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Get up and get going. I don’t know that I struggle with this. Yes, sometimes I fall back asleep a few times. Eventually I will get up. Having kids has a habit of making you awake before 8 a.m. Even if it’s a weekend and your kids are grown up. No matter how late I stay up, I still wake up at 8 a.m. I’ve started to adjust my nightly schedule to try and get more sleep and not stay up until the early hours of the next day. For work I’ve been flexible. Working from home I’ll usually wake up between 6:30 and 8:00 a.m. When I was commuting, I’d get up at 5:30 so I could beat traffic in. I did this for the military too. I would get up even earlier at 5:00 a.m. It’s amazing how much work you get done between 6:30 a.m. and 8 a.m. when people are just getting in.