The Miracle Morning: The 6 Habits That Will Transform Your Life Before 8AM

I'm writing this review at 6:30am, after waking up at 6. I normally never wake up before 7:30am. I think that tells you most of what you need to know about this one.

This is an area I've been curious about for a long time. For some of my most productive years, I woke up promptly in the morning and went to the gym for an hour. That morning workout gave me a lot of strength for the rest of the day - more self-control, more optimism, more sense of accomplishment to start the day.

I'd always presumed that was specific to what I was doing (working out). After reading this book, I believe I was off on that presumption. Instead, doing anything productive to start the day can lead to these benefits. This limiting belief - that I'm a night person show more and that I can't do it – was quickly shut down, and now I'm hoping to give this early riser thing a try. show less

Um livro que me ajudou a refletir sobre minha rotina, seja pela manhã ou antes de dormir. Me incentivou na criação de algumas atividades que fazem meu dia começar melhor e ter mais energia para finalizar, assim como auxiliar em um sono mas tranquilo. Recomendo para quem tem alguma dificuldade de criar rotinas (ou voltar para alguma rotina) ou refletir sobre seu dia a dia. Um alerta é que não há necessidade de seguir todas as ideias do livro, mas sim, o que faz sentido para você.

This book opens up explaining that the life you’ve always wanted is within your grasp and the real secret may actually be waking up earlier. Elrod’s Miracle Morning and Level 10 life approaches to goal setting and completing tasks has become widely popular and motivating for a number of people. After reading this book and applying the ideas to my own life I can certainly see why. However, when it comes to a full review of this book I think its important to break it down into two parts: the ideas and the writing style.

The ideas and tips that Elrod offers are inspirational and, when you follow through with it, feels like a true transformation. They are things that seem like they should be obvious (taking time each morning for show more yourself) but somehow aren’t (which is where the extended title comes in). Its about taking time to focus on yourself and meet some of your basic needs, telling yourself that you can do it, and visualizing what your success will look like. There were a few suggestions that Elrod made that I disagree with based on research that I’ve read. For example, he advises putting off eating breakfast until after the SAVERS routine (roughly 1 hour after waking up) but I’ve read in several studies that its the most beneficial to your health if you eat breakfast within 1 hour of waking up. Small points like that but, as with any self-help book, ones that you can shape to fit your needs and lifestyle.

As for the style of writing, however, that’s where the 3 instead of more stars comes in. The book isn’t too terribly long but you have to wade through a lot of repeated infomercial talk to get to the point. I didn’t expect to have a one page “this is how you succeed at life” but I felt like the book could’ve lost over half of its “just keep reading and you’ll find out the secret” and it wouldn’t been just as helpful of a book.

If you’re looking to take hold of life and willing to wake up a little earlier to do that (whether you’re a morning person or a night owl, like me) then I recommend this book to you. Just be prepared to flip through a lot of pages without any real substance. show less

OK so another self help, change your life, reach the summit book that many of us read from time to time. The one thing I learned about this one is I all ready have been doing this for about five years now all ready. Well not as outlined by Hal Elrod but getting up real early, yep am there, do that.

In my case it is because of a business activity I engage in and that time is probably way before most people would attempt, 3:00am! But aside from my central reason and time commitment I have over the years woven into this daily practice some of the things Hal specifies like reading, which includes this book. Also exercise, part stretching and part yoga. A little meditation. And on one particular day each week I will hop on my bike for a 12 show more mile sprint.

And I can tell you for me anyway this early morning time to devote to such activities is time well spent. There is a kind of zen that comes from the quiet solitude and focus or early energy that is just magical.

In Hal's approach a lot of it centers around the commitment and the doing and the positive habit forming attached to it. Not all bad indeed. But like the 95% he talks about many I suspect will end in in the group of 95 in sliding back to their old ways, just like the New Year resolutions. My advice, don't. show less

This is another MLM life guru telling you how to be like them. I think there is certainly value in developing a strong morning routine if for no other reason than to get your day started well and take care of yourself. I don't have a problem with being unmotivated, which this book implies we all have. There are a lot of made-up statistics - like 95% is a number he latched onto to use for a lot of different things, which I find funny and pretty transparent that it's made up.

3.5 out of 5 but that could easily go up as I implement TMM into my life.

So, I’m not typically one to really get on board with some of the self-help theories out there, but this book gave me pause. The ideas behind The Miracle Morning seem logical and probable.

If you have a desire to try and read a self-help book, then I recommend this one and here’s why: legitimate action items. This book doesn’t give you theoretical, fluffy sh*t to roll around in your mind without solid action to be taken. Instead Hal Elrod gives you exact step by step actions to “transform your life” through TMM. Which for me seems like a key part of self-help books. I cant fathom how a person can help themselves if they only have theories and ideas to show more THINK on, rather than actions to ACT on.

The principles to TMM are simple, and I wont ruin them by disclosing that information here, but I genuinely like the structure and ideas behind TMM. They seem likely to be not only helpful, but maintainable.

Full Review: wanderinglectiophile.wordpress.com/2018/01/29/review-the-miracle-morning-by-hal-elrod/ show less

“Why is it that when a baby is born, we often refer to them as “the miracle of life,” but then go on to accept mediocrity for our own lives? Where along the way did we lose sight of the miracle that we are living?”

“How you wake up each day and your morning routine (or lack thereof) 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 changing the way you wake up in the morning, you can transform any show more area of your life, faster than you ever thought possible.”

In “The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life: Before 8AM” by Hal Elrod

Why do these books give out only common sense utterances?

If there is a determinable set of factors that lead to particular creative success (not only related to what we do in the morning)...but actually these are fairly acceptable, and if simplified:

1) make the most of productivity
2) maintain self-sufficiency
3) don't over-saturate yourself (*)
4) keep a disciplined work ethic
5) expand your cognitive horizons
6) be flexible

All very practical, and you could easily apply these to generally living a decent life, not just to pursuing creative heights.

(*) A sense of proportion, even of humour, could usefully be added to this rather technical list (and I do hope item 3 is not referring to the activity which Baden-Powell warned could lead to blindness) Ah, Baden-Powell. Apparently used to sleep on the veranda on a bunk bed, to avoid 'marital beastliness'. Funny chap.....It might have meant to stop himself being beastly to his wife instead of to stop beastliness from her. Abstracting yourself to stop yourself hurting others is admirable. I don't know which was operative and hold no candle for Baden-Powell but the possibility needs to be addressed. Though the spartan cold might have had other sought effects and it may be he found sex to be unpleasant. show less