I recently preached to our students on this passage of scripture, and I just felt like this is something that we need to live in as a whole church as well, so Genesis 28.

As we begin, I'm just curious if you have any sort of peculiar, unique way that you like to begin every day.

It seems like whenever I talk to successful people in any sense of that word,

one thing that they have in common is there's a unique way that they've figured out to craft sort of their own masterpiece morning routine to get what they want out of each day by launching into it on the right foot.

It's possible to salvage a day that's not going well. I want you to know that.

It is possible to take a day that has steered itself into the ditch and do some, you know, corrective action on it.

But why, if you don't have to, why not begin a day the right way? I think a lot of times we end up hitting exactly what we aim for, and if you aim for nothing, listen to me, you'll hit it every single time.

So by developing a morning routine, it's possible, and this is the reason I spoke this to our young people is because as I look back at my life, if there's been anything I've done right that God's been able to bless, one thing has been, there's been a morning routine that I've gone through ever since I gave my life to Jesus.

There's something involved in how I begin my day that starts it on the right foot.

But now I've become a student of this a little bit, and I just love the eclectic, funky, bizarre ways that many high performance individuals choose to start their day.

And so when I listen to interviews or read books by people that I admire or have seen, the world has seen, do things as always, I always, you know, perk up a little bit when I hear them talk about how they begin their day.

Oprah Winfrey, for example, she wakes up every day around 602, like Bing, 602, she wakes up, and I was weird about that as she doesn't sit in alarm clock, she doesn't believe in them.

She just says to herself before she lays her head on her billion dollar pillow or whatever it is, 602, and that's when she wakes up.

She then takes her five dogs on a walk, has an espresso, reads truths that she stores in a truth box, she pulls five of them out, reads five truths.

Then she exercises, and then she eats breakfast, and she says without planning it or working for it, she almost always, as she looks at the clock, is eating breakfast at 8.30 a.m.

On the dot, as Oprah, Benjamin Franklin had a famous morning routine, you can Google it and look into what was in it.

It was a three hour long way that he began every day, and I won't bore you with all of it, but what is interesting is a part of it was him pausing long enough to ask himself this question, what good shall I do today?

That would be a pretty dope thing to incorporate into your morning, wouldn't it?

To ask yourself, just sit over the journal for a quick second, and write down that question, what good shall I do today?

What if you put that on your mirror in lipstick or something? What good shall I do today?

What if you didn't touch your phone without first asking yourself the question, what good shall I do today?

I could hear someone in our church scheduling a tattoo appointment even right now, right there, on your wrist, all Kendall Jenner style and a little, right?

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