Showing posts with label Hal Elrod. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hal Elrod. Show all posts

Monday, September 12, 2016

4 M's - The Miracle Morning and Microblog Monday

The Miracle Morning continues!

"Be grateful for all that you have, accepting of all that you don't, and actively create all that you want."

You can read about the start of The Miracle Morning here:  mymiddletonchronicles.blogspot.com/my-attempt-at-miracle-morning

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Miracle Morning Day 1

Today, day 1 of my Miracle Morning 30 Day Challenge,  was not a complete success but is was not a total fail either. I set my alarm for 5:30 PM. When I awoke at 6:00 AM I was confused about why my alarm did not go off. Aha ... Set for the wrong time of day. I've done that before so I was not surprised.

The Headspace App is my meditation and I picked the motivation pack. If you haven't heard of Headspace check it out. A cool monk named Andy takes you through guided meditation. The 1st 10 are in a pack called Take 10 and it's free. You do pay to access more. I paid for this a while ago, glad I am finally inspired to get some use out of it.

The sample meditations are good. I read them to myself. Will that make a difference? Just wasn't feeling saying them out loud.

Exercise - I did sets of hand weights, sit ups and planks. Added in some stretching and it felt good.
Hey, there's a reason to go to bed in yoga pants now! Tropical storm Hermine cancelled any plans for a walk, it's wet out there.

As I mentioned this blog is my scribing. I missed the reading due to lack of time but instead of surfing social media before bed last night I read a fun book so maybe that counts?

Off to get ready for the day!

Monday, September 5, 2016

My Attempt At The Miracle Morning

I heard about a book called "The Miracle Morning" by a guy named Hal Elrod. I liked the concept and downloaded the book to my ipad to check it out. It's right up my alley and I am going to give his methods for self improvement a shot.

Starting tomorrow I'll be attempting his 30 day transformation challenge. The first step was to do an assessment of where you are in all areas of your life. The 30 day challenge includes getting up 1 hour earlier than usual and in that hour doing a series of activities geared toward increasing energy and productivity for the day.

Here's how I'll execute based on the prescribed activities -

Meditation (headspace app)
Affirmations (I'll use the sample ones from the book to start)
Visualization (a vision board?)
Exercise (what can I get done in 20 minutes? tomorrow will be hand weights and a quick walk)
Reading (read the parts of Elrod's book that I skipped over :)
Scribing (I think I'll use this blog for scribing)

Time I'll be up tomorrow - 5:30 AM

Here's the quote that spoke to me the most from Elrod's materials - "Be grateful for all that you have, accepting of all that you don't, and actively create all that you want."
I like it!

Let's see what this 30 day challenge does for me.