No matter how much I drink on a regular basis, I never seem to form a dependency. I can easily forget to have a cup in the morning, or just not feel like it.
No, the problem for me is doing things the night before that make me feel like I need to wake up the next day. i.e. staying up late doing stuff, when I should be focusing on winding down to sleep.
Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow?
Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen?
During the day, computer screens look goodātheyāre designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldnāt be looking at the sun.
f.lux
f.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computerās display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.
Itās even possible that youāre staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better.
Or, if you have kids and work 4 jobs like I do, just drink the friggin coffee already. Because even if life doesnāt totally suck without coffee, the whole productivity curve is tilts glaringly, unavoidably, unarguably towards coffee. Dangit. Plain as day.
Advice not to take, no matter how desperate in the morning, from Dr. Emilio Lizardo:
Iāve been cutting back on the caffeine - when at home coffee is made in a caf:decaf ratio of 2:3, at work Iām drinking chai (black-tea based) with cream and sugar in the morning and green tea with some flower in the afternoon.
I ālikedā your post, but since I responded to the original one by posting a video myself maybe Iām being hypocritical. (At least mine has music.)
This is no joke. Since I hit my mid 30ās, afternoon nap is a force of nature. If I donāt get a STOUT cup of coffee or two before noon on my days off, itās game over for at least 2-3 hours come 1pm.