You don’t need a perfect morning routine. You need one thing you do every morning without negotiating.

Elaborate routines break on the first abnormal morning, and most mornings are abnormal in some way. What survives is one small thing you have stopped arguing with: the same first action, done whether you slept well or not, whether you are late or not. Its value lies less in the action than in the fact that you did not negotiate. That sets the tone of everything after it.

Pick one action small enough to survive a bad night: make the bed, drink a glass of water, put your shoes by the door. Do it before your phone. Keep it two weeks before adding anything.