I'm Monica Packer from About Progress, and this is A Graspert, a short episode where

I share a bite-sized way you can increase your progress today.

Although the fall season doesn't technically start till late September, I totally count

fall season as beginning anywhere between early August to early October.

For those of you who have a transition in your schedule and the fall, whether it's work

commitments changing or your kids going back to school or anything in between, even just

you changing, because sometimes the fall can feel like the beginning of a new year, even

though it technically isn't, today is A Graspert for you.

Because I am like you.

My fall is starting technically to me in just a little over a week when my kids go back

to school.

And with that shift comes a shift in our schedules and also a shift in my work demands too, that

will require me to be able to get ready sooner than I typically do and to be on the clock

sooner than I typically have to be, both for my family and for my work.

Many of us during this transition have those shifts in habits.

And the biggest one that I find most common is that we need to get up earlier.

And if that's you, then I want to one commiserate with you because it's difficult to suddenly

wake up earlier.

But two, I want to give you four quick tips on how to do this.

Now, first I want to say, the best way to begin a new routine like this is to start small

with habits and even within the habits to start small too.

I have a whole course on that called the sticky habit method.

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