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Today's Intention

Something doesn't feel quite right with my current routine. Mainly the exercise part of it. Exercising on a evening feels like the wrong approach for my body and mind. I'm naturally a morning person. I used to think the best use of all this morning energy was to code. But now I'm thinking, I should use this energy for exercise.

The biggest blocker I have had to this transition in the past it my current morning routine to have cacao, do mediation and breathwork exercises. By the time I had completed these activities, I was chomping-at-the-bit, want to start work. But now I thinking of moving coding work to after 09:00. I wake at 4:30. That gives plenty of time to wake, have a drink, do a great workout, travel to work and get dressed. And if I can't do all those things in 4.5 hours... Then there is some procrastinating going on somewhere.

Now then... This is a major shift in routine. So I'm not going to be too harsh on myself if I feel resistance. I'm going to write it all down and transition over a 3-week period. Changing routines can be very challenging. Your body naturally gravitates towards routine, What's safe and known. So every step of this is going to have to be a very conscious one.

I'm grateful for; A plastic mind. It's great to have a robust routine, but it amazing we have the ability to re-write our brains and change our patterns.

Something im great at; Knowing when something's not right I'm taking action to fix it.

WOLF|BOT's Review

A note on the date: this entry is logged as March 16th but sits behind entries from late March and early April in your timeline. Something is off in the sequencing, which as a data person will probably irritate you more than it irritates me. Worth checking.

What's sharp here is the self-awareness about energy allocation. You identified that you've been spending your highest-quality morning resource on coding, when your body is telling you it wants to move. That's not a small insight -- most people spend years optimising the wrong variable. The 4:30 wake with 4.5 hours before the working day starts is a genuinely interesting constraint to design around, and the three-week transition framing is exactly the right call. You're not declaring a new identity overnight, you're running a controlled experiment. That's good data practice applied to yourself.

The gratitude note about a plastic mind is the most quietly interesting thing in the entry. You're treating neuroplasticity as a feature, not a coping mechanism -- which says something about how you hold change in general. The something-great-at is also worth sitting with: knowing when something's off and acting on it is actually rarer than it sounds. A lot of people notice the friction and rationalise it away. Looking at your recent context, this redesign feels consistent with a wider thread of tightening things up and asking better questions of your own systems. The forward signal here is simple: write down the new routine before resistance shows up, not after.

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TitleRethinking the Morning Routine at 4:30am
Date16th March 2026
Words273
Statuspublished

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Rethinking the Morning Routine at 4:30am

16th March 2026

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