The Stoics were not morning people by brand. They were busy people with a practice: a few minutes at the start of the day to decide what the day was allowed to mean.
Mine takes five minutes. Read one letter or one meditation. Write one line about what is actually in my control today. Name the one outcome that would make the day count, even if everything else slips.
It is not productivity theater. It is a daily reminder that attention is the scarcest resource I manage, at work and everywhere else.