I have a morning routine - the top four
things I do daily that assure my success in life. The first thing I do when I
wake up is my wife and I do morning devotion. I have a way of sliding to sit
up. I have cards by my bed.
I write out what I want to do for the day, usually
in writing those things I write things that have to do with my long-term vision
and I think they have to do with my short-term vision and the right thing to
have to do with daily life. I feel that whatever I want to achieve in 10 years
time I need to be doing something now that is part of it.
So the first thing I do is have devotion to
my wife. The second thing is nowadays I no longer use those cards they used to
be by my bed, I now use a notebook on my phone and I also use another app
called Penzu, which is a journal. I use it but I don't use the journal for
writing what I’ll do, I use the notebook to write the things I would do for the
day - it has to do with my vision. it's not like I’m thinking that is when I
get too close to the vision that I’ll begin to make it happen. Whatever I’m
doing now has to do with that vision.
Some of the calls I’m making have to do with
my spiritual vision, my ministry vision, and my business vision. The next
thing I do which many pastors don't do is go for golf the moment I finish all
that planning. I go to golf since the last time I was here. I've lost 17
kilograms. I went into intense weight loss. I play golf then after that,
I go to the office.
From Monday or Tuesday, I start writing my
notes on some of the things I will share on Sunday. It takes 20 hours to
prepare a good message that will feed the people because you have to search.
You have to put things together. I live a quadrant life. Every message I preach
is part of a future book. I have written 107 books. What I taught today is
going to be a chapter in a book in the future.
Every message I preach is intended for a
book. So my notes are not regular. My notes are not four pages they come from
15 to 40 pages and but then I’ve been trained so that you wouldn't know when
I’m looking at it or when I’m flicking so I start in the morning with the
motion I go on to ride my vision, my vision has to do with the future and
handling something in the present. Part of some of those days also is reading,
it is a duty I must read two books a week. It is mandatory that I must read 100
books a year.
It is mandatory, so what I now do is every
week, I buy a new book and download it instead of paper books. Sometimes, I
download three-four books in one day.
Once I see the books I want I download them. I read two books a week. I had to
learn speed reading. I can read, let us say 150 pages in two hours and retain
95 per cent of it.
I had to spend about three or four hundred
dollars to train on speed reading because I just had about ten thousand books
but they were not being read and it was decorating my office and everyone says
pastor you get a bunch of books. I was not reading them and for my chosen field
because I speak around the world I need to be current because the current is
the currency of life. So I read two books in one week.
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