Miracle Morning Millionaires: What the Wealthy Do Before 8AM That Will Make You Rich
by Hal Elrod
16 popular highlights from this book
Key Insights & Memorable Quotes
Below are the most popular and impactful highlights and quotes from Miracle Morning Millionaires: What the Wealthy Do Before 8AM That Will Make You Rich:
“Your life right now—everything from your work and your health to your relationships and your finances—is the result of choices you’ve made in the past. The job you have right now is a choice that you made at some point. And, whether you realize it or not, a choice you’ve made every day since. You can tell yourself that you have to do the work you do, but the truth is, you don’t. It’s a choice. Are you carrying around ten or twenty pounds of lifestyle-related fat? That’s the result of thousands of choices that you made over recent days, weeks, months and years. How about your significant other, or your close friendships? They’re all choices. Your furniture, the food in your fridge, the car you drive. They’re all choices. They are all, without exception, the results of your past behavior. The same thing applies to wealth.”
“If you wake up without any goals or direction, your days are practically guaranteed to get you nowhere.”
“take ownership and stewardship over all of your decisions, actions, and outcomes, starting right now. Replace unnecessary blame with unwavering responsibility. Even if someone else drops that ball, ask yourself what you could have done—and, more importantly, what you can do in the future—to prevent that ball from being dropped again. While you can’t change what’s in the past, the good news is that you can change everything else.”
“When you take control of your mornings, you take control of your days. You get to engage with the world under your terms. You can act, instead of react.”
“there is a connection between mornings and wealth. Not only does the world rarely sleep in, but the millionaires of the world almost never do.”
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
“Life’s too short” is repeated often enough to be a cliché, but this time it’s true. You don’t have enough time to be both unhappy and mediocre. It’s not just pointless; it’s painful. -SETH GODIN, New York Times bestselling author”
“The person who takes the most action in the face of fear—even if they’re half wrong—will beat the person who never moves forward, every time. The person who never takes action will almost always quit for one critical reason: they lack momentum.”
“The box is the beliefs, experiences, thoughts, skills, and opportunities that form your reality. It’s invisible, but you can see the effects of it all around you in the physical world. That box you’re in right now no doubt fits you fairly well. You’ve grown into it, and you’re comfortable. Everything in your box delivers a reasonably predictable result. Your current home, your friends, your job or business, the car you drive—those things are all the result of thoughts, beliefs, and actions that you took in the past. They’re the result of your box. Every action you’ve taken was filtered through the box and through the patterns of your brain that help you decide—for better or for worse—how to live your life.”
“When it comes to money, perhaps the most popular personal financial advice in the world is to “pay yourself first”—to take some of the money that comes in, and before anything else, put that money aside to invest. The premise is that the most powerful financial tool in the world is compound interest, but if you never have any money to invest, you’ll never get to take advantage of it. You have to take that money first; otherwise, it just gets consumed by other things. Time is similar. Developing yourself is the most powerful tool in the world. As with money, promising yourself you’ll set time aside later in the day to do what matters most just never seems to work—just as money will always find a new home, so will your time. By the last few dollars of your paycheck, it’s too late to save; by noon, it’s too late to do what’s most important with your time. Miracle Mornings are like paying yourself first—in wisdom, productivity, and clarity. When you leverage mornings, it’s like you’re skimming the cream off the top of the day and giving it to yourself so you can invest it for huge returns.”
“to become wealthy, you need to learn to get more from the resources you have.”
“Goals are about the future. But don’t make the mistake of putting off everything until some distant date when you have time, money and health. It’s always possible that the time might never arrive.”
“The first step, then, is to consciously decide—every night, before bed—to actively and mindfully create a positive expectation for the next morning. Visualize it and affirm it to yourself.”
“Start every day with a purposeful, disciplined, and growth-infused morning, and you’ll find that your day follows suit. You’ll feel purposeful and on track. You’ll be goal-oriented and less easily distracted.”
“Miracle Mornings are like paying yourself first—in wisdom, productivity, and clarity. When you leverage mornings, it’s like you’re skimming the cream off the top of the day and giving it to yourself so you can invest it for huge returns.”
“True wealth is about living in alignment with what matters most to you—in alignment with your values, only one of which is about financial freedom.”
