ght well maybe if let's see if he came back. If he did I might have to ask him back in. Pompom pompom problem we lost the connection to badges. Darn it that was a good, I remember it was a good question. I was going to do the first one so I could get to the second but let's take another one.

Nancy can you hear me coming at you? Nancy you don't sound like it. Nancy hey sure I kind of I'm in my 50s and like the last few years I kind of hit the wall and I mean you know I know everyone's different and I'm just trying to figure out a way of you know he said you hit the wall in your career you mean or in your life enough physically? Oh energy wise. Yeah well I was sweet we've got a bad connection here so I'm gonna try to answer your question without hearing all the details if you don't mind.

So my book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big" I talk about systems for your diet and sleeping and fitness. My observation is that when you're young you don't need to do anything special. You've got more energy than you actually need. But when you get older you need to do just about everything right. And by everything I mean you really need to take care of sleeping and having a system for sleep. For example I'll just give you a sense of it. Part of my system is I always get up around the same time real early and I always try to go to bed around the same time. Don't ever do the well it's the weekend so I'll stay up till 3 a.m. because I can. Sorry my cat's getting in the way here.

So you need a system. You need a room that's completely dark. You need to not do other things in there besides romantic things plus sleeping because otherwise you associate those things with your bed. You don't want to associate your bed with reading and watching movies and stuff because then that's what your body gets used to and it keeps you awake instead of going to sleep. So there are a whole bunch of things. You know you could just google how to get better sleep.

But likewise you need to make sure that you're not eating too many carbs. The other day just as an example I had some french fries for lunch which I would normally just never do and it ruined the rest of my day. Now once you start noticing that if you eat the wrong foods for lunch the rest of your day is toast it takes you a long time to realize that that's not a coincidence. And there probably wouldn't even be noticed if you were 19. You probably wouldn't even notice the difference. But in my current age if I eat french fries for lunch I'm done doing everything for the rest of the afternoon. If I don't take a nap my whole day's gone.

And so look for that correlation between bad carbs and you know sugary things and simple carbs and your energy. And then the other thing is work on your fitness because if you, I would say once you reach a certain age and maybe you're there already it's better to do something every day than it is to push yourself to whatever your physical limit is. So I no longer exercise to the point of exhaustion. I exercise to give myself energy and vitality. Make all of my body work just the way it's supposed to. Get the fitness sort of flow going so that your body is used to processing at a higher level.

And so I would say it's a combination of probably five or six different things. And then here's my super secret trick for keeping your energy up. Are you ready? Yeah you should have something in your life that you look forward to. So that when you wake up and you know if you like most people I don't know must be a while just say myself when I first wake up I don't know who I am. Like literally the first second I don't know who I am and then it comes to me. Oh this guy it's a cartoonist. I live in a certain place. I have a certain life. And you know what the next second it comes to me. But somewhere around the third or fourth second of waking up I think about what I s