7 Ways to Brighten Your Morning
 
The morning is probably no one's favorite part of the day.  Enter your day happy and relaxed, and you greatly increase your chances of a healthy, productive day.
 
1. Go to sleep with your blinds or curtains halfway open. Go to bed early enough so that waking up when the sun shines through your window still gives you the recommended seven hours of shut-eye. If you maintain this routine, it's likely that you can start relying on your biological clock rather than an alarm clock.
 
2. Set your alarm 15 minutes earlier. This way, you don't have to jump out of bed and rush through your morning. You can begin your morning by lying in bed, slowly waking up.
 
3. Stretch every extremity for 15 seconds. Try this even before you open your eyes. Lift your arm and begin by stretching each finger, then your hand, then your wrist, then your arm. Then move on to the other arm. Then your toes, feet, ankles, and legs. Finally, end with a neck and back stretch that propels you out of the bed.
 
4. Eschew any decisions. For truly relaxing mornings, reduce the number of choices and decisions you make to zero. Go about this two ways: First, make your morning decisions the night before: what clothes to wear, what breakfast to eat, what route to take to work, and so on. Second, routinize as much of your morning as possible.
 
5. Spend 5 to 10 minutes each morning listening to music. This allows the creative thinking that takes place during the night to gel and form into a plan of action, grounding you for the day.
 
6. Brush your tongue for one minute.  There's no better way to rid yourself of morning breath and begin your day minty fresh and clean. After all, more than 300 types of bacteria take up residence in your mouth every night. You think a quick brush over the teeth is going to vanquish them all?
 
7. Kiss all the people you love in your house (including the dog and cat) before you leave.

 
早晨或许不会是人们一天中最喜欢的时光。带着愉快与放松的心情开始你的一天，这样迎来一个健康且充满收获的一天的机率就大大增加了。
 
1.睡觉时让您的百叶窗或者窗帘半开。尽早上床睡觉，这样当太阳光从窗户里面照射进来的时候，你已经有了7小时的睡眠时间，这也是我们所推荐的睡眠时长。如果你保持这样的习惯，很有可能你会依赖你的生物钟而不是闹钟。
2.设定闹钟为提前15分钟。这样你不必跳着起床，匆匆忙忙地度过早晨。你可以躺在床上，慢慢醒来。
3.伸展四肢15秒。甚至在你没有睁开眼睛之前就可以做起来了。提起你的手臂，然后伸展你的每个手指，然后是你的手、手腕和你的手臂。然后移到另一个手臂。然后是你的脚趾，脚踝和两腿。最后，伸展你的头颈和后背，这样迫使你能从床上爬起来。
4.避开任何决定。对于一个真正放松的上午，将要作的选择和决定减少到零吧。有两个办法可以达到：第一，在前一晚就做好决定：穿什么衣服，吃什么早餐、上班走什么路线等等。第二，将尽可能多的事情惯例化。
5.每天早上花5到10分钟听音乐。这让你夜间形成的创造性想法能成形且成为行动计划，成为你一天的基础。
6.刷舌头1分钟。没有什么更好的方法使你除掉早晨的口气并且让一天从清新的薄荷口气中开始了。毕竟，每天晚上有超过300种细菌在你的口中居住。你以为一个快速的刷牙就能击败这些细菌？
7.在你离开前亲吻房间里所有你爱的人（包括狗和猫）。