For years, time was tight in Hoda Kotb 's jam-packed mornings.

Between 3:15 when her alarm roused her awake and 7 a.m., when she took her seat at the Today desk—the spot she shared with Savannah Guthrie from 2017 up until her final day in January 2025—the co-anchor liked to fit in a workout, guzzle a green juice, shower and make her way through hair and makeup on the show's NYC set.

But she always paused for one key ritual: Using the journal and pen she leaves out on her table, "I write three things I'm grateful for and one great thing that happened in the last 24 hours," she described to Inside Chic back in 2016.

Not every item has to be momentous, "For example, I had a meaningful conversation with a stranger on the street," she noted. "Or I'm running in the park

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