The Mindset Mentor - Ep 12 - From Death to Success w/ Hal Elrod

Episode Date: September 16, 2015

Hal Elrod died at 20 years old.He was brought back to life, spent 6 days in a coma and was told he would never walk again. He wouldn't accept that fate and days later he would prove the doctors wrong and walk on his own.In this episode Hal shares what it took for him to have the mindset to not only overcome such a traumatic experience, but to go on to write a book called "The Miracle Morning" which hit the best sellers list and started a movement across the world.Through waking up early and practicing success habits every morning, Hal's book is changing the world one life at a time. He gives an incredible interview that I am positive will add a ton of value to your day. Want to learn more about Mindset Mentor+? For nearly nine years, the Mindset Mentor Podcast has guided you through life's ups and downs. Now, you can dive even deeper with Mindset Mentor Plus. Turn every podcast lesson into real-world results with detailed worksheets, journaling prompts, and a supportive community of like-minded people. Enjoy monthly live Q&A sessions with me, and all this for less than a dollar a day. If you’re committed to real, lasting change, this is for you.Join here 👉 www.mindsetmentor.com My first book that I’ve ever written is now available. It’s called LEVEL UP and It’s a step-by-step guide to go from where you are now, to where you want to be as fast as possible.📚If you want to order yours today, you can just head over to robdial.com/bookHere are some useful links for you… If you want access to a multitude of life advice, self development tips, and exclusive content daily that will help you improve your life, then you can follow me around the web at these links here:Instagram TikTokFacebookYoutube

Psst, hey, do you want a free motivational ebook called Hack Your Goals, a Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving Success? Go to mwfmotivation.com and download it for free like hundreds of other people already have. Okay, now I'll get you back to the podcast. Welcome to the MWF Motivation Podcast, which I am proud to say has been rated the number one podcast in iTunes new and noteworthy in six different categories, including self-help and business, and is a

podcast designed to help you grow into the best version of yourself in 10 to 20 minutes. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we'll take a life topic, break it down, discuss it, and leave you with thoughts to impact your life and mind. My name is Rob Dial, and the podcast starts now. Welcome to the MWF Motivation Podcast. My name is Rob Dial, and I am super excited for this episode. I actually have Hal Elrod, who is a coach, motivational speaker, and author of the best-selling book, Miracle Morning. And I've actually known Hal since I was 19 years old, believe it or not, so 10 years now. And I paid as a college student, 19 years old, to have him and his business partner and really good friend, John Berghoff, coach me to be successful. friend, John Berghoff, coached me to be successful. And he has an incredible story. And I don't want to steal too much of his thunder, but he was actually in a car crash at 20 years old and

actually died. And I went to his best year ever blueprint last year in San Diego. I'm going again this year. And that's where Dean and I actually decided to start this podcast was at that event. Boom. And Hal, I never told you this, but I told John at the event and I said that coaching with you guys was the best decision I've made in my entire life up until this point. And I don't know, you probably don't know much of my story, but my father was an alcoholic and actually died when I was 15 years old. So I didn't have much of a father figure. And to me at 19 years old, four years after my father's death, you guys were my father

figures and my success figures. So I am super excited to have you on this podcast. How are you? Dude, I'm honored and excited. And Rob, I'm proud of you, dude. And I do like to take as much credit as I can for all of your success. So I want to try to do this in two parts. I want to talk about your story, how, because you have an incredible story. And then I also want to talk about your great book that you have as well that's literally making a movement across the world. I'm seeing you all over the place. That's called The Miracle Morning that has over – actually, you're almost at today. I looked at 1,200 positive reviews on Amazon.

And then I want to talk about your mindset for the second half. Since you've coached me, you've personally coached hundreds of people becoming successful and becoming the best version of themselves. I want to dive into just a little bit of the mindset behind a successful person. How does that sound with you? Dude, that sounds fantastic. All right, perfect. So Hal, if you could start with your Cutco days. That's how I met you. If you could tell us about yourself, your Cutco days, the crash, and then all the way how it came to present day in the book that you have now.

Yeah, absolutely, man. It's a long story, but I'll give you guys the Cliff Notes version. So I started selling Cutco. Well, let me, I'll back up even further. When I was 15 years old, I had my first radio show, which was kind of a really cool to be in high school and have a radio show. And my friends thought I was cool. I wish I would have. That's awesome. Yeah, yeah, right. I'm on the air thought I was cool. Wish that would happen. That's awesome. Yeah, yeah. Right. I'm on the air every Wednesday giving shout outs to the girls that I liked and stuff. It was pretty cool.

So that was my dream was to be a nationally syndicated radio DJ. And then after my first year of college, I was 18, 19, and I got another gig on a bigger radio station. And then three weeks into that, I got hired to sell Cutco. And it was just going to be like, because it was a flexible schedule, I could make a little extra money on the side, no real ambition. And in terms of, A, I had never achieved much in my life. Like I had a DJ job, but I didn't really have any discipline. I wasn't a hard worker. I wasn't an achiever. I didn't get great grades, wasn't an athlete. So I really didn't have

that mindset. But something inside me, Rob, just, you know, clicked on the second day of my sales training. And I thought, dude, I want to break the all time record. Like I want to go out there and I want to sell more Cutco than anyone. And I sold $15,000 of Cutco and the record before me was 12,000. So I broke this record. And for me, it was a defining moment. But I think that like, I just look at it as evidence for every human being on the planet that doesn't like your past doesn't equal your future. Right. And the moment that you decide and commit to a single goal, that's the moment that you, you, you can change anything in your life. And so, uh, you fast forward a year and a half and, uh, I, I continued to perform one of the top sales reps for our company, for Cutco. And I gave a speech one

night and I got my first standing ovation, which that was what very memorable and kind of special because at that time, because I gave so many speeches for the company, I wanted to like one day I would love to be like a motivational speaker, you know? And I got a standing ovation that night and it was like, wow, maybe I'm good enough. You know, like on top of the world at that point. I was on top of the world. I was driving home. I just bought a brand new Ford Mustang,

which at 20 years old, that was like the dream car that I could afford. You know, I mean, the Ferrari was a ways off, you know? Yeah. But I'm driving the brand new Ford Mustang home feeling grateful. Like my last memory is I saw my best friend, Jeremy, get stuck at a red light getting on the freeway.

I'm bouncing in my seat to the music and I'm like, oh man, that sucks for Jeremy. And then I sped off. And a few minutes later, a drunk driver got on the freeway going the wrong way. And I don't remember the headlights coming at me, but he hit me head on at 70, 80 miles an hour. He was in a Chevy full-size truck, much bigger than my little Ford Mustang. Instantaneously, the front of the car smashes and the worst is yet to come as my car spins off that drunk driver, and the car behind me crashed into my door at 70 miles an hour, and the left side of my car was crushed into the left side of my body, right, 70 miles an hour into your door, I mean, it's going to do some damage, and I broke 11 bones in an instant,

you know, my femur broke in two pieces. My pelvis broke in three places. I broke my arm in half and I began losing a lot of blood and I bled to death. When they pulled me out of the car an hour later, they had to use the jaws of life. I was clinically dead. I was dead for six minutes, rushed to the hospital, six days in a coma, emergency surgery, flatline twice, pulled and I came out of the coma and the doctor said I'd probably never walk again, and that I had permanent brain damage. I had no short-term memory, and this is, again, a long story that I'll have to keep short here, but I just made a decision. I thought, you know what? The doctors might be experts in medicine, but they're not experts in me, and I'm going to do

two things. Number one, I'm going to accept the worst-case scenario and make the best of it before it even happens. So I decided, I told my dad, in fact, I said, Dad, if I'm stuck in a wheelchair the rest of my life, I'll be the happiest person you've ever seen in a wheelchair. Because I'm in a wheelchair. Either way. Why would I be depressed in a wheelchair when you get to be grateful or happy? And for anyone listening, by the way, there's a lesson there. What's your wheelchair? What's the circumstance in your life, whether it's happening right now, maybe it's even on the horizon, like maybe you're

getting fired next week or I don't know, or maybe it's in your past. Maybe it happened yesterday or in your childhood. But what's your wheelchair? What's that experience that you can't go back in time and change it, but you're still creating emotional pain over it, wishing that it were different, wishing it didn't happen, saying it's not fair, you don't deserve it. The only intelligent choice that we have to be truly happy and at peace with the things that have happened to us is you've got to accept them. You've got to accept them.

It doesn't mean you approve of them. It doesn't mean you're happy about them, but you can be at peace with all things through the power of acceptance. And that's what I did. I thought I'm going to accept the worst- case scenario so it has no power over me. And I did that. And then I said, but dad, I'm not putting my energy into not walking. I'm not visualizing being in a wheelchair.

I'm not worrying about it. All of my energy goes into the second possibility, which is that I will walk again. I don't know how. I don't know when. I don't even know if it's possible. But I do know that since that's what I want, that's where my energy is going to go. I've accepted the worst case scenario and now I'm expecting the best. I'm thinking about that. And three weeks later, no, actually a week after this conversation with my dad, three weeks after the crash, two weeks after I came out of the coma, the doctors came in with routine x-rays and they said, we don't know how to explain this, but your body is healing so quickly. We're going to let you walk today. It was like, what? I thought I wasn't going to walk. You know, I wasn't, I was thinking like maybe in a year, not like tomorrow. I took

my first step that day and the rest is history. And as you know, you know, I came back to Cutco and, um, I, I went on to be, uh, hit the hall of fame with Cutco and then move on to be an entrepreneur. And my dreams were to coach people to write a book and to become a professional speaker. And to this day, you know, I mean, it's been 10 years later, uh, that's still what I do. And I'm able to, you know, help people through, through my work, man. It's such a good story. So being 20 years old on top of the world, getting your standing ovation, and then you wake up and you had died world swept out from under you. You know, how do you, died, world swept out from under you, you know, how do you, I don't even know if you can, if it was just your mindset of being a cut

cone, you're used to all this failure, but how does, how does a 20 year old go from, from that situation to just automatically thinking, you know what, screw it. I'm not going to, I'm not going to let this hold me down. Like how, how was your mindset so strong at 20 years old? You know, I mean, it's a great question. And I definitely don't take all the credit for it. I think a big part of it was going... There's something I learned in my Cutco training, which is called the five-minute rule, which you probably learned that too.

It simply says it's okay to be negative when things go wrong, but not for more than five minutes. We were taught literally set your timer on your phone when you get some bad news or something bad happens and you get five minutes to bitch, moan, complain, cry, vent, whatever you got to do, feel it. But after five minutes, you take a deep breath and for me, I would say these three powerful words,

can't change it. Meaning I can't change what has already happened. And that reminded me if I can't change it, there's no value in wishing I could. There's no value in being angry, sad, depressed, scared, resentful, regretful, anything, right? The only choice that makes sense is to fully accept it and be at peace with it and then move all my attention off of the thing I can't change and onto what, where I want to go and what I can do to get there. And now granted the five minute rule was taught to us in Cutco for much milder adversity, right? Like a no sale. Yeah. Like a no seller or a rude customer. But the principle

was the same, right? That we, every negative emotion, consider this. If you're listening, every negative emotion that you've ever felt in your life was unnecessarily self-created. Some people might get offended by that. I don't know, but it was. It's like to the degree that we resist our reality is the degree that we create emotional pain for ourselves. And it's not like you can snap your fingers and learn this. It's a practice conditioning. You have to condition your mind.

Affirmations, by the way, which are a big part of the Miracle Morning, a great way to do that, where you remind yourself of some of the things maybe that I said or that you've read or that you've heard about accepting the things that you can't change, right? The serenity prayer is a great example of that. But so that was it. I applied the five-minute rule. And I did it unconsciously because I had been applying it every day through the sales rejection I faced for a year and a half. So it was like it was programmed in the way that I thought about life. If I can't change it, I'm not going to feel bad about it. You know? And that, that's really what it was. Man. I had that in my notes to talk about, because that is one of the things I remember most that I've carried with me over the past 10 years

is your story of can't change it. And then when I went to the best year ever blueprint, I remember you talking about it there. And I was like, it's, he's still, he still talks about it. And it's like the thing that, that stuck with me wherever I would be, you know, I remember you talking about it there and I was like, it's, he's still, he still talks about it. And it's like the thing that, that stuck with me wherever I would be, you know, I remember you talking about being in traffic and you're just like freaking out cause you're late and you're the way I took it from you. And the way you explained it was, you know, if you're in traffic, you can't change the traffic. You can't make the cars move out of the way. So you might as well turn up the music and enjoy versus, you know, making your body go through stress, just sitting in the traffic. Cause you're going to be there anyways. Yeah, that's one of my favorite metaphors is the traffic

example, because almost everybody can like whenever I speak, I say, raise your hand if you don't like traffic. And like, you know, almost every hand goes up. And I go and I just go, you know, I go, well, that like I used to be the same way. And I realized how silly that was. Like if you're stuck in traffic, why not? You know, let's say you're in the car for half an hour, and you're in traffic, and you're going to be late. Well, either way, you're in the car, late or not, you can either enjoy the ride or you can be frustrated and upset. And to me, that's the metaphor for life. You can either enjoy every moment of every day

by accepting the things that you can't change, or you can let them bother you and upset you and make you sad, scared, angry, depressed, you know, whatever it is. And it's powerful because it's true relationships too with your significant other or friend. You know, I mean, think about why you get upset. It's always over something that someone else has already done or said. So when you go, I can't change what they did or said, so I'm going to accept it. I'm going to let them know how it made me feel. I'm going to ask that they fix it, but I don't have to put a negative emotional charge into that communication.

Absolutely. So, and then I know you have this incredible book that we need to speak about because I am a person who can sleep for 13 hours straight and I love to sleep if there's no alarm, anything. But I have started doing the Miracle Morning, I've been doing it for, man, over a year now easily. And it's not waking up at four or five like I know you do and some other people do. It's waking up at usually 545, which is very early for me. And it is absolutely been a game changer in my life. I know a lot of other people's lives as well, because you get the extra time to concentrate on yourself. But so where you were, how do you go from where you were, you know, getting in a car accident, basically dying everything, and then take us now to The Miracle Morning, how that started, because I know that's a really good story as well.

Yeah, The Miracle Morning, it was never going to be a book. It was something that, and originally it wasn't even called The Miracle Morning, and even when it was called The Miracle Morning, it still wasn't going to be a book. This was something I created for myself. And in 2008, when the economy crashed, I went from, you know, having achieved my dreams. I was, I had written my first book. It was the number one bestseller. I was, you know, I had, was earning just under, uh, six figures, which was, you know, a goal to be an entrepreneur, earning that kind of money, you know, on my own after I left my sales job. And, uh, I was coaching, I was, I was speaking, living that dream. And so all these great things happening. I just bought

a brand new house. I bought my dream. No, sorry, not my dream house. I bought a brand new house and I bought my dream car. That's what I was going to say, which again, still not the Ferrari, but now it was an infinity G35, you know, 300 horsepower sports car. So we're like, we're stepping up, you know, gradually. And like I was, everything was great. And I had met, I was in the best shape of my life. I was 5.7% body fat, which might even be unhealthy, but I was working out, you know, like crazy. And my, and I'd met the woman of my dreams and the economy crashed. And it felt like the rug was swept out from under me. It was like, you know, it was really felt like it was overnight, but it was like a six month downward spiral. I lost over half my clients, couldn't pay my bills, lost my house back to the bank. You know, they took away my house. Um, I, I had to live on,

I went from being like really big on debt-free, no credit card debt, Dave Ramsey student to I went from $0 on my credit card, paid off every month, to a $53,000 credit card balance on my personal card just to buy groceries and pay the bills. I couldn't do it. And because of that also, very early on, I canceled my gym membership and I stopped exercising completely. I was just in scarcity mode of like, I've got to turn this around. And it kept getting worse and worse and worse. I tried the five-minute rule. I tried can't change it. It just kept getting I went on a run. I hated running, but a friend of mine, actually, we know John Berghoff, my friend and business partner that you mentioned earlier. Uh, he said, how I called John. I said, John, man, I'm desperate. I don't know what to do. I haven't told anybody because you know, I'm a success coach and I feel like I'm a fraud because I can't succeed on my

own. I don't know what to do. And I was, I was literally in tears. He said, how, and I was ready. I said, I'm, I'm here. You tell me you're a business genius. You're a smart guy in business. What do I do? How do I turn this around? And I'm like ready for step one, two, three. And he goes, Hal, if I were you, there's two things I would do that I believe will turn this around for you. He said, number one, exercise every day. Go for a run every morning. I said, well, I hate running. Give me something else. He goes, what do you hate worse, running or the life, the circumstances that you just described to me? Oh, wow. Yeah, just no, you know, no, no. I was like, all right, screw you.

I'll go for a run. What else? He said personal development. He said engage in personal development while you're on that run. So while your body's in a physical, mental and emotional state, you're in the best place to receive new knowledge that you can then go home and implement. And you can turn. And so he goes, listen to audio books or podcasts on business. Right.

Like Rob Dial's podcast. No, it wasn't on there. But he said, you know, and I said, who should I start with? He said, Jim Rohn. Jim Rohn's, you know, my favorite person. He's the godfather of personal development. Listen to Jim Rohn audio. So I downloaded a Jim Rohn audio, which was like five bucks on my iPad.

I'm like, oh, I can't afford this, you know? And the next morning I went for a run. And on that run, I heard a quote from Jim Rohn that became the catalyst that turned my life around faster than I ever thought possible. Jim Rohn said, your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development. And it all clicked. I went, huh, that's kind of what John was just saying. And I realized I'm not dedicating time every day to my personal development at the level I need to be to become the person that I need to be to create the success I want in my life. And I think that statement is true for like 95% of people in probably in the world, but in this country, right? Absolutely.

Is, you know, you ask the average person that is getting a divorce, why are you getting a divorce? And they'll probably have a list of complaints about their spouse. And you go, well, how many books have you read on how to be an amazing spouse? They go, how many think they would say? Probably zero. Zero. The average is zero. So wait, your marriage is failing and you and your spouse aren't doing, you're not learning how to become better at having a great marriage and you expect it to just automatically happen, right? And so I realized, and here's a way to measure it, on a scale of one to 10, we all want level 10 success in every area of our lives, right?

Like not just our business or our professional life, but we want level 10 relationships, level 10 finances, level 10 happiness. We want level 10. But the way that I realized this is my level of personal development in any of these given areas, and by the way, I define personal development. So if you're wondering, well, what does that mean? What's my level of personal development? It's your level of physical, intellectual, emotional, your energy, all of those capacities, right? If your knowledge is not at the level it needs to be, that is an element of your personal development. If your energy is not at the level it needs, that's an element of your person. It's

who you are as a person, right? So I was a level two person at that time. I wasn't exercising. I wasn't reading. I wasn't journaling. I wasn't meditating. I wasn't, you know, doing the affirm. I wasn't doing anything. And so I ran home and my epiphany was, I'm going to figure out what the world's most

successful people do every day for personal development. And I'm going to pick like the best one or two practices. And what ended up happening after an hour of searching online, I couldn't narrow it down to one or two practices. And what ended up happening after an hour of searching online, I couldn't narrow it down to one or two. I had a list of six because it depended on who you asked, like that one millionaire or billionaire would say it was meditation. And then Will Smith said it was affirmations. And, you know, Jim Rohn said it was journaling. And so the real epiphany went, I'm like, oh, which of these should I, I don't know which one to do. And I was just like, you know, analysis by paralysis, I'm all, or vice versa, paralysis by went, I'm like, Oh, which of these should I, I don't know which one to do. And I was just like, you know, analysis by paralysis, I'm all or vice versa paralysis

by analysis. I'm like, and it finally hits me. I go, dude, what if I did all of this? Like none of the research I've done has shown me anyone that does more than two or three of these. If I did all of them, the six most proven personal development practices that the world's most successful people do every day. If I did all of them, that'd be the proven personal development practices that the world's most successful people do every day. If I did all of them, that'd be the ultimate personal development routine. And to kind of wrap it up, I woke up the next morning and I did all six, even though I wasn't a morning person. I was actually excited to wake up because I had this new thing. And that morning, an hour into it, I did an hour long version, 10 minutes each. I felt unstoppable. And Rob, the rest is history

in terms of the results. It was less than two months. I more than doubled my income. I went back to bigger than I had been when I started the Miracle Morning. It was more than before I had failed or fallen off. Two months later, my income's doubled. I went from being in the worst shape of my life to deciding I was going to run a 52- mile ultra marathon because I thought I hate running. So this would be a real way to have the miracle morning grow me to a level 10 in that area of John talked into that too, right? Berghoff did. Yes. Once again. And, uh, and then last but not least, you know, my, my depression, I was, I don't know if I even mentioned that, but I was really

deeply depressed from all this, you know, this, this situation I dug myself into that didn't even take two months. It was gone on day one. I was like, I don't feel depressed. If I start, I feel great. And it didn't mean I didn't have bad days. I still would have bad days throughout those two months and even to this day now, but that's part of the beauty of the Miracle Morning

is every night before bed, most people go to bed worried about their problems and they wake up to their problems. People that do the Miracle Morning go to bed with a break from their problems because they don't wake up to their problems. They wake up to their problems. People that do the Miracle Morning go to bed with a break from their problems because they don't wake up to their problems. They wake up to their Miracle Morning. And because my life changed so fast, I started calling it my Miracle Morning. And as you know now, I mean, everyone from people that were like me at rock bottom have turned their life around.

They've lost weight. I mean, things that sound like an infomercial. Like if I wasn't seeing it for myself, I wouldn't believe it. This guy, he's's, he's in his early twenties. He's been obese his whole life. He's lost 70 pounds in the last five months since starting the miracle morning. And he said that that is, um, uh, that, that he, he attributes the miracle morning to it. Right. And I mean, I've seen, you know, 20 pounds, 30 pounds, people got off their depression medication, all these crazy things. And so, um, Robert Kiyosaki, who is someone I've, you know, he wrote the book, Rich Dad Poor Dad. It sold 26 million copies. I've looked up to him since I read the book. It changed my life. Have you read it? Yeah, I love that book. 26 million people have. So the odds are somebody listening has.

But Robert Kiyosaki reached out to me a few months ago and said, the Miracle Morning has completely changed his life. He's read the book not but three times oh my god him and his wife do it together and now i just filmed him for the miracle morning movie last week i mean we went like it's crazy so the miracle morning my mission in life and i'm sorry i just i get excited about it i keep talking all day no i love it but no it's it's to change millions of lives via the miracle morning you know one miracle morning at a time because nothing i've ever created or put into the world or contributed has ever impacted people so profoundly, so quickly, and in such a large quantity. I think it's over 100,000 people now that do the Miracle Morning every day. The last thing I'll say is kind of a joke, but if you're wondering,

does this apply to me? I'm not a morning person. Most most people that do the miracle morning when they read the book, they're not morning people. And there's a whole chapter dedicated on how to overcome that. And that's probably one of the biggest benefits. But what's funny is I always say, if you're anywhere, if you're wondering if this applies to you, if you're anywhere in between where I was when I started, which was depressed, out of shape and rock bottom, anywhere in between there and an author who has sold 26 million books and is worth like $80 million net worth. If you're anywhere in the middle of those two, it applies. It can change your life. Now, if you're beyond Robert Kiyosaki, then whatever.

But I say it jokingly, but it is true. It really showed me that I didn't design this for really successful multimillionaires, but it can even change their life because the universal principle is about becoming better every day than you were when you went to bed the night before. That's what the miracle morning gives to people. Man, that's so good. Well, I love it. And I do want to talk about real quickly if we could, because you said the six things that I don't want to leave people hanging. But the six things, the SAVERvers, the acronym that you have, what are those six things that you spend? I'll go through them fast and I'll say, I'll go through them fast. And I'll say that at first, when I came up with these six things, again, I didn't come up with

them. I just found them doing searches online for what are the world's most successful people do. And I was disappointed at first because I've heard of all of these, you know, in our, our society, we're conditioned to want the new, like I want the new iPhone, right? I have the iPhone six, like, come on, isn't there with the sevens already out, you know? So like we're conditioned for new. And I was looking for like something that I must not know. Like that's why the secret, you know, there was a book called the secret and that's why the word secret is used in a lot of marketing. In fact, it's in the subtitle of the miracle morning because people want something they don't know. And the I was disappointed. And then it hit me, wait a minute, all the research I'm doing shows me that this is what the world's most successful

people have done since the beginning of time. I mean, for centuries, I don't do it. And if I do, they swear by any one of them. If I did all of them, you know, it's over. So here they are. The first S is for silence. So they're an acronym called the SAVERS. The first S is for silence. So that's meditation or prayer. Starting your day with purposeful silence. The A is for affirmations.

And the way I teach them in the book is very different than the way I've been taught over the years. You don't lie to yourself. You don't affirm some fantasy of money flows to me. No, no, no no no you affirm what you want why you want it and specifically what you're committed to doing and when you'll do it to ensure that you achieve what you want you affirm you program your subconscious mind to embody the reality of who you need to be to achieve what you want right so it's not it's not the way it's been taught for by most other people um visualization the v the V is for visualization. The E is for exercise. The R is for reading.

And not like Harry Potter or Fifty Shades of Grey, but reading like self-help books. Books that'll give you the knowledge you need to achieve what you want. And then the final S is for scribing, which is a fancy word for writing. And my favorite, we are journaling essentially. My favorite journal is called Five Minute Journal.

There's an app on the phone. You can get the hardcover online, but I always like to mention that because people always go, which journal should I get? Five Minute Journal is absolutely the best. Yeah. I actually got that from you. Oh, yeah. We'll see if they'll give them out again this year. Yeah, absolutely. So real quick, because I want to obviously be cognizant of your time. We got five minutes. Let's rock it up. Okay, cool. So you've coached hundreds of people and I am obsessed with mindset and exactly like you talk about with successful people. How do they get successful? And I feel that everything that happens to you in life is based on how you deal with it. You could go one route, you could go another route. You could take the positive, you could take the negative. With coaching hundreds of people,

what do you think the number one thing is? Or if you can't get it to just one, the number one and number two thing, holding people back from living the life that they want to live in the life of their dreams? Yeah, great question. And it's, you know, I mean, there's, you can answer this different ways. You know, if I were to answer it, I would, well, let me answer it in a couple ways. One is the way you would expect me to answer it is the author of The Mir He said, because success is something you attract by the person you become. So the essence is most people think that the secret to achieving more or what the way to achieve more is to do more. Right. If I want to, I have to do more. And most people, there's an element of like laziness and all of our identity. I think I'm lazy because we all know we could be doing more. And what ends up happening is people, they don't even really attempt success

because they think, I've got to do more, and I'm already so tired. I don't want to do more. And what I found out from that Jim Rohn quote and then through the last five years of this Miracle Morning journey is the secret to success, it's not about doing more

as much as it is about becoming more. So the Miracle Morning allows you, it's the most effective process I've found, to become more. So the Miracle Morning allows you, it's the most effective process I found to become more. So that when you become more, you can actually achieve more by even doing less. You think about that. When you get to a certain level, you have more knowledge, more skill. It's actually easier to achieve more than it is now achieving less, right? Because you've become the person that can easily achieve the things that you want. So that's the biggest key. And then, you know, to get a little more tactical is clarity. So CBA like these are like the ABCs, but backwards. So clarity, beliefs and accountability.

First, you've got to get really clear on what you want, why you want it. And this is this will sound similar to what I said. This is my affirmations formula. But this is where you get clear on this first on a piece of paper. Then you put it in your affirmations. You read it every day to remind, to reinforce and regenerate that clarity every day. Most people, clarity is a one-time event, like, well, I set my goals for the year, right? And then the next time they see them is next year when they go back to set their goals for the following year. You've got to generate clarity every day. And think of it this way. Extraordinary results require extraordinary clarity, but most people maintain a mediocre level of clarity and then they wonder why they have mediocre results in their lives, right? So that's the birthplace of extraordinary results is you've got to start with extraordinary clarity. What do you want? Why do you want it? And specifically, what activities do you need to engage in and when, how often, for how long,

to virtually guarantee that you achieve whatever it is that you want. So those are the clarity components. The B is for beliefs. You've got to reinforce the beliefs that you've got to override self-doubt. We all have self-doubt. I have self-doubt every day. But my affirmations reaffirm that I am just as worthy and deserving and capable of achieving anything I want for my life as any other person on the planet. Because I don't always feel that way, right? I have self-doubt all the time. I have fear all the time. But every morning, every day, I reinforce those beliefs. So you've got to identify the beliefs that you need to achieve what you just got clarity on. You're clear on what you want and why you want it. We'll get clarity now on the beliefs.

And then the final A is for accountability. And this is where coaching, I mean, Rob, you can speak to this just as well as I can. This is where coaching comes into play is we will only do so much on our own accord. But when we give our word to someone who we respect and admire and we don't want to let them down, that accountability will get us to do things, take actions that we wouldn't otherwise do that we would procrastinate on or make excuses for. So those three components, clarity, beliefs, and accountability, for me, those are kind of the

trifecta of what it takes to move from where you are to where you want to be. And then all of that can be accomplished by that morning ritual, the miracle morning, which allows you to become the person that you need to be that can easily, or at least more easily, achieve everything that you want for your life. Man, that was so good. Well, I appreciate your time so much. I know that you are a busy, busy man,

especially with your movie that you're shooting at this point, the Miracle Morning movie, is that what it's going to be called, I'm guessing? That's it, man with your movie that you're shooting at this point, the Miracle Morning movie, as I was just going to be calling them, guessing. That's it, man. Yeah, that's it. And how can people get a hold of you? How can they get the book? What's the best route to do so? Yeah, best place to contact me is halelrod.com, H-A-L-E-L-R-O-D, halelrod.com.

The book, Amazon, you know, unless if you're an iBooks user, you can get it on the iPhone on iBooks or the iPad. If you are not an iBooks user, not an Apple user, Amazon is the best place to get it. You can get the paperback. You can get the Kindle, or you can get the audio book, all if you go to Amazon and just search for The Miracle Morning. And last but not least, I invite everybody listening, come join the Miracle Morning community on Facebook. I have never seen such an inspired online community. We have over 20,000 members, and that changes daily because over 100 people from around the world that are reading the book ask to join. And the engagement is unreal.

I mean, I've seen people that come in, and they're new. They don't know anybody in there. They'll be like, hey, I'm new here. I have a question, or I have an area I'm struggling with. Anybody have any advice? And by the end of the day, they'll have 30, 40, 50, 60. I've seen as much as like 70 comments on a brand new person who doesn't know anybody in the group and vice versa. I almost get at the risk of sounding whatever. I mean in tears when I go in there every day and I see how people are supporting each other. It's really cool. So even before the book arrives in the mail and you start reading it, go to Facebook, Miracle Morning Community.

Come check it out. And I check in there. I try every day. So I'll look forward to seeing you in there. Yeah, yeah. I am personally a part of it and I can attest to everything that he just said. But Hal, thank you so much for your time. Number one, but more than anything else, thank you so much for putting out the miracle morning and living your life to try to change others'

lives and make their lives better. So I appreciate your time so much. My pleasure, Rob. Thank you so much for having me and everybody that listened. Thank you so much. I appreciate your time. I hope you got some, uh, some value today and Rob, I'll talk to you soon, buddy. Thanks. And so that is it. Thank you so much for listening to this episode. If you like what you hear, please share with a friend. Spread the love if you think it's something they could benefit from. If you want the show notes from today, you can get it at mwfmotivation.com,

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