How you spend the first hour of your day tends to decide who’s in charge of the other twenty-three.

The first hour decides who is steering. Start it inside a feed and the wheel goes to whatever got posted overnight, and the rest of the day becomes reaction. Start it with something you picked, even something small, and the day opens with you having already made one decision on purpose.

Choose one thing to do before the phone this week. Make the bed, stretch, eat something, write down three things you intend to finish. It does not have to be impressive. It has to be yours, and it has to happen first.