How better to succeed other than to imitate successful people? How do you learn a language? By pretty much listening and imitating speaking it. How do you learn to play a musical instrument? By listening and imitating playing it. So, you hear stories after stories of the successful folks, who start their days early in the morning with exercise? Well, I am proud of myself for having been able to execute my plan this week though the planning part has gone on longer than that. I woke sometimes between 7:00 and 7:30 yesterday, got on the treadmill and put in the continuous 15 minutes of raised heart rate, plus the warm up and cool down. Today, I have a conference call at 8:00 at work so I woke up at 6:30 and got on the treadmill, did the same thing. Eventually, I hope to make it a regular daily routine to wake up 6:00, exercise, shower, have my quiet time with God in His Word and prayer and be at work around 8:00. The tough part is all these meetings, parties and receptions that kept me up later than I like. I would really like 8 hours of sleep but that would put my bedtime at 10:00, almost impossible to do but I am going to try.