CREATE YOUR DAILY SUCCESS ROUTINE | 7 KEYS TO ONE THOUSAND TIMES MORE by Mike Murdock

CREATE YOUR DAILY SUCCESS ROUTINE

Great men have great habits.

In California, a powerful Spiritual leader awakens at 5:30 a.m. each day. He has followed this routine for years. He prays from 5:30 to 6:30 a.m. every morning of his life. It is a daily habit— the success habit that has unlocked an unforgettable anointing for teaching. He walks, lives, and breathes the atmosphere of One Thousand Times More. Is it a mystery? Not really. When your Daily Success Routine begins with the first hour of every day in the presence of God, it is almost impossible to fail.

One of the most famous business women on earth lives here in Dallas, Texas. She is worth over 300 million dollars and her business is worth over 2 billion. She has a Daily Success Routine. Since 1962, she has written her daily plan on a sheet of paper.

She lists only six tasks for the day.

She works on the first, then the second, then the third, and so forth. She believes that one of The Master Keys to her uncommon success is this constant and consistent daily habit. Planning is her daily routine.

A former Presidential Chief-of-Staff revealed part of his Daily Success Routine. The first thing he did every morning and the last thing he did every night was to plan the day of the President. It was his habit.

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One of the wealthiest athletes in history revealed a few weeks ago that the morning after he won the heavyweight championship of the world, he was back in his gym…his Daily Success Routine. The morning after! Millions of dollars were earned within minutes. But, he knew and had decided for his life, the daily habits necessary to create the future he loved.

One famous Hall Of Fame baseball pitcher pitched his seventh no-hitter. Afterwards, reporters found him in the locker room doing what he always did—riding a stationary bike for one hour and fifteen minutes. He had just pitched a no-hitter! Did he race out and do something exciting and different? He did not become a champion by chasing after every thought fleeting through his mind. He became a champion through his Daily Success Routine. He had developed the Habits for Greatness.

Habit is the most misunderstood word in the English language. When someone talks about habits, everyone thinks about drugs, alcohol or smoking. They think habit is a word connected to something evil, deteriorating or deadly.

Habit is a good word, a powerful gift from God. Habit simply means that when you do something twice, it becomes easier. It is a gift from God enabling us to succeed.

Personal hygiene habits increase your health, self-confidence and social influence.

Conversation habits strengthen relationships, build confidence and integrity.

Financial habits can create uncommon increase, yes, One Thousand Times More.

Discipline is different than habit. God did not create us to be creatures of discipline but creatures of habit.

The purpose of discipline is to birth a habit.

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Psychologists say that when you perform an act for

21 consecutive days without fail, it will become a habit.

Habits create a future you will love or hate.

Habit is the child of purpose, destiny and desire. Let me give you an example. When Mohammed Ali, the great boxer, believed that destiny and God had determined his future would be the greatest boxer on earth, his habits changed. He arose earlier. His workouts were more intense. His conversation changed. Yes, he even changed his name! You see, your habits are the results of your beliefs of what you truly believe you deserve to possess and have.

Desires birth habits. Some who have smoked for 40 years quit in a week when the doctor revealed that they were standing at the door of death.

Thirty years ago, I sat at the table of a pastor friend in Louisiana. I stared at him and asked, “How on earth did you become so huge?” (He weighed 400 pounds!)

“Eating every night after church just like you are eating right now,” he said boldly.

I laughed. I thought he was simply a little peeved at my bluntness. But, he was sincere. (Unfortunately, I stayed ignorant!) What he really said to me was, “I have an eating routine. Every night, after I have spent a long day in work and effort, I sit at this table and comfort myself with food. It is a habit in my life. I didn’t begin this big. It didn’t happen within a few days. My habit of eating after church at night added a pound, another pound, and another pound.”

Your habits have created your present physical condition. Whether you are overweight, unhealthy or uncommonly strong, what you keep eating daily is creating the You-In-The-Future. When you eat is increasing your health or decreasing your health.

Your spending habits are creating a secure financial

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future or destroying it completely. A friend of mine told me that a simple saving of $100 invested in mutual funds, every month…would result in a baby becoming a millionaire at 20 years old. Just $100…monthly. Habits create paupers or millionaires.

Here Are 14 Wisdom Keys On Developing Your Daily Success Routine:

1. Men Do Not Decide Their Future, They Decide The Habits That Determine Their Future.
2. What You Do Daily Is Deciding What You Are Becoming Permanently.
3. Nothing Will Ever Dominate Life Unless It Happens Daily.
4. You Cannot Change Your Life Until You Change Something You Keep Doing…Daily.
5. You Can Trace The Failure Of Every Man To Something He Permitted To Occur Daily In His Life, Body Or His Mind.
6. You Can Trace Uncommon Success To Habits That Were Created…A Daily Success Routine.
7. Your Habits Are Creating Increase Or Decrease.
8. Your Habits Are Being Strengthened Or Changed By The Friends You Permit Daily Close To You.
9. What You Keep Looking At Is Deciding Where You Will Go.
10. Gaze Only Upon That Which You Desire In Your Future.
11. You Will Always Move Toward The Dominant Picture In Your Mind. That’s why it’s important that you place pictures around you of the things you desire to move toward and have.
12. You Can Change A Failure Routine Into A Success

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Routine Within 21 Days.

13. What You Keep Doing Daily Is Creating The Future You Have Always Wanted Or The Future You Dread.
14. Your Money Habits Are Making You A Pauper Or A Millionaire.

In the Ancient Writings, there are several photographs of people who had success habits and routines. Jesus went regularly to the synagogue. David prayed seven times each day. Daniel prayed three times each day. Zacharias offered up sacrifices, as was his custom.

Your Daily Success Routine is affecting the Promise of One Thousand Times More.

Here Are 7 Daily Habits I Have Recognized In The Lives Of Uncommon Men And Women:

1. Uncommon Achievers Arise At The Same Time Every Morning. John R. Rice, the famous Baptist evangelist of many years ago, would often arrive home from his crusades at 3:00 or 4:00 a.m., on Monday mornings. But his staff declared, “Regardless of when he arrived, he was at the office the same time each morning!”
2. Uncommon Men Start Their Work At The Same Time Each Day. One of my close friends told me, “The wealthiest man in our town backs out of his driveway at 7:55 a.m. every morning…without fail. Mike, I can set my clock by it.” He has a Daily Success Routine.

Ernest Hemingway, the famed writer, wrote every night from midnight until 6:00 a.m. in the morning, then he would sleep from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon. The most prolific writers in America have a Daily Success Routine, writing the same hours every day.

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3. Uncommon Men Pray At The Same Time Every Day. David did. “Early will I seek thee.” Daniel prayed three times a day. Always establish a consistent appointment in the Secret Place. It will radically change your life. It may be for five minutes, but do it daily. It must become a part of your Daily Success Routine.
4. Uncommon Men Read The Word Of God Daily As A Part Of Their Success Routine. Reading three chapters a day (and five on Sundays) enables you to complete the Bible once a year. If you keep waiting until you have time, you will never read it. Your Success Routine in the Word will keep storing within you the thoughts and presence of God. Nothing is more important than your appointment in the Secret Place each day reading the Word of God.

My greatest success habit is listening to the Bible every morning on tape or CD when I awaken. It’s the first thing I do every day even before I brush my teeth. His Word washes my mind, stimulates my faith, and puts a picture of my Best Friend before me, the Holy Spirit.

5. Uncommon Champions Habitually Speak Words Of Hope, Confidence And Expectation Of Excellence. Words create your future.

Your words of faith and enthusiasm are the fuel unleashing the promised harvest of One Thousand Times More.

6. Uncommon Achievers Have A Habit Of Planning Their Day. Mary Kay Ash, the famed multimillionaire, plans every day with a simple list of six things to do. Mark McCormack invests one hour every morning in planning the next 23 hours. Think about it! He plans his day for one solid hour before doing anything else.
7. Uncommon Leaders Exercise Every Day Of Their

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Life. President Harry Truman walked an hour every day until he was almost 80 years old. He had determined the Daily Success Routine of his future.

 How passionate are you about the One Thousand Times More Health? You must create the Daily Success Routine that moves you toward that harvest.

 How passionate are you about One Thousand Times More Wisdom? You must include mentorship every single day…as part of your Daily Success Routine.

 How passionate are you about One Thousand Times More Finances? You must invest time in creating a Daily Success Routine every day of your life…in financial Mentorship, focus on an uncommon Dream and strengthen the relationships that create increase…every day.

How passionate are you in unleashing One Thousand Times More Favor than you’ve ever known? You must sow favor every single day…as a part of your Daily Success Routine.

What You Keep Doing Daily Is Creating The Future You Have Always Wanted Or The Future You Dread.

Success Routine.

When I began to meditate, read and study the Laws of Increase, many keys appeared: Tenacity, Integrity, Motivation, and scores of others. When I determined to recognize the 7 most powerful keys, it exploded…The Daily

It has been ignored in most motivation books.

Now, what really causes a man to reverse the bad habits of his life and birth new ones? A tragedy in his life? A screaming mate? Not really. You simply have an awakening of a dormant, ignored, overlooked Dream within you of how great your life can really become. You

Your Dream Is Deciding Your Habits.
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need a Dream.

An Uncommon Dream.

 You cannot change your life until you change your habits.

 You cannot change your habits until you change your Dream.

 You will not change your Dream until you become angry with your present.

Are you feeling pain? You are ready for the Promise of One Thousand Times More.

I read an interesting statistic a few weeks ago in a powerful book on millionaires in America. It showed how the wealthiest people in America, by

percentages, were people from other countries who entered the United States impoverished. Their past was so painful and so powerful in their mind, they developed work and money habits that created incredible success. The book also explained how the middle-class American has almost no chance at wealth, because he is not feeling enough pain.

4 Important Facts You Should Know About Pain:

 Your pain determines your motivation.

 Your pain determines your focus.

 Your pain determines who you pursue.

 Your pain determines the wisdom you believe is worthy of pursuit.

It will take more than a miracle anointing vice, a self-help improvement book or a network marketing plan to unleash One Thousand Times More finances.

It will take more than an exercise guru on television,

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a new jogging suit or a free membership in the gym…to unlock One Thousand Times More wealth.

It will take more than six tapes from a marriage counselor, a bouquet of roses or a pretty negligee…to unlock One Thousand Times More passion in your marriage.

It will require total focus on creating your daily Success Routine.

When you change your daily routine, you can unlock the Promise of One Thousand Times More for your family, your pastor and the work of God.

How To Create Your Daily Success Routine:

1. Recognize What Is Worthy Of Your Total Focus Today. Everyone will have different focus. You must target what you desire the most. Permit others to stay in the center of their focus.
2. Pinpoint The Top Three Distractions That Occur Habitually. The only reason men fail is broken focus. Satan cannot destroy you, merely distract you. You can trace any failure to loss of focus. What breaks your focus daily on the things you love the most? Who can help you protect your focus?
3. Pray Continuously In The Holy Spirit. He has an agenda. You must discern His, not decide your own.
4. Determine The Core Product Of Your Life. What do you want to do the most? What is the legacy you desire to leave? What are you willing to walk away from to see it take place?

Everything does not have equal value. Everyone does not deserve equal time.

5. Embrace Flexibility As An Opportunity. Hillary

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Rodham Clinton once said, “I’ve never had a plan yet where everything happened as I planned it.” You can take advantages of the unexpected.

6. Recognize Those Around You Who Do Not Have A Determined Focus Or Goal. They want your attention and do not hesitate to break your focus.
7. Discern Those Who Are Oblivious And Blind Toward Your Focus. I have been dictating books and have “friends” burst into the room distracting me with trivia. Confront rudeness.
8. Keep A Visual Picture Of Your Desired Goal And Dream Before You. Gyms have pictures of physical champions who have won Mr. USA, Miss America, and so forth, in front of them as motivation.

Abraham had a picture of the stars and the sand of the sea as personal motivation for his generations of children. Joseph had a picture of himself in authority. Jesus had a picture of returning to the Father.

9. Become Militant About Keeping Your Daily Success Routine. One of the happiest seasons of my life was 12 years ago. I birthed a Daily Success Routine. I went to bed at 10:30 p.m. with a cup of hot chocolate. I arose at 5:30 and walked three miles in the morning and three miles at night. My joy was remarkable. My peace was unexplainable. After several weeks, a friend rushed into my hotel room. He wanted me to help him work on a special letter to his congregation and partners. I told him about my Daily Success Routine. It was late. I needed to sleep. He laughed it off and kept talking.

He finally left at 1:00 a.m.

My entire rhythm was affected. Quite deeply. I was unable to arise at 5:30 the next morning and pray, so I decided I would pray at 8:00 a.m. Every appointment the next day had to be changed. Something was lost that I

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cannot explain. It never came back for many, many months.

A good habit is too powerful to

What You Look
At The Longest treat lightly. Become militant about
Will Become The keeping it.
Strongest. What you look at the longest will

become the strongest.

Here Are 4 Powerful Rewards Of Focus:

1. Focus Keeps You Passionate About Your Goals. Unclutter your life of anything or anyone that does not respect your focus. They dilute your passion, the only fuel available for the Uncommon Dreams of you heart.
2. Focus Will Keep You Creative. What you keep studying, observing and examining—you will become creative toward. Have you ever looked at your house and kept thinking of different ways to arrange the furniture? The longer you looked, the more ideas emerged. One of my best friends is Gloria Kelso, an incredible Interior Decorator from Nashville, Tennessee. Recently, she told me she wanted to help advise me on redecorating my home—free of charge as a Seed into my life. As she spent day after day, focusing completely on redesigning my house, her ideas astounded me. She literally created “another world” for me. Focus unleashed her creativity.
3. Focus Keeps You Persistent. When you are focused on a goal, tenacity multiplies. Persistence is birthed.
4. Focus Alienates The Unnecessary From Your Life. You must constantly remind yourself.

Some things matter for an hour. Some things matter for today. Some things matter forever.

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Some things don’t really matter at all.

10 Incredible Ways Words Can Affect The Promise Of One Thousand Times More:

1. Right Words Can Turn An Angry Man Into A Friend. “A soft answer turneth away wrath:…” (Proverbs 15:1a).
2. Right Words Will Breathe Energy And Life Into Everything Around You. “A wholesome tongue is a tree of life;…” (Proverbs 15:4a).
3. Right Words Can Energize And Motivate Your Own Life. “A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!” (Proverbs 15:23).
4. Right Words Decide Which Dreams Live And Which Dreams Die. “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof” (Proverbs 18:21).
5. Right Words Are As Important As Silver And Gold. “The tongue of the just is as choice silver:…” (Proverbs 10:20a).
6. Right Words Can Get You Out Of Trouble. “…but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them” (Proverbs 12:6b).
7. Right Words Can Bring Health And Healing. “…the tongue of the wise is health” (Proverbs 12:18b).
8. Right Words Can Open Doors To Powerful, Important And Influential Leaders. “Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right” (Proverbs 16:13).
9. Right Words Can Cure Bitterness. “Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to

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the bones” (Proverbs 16:24).

10. Right Words Can Unlock A Financial Raise Or Promotion. “A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled” (Proverbs 18:20). Uncommon achievers place great importance on your ability to speak right words. Dave Thomas, the beloved founder of Wendy’s International, says in his book, “Well Done” (page 136), “Communication is the heart of success.”

Your daily words affect your success.

Create the Daily Success Routine and you can unleash the Promise of One Thousand Times More.