faces with deathly pale white, why pajeenas bullet hole punched their faces, etc.
And before you say "well my European ancestors were better", bear in mind, at that time Europe was in the dark ages, and all of art consisted of equally ugly shit like human homunculus, no perspective, religious dumb fuckery, etc.
>>37045910
Wew, not the guy you're replying to but I grew up in China and I didn't even know this shit, interesting.
>>37045941
You didn't know because it's literally bullshit lmao. The eunuchs were forced to have their dicks chopped off in order to prevent them from raping the emperor's concubines while holding office in the palace.
Feet binding were part of the fashion trend, it had nothing to do with "being sickly".
>>37045991
I know about the eunuchs, Tang dynasty been very powerful and feet binding.
I just didn't know about how they were interlinked and linked with the aesthetic view of that period and neighboring countries.
>>37045991
Well it did, girls who were footbound couldnt even walk properly which was considered desirable
>>37039980
i havent had a proper sleeping pattern in nearly 10 years
>>37046013
Well japan at the time worshipped tang china.
They even tried to copy their cities down to the design
>>37042457
20CA3C5
>>37046031
Fascinating how different the two countries turned out to be hundred of years later.
>>37046013
>I just didn't know about how they were interlinked and linked with the aesthetic view of that period and neighboring countries.
I'm saying it isn't lmfao
>>37046031
>worshiped
Giving tribute isn't the same as "worshiped" mate lmao
>geologically near cultures have similar architecture
Wow who would've thought
>>37046061
Nope. Heian japan literally copied what tang china did. Google it senpai
>>37046048
Because mongols
>get up at 6AM
>drink some coffee
>streach for 20 minutes
>go swimming or start doing stuff I need for the Uni
>breakfast at 9 or 10
But start with some basic shit like regular sleeping, or making bed after getting up
>>37046061
Geologically? Japan and China have similar rocks? I guess that's true since they are geographically similar.
>>37039980
Wake up at 0600
light run (7 km)
breakfast (at least 30 grams of proteins from legumes and some carbs; usually cauliflower, kale, broccoli, carrots - all steamed - and a potato or whole wheat/farro pasta)
coffee
take a shit
do some crunches/plank/chin ups
shower
shave
oh shit it's 0710
coco + modafinil and I'm ready to go (otherwise I'd have no reason not to shot me in the face)
A new day is starting and new useless challenges are there for me yay :^)
>>37044557
>modafinil
junkies in charge of teaching ppl how to wake up
>>37046756
If you drink more than one coffee you're more of a junkie. Moda ain't even an amphetamine and does not build up addiction.
>>37046789
neither does amphetamine. At least not physical. But you can become dependent on both psychologically. And both can come with neuropsychiatric disorders with amphetamines being obviously more risky.
>>37039980
I read the title as getting rid of gonorrhea
>>37046680
I meant geographically but I bet you knew that you little slut
>>37046036
Not this one senpai
>>37044588
sauce pls pls
>>37044981
this is fun as all get out
>>37045250
I'm in the same boat as OP. I've been lifting/jogging and eating at a surplus for 2 days now and after I do all my fitness shit and eating I am so full and can not move. I fell asleep at 9 pm last night and woke up this morning at 10, went for a run and then ate. It is 6 pm and I've been lying in bed for the last 3 hours. Will I ever get used to eating at a surplus or will I be a lazy shit for the next 6 months of SS?
>>37039980
I wake up and take my ECA stack l, walk my dog and have a leisurely breakfast before work. I work at 9 and have a 10 minute commute. I get up at 6.
>>37045250
oh /fit/..
