I approach every day with fearlessness.

How a day gets approached is mostly decided in the first ten minutes, and most of us hand those minutes straight to a screen full of other people's emergencies.

There's a different opening available. Feet on the floor, water, one thing decided before the noise starts — what today is actually for.

Fearlessness at this scale isn't bravado. It's arriving at the day rather than being ambushed by it, and it changes how everything after nine o'clock lands. You won't manage it every morning. But the mornings you do tend to be the ones you look back on and can't quite explain.