How much time do you need in the morning?

When I'm working (I'm on medical leave, another story lol) I usually get up 2 hours before I leave for work. Like you, I hate having to rush around to get ready and out the door. I like to have time to have a couple of cups of coffee, check my email, check mylot, etc. before getting dressed and ready for work. I also take my lunch since there is no telling where I'll be working on any given day. I work for the forestry service. I also like having a leisurely morning because my days can turn hectic in a moments notice, particularly in the wildfire season.

It takes me about half an hour, 45 minutes if I'm going to wear formal clothes. Luckily, I don't do that very often as I am a writer and writers don't have to get dressed up we just need to go sit in front of the computer and wait for the muse. Although mine has been very absent lately. If I'm having writer's block, I will visit mylot or any of the other penny per post sites I belong to while I wait for something to kick in and allow me to do more serious work. In the morning, its essential for me to have a glass of orange juice, play with the cat, get dressed, and tame my wayward hair.

My alarm starts going off an hour before I'm supposed to be at work, the last alarm starts going off 40 minutes before I'm supposed to be there. If all goes well that one will finally annoy me out of the bed. This morning it didn't and I didn't wake up till 20 minutes till. On mornings like that it's make the bed, find the first outfit that looks decent, grab my dayrunner, laptop and stop at the fridge for my diet pepsi caffene fix on the way out the door. Thank God it's only 10 miles to work and at 4AM there's almost no traffic. The fact is the earlier I get up the more likely I am to be late for work, cause I get to doing other things and lose track of time.

well i need two hours in the morning so that i can make the breakfast then wake my son and make him do his routine and breakfast this takes the longest then i dress him up in uniform and he is off to school..when i used to go for my job i would need one hour for getting ready and would just carry an apple and have it on way..have a nice day..

When I get up for work I tend to get up at about 6.30am and have plenty of time to do what I need to do before leaving at 7.15am. First I need to put the kettle on and I have this time to wake up a bit. While my coffee is cooling I often start up the pc and get washed/showered. I then have 10 minutes to sit down and check what is what like my mail, mylot, facebook etc and then get dressed. I rarely wear make up in job number 1 in a day nursery, but if I am assessing at the college I allow an extra 10 minutes to make sure I have time to do make up, straighten hair a bit and organise paperwork. If in the nursery for the day, I tend to be ready to go by about 7.05 and then spend another few minutes feeding the cats, popping some washing in or shouting at my son to get up. By 7.15 I leave and get to work by 7.30 to open up. Luckily I don't need time to have breakfast in the morning, as we are able to make our breakfast and eat it at work.

hello dragon54u!c", It is very tough to wake early in the morning especially if you felt tired from work yesterday. What I usually do is to sleep early and set up my alarm clock. yep, it is hard to do that if you have a stressful job but we have to do that for our life not be ruin in the morning.

I can get up and be out the door in about 30 minutes some days. Other days I need an hour to get ready - usually because I haven't completely prepared a lesson the night before.

Because I so love my bed and because I get so little of it, I have got the time it takes me to get ready for work down to a fine art. I wake at 6 A.M and get in the shower. The night before i prepare breakfast and within 10 minits of waking, im eating. After this at 6.20 I put on my uniform and leave the house at 6.30. I have been doing this now for 5 years and have it timed like a military operation. blessed be

I need about a solid hour in the morning to get ready and get to work (work is a ten minute drive away, if I time it right). Sometimes I will snooze for up to 15 minutes and I can make that work, but I have to rush my breakfast/computer time. My only absolute essential is breakfast and cleaning my teeth and face before I got to work. I can skip just about everything else if I'm really late (except getting dressed, of course, PJ's won't fly most days at work). I actually feel a bit more alert and ready to jump into things at work if I have to rush a little bit in the morning; gets the adrenline flowing, I suppose.

I work Monday through Friday 8am to 4pm. I take the train to work because it saves time and gas. But for work days, I wake up at exactly 5:30am, take 15 minutes to shower, takes me about 20 minutes to get ready while watching the early morning news and weather for the day. I have to watch it or else, I will feel like something is wrong. Once Im done dressing and still have sometime to kill, I just sit on the couch and wait until 6:27am and I am out of the door and on the train by 6:51 am and at work by 7:30 am.

I like that, I also work up earlier and goes out a pit late. I don't check mails but go dig a shamaba and weed the vegetable, take goats to a grazing field later come play with my little boy, as our house girl do washing since my wife goes to job earlier and mine I go late I have enjoyed working up and doing small duties at home before I live. It has been my joy to do that.

Sleep early if you want to have a relax morning to start your day. When you get up early, you will have enough time to to get ready, and you are more relax to start you day. If you are working, just take minimum time to get ready, so that you can leave early and beat the traffic jam.

I get up 1 and 1/2 hours before I have to be at work. No coffee. No caffeine at all. I spend an hour and 15 min. in the bathroom getting ready. Hair, makeup, all that stuff. I pick my cloths out the night before. I think I a woman looks nice, dresses nice, carries herself the correct way she will get respect. Therefore, I my time for myself is in the mornings.

I need 45 minutes in the morning to get ready because I get enough sleep to get ready for school . I usually wake up at around 7:30am and and I usually take a 10 minute shower and take a few minutes to put my clothes on and get my books and school supplies in order. Then I eat my breakfast while I do my hair and that takes around 15 minutes to do. With whatever time that I have left I watch whatever sports highlights that are on the television. and then I leave home at around 8:15 and head off to school

i need about an hour and a half to have coffee,wake up and get ready. otherwise i'll be irritable most of the day.my brother can leap out of bed 5 minutes before work,and off he goes.i don't know how he does it.

Well I do not go to work but I have to be up early to take my children to school, I have four in total but one is nearly 17 so I do not have to worry about him so much. The others however are 7,6 and 2 so time in a morning is very limited. I could do with about 2 hours to get ready but that would mean getting up about 6am! I just get up at 7am and then I get the kids up about 7.45am which allows 45 mins for me to get up, wake up and get myself looking decent for the day! If I came on here before school then the kids would probably not end up in school!

I need and hour for my self in the morning and of course 30 minutes too for the walk with the dog. So that is enough time for me to start the day. I hate having breakfast in a hurry-so the hour for me is a must have for me.

Technically i can prob get away with 30 mins, to shower dress and get out the door. However, i like to come on here and check emails and visit mylot and a load of other stuff on the internet, so i make sure im up at least an hour before i have to be out the door, but most mornings i wake up without an alarm, far earlier than i need to.

Mmm,in fact I usually need one hour to finish everyting include washing and having breakfast.I don't like to get up early in the morning,espeially in winter.But because I am a student,I usually need to get up at 6 o'clock.Now is holiday,so I can get up very late and needn't to worry about the time I need in the morning.

I usually wake up about 45 minutes before i have to go to school or work. Usually in the morning i just get myself cleaned up and eat breakfast