After a while you start to smile, now you feel cool (The Beatles)

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Thomas Oppong's habit # 55 for a great life is: 

What are your repeatable morning triggers for a good day? Don’t ever start a day without knowing what to do. How you start your day determines how the rest of the day turns out. “Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.” Richard Whately said.

My repeatable triggers are:

• Arrive at school at the same time each day 
• Do a few chores like unloading the dishwasher, filling up the billy and making a cuppa - that all helps cleanse the palate and adjust from home mode to job mode
• Check my schedule for the day and pre-brief the day with the first staff on site
• Choose a positive quote to finish the staff ten minute Lean meeting
• Head off to do duty at the front of the school - greeting parents and students at the drop off zone and making sure the bikers and skaters who live locally are safely into the school grounds.
• An extra bonus would be publishing that day's blogpost and reading the Morning Brew on my phone while waiting for Lean to start.

If all that goes smoothly I've had a solid start to the day.