Give yourself time to wake up, this means setting your alarm for 10 or 15 min earlier than you normally would. It may sound a bit radical, but instead of getting up immediately after your alarm goes off, you'll have 10 min to wake your body up, stretch and stop being so sleepy before you start your day.
Take a shower if you are one to feel extra sleepy in the mornings, this will refresh you and help you feel even more awake, and even if the shower doesn't do it for you, the coldness you'll feel from getting in and out of the shower will do.
Eat something, a lot of people say they can do breakfast, but you just gotta remember that it doesn't have to be a big, impressive meal, as long as you put something into your body for it to function you'll feel better about it. Remember that low sugar levels cause crankiness.
Drink water, all day but in the morning it will help you feel lighter, less groggy, less sleepy and it will help your body hydrate which is amazing if you need to focus or start doing something right away.
Avoid caffeine for the first hour of the morning, as tempting as it can be to get coffee to wake up, it will not have the same effect if you drink it first thing in the morning as if you drink it an hour into your day. You won't get the same effect and you'll start "tolerating" it more.
Avoid stress, one of the worst things is waking up, checking your emails and realising that this day is not going to be as wonderful as it was at the beginning, so avoid anything that can possibly stress you or bring you to the edge, plan your outfit the day before and don't reply any messages until you've had something to eat.
It's true, mornings do get easier as you get the hang of it, you'll realise quite quickly what works for you and your lifestyle. In full honesty we all want to have slow, relaxing mornings everyday and although that's not entirely possible, you can make some of them a lot better if you try and don't dread them so much.
Mayte.
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