Wellness
The Case for Slower Mornings
Fifteen minutes at the start of the day is worth more than an hour reclaimed at the end of it. A small argument for going slower.
Most mornings are a negotiation with the snooze button that nobody wins. The compromise is a day that starts already behind, and a version of you that spends the first two hours catching up.
Fifteen minutes, not an hour
This is not an argument for waking at five. It is an argument for the difference between a fifteen-minute buffer and no buffer at all, which is much larger than fifteen minutes suggests.
Decide the night before
The slow part of a slow morning is not the walking or the coffee. It is the deciding. Anything you can settle the evening before is time returned to you.
A morning with a margin in it is a different day, not just an earlier one.
Protect it badly and it disappears
The buffer only survives if it is treated as real. The moment it becomes the first thing to give way, it is gone within a fortnight.
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