Are you a morning person? Some people just pop out of bed in the morning while others tend to be half asleep until lunchtime. Which one are you? People have always told me that I am a morning person – I agree. There are the people in this world who hit their snooze button for a good hour – and then there is me. The second I hear my alarm – and sometimes before it even goes off – I get up, and the minute my eyes are open – I’m on the go. I can jump out of bed and have a day and a half worth of things done before most people even have their first cup of coffee.

I don’t know why I am like this, but I have been this way for as long as I can remember. Since my internship at WPLJ at 16-years-old, I have always had jobs and commitments that required me getting up very early in the morning, so I guess my body has adapted from both experience and necessity. There are times when I won’t get to sleep until three, four – even five in the morning and had to be at work by nine the next day – but no matter what time I got to sleep, I would always get up on time and have a productive day no matter how little sleep I had the night before.

I’m not saying that I never get tired, the funny thing is that I do – but at the worst times. It’s like my body turns against me for being so active and providing it with such little downtime. When I’m on the train and have a half-hour until my stop, I couldn’t fall asleep if you crazy-glued my eyes shut. Yet, when the absolute last thing I can possibly do is sleep, my body begins to shut down. Believe me when I tell you that I tend to get tired and fall asleep at the most inopportune times. About six months ago, we had an executive staff meeting at the Department of Buildings – and I had to be woken up when it was my turn to speak – that’s not good. That’s not the only "wrong place at the wrong time" I have fallen asleep: I have passed out on friends, on my girlfriend Sandy, during a TV taping and even in a bar. But when I am in my own bed, it takes me at least an hour to fall asleep – explain that one. Don’t get me wrong, if I could sleep more, I would – I just have no choice but to keep going. Basically, my life dictates my time – and when you have as much to do as I do – you learn to be a morning person and rely on very little sleep real quick.

What’s my secret? – I wish I knew. All I know is that sleep is irrelevant. And although I could use a week and a half of straight sleep – duty calls. So, somehow, I keep going, and going, and going, and going…