I wish I'd read your article years ago! I only discovered my own slow morning benefits a few months ago -- and I absolutely agree that you have to be more disciplined with bedtime.

Part of the slow morning for me is to try and let my body dictate when I wake up -- my alarm is set, but it's set for a "last-possible-moment" time, if all I was going to do was wake up and get ready.

That seems to have done the trick, and my brain just wakes me up naturally (around 5-5:30am, I know, still ridiculous). I do a little calligraphy, I read some fun fiction book for 30 minutes, then do a morning-pages type writing for 15 minutes before firing up the actual Medium article I'm working on at the moment.

I do need more than an hour -- when I get into writing flow, the sweet spot seems to be about 90 minutes -- but I make sure to stop, regardless of the amount of time I've spent, at 7:30am to go sit on the couch and have coffee with my partner while we watch the morning news (via late-night comedians).

At 8 I start to actually get ready to be at my desk at 9. It's been a great change to my habits, and feels much more natural.

I do, howver, sometimes still do a cold shower AFTER the slow morning. To kickstart the rest of the day. Can't get out of the 2006 that much...