The $4.2 billion "morning routine" industry wants you to believe that if you wake up at 5 am, journal with the right prompts, drink celery juice, and say affirmations into a mirror, you'll finally be "successful." A real morning ritual is not about what you produce by noon. It's about who you remember yourself to be before the world tells you who to be. You are already whole. A morning ritual is about protecting that wholeness from being chipped away by external demands, not