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"One should not be embarrassed from (the snickering looks) of other people and from those who may laugh at you as you perform the service of Hashem."  The Mishna Berurah discusses that if one is in front of others who may be able to learn from your actions, you should do the mitzvah in their presence.  Rabbi Avigdor Neventzal writes that "one needs to be astute to determine what the result of one's actions will be." [Two applications of this halacha are (when needed) davening in an airport or other public area (there are specific halachos this) and being careful to say a bracha achrona in a situation where others are not careful to do so.)

One should say Modeh Ani when one wakes up (even before washing one’s hands). – Mishna Berurah 8. Moreover, the Beir Halacha 52:1:ד"ה ומכל   quotes opinions that one should say Elokai Neshama even after one sleeps during the day, Rabbi Chaim Kanevsky writes that since Elokai Neshama is a bracha it is possible that it was only established to be said after one’s nightly sleep; and so follows the custom. Regarding Modeh Ani after a nap, the custom is also, that it too, is only said in the morning, upon awakening from one's nightly sleep. – Dirshu MB #15.

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