Why we really snooze

The life you are living might not be the one you want. Therefore, your subconscious sees no point in letting you torture yourself.

The reason you don’t want to wake up is that you are living someone else’s life. ~ Hal Elrod

Step 1: Set your intentions before bed
1. Think of several pleasant things you are planning to do the next day.
Step 2: Move your alarm far from your bed
1. You will not be likely to return to bed, as your energy already started flowing through your body.
Step 3: Brush your teeth
1. You need to find one useful activity that does not require mindful concentration. Don’t pick up your phone to scroll through social media. It will only make your brain agitated, leaving your body still asleep.
Step 4: Drink a glass of water in its entirety
1. Drink a glass of water, room temperature. The lack of it in your body causes fatigue and headache. Moreover, it helps your stomach wake up, which wakes your entire organism.
Step 5: Dress in your workout clothes
1. You have no other way than to go ahead and start your workout. The author suggests that instead of a shower, you can break a sweat.

In order to optimize your ability, morning exercise is important because it brings you into a peak mental, physical, and emotional state so that you can win the day. ~ Hal Elrod

Convince yourself to keep quiet

The Miracle Morning Life S.A.V.E.R.S. will help you develop one or several aspects of your life — physical, spiritual, intellectual, etc. By practicing your chosen routine thoroughly, you will be able to figure out what holds you back in life. Empowered with this knowledge about your-self, you will be able to move on to living the way you want to.

You will learn more in an hour of silence than you will in a year from books. ~ Matthew Kelly

S denotes silence.

“In the art of silence, the soul finds the path.” Silence is not only the absence of sound. It also stands for peace and tranquility of your mind. Purposeful silence is about both your mind and your body are quiet.

When nothing irritates you from both inside and out, purposeful silence is one of the most effective ways to reduce stress. ~ Hal Elrod

Silence will help you increase the awareness of your goals and priorities, as you will finally get the time to listen to yourself. Practice silence with • Meditation • Prayer • Reflection • Deep Breathing • Gratitude

A is for Affirmations

Affirmations are useful in persuading yourself to be the person you want to be. Saying “I am strong” to your face over and over again will help you build up the confidence you lack as soon as you start to believe what you are saying. When that happens, you begin to act upon this learned truth, thus making it only more solid.

You will be a failure until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation, which clicks. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn

Visualize and exercise

V is for Visualize

Visualization is a powerful, creative tool. It is also all about the future. Many of us live in the past.

Focus on the future you want to have. Think of the things, people, and events you wish to see in it. Don’t be shy and dream big, anything you see in your mind’s eye is possible.

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible. ~ Cherie Carter-Scott

Step 1: Get ready
1. Choose a place in your home other than your bedroom. Sit up with your back straight, in a comfortable position. Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and prepare yourself.
Step 2: Visualize what you really want
1. Imagine something you want badly. If there are several things, choose the most appealing one to start with. Concentrate with all senses.
Step 3: Visualize what you need to be & what you need to do
1. If this is an event you are thinking about, put yourself in the picture. See yourself doing daily routines and see yourself enjoying this process.
2. This practice will link your desired future gain with the reality of the present or anchor it in the here and now.

Creative visualization will help you generate positive results in your world by leveraging your imagination's power. ~ Hal Elrod

E describes Exercise

Morning exercise should be regular in your daily rituals. When you exercise every morning, your energy levels rise significantly and, having more strength; you will feel more confident about yourself.

We tend to believe that the less we move, the more energy we save. This doesn't seem right. Using our power to exercise even for just 1 minute will have our blood rush through the body filling the cells with oxygen.

Read a line, drop one too

Reading is the practice of self-discipline and a workout for your brain. You should read both fiction and non-fiction books, as both of these kinds convey human experience in a slightly different way.

read for 15-30 minutes every day. If you read fast, take 10-15 minutes. All of this time doesn’t have to be in the morning, especially if you combine the practices. It is important that you do this every day.

Reading channels wisdom generations before you accumulated; do not ignore it. ~ Hal Elrod

Before starting to work on a new book, try to anticipate what you expect to gain from it.

S means Scribing

The word “scribing” comes from Latin and means the act of writing. There are at least two effectual techniques you may want to try out:

writing automatically, without thinking into it, whatever comes to your mind. No filters, no restrictions. Don’t stop yourself, let it flow.
pluck your thoughts and ideas and try to make sense of them in writing. It shouldn’t be beautiful or grammatically correct.
- Most important is that you materialize whatever is going on in your head and document your ideas, breakthroughs, and insights.
- This technique also helps people realize what has been bothering them for a long time but went unnamed.

Choose a format — digital or traditional
1. Some people type faster than they write. However, handwriting connects us to what we write, whereas typing on the computer is always a mediated, indirect experience.
Get a journal
1. Choose a journal that will be good at least for a year, or the rest of your life. Make sure you have a place to keep it comfortably, the point of the journal is that it gives you space to be absolutely honest and vulnerable. Therefore, you need to feel safe in this space.
Decide what to write
1. There are many things you can journal about, and innumerable types of journals — gratitude journals, workout journals, dream journals, food journals, etc. You can write about your goals, dreams, commitments, lessons learned, plans, family, and anything else you feel you need to focus on in your life.

Writing in a journal each day, with a structured, strategic process (more on that in a minute) allows you to direct your focus to what you did accomplish, what you’re grateful for, and what you’re committed to doing better tomorrow. ~ Hal Elrod

Pressed for time but got 6 minutes?

sometimes we really don’t have time, even these 15 minutes, for self-development and growth. Even in such cases, we don’t skip the morning routine. Regularity is vital here.

Instead of 15, you take just 6 minutes to improve your life. This is what you can do:

Minute One: Meditate

You need to see yourself waking up, happy and relaxed. Think about the things you are grateful for. Say a prayer and ask for guidance through the day. You can take this minute to start a meditation.

Meditation grounds you in here and now and helps you feel at peace with the world. ~ Hal Elrod

Minute Two: Affirm

Read your affirmations aloud. Concentrate on the resonant ones. This will raise your internal motivation. Remember, you have taught yourself to be smart, successful, attractive, and so on. Now you need to act on it.

Minute Three: Visualize

Look at your visualization board or close your eyes and use your imagination. Think about the day you already started living. Imagine it going well and enjoyable.

Try to sense and feel as many things as possible. The closer your visualization to reality is, the smoother your day will go.

Minute Four: Journal

Write down the things you’re grateful for or the something you want to complete by the end of that day. You set a goal and know precisely to work towards achieving it.

Minute Five: Learn

During this minute, read a passage or two from a self-help book. Try to think about how it relates to the new day of your life or how you can use what you learned there that day.

Minute Six: Exercise

Finally, stand up and exercise for 60 seconds. You can run or jump around the room. Train your abs or triceps. You need to get your heart sound and going, generating energy, and increasing your ability to be present and focused.

There is no limit to how your Miracle Morning can be personalized to fit your lifestyle and help you achieve your most significant goals, faster than ever before. ~ Hal Elrod

Conclusion

Morning is the most important part of the day because that is when we get the chance to start anew.

Fresh from the night sleep, we still have both our conscious and subconscious layers of psyche working actively. Thus, things that we fear, loathe, or feel itchy about might become more apparent to us, meaning that we will find the tools to transform or eliminate them.

You can start small, with one activity per day, and then escalate by combining two or three of them. You can meditate practicing silence, then write down your thoughts and ideas in the journal, and finally, go for a short run.

Try doing these rituals every morning for one month, and you will see your life change for the better.

Try this

The 5-Step Snooze-Proof Wake Up Strategy:

Set Your Intentions the Night Before.
Keep Your Alarm Clock Across the Room. Remember: movement creates energy!
Brush Your Teeth. Use Listerine® for extra oomph!
Drink a Full Glass of Water. Hydrate yourself ASAP.
Dress in Your Workout Clothes. Earn your A.M. shower!