My name is Will DeFrees, and this is a Sunday Scaries Podcast, your cure for the Sunday

Blues.

What does your morning routine look like?

On the surface, mine seems fairly simple, but seems to have gotten a little complicated

the more I spell out every step.

On weekday mornings I wake up somewhere between 6 and 6.30.

I wish I could say that that's a natural wake up with no alarm clock, but I admittedly

wake up at that time because my wife goes to work much earlier than I do every day.

After trying to avoid my phone for a bit, I normally cave just to make sure the world

didn't end overnight.

Unfortunately, Twitter always doesn't really reassure me of that.

I found that my most creative and productive moments occur before I burn myself out throughout

the day, so I often open my laptop a bit faster than most experts would recommend, especially

that early in the morning.

Whether I'm writing or designing something in Photoshop, you can pretty much block off

7-9 every single day for pure creative alone time for me.

Of course, I do need fuel in order to do this.

On my motivated days, I make a single cup of coffee with my arrow press after feeding

my dog, and on my lazier days are my more lethargic ones.

I find myself skewing simply towards making a tea with a splash of milk.

At this point, my laptop normally needs a charge, which means I need a shower.

And after letting my dog out, it's time off to the races where I find myself listening

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