Classroom Funk

Mornings have never been a happy time of day for me. I naturally wake up grumpy and unhappy with the world. It doesn't matter what time I wake up, just waking up makes me grumpy. Now, this makes it almost impossible to make a good and productive morning when learning or teaching. Over the past year or so, I've read almost everything possible about becoming a "morning person" and making your mornings more productive. I have to say, a lot of it has worked! Let's be real, I still have my mornings where I am extremely grumpy just for the main reason of waking up. But I have slowly taught myself to enjoy that time of the morning. I feel like this is an appropriate topic with so many schools starting this and next week. I myself start classes next week, and it's time to once again enjoy the cool, crisp, darker mornings. So, for people out there like me who find mornings to be the bane of their existence...here are some tips that I find help me out in the mornings!

1. You've probably heard this one lots, but just get up. Don't lay in bed on facebook or instagram, as soon as your alarm goes off, roll out of bed. 
2. Make your breakfast and lunch the night before. I prefer to make them before I eat dinner, I generally have a better appetite and more correct sense of what I would like to eat. After dinner I am not hungry and don't want to eat anything. This little trick really helps me every morning. 
3. Pick your clothes out the night before. I never realized how long I actually take to choose out my outfits in the morning until I started picking out my outfits in the evening. It is such a relief to step out of bed into a nice, fresh outfit.
4. Plan out your week/day. I have anxiety and having everything planned out and ready to go really relieves the stress of the day and makes me want to get up and accomplish things. 
5. The simple act of washing your face, even if it's just with water. It is refreshing and wakes you up immediately!

I hope this helps the early mornings in your life!