Always seek expansion the first hour of your day. Consciously or not this will impact your interactions with yourself and the world around you. Positive affirmations, prayer, meditation, yoga. All of these are wonderful. Even if you do not have an hour to simply absorb your external surroundings and process the moment, use this time for internal dialogue that will fill your heart with hope, healing and energy to be the best you you can be. Before I get out of bed, I silently take a moment of gratitude for the waking of my being. I then look directly in the mirror into my eyes and proclaim, I am beautiful, I am strong, I am courageous, I am one of a kind, I am needed here today for a mission only I can fulfill. You are valuable and much needed right now, today and everyday you have breath left in you. Only you can fulfill the mission. How you start your day is how you begin your life.