sanyukta ‎'s Key Ideas from The Miracle Morning
by Hal Elrod

• If you want your life to be different, you have to be willing to do something different first!

• To make profound changes in your life, you need either inspiration or desperation

• Think bigger than you’ve allowed yourself to think up until this point. Get clear on what you truly want, condition yourself to the belief that it’s possible by focusing on and affirming it every day, and then consistently move in the direction of your vision until it becomes your reality. There is nothing to fear, because you cannot fail—only learn, grow, and become better than you’ve ever been before.

• Life purpose: To become the person I need to be to create the success, freedom, and quality of life that I truly want. Keep in mind that you can change your life purpose at any time. As you grow and evolve, so will your purpose. What’s important is that you choose a purpose—any purpose—and start living by it, now. Keep in mind that you’re not supposed to “figure out” what your purpose is, you get to make it up, create it, decide what you want it to be.

“Purposeful” simply means that you are engaging in a period of Silence with a highly beneficial purpose in mind —not just for the heck of it.

Jeff Sooey used to say, this is where the rubber meets the road. In other words, your life gets better only after you get better. Your outer world improves only after you’ve invested countless hours improving yourself. Being (who you need to be) and doing (what you wanted to do) are prerequisites for having what you want to have. Get clear on who you need to be, are committed to being, in order to take your life, work, health, etc. to the next level and beyond.

• Always remember that where you are is a result of who you were, but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be, from this moment on.
• Never assumed that loud is strong and quite is weak. The fiearcest storms rise from the calmest seas.
• Always remember that who you’re becoming is far more important than what you’re doing, and yet it is what you’re doing that is determining who you’re becoming.
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• “How you do anything is how you do everything.

• “Discipline creates lifestyle.”

• Being average means to settle for less than you truly want and are capable of, and to struggle for your entire life.

• We must realize that the real impact and consequence of each of our choices and actions—and even our thoughts—is monumental, because every single thought, choice, and action is determining who we are becoming, which will ultimately determine the quality of our lives.

• Our life situation is the set of external circumstances, events, people, and places that surround us. It’s not who we are. We are more than our life situation. Your life is who you are at the deepest level. Your life is made up of the internal components, attitudes, and mindsets that can give you the power to alter, enhance, or change your life situation at any given moment.

• Every time you choose to do the easy thing, instead of the right thing, you are shaping your identity, becoming the type of person who does what’s easy, rather than what’s right. On the other hand, when you do choose to do the right thing and follow through with your commitments— especially when you don’t feel like it—you are developing the extraordinary discipline (which most people never develop) necessary for creating extraordinary results in your life.

• Most people mistakenly assume that this action is only affecting that moment. The reality is that this type of action is programming our subconscious mind with the instructions that it is okay for us to not follow through with the things we intended to do. Realize that everything that we do affects who we’re becoming, which is determining the life that we will ultimately create and live.

Universal Life Purpose -that I believe we should all live by: to become the best version of ourselves. In other words, focus on growing and being the best you can be, pursuing your dreams and inspiring others to do the same. That’s your purpose. Always remember that when you are committed to a life purpose that is bigger than your problems, your problems become relatively insignificant and you will overcome them with ease.