The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM) Paperback – 7 Dec. 2012

There are many self-help books available which you'd gone through, and once the excitement is over,chances are, it will keep company for the dust in your bookshelf. Here is a simple book, that will guaranteed to transform your life and you'll be sharing it with your friends. The Miracle Morning is simple, but the potential is so great, which makes you think why you didn't read this book a few years before! The most important thing about this book is that it's very simple and guaranteed to transform your life.Don't underestimate this small book, this is not only about getting up in the morning, but effectively transforming your life into a greater self even you couldn't believe you are capable of.Each chapters are important, you might consider some chapters are important and others are not, some of the reviews already said that certain chapters as various views, author testimonials etc., which contributes nothing. Well, you should read everything, even if you dismiss some part of the book or thumb through certain chapters, you are missing important keystones. For example, on Page 26, Hal says, "One of the most prevalent, yet not-so-obvious causes of mediocrity is isolating incidents,. We do this when we mistakenly assume that each choice we make, and each individual action we take, is only affecting that particular moment, or circumstance. For example, you may think it's no big deal to miss a workout, procrastinate on a project, or eat fast food because you'll get a "do-over" tomorrow. You make the mistake of thinking that skipping that workout only affects that incident, and you'll make a better choice next time. Nothing could be farther from the truth." And he continues to explain how it will affect us and our subconscious mind. So, there are many advices in this book you will find very useful, not because it's new, but because you've never considered it.The book after the introduction has divided into ten chapters.The first and second chapters are Hal's story mixed with parallels to your life and how you can positively change your life into a success. During these chapters he talks about financial difficulties and how damaging is the debt, finding time, overcoming the challenges, things to do every morning, the steps to become a morning person. These chapters are kind of story telling Hal's personal testimonies and the people inspired by his work and testimonies.Chapter 3 is a comprehensive chapter on acknowledging and rising above the limitations we have set ourselves which are thwarting our success in life. It identifies the causes of mediocrity, subconscious mind's lethal strategies of self-failing mechanisms, small isolating incidents we ignore but have great impact, and more importantly how to survive these limitations.Chapter 4 and 5 stresses on how to be a morning person, these chapters deal in making you a morning person in a very practical way. Even if you're dreading to get up early and a snooze-person like me, it will guaranteed to change you into an early morning person (actually I am writing this review at 4:30 a.m. and I did wake up four a.m.)Chapter 6 is the introduction of Life S.A.V.E.R.S (Silence, Affirmations, Visualisation, Exercise, Reading, and Scribing) the practices to save you from a life of unfulfilled potential. This may sound silly, for example, how silence and reading and things like that are going to make much difference. Once you go through Hal's insights and advices, you'll be amazed by the impact of his advices and wonder why you haven't thought any of this before. Each of the S.A.V.E.R.S has their own sections to explain its importance and example. This one is quite a large chapter.Chapter 7 is the pointer, the real results in six minutes, which is a short two and half pages chapter of a key procedure that will dictate your positive energy in your everyday life. This is one of the major keys to create success and happiness in your life.Chapter 8 is customizing your Miracle Morning, which explains how you can customize your daily life, your food habits, goals and dreams, overcoming the procrastination, and even weekends.Chapter 9 is forming habits that will transform your life (in 30 days). It will guide you through various parts of your comfort zone and give advice on how to break the circle of habitual failures like New Year resolutions, negative habits, addiction to the habits, fear for changes etc. In effect, this chapter is all about habit mastery and you'll have your chance to transform your life into a better one through its Day 1 to Day 30 instruction in three short parts.Chapter 10 is the challenge to transform your life in 30 days. You can do this! With testimonials, fast start kit and revision, this chapter is the last chapter of the book, but that's not the end it follows more sections.Conclusion is a short section that is a guidance. Where you are is the result of who you were and the title of this section is "Let today be the day you give up who you've been for who you can become." It has contact information of Hal Elrod followed by a special invitation from the Miracle Morning Community.An Essential Bonus is another section with the title "the Email that will change your life" it's an email strategy for identifying your weaknesses and strengths. This section is followed by a two page thought provoking quotes.Buy this book, it's worth buying, and keep the book with you, you will need to re-read it, mark it, reference it and unlike many self-help books this one will really transform you. Don't procrastinate, take time to read it and find the answers. I am pretty sure, once you go through this book, you'll probably moan, if you'd the chance to get this book five years before.

Despite the fact that I’m retired I’m always after anything to help me progress. I love personal development and motivation ideas so I ordered this book and read it. I recognise that I’m one of those Brits who hates all the gushing Americana, whoops and shouts, high fives and over the top action about things but I actually quite liked the book. There are a few bits that made me cringe but the general philosophy of getting up early and undertaking six activities to better yourself is something I liked. I’ve never had a problem getting up – I’m an early bird anyway – so getting up at six every day was no problem and because I’m retired if I felt a bit tired later in the day I could easily shut my eyes for half an hour.Elrod advocates six activities he calls S.A.V.E.R.S. Silence, Affirmations, Visualisation, Exercise, Reading and Scribing (writing). I suppose if he’d called scribing Writing it would be WAVERS or SWAVER which would not sound so good! He suggests a certain amount of time on each and it’s up to you how you do it and which order you do them in. I do a lot of drawing so I actually added some for a few minutes at the end and I end up writing a page in a journal (Scribing) then I spend a few minutes mind-mapping or doodling.I have a back injury and I’ve been carrying out some exercises several times each day for about ten minutes so I just incorporated them into the routine. For Affirmations I ignored the list he has published on his website because they’re far too long-winded. It’s like reading a book. I went onto the web and searched for ideas and there are hundreds of nice short, memorable ones if you just look for them. You can always just compose your own of course. For the Silence bit I bought “Every Breath You Take” by Rose Elliot, a wonderful little book with 16 breathing exercises to still the mind, calm you down and focus on Mindfulness. I then tried one each week, progressing as I improved. For Reading there are zillions of books to choose from but the focus must be on personal development. I have a few books from my management days but I bought “The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down” by Haemin Sunim. It’s wonderful and first thing in the morning is the absolutely ideal text. The last book I’ll mention is “Sleep” by Nick Littlehales, because getting a good night’s sleep is essential and Littlehales shows in great detail how to do that. His book alone is worth its weight in gold.All in all it’s up to you how you approach it, which order you do things in and how long you spend on each activity. I love the idea and the simplicity of the routine. All you have to do is get up! It’s a great book for anyone at any stage of their lives and I highly recommend it.

Since the beginning of the year, I've been on a personal development quest which was going pretty well... until I dropped off because of my new job, which caused me to gain weight and my anxiety skyrocketed yet again. I'd seen the miracle morning mentioned a few times, and I thought I'd give it a go.While the concepts in the book aren't original, I liked the way it was set out in an easy to follow way, giving advice on how to complete each of the six steps. There are even a few extras, like the miracle evening routine to improve your sleep and the miracle life about living your best life. While it is very structured, something which I like, it's also easy to customise, as I personally leave the exercise portion of the routine to the very end.The affirmations portion of it was helpful too, with ways to tailor your affirmations to you. It was something I've not come across before and really enjoyed.However, the book felt overly long with a fair bit of waffle here and there, making it harder to get through than it should have been. Also in places that it felt like an advert, join our app, join our Facebook group etc which was a little annoying.So far I've been doing the routine for almost a month now and my weight is going down and my anxiety is feeling much better (it's still there, but I'm not on the verge of a panic attack constantly). I'm hoping this is something I keep to as I feel it will really benefit me in the long run.This book is something I've found beneficial and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to try a new structured morning routine.

Best book i have read so far!