Ah right, a walk around nature! Because I have so much nature around me!

(Also, I'd prefer to get meetings and impromptu requests from colleagues in the morning, because I tend to get way in the zone around 14h-15h, with the drawback that I often run way in excess of 17h when I'm supposed to leave so I'm home by ~1815.)

Sounds horrible. Here's mine:

• Stand up when woken up and feeling like it.
• look into my wife's cute face.
• we make food, watch star trek, drink tea
• decide how and where we're gonna spend the day. Gaming? Binging? Pool? Museum? Zoo? Just driving around with no goal? Shopping-tour? Visit some city? Some voluntary work to help those less fortunate? Doing absolutely nothing?
• end the day in peace whenever we feel like it.

Oh yes. No kids, no pets.

Did they draw hyperlinks in their notebook?

People love to shit on linkedinlunatics (myself included) but people who think that you can get up at 11am, never exercise, never structure your day, and spend all day on lemmy and somehow achieve your goals are just as delusional.

This list might seem crazy to some people (some of the advice is hyper specific to this person's specific lifestyle) but literally everything is a good idea on it. You don't become successful at a thing unless you make a plan and structure your day around that priority. Learning how to say no to things is huge. People pleasing is a mental illness. If you have the ability to say no, and you're not at risk of getting fired or letting down someone you care about, if it doesn't serve your goals, you say no to it.

Most people don't get a chance to do those things. Wake up, commute while sending off kids, work dreadful shit, collect kids, shop, make dinner, relax15 minutes, pass out, repeat.

Except. bank holiday comes 6 times a year. Cheers.

I like organization... but I hate routines.

Step 8: wake up for real this time. It's 9:30 and you're late.

• wake up whenever, alarm usually goes off 8:30. Maybe i hit snooze a buncha times

• start work at 10. Wfh, pants optional

• work according to load, mostly fart about house.

• Take a long walk for lunch, usually blow out my step requirements

• fuck off work 3:30, go fuck around in garden until sun sets

• big fat dinner sitting on my arse watching telly with hubs, then gaming after he goes to bed at 9ish

• bed around 1ish under fat purring cat.

I keep reading work as worm.

Tldr guy only works 3 hours a day

Here’s my morning routine:

1. Wake up at 8 (assuming a crying baby doesn’t wake me up sooner)

2. Change diapers

3. Spend time with my wife and sons

4. Walk to the grocery store with my toddler (3500 steps round trip or so)

5. Drink a kombucha on the way home (coffee raises my cholesterol and gives me awful anxiety symptoms)

6. Change diapers

7. Take my toddler to the playground, weather permitting

8. Have lunch with my wife and sons

9. Read books to my toddler, change his diaper, and put him down for a nap

10. Think about how I’m leaving the USA next year partially because American work culture is absolute trash

I’m on paternity leave and it’s been the best part of my career. As in not working at all is the best part of my career. How fucked is that?

I would gladly change diapers and hang out with screaming kids all day instead of dealing with my dumb ass coworkers and people who can’t honor a meeting invite planned weeks out but then expect me to “hop on a quick call” which then achieves nothing. Between the constant threat of layoffs and losing my livelihood and the political backdrop of having my family deported because they’re too dark a shade of brown and speak Spanish sometimes?

Fuck this place. I’m out.

I wake up at 5:30 because my arsehole boss insists that I’m at my desk at 7am.

As a result I’m tired all the time and get fuck all done.

"No meetings before 2pm", "saying no is a superpower" yeah brill mate I'll just say no to my boss multiple times a morning forever and absolutely won't get fired for being difficult thanks Matt xo

I saw this multiple times already on Linkedin reposted with huge engagement.

While I understand this is borderline fiction, absolutely unrealistic and in my eyes an equivalent of those pictures with pretty girls laughing with a plate of salad promoting healthy eating, but for me the comment section of this post is the cherry on top cheering how "brilliant" this is. People are so fucked up on Linkedin.

I prefer the other Matt Gray tbh, he's funnier and doesn't tell me to wake up at 5:30 when I've just gotten to sleep...

The thing that's so irritating to me isn't the tone, isn't the weird preaching, isn't the push to follow on social media. What gets me (as it always does) is that assholes like this push their message as a one-size-fits-all message.

Assholes like this always think everyone else works just like them, and it makes me crazy.

"I wake up at 5:30 because I fall asleep at 18:30. Everyone should try to live like this bro"

This isn't terrible advice, but it's presented in such a way that I want to strike the author for being such a smug prick.

This man's colleague when he's just wasted three hours doing work he didn't have to: "but I sent you an email three hours ago about it?"

• wake up at 5:30am

Fuck right off.

The only thought I'm connecting with at 5:30 in the fucking morning is "I'm so tired, I want to go back to sleep".

"Saying 'no' is a superpower, it will lead you to your true calling. Trust your instincts."

"Want my morning routine checklist? Follow Matt Gray"

No. ( :

Hey, bud. I can't leave the office after just getting there to go lift weights. I also have zero control over 80% of the meetings I attend. Dude has no idea how privileged he is.