Starting the day with appreciation

I used to wake up and immediately start worrying, scrolling, and rushing, often before my feet hit the floor. Now the first two minutes belong to appreciation. Before the phone, before the coffee, I name three things I am grateful for, out loud if the house is empty. They can be enormous, like my family, or tiny, like the way morning light hits the kitchen wall. Here is what surprised me: the habit did not make my problems smaller, it made me bigger than my problems. Worry still shows up, but it no longer gets the first word. Two minutes. No app, no cost, no doctrine required. Try it for a week and watch how differently the same day lands.