The Miracle Morning
Hal Elrod · 2012
The Miracle Morning (2012) is a book by Hal Elrod on personal growth & mindset. Hal Elrod argues that how you wake up shapes your whole life, and offers the Life S.A.V.E.R.S., six morning practices (Silence, Affirmations, Visualization, Exercise, Reading, Scribing), as a repeatable system for accelerating personal and professional growth.
It turns the hour before your day begins into a repeatable system for becoming the person your goals require, no willpower marathon, just six practices you can shrink to six minutes.
Two of the ideas you’ll keep
The Clif summary of The Miracle Morning pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first two.
- The **Life S.A.V.E.R.S.** are the book's core engine: **S**ilence (meditation/prayer), **A**ffirmations, **V**isualization, **E**xercise, **R**eading, and **S**cribing (journaling). Practiced together each morning, they develop the whole person before the day's demands take over.
- Beware **Rearview Mirror Syndrome**: we unconsciously drive through life staring into a rearview mirror, limiting today by the size of yesterday. Your past does not equal your future unless you keep living inside it.
The other 5 — and the full 10-minute summary — are in the app.
What’s inside: 8 chapters
The whole summary runs about 10 minutes, read or listened to.
- Two Rock Bottoms and a Question
- Why 95% Settle for Mediocrity
- Beating the Snooze Button
- The Life S.A.V.E.R.S.: Silence and Affirmations
- Visualization, Exercise, Reading, Scribing
- Customizing It: The 6-Minute Miracle Morning
- The 30-Day Life Transformation Challenge
- From Morning to Every Area of Life
Finish The Miracle Morning tonight.
Read or listen to the full summary in about 10 minutes, then keep the ideas with a minute of review a day. Start with the 2-minute quiz — no card required.
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