Counter life pro tip: use this as a weapon.

It's a good way to disseminate information that can't be made official, though. Gossip will spread faster than memos. Sadly, it's prone to alterations depending on the tellers narrative. Plus, people make up stuff all the time. There's a general "group think" that's hard to manage, and secrets just get broken by some deductive reasoning PLUS the unreliable narrative. So you could be close lipped and just get shit found out because now you're a puzzle they want to solve and then spin for their own agendas.

One of my friends is a woman who is socially awkward. She is kind, and wants to do a good job. But frequently gets fucked over by catty office workers. Often by pretending to be her friend and then just using her (to get secrets, for example) until she's all spent up, and then she becomes the scapegoat until she quits. It's weird because I have worked with her and I know she's amazingly talented with a modicum of support, but women just fuck her over again and again, because being a mildly autistic woman just irritates the fuck out of neurotypical women.

Found this to be true as well.

No one is a friend you met at a work place. Ever!

Jamie, pull up that post about what you should do when you win the Lottery

Here is a good article that explains it. It doesn’t mention diabetes, but I can’t say for sure if it should be ruled out. https://balancewomenshealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Do-You-Bolt-Awake-at-3-AM.pdf

I get out of bed immediately when the alarm goes off. Do not press snooze! Stumble to kitchen and start my coffee. Then bathroom wash face. Turn on as many lights as you can.

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fasting. i only eat once a day.

Not even year in the army made me able to get sleep before 3-4am lol. Then i said fuck it and sleep after work and stay up a night, my energy levels are shit ton different now, and i dont need alarm anymore, im naturally up after 7 hours.

Yes, this is good, and I practice this. I tend to be more honest and open about everything and I would want people to know more, not less. Other people are usually the ones who tell me that I shouldn't tell certain things to other people.

If i try to meditate for 10 min i will fall asleep again

This. And you know there are people you trust very strongly with secrets, but you never know under what circumstances they might reveal it to someone else.

I learned from a very young age to keep information to myself because my mother is incapable of keeping secrets to the point of defiance. Nothing I or my siblings told her was kept secret, we all knew about each others' business in short order. She has always insisted this is a good thing and secrets are bad (and yes, she has no secrets either...), but I know now in hindsight why this was an awful policy.

So some of us learned to never say anything.

As long as you get paid and people are not complaining that you are useless then... What's the problem? You clearly are good at your job and people who pay you are happy to do it.

It's just a job, you don't have to be the best you.

Like the one who would often say "Just between you and me...", it would be bewtween her and everyone.

Jokes on them i cant shut the hell up and tell everyone everything anyways

hey! can i ask why no breakfast right away?

Do you really think that some random fact like that is supposed to be "a secret"? If you told me that you like to paint in the park I wouldn't think it's some kind of a big secret.

It happens a few times at first, and it sucks, I used to sleep at 10pm and wake up alerted and well rested at around 2 am.

It works with consistency.

Now I sleep at 10-11pm and wake up around 6-7 am

Sun box. It's a big boxy lamp with very bright lights that you sit in front of for 10-15 minutes in the morning to treat seasonal depression. Unfortunately the price range is about the same as the sunrise clocks, i think, but you can check.

Morning light (and food) were key inputs to the biological clock last i checked, so the ideas of the sunrise alarm clock or sun box both tackle the darkness you're probably dealing with. If you can't afford them you may be able to do something with the concept of getting bright morning light. I know some people take a normal really bright lamp and put it on a timer as a poor man's sunrise clock. Of course when/if the sun is up you can go outside and get the real deal.

a small bottle of concentrated energy drink poison ☠️

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This can also be used to your advantage/desire

Can confirm. I was telling a particular office colleague about how I learnt various music instruments during my childhood. That same week, my Director asked if I could be arrowed/relied on to volunteer to perform for a music event. Like wtf.

That’s the last fucking time I’m telling that colleague anything like that.

Download a circadian rhythm app/ sleep cycle app, you go through phases of sleep about every hour and a half going from rem sleep to deep sleep. Waking up during deep sleep is incredibly jarring, it is when your body is furthest from awake and you will be guaranteed to feel groggy waking up during peak rem sleep is relatively painless because as far as your brain is concerned your not far from conscious. Theses apps should ensure that you are being woken up at the right time to feel energetic even if it could be a half an hour before you need to get up. They will also usually have a gradual alarm that gets louder the longer you leave it so it is only as loud as needed to wake you and isn't waking the whole house