I love mornings. Not just because breakfast is my favourite meal of the day. But because mornings are hopeful.
There are 2 ways of waking up in the morning.
The first is to wake up full of anticipation that a day of wonderful possibilities lie ahead. You open your eyes and it is a brand new day, everything starts from zero, and it is a fresh beginning. The bad stuff that happened yesterday is officially history. You can dwell on it, or you can focus on how today is going to be so much more brilliant than yesterday. You get to start over because yesterday is gone. Yesterday’s mistakes are today’s wisdom. It is now within your control, it is now an option to make today so damn good you don’t even remember why yesterday sucked.
On the other hand, you can wake up wondering if today is going to be just as bad or even worse than yesterday. You can let the first waking thought be “I can’t do this”, and you can let yesterday’s failures tell you why you don’t deserve a good day. You can remember and replay every disappointment, every hurtful moment, every second of anger you felt yesterday and spend today re-living the pain all over again.
Do you want to be dark & gloomy, or do you want to be bright & sunny?
The beauty of mornings is that you get to choose.
You get a new beginning, you get to say “let’s do this again because I am going to rock it this time”.
It is life’s natural ‘Refresh’ button.
