How do you start your Monday Morning? Coffee? Brain fog?

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Sometimes it's hard to get back to work and continue from where you left after the weekend. How do you beat brain fog?

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Eddie Forson
Take a morning walk outside before you get into heavy work. Helps clear the mind and get some exposure to fresh air and daylight. Also, these days I try to drink matcha tea instead of coffee to keep more consistent energy levels :).
Simona Stamatovska
Black coffee and a fresh weekly to-do list.
Benedek Zajkas
Intermittent fasting, no question! :) Clear mind, lots of energy, no brain fog + autophagy is working in the background. The only trick is to drink a lot of water...
Iliya Valchanov
I start my Monday with a weekly catchup with all the teams across all departments.
Ankur Singh
Get some movement, write a to-do list and wait for 1-1.5 hrs before I drink coffee to avoid caffeine crash.
Joseph Abraham
SaaS for Greater Good
SaaS for Greater Good
OKR planning and reviews, Checking and responding to emails. I go for a long run.
Kate Santoro
Coffee for sure. At work we start our week with tracking KPIs and planning our sprint. It helps align our team and also is a start of week ritual that helps set the mood and clear up any doubts so we can go into the week motivated. :)
Eileen Simons
Unpopular opinion: I actually hate coffee (it is what it is...). In my case 15 minutes of swimming, pilates or some stretching and we start with the work day!
Lucas Oliveira
Warpy: Terminal Generative Shell
How do you beat brain fog? I wake up at 5 am, drink a cup of water, wait 1 hour and then have my first coffee. I works fine, water helps my brain to start working in the mornings
Evgeniy Kosjakov
Coffee!
sushil
Coffee -> Overthink -> Write todo -> Coffee -> forget the todo list -> Coffee -> Start working on the things that I thought to do yesterday. "Yes we exist"
charles shiro
Will listen to the audio of some case studies of failed companies to remind myself.
Gaurav Parvadiya
Start building my to-do list
Royce Wong
My day starts with a big glass of water and followed by a nice cup of coffee! A good 30min catch up with my cofounders and then its 90mins of focus time with a 15 min reward of whatever thing I choose to do.
Jaroslaw Pidburskyj 🇮🇹Ï🇺🇦SEO
Every morning starts with 3 or more Italian espressos, it oils the joints too, if working from home then gardening brings to the surface the better ideas that makes a huge difference.
Ivana Bakija
Aspen - API Testing for macOS
When weather is nice i ride my bike to work (about 7km) which wakes me up and makes me feel good. When it rains, coffee works too :D
Ramy Wafaa
Grinding fresh coffee and making a good cup of it.. while outlining the tasks of the day. But i never start work immediately! First i take around 1 hour playing any PC or mobile game that stimulates my brain .. mostly games with base building or problem solving .. i find that really helpful to get focused :)