they offer us the chance to make a new start and do things differently every day you are mentally at your sharpest and less likely to be interrupted than later in the day say experts and while owls are linked with greater levels of creativity and intelligence they are more likely to exhibit pessimism depression and neurotic behaviour go to bed 15 minutes earlier and wake up 15 minutes earlier for a few days you may also want to use that time for exercising so that youll have a bankable energy reserve for the rest of the day turla says peggy duncan international personal productivity expert and author of the time management memory jogger says people are different and so are their needs the research also showed that evening people often find themselves suffering social jet lag as their biological clock is out of sync with the social one jot down what you would like to do to make it a happy morning it could be meditation three days a week exercise twice a week and a creative class twice a week if your mornings give you a sense of accomplishment youve started your day on a happy note later in the day you may be forced to work on things as they come up he says in an email interview to us this allows you to get off to an easier swifter start the next morning since youve already figured out part of what needs to get done turla says rise early be happy morning people arent only happier in the morning often they are the ones who report more content with life so why are mornings such a great time to do things study author renee biss a psychology researcher at the university of toronto said being a morning person was associated with feelings of happiness liveliness cheerfulness and alertness the best thing about mornings a good beginning a positive start sets a positive tone for the day what works for one wont work for another a good morning routine can set you up for increased productivity but how does one successfully balance a chaotic morning schedule with seemingly impossible personal goalsfirst things first mornings are a great time to devote to things that are of utmost importance to you whether its exercise hobbies or family time studies have shown that early risers are more likely to be optimistic perform better and draw higher wages research has also correlated larks with character traits like optimism stability and conscientiousness one of the worlds leading time management experts dallasbased peter turla agrees that mornings work best for busy people because the day is a blank slate then vanderkam who researched people on how they spend their precious morning minutes found that the most successful people were those who devoted time in the morning to things or people that they loved remember that slowstart mornings may mean that you are not getting enough sleep it may seem tough but