I'll never forget the day we moved into our beautiful home.

I was carrying a box of shoes into my new dream closet,

and a young woman who was hired by a cleaning company

to help us get it all ready for the move in,

she stopped me.

And out of nowhere, she asked,

Ma'am, I just wanna know,

how do you get a life like this?

Without hesitating, I said, your routine.

Hmm? She said, totally confused.

I said if you'll change your morning routine,

you can change your whole life.

Now, if you had told me back in 2002 when at 33 years old and my life was such a mess

that my decision on that rainy day in September to get up earlier and invest in myself would transform my entire life, I would not have believed it.

But it was the best choice I could have ever made in myself and in my future. For years, my days consisted of waking up at the last

minute to go to work, jamming out to my favorite songs all the way to the office, grabbing my daily

burrito at lunch with a Texas-sized sweet tea,

and filling my evenings with hours of watching other people live their dreams. And for years,

I lived paycheck to paycheck, had credit card debt, car loans, no savings account, my house was

disorganized, and I had no real goals for the future.

I was average. Well, one day in prayer, I heard this phrase, don't be average and your life

won't be average. Well, when I finally looked at my life and got disgusted with my poor habits,

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