How Do You Start Your Day?

This morning I read a simple question, "How do you start your day?"

Not, "What do you do when you get up?" or "What is your routine?"  The question was aiming at attitude.  How do you wake up in the morning?  Do you start your day feeling energized and looking forward to the challenges, adventures and rewards that await you?  Or do you start your day feeling tired thinking of the twenty-four hours ahead, with a sense of dread or drudgery about the tasks you must attend to?

Chances are the way you start your day is also reflected in the way you approach many things in life.  How do you approach your work, raising your children, your social life, your health and fitness?  We all have a long laundry list of responsibilities that can feel overwhelming at times.  How would our attitude about that list change if we simply tried re-framing our approach?  Tomorrow morning, if that sneaky little sense of tiredness and dread creeps into your thoughts, try changing the story in your mind.  Look at the day as a new opportunity to grow, change, appreciate, and start afresh.