Nobody Panic - Still Panicking: How to Get Up Early

Episode Date: August 25, 2025

Still Panicking: Summer is drawing to a close and a new term is about to begin, so this week we look back at Stevie and Tessa's top tips for easing back into school/university/work life.Wish you could jump out of bed moments before the alarm goes off with a spring in your step while singing various songs to various wild birds? Stevie and Tessa are both quite bad at getting up in the morning, and so have an array of tips to help you (and them) drag yourself off the mattress. Spoiler alert: what you do the night before is very important. This episode was first released on 31 August 2021.Recorded and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive.Photos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobson.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/nobodypanic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello, I'm Carriad. I'm Sarah. And we are the Weirdo's Book Club podcast. We are doing a very special live show as part of the London Podcast Festival. The date is Thursday, 11th September. The date is 7pm and our special guest is the brilliant Alan Davies. Tickets from kingsplace. It's coming to London. True on Saturday the 13th of September. At the London Podcast Festival. The rumours are true. Saturday the 13th of September. At King's Place. Oh, that sounds like a date to me, Harriet. Good morning, Tessa. Oh, no. Go away. Five more minutes, please. Welcome to Nobody Panic. That short vignette was to illustrate the episode that we'll be doing today. Each week we do how to.

My name's Stevie. My name is Tessa. Tessa. Well, Tessa. Welcome to the episode. I'm just been reading the Wikipedia Blage for the M. Night Shyla Man film Old. And so that's the energy I'll be bringing to the podcast today. But quickly old energy.

Yeah. I, actually, this is a very apt episode, a suggestion that we got, which we will go and dive into a second. But I was up all night because my dog had the shits. So let's just say it, just call the spade a poor little girl. Every half an hour, I'd hear this noise. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'd have to take her outside.

She would look at me like, Mother, what has happened? like she's some sort of Victorian child and then just completely decimate wherever she was stood on the balcony go back in, sleep on the sofa within 20 minutes oh no, okay, here we go poor little thing, we just,

we decided to switch her food and we didn't ease her in to it and she's just been like, no, that was too fast. Anyway, the point is, we were recording this at like 11, I went to sleep at quarter to seven. So I am hysterical and I had to get up And did it cross my mind?

Say you've, I don't know, contracted some sort of strange tropical disease and you can't do the point. Yes, it did. But got up at nine. Well, down you. No one's saying you didn't do well. Well, placed. Well, placed to give you my wisdom. Steve hasn't slept.

I just can't stop thinking about how everyone on the beach is aging rapidly and there's a rapper called mid-sized sedan. I can't get over it. That's the energy we're bringing to the podcast today, everybody. Welcome. This one is a. about how to get up in the morning. Oh, Mama, what a human question. What a struggle for us all. What a horrible, horrible thing getting out of bed is. Some people are fine with it. And if you're

listening being like, I don't know what you're talking about. It's just you just get out of bed. What is there some sort of physiological issue? No, you are either somebody who's like, oh, it's the morning I'm going to get up out of bed. How nice. Or you're somebody who's like, I, death, death please. But now we're in this new sort of period of times, and if you've heard, it's a very different time now,

where people who maybe were working from home and were able to have that extra hour and a half and have got very used to not having to commute and starting from their desk in the morning, and now going back to that kind of like, oh, now I've got to go up at 7am again, maybe even earlier, and I've got to go into the office.

And I think as it was jarring when we went into it and people had to start working from home, thus it is now jarring. going back. But also, like, I think it's, if you are somebody who can just leap out of bed in the morning and likes mornings and is a morning person, do remember that you are God's chosen children.

You are the special ones. Always good to remember that, yeah. That you don't ever take, don't ever tease anybody who can't do it because you have truly been given the elixir of life. I saw a gift. It's a gift. I saw a tweet once.

It was like, God designing humans. And he was like, I shall make them incredibly tired in the morning and incredible. and incredibly wide awake at night, and then an angel being like, don't you mean the other way around God? And then God, too embarrassed to correct himself, no.

It does feel like there's nothing crueler than being in your bed at night, being wide awake, and thinking, this is the wrong way around, and then waking up in the morning and thinking, never have I been more sleepy in my entire life. So listen, we are two people who truly know the struggle,

and we are excited to talk about this one and to hopefully help in some way. received an email about this topic, subject line, how do I wake up early in TerraBang? Question mark. Dear Tessa and Stevie, please help me. I can no longer get up like a normal person. Since working from home, I've become someone who wakes up 20 minutes before work, puts on a track suit and spends my whole morning meeting staring at my own puffy eyes on Zoom. In the before times, I was never late to the office and never once overslept. Now I can't get up before 8.30 and it makes me feel lazy, groggy and a bit unprofesh.

Do you have any tips for getting yourself up in the morning when there's no urgency? And then she has been listening since the debrief days and love the pod so much. Thanks for all your wisdom. Love Anna. You're not lazy. You are profushy. You ain't lazy, Anna. And you're so profesh.

Look how proficient you are. You're literally writing in to help ask to how to be even more professional. The headline is obviously, you know, nothing anyone does in these times is wrong. You know, apart from... Technically. Legal crimes. Wrong. But otherwise, like, you know, people are like, oh, I feel very odd and not really sort of at my peak.

It's like, no shit. We have been through a year and a half of like total isolation, financial crisis, emotional crisis, health crisis, like world crisis, political instability. Like, it has been chaos. So the idea that you're like, I don't really feel absolutely tipped up. You're like, yeah, no shit. Like, nobody is going to do not beat yourself up about this. Nothing you do is lazy. it's a whole new playing field out there basically and nothing is nothing is what it was but of course

there are things that we can do as with many things i've realized quite recently that all of the things because i'm constantly trying to sleep better and like all of that and i just kind of ignore all of the tips because they're lame and then wonder why it's not happening and you've got to do those things so there are like there are things that you can definitely do we can help but i think the main thing will be like what we're going to say is going to not sound good it's going to sound boring and you'll be like I don't want to do that and then and we'll be like I'm so sorry but with this particular one this is it we we are speaking truth we're speaking truth to power here and like you've got this is it and the reason it's boring and no one does it is because

it's boring because it is really boring being being uh waking up refreshed being hydrated you know being able to get your work done and just be being really productive requires you to do a certain amount of boring things. But then if you get into a habit of it, the more you do those boring things, the more they just feel like your normal routine like brushing your teeth or like, well, you know, whatever. And then you just, then they're not boring anymore. Then they're just like, that's life, you know? Yeah, absolutely. And then you can have the odd Jaeger bomb. Before we get into it, though, what's the most adult thing that you've done this week, Tessa? Mine is that I am trying to marry Condo at the moment. Again. Again. Again.

which tells you how much it is not a life-changing do-it-once and never doing it. It's been four years. It's been four years since the last time you, I feel like, the time when we did the How to Marry Condo, you're, how to tidy, yeah. Yeah, I don't think it's been that long, but nonetheless, it, I am, I'm psyching myself up basically to marry condo. The adult thing is that I've identified that I have a draw full of perhaps 30 pairs of black tights, And I haven't won them in a good year.

And now I'm like, okay, kid, come on. Let's do this thing. And it's some of like holes in them and ladders and stuff. And I kept them like, for what? What was I keeping these for in case I'm going to go as a spider to a last minute party and I need to fill them full of newspaper and make eight legs? Even then I only need three pairs, you know? You don't need all these.

Max. I've got two arms. Then, oh no, sorry, I need one pair for my arms, my human arms. Yes, you got two legs. Four pairs. Yeah. Four pairs of... Oh no, I've got my own legs as well. Yeah, I've got my own legs. Yeah, what was I thinking? Okay, so I keep basically becoming obsessed with storage solutions and I've started having my recurring dream again, which is I discover

rooms in my house. I didn't know where there. If you look it up, it says this recurring dream means that you are on the brink of a creative project and you are about to discover an interesting thing about yourself or you have an untapped resource or you're in some way feeling underappreciate. It's all this. bullshit and I'm like, what it means is you run out of fucking space and your dream is that you discover a secret fucking room to put your things in. So my recurring dream has started. I have run out of space. I keep dreaming about storage solutions. I was like, stop thinking about storage solutions, get rid of your stuff. So my adult thing is that I am emotionally preparing for the

Maricondo. I have not done it. That's good. But I've done it. Look, you've got an emotional I'm psyched myself up to it rather than being like, no, I've got, I've got, this is a final number of things. I need these tights. Rather me like, let them go. Let them go. So I look forward to updating you on how it goes. What's yours? Again, sort of an emotional journey rather than a specific thing. So I'm on Instagram. I would say more than New Artessa. And we'll occasionally do Instagram stories that involve my own face. Over the kind of last two years, I've noticed that obviously the filters that you can put on your face. Even the fun ones, I was like, oh, look, I'm wearing a hat. They always accompany with it. We're wearing a hat. And also, I've smoothed out your

face and you look like a baby and you've got slightly larger lips and the thinner nose and then like very large eyes and you look completely different. And I have sort of eschewed these filters for a long time, but then you can swipe and there's the kind of Paris one. And it's becoming, basically, as I'm getting older, it's becoming increasingly difficult to ignore them because it's like, oh, I see. Yes, that does look better now. But I refuse to do it because I think it will just like make me feel really bad about my actual face. So I'm like constantly like, oh, no, put it. If you're going to put it up, get them wrinkles out, why not? Lots of people, not just famous people, but just like people that I know, they will have filtered it. And I just thought it was like, oh, you know, little

glitter or whatever. But then if you can try out that filter and then you can see just how much they've changed their face, it's made me feel much better about not using filters because I'm like, oh, oh, that's, that's extreme. And when I go between them, I'm like, oh, God, I've already hate my face. So basically what I'm saying is I'm trying to put things in place and do things to stop myself, making myself look like I'm 18 when I'm not. I don't care about what other people think when they look at me, but just in terms of like, it's bad for my brain, I think. But well done.

Yes, it sort of feels like that. It feels like I'm being like, I'm so brave. But I don't, I'm not, I honestly don't mean. I'm actually very, very fallible and susceptible to those things, like incredibly susceptible. So that's why I've like gone the other way. because I'm just like, give me one inch and my nose is coming off. Yeah, yeah, it's very, very, it's very tough out there. And once you, once you do have a little hint of it, a little, a taste,

I had a hendere a couple of weeks ago, a girl took a selfie of us both. And then she showed it to me. And I was like, oh, my God, I look like an angel. What the hell is that? And she was like, oh, I put that on everything. That was my, I take the pictures with, I don't know what the filter was called. And I was like, I look exquisite. Like, and I couldn't stop looking at.

myself and I was like, that is so addictive if that is how you take your pictures every single time. And then every time you look in your actual mirror, you're on there for like, who's this crone? You know? It's icky and I'm not. It's icky, but we're also, we're also attempting to process it all in the midst of it. Gosh, very deep, very deep adult things. Very deep. So let us begin. Let us begin with the great, how are we going to get up in the morning. I suggest whether you, like Anna, are somebody who could do this and now you don't understand how this has happened, which I imagine must be horrible. What a horrible feeling to, you need to be able to do it, or you're someone who's never been able to do it. It's

not pleasant at all. And if you do find yourself waking up later, you do get that point, we're like, oh my God, the day is just run through my fingers. Like, it's just, this is just gone. I don't know why couldn't I get up? And it's a horrible, vicious cycle, and then you stay up too late the next day, blah blah, blah, round and round, we all go. So I suggest that if you are like, I'm breaking this habit, I'm getting out of here, I'm doing the thing that you commit to, let's wake up Wednesday.

You commit to just one day, choose whatever day works best for you in your personal work life. And you commit, rather than being like, oh, cold turkey, I wake up every day from here on out forever, which is quite overwhelming. You're just like, this is my one day. I just wake up on this day.

This is my practice day. Like super early. This is not like 7 a. am, don't have to be at work till maybe nine, but I'm going to get up early and I have a morning of it. Earlier than I even need to, so be totally ready, but it's just for this one special day. And we'll do it every week, but this is our special day. Meet free Mondays, wake up Wednesdays.

Wake up Wednesdays. Fuck. Fridays. And so, fuck. Exactly. So then it's just like, this is the one day for it and I can prepare. And then when you know it's just this one day, when does wake up Wednesday preparation begins, Stevie? the night before Tessa. Exactly. If not, a day before that even,

there is no point for trying this if you went to bed at 2am because you were watching all of Marevistown say, you know? So therefore, wake up Wednesday involves good night, Tuesday, and going to sleep. It begins fully the afternoon of Tuesday.

It begins being like, I've got my evening prepared, I've had a nice evening, I've got new clean bed sheets on, I've got my best pyjamas. I've laid out my outfit for the day before. I've not eaten too late. I've not eaten too late. I have prepared, prepared, prepared.

And that is how much effort it takes, which is why I say we do just one day a week of this to ease everyone back into it. Weirdly, I think I feel like sometimes the flip side of it is when you know you have to get up really early and you, that actually makes me not be able to sleep sometimes because I'm so like, oh, God, so excited. The human brain can function on very little sleep for one day

and it will mean that you will sleep incredibly the next night. So then you will kickstart your system. It's really, really hard, though. But I completely agree, yes, it's the night before lying away for the entire night, being like, it's wake up Wednesday tomorrow. Be like, yeah, and you're still going to wake up. You're still going to do your job. Doesn't matter that you didn't sleep the night before.

You go sleep again the next night. Just like, just chill out. It doesn't matter. But like, there's no point. That's why it's like, this isn't it for the rest of your life. This is just one day. May I say, I've had, I think, two hours sleep. And yeah, getting up was absolutely horrific.

but now I feel weirdly fine because the adrenaline is pumping through. Sure, I'll probably have a real, you know, a dip around maybe 10 minutes. But like, it's doable. It's just not doable if you do it like constantly and regularly. So don't worry and don't clock watch and don't get panicky the night before you have to get up. One of the things that I find really, like, frustrating about this, like, how to get up early night preparing the night before.

Is there a million different, very specific things? Like, for example, drink. drink caffeine within six hours before better, don't drink having, within eight hours, don't drink having the entire day. You can have heart, you're going to decaf, but actually have some caffeine in it. And also, you can't nap. Or you can nap, but only 10 minutes. And you start just being like, okay, I don't know, like, I don't know what to do. And also, why is it this hard to do quite a natural thing to help you prepare to get up early the next morning? So probably don't worry too much about all of those, like,

very specific things. And think about, I think, if you're, if you're somebody who used to be fine at getting up and you're now not. Think about what you used to do back then in terms of just like as simple as did you have like a really nice breakfast or like did you have something that you really liked that you were looking for to like your morning coffee? Did you have like a little routine that you did before work that just made you feel like you were getting into the habit things? My thing that I actually didn't do but have discovered, I'd say like 60% of my issues with waking up at the moment is like my eyes just feel like I've been. been punched in the face and I just, they need to close. So what I do now is I have done for the last

couple of days, put, um, done the teaspoons in the fridge thing. So I literally like get out and immediately the, I don't do anything else. Like the first thing I do is like, I put the thing, the cold teaspoons of my eyes. And my eyes just like, but dying. And then I just, it's kind of, it's, it's, it's, that's my personal thing that I can't stand in the morning. So it's immediately eased it. So I feel then like so much more able to then, make, you know, a cup of tea. I'm up now. I've got very cold eyes. That's gorgeous. Very hard to go back to sleep when you got cold eyes. No, that's gorgeous. And but the thing is, when did you have to put those teaspoons into the

freezer? A month before. Yeah, you had to do it in preparation the day before. So rolling out of bed and being like, oh my God, why can I do it? Like, you've got to put this stuff in place. I think it's about being, imagining that you are, because if it's you and you're like, okay, what do I need? And then you go and then you say like, then you go on the internet like you're saying and it says like, no caffeine, too much caffeine. A nap? No nap. you're like, oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed. Don't read anything. Think to yourself like you are your own tour manager or, if that's too stressful,

Katie Perry's manager and you need to get Katie Perry up tomorrow morning at this time and she needs to be ready for whenever it is that you need to be ready. She's going on Good Morning Britain. She's going on Good Morning Britain or whatever it is that you are doing, going on the Zoom call and you need to be dressed. Good morning, Britain. And so therefore, what would you make sure Katie Perry had? Like your job depends on her being bright and awake and feeling good in the morning.

So of course you would have fresh linen in her in Katie's room. You would have some water ready. You drink water before you went to bed. Perhaps with some lemon in it to help Katie wake up. You would rise her with like a gentle bird song and you'd open the curtains and you'd like help her awake and you'd have the teaspoons in the fridge ready for her. And you'd have her favorite breakfast and you'd have a yoga class ready for her. And overnight oats perhaps. Oats, something that you're like, Katie, I've got your favorite breakfast here.

You wouldn't just like kick her and be like, whine you up, you lazy, unprofessional piece of shit, you know? You would help, help, help, help, help. You're playing a role. And I think that's when you are like, you don't have to do the rest of your life. But like when you're transitioning into trying to get back into something, it really helps to do the fake it till you make it thing. So like, for example, say if you've got like a nice dressing gown and normally, you like wake up and you just like stumble around and you put it. Pop, pop on your nice dressing gown. Pop on some, there's like under eye little face eye mask things that you see famous people

wearing. Have your coffee. You are yeah, like you are kind of playing the role of the very good at getting up woman. And that's what you'll, you'll be doing it and you might need to do it for a week or so. But then like, then you'll start to enjoy that routine again and get back into it. And what's great is of course, once you do get up, then the preparation of the night before will be so much easier because you'll be tired because you got up at the same time. It's just that it feels back to front now because you've got to basically do the hard work at the start of the day to make sure that you've kicked started the rest of your week good. It's difficult though because some people like, I'm like myself, I'd so much prefer the evening

and so just do stuff and like I get so much more interest and stuff and I'm always like much more alive like at like 11 p.m. than I am at any time before one, PM in the day. But that is just because I've got into that cycle of going to bed, like going to bed like going to bed like getting up like going to bed like and it's so easy to break. And also, look, Tess, I don't know if you ever got up early. But, you know, that feeling when you're like, God, wow, here I. And it's like an hour before you meant to. And I think that was really good about the wake at Wednesday, I think, is if you specifically, it's like you've stolen some time for yourself and you kind of make it like a nice kind of like,

it's a bit of the day that you weren't supposed to have, but you're going to have it. I think that's how we feel about the evening. it does feel like that, especially like other people have gone to bed or like it feels like the city has gone to bed. It does feel that same thing of like, this is secret time. Like this is no pressure. This is me just doing my thing. Like I used, you know, university, I write all my essays through the night. Not ideal, but I did feel very like, very calm because it was like everyone else is a bed.

This is my time. Like I'm just doing my own thing. I'm going on my own pace. And that is I imagine, I've never done it. But that's how I imagine the mornings feel when people talk about like the secrets, you know, sort of stolen time. So it's just about sort of swapping that rhythm and carving out for yourself. And when you go to the airport or something, when you're like, oh my God, I got so much done today if you can get up at, you know, the crack of dorm.

Okay, some small, some more smaller tips for that thing, that alarm has gone off. What is the alarm? I know beeps, please. What, Katie Perry doesn't want beeps? Carrie Poery wants her favorite song. She wants... Birds not beeps. It's birds not beeps.

Thank you. Nothing aggressive. It's just like it's easing in with the radio. It's a lovely tune. It's the sound of rushing water and birdsong. It's perhaps one of those lamps, the sunrise loomy lamps that light and wake you up. In those moments of mid-consciousness between awake and asleep, your eyes open and you need to just launch yourself out of the bed. You're up, you pull the curtains open.

Ideally, if you can turn around and make the bed and try and do this in like less than a minute and then out of the room. So by the time you're like, before your brain's caught up, basically. By the time your brain is like, what the hell just happened? You should already be in the shower, basically. It's all about just being like, here I go. You know, and then like, and it will feel dreadful. Sure. But for such a short period of time, if you can power through it, though it will be minutes of being like, ah, confusion. Oh my God, why am I up? Oh, God, what's happening? And then you'll come to consciousness. And then the rest of the day is yours. To do it as you wish. It's just about forcing yourself through those. Confusion. Oh, oh, my God. Why am I up? Oh, oh, God, what's happening. And then you'll come to consciousness. To do with as you wish. It's just about forcing yourself through those. It's just moments and not, even though it feels so delicious and good, snoozing and pressing the snooze button and just like tucking in for just a few more minutes of sleep, it has been proven time and again that if you sleep in those moments, you go back into your REM, then even though it feels so delicious, you go back into RAM, then it wakes you up again, then your brain like just does not know where the hell you are or what is going on and it's pretty close like sleep deprivation torture and you're in like a disaster for the rest of the day. Like it is

so bad for you, even though it feels so. so nice to fall back asleep. And the nice thing is, it's got a special name. It's called drockel. So what element of it's called droll? Repeatedly. To going back to sleep? Yeah, pressing snooze and going back to sleep. It's called droll. In the 19... Well, I want to do it now because it's so cute. No, no droll here. They should have called it something bad. Oh, my apologies. The drockel is actually the feeling. I'm drolling. Is to be like, I'm having that delicious snoozing. And so like the drockel feels gorgeous, but it is bad for you, as most things are. Feels nice, absolutely terrible. Turned in the 1970s when scientists became obsessed with sleep,

as they did with most things, 70s was a real kickoff for psychology. So we mustn't droccle. No more droccling for me. Light very important. You've got to get as much light as possible in that room. Curtains. They're open. We're out of the room where the bed is made. So we're not getting back in that. We just made the bed. We're out. We're moving. We're going. You're like, partner's still in there. Like, what? Okay. Yeah, your partner's like, what hell is this?

And you're like, I'm Katie Perry and I've got to get on Good Morning Britain. He's like, okay, you have been a stroke. And also the phone, I know, it's so nice. We roll over, we look at the phone. We see what new horrifying world event has taken place today. That does wake me up, though, because I do get actually very stressed in the blue light. Like, means I can't go back to sleep. No, no, no.

But the other side, don't have a phone in the bed in the evening anymore, and that's good. Yes, perfect. phone is in the other room. The radio, the lovely songs are going off. You're like, I have to get up because they're in the other room. I have to go and get it. I have to go and find the stuff in my phone. In the other room, got it.

I have to go find my phone. It's going off in another room. Maybe if you live with somebody, get them to hide it in somewhere in the house. You'll have to get up to go and find it. Bit of fun. A little treasure hunt in the morning. Nothing like that when you're knackered and furious. No, it's wake up Wednesday.

So you're excited for the treasure hunt. I'm excited. I'm excited. It's only happening once a week in the midweek. And you've been preparing all Tuesday. day for it. So there are also apps that won't let you shut the alarm off unless you do a maths puzzle. I would break my phone. Yes. So there are also ones where you have to take a photograph of something in your house before you can turn the alarm off. I would go to sleep with so much weird stuff

in my bed. To try and psych them out. No, because the phone is in the other room. So you didn't sleep with your phone, remember? There was all kinds of things out there. I think if they are I asked me to solve a mask puzzle and the alarm just wouldn't shut up until I had done, I had carried the wand. I'd just smash it repeatedly against the wall until it's broken. And now your phone's broken. I know my phone's broken and I'd go back to best. I think that like, yeah, like all of these things individually, you're like, what?

Like, I don't know, will I do that? But actually, yes, because it's about like the perspective of bringing a sort of curiosity to the experience rather than being like, oh God, we're going to have to get myself up again. I don't want to do it. It's more like, oh, what can I do it? can I do in the morning that can make my morning feel better and feel more exciting. What will work with my brain? And then you can try out loads of different things and see which one gets you up, basically. See, like, and I think rather than being like, which is what I sometimes

I'm like, I'm just like, oh, nothing's going to work. So I mean, yeah, fine. I'll get, I'll, I'll get up with classic FM, but it's still going to feel shit. Like, no, let's just see, because it might not. And then you might be like, actually, I love Alexander Armstrong in the morning. I mean, he starts at 10 a.m. So if he's struggling that, then, you know, Or, you know, you might try one of one of those light things about, that didn't work. How interesting. I'm somebody who's not like that way inclined. That didn't work.

Let's trust something else. No problems moving on to something else. No problems moving on to something else, I think, is probably the crucial element to waking up on wake up Wednesdays. And then it becomes, here I am Thursday. There she goes waking up Thursdays. And then basically that you start to do it. And because you then, the idea is that you're trying to trick your brain into being, looking forward to an element of your morning so that it actually becomes simpler to do it.

Food will get me out of bed, like nothing else. Right. Like imagine, and I know many of our listeners are vegetarians, but imagine you're at a party. You've woken up, desperately hung over the night before and somebody downstairs is frying bacon. You are up. You're out of that bed, baby. You're moving. I've never missed a hotel breakfast in my entire life. Exactly. Exactly. It's about making all those things as nice. whatever time they said that hotel breakfast was, I'd be there.

I mean, minutes before it shut. 4 a.m. I'm there. I'm there. Like, that's the thing. You've got to just have lovely, lovely stuff to get you up. And that's the thing, if that's why we prepare on the Tuesday, because if you know, when you wake up, there's nothing in the house, the teaspoonss haven't been frozen. There is no lemon water beside the bed. There's no lemons in the house. You haven't even got any cereal. What's the goddamn point? You know, whereas like, oh, my God, the hotel breakfast buffet. Thursdays is when I get to, I mean, Wednesday morning is when I get to have my gorgeous breakfast spread. and I wake up and I do this and I wear my special dressing gown.

And then crucially, Anna mentioned in her thing that what I think every single person is doing, which is rolling out of bed, putting on a top half, if that, doing the Zoom meeting and their pants, you know, rolling back into the bed, putting on a track suit and being like, forget it. No makeup, not brushing their hair, you know, all of those things because you're, and basically what it is saying is like, I don't, I have given up, which we all definitely have. but like you owe it to yourself to be like okay I'm up I'm dressed I went to the hotel breakfast I'm wearing my best clothes I'm here I'm I'm showing up for myself to wear your best your very best sunda gown yeah you've got something put out the night before you're like I'm

excited to wear this thing if you're not excited to wear it choose something else keep no problem keep going let's move on it's like with me at school when I I remember the day that I learned how to plop my own hair and I was so excited about going to school the next day and getting up and plating my hair. I was, I was vibrating with excitement. Like, I can't remember that feeling. Like, I don't have that feeling now. Buy a top or have a top or a new lipstick or some, like, something that you're like, I mean, this is not a long-term solution. We're talking just like to kickstart you into getting up again. Oh my God. I'm going to wear my new lipstick. You can have a special earrings. And you can only have it for wake up Wednesdays and you get to have a treat.

Capitalism. Capitalism, baby. Leave into capitalism. Yeah, capitalism. Because why else are getting up early? Because of capitalism. You get to have something that you can't have any other day of the and it's like, oh, I got to wear this, I got to wear my special thing. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Learned to play your own hair. That's, that's, that's my own hair.

And then you'll be able to get up. I don't see what the problem is. That's a very, very clear A equals B. A equals B. What is the goddamn problem? And yeah, lots of, lots of psychology into the like, get those feet on the floor immediately. Like, get the body transitioned. A lovely stretch.

lovely, you know. Yes, and if something doesn't work, go further. If none of those things, these things are working, try, just keep going until you find the thing that you're like, okay, this actually does work because there will be one thing. It'll be your, like, magic key, and it'll be your key to get to getting up, and then you'll be away. I wish you are all the best, all the goddamn best. At the moment, I have been, since it is the summer and the light comes in early, I have been

sleeping with the curtains open and the windows open, obviously, but the curtains open. And then you sort of wake up with the light. you know, and you're up at sort of seven, because it's a full day. You have to be. You have to be. And then you're like, okay, all right then. Off I go.

I think that's what we're aiming for. So I'm like, all right then. All right then. That's what I'm aiming for. No, so yeah, curtains open. Let's get that light streaming in. Let's get this place full of music. Let's get this a, you know, we sort of talked.

Oats in the fridge. Oats in the fridge. And we sort of talked in the manifestation episode in the past about, like raising your frequency or raising your vibrations or all of this nonsense language. And like, what does that mean? It just means like showing up. It just means like if you have to get up, you can either get up and be furious and unhappy and stomp about or you can get up and still be feeling quite gross inside, but fill the house

with light and music and smells and like get a... Sing. And sing and like, and you can just show up for yourself. And then if it's something more deeper that's like, I don't have anything to show up for, I don't want to. Then there's more to unpack than just why. That's not just getting up early, is it? It might be that you don't like your job anymore.

It might be that you need to rethink what, if you're not looking for, obviously not everyone bounces out of bed because I hate that stuff where it's like, find yourself a job that doesn't feel like a job. You're like, cool, everything feels like a job after a while. Yeah. There's very few jobs there's like at no point do you ever feel like you're working. And if you've got that, you're in the 0.0.0.0.0%

there's always days where it's like, I'd prefer not to. If someone is paying you to do something, it is no matter how much you love it, it is because they do not wish to do it themselves. So there will inherently be something unpleasant about the job, you know? Yes. Like there will be a work. That's what work is.

You know, otherwise it would be called fun. Yeah. Am I right? And so like, you know, but if you're like, I truly, I hate this job. I hate it. I hate everything. It's like, maybe the job is the problem. Maybe it's not the getting up at all. Maybe it's like there's more to unpack here.

I need to just find, just go deeper and find something in your life that you're truly excited about. And if you're like, nothing, it's like, there's so much to, you know, you've got to keep going until you find something to be excited about. And if that means like a total overhaul of everything, like, yeah, let's do it. No problem. That's the answer. If you want to go up in the morning, just going to overhaul your entire life, put your job, change your entire personality.

It's not going to happen overnight, but at least it will put you on a path to being like, yeah, okay, I've got to keep going until I find something to be excited about. It's Tuesday today. So I hope you prepare for wake up Wednesdays tomorrow. It's time. And you spend today prepping. Please tell us what the email address is. if you have an episode

you'd like us to tackle. The email is Nobody Panicpodcast at gmail.com the Twitter is at Nobody Panicpod I'm at Tessa Coat. Stevie is Stevie Martin

but the S is a 5. What? At CVM, not Stevie Martin's been so long but that's fine It's fine, no way. Oh wow, listen, okay, I've got to go to bed now so I can prepare

to wake up tomorrow morning and I hope you all do too. I've got to also go and do that. I'm going to go and soak some oats and I'll see you next week while I'll be eating those oats. See you next week guys. A bye.

A bye. A lovely sleep and a lovely morning. Bye.