Your morning sets the tone for the rest of your day. Use them to achieve your goals and accomplish some pretty amazing things. If you win most of your days, the years will take care of themselves.

Rather than depending on your mood and your circumstances for a great start to your day, choose to be proactive and make mood and circumstances respond to your work. Jim Rohn said "Either you run the day or the day runs you."

A default routine for so many people is to immediately pick up their phone, check the news, email and social media and go about their day. There's no way you can think clearly, focus and do your best work in the morning if you are constantly reacting to others' expectations or getting distracted by the news.

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