Wonderful morning tasks. What's wrong with the Miracle Morning? An honest review of the book “The Magic of the Morning”
About the book
A book that has helped thousands of people change their lives through the right start to the day and morning rituals.
What if tomorrow every (or even every) area of your life could miraculously change? What would have happened differently? Would you be happier? Healthier? More successful? Would you be in better physical shape? Would you become richer? More energetic?
What if there was a simple, but not obvious secret that is guaranteed to help you change any aspect of your life - and do it faster than you can imagine?
The morning rituals that the author of this book suggests implementing have helped tens of thousands of people change their lives, feel better and get more done. In the book, you will learn how the first hour of the day determines your success and allows you to reach your full potential. Change how and when you wake up and how you spend the first hour - and you can change your life, namely:
Reduce stress levels;
Improve general health, lose excess weight (if necessary);
Wake up every morning with a charge of energy;
Earn more;
Find your calling and follow it;
Increase productivity and learn to focus on key tasks.
From the author
Whatever your goal - to significantly change just a few key aspects of your life or to radically transform your entire existence so that everything you struggle with now becomes just an unpleasant memory - you have chosen the right book. You are about to embark on a wonderful journey and along the way, thanks to a simple but truly revolutionary process, you will certainly change any area of your life - and you can do all this at the very beginning of the day, before eight o'clock in the morning.
Who is this book for?
For everyone who wants to change their life, starting small - from the first hour of every day.
about the author
Hal Elrod, age 20, was hit by a drunk driver (at 70 mph) and was dead within six minutes. Doctors were able to save his life, but they told Hal's parents that he had severe brain damage and might not be able to walk again. However, after six days of fighting for his life, Hal proved that each of us can overcome any difficulties and obstacles. Not only was he able to walk, but he became an ultramarathoner, a renowned speaker and coach, a husband and father, and the author of several best-selling books.
Hal has appeared on many television and radio stations and has been written about in famous books, including the famous Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
4th edition.
This post is my honest review of the book Morning Magic, written by Hal Elrod, which many people admire and recommend as a collection of ideal morning practices. I’ll say right away that the book is quite mediocre and secondary, and I’ll tell you why now.
This strange magic of Morning Magic
I am interested in biorhythms and the topic of creating a healthy morning routine, so I could not miss the book “Morning Magic” by Hal Elrod, which was actively promoted by MYTH several years ago. I read it, marked it as uninteresting and forgot about it. But over time, I began to see more and more mentions of it in blogs and posts of people interested in self-development. Rave reviews, “this book changed my life”, “this is a real miracle” - wow, wow, what did I miss?
“The Magic of the Morning” is promoted in Ayaz Shabutdinov’s “Army” and in other self-development courses. The last straw was the mention of this book Zhenya Bratishkoy, to whom I subscribed on VKontakte. A year ago, he ran 21 km every day, read an entire book a day and ate exclusively raw plant foods. And so, in his recommendations along with “Eat Right, Run Fast” by Scott Jurek and “The Story of a Breatharian Warrior” by Jericho Sunfire, I again see “Morning Magic”. Damn it!
I can admit mistakes. Perhaps I missed something. Perhaps I had a chance to change my life, but I missed it.
I set out to re-read this book again, pencil in hand (I bought it in print) and devoured it in an evening.
What's the verdict? My opinion of the book has not changed. Secondary, mediocre and with a lot of water. Hal himself is a great guy and deserves respect - the terrible accident he experienced in his youth could cripple his whole life, but he was able to overcome himself and find the strength to resist the disease. But, if you close your eyes to his story, which runs in the background throughout the book, you get a compilation of self-development methods that are not the first freshness, about which everyone and anyone was writing even without “Magic of the Morning” - from Dale Carnegie to Tim Ferriss.
3 reasons why I don't like Morning Magic
I think this: any book has the right to life. But when everyone praises a mediocre book and talks about it as a recipe for solving all problems, then I think it would be correct to express the opposite opinion.
So, in “Magic of the Morning”:
1. Lots of water
Morning Magic is an incredibly watery book. Hal tells his story at great length, and from time to time he gets distracted by things that have little to do with the essence of the book. The entire third chapter is devoted to questions of mediocrity and extraordinaryness, what does the “wonderful morning” have to do with it? The story about the magical morning itself begins from the fifth chapter, and specific recommendations begin from the sixth; this is almost half of the book.
2. Lots of pathos
The author in almost every chapter mentions how his technique changed his life and will certainly change yours. I agree that it's worth talking about, but not as often. Yes, dude, we understand that your book is a valuable thing, you don’t have to convince us any further.
While reading Morning Magic, I kept thinking about Allen Carr's The Easy Way to Lose Weight. Carr also spent a good half of the book praising his method before getting to the point, and this, too, made me feel nauseous. But in the end, all the pathos turned out to be Carr’s cunning trick: the recipe he proposed turned out to be quite radical, albeit logical, and without powerful pre-processing of the reader Carr would not have received the desired effect. Elrod’s hymns of praise for the book are side by side with recommendations in the spirit of “put the alarm clock away from the bed”; you won’t find any radical ideas here.
And there are simply no fresh ideas here either. This is the last item on the list.
3. Complete secondary
The main complaint about the book “The Miracle Morning” is its monstrous derivativeness. For his unique recipe, Hal Elrod gives out a compilation of several well-known techniques. This is what a wonderful morning consists of:
- Silence (or meditation) - 5 minutes.
- Affirmations - 5 minutes. In the best traditions of the film “The Secret” and the books of John Kehoe and Napoleon Hill. Tell yourself that you are the best and you will become the best.
- Visualization - 5 minutes. Make a collage of wishes and get inspired by looking at it. Or imagine something good. Hey, John Kehoe, do you still get hiccups in Canada from such impudence?
- Morning exercises - 20 minutes.
- Reading - 20 minutes. Read an excerpt from an inspiring book.
- Letter - 5 minutes. We started studying the morning pages from Julia Cameron's books.
But I didn’t stop studying the book’s materials and subscribed to Elrod’s mailing list, thanks to which I received another dose of self-development materials. Guess what I found there? Wheel of Life! In itself, it’s a good exercise, but since Elrod presents the “miracle morning” as the author’s technique, I suggest you read the book yourself, delve into the materials and find something original.
By the way, another similar book also suffers from this: "Good Morning Every Day" by Jeff Sanders. A lighter and livelier book, but no less secondary. Also, perhaps, create your own “wonderful morning” technique?
A little more trash
Especially for you, Uncle Hal, every morning I will visualize you reading your own book, not for 1 minute or 10, but for an entire hour. Bloody tears flow from your eyes and noodles flutter impulsively on your ears. So that you always live as you advise others.
And finally, the icing on the cake. Only “Magic of the Morning” was released in Russian, but on Amazon you can
Affirmations- one of the most effective tools that allows you to quickly become the person who is able to achieve everything he wants in life. Positive affirmations allow you to project and then develop the mindset (thoughts, beliefs, focus) required to move to the next level in any area of your life.
However, if you think through and write down affirmations, word them in a way that aligns with everything you want to achieve in life, and commit to repeating them daily (ideally out loud), they can have a huge effect on your subconscious almost immediately. These affirmations begin to work by changing the way you think and the way you feel, and this helps you overcome limiting beliefs, give up unproductive behaviors and replace them with behaviors and actions aimed at achieving success.
Here are five simple steps to help you create your first affirmation.
Stage 1: determine what you really want
The purpose of putting an affirmation in writing is to program your mind with the beliefs, attitudes, and actions (habits) that are critical to developing the ability to attract, achieve, and maintain your ideal level of success—Level 10 success—in all areas of your life. Thus, your affirmation should first of all describe as clearly as possible what exactly you want, what your ideal is in each area that you intend to improve.
You can organize your affirmations by the areas of your life you most want to change, such as health (fitness), outlook, emotions, finances, relationships, spirituality, and more. Start with a clear written statement of what you want most - your ideal vision of yourself and your life - in each specific area.
Stage 2: determine why you want it
Stage 3: determine what kind of person you need to be in order to achieve what you want. Only by becoming who you are meant to be and doing what you are meant to do can you hope to get what you want to have. Understand as best you can about who you need to be, who you should strive to become, in order to take your business, health, marriage and other areas of your life to the next level and beyond.
Stage 4: determine what you must do to achieve what you want. What actions do you need to take consistently to materialize your image of an ideal life? For example, you really want to lose weight. In this case, your affirmation could be, say, this: I promise myself to go to the gym five days a week and spend as much time on the “treadmill” as
at least twenty minutes. The more specific your actions are described, the better. And be sure to include frequency (how often you intend to do this), quantity (how many times you will do this) and exact time frame (when this activity will begin and end).
Remember that it is extremely important to start small. If you currently go to the gym zero days a week and spend zero minutes there, then deciding to go five times a week for twenty minutes a day is probably going to be too big of a leap. It is important that the stages are gradual and manageable. Feel what it's like to make small successes along the way, and this will make you feel comfortable and pleasant. Don't drive yourself into despair with too high expectations that probably won't come true. You can move towards your ideal goal step by step. Start by writing down a daily or weekly goal, and then decide when to raise the bar. Let's say, after you've been successfully going to the gym two days a week for twenty minutes (the goal you set initially) for a few weeks, set your next goal to go to three times a week for twenty minutes, and so on.
Stage 5: Incorporate inspirational quotes and philosophical thoughts into your affirmation. Every time you see or hear words that inspire you, or learn about a self-esteem-boosting philosophical concept or strategy that makes you think, this is exactly what I need to get better at, incorporate that thought into your affirmation.
For affirmations to bear the desired fruit, it is important to read and repeat them emotionally, and not automatically.
Keep in mind that affirmations are never finalized; you will have to constantly update them. As you learn, grow, and evolve, so should your affirmations. If you set a new goal, find a new dream, come across a new habit or philosophy you want
integrate into your life, include them in your affirmation.
Conversely, if you have achieved a previously set goal or fully integrated a new habit into your life, chances are you will no longer have to focus on it every day and therefore can eliminate them from your affirmations.
- And finally, you need to read affirmations consistently and regularly. Yes, yes, you should read them daily. Doing this from time to time is as “correct and effective” as going to the gym from time to time. You won't see particularly significant results unless you make the practice of reading affirmations an integral part of your daily routine.
Reading this book - or any other - is akin to reading affirmations. Everything you read influences your thoughts in one way or another. By constantly reading self-improvement books and articles, you are programming your mind with thoughts and beliefs that will keep you on the path to success.
Practice visualization, also called mental elaboration or rehearsal, aims to create positive outcomes in the external world through the use of imagination, used to form mental but very clear pictures of specific behaviors and desired outcomes. To increase efficiency, this method is often used by professional athletes; During this practice, a person imagines what exactly he wants to achieve, and then mentally works out further actions, as if rehearsing what he needs to do for this.
So, after reading my affirmations, I sit on the living room couch with my back straight and my eyes closed, and take a few slow, deep breaths. For the next five minutes, I simply imagine my ideal future day, mentally completing all upcoming tasks and tasks with ease, confidence and pleasure. If you could have whatever you want, do whatever you want, and be whatever you want, what would it be like? What would you do? Who would you be? Visualize your greatest goals, deepest desires, most incredible dreams that, if realized, can completely change your life.
Try to see, feel, hear, touch, taste and smell every detail of your ideal vision. Engage all your senses to maximize the effectiveness of your visualization. The more vivid and clear your vision, the more effort you will subsequently put into making it a reality. Then fast forward to your future to see yourself already achieving your ideal results.
By visualizing daily, you repeatedly bring your thoughts and feelings into greater alignment with your ideal vision. This makes it much easier to maintain the motivation needed to keep going in the right direction and do the right things.
I recommend doing visualization every day for five minutes to start.
Morning work-out should become the basis of your daily routine. If you do it for just a few minutes every morning, it can significantly improve your energy levels, improve your health, confidence, and emotional well-being, as well as enable you to think more effectively and focus better on what's important.
Reading, the fifth practice in the Lifebuoys set, is a fast track to transforming any area of your life. This is one of the most direct ways to acquire the knowledge, ideas and strategies you need to achieve Level 10 success in any area of your life.
The main thing in this matter is to learn from specialists, from those who are already excellent at doing what you want to start doing. Don't reinvent the wheel. The fastest way to achieve everything you dream of is to model successful people who have already achieved it. Many books have been written on almost any topic; hence, there is no end to the knowledge you can gain through daily reading.
I recommend making a commitment to read at least ten pages a day.
I highly recommend that you re-read the best books on personal growth. It is extremely rare for a person to gain and assimilate all the useful knowledge contained in a good book by reading it only once. Achieving mastery in any field requires repetition. You need to be exposed to relevant ideas, strategies, methods over and over again until they become firmly established in your mind.
Letter- the last practice from my set of “lifebuoys”.
Writing allows you to document thoughts, ideas, insights, accomplishments, successes, and lessons learned, as well as any areas of opportunity, personal growth, or self-improvement.
There are quite a few noteworthy benefits of daily journaling, some of which I've just outlined, but here are a few of my favorites:
- Cleansing the brain. Taking notes forces us to think through what we write carefully enough so that our thoughts are expressed clearly and understandably. Thus, journaling helps to clarify them, brainstorm and find a solution to the problem.
- Identification of new ideas. Not only does journaling help us develop our own ideas, but it also prevents us from losing sight of important ideas from others that we might want to use in the future.
- Repetition of lessons learned allows us to repeat everything we have learned over the past period.
- Assessing and recognizing your progress. Going back and re-reading journal entries from a year ago and seeing how much progress you've made in that time is amazing. It is one of the most stimulating, inspiring, confidence-building and enjoyable experiences in the world. In fact, this experience cannot be repeated in any other way.
If you prefer a digital diary, then you also have many options at your disposal. My favorite is a journaling app called Five-Minute Journal (available at www.FiveMinuteJournal.com), which is quickly gaining popularity these days. The app makes journaling much easier by offering prompts like, “I'm grateful for...” and “What it takes to make today a truly great day.”
To keep such a diary, you really won't need more than five minutes; Plus, the app includes an Evening option that lets you analyze your day and even upload photos for visual memories.
Decide what you will write about. The number of aspects of life that you can write about in a diary is truly endless, as are the number of varieties of diaries. People describe what they are grateful for about the day; your dreams, the food you consume, sports and exercise, and much, much more. You can write about your goals, dreams, plans, family, commitments, lessons learned - in short, anything you feel you need to focus on. I use a journaling method that ranges from a highly detailed and structured process (I list things I'm grateful for and acknowledge my accomplishments; clarify areas I want to improve; plan specific actions I'm committed to taking) to a rather traditional approach, that is, I simply indicate the date and briefly describe the past day. I find both options very useful, and it seems to me that it would be right to combine them.
Sample Miracle Morning schedule (60 minutes)
Silence (5 minutes).
Affirmations (5 minutes).
Visualization (5 minutes).
Physical exercise (20 minutes).
Reading (20 minutes).
Letter (5 minutes).
Total time: 60 minutes
The sequence of performing these actions can also be varied taking into account your individual preferences.
I developed six-minute version of "The Miracle Morning" for those days when you are very busy and don't have any time, and also for those people who are already so overwhelmed with things to do that the mere thought of adding something else to their day causes them stress.
First minute
Imagine waking up in the morning in the most serene mood, yawning widely, stretching with pleasure and smiling. Instead of running chaotically and fussily into a crazy, stressful day, you spend the first minute of it in calm and peaceful silence. You sit almost motionless and breathe slowly and deeply. Maybe you say a silent prayer to yourself with words of gratitude for this pleasant moment or ask the Lord to guide you on the right path. Or maybe you decide to devote the first minute of your day to meditation. Sitting silently, in silence, you are completely here and now, in the present moment. Your mind calms down, your body relaxes, tension eases. A sense of peace, a clear purpose and direction grows and strengthens in you...
Second minute
You take out your daily affirmations—the ones that remind you of your limitless potential and your highest priorities—and read them out loud from beginning to end. As you become more focused on what matters most, your level of intrinsic motivation increases. Reminders of what you are truly capable of boost your self-confidence. Reflecting on what you have achieved now and what your next goal is will recharge you with new energy to do the things and accomplishments necessary for the life you truly want and deserve and that you know is within your reach...
Third minute
You close your eyes and mentally look at your vision board, imagining the day ahead. Your visualization reflects what it will be like and how you will feel when you achieve your goals. You picture the perfect day in your mind; see yourself enjoying your favorite job; imagine laughing at something with your family
or other people you love and are important to you, and you can easily achieve everything you have planned for today. You see how all this happens, and you experience the emotions that you will experience at the moment when it happens. And you begin to be filled with joy from what you have yet to do...
Fourth minute
At this moment, you write down what you are grateful for, the achievements you are proud of, and what results you want to achieve on this day. This way you bring yourself into a state of high self-esteem, inspiration and self-confidence...
Fifth minute
Then you pick up the self-help book you're currently reading and spend one wonderful minute reading a couple of pages. You will learn new ideas that you may be able to use today to achieve better results at work or in your relationships with other people.
You will learn something new that will help you think more effectively and feel better...
Sixth minute
Finally, you get up and spend the last minute moving. This could be running in place, jumping “feet together - legs apart”, push-ups, squats - whatever. The main thing is that you fully awaken and stimulate your cardiovascular system, become energetic, attentive and focused.
Keep in mind that digesting food takes a lot of energy, and this energy-intensive process takes a toll on our body every day. The more food you have to digest, the more tired you will feel after eating. Given this fact, I recommend having breakfast after the Miracle Morning. Thanks to this, you guarantee optimal attention during the execution of all components of the “lifebuoy” technique; and your blood will flow to the brain, and not to the stomach, which digests food.
And if you feel like you absolutely must eat something first thing in the morning, make sure it's a small, easily digestible food, like fresh fruit or a smoothie (more on that in a minute).
If we want to be more energetic (and we all want that), healthy and not get sick (that's what everyone wants too), it is extremely important to think again about why we eat certain foods, and - it really is very important! - begin to evaluate the health benefits and energy consequences of consuming them with the same seriousness (or better, more) with which we evaluate how much we like them to taste. By no means am I saying that you should eat foods that you don't like at all, but are good for your health. What I'm saying is that you can have both at the same time. I'm saying that if we want to feel energized every day, achieve peak results, and live a long, healthy life, we simply have to eat more foods that are healthy and energizing, but also delicious and enjoyable.
They say that the quality of life depends entirely on our habits. If a person lives a successful life, then he has simply developed the habits necessary to achieve and maintain the success he desires. If someone fails to achieve success, it means that they simply have not yet invested enough effort and time in acquiring the habits that are necessary for this.
Given that our habits shape our lives, it is logical to assume that each of us should acquire and hone one skill - the ability to
control them. We simply must learn to identify, reinforce and maintain useful types of behavior that contribute to achieving the desired results, and at the same time get rid of any negative habits that, on the contrary, do not allow us to fully realize our inner potential.
Habits are regularly repeated actions and patterns of behavior, and, as a rule, unconscious. Whether you understand it or not, your life has been and will continue to be built by your habits. And if you do not control them, they will certainly begin to control you.
A 30-Day Miracle Morning Habit Strategy (that Really Works).
Let's start by dividing the thirty-day period (necessary for fully adopting a useful new habit or getting rid of a harmful old one) into three ten-day phases. Each of these phases involves solving different emotional problems and overcoming specific psychological obstacles that stand in the way of forming a new habit. Since the ordinary, average person does not even think about these problems and obstacles, when faced with them, he immediately raises his hands up and stops fighting, because he does not know how to do it.
From the 1st to the 10th day.
Phase One: Unbearability
The first ten days of forming any new habit or breaking an old one can feel overwhelming. True, in these very first couple of days it can be easy, even interesting, because something new happens. But as soon as the novelty wears off, it is replaced by harsh reality. Suddenly I don't like everything anymore. And it's painful. It's not fun or funny anymore. Every fiber of your being resists and resists change. The mind rejects them, and you think: how much I hate this. And your body resists and tells you: I don’t like the way I feel right now.
If you decide to develop a new habit of waking up early (which, by the way, you should start developing now, rather than putting it off until later), in the first ten days you will most likely feel something like this: (alarm clock rings) Oh my God , is it really morning already!? Do not want to get up. I'm terribly tired. I need some more sleep. Well, at least ten minutes. (And you press the redial button.)
Most of us, alas, do not understand that these seemingly unbearable first ten days are a temporary phenomenon. They think that they will always feel the same as they do now, and they tell themselves: if a new habit causes so much inconvenience and pain, they should forget about it - the game is not worth the candle. As a result, 95 percent of people, the average majority, have once tried to start exercising in the morning, quit smoking, eat healthier, stay within the family budget, or acquire any other new habit that could improve their life, once
fail over and over again.
This is where your advantage over the other 95 percent lies. If you are prepared for the first ten days, know that the price you pay for success is a difficult first ten days that present temporary difficulties, and are patient, you have a good chance of winning! And if the benefits and advantages that you expect to receive in the end are great enough, you can endure anything for ten days, right?
From the 11th to the 20th day.
Phase two: discomfort
After the first phase - the most difficult ten days - you move on to the second ten-day phase, which is much easier. You start to get used to a new habit. And by this time you will have developed a certain confidence and positive associations with the new habit. However, although the eleventh to twentieth days cannot be called unbearable, they still cause discomfort and require discipline and commitment from you. At this stage, there is still a strong temptation to return to old patterns of behavior. Let's look again at the example of forming a new habit of getting up early in the morning. You will still really want to hit the snooze button and get some more sleep, because that's what you've been doing for so long. But be firm and decisive. You have already moved from the intolerance phase to the discomfort phase and very soon you will realize that you simply cannot do otherwise.
From the 21st to the 30th day.
Phase Three: Irresistibility
Entering the home stretch of the final ten days, the few people who succeed almost always make a very serious mistake: they follow the popular advice of some experts who claim that it takes twenty-one days to form almost any new habit. They are partly right. Forming a new habit really takes twenty-one days - the first two phases.
However, the third ten-day phase is crucial for its consolidation. In the last ten days, you positively reinforce the new habit by beginning to associate it with pleasant sensations. In the first twenty days, you experienced only pain and discomfort in connection with it. Now, instead of hating and resisting the new habit, you begin to be proud of yourself for mastering it. It is also in the third phase that the actual transformation occurs, since the new habit now becomes an integral part of your character. It significantly reduces the gap between the person you are trying to become and the person you are already becoming. You begin to see yourself as someone who has already developed this habit.
Let's go back to the early riser example: you go from being someone who says you're not a morning person to someone who says you're not! Instead of dreading the alarm every morning, when you hear it, you're excited to wake up and start a new day because you've been doing it for twenty days in a row and are already used to it. And you begin to clearly see the benefits and benefits of the new habit.
Very many people at this moment very self-confidently praise themselves, reasoning something like this: I was able to get up early for twenty whole days, so now I can relax for a couple of days. Unfortunately, the first twenty days are the most difficult part of the process. Skipping a few days before you've invested enough time in positively reinforcing a new habit makes it much more difficult to get back into it. It is in the third phase that a person begins to truly enjoy the new habit, and this is a guarantee that he will not give it up over time.
Stage 1. Prepare a set of tasks to quickly start the Thirty Day Life Transformation Program “The Miracle Morning”. Go to www.TMMBook.com and download a free set of tasks to get started with the Thirty Day Miracle Morning Life Transformation Program - a set of exercises, affirmations, daily checklists and everything,
what you need to start practicing this program and go through it from beginning to end as easily and comfortably as possible*. You may need the help of a friend who speaks English, as all information on the site is presented in English only. Brief
a description of the essence of the tasks in Russian can be downloaded at: http://www.
mann-ivanov-ferber.ru/books/magiya-utra/
Stage 2. Plan your first Miracle Morning for tomorrow
Schedule your first Miracle Morning as soon as possible, ideally tomorrow (yes, just fit it into your daily routine), and decide where everything will happen. Remember that it is recommended to leave the bedroom immediately so that you are not tempted to stay in bed and pamper yourself a little more. My Miracle Morning mostly takes place on the living room couch while everyone else in the house is fast asleep. And some people told me that they do this outside, in nature, for example on the porch or veranda of a house or in a nearby park. Choose what you like best, but it must certainly be a place where no one will disturb you.
Stage 3. Read the first page of the Quick Start Activity Pack and complete ALL the exercises. Read the introduction from the Quick Start Activity Pack and follow the instructions to complete the exercises. Like everything important and significant in our lives, the successful implementation of the Thirty Day Life Transformation Program “The Miracle Morning” requires some preparation. Therefore, you definitely need to complete all the tasks (it will take you no more than half an hour/hour), and remember that your “Miracle Morning” will always begin with preparation for it - psychological, emotional and logistical - on the same day or the night before.
Stage 4. Get a reporting partner [recommended]. Important: Don't wait until you find a reporting partner to start practicing the Thirty Day Miracle Morning Life Transformation Program. Whether you have found someone to take this journey with you or not yet, I highly recommend scheduling your first Miracle Morning for tomorrow. Don't wait, don't put it off until later. You will likely be much quicker at convincing and inspiring someone to become your partner when you experience first-hand what you are “pushing” them to do. Start yourself. Then, whenever the opportunity arises, invite a friend, relative, or colleague to practice The Miracle Morning.
I can imagine how difficult it is to wake up every morning when the alarm goes off. But it’s also easy to hit the snooze button and give yourself those sweet 10-15 minutes until the next call. On the other hand, if you put your alarm clock/phone next to you, its morning trill may even seem like part of a dream to you. Hitting the snooze button, from the outside, looks like resistance to the new day, resistance to change, dreams or goals you want to achieve. Maybe one wonderful morning such a thought will visit you, but it’s better not to wait until then and quickly read Hal Elrod’s book about the changes that can be achieved by waking up an hour earlier. New book, new mind map.
Just 1 hour a day in the morning, immediately after waking up. Oddly enough, very small actions and deeds performed on a regular basis lead to big changes in life. This is simply amazing! Hal Elrod was in a car accident at the age of 20 and doctors told him that he might never walk. However, energy and consistent actions for rehabilitation and personal growth in the morning hours allowed him to fully recover and achieve his goals. There is a concept that is familiar to many (including me) as the “potential gap.” It's the feeling of the person you could have become slipping away. Those. you feel that you have the potential to achieve something, but you just can’t materialize it. If you know this feeling - welcome, the book was created for you.
The best adventure a person can have is living the life of their dreams. Oprah Winfrey.
It is curious that the birth of a child in itself is considered a miracle, but at some point in time the miracle of human life gives way to mediocrity. At the beginning of life, every parent thinks that their child is special, but when he becomes an adult and asks himself the questions: “Did I become what I wanted as a child?” or “Did I agree to something more modest than what I dreamed of?” “The Miracle Morning” is Hal Elrod’s original technique, which is precisely about the fact that the morning is an excellent opportunity to realize your potential and put things in order. Morning will provide much more benefits to productivity and energy than any other time of day. Morning is the beginning of a new day and, perhaps, a new you (well, me too).
In his book, Hal offers 6 lifelines that define parts of The Miracle Morning. I liked the quotes for each of the circles so much that I’m including them here as well.
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All these circles are included in Hal’s original “Miracle Morning” program and are designed for 30 days. Many people know the period for forming a habit - 21 days, but to consolidate success, another 9 days will definitely not be superfluous (and on this I completely agree with the author). Publishing house Mann-Ivanov-Ferber offers to use
If you haven't read this book yet, you've probably heard a lot about it. “The Magic of the Morning” by Hal Elrod was actively discussed on social networks last year: it was praised and criticized, it inspired some, disappointed others, but certainly did not leave anyone indifferent. My story with this book also began on social networks, when I accidentally came across a rave review about it, then a second similar one, and decided to add it to my reading list for next year. A month later, I saw a critical and even angry review, as well as an ironic and mocking post about the same book on Facebook. “Such resonance, so many diametrically opposed opinions - what’s so special about this book?” — I thought and decided that it was pointless to wait until next year and began reading the book in December. Less than a week later I read “The Magic of the Morning” and I understood where so many negative reviews came from...
But let's talk about everything in order.
The author of the book is American coach Hal Elrod, who has experienced several life dramas and crises and shares his secrets of getting out of seemingly dead-end situations in life. He claims to have invented the so-called “Miracle Morning Method,” which helps solve almost all problems, achieve your goals and reach a new level in life. And I’ll tell you after a month of practicing the wonderful morning - Hal didn’t lie.
How it works
The essence of the method is simple: how you start the day is how you will spend it. Because it is the first hour that determines your success. It is unlikely that anyone will argue with this. If you don’t want to wake up, constantly turn off the alarm button and generally hate getting up in the morning, you’re kind of putting your life on hold and don’t want a new day to start,” says the author. And how right he is! But if you wake up early in the morning and eagerly jump out of bed to start a new amazing day, if you can’t wait to start interesting things and want to quickly start doing something breathtaking, then your day will be bright and productive! Hal Elrod compares such mornings to “Christmas” mornings, when we wanted to wake up quickly in the morning and ran faster to get gifts. At the beginning of the book, Ed promised to teach me how to “make every morning a Christmas morning.” And again I didn’t lie.
The essence of daily practice
So what should you do and what is the miracle morning method? - you think if you haven’t read the book yet. I admit that this question tormented me throughout the entire first part of the book and impatience filled me until I got to the very description of the method (by the way, many criticized the book for the too large introductory and advertising part of the book, but I take this calmly - this is normal for such genre).
So, the miracle morning method involves getting up an hour earlier than usual and practicingsix lifebuoys(10 minutes each):
- Meditation (silence)
- Affirmations
- Visualization
- Physical exercise
- Journaling (Morning pages, freewriting)
- Reading
Each of the practices is described in detail in the book - and if you don’t know what affirmations are, how to compose them and why meditation is needed - all this information can also be found in the book. You can swap practices, add your own if you wish, and change the practice time (not 10 minutes, for example, but 5). There is even a 6-minute version of Morning Magic for those who don’t have enough time for the full version.
My experience with the book
“But I’m not a morning person to get up early for such practices!” — I started to rebel while reading the book, and then I came across a whole section with the same name. And I really thought that this method would not work in my case, because getting up in the morning has been real hard labor for me all my life - from kindergarten and school to the need to get up for work or to see my child.
But curiosity got the better of me - I really get up easily on New Year’s morning and on my birthday, for example?! So I can if I have the motivation. And I began to look for it, creating my “wonderful morning” ritual.
On my first “miracle morning,” when I got up an hour earlier than usual, I experienced very mixed feelings. I wanted to sleep and I couldn’t understand how it was possiblemeditatein such a sleepy state with my eyes closed - I was sure that if I only had to close my eyes while sitting on the sofa, I would fall asleep again. But no! When I closed my eyes with the intention of concentrating and entering a state of peace, I realized that dozens of obsessive thoughts were swarming in my head even early in the morning, it was difficult for me to concentrate on breathing and not really not think. (Now, a month later, the situation with meditation has improved a little - I have read some articles, but still I’m still on first-name terms with it).
What made the greatest impression on me on the first morning wasreading affirmations out loud – I compiled them according to the recommendations of E. Helrod in accordance with my goals and supplemented them with very inspiring affirmations by V. Zeland from the book “Reality Projector”.
“It’s a little strange to talk to myself early in the morning in the kitchen,” I caught myself thinking, but the effect for me was so amazing that it became completely unimportant to me what it looked like from the outside. The fact is that reading affirmations out loud helps you tune in to the wave where you want to be, to feel the way you want to feel - for example, self-confident, strong, harmonious, calm (underline as necessary). And affirmations associated with success and achieving your goals motivate you to take active action, generate new ideas and implement them. A day that starts with such a mood for a wave of success turns out to be very productive for me.
Helps consolidate the effect of affirmationsvisualization– I just close my eyes and try to see and feel the desired pictures of the future, where I achieved my goals and my dreams came true. These are amazing sensations - although, I admit, it is not always possible to feel something that you have never had, for example))) But this is a good reason to look for new sensations and impressions associated with a dream or a specific goal.
They bring me many discoveriesmorning pages – I bought myself a special beautiful notebook and pens to make it more enjoyable to do this (this is my additional motivation). Morning freewriting helps me record my current state, understand what worries me, and also gives unexpected insights and ideas. I heard many times that in the morning there is “pure ether and space”, but I could not clearly imagine what this means. One of my university teachers told me that he writes his books in the morning and gets up at 5 am to do this. Then to me, a student who loved to sleep, this seemed completely savage (“Well, what normal person gets up on his own, without coercion or urgent need, at 5 in the morning?! And how can you even write something if you want to sleep?!”). Now I really understand this approach - indeed, writing in the morning is simply beautiful!
By the way, Hal Elrod himself wrote “The Magic of the Morning” in the morning, allocating a certain time in his “wonderful morning” to write the book. I followed his example in this regard and set aside time to work on my own projects. Since I have several of them, I alternate them on different days - and each gets a portion of my attention and fresh morning ideas. I started a special notebook for working on my projects - with dividers (each project has its own color and section) in A4 format (so that there is room for my imagination to unfold). I write down new ideas there or simply what needs to be done to implement a certain project - and every morning I see that my future projects are filled with specific details, take shape, which means they will soon come to life.
As you can see, I slightly changed the original components of the “wonderful morning” from the book - I don’t have physical exercises there (for now there is only a light warm-up for 1-2 minutes), but I added some of my own. And I changed the order of performing the practices - and arranged them as I was more comfortable. Now my wonderful morning looks like this:
- Meditation (5 minutes).
- Journaling (Morning Pages) (10 minutes).
- Affirmations (10 minutes).
- Visualization (5 minutes).
- Work on projects (10 minutes).
- Reading a book on self-development (+ writing down the most interesting thoughts in the Conscious Reading Diary) (10 minutes).
- Coffee alone (10 minutes).
The total is the same 60 minutes. Sometimes I can vary the time for each of the practices and shorten them if I suddenly overslept (yes, this also happens) and I have less time than usual. I set a timer for each practice, because I can get so carried away with some that I forget about all the others. Overall, this hour passes very quickly, dynamically and productively - and it’s a really great start to the day! On weekends, I allow myself not to practice getting up in the morning - although, I hope, over time this will become a habit and I will learn to get up early without an alarm clock.
I'm not saying that Morning Magic is a panacea and works for everyone (but I'm not Hal Elrod))). But personally, in my case, the “miracle morning” method turned out to be very effective. During the first month of practice, I managed to significantly improve my emotional state thanks to freewriting and meditation, focus on my goals and move towards them every day, write down new ideas and develop a strategy for their implementation, and launch a consulting project. Overall, the month has been wonderful - I feel inspired, motivated, I have a clear feeling of active movement towards my goals and the life of my dreams.
And by the way, it has really become easier for me to get up in the morning - although sometimes I can still oversleep, turning off the alarm clock or “falling out” of practice due to the holidays. The author suggests that after reading the book, you should launch a 30-day “Magic of the Morning” program for yourself (there is a special 11-sheet brochure for its implementation).
As for the negative reviews... I think they were written by those who have never tried the “miracle morning” method on themselves. Of course, for them the book turned out to be useless - they hoped that reading itself, like a magic pill, would immediately transform their life, but they themselves did not make an effort and did not take any action... After all, it is not enough just to know - you need to apply knowledge in practice.
The full version of the book (as well as a 30-day free program) can be found
UPD: I thank all the participants (and there were about 40 of us!) for their support and participation in the 30-day program! Its results were not as clear as expected - read about this in the next article.
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