Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1007: Hal Elrod on Cheating Death & Creating The Miracle Morning

Starting point is 00:00:00 If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. Mite, ob-mite, up with your hosts. Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. Man, what a great interview we just did with a gentleman by the name of Hal El-Rod. He's a very high rated keynote speaker, extremely motivational individual, but it's crazy about him as a story. I mean, he died at the age of 20. He was hit, head on by a drunk driver at 70 miles per hour.

Starting point is 00:00:31 His heart actually stopped. For six minutes, he broke 11 bones. Eventually, he woke up from a coma, but the doctors told him he'd never walk again. And not only did he walk, but he actually ran a 52 mile ultra marathon, and then he became a Hall of Fame business achiever before the age of 30. And he kind of has this mentality and this method that helped him through that process.

Starting point is 00:00:55 And it sounds crazy, but then it gets even crazier. In 2016, his kidneys, lungs, and heart almost all failed at the same time. And then he was diagnosed with a very rare and very aggressive form of cancer, which is even crazier, right? You would never think a guy that's gone through all this would have the attitude that this dude has. And the energy, oh my God, you guys are going to see the energy this guy comes in with. Right.

Starting point is 00:01:22 There's not a lot of people that come in this studio that I think infect us with that high level of energy and like to a point too, where I went on to create different habits in my life afterwards, which is really cool. Literally during the episode, as he's talking to us and telling us, because he has a book called The Miracle Morning and The Miracle Equation, which you take practices from them and apply them. And these are things that he did for himself during these times. They were very effective and he did such a good job communicating them to us on the podcast that Adam was like, I'm doing this tomorrow. Yeah, I'm going to start doing this tomorrow.

Starting point is 00:01:52 And I have this. This is us releasing this episode probably about a week after we had met with him. And I've already been doing some of the stuff that he talks about in his book. And it's already been a game changer for me. So I definitely think this is one of the more valuable interviews that we've brought in. I think the audience is going to love this one. Right. So you can go to his website,

Starting point is 00:02:10 howlrod.com. That's H-A-L-E-L-R-O-D.com. He's also on Instagram. That's how underscore L-Rod. The two books that he has out is the Miracle Morning. And then the new one that just came out, that you can get excuse me pre sale is called the miracle equation and he also has a special offer for our listeners if you pre-sale the book if you buy it now the miracle equation and you forward your receipt from your purchase

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Starting point is 00:04:23 book. And so the car accident story is got to be where you, how this all got started and then we'll dive in the book. And so the car accident story is gotta be where you start off this podcast for sure. Yeah. Yeah, when I was 19 years old, I gave up my dream job as a radio DJ. Like, I just started on a big radio station and it was the dream. And a buddy of mine was in sales. He sold cut co-cutlery, right? Like kitchen knives, in-home presentations, not door to door, but you called referrals, you scheduled appointments, you went and saw them, and you cut stuff on their table, and you tried to sell them. And he tried to talk me into it our first year of college,

Starting point is 00:04:53 like all the time. You should sell knives, and I go, dude, I'm a DJ. Like I'm not a sales guy. And one day I went, I was just having me with him when he went to his, the cut call office. And he introduced me to his manager, Jesse Levine, and Jesse's super charismatic, really authentic cool guy. I'm like, so tell me about this sell-in-nive gig.

Starting point is 00:05:16 Like Teddy's always saying, I should do this, but like I have no interest in sales. Like what, and Jesse presented this like, hey, no ceiling on your income. You set your own schedule, work around your DJ schedule. And I'm like, interesting, like, okay. So I start training that weekend. I'm DJing midnight to 6 a.m.

Starting point is 00:05:32 because I'm the new guy, I have a grunt shift at the radio station. Midnight to 6 a.m. then I'm going to training from nine to five. Like I'm not sleeping for two or three days in a row. And the second weekend of doing that, I like veered off the road and was like, okay, I got a quit one. And it's like with the radio station. And the second week in a doing that, I veered off the road and was like, okay, I got a quit one.

Starting point is 00:05:45 And so I quit the radio station. And in my first 10 days, I broke the all-time company record. I sold more cut-code than anyone had ever. And so that, and that was like, the credit goes to my mentor. Like he was, I mean, I'll say no sales background

Starting point is 00:05:59 at all heading into this. Or was this your friend? Oh, well. And I always, people ask like, well, what were the keys to success? And I say, it's two attributes that we all have access to. Number one is enthusiasm, right? Like I was just, you'll get that from like,

Starting point is 00:06:11 I've just genuinely get enthusiasm. I get excited, right? So I was really excited to where I always say it was like a tornado where the people across the table were like, I don't even know half of what you just said, but like this, you seem excited about these knives. We'll take them, you know? And the second thing was work at them. Oh, you're drinking. I want everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The five hour energy, which wasn excited about these knives, we'll take them, you know. And the second thing was work at them.

Starting point is 00:06:25 Oh, you're drinking, I want everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The five hour energy, which wasn't around back then, and the second thing was work ethic, which I didn't have growing up. It was like, I literally, for the first time in my life, decided to tap into it. I'm like, I was like, I'm gonna break this record.

Starting point is 00:06:39 What do I have to do? My manager's like, you have to work hard and you've ever worked before in your life. And I'm like, I'm not really a hard worker. I'm kind of a lazy person, but okay. And but I committed, I did it. And so a year and a half later, I was still one of the top sales reps.

Starting point is 00:06:54 So I became known, I spoke at all the events, like every conference, whether it was an office, division, regional event, I spoke at all these events. And one night I gave a speech, so I was 20 at this point, it was a year and a half after I started, and driving home from my speech that night,

Starting point is 00:07:10 and I got a standing ovation at the speech, which was the first time that ever happened, so it was like a real, like surreal, like cloud nine. Oh my gosh, like that was so, you know, called my mom and dad, and a drunk driver got on the freeway, heading the wrong way. He was going the opposite of, you know,

Starting point is 00:07:27 the way I was going. I don't remember what I'm about to tell you. I only know this from police reports and my best friend was a minute behind me on the freeway. He found me, but this drunk driver, I was in a brand new Ford Mustang, I just bought and the Chevy full-size truck hit me head on at 80 miles an hour. Oh, cool.

Starting point is 00:07:44 And the worst was yet to come. It actually, the airbags exploded. I bounced off the drunk driver. Thank God we didn't hit direct. I don't think you can survive that. I must have swirved to the last minute because we basically hit on his driver's side and my driver's side.

Starting point is 00:07:59 So like one half of my car, one half of his car, hit head on, my car spun off the drunk driver, and the worst was the car behind me. I spun my car spun sideways, and they crashed into my door at 70 miles an hour. And so if you're listening to this, like I always say, look over your left shoulder and imagine that you're a parked car

Starting point is 00:08:18 or whatever a car comes at you at 70 miles an hour, just hit you in the door. So the entire left side of my car was smashed into my body, and I broke 11 bones instantaneously. My femur, the biggest bone in the human body, broke in half and one half speared out the side of my leg. My pelvis was crushed between the center console and it broke in three separate places.

Starting point is 00:08:37 My humorous bone behind my bicep snapped in half and came out behind my elbow. My elbow was shattered. I severed the radial nerve in my forearm. My eye socket was destroyed to the point of where it's made of titanium. I see that picture of your eyes. And the doctor thought that I'd be blind in that eye,

Starting point is 00:08:53 for sure, like that. My ear was almost completely severed. It was hanging on by about a half of an inch. And then the ceiling buckled from the impact and it turned into a V and it sliced the top of my head into a V. And unable the top of my head into a V. And unable to whisk down the pain, I'm very thankful that I was in a coma immediately. And my best friend was a minute behind me, came on the scene,

Starting point is 00:09:14 got out, you know, it was like, he first, he couldn't recognize a car. He just went like, oh, it was still moving, he said. He was like rolling across the highway and he goes, holy crap, there's been this horrific accident. And then, you know, it took him about 10 seconds. He goes, oh my God, that's how's car. And he jumps out of his car, puts in park, runs over. And, you know, the windshield was,

Starting point is 00:09:32 I mean, the window was shattered, so he was able to, you know, he's, you know, it's almost midnight. And he's going, how, how, how? And of course, I'm in a coma, but he thinks I'm dead because I'm not responsive and blood's just running down my face. And, you know, and he, you know, I'm not responsive, so he checks running down my face and you know and He you know, I'm not responsive so he checks my pulse and I had a pulse and he called 911

Starting point is 00:09:50 And I guess a lady had been right ahead of him and she had already called 911 and when So fire department comes you know, please come they could not get me out of the car because the car that was crushed on the left side of my body was pinning me in and It took them almost an hour, 50 minutes, five, zero minutes to use the jaws of life and cut the roof off and pull it back. And during that time, I was just losing blood. They couldn't stop the bleeding and my leg,

Starting point is 00:10:17 it was all under the car. And I lost so much blood that I died. And my heart stopped beating when they pulled me out. And I was clinically dead for six minutes in a coma for six days, six minutes and they rushed me on to a Medevac helicopter and airlifted me and they used the defibrillators and put me hooked me up to an IV and pump blood back in me and six minutes later they got my heart to beat again and went to the hospital in critical condition. Now when something like that happens,

Starting point is 00:10:45 where someone's dead for six minutes, like is it just by luck that you get somebody who says, let's keep trying or could somebody just say, he's pronounced dead, like, you put a tag on you and that's it, right? No, and that's, I use always say that in my speech. I go, thank God they didn't give up after five minutes. Right, yeah, and I don't know what protocol is, you know, right?

Starting point is 00:11:01 But yeah, but they kept trying. I imagine that while I'm on the medevac, they're probably like, hey, let's keep trying, let's keep yeah, but they kept trying. I imagine that while I'm on the medevac, they're probably like, hey, let's keep trying, let's keep trying, let's keep trying. And went to the hospital, went to emergency surgery. My parents were, Jeremy, my best friend, called my parents from, like right after I think, I think from the scene of the accident,

Starting point is 00:11:18 and just said, how's in a horrific, you know, my dad, they woke him up at a bed, mom and dad. And my poor parents, my baby's sister, when I was eight, my 18 month old sister, a year and a half year old sister, Amory, died in my mother's arms of a heart failure. So my mom and dad had already lost a child. Like they had lost their youngest child, and then now they get a call that like,

Starting point is 00:11:40 house in critical condition, and they lived, you know, they were two out and a half hours away. So they had to drive two and a half hours, not knowing if I'd be dead or alive when they got there. And I always say, as a dad now, like, my mom and dad had it worse than me. Like, I was, I wasn't even awake, but I was unconscious during this.

Starting point is 00:11:55 Like, to me, as a parent, I would have rather been, you know, me than them. Like, that, to me, that's the worst thing ever. And so, when they got there, I was in critical condition. I had to go into emergency surgery. I had like six surgeries in the next few days. I flatlined twice more during those six days. And when I came out of the coma,

Starting point is 00:12:15 they said it'd be in a coma for like a year. They came out of the coma six days later and I had to face this reality. And doctor said, you know, your permanent brain damage, you're probably never gonna walk again. And yeah, and you got a lot of broken bones. I mean, we really don't know how this, and they said. And they said, three times.

Starting point is 00:12:30 Three times, yeah, yeah, three times technically. Wow. Now, I read a little bit about your story when you came out of the coma, you had no short-term memory. Yeah, my wife will tell you, it's still not so great. But, no, but I mean, literally mean literally it was it was like that movie Was it Memento or whatever right?

Starting point is 00:12:49 Oh, everything's happened backwards or whatever. No, no, it's just where you couldn't remember like every day It's already tattooed itself right? So so it was like you could you know you guys could be long time friends now I didn't I had long I didn't have any long-term for like I knew you were But you could come to the hospital, sit with me for three hours, you know, we could talk about what it was going on and all this stuff. You could go to lunch and come back and I'd be like, Adam, did you hear that I was in a car accident? You're like, dude, I just spent three hours with you. I'm like, you did? Wow. What? Right? And so that was a very gradual progression for the memory to come back. Do you remember the first time that you put that together, that you realized that yourself,

Starting point is 00:13:27 like when that happened? Well, so here, yeah, so here's not exactly, it's very fuzzy those first couple of weeks. I bet. But I can tell you the first, kind of the first story I remember, the first experience, and it's really profound. It was, I was out of the coma for a week, so just for the timeline, right? Car accident happens in a coma for six days. One week later, the doctors call my parents in,

Starting point is 00:13:51 and they sit them down for like, just kind of an update on my condition, and they said, so hey, physically, how's stable, right? Cause like that was, you know, it was literally like, don't die, like that was the thing. It was like, yeah, walk again, whatever. That's secondary. We just want our son to be alive.

Starting point is 00:14:08 And so the doctor said he's made it through the worst. He looks like he's gonna be with you for a long time. Like he's stable. They said, but mentally and emotionally were concerned. How we think that Hallows in denial or some form of being delusional because every time we, the doctors, the therapists, the counselor, the psychologist interact with how

Starting point is 00:14:32 he's always smiling and joking and making us laugh and they said, that frankly that's not normal. For a 20 year old young man that's being told he's never gonna walk again. And we've seen this before where some accident victims like their reality is so painful, but instead of going into depression, they just deny it.

Starting point is 00:14:51 They just deny it. And they're like, everything's fine. And they said eventually he has to face this. And he's probably covering up emotions like sadness and fear and anger and depression. And we'd like you to go talk to and find out how he's quote unquote, really feeling, and get him to admit it because it's a safe place here and we can walk him through it out in the real world.

Starting point is 00:15:11 It's going to hit him and he's going to turn to drugs or alcohol or suicide or who knows, right? So get it. See, you know, see if you guys can get him to admit how he's really feeling and come to grips with that. So my dad comes in and I don't, I knew he met with the doctors. I didn't know the conversation and he sits next to the bed. And I think I was watching Oprah at the time. Like I watch Oprah every day. She was like my inspiration. And, uh, and, and

Starting point is 00:15:33 he goes, how can I talk to you? And his voice kind of cracked. And I look over at him and is, you know, his eyes are welled up with like tears. And I knew he met with the doctor. So I'm going, oh, like, oh, we're out. What are What did they tell him? Yeah, what, oh god, what's the news? I turned off the TV, I'm like, dad, what's up? And he expresses the doctor's concerns about delusion, denial, that I'm covering up these emotions, and he said, hell, look, I know you like to be your positive guy, but like, what you've been through is, you know,

Starting point is 00:15:59 like me and your mom are a mess. Like, we can't imagine what you're going through. It's okay to feel sad and angry to press. How are you really feeling? And I could look at my dad's face, like I could tell the anguish. And I kind of, I went and looked off to the distance and thought about it.

Starting point is 00:16:15 And I'm like, am I really covering up my emotions? Am I sad and angry and depressed? And it took me less than 30 seconds. And I looked at my dad and I said, Dad, I thought you knew me better than that. And I smiled. He said, what do you mean? I said, don't you remember I live by the five minute rule?

Starting point is 00:16:33 He said, remind me. And I go, God, I've told you and mom this so many times. You'd be so much happier if you just listen to me. I said, I learned this in my cut-cut training, in my sales training, which is, it's okay to be negative when something goes wrong, but not for more than five minutes. And my manager literally, my mentor taught me, you set your timer on your phone for five minutes, and you get five minutes to feel bad, to be upset, angry, pitch, moan, complain, cry,

Starting point is 00:16:56 vent, punch a wall, like whatever. But there's no value. And like, you can't, you feel your emotions, give yourself that space. But after five minutes, you would teach us say three very powerful words. Can't change it. And you remind yourself, I can't change it. It already happened. So as an intelligent human being who wants to be happy and successful and productive, there is no value in wishing I could change

Starting point is 00:17:16 something that's out of my control. I said, Dad, it's been two weeks since the accident. My five minutes is, it's long up. I said, and I said, and here's the lesson for everybody. Like, this is real, I think this is really important. I said, Dad, I can't change that I was in a car accident. I can't change that I broke these bones, and I may never walk again, I don't know.

Starting point is 00:17:33 I said, but the way that I see it, there are two possibilities here. Number one, the doctors are right, and I never walk again. And I said, and if that's reality for me, the only choice I would have is to be the happiest, most grateful I could ever be while I'm in a wheelchair the rest of my life. And I said, I'm not going to let the wheelchair

Starting point is 00:17:52 define my quality of life or my emotional state. I said, but that's only one possibility and I've accepted it so I'm at peace with it so it has no control over me. I'll never feel bad about if I'm in a wheelchair forever. I said, but guess what, that's not the only option. And option number two, I don't know if it's, there's no one knows if it's possible, but the option is I will walk again.

Starting point is 00:18:13 And I said, and I've decided that that's where my energy's going. I've accepted the worst case scenario, but I'm dwelling on the possibility of walking. I visualize it every day. I imagine it, I pray about it, I'm thinking about it, I said so if this simultaneous, like I've accepted the worst, so it has no power over me, I'm hoping for the best, but my eggs are not in that basket, like if it doesn't happen, I fall back on being happy in a wheelchair. And I think for everybody listening, like I, when I give a speech, I always say to the audience, like I pause and go, look, what's your wheelchair?

Starting point is 00:18:44 What's the experience in your life, whether it's happening now, maybe it happened in your childhood, but it causes you emotional pain, but it's out of your control. And you need to make a conscious choice to accept it, and that doesn't mean you're happy about it, but it's more powerful than being happy. Happiness is an emotion, it could change with a phone call,

Starting point is 00:19:00 right, you're happy one minute, you get some bad news now, you're upset. It's not about happiness. We're seeking peace. And it's through the power of acceptance that you give yourself the gift of peace with anything and everything that could ever happen to you. And so when you're at peace, it's not emotionally positive or negative, it's neutral and it allows you to thank clearly and make and choose any emotion that would best serve you. When you're in traffic for, I love this example because like,

Starting point is 00:19:26 you don't need to be in a horrific car accident for this to work, like raise your hand if you hate traffic. Great, everybody raise your hand. So when I hit traffic, I use the same lesson. I used to be like, oh son of a, go faster. Like think about how silly it is that we spend 30 minutes in traffic frustrated, anxious, tense, stress, like,

Starting point is 00:19:41 what's the energy? Laced in energy, you can't change a traffic. So now I go, I can't change the traffic, can't change it. I'm gonna be the happiest and most grateful for the next 30 minutes. And what emotion would best serve me? I wanna be happy, I wanna be grateful, I wanna be excited, I want goals, I want it right?

Starting point is 00:19:56 Like, that's it, and it's a micro, that traffic example is a microcosm for life. You can apply the, you know, the five minute rule, the can't change a philosophy to whether, to anything, a loss, a job loss, a breakup, a car accident, traffic, you name it, right? It's unconditional. Anything that happens, that's not what determines

Starting point is 00:20:17 your emotional state. We think it is. We point, of course I'm upset. Look at what she did. Look at what he said. Look at what I lost. Look at what happened. It's never the thing, it's always our resistance

Starting point is 00:20:28 to our reality, it's wishing and wanting it were different that causes our emotional pain. It's always self-created and it's always optional and we give ourselves freedom from emotional pain, no matter what it is, it's unconditional freedom by accepting it as it is and choosing peace. This is beautiful. This is ancient wisdom that you're repeating.

Starting point is 00:20:47 Serenity prayer, I mean, right? Yeah, this is stoicism. Eckhart Toley talks about this, that the reality is not nearly as bad as our resistance to reality. Yeah, so did this speed up your healing process, having this attitude? I mean, I can only imagine.

Starting point is 00:21:01 Yeah, I'm so glad you had it. Before I answer that, I wanna tell you that I read Eckhart totally probably three years after my car accident and it put into words, I'm like, oh. That's what I was doing. That's why I felt no emotional pain. I don't, you know, like, right?

Starting point is 00:21:16 I mean, that was it. It did it, it speeded my healing. Yeah, here's what happened is so that conversation with my dad, you know, with the doctors with my parents and then my dad with me and me saying, Dad, I'm at peace with it, right? That happened a week after I came out of the coma, two weeks after the crash.

Starting point is 00:21:32 One week later, now the doctors that I would never walk again. Now, in my mind, I thought maybe in like a year, you know, six months to a year, like my body's broken. It's got a heel, right? So, I wasn't thinking it would happen that fast, but a week after the conversation with my dad, the doctors came in with routine x-rays into my hospital room. I'm laying in my bed, mom and dad are there, you know,

Starting point is 00:21:55 and they said, hey, we don't know how to explain this, but how's body is healing so quickly? How, you can take your first step tomorrow in therapy. Wow. I mean, three weeks after the crash. And, you know, I, like I always say, I don't have a graph that shows the parallel of my mindset with the bones healing.

Starting point is 00:22:16 Like, I don't have the graph, but I have a picture of me taking my first step the next day. Right? And I believe, and then, you know, we'll probably get into the story because it really is what gave birth to the new book. But two years ago, I was diagnosed with a very rare aggressive form of cancer,

Starting point is 00:22:31 and they gave me a 30% chance of surviving. And I always tell, you know, if you're a pessimist, I say that's a 70% chance you're going to die, right? 70% is a pretty high probability, I mean, right? Not very good. And I immediately referenced this thing that, we'll talk about today called the miracle equation, and I immediately referenced how it was the miracle equation

Starting point is 00:22:52 that I used to take my first step in three weeks. And so, like, the day I was diagnosed, my wife was terrified, of course, I was scared. I mean, I had more to lose than ever with kids now. But at the same time, I told my wife, I said, sweetheart, two things. Number one, I time, I told my wife, I said sweetheart, two things. Number one, I believe in the mind's ability to heal the body.

Starting point is 00:23:10 And number two, I believe this cancer will be the best thing that ever happened to me. I said, I know that's hard to hear. I know you probably, in no way believe that. I said, but the accident was the best thing that ever happened because it enabled me to become the person that I needed to be, to help other people, to it gave birth to my life's work, I became stronger on and on.

Starting point is 00:23:33 I said, and this is probably going to be even more difficult to overcome. And therefore, on the other side of this adversity, which is true for all of our adversity, every single one of us, if we take it in a positive, proactive manner, and we approach our adversity that way, there is a better version of us waiting on the other side every time, and it ended up being true. And that's regardless of the outcome. That's the thing people need to understand, because I think sometimes people go in and thinking,

Starting point is 00:23:57 if they have the right attitude, they'll get what they want. And in reality, it's no, having the right attitude means you're gonna be okay with whatever happens, which is totally different. When you got diagnosed with cancer, were you like, oh, yeah. Okay, I the right attitude means you're going to be okay with whatever happens. Yep. Which is totally different. When you got diagnosed with cancer, were you like, oh, yeah, okay, I've been talking about this for the last. However, I almost died. Yeah, here we go. How long was it until you then got diagnosed?

Starting point is 00:24:14 What do you mean, how long was it? Like, or after the accident? Two years, you said, right? No, no, no, it was two years ago. So it's been two years ago. Actually, it was 19 years ago. Okay. So it was 17 years later that I had the, yeah, okay.

Starting point is 00:24:24 And yeah, and, Sal, to your point, I'm like, you know, I'm later that I had the yeah, okay, and yeah, and Sal, to your point, I'm like, you know, looking up to the heavens going, dude, what? I already died. Like that was my big to do. I just start by lighting now. Yeah, right. Um, and there's that story. I can't remember that guy's name. Do you know the guy that he, I don't remember which order it was, but he, he, um, almost died in a plane crash and got paralyzed in the plane crash. No, in the plane crash. No, no, it's okay, so that happened second. So first, he crashed on his motorcycle

Starting point is 00:24:48 and burned his entire body with third degree burns. It's happened like 30 years ago, I can't remember his name. But so, right, so his whole body's burned. He barely survived it, you know, I mean, and then got in a plane crash and got paralyzed like four years later or something, right? So I'm like, I'm that guy, what the hell? But yeah, so- But yeah, so- So- You might win something., right? So I'm like, I'm that guy, what the hell?

Starting point is 00:25:05 But, yeah, so- So, I'm a lottery, you might win something. Yeah, no. But, I mean, I definitely questioned it, but here's the thing, I did not question it from a victim mentality, it wasn't like a, what the hell, why is this happening to me? It was like, what am I supposed to learn from this one?

Starting point is 00:25:19 Yeah. And a lot, I mean, really a lot. It's the greatest lessons that I've learned, you know, from the cancer journey kind of compounded onto what I learned from the accident. And because of the accident granted, I immediately was able to reference this. Right, you had the tools now.

Starting point is 00:25:34 Yeah, I was like, oh dude, I've already, I've been through something like this. I already know you take it head on, you focus positively. But there was, there was so many days I woke up and I'm like, it's such a rare, it's called a cute lymphoblastic leukemia. Most people die. I was almost dead. Like when I was on my deathbed when I went to the hospital, like my kidney, my lung was collapsed.

Starting point is 00:25:55 My left lung was collapsed. It had collapsed 11 times and had to have the fluid drained over like two weeks. They drained like 18 pounds of fluid out of my lung over two weeks, they drained like 16 pounds of fluid out of my lung over two weeks. My kidneys were on the verge of failing and my heart was on the verge of failing. In fact, when I went to the hospital,

Starting point is 00:26:13 the first hospital didn't discover the heart thing and they sent me to one of the best cancer hospitals in the world for a second opinion. And they're like, hey, so your heart is surrounded by a sack of fluid. If it increases by even an eighth of an inch, your heart is gonna stop beating, you're gonna go into cardiac arrest,

Starting point is 00:26:28 and we're gonna have to perform open heart surgery. So that you'll, we need to get you into the ER right now, and we need to stick a needle in your heart and drain your heart fluid. And I had to sign a release saying, this is a very dangerous procedure because the fluid is like, the sack is like a fourth of an inch thick or whatever.

Starting point is 00:26:44 And if your heart even beats a big beat, it could puncture your heart. And that will also send you to cardiac rate. Like, yeah, so it was like, it was just, it was, it was crazy. You know, and then, and yeah. So in the accident, you're a young kid, you haven't developed these techniques yet. Later on, you get cancer, you have children, but you have these techniques, both incredible struggles. Which one was more difficult? Was it easier the second time around

Starting point is 00:27:09 because you had been practicing or was it more difficult because of the fact that you had a family? It was more difficult because I had a family first and foremost. Like, I'm very at peace with death. Like, it's part of the acceptance thing. I'm like, that's an edible bit of wool. So, whatever, whenever I die, I die, and that's okay, right? I'm very at peace with death. It's part of the acceptance thing. I'm like, that's an edible bit of wool. So whatever, whenever I die, I die and that's okay.

Starting point is 00:27:27 Right, I'm very at peace with it. Leaving my kids with a father is a very tangible result. Like that's horrible. There's nothing more important to me than my kids, right? And there's not, and like my ability to influence them and shape who they become is my greatest responsibility. And so that was the greatest fear. It wasn't dying.

Starting point is 00:27:47 I didn't like dying is that's personally I'm fine with it. Leaving my kids out of dad is her, is her, her horrific thought to me, right? And so that's a hard, and I also know that they're not old enough to understand the lessons that like when they're 18, I think they'll, they'll get all this stuff and they'll be at peace with me dying when they're eight, you know what I mean? Right? I mean, it won't be easy, but but they're too young

Starting point is 00:28:09 to get it, you know? And like I had I started writing like Will's I'm like, hey sweet you guys, like if I if I die, you know, I told my wife, I'm like, you know, they need to watch this video and they need to like they need to understand this can't change a philosophy and they need to understand the way their dad thinks and and I wrote them a letterleta like you know that guys like be at peace with it. I'm always with you you know so and like having to get teared up like having to write those letters you know it was super hard um let's say yeah so that so it was much harder also I think because of the brain damage that's part of me the accident easier to go you know part of it is I think I was like I was all loopy and I didn't remember, you know, stuff.

Starting point is 00:28:45 So I think it kind of made it even easier, maybe to deal with the accident, right? It was also much shorter time. I was on the hospital for, you know, six weeks. And with cancer, I was on the hospital off and on for eight months. I mean, I'm still, I still have to do like chemo and that's actually a really hard part.

Starting point is 00:29:03 So I watched a documentary 10 years ago called Healing Cancer from the Inside Out. And it was all about the cancer industry and, you know, just in chemo how it's a bad solution. It's like you're poisoning the body, trying to kill the cancer before they kill the person. Half the time, I mean, I don't know, the exact staff, but they kill the person, but from the chemo,

Starting point is 00:29:21 not the cancer, right? So I was very, I guess, the anti-chema. I'm like, and this documentary is like, well, here's how you make the body heal cancer. Like, body creates cancer, or the toxins you put in it do, the body can heal itself. So I had always, I was living in anti-cancer lifestyle. Like, no chemicals in my house, no, I mean,

Starting point is 00:29:41 I was like, I'm like a hippie, like my shampoos have no chemicals, my eat, no chemicals, I eat the cleanest diet. So when the doctor, I mean, I was like, I'm like a hippie. Like my shampoos have no chemicals. My eat, no chemicals. I eat the cleanest diet. So when the doctor, when the first doctor was like, you could have cancer or something, we don't know what it is, right? You just second opinion. I'm like, definitely not cancer.

Starting point is 00:29:54 I'm like, I like live the most anti-cancer lifestyle ever. So when it was cancer, I'm like, what? And then, but then my plan of like, I've ever got cancer. I'm like, how can I, I already like do everything you would do to not to cure cancer naturally? I'm like, maybe there's some stuff that I, but then my plan of like, I've ever got cancer. I'm like, how can I, I already like do everything you would do to not to cure cancer naturally. I'm like, maybe there's some stuff that I, you know, I need to eat less vegan ice cream, you know,

Starting point is 00:30:11 I'm like, I maybe, you know, I'm like, but I don't know. So when I met with my oncologist, I said, hey, no offense, but I, you know, I'm not a, I don't really believe in chemo, you know, and not, you know, I mean, that's this whole world. So not, you know, not making friends there. But I said, so I'd like to cure this cancer holistically.

Starting point is 00:30:29 Can you support me in that? And he said, how, I appreciate that you wanna do that, but you don't have a cancer that you have the luxury of even trying that. He said, a tumor that's slow growing, yeah, you could try some natural stuff, we can monitor it, if it doesn't work, then maybe we go to chemo.

Starting point is 00:30:45 He said, you were healthy a week ago, and now you're on the verge of dying, and he goes, I would give you between three days and maybe a week before you're dead if you don't start chemo. Wow. And I took that, right, I didn't know this guy's heart. I didn't know his intentions.

Starting point is 00:31:00 I just met him. So I took that as a scare tactic, right? And I, I mean, my head, I'm kind of like big, I'm like, screw you, buddy. You're not going to scare me to do in chemo. But oh, that's a little, okay, I'm a little scared of it, right? So I'm like, can I have 24 hours to like, basically consult Dr. Google is what I'm thinking, right? And so, and my wife sitting there just bawling,

Starting point is 00:31:18 and you know, I mean, it was just, it was tough. And we went home and we, we start googling and find out that, oh, he's not exaggerating. Like this is, like this cancer kills you in days or weeks. And so it was so hard, like every fiber of my being in my belief system, be like, I'm gonna poison my body. And by the way, because of my cancer, the chemotherapy regimen that I underwent is the...

Starting point is 00:31:43 It's aggressive, isn't it? One of the most, if not the most aggressive chemotherapies in existence, and see if you, you know, like I have a aunt who just had cancer and she would go in for chemo like an hour a month. I had a hundred hours every three weeks of chemo. I was hooked up to an IV, and I would get four to five of the most powerful chemo

Starting point is 00:32:02 drugs on the planet for 12 hours at a time, and then another drug for 12 hours, and then another drug for 12 hour, and then they would rotate, and I would do four days in a row, and then have like a three week break, and then five days in a row. I lost a fourth of my body weight in three, I went from 167 pounds at six feet tall to 127 pounds. Yeah, I mean, it was, it's a horrific chemo. And so what I did

Starting point is 00:32:28 is my strategy when I'm like, first of all, I was like, okay, how soon can I quit the chemo? Maybe if it, you know, if you get rid of the cancer, I can quit up to one round or two rounds. I was supposed to eight rounds. And what I decided to do was I thought, okay, I'm going to do my holistic cancer treatment. I'm going to research and do everything that I would do if chemo wasn't in the plan and I'm gonna do it with the chemo. So I'm gonna do coffee inemas. I'm gonna do, I was taking like 70 supplements a day. I was organic juicing.

Starting point is 00:32:57 I cleaned up my, I took all my sugar. I mean, I just went, like, hard, I did chemo, or acupuncture. I did ozone sauna. I did, like, I did everything holistic Puncture, I did Ozone Sona, I did, right, like, I did everything holistic in addition to the chemo. So at least I was, and it's the stuff that, you know, I asked my doctor about everything I would do and he literally was like, he had no idea, right?

Starting point is 00:33:14 And they don't learn it in medical school. I'm like, hey, how do I detox my liver? He's like, oh, we do a saline flush after chemo. I'm like, how about milk thistle? How about coffee in a must? How about, you know, right? And he's like, what do you do what do you do it ever you want to do as long as you do chemo?

Starting point is 00:33:27 That was always the answer. Like, I don't know anything about that stuff. You do it. Yeah, that's fine. Now, during this whole process, you know, part of what you talk about is you're also making peace with the fact that maybe it doesn't work. Sure.

Starting point is 00:33:37 What does that look like? How does one do that? Because that's so tough it even got you choked up a little bit earlier. Like, what does that process look like? Do you have to envision worst case scenario and make peace with it? Yeah, and you do that on the front end, okay?

Starting point is 00:33:50 So I'll use the car accident as the first example. So I went, okay, if I never walk again, what's that look like? I'll be in a wheelchair the rest of my life, okay? Okay, what would that be like? And then I just picture myself, well, I could choose to be the happiest and the most grateful human being

Starting point is 00:34:06 in a wheelchair that you've ever seen. And that is my choice. And so instead of visioning myself in a wheelchair going, oh, poor me, I'm like, all right, well, I'd be giving speeches in a wheelchair. I'd be doing, you know, I've live in a wheelchair. Like, there's a lot of little life in a wheelchair. That's not a bad thing.

Starting point is 00:34:19 I mean, it is what it is, right? So I made peace with it. And then once you accept it and make peace with it, you kind of compartmentalize it off to the side, right? So now it's not like consuming your... So if you can have to have a visual, like imagine taking it out of your, like grabbing it out of your brain, right? Setting it over to the side and being like, all right, there's the worst case scenario. I'm at peace with it. The worst case scenario is not even that bad. Like I can be happy in the worst case scenario. Got it. Cool, right? So, and then what that, that's what it allows you to do is,

Starting point is 00:34:48 now I got to focus 99% of my energy on what I wanted and the vision for walking again and creating what I wanted. And again, believing in the mind-body connection and there's a lot of science around this. Dr. Joe D'Spenza has a book you are, The Placebo, which goes in as much more scientific than I am, right? But it explains the science of like how your body, your brain, what you think literally,

Starting point is 00:35:09 it manipulates your cells and your DNA, and you know, right? That's why stress is a killer, because you're thinking stressful thoughts and you're killing your body, right? So when I got cancer, it was a slightly different, more difficult process. You know, if it was just me and I was a single dude with no kids, I'd be like, all right,

Starting point is 00:35:24 so Worsky, Senior, I die, that's not no kids, I'd be like, all right, so Worsky scenario I die, that's not a problem, I might get peace with that, right? So right in those wills was really part of that process of acknowledging it. So the Worsky scenario was worse because it was my kids, right? But it was still, okay, so the Worsky scenario is, I'm not gonna live through this, right?

Starting point is 00:35:39 So what are the best things that I can do to prepare for that? Got it. And it was preparing my kids. So it was recording videos for my wife and for my kids. And here's the message to them. I wrote some letters and some journal entries. I just decided, I wrote a list of,

Starting point is 00:35:57 here's the books that you guys need to read and at what age and in what order. I made a plan for, and I think maybe just the most important part was in the video and the letter I wrote was like, guys, dad's never gone. If you're watching this, my physical body's not here, but guys, we're more than our body.

Starting point is 00:36:12 Like, I'm, like I'm, you know, I'm, like I'm all, you can talk to me, I'm always here. So, so that, so I did that, and then I put it aside. I'm like, all right, there's no point in me putting living in fear Right, like you know that just manifests the fear so like I put all I put together there You know if if I die a package right and it was like all right the kids have that and then I and my wife Of course I told her everything and then here's Where the the new book and you know comes into play

Starting point is 00:36:42 Ironically that the books called the miracle equation andation. And it came up with this during this process. Before. So that's the irony. Anyone that follows the miracle, you know, if you're one of the million people that's read the Miracle Morning, you'd be like, oh, so the Miracle Equations, like the follow up.

Starting point is 00:36:56 And while it's the, it is the follow up both in timing of the book release and really in the process. And I'll explain what I mean by that. How the two kind of work together, the chronology of when I came up with it, the miracle equation I invented when I was 20 years old and I was trying to break a company sales record

Starting point is 00:37:13 and it was such an impossible record that I was like, dude, if I were to do this, it would be a frickin' miracle. I'm like, I need a formula to create a miracle. What would that look like? And that's where I created the miracle equation when I was 20. And then one, and we can get into that whole straight,

Starting point is 00:37:31 but it ended up, it worked. And then I started to go, dude, was that a coincidence that it all came together and it came together in miraculous fashion? And then I was like, I'm gonna try teaching it to my colleagues, because I was coaching some of my colleagues at that time and see if it works. I taught it to my colleagues and every single one,

Starting point is 00:37:48 literally 100%, it was like a dozen people I was coaching, they applied it and every single one of them went out and surpassed anything that they had ever done. Some broke all-time records, some just broke their own personal best, right? And I was like, dude, that's not a coincidence. Like if it happened every single person for them that I taught it to, not a coincidence.

Starting point is 00:38:09 So then I start, like, it kind of I had an epiphany. I'm like, this is really, the miracle equations made up of two decisions, right? And I go, I stopped and I like, realize I go, these are the same two decisions that every successful person in the world that's ever achieved extraordinary results. These are the same two decisions that they made,

Starting point is 00:38:27 whether they made a huge contribution to the world or they whatever. And then I looked back and I was like, wait a minute, these are the two decisions that I made unknowingly when I had my car accident that allowed me to have that miracle of taking my first step. And I just started to see the implications.

Starting point is 00:38:44 And I really thought I was like I just started to see the implications. And I really thought I was like, I started to think, I'm like, dude, I should just write a book about this one day. And then the miracle morning, six years later, was a totally separate thing. And it was like, I did this morning routine, my life changed so fast.

Starting point is 00:38:58 Of doing it in two months, I was talking to my wife, and I'm like, sweetheart, because it was 2008 when the economy crashed. I was deep in debt. This was the miracle morning creation, right? I had to figure out, how do I get myself out of this debt? And I'm in this depression, I'm a mess. And I realized that I'm like,

Starting point is 00:39:12 what are the world's most successful people do that I don't? And I was like, how the all the morning routines, but I'm not a morning person. So then I decided I'm like, I'm gonna create the ultimate morning routine, like the ultimate, and I'm gonna do it for a month. I'm gonna see what happens. And in two months, I doubled my income.

Starting point is 00:39:26 I went for being in the horrible economy. Economy didn't change, but I doubled my income in the 2008 economy. I went for being in the worst shape of my life physically to decide, and I hated running. I was never a runner. So I thought, what a way to grow. I'm gonna commit to running a 52 mile ultra marathon.

Starting point is 00:39:41 I've never run more than a mile in high school PE class. Who would I have to become to run 52 miles in a day? I don't even know that guy, but I wanna meet him. I wanna become him. So my life changed so fast from this morning routine that I was talking to my wife, and I was like, sweetheart, I'm like, dude, like, money's, we're going. I go, this morning routine's like a freaking miracle.

Starting point is 00:40:02 And she goes, it's your miracle morning. I'm like, yeah, it's my miracle, it's my startin' or something. Yeah, I started, well that was before it was a book idea. I started writing my schedule as miracle morning and the one of my coaching clients was like, do you have a morning routine? I'm like, oh my God.

Starting point is 00:40:14 And I told her, and same thing, all my clients taught it to all of them. Oh, every single one's like, dude, I'm not a morning person. I'm like, I know, I wasn't either. Look, here's some tricks, here's how you beat this news button. Here's, and every single one came back. They're like, how? I started running. I read, I wasn't either. Look, here's some tricks, here's how you beat this news button, here's an every single one came back, they're like, hell, I started running, I read two self-help books, I just had the best week in my sales career, on and on and on.

Starting point is 00:40:31 And so, let me sum this part up by saying this, the miracle morning is a process for personal development, or let's say a practice, it's your daily practice for personal development, and it hinges on the gym-row and philosophy that your level of success will never exceed your level of personal development, right? Or rarely exceed your level of personal development. In other words, it's who you become through personal development that determines the mindset,

Starting point is 00:40:57 the habits, the beliefs, the confidence that you have, that then you take out into the world and your results are a result of who you've become. So, to me, that's the foundation, right? And that's what miracle morning is. It's your practice for personal development. But what I realized, you know, published or reached out to me and they're like, hey, do you have another book in you?

Starting point is 00:41:15 I'm like, I've got a book that's been on my heart for like, I mean, what is it now? 19 years or whatever. I was like, it's called the miracle equation. I don't know if it's as marketable, you know? I don't blah, blah, blah. And I said, but here like, it's called the Miracle Equation. I don't know if it's as marketable, you know, I don't blah blah blah. And I said, but here's what it is. The Miracle Morning is your practice for personal development,

Starting point is 00:41:31 but it's only half the equation, so to speak, because you can be the most personally developed person in the world, and I'm guilty of this. You know, in the past, I was a personal development junkie, and a lot of us do this, right, where we read book after book after book, and we think that that's progress. And it it is internally but you could be the most personally developed person on the planet but still stay in your little officer room read your books and still be scared to go out

Starting point is 00:41:56 there and and courageously go after your biggest goals and dreams and I think that's the majority of society. Majority society doesn't do personal development. Those that do a small percentage actually implement what they read. Most people when they finish a book, they just start another book. And they feel great about that book they just read. And they feel like, I'm the man, I just, I learned so much. I can't read to read the next book on my shelf.

Starting point is 00:42:15 And then they finish that one. And all they do with the information is start for getting it as they're reading the next book and the next book and the next book. So to sum it up, the miracle morning is your practice for personal development. The miracle equation is your process for goal achievement. And the subtitle says it all,

Starting point is 00:42:30 it's the two decisions that move your biggest goals from possible to probable to inevitable. Can we give some of our audience some tangible points from your books? Well, let's start with the, I wanna start with this. This is one of the things I was most, does he always cut you off like that? I do, I do. I do. I do. You said something and I didn't want to interrupt you. Thank you. I cut it off. Not me. Right. Right. Right. And I and I did want to stop you because

Starting point is 00:42:54 it's part of what I was excited to talk to you about was I'm that guy. I'm not a morning person. In fact, I knew you're coming in today. I set my alarm like two, three hours early to do some things. And I fucking snooze the way out in any way, right? So just being honest. And so- Or even a little therapy session. And you mention, you have some tactics and things

Starting point is 00:43:13 that you coach somebody like me through that, give it to me. What are some of the things I can break out of being this guy who claims he's not a morning person? So there's a chapter in the miracle morning and I'm gonna give it a minute to give it away, right now you're gonna get it all out of them. But the chapter is called the Five Steps

Starting point is 00:43:30 News Proof Wake Up Strategy, and a shorter version of it is, I would call it, it only takes five minutes to become a morning person, right? And the, it's a, it's a four, it's actually it was a blog article that I wrote when I was like writing the book and I was thinking, you know, and it's the lynch pin of the book. Like the interesting part is it barely made,

Starting point is 00:43:49 it almost didn't make it in there and I put it in. And if it wasn't for that, I don't think the miracle morning has sold millions of copies. Like because people would have read the book and been like, oh God, this makes sense. Yeah, how I start my day is the most important improvement I can make in my life, because it sets the tone, the direction,

Starting point is 00:44:03 the context for the rest of my day. If I win the morning, I'm gonna win the day and I'm gonna create the things I want in my life. They would have been convinced of that and they would have been all geared up and as soon as the excitement wore off, they would have been like, I did it for like three days and then I was like, I forget it's news

Starting point is 00:44:18 and they would have gone back to the old pattern. So here's the five steps. I'll try to remember all of them. The most important step is the, I'll start with the five steps. I'll try to remember all of them. The most important step is the, I'll start with the most important. If you only do one thing, this is it. Move your alarm clock as far across the room as possible. It sounds so simple, but I was being introduced by a CEO

Starting point is 00:44:36 at this event in New York with a bunch of CEOs. And he goes, I hope Hal's gonna share this because this was the game changer for me. It was the simplest tip. You could teach it to a kindergartener. He said, you move the alarm clock across the room. And here's why most of us keep our phone our alarm clock. Yeah, with an arms reach. When it goes off in the morning, you don't even have to open your eyes to hit the snooze button. And your level of discipline in those first few seconds

Starting point is 00:45:01 is like a one or zero on a skill of one to 10. But if you're alarm clocks across the room, and for me, I keep it on my bathroom sink next to where I'm gonna execute step two, which is brush my teeth and wash my face. Real simple, the idea is that these five steps, a kindergarten can do them because you're about a discipline as a kindergartener when you wake up in the,

Starting point is 00:45:20 you know, for the first two minutes of your life, right? Of the day, right? So you don't want like, advanced, complicated, right? It's like, no, no, you wanna be able to do things while you're half asleep like a zombie. So you're on cross the room, and when you have to get out of bed and walk across the room,

Starting point is 00:45:34 as simple as it sounds, here's a way to think of it. I talk about in the book, I say, it's your wake up motivation level, right? Like when we wake up in the morning, if you're measuring your wake up motivation level in a scale of one to 10, in the morning, if you're measuring your wake up motivation level in a scale of one to 10, when the alarm goes off, if it's in arms reach, you're at between like, you're maybe at a one, right?

Starting point is 00:45:51 And when your wake up motivation level is at a one, that takes nine more points of discipline to get your butt out of bed, right? So what you wanna do is you wanna have a strategy, these little simple steps, that every minute you're awake doing these really easy things, your wake-up motivation level goes up by a pointer to each minute, right? So when you get out of bed and you walk into the bathroom or across the room, your wake-up

Starting point is 00:46:18 motivation level goes from a one to probably like a three, right? You're way more awake if you're upright and you've walked, right, than you are if you're in bed. And then for me, like it's by the bathroom counter. Now I brush my teeth. Well, it takes me two minutes to brush my teeth my little timer on my toothbrush. Well, two minutes later, I'm like it,

Starting point is 00:46:34 I'm at a four or five now. I'm just starting to wake up, right? And then here's a big linchpin tip. When we wake up in the morning, we haven't had any water for eight at most of us for eight hours, right? So you're dehydrated by default and dehydration causes fatigue. So I have a full glass of water sitting right there by my and I brush my teeth and then I down it like a college kid at a keg party Right like I just I pound the whole thing

Starting point is 00:46:56 Now I'm hydrating myself and then I go in and I put on my I get changed my workout clothes None of these take discipline or much effort But now five minutes have gone by and now I'm like dude. I'm already I'm up. I'm awake and I get changed and my workout clothes. None of these take discipline or much effort, but now five minutes have gone by and now I'm like, dude, I'm already, I'm up, I'm awake, I'm bout either brush, my face is white, I'm fresh, I'm hydrated, let's do it, let's do it. Right?

Starting point is 00:47:14 So that's the strategy, Adam, that's it. I appreciate that. Yeah, now let's go into the miracle morning. Like what are the things that you've- What are the steps? Yeah. So the first, so the day I came with the miracle morning, it was my, I didn't, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, you, what's going on? And I said, well, I've lost over half my clients since the economy crashed in the last couple of months. I can't pay the mortgage, dude.

Starting point is 00:47:46 I'm like, the banks are gonna, I've getting letters, they're gonna take my house away. I canceled the gym membership. I'm in the, my body fat percentage is tripled. I'm like, it's not good, dude. And I'm a mess. I don't know what to do. You're one of the smartest people I know.

Starting point is 00:48:00 I haven't told anybody also, because I'm a success coach. So it's like, it's not the best advertising to be like, hey, world, I'm failing miserably also because I'm a success coach. So it's not the best advertising. Hey, world, I'm failing miserably, but I'm looking for clients. Do you need anyone for a success coach? So it was just this real identity crisis.

Starting point is 00:48:13 And I also, authenticity is one of my highest values. So I felt like, should I fire all of my clients? Because an imposter. An imposter, I'm like, who the hell am I to coach these people? I'm a mess. So I called John and And imposter. I'm like, who the hell am I to coach these people? I'm a mess. Yeah. So I call John and he says, and I'm like, dude, I'm like, I'm taking notes.

Starting point is 00:48:30 Like, you tell me what to do, brother. I will do it. Like, please. And he said, man, I'm so sorry. Let me ask you a couple of questions. So it's okay. And he said, number one, are you exercising every day? And I go, what the hell does that have to do with anything?

Starting point is 00:48:46 I just told you. And I was like, is he not even paying attention? Like, what, exercise, no, I need to make money right now. Like, what, what? And he goes, hell, if you're not exercising every day and you guys are the exercise guys, and you appreciate this, he goes, you're, he goes, I'm imagining what you wake up,

Starting point is 00:48:59 you go in your office, you work all day, you go to bed and he's, I'm like, yes. And he said, then your energy, your mental clarity, it's at a low level, because you got to get blood to your body, oxygen to your brain. You're gonna, if you want to improve your life, you got to put yourself in a peak mental physical and emotional state that exercise will do for you.

Starting point is 00:49:14 He said, if I were you, I would start every day by going for a walk, a jog, a run, whatever. And I'm like, okay, okay, that makes sense, okay. But I'm looking for like, I'm like, no, no, no, I want to tactic, like, set up this landing page and you'll drive traffic. And I'm looking for like, I'm like, no, no, no, I want to tactic like set up this landing page and you'll drive traffic and like, you know, like, no. I need like money, like get rich quick, that, you know, and he said, second thing, while you're exercising,

Starting point is 00:49:35 he said, I would listen to an audio, an podcast, an audio book on whatever topic you need. He goes, right now you need to make money, right? I said, yeah, he goes, you're a coach, you need clients? I said, yeah. He goes, go find the best audiobook on getting coaching clients. He said, so while you're in that peak state,

Starting point is 00:49:52 listen to this audio and he said, and then don't even shower, go straight home and write down exactly what you're going to do differently as a result of what you learned. I'm like, okay, right? So he's basically teaching a man to fish, right? He's teaching me to fish, you know. I'm like, okay, right? So he's basically teaching him and a fish, right? He's teaching me to fish, you know? I'm like, all right.

Starting point is 00:50:08 And so I go, do you have, I go, you know, I, I, I'll do it. And he said, I would start with this one audio from Jim Rohn, I forgot what it was called, but he was listening to audio. And so I go for a jog the next morning, I listen to audio and I'm like begrudging them. I'm like, this is, I should be in the office

Starting point is 00:50:22 making money, you know, but, but it wasn't, I've been doing it for two months, like just spending my wills, like so, but I'm like, Iging them like this is I should be in the office making money, you know But but it wasn't I've been doing it for two months like just spinning my wills like so, but I'm like I need to be making money I hear a quote from Jim Rohn and this quote is the foundation of the miracle morning I wish I could thank Jim and personally you know passed away He said your level of success will sell to me exceed your level of personal development Because success is something you attract by the person you become and And in that moment, and I think it's true for, you know, 95 to 99% of our society, I realized, I'm not dedicating time every day to my personal development. Therefore, I'm not becoming the person that I need to be to create the success or attractive success,

Starting point is 00:50:57 whatever word you want to use, that I want. And so the epiphany was, I'm like, I need to like create the most extraordinary personal development routine that I can and really like turbocharge this. And so I ran home and I just Googled a bunch of phrases like, you know, personal development of millionaires or, you know, what the world's most successful to do for personal development. And just all these different phrases, right?

Starting point is 00:51:20 And I had this running list. And I, you know, I came across meditation, right? And I read this article, Fortune 500 CEOs who swear by meditation. And I'm like, oh, it's not just a woo-woo thing. Like these Fortune 500 CEOs attribute their success to meditation. I'm like, what, maybe I should do that, right?

Starting point is 00:51:33 Write it down. And I write down meditation, affirmations, visualization, exercise, reading, journaling, you know, all these things. And I'm writing them all down. And I'm trying to, and then I go, okay, I've got this list of six that I kept cross referencing on, you know, Will Smith is saying that affirmation he was on an Ellen episode.

Starting point is 00:51:50 She's like, how did you become one of the top paid actors in Hollywood? He's like, I use written affirmations since I was 15, I think I might be misquoting, but he said, from 15 years old, and I just lived in alignment with those affirmations and I became them. They became, I designed my reality in writing

Starting point is 00:52:05 in an affirmation form and they weren't just woo-woo-like, I'm great, I would say what I'm committed to and what I'm gonna do and you know, what I, and he goes and I would just do it. And now those affirmations are the life that I live, right? And I'm like, oh shit, I thought affirmations were just like cheesy, I'm a millionaire, I'm a this, you know, but like the way he described it was very different.

Starting point is 00:52:23 And so I'm looking at the list and I go, okay, which of these is going to be my morning routine? Which of these is the best? Am I going to meditate? Am I going to write which of these ones? And I'm looking and I'm looking and I'm re-reading the articles and and none is more compelling than the other. It just depends on who you ask. And so the epiphany was when I went, dude, what if I did all of these? What if I woke up tomorrow, and I did the six most timeless proven personal development practices that the world's most successful individuals

Starting point is 00:52:54 in all walks of life have done for centuries. I could go, that would be the ultimate morning ritual. That would be the ultimate, or no, that would be the ultimate ritual, because it didn't start with the morning. And then I'm looking at my schedule, and I go, when the hell am I gonna fit in an extra hour? Cause I'm thinking I'll do like 10 minute each, right?

Starting point is 00:53:08 Like 10 minutes, 60 minutes total, right? When I'm gonna fit an extra hour and I'm looking, I'm like, I gotta work all day. I'm like at night, I'm freaking brain dead. But I'm not a morning person. And for anybody listening, right? Like, I've done, we surveyed our community a few years ago, somebody interviewing me said,

Starting point is 00:53:24 what percentage of your miracle morning community, which is made of millions of people, what percentage of them were already morning people. So this was like just, oh cool, I'm sending check in Facebook, I'll do your six savers. And they said in which percentage of them had the limiting belief that I had and most people have, which is like, dude, I'm not a morning pearl

Starting point is 00:53:42 that Adam has, right? I've never, I've like, I've tried it, it's just not me has, right? I've never been a, I've like, I've tried it. It's just not me, you know what I'm a night owl. And I go, I don't know. So I surveyed our community and really like, I didn't know if it'd be like 90% where already morning people or I didn't know. 72% said I had never in my life,

Starting point is 00:53:59 before I read the miracle morning, I had never been a morning person in my entire life. And you know, it sounds like, wow, 72%, not only implemented the miracle morning practices, but it was like, no, they had to overcome a lifetime, you know, of evidence. Like, I'm saying they're not a morning person. So, that was, I look at my schedule

Starting point is 00:54:16 and I'm looking at my schedule and I'm going, like 5 a.m. is glaring at me, you know? And I'm like, oh, no, do I really have to do this? And I, and my, my mentors, Kevin, Kevin Bracy, his voice in my head, he always said, if you want your life to be different, you have to be willing to do something different first. And like that rang in my ears, and I'm like, son of a bitch. Okay, I'm getting up at five.

Starting point is 00:54:37 And here's the crazy part. There's one more step to that five step snooze proof wake of strategy that I didn't share, and it fits right now. Very nicely, it is set your intention before bed. step to that five step snooze proof wake up strategy that I didn't share. And it fits right now very nicely. It is set your intention before bed. Think about this. Our first thought in the morning is almost always whatever the last thought was we had before bed, right?

Starting point is 00:54:55 Like I think about a kid on Christmas. Like was it hard to wake up Christmas morning, right? Or if you're, you know, if you didn't celebrate Christmas, just think of like your first day of school or holiday or vacation. If you were excited about something you had to wake up for the next morning, you went to bed, tossed an inter, like you probably got the worst sleep ever because you're like, my end's racing with this thing, right?

Starting point is 00:55:13 But when as soon as you came to consciousness in the morning, you frickin' popped out of bed. And so that night, I was like thinking of these six practices, these savers. And by the way, let me, well, I'll get to those in a sec. So, and I was excited to wake up. And then as soon as the alarm clock woke up in the morning, which, and for the last, you know, six months before that,

Starting point is 00:55:32 I was all depressed and like dreaded waking up because I was waking up to my problems, you know? The only relief I had, and if you've ever been depressed, you relate to this, is going to bed at night. The only escape from life is like, I get to just fall asleep, like, thank God. And then you had dreaded waking up. So that night, I realized that we can recreate

Starting point is 00:55:49 that experience of Christmas morning or first day of school or whatever. We have the responsibility to consciously create that intention before bed. And when we do, every single morning literally feels like Christmas. You literally get to create that mind-body connection. You create, and in the book, in the miracle morning book,

Starting point is 00:56:07 I give what I call the bedtime affirmation. And it wasn't written for the book. It was my own affirmation that I kept on my bedside table, and then I just put it in the book. But it basically is how I program my mind that says, hey, tonight I'm getting blank hours of sleep, and whether it's five or eight or seven, just depending on the night, right?

Starting point is 00:56:23 I go, it's the exact amount that my body needs tonight to regenerate and rejuvenate. And I'm going to wake up feeling incredible tomorrow. And I can't wait to start with my miracle morning, win the morning and then crush the day. And dude, if you go to bed with that intention, right, you pop out of bed in the morning. So I woke up the next morning. I did all six practices, I was terrible at all of them. I had never meditated, I had never done affirmations,

Starting point is 00:56:51 like I fumbled through all of them, but still, even with the worst miracle morning I've ever done, I felt incredible after an hour. And I'm like, dude, that was it, and my depression went away. Because I was depressed, I kept losing money, and my depression went away where I was like, dude, if I, like that was it, and my depression went away. I get up his depressed, because I kept losing money, I kept, you know, and my depression went away where I was like, if I start every day like this,

Starting point is 00:57:10 it's only a matter of time. Like I can't not succeed by starting the day like this. I'm on frickin' fire, you know? And so while my outer world obviously didn't change day one, it took a couple of months, like my inner world was like, dude, this is it, you know, and the rest was, you know, it was kind of history. And it wasn't a book idea.

Starting point is 00:57:28 It just, it didn't give me a book idea until I taught it to my coaching clients and they had the same results I did and I was like, dude, this, I have a responsibility to share this with them. What order do you do them in when you wake up? What do you start with and how do you end it? So there's a perfect segue into it. So when I was writing the book, one day I was frustrated

Starting point is 00:57:44 and because I had these six practices that I didn't invent any of them, like I didn't invent meditation or affirmations or visualization or any of these, right? And there was no rhyme or reason at the time as I was writing. I'm like, I don't know how to, like Steven Covey's got the seven habits

Starting point is 00:57:58 of highly effective people. I didn't have a framework, right? Robert Kisaki has the cash flow quadrant, right? They're like these memorable things that you stick in your mind and you can implement and organize. And my wife came upstairs, I got to owe my wife so much. She's the one that thought of the name Miracle Morning.

Starting point is 00:58:13 She's the one that thought of this. I go, I said, I guess, since we had to, I'm so frustrated, she said, what's wrong? I said, you know, all these other authors have these like formulas that these frameworks that make their stuff easy to implement. And I just have these six random practices. And there's, I don't know how to organize them in a way

Starting point is 00:58:29 that people are gonna really be able to, they'll be sticky and they'll get them and they'll be able to run through them. She goes, well, I don't you get a thussaurus and see if you can switch some of the words that you, you know, some of the meditation of the things, and maybe there's, you could make an acronym out of it that people could remember.

Starting point is 00:58:47 And I was like, oh yeah, and okay, interesting. And it was, once, if it wasn't for this, and you'll see when I explain how what the acronym became, if it wasn't for this idea, again, I don't think the miracle morning would have stuck. I don't think it would have changed lives, right? The way it has. Because people would be like, yeah, these are all random,

Starting point is 00:59:04 I don't know, you know. So the acronym is, I call it in the book, right? The way it has. Because people would be like, yeah, these are all random, I don't know. So the acronym is, I call it in the book, these are the life savers. And the acronym is SAVRS. Silence, affirmations, visualization, exercise, reading, and scribing, which is a fancy word for writing or journaling. That it couldn't be a more perfect acronym for one because of, I genuinely believe, like, these are the six practices that are virtually guaranteed to save you from missing out on

Starting point is 00:59:34 the life that you deserve to live, right? And so a lot of people will run through them in that order. They'll do their silence. They'll start with meditation and they'll pull up their affirmations and they're visualized and they'll do a five, ten'll start with meditation, then they'll pull up their affirmations, then they're visualized, and they'll do a five, ten minute workout or whatever, stretching, yoga, whatever, then they'll pull out their book and read, then they'll journal what they're gonna do for their day, right?

Starting point is 00:59:53 I personally do exercise last, because I, you know, little sweaty, I don't want to sweat and then go shower or whatever, right? Some people will do exercise first, because they're like, if I do meditation first, I just fall asleep on the ground. I would need that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 01:00:08 I was already, I told the guys this morning, that was the first thing I tried to do this morning was to met. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're out. You're out. And that's another, so one tip is, don't do the miracle morning in your bed.

Starting point is 01:00:16 I mean, you can, like one of my co-authors, so I have a book that just came out called Miracle Morning Millionaires, what the wealthy do before 8 a.m. that will make you rich. I co-authored it with David Osborne, who's David Osborne, he has a net worth of $100 million, and he attributes his morning routine.

Starting point is 01:00:28 Like we met and I was like, how'd you be so successful? He's like, do my morning routine. I was doing a miracle morning before it was called miracle morning, and I'm like, we should write a book. You know how to turn that into your, turn into wealth, but where's it going with that? Oh, so he likes to do half of his savers.

Starting point is 01:00:41 He doesn't in bet. So he actually, he's like, dude, I do the first three, he does like meditation, affirmation, visualization, while he sits in bet, right? And then he gets out, so he likes to do half of his savers. He doesn't in bed. So he actually he's like dude I do the first three He does like meditation affirmations visualization while he sits in bed, right? Like and then he gets out so he has this but not falsely bad falsely So so my tip is you get out of bed You you do your five step wake of strategy and then you get the hell out of your room And you go you know, I have a like a little like I did my living room with like and I have my whole miracle Morning stuff on the coffee table like underneath it. I got my book

Starting point is 01:01:04 I got my journal. I got my like everything with like, and I have my whole miracle morning stuff on the coffee table underneath it. I got my book, I got my journal, I got my, like everything's laid out, you know? So it's ready to go, it's easy, my yoga DVD's there, right? So I go do the, so you do your miracle morning into the room, and yeah, if you want to exercise first to wake you up. So a couple of things I'll share on the savers.

Starting point is 01:01:19 There's in the miracle morning book, there's a chapter called customizing the life savers to fit your lifestyle and achieve your goals. And it basically says that it's completely In the Miracle Morning book, there's a chapter called Customizing the Life Savers to Fit Your Lifestyle and Achieve Your Goals. And it basically says that it's completely customizable. Number one is the order, right? You do whatever order you want. Number two is the duration.

Starting point is 01:01:35 You can do, like most people will do a 60 minute miracle morning, and they'll do like 10 minutes each. But I got to where I would do like 20 minutes of exercise, 20 minutes of reading, and then five minutes of visualization, five minutes of journaling, five minutes of aftermate, right? So you can totally customize it and move around.

Starting point is 01:01:52 Some people will even split it up, and they'll do half in the morning and half at night. Now I wanna, that's a good reminder. I do wanna mention, some people will say, well, how the savers are great, those are life changing. Do I have to do it in the morning or could I do it any other time of day, right? The answer is yes and no.

Starting point is 01:02:11 If you do the lifesavers, if you do the savers any of those practices at any time of day, their life changing, right? Doesn't matter when, right? However, every single one of them has immediate and short-term benefits, like meaning extending over hours, right? So for example, exercise, exercise increases your endorphins, serotonin, it gets right,

Starting point is 01:02:34 the blood flow, and you guys can speak more technically on all that, right? But it increases your energy. Why would you wait on those benefits and miss out on them all morning and all afternoon long? That'd be ridiculous. Meditation lowers your cortisol levels. It lowers your stress. It increases dopamine as well, right?

Starting point is 01:02:51 So it's like, if you don't do your savers in the morning, you're missing out on all of the benefits, right? It puts you, think of it this way. The miracle morning is designed to put you in a peak physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual state to start your day so that you are in that state to execute everything else you have to do for the day. You're a better leader, you in a peak physical, mental, emotional and spiritual state to start your day so that you are in that state to execute everything else you have to do for the day.

Starting point is 01:03:08 You're a better leader, you're a better lover, you're a better, you know, parent, you're a better, you know, entrepreneur, et cetera. So, yeah. Excellent. Now, this next book, The Miracle Equation, is different. Very different, yeah. Are you able to give away some tangible,

Starting point is 01:03:21 that's all about the job? Yeah, I don't, I don't, I mean, of course, yeah. But go buy it. But, yeah. And by the way, this might be getting ahead of myself, but I always forget to promote stuff like this. So I'm gonna lead with this if it's okay. The books available for pre-order right now, it comes out on the 16th,

Starting point is 01:03:37 and I'm working with a booklaunt, like total behind the scenes. I'm gonna go through the booklaunt's manager and he goes, how? Everybody has so many books to read, right? Like there's no usual urgency. So he says his launch manager and he goes, how, everybody has so many books to read, right? Like there's no usual urgency. So he says his strategy is he goes, we need to create real valuable bonuses

Starting point is 01:03:52 that are far in excess of the price of the book and he goes, and he goes, don't do it a lot of authors do, which is pull out old stuff out of your hat. And he'll be like, I got this old online training. I'll just, I'll throw that in for free and I'll throw in this old thing for free.

Starting point is 01:04:04 He's like, no, no, I want you to create relevant bonuses that are just for the book itself. And I'm like, okay, so anybody that pre-orders the book right now, you got a miracle equation book.com or Amazon or wherever you buy books, right? If you forward your receipt to miracle equation at gmail.com, and I would have to tell people there's two ease at miracle ends with an e equation starts the need. So put two's in there. You'll get $1,347 in bonuses. You get a the biggest one which is $1200 value is a six week online course with me on how to create tangible measurable miracles where I walk you through how to implement everything in the book. It

Starting point is 01:04:40 starts the week after the book comes out. You get a miracle equation limitless potential guided affirmation, which is a $99 value, and that's me in your ear every morning, not this excited. I'll be more gentle. But helping you write, really program your mind with the things in the book, and then you get a one page, it's really front and back two pages, miracle equation implementation guide that has every key concept in the book covered on a front and back page that you can print out, read it during your miracle morning

Starting point is 01:05:11 and review it and keep everything top of mind. So you buy the book, pre-order the book today, forward your receipt to Miracle Equation at gmail.com. All right, so into the book, what was our question? Some tangibles from the equation. Yeah, so here, so I'll just tell you what it is, right? So the Miracle equation, it's made of two decisions. And I kind of prefaced this by saying,

Starting point is 01:05:33 these are deceptively simple in the explanation, but they're extraordinarily rare in execution, right? And it's like most keys to success, right? It's like, yeah, and it's not rocket science, but it's easier to not do it than do it, which is why only 1% actually does the things that actually get them, right? Simple, not easy.

Starting point is 01:05:51 Yeah, exactly. So the first decision is to develop unwavering faith. If you think about anyone in the world that has ever accomplished anything extraordinary, right? Become wealthy, become whatever it is, right? You know, created the iPhone. I mean, whatever, walked on the moon. Every single one of them begin by establishing and developing the faith that they could do something that they had never done before. It's self-belief. And that totally is counter-active to human

Starting point is 01:06:18 nature. Human nature is we check our rearview mirror, like in the in the Miracle Morningbook I call it rearview mirror syndrome. We check the rear view mirror and be like, well, who am I? What have I done? Have I done this before? So whenever we're faced with it, whether it's a challenge or an opportunity, we check the rear view. And we go, dude, I've never done anything like this. Who am I kidding?

Starting point is 01:06:35 And then we go back to life the way that we know it. And that's it, right? It is totally counter to human nature to be like, why have no evidence that I can do it? But I'm going to step out on faith that I can do this thing I've never done before. And for most of the prolific achievers in the world, not only do they check the review and see that they've never done it, it's no one's ever created an electric car said Elon Musk,

Starting point is 01:06:55 right? Like, this is literally faith and not just something that they've never done, but maybe other people have, so there's like a little bit of evidence. It's like, wait, this has never been done in the history of humanity, right? Like, when I tried to break, so, you know what?

Starting point is 01:07:07 Great way to do this. I'll tell the story real quick. So, I was 20 years old, and I was trying to break a company record. That means that the company I was working for cut code around for 50 years, and no one had ever sold the amount that I was trying to sell in the period of time that I was trying to sell. It was a 14-day sales contest, and I was trying to sell in the period of time that I was trying to sell. It was a 14 day sales contest and I was trying to sell $20,000 of kitchen knives.

Starting point is 01:07:29 This was in 2000, in the year 2000. And no one had ever sold $20,000 in the 14 day period that I was trying. And I was like in my head going, okay, like I spent weeks like mustering up, right journaling about it, like, okay, how am I gonna do this, how am I gonna do this? And then I go to our sale, our team meeting, like three days before the sales contest starts, right? And I was 14 days, 20 grand, okay, almost impossible, but I'm gonna be the first person to do it. And our sales manager says, hey everybody, welcome to the meeting blah, blah, blah.

Starting point is 01:08:04 I know you guys are gearing up for your, it's called a push period. Now, I don't know if all of you are aware of this, but our conference was moved up four days. You don't have the full 14 days. It's only, we only have 10 days for the sales contest. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Like I've spent the last three weeks

Starting point is 01:08:26 wrapping my head around the impossible goal of selling 20 grand in 14 days. And you're telling me that I now have, I've lost 30% of my time to do this. And I like, I raised my hand, I'm like, Frank, so does this not count for like records and stuff cause it's not a full push period. And he's like, now how it still counts?

Starting point is 01:08:46 I'm like, oh, so like I'm just, I'm crushed. I'm like, no. So I go home that night and I'm in my head, I'm going, what do I do, what do I do? And I remember something I learned from one of my mentors, Dan Cassetta. And I think he learned this from Jim Rohn, right? Like the godfather of self help.

Starting point is 01:09:01 And it's that the purpose of a goal, and I think you, a Sally, you said this, I think, the purpose of a goal is not to hit the goal. That's not the highest value. The purpose of the goal is who you become by giving it everything you have to attempt the goal, whether or not you hit it. If you hit it, that's a short-term benefit. You make some money, you do whatever, but the qualities and the characteristics you develop, and I have a whole chapter in the book about like about that how you don't need to fear failure ever, because you can't fail at becoming a better version

Starting point is 01:09:26 of yourself, right? And so I go, wait a minute, I go, what if I applied that philosophy where it wasn't a make or break, it wasn't a successor fail, a block, which is how most of us do it. It's like either we reach the goal or we don't. I go, if I don't hit the 20k,

Starting point is 01:09:40 but I give it everything I have until the last moment, regardless of my results along the way, but I give it everything I have until the last moment, regardless of my results along the way, I would become more capable to achieve every goal I ever set from that point on. So I was like, all right, I'm gonna go for it, fail or not, whatever. And then I went, okay, to do this would be like a miracle.

Starting point is 01:10:00 What would I have to do between now and then? What would I have to decide today and maintain then? What would I have to decide today and maintain for the next 10 days for this to be possible? And I came up with two decisions. And I don't know if I worded it, but these are the two decisions that make up the book. Now, I don't know if I worded them this way, but the first one was on wavering faith.

Starting point is 01:10:18 I might as well call it belief or what, and there's a lot of stints, you can call belief, self-determinate, whatever, right? But I basically said, and this is true for all of us, right? You have to first establish the faith, which I was already, I was doing that. And by the way, that's the easy part. Establishing the faith, it's not easy,

Starting point is 01:10:32 it's not normal, most people don't do it, but it's the easier part because if you're in self-help, you abide by the optimist credo, which is anything is possible, right? And you see all of it, you know, like Tony Robbins told me, anything is possible, right? And but see all of it, you know, like Tony Robbins told me anything is possible, right? And, but rarely do we pursue what's possible, we only pursue what's probable.

Starting point is 01:10:50 What we believe is likely to happen. Like when was, how often do people go, I'm gonna go after a goal that I think I have no chance of achieving, right? Never. So we have almost never. We only pursue that which we believe is probable, right? So people will establish the faith

Starting point is 01:11:03 they can do the possible sometimes, and they call that uninformed optimism, right? It's like, I don't know what I don't know, but I just know that Tony Robbins and I love Tony, right? But he's anything's possible, so I'm gonna go for it, but then as soon as it looks unlikely, they're like, oh shit, I was kidding myself, nevermind. Nevermind, first day out, didn't go the way I thought,

Starting point is 01:11:22 nevermind, and they literally throw in the towel. So the unwavering faith, really, there's two parts. You gotta establish it, but go the way I thought, never mind. And they literally throw in the towel. So unwavering faith, really there's two parts. You gotta establish it. But then the hard part is you have to maintain it. Which is, that's what makes it unwavering. Establishing faith, but letting it waver, then it's like, you just give up. So in advance, I luckily saw that.

Starting point is 01:11:39 I fast forward it. I reverse engineered the next 10 days. And I went, I've been in sales for a year and a half at that point and I go, no, yeah reverse engineered the next 10 days and I went, I'm gonna have, I've been in sales for a year and a half at that point and I go, no, yeah, two years at that point. I said, I guarantee there's, you know, I'm gonna have no sales. I'm gonna doubt myself. I'm gonna have days where I go out and I sell,

Starting point is 01:11:56 I might go over five, right? How am I gonna maintain faith on those days during those times? How am I gonna maintain faith if halfway through the push period, five days into the 10 day push period, I'm nowhere near on track. How am I going to maintain faith if halfway through the push period, five days into the 10 day push period, I'm nowhere near on track. How am I going to maintain faith?

Starting point is 01:12:09 So I decided that I would use, now I, in the book, I call it the Miracle Montreux and it's basically in rough terms, I just said, I only go into, I committed, I wrote it down and I put it in my pocket, I carried it with me every day for 10 days. It said, I am committed to sell to give it every, not to sell 20,000,

Starting point is 01:12:26 because the result you can't guarantee. I said, I am committed to give it everything I have to sell 20,000 dollars for push, no matter what, there is no other option. And you think about it, the old adage, what we focus on expands. So when you feel a fear or a doubt because of your results, you then hyper focus on it, it expands, it consumes you, and it becomes your reality, and you go, there's no way I can do this. And I knew that was a potential problem.

Starting point is 01:12:54 That would be my downfall. And so I thought, okay, I'm going to this mantra, whenever I have a no sale or a no show, or, you know, I'm not on track, I'm going to pull it in mantra and say, I am committed to giving it everything I have to sell $20,000, right? And whatever your goal is, you fill in the blank of $show, or, you know, I'm not on track, I'm gonna pull it in mantra and say, I am committed to giving it everything I have to sell $20,000, right? And whatever your goal is,

Starting point is 01:13:08 you fill in the blank of 20,000, you know, to lose 20 pounds, to make a million dollars, to write a best-selling book, whatever, no matter what, there is no other option. And I literally, I said that hundreds of times during those 10 days, and in a minute, I'll get to how this whole thing played out in miraculous fashion.

Starting point is 01:13:25 And that was my first decision. I will maintain unwavering faith regardless of my results until the last possible moment, no matter what. That was decision number one. And if you're listening to this, if you don't make that decision, if you want to achieve extraordinary results in your life, in your business, if you want to become a millionaire or a billionaire or whatever, mean, whatever your extraordinary goals are. And I'll define a miracle real quick because it's a really loaded word. Right? Like, you know, I mean, that conjured up all, I mean, there's in fact, I think miracle,

Starting point is 01:13:56 first blush, I would I would I would, you know, it's like miracles come on, what like parting the red sea, and I think most miracles that are talked about like in media, like, you know, this, like in the book, I tell you, the guy that fell 14,000 feet in his parachute and opened and he lived with relatively minor injuries.

Starting point is 01:14:12 Like, yeah, that's, you call that a miracle, but like, that doesn't help me create miracles. It's like, well, yeah, if I hope if I skydive and I don't die, like, okay, right? Or, you know, there's a sort of a Donnie Registria who's on Oprah's website, Oprah's real life miracles where a gunman came into his liquor store and shot him in the face.

Starting point is 01:14:27 And Donnie threw his hand up at the last moment and the bullet bounced off the wedding ring and Donnie lived and the guy ran off. Like, that's a miracle, I guess, but like, that doesn't help us create miracles. So let me define a miracle for those that are listening in a way that everybody, like, I wanna make them tangible, I wanna make them measurable, I want you to feel like, dude, this is, I can create these.

Starting point is 01:14:49 A miracle, as I define it in the miracle equation in the book, is any result outside the realm of what you believe is probable for you, right? And again, I didn't say possible, because anything's possible, no, no, what you believe is probable for you. Therefore, when you achieve that result, it feels like a miracle.

Starting point is 01:15:09 You're in disbelief. So, the second decision I made going into the push period was, okay, so number one, I've got to maintain unwavering fate. That's the mental part. That's the, you can call that the miracle mindset, if you will, right? The second decision I made is I have to put forth

Starting point is 01:15:25 extraordinary effort. I have to literally give it everything I have, regardless of my results, until the last possible moment, because here's what happens for most of us. If our results are not on par with our goal, we lose drive, we lose steam, we lose faith. And when the faith goes out the window, the effort follows right behind it, you're like, well, did I'm like,

Starting point is 01:15:46 I'm not gonna really give it my all, there's like no way I'm gonna reach my goal. So here's how this played out. So those are my two decisions. And I'll tell you that the miracle equation, everyone I've taught it to, I mean, it's like 90% of people, it plays out like this, where it's like the last minute,

Starting point is 01:16:05 shit all falls into place. I mean, it literally is like a mere, it's crazy. And you hear stories of, you know, if you watch celebrity successful people on TV, whatever, right? They're always like, yeah, it was like, it was like, it was like, it was like, dude, I went to this interview and didn't work out, but then this guy saw me and then he came in and it was like,

Starting point is 01:16:22 I tripped and he fell and then he gave me and then he gave me a job and then I landed me the biggest part in my life. You know what I mean? It happens that way. So I went out, so do real simple math here, right? I had 10 days to sell 20 grand, two grand a day. Now in sale, in my company, I was 20 years old, having a $2,000 day, I had done that before,

Starting point is 01:16:43 but I never, you know, but I celebrated. It was like a lot like holy crap. I sold two grand in a day. That's a big day, right? I mean, the biggest set we sold back then was like 700 bucks, right? So, you know, it was like, you'd have to sell like three of the biggest sets we had in the same day, right?

Starting point is 01:16:55 So, so the odds of it happening weren't very good to do it 10 days in a row. So the first seven days, I needed to be at 14 grand to be on track, right? And that would give me three days left to finish out the last six grand. In the first seven days, I was at seven grand. So imagine you've bust, I've busted my ass, I've maintained the miracle equation. I'm at seven grand in seven days. Imagine if you were in that spot, that means that you have to, you have three days left to sell the remaining 13 grand. How in your brain are you gonna think that in seven days you sold seven grand, so yeah,

Starting point is 01:17:28 you're gonna sell 13 grand in the next three days. It was virtually impossible, and I want to share a really important distinction around this. This is probably will surprise you when you read it in the book. Well, it won't, because I'm gonna tell you right now, but when you, you don't have to actually believe that you can reach the goal to reach the goal for the miracle equation to work And what I mean by that is this is kind of counterintuitive I didn't actually believe that I was going to sell $20,000 in those 10 days

Starting point is 01:17:56 Unwavering faith is a strategy that Increases it that moves your probability of success From possible to probable and over the long term inevitable, right? Even example, the world's greatest athletes. Any Michael Jordan fans? Yes, of course. Right, so that's my epitome of the champion, right?

Starting point is 01:18:15 Growing up. So Michael Jordan, I believe that Michael Jordan, a LeBron James, a Kobe Bryant or any sport, right? They made a decision at some point in their career, might have been in high school college, might have been because of a mentor, might have been of their own accord, that they would make every shot that they could

Starting point is 01:18:34 make every shot that they ever took, and when every game they ever played in, and let me ask you, has any player every made every shot they ever took? No. No. I didn't believe, but that I would actually reach the goal, but I knew that to increase my likelihood

Starting point is 01:18:49 to make it as probable as possible, I had to have faith that I would make every sale, make win every day, and reach the goal. And so the world's greatest athletes have faith they'll make every shot they take, even though they know they won't. They have faith they'll win every shot they take, even though they know they won't. They have faith they'll win every game they play in,

Starting point is 01:19:07 even though they know they won't. It's impossible. But think about this, the average person, human nature, if you miss a shot, and when I say miss a shot, that's a metaphor for whatever, attempt anything and not hit your expectation, right? But when the average player misses a shot, does their faith go up or down?

Starting point is 01:19:26 It goes down. It decreases, right? They're like, oh, shit, I just missed. Maybe I'm off today. If they miss two shots in a row, dude, faith's going out the window. Like, if they get the ball next time, and they, they hesitate,

Starting point is 01:19:35 and they throw it back to the other player, right? But I believe, you see Michael Jordan, or Kobe, you see Kobe, you see these, they're a little run. Dude, you see, they're having the worst game of their life still shoot and the fourth quarter They have the best quarter of the game right if they've missed the last seven shots in a row and it goes to the huddle And there's 10 seconds left and their teams down by two and in the book I call these miracle mavens the word maven comes that from the Yiddish word maven which means one who understands a

Starting point is 01:20:02 Miracle maven is one who understands how to create tangible measure of measure of time. Measureable miracles. They understand the miracle equation is the fundamental thing. In fact, I've interviewed with some podcasters that are multi-millionaires recently, JJ Virgins won, and she's like,

Starting point is 01:20:20 she kept cutting me off. She's like, how? This is what we do. You simplified it. This is what the world's most successful people do. We just, I don't think we, I think we do it unconsciously. We make these two decisions all the time. And we just, that's how we live.

Starting point is 01:20:34 You know, and that's the thing. Is the miracle equation. It's a fundamental way of living. It's not like, I'm going to try it out on this one goal and see how it works. It's like, no, no. This is who you become. Is this way where everything, like Michael Jordan, like an athlete, you approach everything, every challenge

Starting point is 01:20:49 you encounter, every goal you pursue through the lens of unwavering faith. And then you put forth extraordinary effort and your success moves along that spectrum from possible to probable to inevitable. Excellent. What has it been like seeing the sales of the book? I mean, you've got this attitude, you've overcome all these crazy stuff. You've even been in financial places where you thought you're going to lose your house. And the first book is just fucking crushing. What has been this? Oh, we can't say the effort. I wasn't sure I held back. Oh, yes. This is my pump, man. You can say whatever you want on this. So what

Starting point is 01:21:22 is the ride been like for you seeing the success of the book right now? It is, I mean, surreal is the only, like I, when I wrote, first of all, it wasn't a book idea, right? Like I said, and then I decided I would make it a book. And then while I was writing the book, I have as much, you know, I'm a human being. I have fear and self-doubt.

Starting point is 01:21:39 Like I said, the miracle equation is my strategy. It doesn't mean that I believe, you know, it's like I just, I know that it increases my likelihood of success, right? But I still fear since self-doubt. Like when I was writing the miracle morning, there was, and like any writer goes through this, right? I'm writing and I'm going, I would have writer's block

Starting point is 01:21:54 or I'd be frustrated with parts of it or I would just go, dude, people have such a deeply ingrained belief that they are not a morning person, that they have 18 years or I mean, their whole life through evidence. I go, who in the hell, and I would be struggling with writers by going,

Starting point is 01:22:08 how can I write the words that would help enable someone to overcome a lifetime of evidence that they have tried, that they can't wake up early? So I had so much self-doubt. And my vision for it, most of the time was rooted in that self-doubt. It was like, maybe it'll change a few lives. Like that was literally, I'm like, maybe,

Starting point is 01:22:26 you know, if it changes one life, it's worth it. If it changes one life, like it changed my life, dude, I owe it to that person, I don't know who they are. Like that was my vision for it. But then I would start teaching it like, while the book took me six years to write. Aren't six years? Three years?

Starting point is 01:22:40 No, six or three years. Can't remember which one took me, but three years. But it took me three years to write. And during that time, I would, I would, I'd blog about it and I'd post it. So I was like teaching the miracle morning along the journey. And just from teaching it and doing like some interviews

Starting point is 01:22:55 and an audio I did on it that went viral online, I would get emails from, you know, I had hundreds of emails from people before the book even came out saying, I implemented the miracle morning, I'm doing your savers, it is changing my life, it's changing my marriage. It got me, I was depressed and now I'm not depressed. And that's what gave me like, I started to see like,

Starting point is 01:23:10 dude, this could change the world. Like this could change the world. But when the book launched, I wasn't a Tim Fair, I didn't have a platform. So I think this is probably the most important lesson for anybody listening. And this is really a lesson in, you know, the irony of the miracle equation is,

Starting point is 01:23:24 yes, it's a new book, but I invented it six years before the miracle morning, and it's how the miracle morning has sold millions of copies. I had unwavering faith that I, that the miracle morning could change the world because it was changing every person's life that I taught it to that did it. And so I said, I have a responsibility to share it with millions and millions and millions of people, even if that takes me the rest of my life. So I will put forth extraordinary effort to do that and maintain unwavering faith. Now here's the lesson. When the book came out, you know, if you're an author, the first month is usually the best month of sales you ever have, right? You leverage every relationship, every friendship, you beg your friends, your parents, you know,

Starting point is 01:24:06 I called every client I had, I mean, I sold, and I sold 1,800 copies of the book, which, no, it was still published, not that many copies. The next month, I dropped down to like 700 copies, I think, and then it dropped down to 300 and then 200 and then 100 and I have a graph of this, you know, that I show in some speeches

Starting point is 01:24:25 that I do. It took me a year and a half and over 150 interviews on podcasts and a dozen TV shows to get back to 1800 sales in a single month. And most authors I meet are like, dude, I put my book hard for like a month, maybe three. And then I move on to the next squirrel, right? But I, it was the miracle equation.

Starting point is 01:24:47 I mean, this is like, this is real life stuff, right? Like I maintained it, and here and now, later, it got back up to 1800, and then I think it was the next month Pat Flynn had me on his podcast, and this is a great Pat Flynn, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, I don't even tell it, sorry. Pat Flynn had me on the podcast,

Starting point is 01:25:02 and his audience really, because he, he came on and he said, well, here's the story. He said, how? I'm not, it was a really hard way to start the interview. Cause I looked up to him, I love Pat him, huge fan. He's just a great guy, podcasts or smart pass of income podcasts, big following.

Starting point is 01:25:15 And he said, how? I just wanna tell you, I am not a morning person. I am a night owl. I wake up when my kids wake me up in the morning and I love it because it's my alarm clock. There's nothing more endearing than my kids going daddy daddy daddy and basically Pat you know Pat's you know got a multi-million dollar business runs marathon's great dad. I'm like How in the hell am I gonna convince this guy that his perfect life?

Starting point is 01:25:39 No, no, no Pat. I know you like waking up with your beautiful children But no an alarm clock an hour earlier is gonna be the way to go, right? And I'm at the end of the interview basically after everything I shared today, right? He was convinced he's like, how I think I might be missing out on a level of productivity by not starting my day in that peak state that you're talking about. I'm committing on air to my audience. I will do the miracle morning for 30 days and I'll Report every day and keep it public and now he's one of the biggest miracle morning fanatics that there are. And he, in fact, I'm gonna fly down to hang out with him a couple days, but he, and then the book,

Starting point is 01:26:12 he was the, it was like, it went from, it went to 5,000 copies within a couple of months. Wow. And then it took off. And I've still done another 100 podcast interviews since then. That's what's crazy to me. I didn't realize this. I didn't realize, I just assumed that the book

Starting point is 01:26:24 just kind of took off and was going. So talk about the feeling that you probably went through after that 1800 and then watching this dip through and your whole book is about this morning routine and having these positive thoughts and all this shit. And you're seeing your shit not go explode. Like, I mean, 1800, even 1800 a month for six months is nothing compared to the amount that you've sold now. Sure. I mean, that had to been, did you go through times or like fuck, maybe I wasn't supposed to do this or did you believe with unwavering faith

Starting point is 01:26:55 through the whole thing, through the whole entire process? I mean, there were definitely doubt because what I started thinking about was, I mean, all right, I'm an entrepreneur. So, I, you know, squirrel, squirrel, right, everywhere. So, a buddy of mine reached out and he said, his name's Ryan Snow and we used to sell cucko together. And now he's in, he's a top level real estate, a guy.

Starting point is 01:27:13 Now he's a sales trainer, but he was, anyway, he was in real estate and he said, how I've given the miracle morning to my entire sales team. And my, since I started doing the miracle morning, he said my sales have increased significantly and my entire team, every single person that doing the miracle morning, he said, my sales have increased significantly, and my entire team, every single person that started the miracle morning, it's measurable. Their sales have increased.

Starting point is 01:27:32 He said, if you thought about doing a miracle morning for sales people, where you like customize and cater the content and the affirmations and everything for sales people, and I said, that's crossed my mind to do like, you know, like, you know, some off, like a series or something. I'm like, but I, you know, like, you know, some off, like a series or something. I'm like, but I, I, I, I don't have a plan really, but maybe I said, dude, you want to co-author with me?

Starting point is 01:27:50 I said, let's, I'm down to give it a shot. Why not? It's like an experiment. And so he and I wrote the miracle morning for salespeople. And then while we were writing that, a top real estate trainer reached out and said, dude, miracle morning has changed my life. I read, I read it to my, I read it to my two-year-old son every night.

Starting point is 01:28:06 He doesn't even get it, but I want him to get the energy that this book is giving to me. And I'm like, yeah. He's like, he's like, he's like, doing like a real estate version. And I said, let's call off the, like it was all organic. It wasn't this, I'm not a master plan kind of guy. Dude, I'm like, wake up and like, see what I do today, you know.

Starting point is 01:28:21 And now there are like 13 titles. And I've done with some big authors now. So Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs is with Cameron Herald. Miracle Morning for Diction Recovery is with Joe Polish. Miracle Morning Millionaires is with David Osborne. I have Miracle Morning for College students. Miracle Morning for writers.

Starting point is 01:28:41 Right now we're doing Miracle Morning for Teachers. This is actually really cool. My vision, part of the vision, the vision now is, it's very big because it's, I've seen what it's doing for the world and for the miracle morning. And so the, so one of my visions was during a miracle morning,

Starting point is 01:28:57 one day meditating or whatever, I thought, dude, what if this was in schools? What if every classroom, every teacher ran their students through the savers to start the day and put their students in a peak physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual state to start the day? That could enhance their focus, it could enhance their happiness.

Starting point is 01:29:16 I go, and it could end bullying. How are you gonna beat up the kid that you just heard him read his affirmations about his family and why he's struggling at home and how he's trying to write, and you're meditated with him, right? so I'm like, this could change the world. So I had a teacher at my, I do a live event every year called Best Your Ever Blueprint

Starting point is 01:29:33 in San Diego and at the best forever, a gal came up and she said, how I do the savers with my students every day. And we do a six minute version. And I was like, I, that's like my vision. Like, you know, I said, she said I have a video I could send you. And I, you know, and I was like, I, that's like, am I vision? Like, you know, I said, she said, I have a video I could send you.

Starting point is 01:29:48 And I go, oh my God, yes. She sends me a video. And then I have a business partner, honorary quarter who does the book series with me. She manages, she oversees the series. And I sent her the video. I'm like, dude, we should do miracle morning for teachers. And so she had the idea.

Starting point is 01:30:03 She said, instead of us just like finding a teacher to co-auth to the book with, we brainstormed and decided, why don't we have like a bunch of teachers actually do it and then report back, submit their findings and what works and what doesn't. And then we co-create the book based on real life experience, not just one teacher's experience. So in February, literally just the month for last, we just did 70 teachers, 70 classrooms

Starting point is 01:30:28 across the United States, just did this, the submissions, and even just the Facebook group of like what the teachers are helping each other go in. I mean, it was profound. Some of their most troubled kids in their classes were like Mrs. Smith, like the affirmations have so changed my life. And I mean, it was incredible. So that book will come out probably, I think, this fall. And then we're gonna, I mean, that is a book that we're still figuring it out, but we're

Starting point is 01:30:58 gonna potentially just send them out to every school in the country. And yeah, I mean, it's so, so yeah,'s great. So yeah, so I never imagined any of this being as big as it is, and yeah, and it's just, it's surreal, it really is. I like it. It's exciting. Very exciting. And so, where are you now with this? You're now promoting your book, you're moving out, talking on podcasts and stuff.

Starting point is 01:31:21 Yeah, so, good. And I wasn't asked, how's your treatments? Are you done with your treatments? Are you still going through that? Yeah, so, oh good. And I wasn't asked, how's your treatments? Are you done with your treatments? Are you still going through that? Yeah, so I'm in remission. The antitank that I've been remissioned since like the first or second treatment,

Starting point is 01:31:31 they're like, all right, the cancer is showing it's in remission. And that's why I was like, well, then can I quit chemo? Cause chemo is killing me, or it's poison, you know? And they're like, no, no, no, no, you have a cancer where even a little bit that's hiding, like you saw how fast it, like my cancer divides and replicates and replicates. So I did eight months of hard core

Starting point is 01:31:48 that chemo in the hospital. And now I do every day I take oral chemo. And then once a month I go in for an IV and I do that for three years. So I have two more years of that. So I'm doing that, I've had a minorimission. And again, I believe in the mind body connections. So like, because there is collateral damage from chemo.

Starting point is 01:32:08 So part of it is every day, I have a whole bunch of cancer affirmations, right? And one of them is affirming that like the cancer is killing my, or the chemo is killing my cancer and keeping it at bay. So it never comes back and I get to live a hundred year plus life with my family healthy. And my body is strong enough to endure the chemo and I'm putting forth extraordinary effort in the form of all these holistic practices to detoxify the chemo from my body so that

Starting point is 01:32:37 it never does any harm. So I believe we create our reality from our thoughts and our intentions and our feelings. So I affirm that every day. Um, so that's my cancer journey. Uh, and yeah, I'm in the midst of it to chemo this morning, you know, uh, makes people tired as you can tell him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Holy cow, how much energy do you have before?

Starting point is 01:32:57 Yeah, right. As soon as I leave here, I will crash so hard. I have another interview to have to figure out why you just get some coffee or something. But, um, so, uh coffee or something. So, yeah. So, and when the miracle equation came out, here's what's interesting. I, you know, we have different parts of our brain, right? Left brain, right brain, emotional. And the publisher reached out, they wanted this book and I said, this is the book that's

Starting point is 01:33:17 on my heart, it's called Miracle Equation. Would you guys have to be up for it and they said, yes, and I was excited. But, you know, I had a deadline. I've never worked with a traditional publisher. Everything's been self-published. I have all 13 Miracle Morningbooks or self-published. This is my first traditionally published book.

Starting point is 01:33:30 It's kind of an experiment. I'm like, either I'll never do this again or maybe I'll do it more, I don't know. And, but it was so much pressure with like deadlines, right? Like, I just had to get it done. Get it done, get it done, get it done, get it done. I didn't get a lot of time to like, in space to like really think about the whole thing.

Starting point is 01:33:43 And then once the book was done, I sent it off. It was actually probably maybe a month ago, three weeks ago, I was laying awake at night and every night I do a miracle evening now, which I'll probably write a book on this eventually, right? But it's like I used to not have any evening routine. And now I just, it's gratitude, it's celebration and it's anticipation, right?

Starting point is 01:34:02 So I think about what I was grateful for for the day. I really get clear on like, what did I do today that I should acknowledge myself? We go through life usually and we just one day to the next, the next, the next. And now I celebrate, like I get really deeply present to what happened today. Like today, tonight guys, I'll be celebrating this interview

Starting point is 01:34:18 and I'll be like, how fucking amazing that I had the opportunity to sit with you guys To sit with Sal and Adam and Justin and Doug and Rachel Yeah, that's not Rachel. Sorry. Oh, it is Oh, you got it. You're behind the camera. You're like the I thought it was your twin Rachel So anyway, I yeah, right? I'm like, you know, and like the fact that you guys had me here like I so I tried to be deeply like Grateful and present and that's how you get the most out of life, right? Because it doesn't, I mean, how many millionaires and billionaires and celebrities

Starting point is 01:34:50 are fricking on drugs and alcohol and depressed and shit because they don't know how to be present to how fricking amazing life is. So anyway, so I'm going into the next book, years for now, Miracle Equation, but anyway, so I do this every night and recently back to the point, I was doing that without miracle equation, but anyway, so so I do this every night and and and recently back to the point I was doing that my miracle evening and I'm I just like had this piff and I go wait a minute The miracle equation like I hadn't really gotten connected to the mission

Starting point is 01:35:14 I'm so connected to the miracle morning mission the miracle morning mission, right? Which is to elevate the consciousness of humanity one morning at a time I live that the miracle morning community. They're all rallied around that. And as we each individual person elevates our own consciousness, and we wake up in the morning, we do the Miracle Morning, we elevate our own consciousness, you can't help but that being a ripple effect of elevating the consciousness of the people that you interact with, right? So that's a mission that I'm so focused on that this Miracle equation was kind of like, all right, well, this is an extra thing. You know, it's going to help people, but I was so engaged and I realized, wait a minute. The miracle equation is its own mission and it's just as important because the majority

Starting point is 01:35:55 of people live in a place of self-doubt and fear and they play small, right? And you have to tell most of us do. And I've done it for most of my,, you know, a lot of my life. And I still do it in different ways. And I realize that, and because of that, because we have trouble seeing ourselves as bigger and better than we've ever been, because we check the rear view mirror.

Starting point is 01:36:16 You go, that's who I am. I see, I got proof. Look at the last 30 years of my life. That's who I am. I'm nobody different except for who I am. And this book is the, like, I feel like this is life, that's who I am. I'm nobody different except for who I am. And this book is the, I feel like this is the, it's like great, do your practice, your miracle morning, but this is how you're really going to,

Starting point is 01:36:33 you're going to create those tangible, measurable miracles and see, you know, not just learn and grow, but turn that learning and that growth into this tangible results where all of a sudden now the bank account balance is growing, your relationship is improving, your career is skyrocketing, your business is skyrocketing on and on and on.

Starting point is 01:36:53 So now I'm just, I'm very present to like, dude, this is like a second child. A miracle morning's been my baby that I've been raising for 10 years. I just had my second baby and it doesn't get any less attention, any less love, it's not any less important or relevant than the first child. And so that's, you know, I'm on a new mission. Any spiritual or religious background in you and your family?

Starting point is 01:37:15 I grew up Catholic. I don't, I wouldn't consider myself really religious. I go to church every week, but for me, it's more of a spiritual connection. It's really much more about the inner, not any one religious dogma versus just kind of a connection to a higher power. And even I'm really, I really mesh science and spirituality, like I mean, there is proof that there is a energy that we affect with our thoughts and are right

Starting point is 01:37:46 They've met they can measure that right? So so I bench I very much I pray every day But it's not necessarily that I'm praying for God to do things for me right? I'm praying to it's to me the intention. It's the energy that I'm putting out and it being reflected back But I absolutely you know Whatever name whether you call it God or Allah or a higher power or something, woo, woo, like the law of attraction. I absolutely believe in it. And I've seen, my whole life is filled with these

Starting point is 01:38:16 column coincidences, column miracles, call it crazy luck, you know, that I'm just like, I'm blessed and grateful for all of it and connected to it and trying to use it for good every single day, that spiritual power. Yeah, there seems to be a lot of parallels there, with daily devotionals and having spiritual practices. I think that that's a major loss in society today. And I think that this is another way to present it,

Starting point is 01:38:44 I think that might be more digestible for your average person. And that is something that, yeah, that I've really taken on is, like people will reach out the Red Miracle morning. They're like, you didn't mention religion at all, but I get the impression that you're, you know, from the book and I'm like, yeah, that's what, like I, cause I don't want to alienate anybody.

Starting point is 01:38:59 I don't want to be like, you know, here's my beliefs. And so, and then people are like, ah, that's, I don't believe that, you know, so I just kind of, I just, to me, it's like, just live your truth, live your religion, live your spirituality, without having to preach it. And just live it and live the lessons, like not the judgment or the condemnation or that just live the lessons, share the lessons.

Starting point is 01:39:22 And yeah, and to me, the more universal, at to me if you can the more universal at least for me personally The more universal I can make the religious or spiritual truths that I live by the more people They will impact and they will reach versus trying to you know to pigeonhole it into this one specific belief system It's ancient wisdom and in these these old spiritual practices exist for a reason They have a lot of their own ancient wisdom. What do you think of our society today? and these old spiritual practices exist for a reason. They have a lot of their own ancient wisdom. What do you think of our society today? Do you think we're more or less pessimistic today

Starting point is 01:39:51 than we were a decade or two decades ago? What do you think about our society today? Yeah, I mean, it's an interesting question. I think that, so Peter Demonis wrote a book I think called Abundance, I think it can be written that right. And Peter Demonis, who's a futurist, basically was kind of like, hey, the world's actually better than it's ever been. If you watch the news, you think it's worse than it's ever been, because your reality is whatever you focus on, right? And he

Starting point is 01:40:14 goes, but here's the thing, all the news talks about is because it grabs headlines and sells advertising, is the murders and the drug use and the crime, right? is the murders and the drug use and the crime, right? You could fill up 24 hours a day of television on good deeds, on things that people are doing to make a difference in the world, on clean water that's being delivered by organizations like Never Thirst and Charity Water, and I mean, on charities like the Front Row Foundation

Starting point is 01:40:40 that I'm a board member of, like, you could spend, you'd be like, oh my God, our world's frickin' amazing, and there are more smart, beautiful, human, good-hearted people today that are trying to solve all the problems than ever before. With that said, there are terrifying things like global warming, and I'll probably,

Starting point is 01:40:58 ah, global warming doesn't exactly, like, dude, anyway. All right, I mean, so there are some terrifying things that we have in place, that we, that, as a society, we are doing doing that are kind of scary, right? And so it's like, so that's a little scary to me. Yeah. And I do often wonder, I go, look, I have a voice. I, and I do, sometimes I, I question like,

Starting point is 01:41:17 what is the biggest, how can I use my voice to make the biggest difference in the world? And right now I'm doing what I believe that is. I'm helping, if I'm helping people, if I'm elevating the consciousness of humanity, right? But there may be a day when my platform is big enough and when I've shared the miracle morning with five billion people or seven billion people in the miracle equation and like, all right,

Starting point is 01:41:36 I've got that out there, so I don't need to keep preaching that stuff. Now I'm gonna talk about, hey, here's how we save the planet. That's really something that is in my heart. It's just like, it's timing for me. It's timing. Knowing that we get bombarded with all this negativity through news and social media and

Starting point is 01:41:51 stuff like that and being a father, are there certain practices that you try to put in place with your kids? So they have a better attitude more like you. I mean, what are you doing right now? I mean, the first is living by example, right? Your kids, there was a great quote I saw once on the wall of my daughter's gymnastic class and she said, be careful, it was something

Starting point is 01:42:10 to be careful what you say to your kids because your words become their inner voice. Yeah. And I was like, ah, that's powerful. And I think, you know, some two people are unconscious and we're complaining all the time or we're being negative or we're yelling at our fricking kids. And you know, it's like,

Starting point is 01:42:25 you know, you don't yell at your friends, you don't berate your friends, why the hell would you berate your children? I know that it's perfect, I mean, you know, we all lose our cool, but like for me, when I yell at my, here's a little bonus parenting tip, like if I, and I don't,

Starting point is 01:42:40 anger's not a big part of my world, and I let it go through meditation and all those things, so I'm not, I have very little anger. But if I part of my world and I let it go through meditation and all those things So I'm not I have very little anger But if I even raise my voice out of like if I raise my voice out of kids not usually anger But like frustration like I said six times go friggin get the thing You know we got to go relate right as soon as I do that I'm hyper aware and I almost always follow it with a smile and I go sweetie I love you, but like it was enough to like shock the nervous system

Starting point is 01:43:07 and she's like, oh shit, I gotta go get my backpack or like death, right? But I literally, I don't let her sit with that for even five minutes. Within usually five seconds or maybe a minute after she's gone and come back, I go, sweetheart, I love you to death, I'm sorry I raised my voice. I just, I was, you know, I just,

Starting point is 01:43:23 I had to get, you know, you had to get it. So my daughter never sits with any kind of negative anger or emotion or anything, right? It's always speaking logically. Again, the way you would talk to an adult, to me, just because they're ages and where are, is there their development? To me, they don't deserve to be talked down to our children.

Starting point is 01:43:42 No, it's brilliant too. And Joe, and the last, I want to give you a bonus tip. The greatest, one of the greatest parenting advice I ever got was from Joe Rogan. You know, you wouldn't like, you wouldn't guess for parenting advice. And I implement this like crazy. He said, when my kids mess up, instead of me going, you shouldn't do that. You know, but most parents like condemn the kid like, that's bad, that's terrible. You shouldn't have said that.

Starting point is 01:44:03 You shouldn't have done that. You're, that's bad that's terrible you shouldn't have said that you shouldn't have done that you're sorry. And he said that makes the kid feel disconnected from you makes them feel judged it makes them feel shame it makes them put you know feel like you're on a pedestal and they're never be as good as you. He said when my daughter messes up or my kids mess up I I I am immediately look for something in my own life that I did that was the same, similar or the same. So I'll say sweetheart. I actually did almost the exact same thing when I was your age. And they go, you did? And yeah, and, and let me tell you, but let me tell you how it played out. It was not good.

Starting point is 01:44:37 So now, right? Like, and he goes, they feel connected to you. They relate to you. They feel like you respect them. They feel understood. And they actually get the lesson. They feel connected to you, they relate to you, they feel like you respect them, they feel understood, and they actually get the lesson. Because how many times you yell at your kid with a lesson and they roll their eyes as soon as you turn away, right? You didn't get through to your kid, through your anger and your yelling,

Starting point is 01:44:55 but if you're like, I get it, I've been there, here's what happened, they're like, oh my God. And they go back to school, like, dude, my dad did the same thing that I did, listen to what happened. Dude, I am never doing that again. Right. Like to me, that's the most brilliant parenting advice I've ever gotten. Did the same thing that I did? Listen to what happened. Dude, I am never doing that again. To me, that's the most brilliant parenting advice I've ever gotten.

Starting point is 01:45:08 Anything that they've taught you about yourself. That's a good question. I'm trying to put it in words, but I mean lots. The biggest was just the capacity to love. You never knew the degree of love, the type of love that you have for your kids I've never had for anything. Not for my wife, not for anything. My wife always talk about like, your number one,

Starting point is 01:45:32 well technically the kids are number one, but like, depending on the context, but yeah, I mean, they just taught me a capacity. They're normally a great reflection of yourself too. You see the qualities and then like, oh shit, I do that. You know, these guys talk a lot about in the show. I love listening to them talk about, I'm getting ready to be a father.

Starting point is 01:45:50 And so I love listening to other fathers talk about, you know, when I look at my kid and I catch them doing certain things or I hear them say certain things. And I think, oh wow, that's like a mini version of myself. And some of the greatest growth sometimes comes from seeing that reflection in your children. Sure. So that's what I was alluded to.

Starting point is 01:46:07 Yeah, I definitely, I definitely see that. And I think it's mostly positive, not to be, like I just, because I really strive, that's to be the miracle morning, right? Like, if you want to be the best parent, like when we wrote a book called the Miracle Morning for Parents and Families, right? And before we wrote that, or when I was like,

Starting point is 01:46:23 right, I'm like, how do you be the best parent? You just do the miracle morning because that enables you to do the best version of yourself and to be calm and to be clear and to be right. And part of, before I did the miracle for parents, like, I still had affirmations on how to be the best dad I could be. So you think about that, when you start every day

Starting point is 01:46:38 and you meditate, you do affirmations, you get totally clear on being the dad, like, how do I need to show up for my kids today? And for my wife. I have affirmations of being the most, making my wife's life amazing. That's my goal every day to make her life incredible in every way I can.

Starting point is 01:46:53 And every day I think of what can I do today to make my wife and my kids' life amazing. So most of what I see in them is positive because I'm intentional about it, right? It's great. I don't react, I'm not, I don't get angry. So I just see, now what I do see is I'm totally ADHD and, right? I don't react, I'm not, I don't get angry. So I just see, you know, now what I do see is like, I'm totally ADHD and my daughter's totally ADHD.

Starting point is 01:47:09 So I don't know if that's born with that or it's habitual or, you know, I don't know. So maybe she'll be in sales like her dad was. She's gonna crush, she's just like, it's gotta be inborn because she's just like, she's totally like me. She will get up and she can public speak. She's like, and she's, nah, you need up.

Starting point is 01:47:24 That's great man. Well, I appreciate you coming on the show. Dude, this is my favorite interview I've ever done. Is it really? Yeah, seriously, I, this is... You say that to everybody if you sleep with them. Yeah! That was the fun part as before.

Starting point is 01:47:36 I think it's probably because the three, some four, some five, some we just had is... Yeah, that's right. Jordan, I'm doing Jordan Harbinger tomorrow, his show, and he's got a... Oh, I thought you did Jordan first. Jordan, I'm doing Jordan Harbinger tomorrow, his show, and he's got a ball. Oh, I thought you did Jordan first. No, I was telling Justin, I was like, no, no, Jordan set this up so that I could practice and get all the kids out.

Starting point is 01:47:52 You're the warm up. Yeah, fucking Jordan. Yeah, it ended up being the best show I've ever done. So I'm going to let you guys enjoy it. I tell you what, I'm also going to commit to the morning routine. So I'll put it that on air right now because I am definitely not that guy. And so I'll make sure to go through all the steps, start practicing and then I'll report back to you and you know, maybe we'll have you come back on the show again. We'll give you, get you cut up on high,

Starting point is 01:48:14 the success that I hopefully have with it, right? Absolutely. Well, and the miracle morning documentary comes out later this year. Oh, shit. Which it took, we've been filming it for four over four years. Wow. And then I got cancer halfway through it, so that threw off the documentary, and it made the last third of it, a cancer journey, which was not part of the plan. So anyway, so, yeah, so when that comes out in a few months, I'll love to hit you guys up.

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