Steveer Robbins here.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is waking up.

A listener wrote in asking,

How do I wake up in the morning?

I hit the snooze button a dozen times and still don't wake up.

Tired me knows I should get up,

but stubbornly refuses to open my

eyes and get out of bed. Listener, please forgive me for not knowing your name. I have to get up at 6 a.m.

for my new job. Your message arrived early in the morning. I was groggy from waking up, so I

kind of accidentally sort of deleted your message by accident.

Oops.

As you can tell, waking up is hard to do.

I read once that morning people are only 10% of the population,

but because they get to work earlier than the rest of us,

they control everything.

They keep us off balance by calling 8 a.m. meetings on Monday. That is the true definition

of evil. That's because the rest of us don't know how to get up early. Why not use an alarm

clock? You just don't understand. For some of us, our bodies just don't wake up. They simply refuse.

They know at a deep cellular level that too much morning

air can turn you into a chipper, optimistic morning person, and that would be a tragic betrayal of our

pessimistic, fatalistic, cynical selves. Your question itself has a problem. You ask about waking up

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