Transform your life before 8AM - The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
Summary
TLDRIn this insightful review, the speaker discusses 'The Miracle Morning' by Hal Elrod, emphasizing the importance of starting the day right for personal transformation. The book details a morning routine, known as S.A.V.E.R.S., which includes meditation, affirmations, visualization, exercise, reading, and journaling. The author's personal anecdotes and practical advice make the book appealing, even for non-morning people. The review highlights the power of intentional quiet time and the benefits of a six-minute condensed routine for busy days.
Takeaways
- 🌅 The importance of starting your day right is emphasized, as it's the only part of the day you have control over initially.
- 📚 The 'Miracle Morning' by Hal Elrod is a self-help book that details a morning routine aimed at life transformation before 8:00 a.m.
- 🔄 Hal Elrod successfully self-published the original 'Miracle Morning', selling over 2 million copies before being picked up by a traditional publisher.
- 🤔 The speaker initially avoided the book, not being a morning person and feeling overwhelmed by the trend of morning routines.
- 🌄 The speaker's own transformation came from waking up early and having a morning routine, which they outline in their new book 'Rebel'.
- 🧘 The 'S.A.V.E.R.S.' acronym stands for six key activities: Silence/Meditation, Affirmations, Visualization, Exercise, Reading, and Scribing/Journaling.
- 🤝 Affirmations are best used to reinforce truths that one might forget, rather than pretending to be something one is not.
- ✍️ Journaling is highly recommended for its transformative effects, helping to clear the mind and solidify intentions.
- 📈 The 'Six-Minute Miracle Morning' offers a quick version of the routine for those with time constraints, proving that even a short period of intentional activity can be beneficial.
- 🚫 The speaker warns against the 'extreme reach barrier', where people overthink and talk themselves out of starting due to the enormity of a task.
- 💡 The book provides a practical and approachable way to start transforming one's life by focusing on the morning hours, especially for those who are not naturally morning people.
Q & A
What is the main premise of 'The Miracle Morning' by Hal Elrod?
-The main premise of 'The Miracle Morning' is that the way you start your day is crucial because it's the only part of the day you have control over, and it can transform your life before 8:00 a.m. by implementing a morning routine.
How did Hal Elrod initially publish 'The Miracle Morning'?
-Hal Elrod initially self-published 'The Miracle Morning' and later sold over 2 million copies before it was picked up by a publisher.
What is the acronym 'S.A.V.E.R.S.' and how is it related to Hal Elrod's morning routine?
-The acronym 'S.A.V.E.R.S.' stands for Silence, Affirmations, Visualization, Exercise, Reading, and Scribing (journaling). It is the core of Hal Elrod's morning routine, which he believes saved his life.
How does Hal Elrod suggest using affirmations in the morning routine?
-Hal Elrod suggests using affirmations to affirm what is true and what you are committed to in your life, rather than making unrealistic claims about oneself.
What is the purpose of the 'Six-Minute Miracle Morning' as described in the book?
-The 'Six-Minute Miracle Morning' is designed for days when you're short on time, allowing you to spend one minute on each element of the S.A.V.E.R.S. routine to still have an impactful start to the day.
How does the speaker in the transcript view the concept of affirmations?
-The speaker views affirmations as a powerful tool to press truths that one might forget into their subconscious, especially those related to personal commitments and truths about one's life.
What personal development strategies does Hal Elrod combine in his morning routine?
-Hal Elrod combines meditation, affirmations, visualization, reading, journaling, and exercise in his morning routine to help people feel and become their best selves.
How has journaling impacted the speaker's life according to the transcript?
-The speaker has found that journaling has transformed their life by helping them express gratitude, process scripture, and get thoughts, challenges, and ideas out of their head and onto paper.
What is the significance of starting the day in silence according to the transcript?
-Starting the day in silence allows for a clear mind before the day's chaos begins, setting the tone for a less chaotic and more focused day.
How does the speaker describe the author's journey and its relation to the morning routine?
-The speaker describes Hal Elrod's journey as one filled with trauma and overcoming adversity, such as a violent car accident and cancer. The speaker attributes Elrod's positivity and success to his morning routine.
What is the speaker's personal testimony regarding the benefits of an early morning routine?
-The speaker attests to the power of waking up early and having a morning routine, which has transformed their life and helped them to be more intentional and peaceful throughout the day.
Outlines
🌅 The Power of Morning Routines and 'The Miracle Morning'
The speaker discusses the importance of starting the day right, highlighting the concept of 'The Miracle Morning' by Hal Elrod. The book is praised for its practicality and the author's inspiring personal story of overcoming adversity. The speaker, who initially resisted the idea of morning routines due to trends, has experienced a personal transformation through early rising and having a morning routine. The book's content is briefly introduced, emphasizing the 'S.A.V.E.R.S.' acronym for a morning routine that includes meditation, affirmations, visualization, reading, journaling, and exercise. The speaker also appreciates the book's approach to affirmations and the idea of a six-minute Miracle Morning for busy days.
🗣️ Affirmations and the Six-Minute Miracle Morning
This paragraph delves deeper into the concept of affirmations, explaining them as a tool to remember and affirm truths in one's life rather than making false claims about oneself. The speaker shares a personal take on affirmations, relating them to religious beliefs and personal commitments. The 'six-minute Miracle Morning' concept is introduced as a way to maintain a morning routine even on days with limited time. The idea is to spend one minute on each element of the routine, demonstrating that even a short period of intentional activity can positively impact the day. The speaker also touches on the psychological barrier of extremism when starting new endeavors and how the six-minute routine can be a practical starting point.
📚 Reflections on 'The Miracle Morning' and Personal Growth
In the final paragraph, the speaker reflects on the impact of 'The Miracle Morning' and invites listeners who have read the book to share their thoughts. The speaker also acknowledges the ongoing journey of reading 52 books, with 'The Miracle Morning' being the 14th in the series. The paragraph concludes with a sign-off and music, indicating the end of the review and a look forward to the next book discussion.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Miracle Morning
💡Control
💡Self-Publishing
💡Morning Routine
💡S.A.V.E.R.S.
💡Affirmations
💡Visualization
💡Journaling
💡Exercise
💡Silence
💡Personal Development
Highlights
How you start your day matters because it's the only part of your day that you have control over.
The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod is about transforming your life before 8:00 a.m.
Hal Elrod self-published the original copy of The Miracle Morning and sold over 2 million copies before getting a publisher.
The Miracle Morning is practical and includes a lot of acronyms to help readers remember key points.
Hal Elrod's SAVERS acronym stands for Silence, Affirmations, Visualization, Exercise, Reading, and Scribing (journaling).
Meditation or prayer, as part of the morning routine, can significantly influence the rest of your day.
Journaling is transformative, allowing you to clear your mind and organize your thoughts.
Affirmations are powerful when they focus on truths and commitments rather than unrealistic goals.
Elrod includes a chapter on the 'six-minute Miracle Morning' for those short on time, emphasizing that a brief routine is better than none.
Even six minutes of intentional quiet time in the morning can make a significant difference in your day.
Hal Elrod overcame significant personal challenges, including a severe car accident and cancer, which adds depth to his positivity and approach.
The Miracle Morning is approachable, especially for those who are not naturally morning people.
Starting your day with chaos can set the tone for a chaotic day, while starting with silence and intention sets a positive tone.
Affirming commitments and truths helps reinforce positive behaviors and attitudes.
The book provides a straightforward and practical guide to developing a morning routine that can transform your life.
Transcripts
how you start your day matters because
it's the only part of your day that you
actually have control over think about
that it's the only part of your day you
have control over so why not take
control of how you start your mornings
and that's the premise of the miracle
morning by how Elrod the not so obvious
secret guaranteed to transform your life
before 8:00 a.m. uh the miracle morning
is one of those miracle books it's
actually a great a great story if you're
into authorship and as as a newish
author and fascinated with how he
self-published the original copy of this
book He's since um sold over 2 million
copies um this expanded and updated
Edition is actually published with my
publisher Ben Bella so we have the same
publisher which is pretty cool but kudos
to how for writing a book
self-publishing it and doing over a
million copies well well over a million
before he ever had a publisher work with
him so uh one of those rare success
stories on the self-published side of
things which is really cool there's more
and more of them coming out but it's one
of those books that's been like
recommended right forever for me to read
never read it I was never a morning
person so I wasn't interested in it and
uh morning routines just got so trendy
in the last decade that I was like over
it and so I I just kind of put it off um
but to be fair I have been transformed
by waking up early every morning um I
have my own morning routine I actually
outline it in my new book Rebel and I'm
going to do an episode on it um upcoming
so that'll be something to to watch as
well but um this is definitely a read
worth going through even if you already
have a morning routine to see how he
does it very straightforward book um I
think two things that I love about this
book is one it's very practical and he
has a lot of acronyms I love acronyms uh
but two I actually enjoyed his his story
this guy's had a lot of trauma in his
life and has overcome a lot of stuff and
he has such positivity about him um
really uh violent car accident cancer I
mean he's gone through a ton of stuff
and he just has a Jad viiv that is is
admirable and I think a lot of it has to
do with the fact that he starts his day
this way so um you you definitely got to
read it to get a sense of what's going
on but let me just give you a sense
there's six things he does every morning
and that's what he makes up his Savers
acronym acronym because they're LIF
savers for him they saved his life um
and so that's the acronym sa B RS but
functionally um It's a combination of
meditation affirmations which we'll get
to in a second visualization reading
journaling and
exercise and so he recommends blocking
off an hour and doing around 10 minutes
each of those or you could do five
minutes on your affirmations and have 20
minutes to read or whatever and he he
just took like six of the most common um
personal development strategies that
help people feel their best self and and
become their best self and he just
shoved them all into one morning routine
and it worked and so um I can
definitely attest to for me the
meditation like the the silence um in
the morning and I pray as a Christian so
prayer but having don't like jump out of
bed and just roll into your day like if
you start your day with chaos that is
how you're setting your day up like that
you're bathing your starting line of the
race in chaos it's going to be a chaotic
day but if you start your day in silence
which means you might have to wake up
before the kids or your spouse or before
you get to work where the house is
actually quiet even 10 minutes of set
your timer on your phone
silence to at least clear your mind
before it's racing if you're an
entrepreneur like me your mind's racing
I got kids I have a wife I've got a
business I got a books coming out I got
stuff I'm working on my mind's already
racing I can attest to the power of
Silence in the morning uh Ruth Barton I
think I'm blanking on her that's her
last name she wrote a great book The
Power of silence and Solitude or
invitation to silence and Solitude just
the power of Silence I 100% agree with
so meditation prayer silence um
journaling which is his s it's his final
S scribing as he calls it journaling is
transformed my life uh I used to make
fun of people who journaled I I know I
did I make fun of people who journaled I
hate writing physically with a pen um
but I have committed to journaling just
about every day at least five days a
week um and it's transformed my life I
Journal things that I'm grateful for I
Journal through scripture that I'm
reading um and I Journal out thoughts
challenges ideas and just getting it out
of my head on to paper there's something
transformative that happens and so those
two for sure um I've been doing for a
long time they've made a big deal
difference to me I want to touch on two
quick things though one
affirmations this is something that I
actually believe in
um but I it's I'm so grateful for his
take on it because affirmations are a
little woo woo depending on what you
believe and where you come from and it's
hard for a lot of people to affirm
something that isn't true like if you're
very overweight and unhealthy to say
like I am thin and healthy it feels like
lying because you're like I'm actually
literally not I understand you're trying
to focus on the goal um but I I don't
think of affirmations like that I I
think of affirmations as affirming
personally what is true that I forget
right so you can for example if you're
uh struggling with let's say your
marriage and and you're fighting a lot
an an affirmation for your marriage
could be what is something that is true
about what you feel about your spouse
and how they feel about you and so it
can be like my wife is committed to our
marriage and loves me dearly like that
is a truth if you know that's true you
may not feel that truth but it's very
powerful to to affirm what is actually
true in your life life um for me as a
Christian a lot of times I have to
affirm the goodness of God and all the
scriptures and the promises of God of
how he will provide for all of my needs
Psalm 23 The Lord is my shepherd I lack
no good thing I have everything I need
in the New Living Translation that is an
affirmation that's worth repeating
because I don't live like that a lot of
times I feel like I don't have what I
need I can be stressed out but an
affirmation of what I know to be true
that I forgotten that's that presses it
deep into my heart my mind so I like to
affirm things that are true that I
forget he likes to affirm things that he
committed to and I loveed this what is
something that you are committed to so
and it's something you pre-write down
and you can have an affirmation like I
am committed to showing up for my
children as the best father I possibly
can spending time with them each day on
their level with eye contact and giving
them a compliment or something like that
you could affirm something that you were
committed to it could be in your health
Journey it could be in your business
Journey it could be in your financial
Journey but I love that when you talk
about affirmations the power of
affirmations is the reciting of
something that you want to press deep
into your subconscious but not reciting
a wish to a genie that doesn't exist for
something that's not
true affirm something that you are
committed to what is the part that
you're committed to and then affirm
truth that you know to be true that you
are you're quick to forget so I love his
take on affirmations I think there's
something powerful there I didn't always
do that but I've been doing it in the
last year or so it's been very powerful
for me and I find the days when I I read
through affirmations or write down my
affirmations I have way more peace and
the times I'm like I don't have time for
that I'm a little frazzled final thing I
loved is there's a whole chapter called
the six minute Miracle morning for those
days when you're short on time and what
I loved about this
is I am uh an extremist there's
something called the extreme reach
barrier in Psychology which is like you
you want to do something and then your
mind goes to the extreme so for example
you're like I want to start a business
you're like but I don't know what my
logo is going to be and I don't know how
to design a website and you go all the
way to the end and you're like ah I give
up when it's like no that's not the
first step starting a business just
start to think about what problem you
might solve in the world and what you're
passionate about and all these things
like you went way too far down the road
and then talked yourself out of it you
went to the extreme and it becomes a
barrier um I do that a lot so on a day
for example when I'm not going to have a
ton of time or I really have to get up
early and I have to run to the airport
or run to an early you know group or
something and I slept in overslept or
whatever I'm going to be like I'm the
guy that's going to be like there's no
time for a morning routine and then
there's this chapter the six minute
Miracle morning and he basically takes
the six elements of his morning routine
and says just set a timer for one minute
for each of those one minute of Silence
you're just breathing right one minute
of your affirmations just maybe pick one
and just look at it and recite it over
and over again one minute of of reading
you could just open up a book like the
miracle morning look at one page and
just read one paragraph and just lock
that idea in one minute of
journaling right one minute of like e uh
exercise so just do some jumping jacks
to get the blood flowing um and I know
I'm missing one other one uh oh and
visualization one minute visualization
like just imagine um go through the
scenario pre-experience the scenario
you're going to have that day even for
60 seconds 6 minutes it seems like well
that doesn't take long at all it is
amazing how just six minutes of
intentional quiet time going through
those things can actually make a
difference in your day so I was like
okay how I see you challenge accepted a
six-minute morning routine is better
than zero minute morning routine so
there you go the miracle morning by Hal
Elrod a lot to unpack in it but a very
simple book if you think about it if
you've never been intentional about
waking up early and doing a morning
routine it's very practical especially
if you're not a morning person because
he was not either and I think think
you'll find this a very approachable
start to transforming your life through
transforming your mornings let me know
if you've read the miracle morning what
you think about it um as always thanks
for following me on this 52 book journey
I think this was book 14 of 52 so we'll
be rolling along and I'll see you on
next week's book
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