The point: By getting up early and practicing certain routines we set ourselves up to have really great days.
Who is the book for: People who hit the snooze button often. 😉
Key points: Every day is precious, and you need to maximize every day by building in a morning routine that sets you up for the best day possible.
Notes: “I can always make another dollar, but I cannot make another day.”
Favorite sentiment from Oprah: The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. Few people ever come close to living the life of their dreams. Most people resign themselves to a life of mediocrity, passively accepting whatever life gives them.
It’s important to live in alignment with this truth: you are just as worthy, deserving and capable of creating and sustaining extraordinary health, wealth, happiness, love and success in your life.
How you wake up each day and your morning routine dramatically affects your levels of success in every single area of your life. Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days which inevitably create a successful life in the same way that unfocused, unproductive and mediocre mornings generate unfocused, unproductive and mediocre days, and ultimately a mediocre quality of life. By simply change the way you wake up in the morning, you can transform any area of your life, baster than you ever thought possible.
Here are some of the most common, yet profound benefits you can expect to gain:
-Wake up every day with more energy and feeling empowered with the structure and strategy to start maximizing your potential.
-Lower your stress
-Gain the clarity to overcome any challenges, adversity or limiting beliefs that have been holding you back.
-Improve your overall health, lose weight (if desired), and get in the best physical shape of your life.
-Increase your productivity and enhance your ability to maintain laser focus on your top priorities.
-Experience more gratitude and less worry.
-Significantly increase your ability to earn and attract more monetary wealth.
-Uncover and being living your life’s purpose.
-Stop settling for less than you truly desire and deserve (in any area of your life) and start living in alignment with your vision for the most extraordinary life you can imagine.
To make profound changes in your life, you need either inspiration or desperation. If you want your life to be different, you have to be willing to do something different first!
If a large majority of our society is not living the life that they envisioned, we must figure out what causes that, so that we can avoid the same pitfalls, and harness our ability you create everything we want for our lives while helping those we love, and those we lead, to do the same.
Always remember that where you are is a result of who you were, but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be, from this moment on.
We must realize that the real impact and consequence of each of our choices and actions -and even our thoughts -is monumental, because every single thought, choice and action is determining who we are becoming, which will ultimately determine the quality of our lives.
Always remember that who you’re becoming is far more important than what you’re doing and yet it is what you’re doing that is determining who you’re becoming.
Now matters more than any other time in your life, because it’s what you are doing today that is determining who you’re becoming and who you’re becoming will always determine the quality and direction of your life.
The reality is that if we don’t change now, our life won’t change. If we don’t get better, our life won’t get better. And if we don’t consistently invest time into our self-improvement, our life with not improve.
An extraordinary life is all about daily, continuous improvements in the areas that matter most.
Being (who you need to be) and doing (what you need to do) are prerequisites for having what you want to have.
The key is to learn from the experts -those who have already done what you want to do. Don’t reinvent the wheel. The fastest way to achieve everything you want is to model successful people who have already achieved it. With an almost infinite amount of books available on every topic, there are no limits to the knowledge you can gain through daily reading.
The first 10 days of implementing any new habit, or ridding yourself an any old habit, can feel almost unbearable. After you get through the first 10 days- you begin the 2nd 10 days which are considerably easier. The final 10 days -are the easiest.
To perform the morning miracle you need to choose from and practice (any or all) of these activities: meditation, positive affirmations, visualization, journaling, exercise, and reading to do each morning.
Related Readings:
Atomic Habits by James Clear. Putting systems in place allows us to consistently implement small changes that lead to bigger changes over time.
The Miracle Equation by Hal Elrod. Simple Summary: In order to meet our biggest goals we have to have unwavering faith and work extremely hard.
Read my Book Notes on The Miracle Equation.
Read my book notes on Atomic Habits.
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