Alden begins her mornings like most with water and coffee. She tells Swearby that her husband is often awake and headed to work before her, but he’ll bring in a decaf coffee for her in the morning brewed from their favorite local Vancouver place Caffe La Tana.

“My biggest goal is to have a glass of water with lemon to start my body fresh,” she tells me. “Then, I’ll not look on my computer or phone for the first 30 minutes of my day just to have some peace and quiet for my mind. I think that’s made a huge difference.”

Her morning’s beginning isn’t just water and coffee, though. Reading was one of the ways she first began her own morning routine. While her goal is to read a chapter per day (and she’s adamant that it not be a book on business), she knows that’s not always possible. That’s when she turns to options like I Am Her Tribe by Danielle Doby.

“It’s so beautiful,” she tells Swearby of the collection of poetry. “If I don’t have time to read a lot, I’ll just read a couple of poems, and I love it. One of my girlfriends gave the book to me, and I just find [Doby’s] words very beautiful. It’s something you can read if you only have 15 minutes because you slept in.”