The first ten minutes after you wake up are you picking the glasses you’ll see the whole day through.

The first input of the day sets a tone that colors everything after it, because your mind is unusually open before the defenses are up. Whatever you take in then becomes the mood you carry into the first conversation, and that conversation confirms the mood, and the day follows the line you started.

Choose the first ten minutes deliberately for a week. That might mean light and water and a few quiet minutes, or a page of something good. The point is not a perfect routine, only that the day starts with something you picked rather than something that picked you.