The Orthodox day begins in prayer. Before the world crowds in, the Church appoints a short rule of prayers at rising: the sign of the Cross, the Trisagion, a psalm, and prayers that offer the coming day to God. These are not many words. They are the turning of the heart toward its Maker before anything else is asked of it.
The morning prayers gather the whole self at the start: gratitude for waking, a plea for the day's protection, and the asking that whatever is done be done for God. Among them is the ancient prayer to the Holy Spirit, and the prayer of the Optina elders for a heart at peace with whatever the day brings. To begin here is to remember, before the first task, whose the day is.
A rule is best received from a priest, fitted to your life; but for anyone beginning, a short and faithful morning rule kept every day is worth more than a long one kept rarely. The Church asks not for length but for constancy, the lamp lit each morning, however small the flame.