This book was the first of the 3 books in the Five Good Minutes series that I read. Like most people, I am not a morning person either. And it was a real struggle for me to get up and spend five minutes battling concentration and sleep. For the first week, I was literally killing myself, because, I wasn't exactly concentrating, nor was I sleeping. But the second week, it got better, and the third week, I got up without even an alarm clock. Those 5 minutes were already a part of my daily life, and I didn't realise how much energised I felt after every session. But obviously meditaion isn't somthing you can master in a day or two. It took me sometime, and the wait was totally worth it. Actually, this book drove me to buy the other two books in the series, because I thought, that if someone who was never a morning person could have so much fun in the morning, how much fun could meditaion be for the rest of the day?

I am not a morning person! At ALL! I really struggle with this. So being a fan of the other two books, Evenings and Work, I knew I had to give this a try. I started with 1 on the first morning (fyi, wake up 10 minutes early to take part in this book's advice) and then for the next 99 days I did just one each morning. At the end of that run I got kind of depressed I was out of ideas but I just started back on #1. By doing that, and redoing that over and over, I've been able to really LOVE waking up excited about the new way I can refresh my mind to go into work and really preform to the best of my ability instead of dread waking up to a lot of problems. Great read, even if you are a morning person....I'm jealous of you!

I have read this whole series of books and each one is wonderful. I especially love this one, because getting up in the mornings and being positive is very difficult for me. I suffer from depression and anxiety/panic disorder, so sometimes doing anything at all is a chore. This book is broken down into four distinct sections, each one dealing with a different aspect of starting your day and being real with yourself to help yourself deal with the every day stresses and triggers you will encounter. There are 100 total mini-meditations as I like to call them, and each one is for a specific issue like learning to say no or how to laugh off something that is bothering you. Not all 100 are going to fit every person's needs, but I guarantee that most of them will speak to you at some point during your morning routine. I would recommend this book to anyone who is open to meditation and is not afraid to get real. I know it has really helped me to literally get myself out of bed some mornings. I keep the book beside my bed for just such instances. I can just grab it, be inspired, and then start my day.