if you want to live a life on your own terms you have to change the way that
you think about it so to change the way that you think about your life
let's take a look at how you wake up did you hit the snooze button at all this
morning I bet you did
the more you resist waking up the less chance you have of having a satisfying
day for example I bet everyone has a morning they can look back on and
remember jumping up out of bed whether it was a birthday or Christmas morning
try to remember that you woke up excited exuberant and filled with joy if you can
craft your mornings to wake up early and with a purpose
your day will be so much better if you can increase your wake-up motivation
level or your reason to get out of bed on a scale of one to ten to ten you will
leap into creating a fulfilling lifestyle and this book gives you six
steps on creating a morning that will boost your motivation level so the
author Howie rod was in a car accident when he was 20 years old he was hit by a
drunk driver and actually dead at the scene for six minutes and then for the
next six days he was in a coma
it was a bad deal but where am I going with this I'm saying that anyone in his
situation could have chosen to be depressed for years but how took the
responsibility for his life he found some magic and learned how to make the
best situation with a miracle morning and he came up with a little acronym
called lifesavers to help you create your miracle morning so the first is s S
stands for silence basically go into meditation or pray try to start thinking
about something that set yourself apart for something bigger
probably one of the best things you can do is think of 10 things that you're
grateful for and each morning
try to think of 10 new things for example your hands the wind on your face
your pillows even the ability to learn try to come up with some stuff that
you're grateful for and appreciate the silence now step number two is a which
stands for affirmations now mantras are like tools of the mind and the more you
tell yourself something will happen the more positive vibes that you put into
your brain the more likely they will be to actually happen and this ties into
the next step so basically the night before trying firming to yourself that
you will wake up refreshed and be super pumped to get up
so step number three is visualizations and we have to see in our mind what we
want to do with that day before it happens at first you can visualize it
you'll have a better chance of it actually happening so we can do anything
that is a man
general but the first step is to imagine it try to visualize waking up as
something pleasant something that you actually want to do look forward to
waking up the next step is to exercise and there are tons of positive benefits
to exercising and a great little visualization is thinking that if you're
not exercising that's like taking a depressant because exercise can act as a
stimulant a stimulant to your body a stimulant your mind a stimulant to your
life going for a short morning run has amazing benefits to the rest of your day
and no matter what else you do during that day when you go to bed you'll be
able to say that you did something productive
also if you tell yourself that you exercise at night when it comes to it
most people are actually too exhausted to follow through so it's very vital
that you exercise first thing in the morning exercise will definitely boost
your mood and help you focus throughout the rest of the day and it will also
increase your physical health exponentially how suggest drinking a
glass of water as soon as comfortably possible after you wake up so the second
to last step is reading try to read some inspirational material how recommend
reading something inspirational you could read to learn as well try to read
something that will help you visualize and affirm that great things will happen
today reading material that will further your skills and increase your
productivity for your daily plans is also great try to aim for 10 pages a day
so the last step is called scribing and this is basically writing something a
great method to this is the document what you did yesterday and to come up
with a little list of stuff to do today short to-do list of 325 things are very
effective and another option would be to write down all the things that you were
grateful for back in the silence step how is also really big on habits if we
can use our willpower to drive habits that make our minds do think on
autopilot we can create a great morning with no effort really quickly and the
best tip he gives to creating these habits is to find an accountability
partner that will start these steps with you and continue doing them for at least
30 days now there's also two very important concepts discussed in this
book
the first is rearview mirror syndrome and rear view mirror syndrome is
basically having a previous experience in life that prevents us from making new
ones for example you're looking in the rearview and you're saying I don't want
that to happen again so it prevents you from making new experiences
an example of this is someone who can't commit to a new relationship because of
a previous one went bad
or maybe you had an injury last time you tried to work out or threw up last time
you tried to run if you can get past these bad experiences and allow yourself
to create new ones in spite of them you will achieve a fulfilling and happier
lifestyle much quicker and the second concept is called isolating incidents
basically by isolating an event of today you're affecting who you are as a person
as a whole so I know a lot of people that say oh it's just today I'm going to
eat this candy bar or oh it's just today I'm going to get my workout or maybe
you're fretting over talking to that old friend and you're thinking i'll just do
it next time
well now the next time will never come and you have to change your attitude to
think of how you act today is how you are going to act forever if you look at
yourself as a whole
you may think that these single incidents such as buying fast food or
purchasing that regretful item may only happen every once in a while but once
you start to notice them you may find out they've become the norm and not just
spur-of-the-moment pleasure experiences and to live a more fulfilling life you
have to get rid of isolated incidents and create more great habits in your
life so as a review try to start your morning with some meditation
affirmations and visualizations some exercise a little bit of reading and
finish it off with some writing and eventually your develop a miracle
morning which will transform your whole day and essentially your entire life now
may be hard to develop at first but after some fine-tuning you'll make your
morning's a habit and your life will become much more enjoyable
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