It's been somewhat of a doozy of a day so far, and it is only 8.35am.
Since purchasing a mountain bike, I have started to ride it to work ever more frequently, to the point where it now feels as though it is an important part of my daily exercise/mental health regime. There is something relaxing about riding the bike and exerting energy, kick starting the metabolism and getting the mind in check in the morning through the power of exercise. I did try a brief stint of running in the morning before work, but could not get myself up out of bed and feeling awake enough, so riding to work was an excellent replacement for this. There is also a small feeling of satisfaction knowing that I am not burning 100 kilometres worth of petrol on the way to work per week, instead choosing to burn around 400 kilocalories of my own fuel. Better for the environment, better for me, better for my wallet.
So I readied myself this morning for the ride to work, with my change of clothes, packed lunch and laptop hanging off of my back, only to find that I had picked up a nice flat tyre over the weekend. Bugger, I was really looking forward to the ride this morning, and I had a breakfast that was bug enough to compensate for the ride as well as tide me over until 11am. I'm going to feel bloaty now!
I got to work to find that there was a guy outside bailing up the sales staff who were standing around having their morning cigarette(s). Not that I advocate smoking in any way whatsoever, but these guys are just as welcome to a relaxing moment or two before the busy day gets underway as anybody else is. If they choose cancer as their relaxation method, so be it. It probably hit me more since I had only just read this article last night over at Lifehack.org. It was this part that instantly came to mind:
When you arrive [at work], have a simple ritual to ease you gently into the work environment. Get a cup of tea or coffee. Greet some friends. Organize your desk. Nothing stressful--just some simple activities to switch your mind easily back into work-day mode.
I thought to myself that this is good advice, and that I would actively start doing this as of today. Ok, so I am off to a bad start.
Ok, well I had better cut this short, because the dude who was harassing the salespeople outside is now at my counter harassing my offsider technician. I better go make sure it's all ok.
Have a good day everyone.
-Brad
p.s. How do you start your day? Do you have any routines that make things start out in a more positive light? Feel free to leave your responses in the comments.
3 comments:
When I lived in Townsville my morning routine was to walk to university, which either woke me up (took about 50 minutes) or utterly exhausted me.
I really need to start walking or excersising in the morning, parents are telling me I look like I have been on the piss all night.
I mostly ride to work at 6:30am which helps wake me up. Sometimes I walk to work if my boyfriends wants to pick me up after work and if it's really cold or raining then I get driven to work. When I get to work, sign in the fire book, park my bike and get to my locker my morning ritual starts. Depending what mood I'm in I ether mentally curse any customer that dares interup my ritual before 8am or I don't mind the interuption.
I get to register 10 and drop off any extra things I have (jumper if I've warmed up but know I would need it later, etc) and I start looking at every regester (Mondays only other days I check up to regi 5 I think) for the level of register rolls, staplers and any credit card slips or trade slips that were forgotten. I then top up the register rolls and staplers, tidy up each register, try have a rag at each register, if it's too dirty I sweep behind and in front of the register (this is when my irritation of being interupted happens casue we get a quick rush at 8am so I try to get the sweeping don by then) and do a quick tidy of the stock. I do all of this on my own and I try to do it before we get 2 customers lining up and if you have seen the area I have to cover at Bunnings it can be a challenge at times with interuptions.Once I am happy with the state of the registers I settle back at 10 and I'm reasdy for customers.
I wonder how they are going without me...I'm on leave so I don't kow if anyone has bothered to do what I've been doing sicne I got the constant 7am starts as it's obvious the people from the late shift the day before don't restock and sometimes they don't sweep (either they are lazy or they've been flat out).
I usually have a wank as my morning (or afternoon) routine.
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