THE MIRACLE MORNING 30-DAY LIFE TRANSFORMATION JOURNEY
“An extraordinary life is all about daily, continuous improvements in the areas that matter most.”
—Robin Sharma
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
—Neale Donald Walsh
Let’s play devil’s advocate for a moment. Can the Miracle Morning really transform your life in just 30 days? I mean, come on, can anything really make that significant of an impact on your quality of life that quickly? Well, consider that it did for me, even when I was broke, depressed, and at my lowest point. It has for millions of people around the world. These are ordinary people, just like you and me, realizing we have it within us to become extraordinary.
Remember Keith Minick, whose son died just three hours after being born. Keith spent over a year suffering from depression and feeling dissatisfied with his career. Then, during his very first Miracle Morning, his mindset completely changed: “I set my alarm, got up, and began the S.A.V.E.R.S. I experienced instant changes in my psychology, physiology, and mental health. I took ownership of where I was and set forward a path and a process to achieve the life I wanted.”
He went on to say, “I have been practicing the Miracle Morning routine for nearly a decade. The S.A.V.E.R.S. framework continues to be a major part of my life. A major factor to my success has been implementing, maintaining, and evolving my routine. I encourage anyone looking for a breakthrough, struggling with depression, or trying to get unstuck in life to read and implement the Miracle Morning S.A.V.E.R.S. framework.”
Keith’s story is a real-life example of just how fast things can change for you and how, 10 years later, you can still be evolving into the best version of yourself.
In the last chapter, you learned a simple, effective three-phase strategy for successfully implementing and sustaining any new habit in 30 days. We’re now going to apply that strategy directly to the Miracle Morning practice with the Miracle Morning 30-Day Life Transformation Journey so that it feels like a seamless transition in your life.
In previous editions of this book, I referred to this as the 30-Day Life Transformation “Challenge.” However, when writing this new edition, I realized that most of us already have more than enough challenges in our lives, and the Miracle Morning is really a journey of elevating your consciousness and becoming the best version of yourself. This chapter and the actions it lays out for you represent the first 30 days in your lifelong Miracle Morning journey.
In addition to the S.A.V.E.R.S., you’ll identify other habits that you believe will have the most significant impact on your life, your success, who you want to be, and where you want to go. Then, you’ll use the next 30 days to begin forming these habits, which will completely transform the direction of your life. By changing the direction of your life, you immediately change your quality of life—and, ultimately, you change where you end up.
Consider the Rewards
When you commit to the 30-Day Life Transformation Journey, you are committing to building a foundation for fulfilling your potential in every area of your life. You will begin each day with newfound levels of clarity (the power you’ll generate from focusing on what’s most important), discipline (the crucial ability to get yourself to follow through with your commitments), and personal development (perhaps the single most significant determining factor in your success). By waking up for your Miracle Morning and implementing your S.A.V.E.R.S. for the next 30 days, you’ll find yourself quickly becoming the person you need to be to create and sustain the improvements you want to make now and for the rest of your life.
You’ll also be transforming the Miracle Morning from a concept that you may be excited (and possibly a little intimidated) to implement into a lifelong habit that you’ll be able to use to continue developing yourself into the person you need to be to continue creating the life you’ve always wanted. Even within these first 30 days, you’ll experience profound improvements in your mindset and the way you feel.
By practicing the S.A.V.E.R.S. each day, you’ll be experiencing the combined physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual benefits of silence, affirmations, visualization, exercise, reading, and scribing. Don’t be surprised if you feel less stressed, more centered, more focused, happier, and more excited about your life.
If right now you’re feeling hesitant or concerned about whether you will be able to follow through with this for 30 days, relax—it’s completely normal to feel that way. This is especially true if waking up in the morning is something you’ve found challenging in the past. Remember, we all suffer from rearview mirror syndrome. So, it’s expected that you will be a bit hesitant or nervous, and it’s a sign that you’re ready to commit. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be nervous.
Remember, your life situation will improve after—but only after—you develop yourself into the person you need to be to improve it. That’s exactly what these next 30 days of your life can be—a new beginning, and a new you.
3 Steps to Begin Your Miracle Morning 30-Day Life Transformation Journey
Step 1: Get the Miracle Morning 30-Day Life Transformation Kit
Visit MiracleMorning.com/resources to download, print, and begin filling out your free Miracle Morning 30-Day Journey Life Transformation Kit, which gives you exercises, affirmations, daily checklists, tracking sheets, and everything else you need to make starting and completing the 30-Day Life Transformation as easy as possible. This document will help you identify which area(s) of your life you want to improve, consider any obstacles you may need to overcome, clarify which actions you’ll take to do so, and then align your daily Miracle Morning practice to help you follow through, similar to how I used the S.A.V.E.R.S. to double my income during the 2008 recession. Like anything in life that’s worthwhile, successfully completing the 30-Day Life Transformation requires a bit of preparation, so it’s important that you do the initial exercises in your Life Transformation Kit (which shouldn’t take you more than 30 to 60 minutes). You can even do them during your Scribing time during your first Miracle Morning.
Step 2: Schedule Your First Miracle Morning for Tomorrow
Commit to and schedule your first Miracle Morning for tomorrow (yes, write it into your schedule) and decide where you will do it. Remember, I recommend that you leave your bedroom and remove yourself from the temptations of your bed altogether. My Miracle Morning takes place every day on my living room couch while everyone else in my house is still sound asleep. I’ve heard from people who enjoy doing their Miracle Morning outside in nature when the weather is nice. Do yours where you feel most comfortable but also where you won’t be interrupted. Lastly, remember that this is about progress, not perfection! You don’t even have to do all of the S.A.V.E.R.S. to start. As I mentioned in the last paragraph, you can begin with Scribing and continue filling out your Fast Start Kit. Or you can focus on Reading and continue with the two brand-new chapters that follow this one. What’s most important is that you start your day with personal development, whether that’s one of the S.A.V.E.R.S., all of them, or somewhere in between.
Step 3: Set Your Alarm and Move It Across the Room
As my first coach, Jeff Sooey, used to say, “This is where the rubber meets the road.” Commit to waking up earlier (ideally 30 to 60 minutes before you have to) and doing your first Miracle Morning. It’s not a must that you keep your alarm clock across the room, but you may remember from Chapter 5 that it forces you to get out of bed, and being upright makes it much easier to stay awake than when you’re able to reach over to your nightstand to turn it off.
There’s also an optional Step 4: download the free Miracle Morning Routine app. If you don’t like using apps, you can disregard this step. But if you do like apps, this app provides you with added accountability by enabling you to track your progress each day and check your S.A.V.E.R.S. off as you complete each one. The additional resources include customizable timers, an affirmations creator, a built-in journal, and optional guided S.A.V.E.R.S. tracks so that you can complete your Miracle Morning by clicking “play” and following along. If you like using apps, this is a great free resource to help set yourself up for success.
Are You Ready to Transform Your Life?
Remember that when measuring our levels of success and fulfillment on a scale of 1 to 10, we were all born with an innate drive and desire to become the best version of ourselves and experience life at a level 10. What might taking the first steps in that direction look like for you? What are the next levels of success and fulfillment in your personal or professional life? Which abilities or habits do you need to develop to reach those levels?
No matter what your past has been, you can change your future by changing what you do in the present. Give yourself the gift of investing just 30 days to make significant improvements in your thoughts, words, and actions, thereby elevating your consciousness one morning at a time.