Before you lead anyone else, lead your own alarm clock.

Directing other people while losing every argument with yourself at seven in the morning is a hard position to hold, mostly because you know it. Self-command is not about discipline as a virtue. It is that small private wins are where you learn you can actually make yourself do things. Without that, instructions to others are theory; with it, they are something you have tested.

Pick the smallest thing you keep failing at in the mornings and win just that one for a week. Put the phone across the room, lay the kit out the night before, whatever removes the decision. Start there rather than with a whole new routine.