Your Blueprint for Life's Toughest Challenges, with Hal Elrod

Published: Jan. 4, 2024, 10:32 a.m.

#480: The death of a sibling.\nBeing declared dead after a head-on collision with a drunk driver.\nSuffering financially during the Great Recession.\nCANCER.\n\nToday\u2019s guest, Hal Elrod, has battled all of these tough challenges.\nHis little sister passed away in his mother's arms. Years later, Hal was hit by a drunk driver, broke 11 bones, declared dead, and once revived, learned that he might have to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. (He eventually regained his ability to walk.) And after that, he was slammed hard in the wallet during the Great Recession.\nBut he's a fighter. He needed to develop practices to build his resilience.\nSo Hal created \u201cThe Miracle Morning,\u201d a morning routine practice that gained massive popularity when he released it in 2012.\nThe six-step Miracle Morning routine is coined S.A.V.E.R.S. -- silence, affirmations, visualization, exercise, reading, and scribing (writing).\nThe routine became wildly popular, in part due to its flexibility;\xa0Hal explains that time-crunched people can start this as a six-minute routine; dedicating just ONE minute to each of these six steps. Over time, people can see the positive changes that this makes, and expand the time they allot for this.\nThe routine is now the subject of a documentary, also called the Miracle Morning, available on Prime Video. Midway through filming, Hal was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia and given a 30 percent chance of survival. He let the cameras roll as he coped with his diagnosis in real time.\nHe joins us on this podcast to describe that experience, and to talk about the practices that he's used to stay productive in the face of grief, severe injury and cancer.\xa0\nHe talks to us about: \n\nthe powerful Five-Minute Rule that helped him recover from a nearly fatal car crash\n\nthe six most popular personal development practices of the successful\n\nspecific tactics you can harness to create YOUR most successful life.\n\nAs we move into the New Year, many of you are setting goals and resolutions.\nHal describes specific, actionable tactics that you can use to build scaffolding and support around your new goals.\nEnjoy!\nFor more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode480\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices