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Open awareness
Greene sits cross-legged on a black cushion next to a window and focuses on the weather, the birdsong and the changing shadows outside. He doesn't aim for emptiness, but rather to stop engaging with his own recurring thoughts.
This can support the next activity because broad mindfulness slides into eating, perhaps making flavours more vivid without forcing a strict focus.
Tea and breakfast
A varied breakfast of turkey burger and oatmeal one day, eggs with smoked salmon another, sometimes sardines on toast, eaten slowly with strong black tea so the meal becomes a mindful part of his morning rather than something to be rushed through.
This works well because the relaxed, satisfied feeling from a meal can carry into patient, engaged reading.
Reading (mindful)
Greene reads the print New York Times during breakfast, and sticks with the actual physical newspaper despite it being less current than the online version, because it keeps him off screens.
This works well because the mindful state from reading can extend into cleaning with similar attentive quality.
Tidying & cleaning (mindful)
Washing the dishes is part of his morning ritual rather than a chore for Greene, with whole thing becoming more like a meditation than an everyday job.