I wake up with a peaceful mind and grateful heart.

For a lot of people the first conscious act of the day is reaching for a device, and whatever the mind was going to be gets decided by strangers inside ninety seconds.

Which makes this less a description of temperament than a description of a routine. Peaceful mornings mostly belong to people who protected the first ten minutes, not to people who happen to be calm by nature.

The protection is unglamorous: phone in another room, a slower first task, nothing that requires an opinion.

Tomorrow, delay the first screen by ten minutes. You'll find out quickly whether the peace was ever about your personality.