Do you hate your mornings? Do you wake up in a bad mood? Do you feel like you got up on the wrong side of the bed? Your mornings do not have to be like this. All it takes is a little thought to change the CHAOS ("Can't Have Anybody Over Syndrome").

That little thought is as simple as knowing what clothes you are wearing when you get up. If you will think about your morning before you actually have to face it, your mornings will run smoother. It all starts with a little before-bed routine.

Half the battle with your morning has to do with not being prepared to start your day. You run around in a tizzy trying to do all those last-minute things you put off the night before. Here is what happens when we put something off. Let's start with our before-bed routines.

We go to bed at 1 or 2 a.m. and have to get up at 7 a.m. We procrastinate by not going to bed at a decent hour. Then we can't get up on time.

You hit the snooze button a few times and it is 7:30 a.m. To get to work on time you have to leave at 7:45 a.m. That's 15 minutes to get dressed and out the door.

Not only did you go to bed late, but you did not lay out your clothes for tomorrow. So there again you have procrastinated and you are rushing around.

Now you are feeling the time crunch and the pressure of being late to work or an appointment again. Then the guilt starts to pile on.

With the guilt comes blaming others and not looking at our role in our perpetual tardiness. Then we have martyrdom and the loud voices that just add to the stress.

Now we are half-dressed, jumping in a car trying to put on makeup while driving and not paying attention to what we are doing, not to mention skipping breakfast, and there is not even time for a quick drive through the golden arches. Well, that could be the only positive thing about rushing — no time for negative nutrition.

Next thing, blue lights are flashing in the rearview mirror and you have a speeding ticket. (That is if you're lucky and haven't had an accident with babies in the car.)

Money wasted all because we procrastinated and didn't go to bed at a decent hour to get up and start our day on the right foot.

Just writing this makes me nauseated. I could not live this way anymore. The constant surge of adrenaline is hard on our bodies. We have to find a way to relieve the stress that procrastination causes. Procrastination can kill us. It can be a slow painful death of our bodies turning on us because of the constant surge of adrenaline with immune dysfunction or it can be a quick one with a car accident.

You have a choice. Stop this right now! If I can ever get you to make peace with your mornings by establishing a few simple habits in your life, you will never go back.