Simple morning ritual of the author of the book "The Magic of the morning," Hal Elrod

What this book?

The main idea of ​​the book "The Magic of morning" is very simple: you need every day from the morning to devote time and self-improvement is to change lives for the better.

Book Hal Elrod is very American: its style is similar to the preaching of the pastor or the performance of a motivational speaker. Through the text the author tries to convey the ardor, the confidence, cheerfulness, positive attitude, which are inherent in American culture, but it is not always clear to the reader with a different mentality. The book is in many ways similar to the creation of Napoleon Hill, Anthony Robbins, Jim Ron: it has a lot of repetitions, very simple language, and the content itself is a mix of all ideas about success and cultivation.

It seems that in the genre of the literature on self-help is unlikely, you can create something original, but the book Hal Elrod has several features that distinguish it from others.

Firstly, noteworthy story author: very young, he was in a terrible accident. In his car at breakneck speed crashed into a car with a drunk driver at the wheel. Author survived clinical death, suffered multiple fractures due to brain injury, he had serious problems with memory, and doctors doubted that he would be able to walk. Contrary to forecasts, Hal was not only able to walk, but became ultramarafontsem, although the accident is not particularly fond of running.

However, even more serious challenge for Hale calls himself the crisis of 2008, when serious financial problems nearly drove him to suicide. But this time, Hal gave up and found the strength to re-create the life of their dreams.

Secondly, in addition to motivational appeals and stories from the life of Hal Elrod and his friends, the book contains a description of the main thing - that the author presents as an effective and simple tool to making a difference - method wonderful morning.

What is the method of "wonderful morning?"

The essence of it is to wake up early every morning to run the ritual of self-improvement - development of the mental, psychological and physical aspects of their personality.

The method aims to make every revival as happy and exciting as the morning of the most enjoyable events: holidays, weddings or a long-awaited trip. Everyone agrees that the expectation of joyful events energizing, regardless of the amount of time that could be paid to sleep the night before. The method of "wonderful morning" aims to recreate the feeling of anticipation of a miracle at every waking.

Why the method is for the morning?

Because usually determines the mood of the morning throughout the day. Especially busy people, waking up early, can find time only for myself, because during the day or in the evening it becomes a problem: prevent neglect or simply does not remain forces for anything other than TV. However, people who work in shifts, can not use the method in the morning, and just immediately after awakening.

But what if I'm a night owl?

It is interesting that the author considered himself an owl before it began to practice "a wonderful morning." However, this did not prevent him from getting up early, that convinced him conventions dividing people into larks and owls. The author draws attention to the fact that our perception depends on our personal settings. If we believe that an early rise badly affect us, it will be so in reality. At the same time, by practicing "wonderful morning," we can change your own settings.

In addition, for a proper awakening author advises to use tried to imagine life hacking: bedtime formulate goals for the morning, remove the alarm clock away in the morning to drink water, brush your teeth and put on sports clothes.

What specifically needs to be done in the morning?

Hal Elrod provides the freedom to define it yourself (most importantly, that the actions were aimed at self-development), but it gives a tip in the form of the program.

"A wonderful morning," the author lasts an hour and consists of silence (including meditation), affirmations (the repetition Affirmations), visualization, journaling, reading, developing literature and physical exercises.

Morning ritual does not need to last an hour, all actions can be reduced up to the minute.

But why meditation, affirmations and visualization?

By this practice, many are skeptical, however, the fact that they are used by athletes from around the world and the stars of the first magnitude, is important. I doubt it, you may want to drop the skepticism and try to use these methods for some time, because they are quite simple.

Meditation - Practice mental exercises, which came from the East, and gained popularity in the West. It is scientifically proven that meditation has beneficial effects on physical and mental condition of the person. There are many types of meditation, the author also offers the easiest option - the concentration on the breath and the current situation.

Affirmations - are positive statements that need to be repeated regularly. This practice is aimed at reprogramming their destructive plants in the positive. In fact, it is a tool of persuasion themselves in their strength, importance and confidence. Hal Elrod gives some valuable tips on how to formulate your affirmation to make it work:

• First you need to clearly define what you want and why.
• Then figure out what kind of person you need to be and what to do to achieve the desired.
• Finally, add your affirmation inspirational and philosophical thoughts of prominent people.

We can only learn by regularly repeating the affirmation and modify as needed.

Visualization - is to create a visual image of the desired life. Many well-known athletes are actively using visualization, imagining his movements in advance. Ordinary people, too, are engaged in rendering, but most of it is negative. Hal Elrod sure that negative thinking is having a devastating impact on the mind and body, which affects the quality of life. To improve the quality of life you need to train yourself to present positive images - how you are doing something right, how to deal with the problems of how to achieve the desired.

That's all you need to do every day?

Yes. It is important that self-improvement has become a habit, which, in my opinion, is formed within 30 days.

Important in the formation of new habits - the right strategy, which consists in the understanding that it will be difficult at first and you will experience discomfort.

But after 30 days, all of your efforts will be rewarded and you will be happy to wake up in the morning to perform a ritual.

Why is the method of "wonderful morning" became so popular?

Hal Elrod tells about his experiences and about people's experiences, which he also helped to change lives for the better. He is convinced that the practice of "wonderful morning" change for the better life of any person.

The success of the method and the book identified a combination of factors: life-affirming human history, has overcome the circumstances; simple and memorable programs; author's belief that the person is able to make his life as wanted; understandable to all ideas about self-improvement.

What kind of ideas of self-improvement author tells us?

The ideas are simple enough:

• One of the central ideas of the book is that success usually corresponds to the level of personality development. If a person wants to succeed, it would first need to become that person that attracts this success. For self-development takes time, and the "wonderful morning" helps you find it.
• It makes no sense to seek to blame for their problems, to complain about the injustice or to invent excuses for his inaction. The only right decision - to pull myself together and get to the improvement of life.
• The more responsibility (not to be confused with guilt) for the life you the ASSUME, the more your personality.
• The vast majority of people live an ordinary life, but dreams of extraordinary. Causes of mediocrity - in the lack of faith in themselves, there is no purpose and discipline, indulgences, the absence of a sense of urgency and accountability in mediocre surroundings. Accordingly, the antidotes are self-confidence, well formulated goal, discipline, a sense of the need for immediate change, growth-promoting environment.
• The truth is that all people are able to live the life they dream of when making efforts in this direction. Even such minor at first glance, the change as "a wonderful morning," a positive impact on all aspects of life. Start to put myself an ultimatum and decide to live differently.
• The way a person does one thing, talking about how he does everything. any habit, Any relief that you are giving yourself, affects the quality of life.
• The best time to start a better life - right now.

But what if I do not believe in all this?

Doubt - it is quite a healthy reaction to something new. Can be skeptical about the effectiveness of visualization or repetition of the life-affirming mantras, but what if it works? What if this technique will improve your life?

In any case, the "wonderful morning" worth a try, because it is not expensive experiment. But what if? You may have to make an important choice between being miserable cynic, and in order to be happy idealist (at least for an hour in the morning).

Should I read the book?

The book is suitable not for everyone. People familiar with the literature on self-development, it will not find new ideas. Moreover, not everyone will like the style of presentation Hal Elrod. On the other hand, the success of the book and most of the reviews about it show that readers fell like a miraculous method morning.

This book is a good introduction to the world of literature on self-motivation and ability to return to act.

For the literature of this genre is not important style and artistic merit of the text, but rather how well the idea. If the "wonderful morning" helps people to change lives for the better, then the time spent on reading books, fully pays for itself.

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