Determining what you hope to get out of a morning routine will help you decide what activities to add to it.

If the snooze button is your partner in crime, then you need to part ways – literally.

In addition to picking up on behavioral patterns, you’ll also pick up on thinking patterns, and these can be quite powerful. The way we think affects the way we behave and the way our lives go. Review your journal every couple of weeks, and you may find that your thinking has been changing in a certain way. Maybe in a good way, but maybe in a bad way. If you see that through a birds-eye lens of your journal, maybe you can fix that.

Then it gets worse: he wants you to speak. He has questions for you. What do you want to do today? Do you want some coffee? Did you remember to drop that letter off in the mail yesterday? What do you think about the new foreign policy? Or UGGs for men? Aaah!

If you haven’t heard about ingested collagen, it’s time you learn about it and add it to your coffee. The protein-rich stuff boosts connective tissue in your muscles and may hydrate the skin from within.

These tips will make mornings seem more manageable. Even Monday mornings.