The Morning Work

You reach for your phone before you're out of bed. Twenty minutes later you've seen everyone else's morning and done nothing with your own. The Morning Work changes the order. Your apps lock in the evening, and in the morning they open once you've done the work for yourself.

HOW A MORNING GOES

You pick which apps lock and when. In the morning you start with one minute of breathing. Then you answer five questions: Notice, Choose, Feel, Act and Prove. It takes five to ten minutes. When you finish, your apps open and your day begins.

If a morning doesn't happen, your apps open anyway at a time you set. And there's an emergency button for when you need them right now.

66 GUIDED DAYS

For the first 66 days you get new questions every day, written by our founder, in six chapters: from looking honestly at your morning reflex to anchoring the pattern. Before day 1 you write a letter to yourself. On day 66 you open it.

From day 67 you do the same five steps with fixed questions and decide for yourself what to apply them to. One journal holds 120 mornings.

IN THE APP OR WITH THE JOURNAL

In the app you answer the five questions on your phone, with a monthly subscription through Apple. You see the price before you pay, and you can cancel whenever you want. There is no free version. What you write in the app is kept on your account, so you find it again on a new phone.

With the journal you write on paper. The questions are printed on the page. When you're done, you open the app, tap "I've finished writing", and hold your phone against the back of your journal. Your apps open. On paper the app never sees what you write, only that you're done. The journal is sold separately, outside the app. The app comes with it.

ALSO IN THE APP

• Journey: see which mornings you did and which chapter you're in. No streaks, no scores.
• Circle: invite up to four people who do it too. You see whether the others are done, never what anyone wrote.
• Focus: lock your apps during the day too, until a time you choose.
• Widget: your home screen shows which day you're on.
• English and Dutch, following your phone's language.

GOOD TO KNOW

The Morning Work uses Apple's Screen Time to lock your apps. Apple asks for your permission. We never see which apps you pick or what you do in them. You need an account, with Apple or your email address.

The subscription renews monthly until you cancel. Cancel through Apple at least 24 hours before the end of the period.

Privacy policy: https://app.themorningwork.com/en/privacy
Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/