maybe you can find an alarm clock with a radio on it. tune it in to your favorite station and set the alarm setting so that rather than an annoying beep beep beeping noise you get woke up with your favorite music playing.

some people also have alexa do a wake up call of playing music. google will also do that. all you need to do is tell your alexa or seri or google to wake you up at such and such a time with playing your favorite tunes.

I love waking up to my radio station on my alarm clock. it sets my mood regardless of the kind of day I know I have ahead of me.

Another thing that I do is not lay in bed ruminating over how horrible the day before was, going over my upcoming day and before I even get out of bed worry about the day.

The moment I wake up I get out of bed. I treat my bed as a paradise so to speak. a place where I can rest, relax, enjoy time with my wife whether thats just enjoying a movie together, each of us reading a book or getting busy. our bedroom is not the place to stress out, worry and so on. its a calming enjoyable place. even the decor is that which promotes relaxation, comfort, enjoyment.

The moment I wake up, I get up, I make my coffee and enjoy the peaceful beautiful home I am lucky to have. with statistics on homelessness climbing the last few years and the fact that a few years back my family and I lost a home to a hurricane, I know that having this roof over our heads is a lucky and welcome beautiful thing that many do not have.

Sometimes I take time to enjoy various pictures, works of art, and so forth that decorate our home. Sometimes its early enough to go out on my patio and welcome the day.

Each evening I also do my journaling, checking in with myself on how the day went, and set .......reachable...... goals for the next day. this way I dont have to wake up and ruminate about the day ahead and end up bringing myself down.

I already know my and my families daily routines. there's no reason for me to ruminate on those things. they are as some online call it "as is" or "it is what it is" and "yesterday is gone, the future isnt here yet and today is all we have, this is it, now is what we have"

I already know the moment the first two children wake up they are going to start bickering over who gets that last piece of toast, or who gets to make their eggs, or hot cereal first at the stove. I already know when the youngest 2 wake up they are going to be whining over "something or other". I know that one of the kids are prone to having hallucinations, and delusions but yet hates to take her meds.

Sure I could lay in bed, growling and dreading the day, going over everything in my head about my day and possible ways taking the children on a fieldtrip to the trade center memorial site for school can go wrong, and the longer I lay there the worse it would get.

so I get up and greet the day and leave things to fall as they will or wont. taking it one step at a time, one problem at a time but my day .....always......starts out on a positive note... with a bit of relaxing wake up music, a cup of coffee and the peacefulness, and my meditation and me time.