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The first few moments right after waking up often sets the tone of the rest of the day. I absolutely love the days when I’d wake up with a smile on my face. These always play out superbly as one good thing leads effortlessly into another.

The ones I abhor are when I get microscopically ticked off and have to end the day with an avalanche of problems, mistakes, fights and regrets.

Experience and logical deduction tells me that I can ‘create’ the perfect day simply by ensuring that the first 30 minutes are spent in cheerful delight. Here’s how you can go about it.

1. Count 3 blessings before you go to sleep - relax and make yourself comfortable in bed, close your eyes and recall 3 good things that happened to you that day. Revel in your positive emotions and enjoy the rerun.
2. Recall your blesssings and emotions once you wake up. As you do that, turn your blurry vision to things in your bedroom that you like. Stretch lazily and enjoy a couple more minutes in bed.
3. Set the bigger stage - on the way to washing up, steal a glimpse of your vision boards. This should remind you about your goals and passions.
4. Declare your day - in the shower, or any private moment you have with yourself, start talking to yourself out loud how you want the day to pan out. I would typically recite my passions and contextualize what I’ve planned for the day in reference to my visions. Use only positive reinforcements (e.g. I want the meeting to move the sales engagement one big step forward) and avoid negative concepts, even if you specify that you don’t want them (e.g. I believe the client’s objections will be cleared today).

Try and do the above before you interact with anybody, turn on the news or read the papers. If you have a partner, you should definitely hug and give him/her a kiss when you wake up. The idea of avoiding any interactions is so that you can take the steps above to ‘tune’ yourself to the positive realm before subjecting to any potentially undesirable happenings.

Once you align your frame of mind to a positive state that is supported by your goals and visions, it will be easy for you to make a decision whether to turn your attention to the insignificant distraction or the larger plan at hand.

To ensure long term success in this, be discipline about following the steps for at least 20 days. This is so that you can habituate to it and start to enjoy an endless supply of happy days.