Order of Man - OoM 070： The Power of a Perfect Morning Routine with Hal Elrod

00:00:00.000 I used to believe that I wasn't a morning person and for a long time I let it affect the way I

00:00:04.420 approached my day. I hit the snooze, roll out of bed with zero energy, and give myself just enough

00:00:08.980 time to make it into work. And of course my morning routine, if you could even call it that,

00:00:13.220 impacted the rest of my day. My guest, the one and only Hal Elrod, joins me to talk about how you can

00:00:19.200 become a morning person and how you can craft and execute a morning routine that will literally

00:00:24.000 transform your entire life. You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest.

00:00:28.820 Embrace your fears and boldly chart your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more

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00:00:42.080 life. This is who you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is

00:00:47.800 said and done, you can call yourself a man. Men, what is going on today? My name is Ryan

00:00:53.300 Michler and I am your host and the founder of Order of Man. I'm glad you're back with us here today.

00:00:57.800 And if you're new to the show, welcome. This is a manly show, guys. We're talking about all the

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00:01:11.760 You are in the right place. So I just want to get right into the show today, guys. We're talking

00:01:15.980 about a topic that has literally transformed my life from my time in the military when I was waking up

00:01:21.040 at 0400 every morning to my college days when I'd barely roll out of bed in just enough time to make

00:01:26.240 it into work or class to the present day where I tend to be extremely disciplined about how I execute

00:01:31.860 my morning. We're talking about what goes into a good morning routine, a solid morning routine, how to

00:01:37.920 make it work for you, and how the right routine will, again, transform your life. Now know that you can

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00:01:54.800 and rituals at facebook.com slash groups slash order of man. Join 5200 of us over there. Guys,

00:02:01.440 I am excited to introduce you today to Hal Elrod. He's a man who needs no introduction,

00:02:05.760 but I'm going to do it anyways because he is somebody you definitely need to know. Hal is the

00:02:10.800 number one bestselling author of what is being widely regarded as one of the most life-changing

00:02:15.440 books ever written. And I agree to that. It's titled the miracle morning, the not so obvious

00:02:19.960 secret guaranteed to transform your life before 8am. It's also one of the highest rated books on

00:02:25.780 Amazon with over 1300 five-star reviews. Now, if you don't already know how actually died at the age

00:02:31.380 of 20, he was hit head on by a drunk driver at 70 miles per hour. He broke 11 bones. He died for six

00:02:37.260 minutes and he spent six days in a coma only to wake up to face the news that he may never walk again.

00:02:42.680 And not only did Hal learn or relearn to walk, he went on to run a 52 mile ultra marathon,

00:02:48.660 become a hall of fame business achiever, an international keynote speaker, one of the world's

00:02:52.440 top success coaches. He's a hip hop recording artist. He's been featured in the chicken soup

00:02:57.340 for the soul book series. He writes for entrepreneur.com and has appeared on radio and TV shows across the

00:03:03.280 country. And the list of course goes on and on. Robert Kiyosaki, author of the all time bestselling

00:03:07.820 book, rich dad, poor dad calls him a quote genius. And that his book has been

00:03:12.180 magical in transforming his life. Today, he's here to talk with me about that book and so much more.

00:03:19.240 Hal, thanks for joining me on the show today. Excited to have you here, brother.

00:03:21.860 Ditto, man. The feeling is mutual. Thank you so much.

00:03:24.600 Yeah, I've followed your work for some time. It's a fascinating to me. It's something that

00:03:27.960 I've implemented personally in my life. So it is an honor to have you on the show.

00:03:31.140 Tell me a little bit about why, what you're doing, the work you're doing, which is obviously

00:03:34.900 morning planning, morning rituals, planning out your day is so critical that guys consider

00:03:39.020 implementing in their lives. Yeah. You know, I mean, I think that for me, I wasn't

00:03:42.120 a morning person or at least that I've now kind of deemed that a limiting belief that most

00:03:47.000 people have. Like I'm not a morning person. It's like, well, if you don't wake up in the

00:03:49.920 morning, then yeah, you're not a morning person. If you don't run, you're not a runner. It doesn't

00:03:53.160 mean that you're born one way or the other. Right. And you start waking up early, even if it's

00:03:57.600 only 30 minutes earlier, you start to develop that identity, that habit, your body, mind and

00:04:02.480 spirit acclimate to the new habit. So, I mean, the premise is simple. Like if you win the morning,

00:04:07.580 you win the day. Most people, you think about how most people start the day. We start the day

00:04:10.860 hitting the snooze button, right? Most men start the day hitting the snooze button. And my favorite 0.97

00:04:15.240 way to kind of crack that topic open is a standup comedian, Dimitri Martin. He said,

00:04:19.780 hitting the snooze button doesn't even make sense. It's like you're saying, I hate waking up in the

00:04:25.000 morning. So I do it over and over and over again. Good point. Right. But the, but the reality is you

00:04:30.760 think about hitting this snooze button. It's literally resisting life itself. Like you're

00:04:35.120 delaying living life to the fullest. It's almost like there's this unconscious message you're

00:04:39.960 sending to your subconscious into the universe that says, you know, alarm goes off and you're

00:04:44.000 like, I could get up and create an amazing life. I could get up and develop myself, become the person

00:04:50.000 that I need to be to create the success I want in my life. But I'd rather lay here unconscious for

00:04:55.120 another 10 minutes. Right. And then 10 more and then 10 more. You know what I mean? And so the,

00:05:00.060 the premise of, you know, what my work, it's called the miracle morning, but the morning ritual

00:05:04.360 is that if you win the morning, you win the day. And that how you start your day sets the tone for

00:05:09.700 how you, who you're, who you're becoming and how you're going to do everything. So if you hit the

00:05:13.100 start there by hitting the snooze button, which is literally lacking in self-discipline and

00:05:17.120 procrastinating, unless, I mean, you fully are doing it with intention and, you know, whatever. But

00:05:21.300 most of us, you know, the, the, if we're going, what's going to be more productive toward my goals,

00:05:25.400 hitting the snooze button three times or working on, you know, myself or my goals, it's an obvious

00:05:31.020 answer. So, so anyway, so the point is that if you win the morning, you win the day. If you start

00:05:34.820 the day with discipline rather than procrastination, you set the alarm before you have to wake up when

00:05:40.420 you want to be up so that you can dedicate time to your personal development so that you can become

00:05:45.820 the person that you need to be to create everything you want for your life. And if that's how you start

00:05:50.420 every day, it's hard, you know, it's hard to not see your results in your outer world, uh, improve

00:05:57.740 at a pretty dramatic rate. Right. I mean, it's just a natural progression of things that's going to

00:06:02.040 happen. So I want to talk about something you said with setting the snooze or hitting the snooze,

00:06:05.560 because I know I've been guilty of this. I'm sure you've been guilty of it. And I know a lot of guys

00:06:08.980 are, is that because we're lazy or is that because maybe we are resisting? We're unsatisfied with the

00:06:15.520 life that we've created at this point. What does that tend to be? So, I mean, you know,

00:06:19.100 for everybody, it could be different. Like when I created the miracle morning, it was not a book

00:06:23.120 idea. It was, I was at the lowest point in my life. It was 2008. The economy had crashed. I went

00:06:27.760 from being on top of the world where I had formed, you know, started a six figure business and launched

00:06:31.220 my, wrote my first book, written my first book. And like life was great to lost over half of my

00:06:36.040 clients, couldn't pay the mortgage, all of these things. And so for me, the snooze button was literally

00:06:40.520 like bed in general was a relief from my shitty reality. You know, it was like, it was the, I mean, 0.71

00:06:46.920 I literally would, you know, delay waking up as long as possible. And then I would just, just,

00:06:52.280 just pushed through the day, like depressed and, and, and, and hopeless. Cause nothing I was doing

00:06:57.920 was getting me the results I wanted. Then like the bed at night was like, Oh, I get to get under the

00:07:03.020 covers and like escape reality for eight hours, you know? Sure. Sure. But I think for most of us,

00:07:08.220 and I think this is really universal, whether you're successful or not, uh, or anywhere in between.

00:07:12.220 And it's that we were conditioned as children to resist waking up early. And so it's almost like,

00:07:18.120 in some ways it's like Matt Damon and, uh, Robin Williams, where he said, you know, it's not your

00:07:22.180 fault. It's not your fault. Good hunting, right? Um, so it's not your fault. Uh, and that, you know,

00:07:27.120 as a kid, like you didn't, you weren't told by your parents, like, Hey, let's get out of bed in the

00:07:31.160 morning and do something that you want to do that makes you happy. And that helps you become,

00:07:34.480 you know, achieve your life. You want to hear like, Hey, get out of bed. It's time for school.

00:07:38.600 Right. Yeah. Right. Right. Oh. And then, and then on any day you were allowed that you didn't have

00:07:43.840 to be up, you didn't get up. So if, if waking up early was forced upon you for 18 years of your

00:07:49.720 life, roughly, right. You're good. There's a hell of a lot of resentment and resistance to that act.

00:07:54.740 Then you go off to college and you're like, ah, nobody's holding me accountable. Right. And then

00:08:00.700 most people though, you think about life becomes a downward spiral into mediocrity. Like for most people,

00:08:06.240 and I'm not saying it's directly related to like, just cause you're hitting the snooze button.

00:08:08.960 But the point is like the, to the degree that we lack self accountability, you know, that,

00:08:13.880 that hurts our health. It hurts our wealth. It hurts every area of our life. So I think that's

00:08:17.880 where it comes from is that we're conditioned that we only wake up if someone holds us accountable to

00:08:23.700 and when mommy and daddy aren't there doing it, we're not getting up early.

00:08:27.580 No, I'm actually, you're, you're calling me out right here because I was actually talking

00:08:30.660 with my wife this morning. Cause my kids, my boys in particular happened to be early risers.

00:08:35.980 And I specifically said, I wish they would just sleep in a little bit longer. So you're calling

00:08:41.260 me out right here. So how do you do this? All right. So let's say a guy's listening to this and

00:08:45.700 I know most people that aren't happy with where they are. No, they're not happy and no, something

00:08:50.940 has to change. And they might even know that they should start forming a morning routine or ritual,

00:08:57.020 or even get up a half an hour early. What's, what's the deal? Like, how do we get started with

00:09:01.100 this? So, um, I'll give you, I'll give you a quick premise, like a quick backstory. The, um,

00:09:07.260 I already started to kind of, I told you half the story, which is 2008. Uh, I had, I had, I had hit

00:09:12.000 hall of fame with my company in 2006 and I had left to start my own business and I launched a coaching

00:09:17.700 business. Uh, I started my speaking career, a keynote speaking, and then wrote the first book.

00:09:22.140 And so I was on this trajectory, like living my dreams, building the businesses,

00:09:25.900 then everything falls, you know, falls apart. And it was like six months of this downward spiral

00:09:31.600 where I got really down on myself because I kept doing everything that I thought would work to get

00:09:36.280 me out of the hole I was digging and nothing worked. And, and I wasn't, here's the thing. I was a

00:09:41.360 quote unquote success coach. So I didn't tell anybody because it's like, you know, I mean,

00:09:45.820 how do you approach it? Like, Hey, I'm failing miserably. Do you know anyone that's looking for a

00:09:50.100 success coach, you know, who was failing miserably? And so fine, which is all too common by the way.

00:09:55.460 Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. For sure. And I think we keep it a secret, whether it's pride or whatever

00:09:59.300 it is. And for me, it was a real identity crisis. And, um, my, uh, my wife who I was only, you know,

00:10:03.860 dating at the time, uh, we were living together and, and, uh, I think we were engaged even, but,

00:10:08.060 uh, she, after six months, she goes, sweetie, I hate seeing you like this. Why don't you call

00:10:11.540 John Berghoff? He's your, one of your best friends. He loves you. He's the smartest person.

00:10:15.100 You always tell me that, you know, he get, he's really business savvy. Tell him how you're,

00:10:19.540 you know, what's going on. And like, he's not going to judge you. He loves you. He's not

00:10:22.480 going to tell anybody and you can trust him and he can probably give you some advice

00:10:25.760 maybe that will help you get out of this. And you know, I, uh, wife's always smarter 1.00

00:10:30.500 than we are. Right. You can attest to that. Of course. But, uh, yeah. So I finally, I called

00:10:34.460 John. I, I, I, I break down. I'm almost in tears. I'm like, buddy, this is like life is

00:10:38.360 like, here's what's going on. And I was in debt and all these things. And he says, like,

00:10:42.740 I was expecting, I was sitting there ready for business advice. And he says, how, uh, are,

00:10:48.260 are you exercising every day? I said, no. He said, are you, are you doing some form of

00:10:53.120 personal development every day? I said, no, I just, I wake up, I go in my office, I, I,

00:10:57.580 I grind all day. I try to do something, you know, and, and I just made, you know,

00:11:00.720 go through motions. And he says, how, if you want to turn your life around, you've got to

00:11:04.840 wake up every day and do some exercise to put yourself in a physical, mental, and emotional

00:11:08.800 state. If you're depressed and going into your office, you're going to be acting in a very low

00:11:13.260 level of intellect and energy, right? Sure. Okay. He said, so, you know, go for a jog every

00:11:19.480 morning. And he said, and then while you're on that jog, listen to some sort of personal or

00:11:24.560 professional development, audio, audio book, podcast, whatever. And he said that way, while

00:11:29.620 you're in a peak physical, mental, and emotional state, you listen to some sort of content that is

00:11:33.740 directly related to the area of your life or business that you want to improve. And he said,

00:11:38.120 and then when you, and then run home and go into your office and implement it for an hour.

00:11:42.340 Hmm. And I was like, all right, that, that, that, you know, okay. That seems like it makes sense.

00:11:47.080 And sure. So I went out the next morning, went for a run, listened to this Jim Rohn audio. And

00:11:51.800 the quote that changed my entire life. And to this day is really the guiding philosophy.

00:11:57.320 Jim Rohn said, your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development

00:12:02.020 because success is something you attract by the person you become. And it hit me. I go,

00:12:06.520 I'm not becoming, I'm not doing like, this is my first day of personal development since way before

00:12:10.980 the financial crisis. I'm not doing that every day. Therefore, and this was the epiphany and

00:12:15.140 anybody listening, like really consider this. Are you dedicating time every day to your personal

00:12:20.060 development at the level you need to be, you know, extraordinary personal development

00:12:23.600 leads to extraordinary results. And I went, I'm not becoming the person that I need to be

00:12:27.840 to create the success I want in my life. Yeah. And so I ran home with this epiphany. I'm going to

00:12:32.320 dedicate time to personal development every day. And I started Googling and looking for what do I need

00:12:36.360 to do. And I kept coming across early rising morning rituals as like this common theme between

00:12:42.380 the world's most successful people. But I wasn't a morning person. Long story short, I realized that

00:12:47.420 if I wanted my life to improve, I had to, I gotta, I gotta get out of my comfort zone, do something

00:12:50.660 different. So I go, I'm going to wake up an hour earlier tomorrow. Screw it. I'm doing it. Set the

00:12:54.440 alarm clock an hour back. And then I spent an hour Googling what are the best personal development

00:12:58.860 practices known to man? Because I want that hour to count. Like I want, I really want to do,

00:13:04.220 figure out what are the world's most successful people doing when they wake up early. And I want

00:13:07.940 to combine the best of the best practices. I woke up the next morning. I did six practices,

00:13:13.100 which we can get to those in a bit here. But, um, yeah, but the, the, the epiphany that morning,

00:13:17.520 like I was like, Whoa, the way that I feel right. I don't feel depressed. Like I have for the last six

00:13:21.600 months. I feel on fire. If I start every day like this, it's only a matter of time. But I had Ryan,

00:13:26.860 I had no idea how fast it would happen. It was less than two months that I doubled my income

00:13:30.540 went from being in the worst shape of my life, having never run more than a mile.

00:13:34.220 To committing to run a 52 mile ultra marathon, which I completed, you know, five months later.

00:13:39.640 And my depression was gone day one. Cause I was, I thought this is the thing. Those are the one

00:13:44.000 thing that'll change everything if I do it every day. And it was, it was two months later when all

00:13:48.040 of those results happened that I started writing in my schedule, my miracle morning. Like it feels

00:13:51.780 like a miracle what this morning routine is doing, but that was never going to be a book. And

00:13:56.620 over the next few years, I taught it to my coaching clients and all of the, like,

00:14:00.660 it was almost unanimous. They all went from going, I'm not a morning person, Hal, to wow,

00:14:06.040 I'm going to, I'm going to try it to holy. Like this is, it's, it's everything you said,

00:14:11.460 Hal is happening for me. Like I just had my best week in my sales career. You know, I'm this,

00:14:15.340 I'm that I'm losing weight on and on. And finally, you know, I was like, I have to put this in a book.

00:14:20.780 Like this isn't just my morning. Like this will, this is changing lives. It could change the world,

00:14:25.660 you know, and the rest is kind of history. As they say, it's hundreds of thousands of people

00:14:29.500 now that have read the book and that do the morning miracle morning in like 70 countries,

00:14:33.760 I think. And you know, yeah. So, so I'm happy to go in detail on like how to wake up early or

00:14:37.720 whatever direction you want to take it. Yeah, no, that's very cool. I actually want to talk about

00:14:41.480 before we get much further, the discipline and commitment issue, because I think a lot of guys hear

00:14:44.860 this and they are motivated by that, inspired by that and want to do that. And they may even be able

00:14:49.640 to pull it off for a day or two or even a week. How does somebody maintain the discipline,

00:14:54.720 maintain the commitment to be able to do it? Is it because they're seeing results or is there

00:14:58.260 something else at work here? I think they're, you know, like I've, my biggest fear when I was

00:15:03.220 thinking of writing a book around the miracle morning is exactly what you're talking about,

00:15:07.520 which is people don't either, they don't have discipline or at least we all have it. We just,

00:15:11.060 but we, we don't use it. It's like, it's like a muscle. If you don't use it, you don't have it.

00:15:14.560 It's weak. So I go, most people, they have a limiting belief that says I'm not a morning person.

00:15:18.920 I go, how in the hell am I going to over, you know, get people to overcome that, you know,

00:15:23.460 when it's like, like a lifetime of that belief being reinforced, right? So that was number one.

00:15:29.660 Number two is, yeah, people don't have the discipline. So how am I going to, even if they

00:15:33.200 try it, like you said, how are they going to, how am I going to stick with it? So I spent

00:15:37.740 ridiculous amounts of time, both researching and also experimenting on my, you know, myself and with

00:15:43.920 my clients, all different sorts of approaches to implementing the habit of waking up early.

00:15:49.120 Right. And so here's kind of the conclusions is, and this is like where I've looked back at like,

00:15:55.060 well, how has the book been so successful? I'm able to deconstruct and go, Oh, it's because

00:15:59.000 this chapter taught people how to wake up early and make it really easy without much discipline.

00:16:04.660 This chapter taught people how to change any habit in 30 days and make it stay right. So you like

00:16:09.480 combine all these. Right. Right. And, and when I wrote it, I was like, I don't know what's going

00:16:14.420 to work and what's not. Right. So, um, so the, so as far as first, let's handle the waking up early

00:16:19.320 piece. There's the shortest chapter in the book. It's like a four page chapter. It's called the five

00:16:23.380 steps, news proof, wake up strategy. This is the simplest way I've found to make waking up early

00:16:29.160 work. The first and four, I'll go over the most important steps here. Number one is move your alarm

00:16:34.200 clock across the room. That is, it sounds so simple, but I was being introduced. I was speaking at an

00:16:38.600 event in New York and the CEO, it was to a room full of CEOs. So I was super nervous. And, and, uh,

00:16:44.060 and the CEO that introduced me goes, I don't know if Hal's going to cover this. So I want to tell you

00:16:48.480 the biggest takeaway I got that was the linchpin for this whole miracle morning for me. He said,

00:16:53.300 move your alarm clock across the room. I almost dismissed it. Cause he goes, it sounds like something,

00:16:57.660 you know, like so simple, so simple. It's like, I want something high to, you know, like, give me some

00:17:01.120 advanced, you know, but I'll tell you what, if that alarm clock wasn't across the room, he goes,

00:17:05.900 I would not, I'd still be hitting the snooze button. And so that's the idea is when our alarm

00:17:09.900 clock's on the bedside table, which for most of us, it's our phone or whatever. And it's right

00:17:13.700 there. If you can reach your alarm clock in the first few seconds of waking up out of bed,

00:17:19.800 dude, you're going to fail every time. Cause our level of motivation at that moment is it's like

00:17:25.160 you're, you're more asleep than you are awake. Right. Right. So with the alarm clock, as far across

00:17:30.080 the room as it can be to hear it. And for me, it's in my bathroom so that I'm right there to turn it

00:17:34.860 off and then go into step two, which is wash my face, brush my teeth. But the point is your ability

00:17:39.300 to stay awake is, you know, it's, it's multiplied by three, four or five times when you you're already

00:17:44.680 upright, you've walked across the room, right? Like that, that's the hardest part. It's getting out

00:17:49.620 of bed. So you have to put those two feet on the floor. Exactly. And so, so that's step one. Now,

00:17:54.420 once you're there, it's like, okay, you still want to go back to bed more than you want to stay awake.

00:17:58.240 Right. But then the second step is brush your teeth. And it's not again, so simple. It's silly,

00:18:04.040 but by the, here's the way to think about it. Every minute you're awake, your level of what I

00:18:09.680 would call wake up motivation, like the motivation to wake up is increased. Like your discipline to

00:18:14.140 stay awake is increased every second, every minute that you're awake. So consider that on a scale of

00:18:19.240 one to 10, when the alarm goes off, if it's on your bedside table, you're at like a one or a two in

00:18:23.120 terms of your, on a scale of one to 10 in your wake up motivation level. Well, if you have to get up out

00:18:27.100 and walk across the room, you know, you're up to like a four, right? Yeah. And then just by being

00:18:31.720 awake, you're once you're awake, your body, literally all these, I don't even know the

00:18:35.160 scientific, you know, but the chemicals in your body that say, Oh, it's wake up. I time to wake up.

00:18:39.520 I better, I better flood my muscles with blood. I better send oxygen to the brain. I bet. Right.

00:18:44.760 All those things are happening. So as you're brushing your teeth, you're waking up more. Right.

00:18:48.680 And then from there, this is one of the most important tips. Drink a full glass of water.

00:18:52.660 This is something that we're not, I learned this from Evan pagan common sense. That's, 0.69

00:18:56.580 it's very uncommon. We don't, we don't, we should've learned this in school. When you wake

00:19:00.920 up in the morning, you think about it. We're dehydrated by default. We, we, we just went

00:19:04.840 without water for like eight hours or 10 hours, whatever. Yeah. I'll, I'll ask you a semi rhetorical

00:19:10.240 question, but Ryan, what's the, what's the beverage? Most people start with in the morning.

00:19:13.740 Oh, coffee. I'm sure. Which is a diuretic, which dehydrates you. So you're behind the eight ball.

00:19:18.040 When you wake up, then you put yourself further behind with coffee, right? Like, so for me,

00:19:21.700 I have a full glass of water sitting by my alarm clock. As soon as I turn it off,

00:19:26.220 I go into like college kid at a keg party mode. And I just down the water, like, you know, just 0.96

00:19:32.000 gone, gone, gone, gone, gone all the way down, brush my teeth. And I go downstairs. I fill that

00:19:36.640 water up. I make my coffee and I, you know, I have both kind of there to keep going. Um, so those are,

00:19:41.000 those are like, I don't know, three or four out of the main steps. But if you just, that's the first

00:19:45.680 thing you got to have a strategy to wake up and get out of bed. And that's the simplest one that I know.

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00:21:00.920 spot. Now I want to get back to my interview with Hal. Yeah, no, I was, I mean, I'm just going to say,

00:21:06.680 I love that part. And the reason I like it so much is because you're actually not using discipline.

00:21:12.080 You're just creating the structures and the systems and the processes to eliminate

00:21:15.360 the need even for discipline is what it looks like to me. That's you're, you're exactly right. And

00:21:20.060 that's that for me, I'm all about like, how do you just set yourself up for success? Right. I mean,

00:21:25.600 how do you make it easy? Like you want to not forget your keys, right? Well, you don't use

00:21:29.620 discipline. Just have the spot where you hang them every day when you walk in, they're always there,

00:21:33.640 you know? Exactly. Yeah. Let's get into the more tangible side of this now. I mean, obviously we've

00:21:38.100 been talking about what to do right when you wake up, but what does this morning routine look like

00:21:42.120 for you? I mean, I'd really like to go through your savers method. Yeah. So, so the savers,

00:21:46.780 again, I owe this to my beautiful wife and I didn't know when I wrote the book that the savers

00:21:53.260 acronym would arguably become more, uh, important or as important as the miracle morning concept itself.

00:22:01.240 Like people every day in the miracle morning, we have a Facebook group called the miracle morning

00:22:05.700 community with like 50,000 people from around the world. It just grows every day by like hundreds of

00:22:10.440 people every day. Um, yeah, but you see, you know, post all the time. Did my savers today,

00:22:15.260 not did my miracle morning, did my savers or which of the savers do you do in which order?

00:22:18.800 And all these questions around it. So for me, the way that it came about was when I decided I was

00:22:23.860 going to wake up an hour early and try this whole morning ritual thing. Cause that's what,

00:22:27.040 you know, Richard Branson and Oprah and all these people swore by. And I was like,

00:22:30.300 it's good enough for Richard Branson and Oprah. I, who am I to deny it? Right. So then I Googled,

00:22:35.180 you know, the, what are the best personal development practices? And I was looking for really one,

00:22:39.720 what's the one, maybe two that are the best, but I couldn't, I had a list of six and I could not

00:22:46.460 narrow it below that because depending on which article you read about, which millionaire or

00:22:50.880 billionaire or CEO or philanthropist or whatever, they swore by one of these six and, and none,

00:22:56.500 you know, none was more convincing than the other. So I had this list of six. And when I was trying to

00:23:01.700 decide which one to do, I thought, what if I did all of them? That would be, if I'm doing the six

00:23:05.640 most powerful proven personal development practices known to man that have been, you know, 0.96

00:23:10.100 that people have sworn by any one of these for decades, if not centuries, shit, if I did all 0.78

00:23:15.460 six, that would be the, that would be the ultimate, you know? So I did, uh, so here's what they are. 0.95

00:23:20.580 And, and by the way, when I was writing the book, I was frustrated going to my wife. I go, sweetie,

00:23:24.440 I need some sort of organ way to organize six. Right. You know, Robert Kiyosaki's got the cashflow

00:23:29.260 quadrant and Stephen Covey's got the seven habits. I'm like, I need something memorable. She goes,

00:23:32.920 why don't you get a thesaurus and see if there's other words that you can make it into an acronym

00:23:38.720 and meditation. What would we do without the women in our lives? Meditation became silence, 1.00

00:23:43.460 which is actually better because some people prefer to pray versus meditate or do both. So

00:23:47.400 that, that kind of gives you the option. Silence could be prayer, meditation, deep breathing,

00:23:51.040 yada. And then the final one was journaling and that became scribing, which again, it was actually

00:23:56.360 better because it broadened it because you might not want to journal. You might want to work on your

00:23:59.060 book. You might want to write out your goals. You might want to write. So scribing means writing. So,

00:24:02.180 so the savers are these silence, affirmations, visualization, exercise, reading, and scribing.

00:24:09.680 And, uh, I'll tell you, Robert Kiyosaki, you know, the book, rich dad, poor dad, right? So

00:24:14.660 if someone's not familiar, rich dad, poor dad has sold 26 million copies. It was written by Robert.

00:24:18.720 Is that what it is? Oh my goodness. Crazy. I mean, it's one of the bestselling books of all time.

00:24:22.000 So he is. So, I mean, and I read the book, you know, 15 years ago as a game changer for me.

00:24:25.920 So Robert Kiyosaki's assistant reaches out to me and says, Hey, Robert has read the miracle morning

00:24:30.080 three times. Um, and he would like rich dad radio, you know, he says it's, it's changed

00:24:35.500 his life. And I'm like, I mean, I'm in awe. I'm like, Oh, I bet. Yeah. When I tell it now,

00:24:40.320 I still, and so I get on his show and he's like passionately telling his listeners, like,

00:24:45.400 you have to get this, you know, and he's going off. And, um, he said, and this is to paraphrase

00:24:50.240 what he said. He said, um, the, how would he say? He said, how before the, I read the

00:24:57.440 miracle morning, he said, every successful person on the planet does at least one of the

00:25:02.560 savers and it, they swear by it. He said, I had never heard of anyone that did all six

00:25:09.680 of those ancient best practices. And he said, but now I do, I do all the savers every day.

00:25:15.000 And it's been a game changer for me. I do it with my wife. It's both of us, you know?

00:25:18.500 So, um, so the point is any one of those six practices, if you really delve into like Will

00:25:23.280 Smith swears by affirmations, he told Ellen DeGeneres in an interview on her show that that

00:25:27.460 was the key to him being, you know, you know, $10 million a movie or $20 million, uh, Hollywood

00:25:32.200 actor. He said, sell, I, he goes, I've used self affirmations since I was a kid or since

00:25:36.840 I was whatever age. And he said, and I basically, again, paraphrasing, but it, uh, self

00:25:41.580 affirmations, not, not the way they're taught, like, you know, Stuart Smalley, like they

00:25:44.400 have a bad rap. Right. Right. Yeah. That's what I was going to ask about. It's like,

00:25:47.400 how do you craft these? So the way here's a teaching point. So the way that I teach affirmations

00:25:52.000 is very different than they've been taught by even people that I really respect the way

00:25:55.760 they've been taught are, um, essentially, if you want to be a millionaire, just use the

00:26:01.800 words. I am the most powerful words in the English language and follow it with millionaire.

00:26:06.400 And I am tell yourself it enough until you believe it. Right. Right. That's bullshit.

00:26:10.440 Because like we're our, um, if, if we're, if we lie to ourself and say something that 0.99

00:26:16.320 is not true as if it were true now, then we're fighting with truth and reality. You

00:26:21.060 say, I am. And your mind is probably telling you that in your subconscious as well.

00:26:24.440 Subconscious go, you go, I'm a millionaire. And it's like, no, you're not, dude, you're

00:26:27.280 not even a, you're not even a thousandaire. Like, who are you kidding? So you're fighting

00:26:30.920 reality. So the way that I teach affirmations in the book and I give you like a formula, it's

00:26:34.380 essentially affirm what you want. So call that a goal. Right. And so we'll use this

00:26:39.880 example. I am committed to becoming a millionaire. Right. That's very different. And there's

00:26:45.020 no, there's no, you're now actually programming the, and you mentioned like, what if you don't

00:26:49.280 have self-discipline? So I've used affirmations to reprogram any limitation I've had. I had

00:26:54.200 a bad memory after my car accident. I was in a robotic car accident. I died for six minutes,

00:26:58.140 major brain damage. And I had a horrible short-term memory for six, seven, eight years. It's still

00:27:04.220 not the best, but then I learned about affirmations when I read thank and grow rich. And I created

00:27:07.660 an affirmation around my memory improving. And like a month later, uh, you know, I just,

00:27:11.960 I saw amazing results. So the point is really, yeah, I mean, so I've, I've changed any limitation

00:27:16.980 I have internally, like mentally or emotionally, or even in a behavior, I create an affirmation

00:27:22.360 and it's proven anything that you repeat yourself over and over and over and over and over again,

00:27:26.280 you're kind of programming your subconscious, which is the thought of these, you know, gurus that

00:27:30.600 say, say I am a millionaire. Yeah, that might work, but I don't think lying to yourself

00:27:34.800 as often. So I teach you to make it actionable and results oriented. I'm committed to becoming

00:27:38.400 a millionaire. So that's the, that's the what, and then the why, because I want to give my family

00:27:42.840 the freedom and security that they deserve. That's the, that's the why, right? The compelling

00:27:46.800 reason. And then you got to go with the how. Um, so I'm committed to making, you know, 20 phone calls

00:27:52.000 a day or working on my business from 8am to 9am or whatever. So the how and the when. So for me,

00:27:57.740 an affirmation is what do you want? Why do you want it? What's, you know, how, what specific

00:28:01.680 actions are you going to take? And when will you take those actions? So every day you're

00:28:05.680 programming your subconscious with, with what you need to think and believe and, and, and focus on

00:28:11.160 to virtually guarantee that you're going to create whatever results you have in that affirmation.

00:28:15.880 So that's the way that I teach them in the book. It's really, it's different than I've been, you

00:28:18.840 know, heard them for, for decades. Are you literally saying these things out loud or are you just

00:28:23.700 saying these in your mind? I know a lot. I don't say them out loud. Um, they might actually be

00:28:27.400 better. I don't know. I just, I just, I, and I have a lot of people that have told me they say

00:28:30.680 them out loud or some even go one step further where they've recorded them into their voice

00:28:34.380 recorder and then they listen to them in the car. Yeah. So I really say, try what works for you.

00:28:39.460 For me in my head has, has been enough. Now I do talk about in the book, the importance of feeling

00:28:43.960 the affirmation. So you can't just read it and be like, you have to actually go like, you have to

00:28:50.140 get some intensity behind it, some emotion behind it. Right. Cause it's kind of like if someone says

00:28:55.300 you're an idiot, you'd be like, uh, okay, well you're kind of a jerk. But if someone got in your 1.00

00:29:00.220 face and was like foaming at the mouth and said, you're an idiot. Right. And like scream, you'd be 1.00

00:29:05.320 like, whoa, like that would impact you much deeper. Right. Right. Affirmations to me are my favorite of

00:29:10.380 all the savers because I get to literally design the, the, the results, the beliefs, the, the, the action.

00:29:18.480 I get to design my future. Right. And right. Right. You're the architect. I'm the architect.

00:29:23.000 Visualization is very, a little more loosey goosey for me. And even though you can make vision

00:29:26.180 board or whatever, but I, it's, it's, it's, it's weird to me. I've had probably more people tell me

00:29:31.500 that before they read the miracle morning, that they, they, they struggle with affirmations more

00:29:35.540 than the others, you know? So that for me is easy. And, and I, you know, so we're, it's all different.

00:29:39.940 And in the book, like once you get through the whole, toward the end, there's a chapter on

00:29:43.860 customizing the miracle morning. And I, and I talk about like, you can customize every aspect.

00:29:48.200 You could do the savers in any order you want. You could do one saver per day, six days a week

00:29:53.620 and take the seventh day off. Right. You can, you can do, or you can leave. Like I don't visualize

00:29:57.980 all this. I do sometimes for speeches and stuff, but I don't visualize every day. I do all five of

00:30:02.460 the other ones every day. Um, but you can also change the length of time, you know, like I only

00:30:06.400 visualize for five minutes, but I'll read for 20 or 30, you know? So I, I, and you can even the whole

00:30:10.680 miracle morning, there's a whole chapter on the six minute miracle morning. So it's just, it's,

00:30:13.900 it's really designed like for you to try it all and then see what resonates with you.

00:30:18.560 That's going to make the biggest impact on your goals, your future and all of the above.

00:30:22.920 Yeah. I think that's the biggest thing is you've just got to experiment because I know there's a

00:30:25.820 lot of guys out here listening to this that maybe are not saying I'm not a morning person,

00:30:29.320 but they're literally at work or something like that in the morning because they have a weird

00:30:32.320 schedule. So you've got to experiment and figure out what works for you. I want to take a little bit

00:30:36.340 of a different angle because I know you've had this conversation tens of thousands of times by now,

00:30:41.060 I'm sure. And I know a lot of the guys have heard about morning routines, morning rituals,

00:30:45.260 why this is so important, but I'm really curious how you cap your day, how you end your day and what

00:30:50.400 this actually looks like for you. So yeah, for me, uh, I, I actually do very little to cap my day.

00:30:55.920 So I wish I had a profound answer for you. However, I do, you know, it's, it's, I almost cap it,

00:31:01.800 uh, the next morning, if that makes sense. So, um, I use something, are you familiar with the five

00:31:07.400 minute journal? Yes, I am. So yeah, I use the five. We'll make sure we make a link to that.

00:31:11.060 So these guys can see it too. Yeah. Yeah. Which is great. And by the way, I, um, they've

00:31:14.540 got a physical hardcover copy. Um, but I, uh, because I travel so much, I like the convenience

00:31:20.420 of my phone. So there's actually an app. The other cool part about the five minute journal app

00:31:24.440 is it has, um, you can put a, a picture. So the way that I kind of cap my day every day,

00:31:30.960 I try to make sure I take one picture during the day, uh, of me, whatever, whatever I'm doing

00:31:36.300 with the family, you know, skiing on the lake, visit, whatever, I'm giving a speech, whatever

00:31:40.840 I do, I try to get one picture every day. And, uh, and then, and then, and then the five minute

00:31:45.180 journal has a space for basically there's, there's a morning entry and an evening entry. And so the

00:31:50.880 evening entry says, what are three amazing things that happened today? Uh, and how could you make

00:31:54.520 today better? And if I were to simplify, you know, what, how to cap a day, like to me, that that's a

00:32:00.520 really simple way to do it, right? Like what, what was amazing about today? Like find the, the,

00:32:05.220 the, the greatness in today. And then what can you do tomorrow to make it better? The only other

00:32:09.800 thing that I do, but I don't really do it daily. Um, because I do it, I mean, I do it at the end

00:32:15.100 of my work day, I should say, uh, which I get off at five usually is I do make sure I have the next

00:32:20.060 day planned. Like I make sure that in writing, I literally have at 4am. I start my day at three,

00:32:25.720 I wake up at three 30, which is in case anybody's like, you know, that's insane. That's not

00:32:30.360 the miracle morning. I always like, that's a disclaimer I give. Cause I used to, when I was

00:32:34.820 first doing that, I would publicize on Facebook, like, Hey, up at three 30 AM for a miracle

00:32:38.260 morning. And I ran into it. They're like, yeah, I see you. You know, it's, I can't do that. I can't

00:32:42.900 wake up at three 30. I'm like, Oh no, you don't have to wake up at three 30. I just, so yeah. So

00:32:47.900 now I'm always like really careful to be like, so what time are you in bed by? Uh, four 30 in the

00:32:51.920 afternoon. No, I'm kidding. Um, yeah, no, nine 30 PM. So I, uh, I, okay. And I, in the book,

00:32:56.800 I talked about how the, the, the impact of the mind body connection and how my philosophy on how

00:33:02.480 we need as many hours of sleep as we believe that we need, there's a book called the biology of

00:33:06.520 belief that kind of proves how our beliefs affect our biology. And therefore, you know, anyway, so

00:33:12.580 there, there's, there's a lot, but, uh, yeah, if you believe you need to think about this, here's a

00:33:16.940 simple way. If you believe you need eight hours of sleep and that's a belief that you have and

00:33:20.580 because you read it somewhere and then you go to bed and you go, I'm only going to get six hours

00:33:25.160 tonight. Well, you literally go, I'm going to be exhausted in the morning. Like that's not enough

00:33:29.240 for me. And it's not that that's not enough for you. It's that you don't believe that's enough.

00:33:32.900 So you're, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. It becomes your reality, right? Sure. And I have,

00:33:37.520 I, in the book, I give you, there's a link. You can download these bedtime affirmations where

00:33:41.140 you literally program yourself before bed that no matter how many hours of sleep you're getting,

00:33:45.720 whether it's five and a half or 10 or whatever, it's the perfect amount. And you're going to wake up

00:33:50.080 feeling rested and rejuvenated. In fact, that's one of the wake up steps that I forgot to throw in

00:33:54.280 there, which is you've got to consciously set your intentions before bed about what you're going to

00:33:59.120 do the first seconds when the alarm clock goes off, how you're going to feel, et cetera.

00:34:03.260 So what tools are you using outside of the five minute journal to document your day and what you're

00:34:08.000 going to do? I mean, is there a checklist you use for the savers? What, what type of tools are you?

00:34:12.220 So I'm almost, I'm slightly embarrassed on, or not embarrassed, but, but I'm old school, dude. I use,

00:34:16.520 I still use a Franklin Covey planner and I'm a pen and paper every time I try to, and I keep ever,

00:34:22.600 you know, I finally actually last year was the first year. I was like, you know what,

00:34:25.020 this is the first year in three years that I'm not going to say I'm going to go digital this year

00:34:28.040 because every time I try it, I just, it just doesn't, it just doesn't work. I'm half digital.

00:34:32.020 I mean, I do digital scheduling, but then I write it in my physical planner. There's something for

00:34:35.260 me about like right now I'm looking at my entire week, the whole thing's in front of me. It's on my

00:34:39.060 desk. Um, you know, and I can see it every day. So that's what I use. And it's got your,

00:34:42.760 you know, daily task list and all that. Um, my savers, I don't, I don't check them off. We are,

00:34:47.180 we are working on a miracle morning app, um, which has been asked for a lot, uh, you know,

00:34:51.820 that'll have a lot of different components. One of them being though, every day checking off your

00:34:55.540 savers as you don't, I actually have a, a one page weekly planner that I use and your savers are right

00:35:01.300 on that planner. So I literally go in and I check those off every single day. I'm honored. That's

00:35:05.320 cool. Yeah. I'll shoot you a screenshot or something like that. Sure. So, all right. So we're,

00:35:09.100 we're winding down on time and this time flew, I'm looking at the clock right now, but I do have a

00:35:12.540 couple other questions, uh, really quickly. What does a guy do when he gets off track? Because I know

00:35:17.900 people tend to beat themselves up and then they just throw in the towel. How do we get back on track?

00:35:21.820 Quickly. If we, we botched this up a little bit. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's about recommitting and,

00:35:25.940 and there's, you know, not being too hard on yourself and recommitting and, and realizing that

00:35:29.900 if you feel that if you feel a little bit bad about being off track, that's actually a win if

00:35:35.040 you see it that way, because that shows that you care where, you know, when someone's like, how I,

00:35:39.520 I didn't follow through with my commit. Like I could, you know, I just, I still do some one-on-one

00:35:42.460 coaching. They go, I didn't fall through my commitment and then I go, well, Hey, I go,

00:35:45.800 you know, before we started working together, would that have even mattered to you?

00:35:49.180 Yeah. And they go, no, of course. I go, well, that's, that's a win, buddy. That's progress.

00:35:52.640 The fact that you care that you screwed up and that you didn't follow through, that's actually

00:35:56.660 a win. So let's use that, that care that you have for your, your, yourself or whatever. Let's,

00:36:02.620 let's recommit. And so for me, I, I'm kind of big on living your life in 30 day challenges where,

00:36:07.300 and I started doing this with my family. We're doing a 30 day, no buying anything. We don't need

00:36:11.300 challenge as a family right now. So the kids aren't getting, cause it's so easy that you're at the

00:36:15.580 store and they're like, can I have this 50 cent thing? And you're like, a little toy.

00:36:19.440 Yeah. Like that'll appease them. They'll be happy. They'll, it'll keep them busy all the rest of the

00:36:24.180 evening. You're right. And so I was like, we do that way too fricking much. And, uh, and so we're

00:36:28.780 doing a 30 day, no challenge. And then every time the kids have asked for something, we take a picture

00:36:32.400 of the toy and the price tag. And that's the amount of money we're going to donate to. We're going to

00:36:36.300 find a charity where kids that don't have toys or can't afford toys. And we're going to give that at

00:36:40.340 the end and the kids will get to experience that and all of that. So this is where in the middle

00:36:44.860 or just halfway through month one of the challenge, but I told him like every month, let's do a 30 day

00:36:48.940 challenge as a family. Cause I do on my own. I was like, why am I doing this with my family?

00:36:52.540 So for anybody listening, um, that, you know, you fall off track, whatever you have recommit and

00:36:56.160 get some accountability. You know, that, that's one I, in fact, real quick, I'll take this as an

00:36:59.820 opportunity to invite anyone listening, uh, go to Facebook, type in the miracle morning community,

00:37:05.820 just like that. Cause there's a bunch of miracle morning groups, offshoots that people start.

00:37:09.460 Sure. Um, but the main group, it is the most supportive online community I've ever seen made

00:37:14.740 of like-minded, you know, individuals. And we have people in there that have been doing the miracle

00:37:19.160 morning, you know, for years they're on their, you know, 1342nd miracle morning. Right. And then

00:37:25.600 we have people that are on day one and it's a great place to go and be, you know, make a public

00:37:30.580 commitment that, Hey guys, I'm doing the miracle morning. Anybody else just starting, let's hold each

00:37:33.660 other accountable and check in here every day or check in on this post or whatever. Uh, but I encourage

00:37:37.740 you to commit to a 30 day challenge and that's, I'll wrap up with this, which is how do you change

00:37:42.540 a habit? If you were never been a morning person your entire life, right? We talked about the

00:37:46.520 snooze proof wake up strategy, but in the book, and this was a big part of, I think what's made

00:37:51.200 the stick for people is I give what I believe is the most effective strategy to, uh, simplify behavior

00:38:00.000 change and make it so that you can change any habit, whether it's quitting smoking or whatever.

00:38:04.600 And it's the strategy and the psychology around how to do that. And so if you go into a 30 day

00:38:12.020 challenge and you, you understand what, what you're likely to expect the first 10 days here,

00:38:16.620 here's, I'll give you a quick overview. First 10 days are unbearable. Second, 10 days are

00:38:21.080 uncomfortable. Third, 10 days are unstoppable because some point during those 10 days you'll

00:38:25.860 acclimate and you'll wake up. And that habit that at one point was unbearable, you don't even

00:38:29.980 resist it anymore. You're actually looking forward to waking up. You're looking forward to going

00:38:33.280 for a run, whatever it is. So that's the essence of kind of the mindset and the, and the approach,

00:38:38.360 but most people don't learn that. So on day four, they're like, Oh my God, this is really hard. I

00:38:42.960 guess it's not for me. And they throw in the towel. But if you go into it knowing that, well,

00:38:46.160 no, no, no, the first 10 days are going to be unbearable. It's supposed to be hard. Yeah. It's

00:38:49.520 supposed to be hard. But if you understand the benefit of like, well, dude, if this can make me a

00:38:53.140 millionaire, if this can help me lose 40 pounds or if it's got right, like I can do anything for 10

00:38:57.940 days if it's really going to be a game changer in my life forever. And so people now have this approach.

00:39:02.560 They go, okay, the first 10 days are hard. And by the way, a caveat, someone said this today,

00:39:06.260 I hear this all the time. They go, how? No, no, no. The first like three, four or five days are

00:39:10.300 actually easy because you're so freaking excited to try this. Yeah, I can see that. Days five through

00:39:15.780 10 are unbearable. They're like, you know, once the excitement wears off, you're like, Oh, now it's

00:39:20.480 getting hard, right? Because your body's not acclimated to it yet. And then days 11 through 20,

00:39:25.640 you're like, Oh, it's like, it's not unbearable, but it's still not. It's not really. I'm still kind of

00:39:30.140 hard. It takes a little discipline, right? But you know, I'm almost there and the sun is shining on

00:39:34.680 the other side of the clouds. And then you get to day 20, you know, and somewhere around day 20,

00:39:38.320 21, 25, whatever it is, you're like, dude, I'm a freaking morning person. Like this is crazy.

00:39:43.000 You know what I mean? Yeah. And then you never look back and, and, and I'm an example. And there's so

00:39:48.100 many, there's literally tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people now that went in,

00:39:53.880 read the book, said, I've never been a morning person in my entire life. In fact,

00:39:57.620 we surveyed the community. It was 72% of everyone we surveyed that responded said they had never been

00:40:03.840 a morning person before they read the book. And now they are no problem. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah.

00:40:08.800 And don't you have a 30 day challenge specifically for the miracle morning?

00:40:12.760 Yeah. So there, yeah, there's a, there, the, the, the, I think it's the last chapter, uh, that is,

00:40:17.620 is all about how it's called from unbearable to unstoppable, how to change any habit in 30 days.

00:40:22.480 Okay. Give us a 30 day challenge. And then there is one of the links that you can download. It's like a,

00:40:26.620 a kit that has like a tracking sheet for each of the, what you talked about, right? Each of the

00:40:31.120 savers and the 30 days. And, you know, and you, and you start by writing out like, why am I even

00:40:35.480 doing this? You get really clear on the big picture. What are my goals for my life? You know,

00:40:39.320 that I'm even willing to make this change. I mean, it really guides people through the process. And

00:40:43.760 again, all of this stuff that I, when I threw it all together, I was like, I want to support people,

00:40:47.820 but I don't know what's going to work and what's not. And it just happens to now having surveyed people

00:40:52.000 going, wow. Like if it wasn't for that piece, that piece that like, it all just kind of came

00:40:56.340 together, uh, you know, for in a way that is helping people make the change. Well, I know it

00:41:02.080 is for me. I mean, it's been powerful in my life. So I got to thank you and let you know, I appreciate

00:41:05.260 you for that. How I've got to ask you a couple of questions as we wind down. The second to last

00:41:09.320 question I want to ask is what does it mean to be a man? Well, here's the essence to me. I mean,

00:41:15.300 there's different facets, but I think it's about fulfilling your potential

00:41:18.000 and then leading others to do the same. That to me is the essence of being a man. Uh, to

00:41:23.780 me, that's the purpose of life, you know, in that, uh, fulfilling our potential, not only

00:41:29.900 for ourselves, not only for humanity, not only, you know, to change the world, but, but to

00:41:35.420 do it for the people that we love, because how we live our lives gives other people permission

00:41:39.400 to do the same. And I had this breakthrough realization in 2004. Um, I had two roommates that

00:41:46.080 were friends of mine and I was kind of slacking off that year. And I, my, I was like, I let my

00:41:50.400 sales down drop a little bit. I was cause I had some money saved and I was just kind of being lazy

00:41:54.620 and, uh, it was fine. Cause I, I had money saved to pay the bills and I was, I was cruising along.

00:41:59.940 Okay. But I had gone from being like a high achiever to, you know, being just like just enough to get

00:42:04.680 by. But then all of a sudden one day I realized my roommates were struggling financially and it was

00:42:10.760 indirectly my fault because they were looking at me and they go, Oh, how I'll stay in a plate playing video

00:42:15.900 games. Cool. Let's do it. You know, how's right. Oh, how's going out drinking? Oh, how's not how's

00:42:19.520 sleeping in. Right. This was before miracle morning. And, um, and it hit me. I go, I am

00:42:23.880 hurting their present and their future. And that is not okay. And so I, I recommitted to go out and

00:42:31.360 have my best year ever, not for the reasons that prior had driven me, which was like ego driven.

00:42:36.540 Like I want to be the best and I want to do all that. You know, I was like, I owe it to the people

00:42:39.980 that I care about. And, and, and, and, and that next year I doubled my income. I had the best year of my

00:42:44.840 life and all, but so did my two roommates and that, and that was 10, you know, over 10 years

00:42:49.620 ago. I look back now and that to me is still what drives me every day. And now it's not, it's for me

00:42:54.780 to set the example for the world, for the people listening to this interview, but you know, but

00:42:59.540 first and foremost, and most importantly to my kids, you know, and to my wife, it's to live to

00:43:03.760 my full potential so that I can set the example and even just understand how, like, you don't know

00:43:08.840 how to help others fulfill their potential if you're not doing it yourself, because you don't know what

00:43:12.520 it means to do it. Right. So right. That's what it means to be a man. No, it's powerful. And it,

00:43:17.120 and it coincides with what we talk about, which is to preside, to be a leader. So really appreciate

00:43:21.140 you sharing that. How somebody's listening to this. They want to connect with you. They want

00:43:23.980 to get the book. Obviously we're going to make links for the book and some of the things that

00:43:26.340 we've talked about outside of the community. Any other way that you suggest we connect with you?

00:43:30.920 Yeah. Halelrod.com, miraclemorning.com. I mean, you can, you know, if you want more info on me

00:43:35.920 specifically speaking, coaching, et cetera, halelrod.com, miraclemorning, you know, get the couple chapters of the

00:43:41.080 book, all of that, uh, videos that are there. Um, and then, and last but not least, uh, you know,

00:43:45.660 if you want to get, if you want to hang out for a couple of days in person, uh, we do an annual

00:43:49.520 event called best year ever blueprint. It is a December 9th through 11th this year in San Diego,

00:43:55.540 California, where most of the country's cold. It's like 72 degrees. Yeah. Yeah. Go to best year

00:44:02.400 ever live.com. Uh, that's best year ever live.com. Watch the video, uh, just underneath the first

00:44:10.180 fold of the website, scroll down a little, watch that video. And you'll either be like,

00:44:13.900 oh my gosh, this is amazing. I want to be there. Or you'll be like, dude, these people are crazy.

00:44:18.400 I want nothing to do with them. But, uh, but check that out. Best year ever live.com. And, uh,

00:44:23.380 yeah, Ryan, thank you so much, man. It's really, really enjoyed the time we had.

00:44:26.940 Yeah, you bet. Again, I appreciate you appreciate all your work and taking some time to imparting some

00:44:30.520 of your wisdom with, with me and the rest of the guys. So thanks again, Hal.

00:44:33.100 Yeah. My pleasure. And everybody listening, thank you so much for, for your time. And I hope to see

00:44:36.440 in the miracle morning community. There you have it, man. Mr. Hal Elrod teaching us some of what

00:44:42.760 you need to know in order to own each and every one of our days. You need to go buy the book. If

00:44:47.960 you haven't already, if you go to order a man.com slash zero seven zero, I've got the link to the

00:44:52.360 book and also the additional resources and links that we talked about today. In the meantime, guys,

00:44:57.740 check out our inaugural order of man uprising, September 15th through the 18th, 2016.

00:45:02.400 This event's going to sell out. We're bringing on new instructors each day,

00:45:05.800 and it's going to be an event unlike any other. So go to order of man.com slash uprising for all

00:45:10.460 the details guys. I look forward to talking with you on Friday, but until then take action and become

00:45:14.520 the man you were meant to be. Thank you for listening to the order of man podcast. You're

00:45:19.220 ready to take charge of your life and be more of the man you were meant to be. We invite you to join

00:45:23.960 the order at order of man.com.

Order of Man - July 19, 2016

OoM 070： The Power of a Perfect Morning Routine with Hal Elrod

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