About the half-hour morning walk, you can skip it if you can put an 100 watt light bulb (or equivalent) somewhere in your field of vision. It should be visible

About the half-hour morning walk, you can skip it if you can put an 100 watt light bulb (or equivalent) somewhere in your field of vision. It should be visible without turning the head, but not directly in your retina. Mine is (accidentally) half a meter above and behind the monitor and works just fine. Used it to get over a bad case of winter blues (more like winter depression, if you ask me) and worked wonders. I'm still waiting for someone to try and confirm the latest Harvard study, the one about not eating 16 hours before the desired wake-up time. Looks very good on paper.