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We are on Prosperity Principle number 10, which is I Create Daily Rituals. In order for you to be successful you must have habits.  Successful people create daily habits that will guide them in their life, even when they don't feel like doing things that they need to do.

Habits take over when their motivation runs out.

You must create daily habits in order to drive your success, and you need to commit to your rituals on a daily basis.  Be specific with what your intent is. Don't just go through the motions of what you read in books.

Do things that are going to create specific intent (like we talked about yesterday) to help you reach your goals. Over time, your rituals are going to establish basic patterns of discipline in your life.  So that when you don't feel motivated, when you don't feel like doing what you need to do, they carry you through.

Let's be honest.  None of us feel like doing what we need to do all of the time.  The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people create habits, rituals, and daily activities for success.

So, how do you Set Yourself Up with Successful Rituals?

Here are some strategies and things that you can do in order to set yourself up for success and create daily rituals that will guide you where you need to be.

1. TIME OF DAY

I would highly recommend that you analyze the time of day that's going to help you the most.  I really like starting the day in the morning with a couple of habits that are going to get my day started right.

If you're like most entrepreneurs, myself included, when you start your day out right, it tends to go in a great positive direction.  When you don't start out right, it's hard for you to be able to catch up. Sometimes you feel like you're behind, and you feel like you’re just playing catch-up.

So, the time of day is important! I highly recommend the morning. Now, there are a lot of individuals out there that will try to tell you to get up at three, four, or o'clock in the morning in order to make this work.

Don’t listen to that if you are not a morning person.  Just start where it works for you. Just start with something you know you will be consistent with.  Analyze the best time of day for you and start setting yourself up for success.  If it's going to be in the evenings or the afternoon, do that! But start today.

2. SMALL NUMBER of ITEMS

Second, start with a limited number of practices that you could do EVERY day. Because here’s the problem: most of us overload ourselves.  We create this big, long list.  I've done it many times.  You probably have too:

• Motivation
• Inspiration
• Meditation
• Affirmations
• Do this
• Do that
• Work out
• Pray
• Meditate
• Whatever it is

Forget doing all of it! Set yourself up for success by just creating two or three things that you can commit to, and you can follow through with. If you don't commit and follow through with them, it's just going to be something that's going to set you back and make you feel like a failure.

So be limited.  Be specific.  Be Simple with yourself to start.

3. SET SPECIFIC TARGETS and GOALS

Target the RITUALS that are going to help you make progress with growth in your life.   

Of course, we want everyone to have affirmations.  We would love for everyone to work out.  We would love for everybody to read or to meditate. We would love to know that everyone is getting some type of personal accountability. But what is most important for you.

Target the thing that is what you need for your results. Also, to ensure that you’re growing, don’t target things that are always easy for you to do.  Get outside your comfort zone as well.

And it goes without saying that you need to set yours