3. Check email.
If you sleep near your phone (and most Americans do), it's easy to roll over and start mindlessly scrolling through your inbox.
Don't do it.
As Julie Morgenstern, author of the book "Never Check Email in the Morning," told The Huffington Post, if you start your morning this way, "you'll never recover."
"Those requests and those interruptions and those unexpected surprises and those reminders and problems are endless," she said. "There is very little that cannot wait a minimum of 59 minutes."
Instead, Morgenstern suggests that if you're going to do some work, make it a project that requires considerable focus.