the first 15mins of your day

Thanks to Betty for schooling me on this. It goes something like this:

"The first decision of the day, getting out of bed, arises from a complex of motivators which may include: vocation, making a living, hunger, a sense of duty, threat, guilt and others. Once that first decision is made, the rest of the day consists of a series of decisions and actions, one after the other, some in parallel, of lesser or greater complexity. If the environment is predictable and routine, some decisions and actions can be relegated to an almost automatic level, such as driving."

and also:

"even though the morning self knows her willpower exactly, the morning decision is different from the afternoon decision, so the morning self has to look backward to what happened 'under similar conditions' yesterday afternoon to estimate the chances that willpower this afternoon will be up to snuff."

Its amazing how it is uncannily true.