The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod

 Title: The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life -

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Author: Hal ELROAD-

Pages:140-

Year Publised:2012-

Brief Story about the Author

Hal Elrod in his twenties was a victim of a road accident by a drunk adolescent, so literally he was clinically dead, his body was crushed and he was he told that may be, he can no longer walk again and that he would have to live with irreversible brain damage. However, he has a huge belief that the fact that he’s still alive is itself a miracle, that’s why he has decided to live his life to the fullest no matter what. He took responsibility to leave his past behind and focus on the present to gain great results in the future. Unfortunately, in addition to his body sufferance, Hal Elrod must confront another disaster which is the economic crisis of 2007 that made him drown in depression. One day, he took a friend’s advice and went for a run. That was when he had the idea of creating a daily personal development routine. Everything grew from there…That moment was his life turning point and later he has discovered that all his problems and struggles were a bane that hides a boon…

Miracle Morning is a method created by Hal Elrod with the goal of improving every aspect of life; it consists of getting up early every morning (60 min before starting your work/studies…), in order to follow a daily routine based on six personal development activities

According to the Author, the miracle morning will allow you to
Reach your potential in life whether you are already successful or on your road

Attain balance in life and eventually happiness (spirituality, health, mental health, finance, relationships)

Be strong in confronting life challenges

Make huge progress and improve your life in a very short time

Why morning routine and not afternoon or evening

Simply because, you have other responsibilities such as work, studies, family, and by night, you are going to be too tired, that’s why the ideal time to focus on your personal development is the morning without forgetting the huge benefits that will help you to start a beautiful day

How to be a morning person

The author thinks that getting up early in the morning is not related to the amount of sleep that you have got but to your motivation and positive attitude to start your day with excitement to learn and  improve yourself (Personally, I think  that the amount of sleep that you have got is an important factor  because you are not going to be positive every single day…)

PS: if your lifestyle doesn’t allow getting up in the Moring, for example, some days you need to work all night, so you need to sleep the morning, be flexible and do what works for you.
Hal Elrod’s technics to get up early in the morning

Look for a partner to do morning routine with in order to increase accountability, the Author suggests The Miracle Morning Routine Facebook community, but if you didn’t find one, it’s ok, you can do it yourself

Program your mind to wake up because it is a great opportunity to improve yourself

Move your alarm Clock Across the Room

Brush your teeth

Drink a full Glass of water

Get Dressed or Jump in the Shower

Six Morning activities that will change your life :Savers

S: Silence

Close your eyes and focus on being only. Take a deep breath. You can do yoga, meditation or you can pray (As Muslims, Alhamdolillah,the best way to start our day with is a freshing ablution then beautiful praying (It leads to relaxing, gratitude and creates a nice mood)

 A: Affirmations

Say affirmations following this process

What do we really want
Why do we want that

Who do we commit to being in order to create that

 What do we commit to doing in order to create that

 What quotes and philosophies inspire us

 V: Visualization

Close your eyes and visualize yourself already achieving you goals or using a vision board that illustrates your goals and intentions...

E: Exercise

Take care of your body and practice some sport or do yoga

 R: Reading

The Reader of today is the leader of tomorrow. Read some pages of a personal development book that will inspires and motivates you

 S: Scribing

Writing or Journaling. Write your tasks of the day, your plans, and things that you are grateful for

The 6-minute miracle morning

There are times in life when you feel so overwhelmed and stressed. For example, your schedule is full of your Job tasks…In this case, the author suggests minimizing the miracle morning but not giving up. Instead, you are going to achieve exactly the same effects in a six minute accelerated version

First minute: silence

Second Minute: read your affirmations aloud

Third minute: look at your visualization board and visualize yourself

Fourth minute: for writing

Fifth minute: read one or two pages

Sixth minute: move around or do one minute of physical exercise

  Thirty days to master the miracle morning habits

Habits are acts that we repeat regularly and that tend to appear at subconscious level. If you do not control your habits, your habits will control you.30 days are ideal period to build any good habit or remove and bad one following this phases

Phase 1 (days 1 to 10): Unbearable

In the beginning, you’re going to be so excited but after, things will get harder, of course you gonna suffer and ask yourself: why, I am forcing myself to do that?! But just be patient

Phase 2 (days 11 to 20): Uncomfortable

Things will get better comparing to the first period, you gonna start loving it even if you still little bit uncomfortable

Phase 3 (days 21 to 30): Unstoppable

It’s time to live the joy and the fulfilment of the habit instead of struggling and being uncomfortable. It is an important phase, because it’s time to reward yourself with great results and positive feelings 
By the end of this book, the Author suggests doing 30 days challenge of the Miracle morning; you will get all the details of the challenge after subscribing to his email list