Dramatic Upgrades to This Expanded Edition
When I made the decision to create a morning ritual back in 2008, during the Great Recession, I did so because I was desperate. I had lost over half of my income and was struggling in almost every area of my life. Although I had never been and never really believed I could become a “morning person,” I started waking up earlier and implemented six of the most timeless, proven personal development practices in an attempt to turn my life around. It never even crossed my mind that it might one day become a book, let alone help millions of people.
This is my 15th consecutive year practicing the six-step morning ritual that I teach in this book, an average of six to seven days a week. (My preference is seven, but my wife’s preference is to keep me up way past my bedtime during our weekly date nights.) I’ve also benefited from more than a decade of interacting with and learning from members of the Miracle Morning Community. As someone who is mildly obsessed with optimizing nearly every aspect of my life, I’ve learned a lot since I wrote the original book, and I’ve incorporated those lessons into this edition.
I’ve also read thousands of the more than 50,000 online reviews for the book across platforms like Amazon, Audible, and Goodreads, to look for common themes. I’ve always wanted to understand which aspects resonate with readers, as well as those that don’t, so that I can address any issues and make improvements.
As a result of my personal evolution and feedback and requests from readers and Miracle Morning practitioners, I’ve made significant revisions to every chapter and nearly every page of this book. Additionally, I’ve focused on answering questions that people had after reading the original version and implementing the practice, such as:
- What if I’ve never been a “morning person” and don’t believe I can become one?
- What if I’ve been doing the Miracle Morning for a long time and it’s starting to feel stale; how do I make it exciting again?
- What if I’m not motivated and already feel so overwhelmed that I can’t imagine adding anything else to my schedule/ life?
- How can I use my Miracle Morning to achieve specific goals or overcome difficult challenges that I’m facing?
I’ve also included two brand new, never-before-published chapters: “Chapter 11: The Miracle Evening” and “Chapter 12: The Miracle Life.”
“The Miracle Evening” will give you a comprehensive, step-by-step plan for establishing an evening ritual that is designed to help you fall asleep feeling genuinely grateful, happy, and at peace, especially when life is difficult and you’re feeling stressed and overwhelmed.
“The Miracle Life” will teach you how to elevate your consciousness to a state of Inner Freedom so that you can proactively take control of how you feel and experience every moment of your life, regardless of your circumstances and particularly when life is difficult.
Whether you are new to The Miracle Morning, or you’ve read the original book (even multiple times), I wrote this Updated and Expanded edition to meet the needs and exceed the expectations of readers at every level. I hope this new version and the stories and lessons contained within enable you to love the life you have and create the most extraordinary life that you can imagine. You deserve nothing less.
A New Miracle Morning Mission: Elevating the Consciousness of Humanity, One Morning and One Person at a Time
When I self-published The Miracle Morning on December 12, 2012, I did so with the conviction that I had a responsibility to share the morning routine that changed my life with as many people as possible. Having seen the profound impact that the book and, more accurately, the Miracle Morning routine made in people’s lives, my sense of responsibility grew. I started thinking bigger and eventually committed to a personal mission: Change one million lives, one morning at a time.
Although one million was somewhat of an arbitrary number, it felt so significant that it stretched my imagination beyond what I considered to be probable. As an unknown, self-published author, I had no idea how to reach a million people. But I figured it would give me a meaningful goal to work toward that year and possibly for the rest of my life.
It took roughly six years of maintaining unwavering faith and extraordinary effort to get the book into the hands of more than one million people. During that time, I was also diagnosed with cancer and given a 30 percent chance of surviving (more on that later). Thankfully, the mission was no longer dependent on me. While I was focused on beating cancer, the Miracle Morning had evolved into a global community and a worldwide movement. As readers consistently experienced profound personal transformations, they shared their experiences and the book with others. This resulted in the manuscript being translated and published in 37 languages and reaching millions of people spread throughout more than one hundred countries.
The mission that began as changing one million lives, one morning at a time, has grown into something that is far more significant and imperative to the future of humanity, and it is no longer just my own. It has become apparent that when you dedicate time to a daily Miracle Morning practice, you elevate your consciousness by becoming more aware and intentional about how your thoughts, words, and actions impact your life and the lives of every person you interact with. As each of us elevates our own consciousness, we are collectively elevating the consciousness of humanity, one morning and one person at a time. Thus, the collective impact that is being made by millions of Miracle Morning practitioners is meaningfully affecting the lives of tens of millions and soon to be hundreds of millions of other people.
Now, more than ever, I believe it’s imperative for us to remember that we are all members of the human family and will always have infinitely more in common than the perceived differences that far too many people cling to. As a part of my family, I love and appreciate you more than you know. I am deeply grateful to be on this mission with you at this unique time in human history. Humanity needs us. Let’s make every morning count.