by 'get into the groove' do you mean desperately try to keep your job while increasingly spiraling remote school kids interrupt you seventeen thousand times during all your zoom meetings to ask for snack and cry about stuff?

At the start of the pandemic, I would wake up before DC and start work. I realized that that schedule was burning me out. Now, I take some time for myself in the morning and I'm overall more productive. Other than that, I would say the advice to get dressed and act as if you're going to work is good advice as well.

Is this a joke? I don't have the luxury of getting in a groove, I have to show up and get stuff done regardless of how I may feel about it. My job is not lackadaisical, it's intense all day long, its after 1 am and I'm just now finishing up for the day, and the e-mails will probably start again around 8 am.