Step 2: never have those 'fire drills' at work so you can leave at 5 every day, all the time, so you can get to bed at a decent hour and still get your 6-9 hour

Step 2: never have those 'fire drills' at work so you can leave at 5 every day, all the time, so you can get to bed at a decent hour and still get your 6-9 hours of sleep. It feels like every time I come in early to work, and yeah, my morning is more productive, something happens and the world goes crazy that afternoon, forcing me to stay until 7 or 8 or 9pm, because things went bad and it has to be fixed right now. I may be a bit jaded.