In some future, we will stop honoring silly human inventions that ultimately don’t serve humanity! I’m looking at you, Daylight Savings Time!

Until then, here are my ultimate hacks (aka workarounds) for anyone who takes a while to adjust to Daylight Savings changes twice a year:

Don’t fight it. Go with it. In springtime, push your earliest meeting back on the calendar by one hour for the week or two after Daylight Savings Time kicks in. Similarly in the fall, end your meetings one hour sooner at the end of each day.
Give yourself a few days to wake up without an alarm, if you can. Just see how quickly you can adjust without forcing anything to happen. I adjust quicker in the spring than in the winter, but maybe that’s also because when the days go dark so early, they also get cold and I consume more sugar and carbs that make me extra tired LOL.
Get out in the sunshine for a quick walk as soon as it’s light. Things reset quicker with the help of Mother Nature.
It’s too late to do anything about it this year, but next spring, plan to go to bed earlier in the two weeks prior to Daylight Savings Time. I did this once and it was amazing how well it worked, combined with getting out for a quick walk each morning at sunrise.

Sadly, I don’t have any tips for hacking your pets’ adjustment to Daylight Savings, but if you have any, send them to me and my out-of-whack senior dog.