Why I have a wake-up routine instead of morning routine

With a 'Morning Routine' you inherently assume that you're a morning person.

You're assuming that you or someone else has enough energy to face the world as soon as they wake up.

I'm not a morning person.

I'm a night owl. Or, at least I thought so until recently.

When the world is getting ready to go to sleep, I wake up. I get my most important work done in the wee hours of the night.

When the world is getting ready to wake up, I sleep. That fresh morning breeze and sunlight on my face makes me drowsy.

But, did you know that people can have seasonal sleep cycles too?

This is new to me.

I am a night owl during winters. I am an early bird during summers.

It's summer in India and I'm waking up as early as 6 AM.

I'm only realizing this recently because all these years I didn't allow my body to fall asleep naturally. I didn't allow it to wake up naturally.

I woke up in the morning because my school/college asked me to.
I slept by 11PM because that's when everyone at my home goes to sleep.

It's been 6 months now that I took control of my sleep schedule and I've never been happier with how I fall asleep and how naturally I wake up now.

One interesting observation to this is that I don't seem to hate people as soon as I wake up.

I always knew that I was never a morning person. Now, I know that my sleep cycles vary with seasons.

And that is why, it's important for me to have a "wake-up routine" as opposed to morning routine.

Did you ever question your sleep cycles?