Hal Elrod LIVE at Brian Buffini’s Event 2025 | The Morning Routine That Fuels Real Success

All right, welcome back, everybody.

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I know, I know. Brian asked us the other day how many of you were joined us in Vegas for the motivate VIP in the studio. It's pretty cool, right? Pretty cool stuff. Brian was there. He got a little meet and greet. Ed Mylett was in the house. I was there. He had a synergy lunch. You got the coaching session with Brian. I was there. Did I say that already? But it's great. I was there.

Remember that. It was great.

So you guys should be there in August. It's gonna be. It's gonna be awesome. It's gonna be awesome. We got. Michael Thorne's gonna be in the house. Got a chance to connect with one another again. We talked about this. All these opportunities we create for you guys to get together. Cause it's cool. We got the virtual experience, right? You can tune in, virtually get the content, but then you come to the house in Vegas and you get to be together. Synergize Network, right? Meet and greet, get together. So join us for optimize. August 14th, we're going to be in the Warrior Studios in Vegas. It's like nothing you've ever experienced before. It's pretty awesome. So come check it out. Head to buffini.com optimize get your seat. Hope to see you guys there. Okay. Do we have a great morning so far? Yeah. Off to a great start. Yeah. It's only going to get better from here, folks. You know, we're talking about being authentic this whole event, right? That is the theme. And we talked about part of being authentic is not just being ourselves, but being our best selves. Being at our best. Right? Brian talked about that on day one, how to be at our best. Well, being at our best begins with how we start our day. And we have an expert on that very subject. How many of you guys listen to the podcast with Hal Elrod that Brian did? How many of you did? Great, great, great. It was the homework. So I'm glad that every single hand is up. Pass the test now. He's lived a pretty unbelievable life. Almost hard to believe. Nearly killed in a horrific car accident. Few years later, he recovers from that in the recession, drowning in debt, loses his house, loses his business, gets through all of that, then not too long ago, gets diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia, given a 20% chance to live. And through all of that, he was able to persevere. And part of what helped him persevere was that he had a system, a process of how he started his day. And that miracle morning Process has inspired millions of people all over the world. So many people, in fact, that they even made a movie about it. And I thought it'd be a great treat before we bring Hal to the stage to show you a little sneak peek of the miracle morning movie. So let's take a look.

So December 3, 1999. We went home that night, and about 11:30 at night, we got a call from Hal's good friend Jeremy, and he had indicated that Hal had been in a. A car accident.

So the night of Hal's accident, we were at a conference, and we were coming back from it. He gets in the car, I get in my car, and we head out. He got ahead of me, and I caught a red light.

Hal was driving about 65 miles per hour.

The drunk driver was going 80 miles an hour.

Someone crossed the median and hit them head on. His Ford Mustang spun around, and the oncoming driver t boned him.

There was like all this debris in the middle of the freeway, and my buddy looks out the window and says, I think there was a Mustang on the side of the road. I was like, dude, I couldn't even tell. And as I kind of started driving, he's like, no, ma'.

Am.

I think that was Hal's Mustang.

When I talked to Jeremy, I told him to tell Hal that we loved him and, you know, that he had to hang in there and. And that, you know, we were all coming.

The fire department, everyone showed up. They had to cut through the car to have to pull him out. His heart had stopped for about six to seven minutes.

I remember walking through the door, and it was like they'd been waiting for us. And, you know, there was whispers, and it was like, the lrods are here. And then we were rushed into a room.

The damage that was done to his body was horrific. They did not expect him to live through the weekend.

He's probably not going to be able to hear because of the damage to his ear. He might not be able to see because he had shattered bones around his eye. He'll never walk again.

There was so much brain trauma. And they told us that, you know, he would be a vegetable.

I think he was in lycoma for about a week.

First it was like, say goodbye. Then they were like, oh, looks like he might make it, sort of.

We knew he was alive inside. His brain was still working. He wasn't a vegetable. And he woke up the next day talking.

When Hal woke up, his short term memory was completely impacted. So it was like groundhog's day. Every day. I remember one time he's like, did I get in a plane crash? And I think we went with that.

Story for a while.

I was like, tomorrow he'll just. We'll retell the real story again. You know, he just. He took his first step, and it was just another one of those things where people were just shocked at how fast he was coming back.

He just defied everything the doctors said. We laughed through all of it. You know, you always kind of found humor, and I think that helped him survive.

When Hal got out of the hospital four months later, his high school principal called and he said, I know this is crazy, but he goes, do you think Hal would speak to the student body? And so that was the start, really, of Hal's speaking career.

I just feel like Hal had another purpose. He wasn't done yet. I still believe that now. It was a miracle.

Pretty powerful stuff, right? Well, he survived. He survived all that. And now he is on a mission to elevate the consciousness of humankind One morning at a time. Ladies and gentlemen, get on your feet and give a thunderous peak experience. Welcome to Hal Elrod.

Bunch of white hats in here. I tell you what, this is such an honor. I've been a Brian Buffini fan for a long, long, long, long time. And when I got invited to be on the podcast, it was like a dream come true. And then in typical Buffini fashion, he like, books me to speak in the middle of our podcast. I was like, I'll take it. So this is a long time coming. I'm so grateful to be here.

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Morning is something that we all share in common. Everybody starts their day, but how you start your day is different for everybody. In fact, I'm curious by a show of hands and also make some noise, how many of you consider yourself to be a morning person? Make some noise. Show hands. Okay. Okay. Well, now I feel bad to ask the three people that are not morning people, just raise your hand if you're a night owl. Okay. All right. I like that. The self esteem in this room is really impressive. You're like, I don't care if there's only three of us. I'm a night owl. Okay. All right. So I want to introduce you to my family. This is a picture of my wife and my kids. My daughter Sophia is 15 going on 25. My son Halston is 12 about to be a teenager. And my daughter's age, or sorry, my wife's age, is unknown to this day. But you'll see what I believe up there on the screen. I believe the greatest gift we can give to those we love and those we lead is to wake up every day and fulfill our potential so that we can help them to fulfill theirs. That's why I do the miracle morning. It's not just about having a good start to my day. It's about being the husband that my wife deserves and the father that my kids deserve and the human being that we all deserve for each of us to be. Now, there's this quote from Robin Sharma that for me was a reality check when I read this about 15 years ago. And Robin Sharma said, one of the saddest things in life is to wake up one day and look back with regret, knowing you could have been done and had so much more, but wondering why you didn't. And today's message is not designed to turn you into a morning person. It is designed to give you the tools and a six step process specifically to help you become the person you are destined to become. To wake up every day and become the best version of yourself, whether you're a morning person or not. We all start our day. Today is about getting to a place where you're starting your day at a peak physical, mental, emotional and spiritual state. Here's my question for you. Why'd you wake up this morning? I want you to think about that for a second. One of two camps. Either you woke up because you had to or because you wanted to. Now, most people wake up because they have to think about that. You have to get ready, you have to be somewhere, you have to do something, you have to answer to somebody else. And if given the choice, we would keep sleeping as long as we possibly could. And then there's this other group of folks which I know a lot of you already, you belong to this group, which is you don't wake up when you have to. You don't wait till the last minute to start your day. You wake up with space to dedicate time to your personal development. To dedicate time to putting yourself in a peak physical, mental, emotional and spiritual state. To becoming the best version of yourself to show up for the people you love and the people that you lead. Now, today, there's three things we're going to cover. Number one, we're going to talk about emotional enlightenment. Emotional enlightenment I define as your ability to choose your optimal mental and emotional state in any given set of circumstances. I could argue it's the ultimate superpower. Imagine that no matter what happened to you, you got to choose how you felt. You could always be up you could always be in a peak state. Not always. Up times come when it makes sense to grieve or to be sad, but to be able to choose your state consciously at will. Number two, we're going to talk about the Miracle Morning Savers. How many Miracle Morning Practitioners in the room? All right. Not as loud as the opening question. So that's great. That means there's a huge opportunity here. And even if you are a Miracle Morning Practitioner, first of all, it's good to see you. And second of all, we're going to dive into the Savers in a very tactical, call it, advanced training kind of way today. And then number three is the miracle morning 30 day journey. Right? Nothing happens if we don't take action. And so after we go through the message today, I'm going to invite all of you to embark on a 30 day journey. Y' all have a very special affirmation that I literally created for this audience. It's never been given to any audience before. This is a Daily Miracle Morning 30 Day Journey affirmation that will help reaffirm your commitment for the 30 days. It will remind you why it is a deeply meaningful commitment for you and the benefits. And then it will give you the clarity as to specifically what time you're going to wake up, when you're going to do it. So we'll wrap up with that emotional enlightenment, how to choose your optimal mental and emotional state in any set of circumstances. I'm going to share with my first wake up call with you. And you saw this in the video. When I was 20 years old, I was hit head on by a drunk driver, as you saw. And I was found dead at the scene of the car accident. My heart stopped for six minutes. Now, at 20 years old, this is one thing at any age, but at 20, I never imagined I would go through some kind of adversity like this. Life was great. I was actually at a Cutco conference the night of the car accident. Any Cutco fans? Right? I hear the laughter, the murmurs, a bunch of Cutco fans. So I was a Cutco sales rep and I was giving a speech at a CutCo conference at 19 years old. And driving home that night, the car crossed the center divide and I was hit head on by the drunk driver. Now, I spent six days in a coma. I broke 11 bones. And when I came out of the coma, I was told I would never walk again. And thank goodness I had learned something in my Cutco sales training about the power of our mindset and the power of our expectations. And so I decided I'm not going to accept the doctor's prognosis as my ultimate fate. I'm going to maintain unwavering faith and optimism that I might be able to walk again, while I simultaneously accept the worst case scenario that I may never walk again. And if that's the case, I won't let it define me. I will simply be at peace with that worst case scenario. And the doctors thought I was in denial because I was so happy all the time. So my arm's broken. I've got a metal rod in my arm to this day. I've got two screws in this elbow. You can see my arm was bandaged up and they're coming in and meeting with me every day. I've got a broken leg, I've got a broken pelvis in three places. I've got a broken eye socket, my ear was almost completely severed. I was in bad shape and they're interacting with me each day. And they finally called my parents in after two weeks of me being out of the coma. And they said, we're concerned with Hal. He's always smiling and laughing and telling jokes to make us laugh. And they said, that's not normal. They said, frankly, for a 20 year old young man who's being told he's never going to walk again and he has permanent brain damage, he should be sad, scared, angry, depressed. Those are the normal emotions that he should be going through. And they said, however, it's not uncommon. We believe that his new reality is so painful for him, it's so unimaginable that he's checked out, he's in a state of denial or a state of delusion. And they said, we need you to get through to him and find out how he's really feeling so the emotional healing can begin. Because if he's in denial, it's going to hit him one day when he's back home and he's going to face reality and it's going to come crashing down. So my parents meeting with the doctor, I knew they were meeting with the doctor. I didn't know what it was about. My parents were concerned and they came back. My dad actually sat next to my bedside. I'm in the hospital watching Oprah for Inspiration. True story. 1999. Oprah was at the peak of her career. And my dad says, hal, can you turn off the TV for a second? And he was very somber. I said, well, dad, I'm watching. Oh, okay. And I turned off the TV and I'm looking at my dad and his eyes are welled up, his face is kind of red. He either had just been crying or was trying not to cry. And keep in mind, this is three weeks after, you know, this car accident took place. And I said, what's going on, dad? He said, the doctors are concerned. And he explained what they were concerned with. He said, they said you should be feeling sad, scared, angry and depressed. They said, how are you feeling, Hal? He said, I know you have a lot of visitors, your friends are here, you guys are laughing, you're reminiscing. But he said, at night when the lights go off, when everybody leaves, and it's just you thinking about what happened to you and that the doctor's saying you might never walk again. He said, I know you say you're going to, but they're saying you may never walk again. How are you processing that? Are you sad, scared, angry, depressed? Let's talk about it. And looking at my dad and how concerned he was, I really went inside and I asked myself, am I in denial? Am I really sad, scared, angry, depressed? And it took me about 30 seconds of self evaluation. And I smiled and I looked at my dad. I said, dad, I thought you knew me better than that. He said, what do you mean? I said, remember, I live my life by the five minute rule that I learned in my cut toe training. And he said, remind me what the five minute rule is again. I said, God, I've told you and mom this so many times. If you would listen to me, you'd be so much happier. And the five minute rule is, I reminded my dad, I Learned on my second day of CutCo training to deal with adversity. Now, to be fair, it was like no sales and canceled orders and not reaching your goal for the week. It wasn't what I was dealing with in the moment, but the principle was the same. And it was simply that when something goes wrong and you find yourself upset, angry, sad, scared, depressed, you name it. We were taught to literally set our timer on our phone for five minutes and give yourself five minutes. To not suppress your emotions, but to fully feel everything that's coming up for you. Get upset, be angry, yell, cuss, scream, punch a wall, like whatever, Feel your emotions fully for those five minutes so that you can express them, you can embody them. And then when the 5 minute timer goes off, it's time to release them. It's time to accept whatever happened five minutes ago, be at peace with it, because you can't change it. So there's no value in wishing it didn't happen. There's no value in dwelling on it. There's no value in wishing that client hadn't canceled their order. In this case, the house they had bought, right, hadn't fallen out of escrow. The only logical choice that we have is to accept reality exactly as it is and give ourselves freedom from the emotional pain that we are blaming on the thing that happened or didn't happen. But in reality, we're self creating it by our resistance to our reality. And it's only by accepting reality that we are able to be at peace. We might not be happy with what happened, but happiness is an emotion. You can be happy. One minute you get some bad news and now you're distraught. Then you get some good news and now you're happy, right? So emotions are fleeting. But when you live your life in a state of unconditional acceptance of reality, you set the timer for five minutes and when it goes off, you say, can't change it. You take a deep breath and you accept reality that's in front of you and you make the best of it. You're not happy about it, you're not sad about it, you're at peace with it. It's far more rooted. It's not an emotional state, it's a state of consciousness. Now, I wasn't that articulate when I reminded my dad about the five minute rule, to be fair. But I told my dad, dad, this happened three weeks ago. I can't change that I was in a car accident. I can't change that I broke 11 bones. I can't change if I happen to be in a wheelchair the rest of my life. And that's my reality. But I can choose to be the happiest, most grateful I have ever been while I endure the most difficult time in my life. And if I am in a wheelchair the rest of my life, I said, dad, I've already imagined that possibility. That for me is my worst case scenario. But I've decided I'll be the happiest, most grateful person that you've ever seen in a wheelchair, because that would be my reality at that time. And I will never allow my unchangeable aspects of reality or anything that's already happened to determine my mental and emotional well being in the moment. And so my dad went back to the doctors. He explained to them my five minute rule. I think they thought I was more delusional than when they originally assessed my state, but that was it. And that five minute rule. I don't have a graph that can show You. My healing of my body, I don't have. There's no data that I can show you that says, well, based on Hal's mindset of being at peace with the things he couldn't change, so he didn't create all this unhealthy stress in his body that only caused more damage, but he was at peace so he could heal. And then the optimism and the faith and the prayer of what he wanted, I can't show you how that correlates. I can just show you this next picture. Three weeks after I was hit on by a drunk driver, found dead at the scene. Broke 11 bones and told I would never walk again. And the doctors thought there was no way I was gonna be anything but in a wheelchair. My doctor came in with routine X rays right after that conversation with my dad. It was like a day later, I think. And he said, we don't know how to explain this, but Hal's body is healing so quickly that he's actually ready to take his first step today in therapy. And so it went from never walk again. And to be honest, I didn't think it would happen that fast. I thought like a year from now my body might heal and I could walk. But that's my therapist, Bob, who rolled me up in a wheelchair. And three weeks after the car accident, I took my first step. Thank you. These are the three words that enable emotional enlightenment. This is what I realized is the five minute rule is really just a five minute timer to get you to be able to say these three words. Sometimes you might need 15 minutes. After you do this for a while, you'll need like a minute or two. You'll train yourself to realize, oh, yeah, I can't change it. There's no point in getting upset about it. I'm gonna move on. Whether it's big things or little things, when I'm in traffic, I used to be. Anybody here not like traffic? Be honest. Raise your hand if you're not. Okay, I'm just gonna leave after this because, like, if you get this, this is all you need. I used to be in traffic. Like, most of us go, oh, no, come on, I'm running late. Like, it's the traffic's fault that you left late, but yeah, come on, you know, go. And you're riding the bumper as if that makes them go faster. Right? But think about this. Let's say you're in traffic for 30, 45 minutes and you're running late and you're gonna, you know, you're meeting a client. How do you spend the time in that traffic, you're fraught, you're stressed, you're tense, you're frustrated. That's how we spend far too much of our lives. Wishing we could change things, wishing we could change people that are out of our control. So now when I'm in traffic, I go, hey, traffic. I can't change it. I might as well enjoy every moment. What other logical option do I have than to enjoy every moment of this traffic? So we set that five minute timer and it goes off. The whole objective is to remind yourself, oh, yeah, I can't change it. I can't change what happened five minutes ago. So I get to choose to be at peace with it. Now, this image was emailed to me after I gave a speech, actually at a CutCo conference probably 15 years ago. And this image put me in tears when I read her email. This gal at the time was 27 years old, and she had shared that when she heard me talk about the can't change it philosophy. And when I said that all emotional pain is self created by our resistance to reality. All emotional pain is self created by our resistance to reality. You're very welcome. Thank you. Now let me unpack that. What does that mean? Well, think about it. If something bad happens to two different people, could be a tragedy, a challenge. Person number one, you say, hey, I heard you're going through a difficult time right now. How's that going? You go, it's the hardest thing I've ever been through. This shouldn't have happened. My life was supposed to be different. It, it wasn't supposed to go this way. Right? They're resisting their reality, wishing and wanting that it were different. And to the degree that we wish and want reality to be different, that we resist reality, that determines the degree of emotional pain that we create for ourselves. If we kind of wish it were different, like, ah, shucks, I really wish that wouldn't happen. It's a very low level of emotional pain in the form of annoyance or inconvenience. But if someone's on their knees going, God, this wasn't supposed to happen, please, no, it wasn't supposed to be this way. I wasn't supposed to lose that person. Whatever it is, that resistance determines the degree of emotional pain that they feel. But no one ever taught that. We've always been conditioned to blame other people and other things. And, well, of course I'm upset. Look at what happened. Of course I'm sad. Look at what I lost. Of course I'm angry. Look at what she Said we always are blaming something outside of ourselves, not realizing, no. The emotional pain that we feel is self created by resistance. And here's the proof of that. Person number two can be going through the exact same tragedy as person number one. And you approach me, go, hey, I talked to person number one. Man, they are really having a hard time with this. Are you? Also, person number two goes, well, it sucks. It's hard, but I'm at peace with it because I can't change it. There's no point in wishing I could. As soon as you accept reality, the opposite of resistance is acceptance. When you make a conscious choice to accept reality exactly as it is, you liberate yourself from emotional pain. When you make the conscious choice to accept reality exactly as it is, you liberate yourself from emotional pain. I couldn't have articulated all of that when I was in the car accident and in the hospital, but in hindsight, that's what I did. I went, okay, I was in a car accident. This is the worst thing I could have ever imagined happening to me at this point in my life. I broke 11 bones, and they're saying I might not walk again. But I can't change any of that. So I can either choose to create emotional pain over the thing I can't change, or I can accept my reality exactly as it is. And I'm not happy that it happened, but I can be completely at peace with it. You want to know one thing? You can't change the real estate market. Oddly enough, you can't change it. So if you spend even a moment, I mean, I'll give you a moment, I'll give you five minutes, right? But if you spend any more than five minutes wishing the real estate market was doing something different than it's doing, and. Right. That doesn't change the market. It just creates mental and emotional pain for you. That doesn't serve you, and it doesn't serve anyone. Thank you. I'm gonna give y' all three steps to emotional enlightenment. Step one's that five minute rule. Set your timer for five minutes. That's how you train your brain to. To go from the place of resistance, which is a habitual way of thinking that we're all conditioned to do, to acceptance. That five minute timer is your buffer. It gives you five minutes to go. I'm upset. I can't change. But you can't change it. And by the way, like I said, sometimes it might take you 10 or 15 minutes. The timer might go off after five minutes, and you're like, snooze. I'm still mad, right? But eventually you stop snoozing. You're like, well, I can't change it. What's the point? I might as well accept it and move on. Number two is those three words can't change it. Step two is, can't change it. And eventually. Well, I'll tell you a story. So when I first learned this philosophy, I thought what some of you may be thinking, which is like, five minutes. Can I get like, a five hour timer? Like a five day timer? Like, I'm not gonna get over something in five minutes. And I remember the first time my five minute timer went off. It was over a customer who had canceled her order. And I was so upset, and I set the timer and I was like, can't believe she did that. And she would have loved those knives. Why did she do that? And it was a small order. It was a couple hundred bucks. And she. And the timer went off. And I was like, see, I knew this five minute rule was stupid. I'm still mad. And I snoozed the timer did it again, went off again, and did a few times. Eventually I was like, well, the emotions died down. And I was like, I guess there's no point in wishing it were different. I can't change it. Okay. Took like 15 minutes. However, a couple weeks into my Cutco career, I had. On a Sunday, I had the biggest order. $2,000 order, biggest order I'd ever had. And I called my manager. I was on cloud nine. Jesse, this woman just bought $2,000 of Cutco. And he adds up the total. He goes, hal, that makes you the number one office. Number one rep in the office for the week. He said, invite your parents to the team meeting this week. You'll get awarded number one. I'm like, oh, my gosh. And this is. I'm 19 years old. I'm a mediocre kid who did nothing good in school, wasn't an athlete. So this is like, finally, I did something. And my sister's straight A's in the report card on the fridge. And I mean, whatever. My therapist says it's not a big deal. No. You saw my sister Hayley in the video. She's awesome. Even though she was even making fun of me in the video about the whole, you know, plane crash, whatever. So anyway, where was I? The. Yeah, I have brain damage. Where was I? The award. Thank you. I invited my parents to the meeting. I was like, mom, Dad, I just. I'm number one in the office for the week. Come to the meeting on Wednesday night at 9 o', clock, like 9:02pm My cell phone rings that night and I had been like on cloud nine. And it's the woman. Now keep in mind this is like three weeks into my Cutco career. And it's the woman who ordered for me that day. I go, oh God, why is she calling? Hello? She says, my husband came home. He was so stupid. Husbands, right? He was so mad that I spent that much money on knives. I have to cancel the order. And my heart sank. And I. And I'm trying everything. No, no, remember, you have the 15 day guarantee. You get to try them out. I'm sure he'll love him. She goes, no chance. Orders canceled. I was like, I cannot believe this. And all the things I'm unwinding, like, okay, so I'm not number one. My parents, I got to tell them to not come to the meeting, right? I didn't hit my goal for the week. And I set my timer for five minutes. And I was like, I can't believe. She would have loved those knives. He would have loved the knives. Like, oh, I can't believe this. What am I gonna do? I mean, all I can do is get on the phone tomorrow and schedule more appointments, right? And keep in mind, I had used the five minute rule probably 30 times over the last three weeks, if not more. And initially the first time it took me 15 minutes. But I picked up my phone after I asked myself, well, what can I do? All I can do is make calls tomorrow and try to schedule more appointments. And I looked at my phone and there was 4 minutes and 32 seconds left. And I went, wait, what's the point of dwelling on this and wishing it were different for four and a half more minutes when I could just say, can't change it now because I can't change it, be at peace, enjoy the rest of my night and move on. And I turned the timer off. And that was a paradigm shift where I went, whoa, I'm in control of my mental and emotional state. The thing that causes my mental and emotional pain is resisting reality and wishing things that are out of my control were different. As soon as I accept it, whether it takes five minutes or in that case, 28 seconds, I'm free, I'm liberated. So that five minute rule eventually will become the five second rule. That's kinda in that moment, that's actually what I text my manager. I go, hey, do you think I can make the five minute rule the five second rule? I was like, I don't wanna waste five minutes of my life anymore getting upset over things I can't change. He's like, great idea. So now, step three, accept life before it happens. And what this means is this. Some of you are already starting to maybe think along these lines. But after you do the five minute rule, can't change it for a while. You eventually go, or my invitation is to go. I'm going to accept life before it happens. Meaning I know that my future is going to hold challenges. Things are going to happen that are difficult, that are painful, that are disappointing, that are hurtful, that are sad. But I'm just going to decide now. Since we all now know that resistance is the source of emotional pain, and accepting reality exactly as it is is what liberates you from that pain, why not just accept life before it happens? No matter what happens in our lives, let's be at peace with it before it even happens. And that five minute rule will always be there for us to feel the pain. Because there's nothing wrong with feeling all the emotions on the spectrum. Like, they're all valuable, right? I'm not saying, like, just be positive and don't feel sad and don't be mad. No, I'm saying choose the emotion that best serves you in any given set of circumstances. And the five minute rule and the can't change of philosophy allows you to let go of the things that would have otherwise controlled your emotional state because we allowed them to. And now we get to control it. So accept life, what happens? And when I was diagnosed with cancer, which Derek mentioned. How good is Derek, by the way? Yeah, and he. And I think he knows it. I think he knows. I think, I think he's aware. Yeah. So what was I talking about? Choose your emotions. Can't change at all the things. Right? It's so liberal. Oh, it's cancer. Thank you. Y' all are paying attention. This is like the buffini. There is no crowd like a buffini crowd. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like the most attentive, engaged. I mean, what'd you say? Locked in, right? That's right. White hats. So when I was diagnosed with cancer, and I'll go into that a little bit later, but I was given a 20 to 30% chance of surviving. And it's funny, the doctor, as he was about to diagnose me, I had blood tests, something was wrong. My lung was failing, kidneys, heart, we didn't know what was wrong. And he calls me and he was a new doctor, we had just met, and he goes, hal, well, there's definitely something serious going on. And he just. He's like. Minutes go by and he's just, like, talking in circles. Like, he can't tell. Like, he's so scared to tell him what's going on. It was probably the first time he diagnosed somebody like this. And I put my hand on his arm. I said, doctor, I know we just met. I know you don't know me that well, but I want you to know I accept life before it happens. So whatever you're going to tell me, I've already accepted it, and I'm totally at peace with it. He goes, okay, well, you have cancer. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Like, I was not expecting that. I was. I mean, honestly, I was not expecting. But anyway. But that's an example of how, like, you live this philosophy. And keep in mind, by the way, y', all, I'm here to talk about the miracle morning. And we just spent 30 minutes talking about can't change it, emotional enlightenment, accepting life before it happens, the five minute rule, right? Because it's so important, and it frees you up for the rest of what we're about to talk about. If you're frustrated and you're angry and your emotions are not in your control, your mindset is not in your control, and you're using all these mindset tricks and hacks and miracle morning and all of this just to try to, like, almost band Aid the turmoil within you, right? It's an inner fight, an inner conflict. And most people do that forever. They don't know how to be at peace with life. And so they're going to this seminar and they're reading this book, right? But underneath, they're really still resisting reality and frustrated and angry. So they're distracting themselves. They're doing whatever they can to try to manage their emotional state versus going from negative emotions and positive emotions and back and forth to just, this is where I live. I live in a state of unwavering, unconditional peace that no one and nothing can deter. And now we're gonna talk about the miracle morning. How to wake up to your full potential every single day. I was asked in an interview. It's probably been a year or so. The interviewer said, hal, you created the miracle morning back in 2008, when the economy had crashed and you had crashed and you were at, like, your lowest point. You created to turn your life around, to help you become the person that you needed to be to turn your life around. And it worked. You did it. Now you've achieved your goals, your dreams. They said, it's been. I think at that time, it was like 15 years of miracle mornings. They said, why do you still do the miracle morning? You got out of what you want? Why do you still do it? Yeah. Because it works. I had never been asked that question. And I really reflected. I went, why do I do the miracle morning today, even though I've, you know, I've achieved most of the goals that I'd set out to achieve? And the answer was, because human potential is limitless. Human potential is limitless. You don't ever arrive at a point. Even Brian Buffini has achieved more than 99.9% of people on the planet. He doesn't wake up, be like, well, I can't get any better, right? I mean, Derek does. Derek does. To be fair, It's funny, I did not plan on mentioning Derek at all today. This is just Derek. This is love. Because I razz my friend, so I must have a lot of love for Derek. I think Derek and I. Derek and I are either going to be lifelong friends, or he's already written me off. And I'm never gonna be loud at Buffini again, so. But human potential is limitless. And so, like I said, this is not about waking up earlier. It's about waking up better. This is not about becoming a morning person. This is about becoming the best version of yourself. I'm gonna share another story with y'. All. I call this my second wake up call. And you'll see in parentheses underneath, it says, surprisingly worst, Worse than the first. And I get funny looks. Cause you're like, dude, you died. Like, what happened this time? Right? This one you might relate to. Financial crisis of 2008. Anybody around during that time wasn't just me. So I am an eternal optimist. And in 2008, I learned there is a fine line between optimism and delusion. And I ride that line. I cross that line. In 2008, I don't watch the news, and people are like, oh, my gosh, you worried about the economy? I go, I create my own economy, right? Like, no, that was the delusion part. Yes and yes. And. But anyway. But I was like. So I wasn't paying attention. And then within six months, it happened very quickly. I start losing coaching client after. That's how I made my money at that time. I hit hall of Fame with Cutco, and I had started a coaching business to coach salespeople, entrepreneurs, et cetera. And I start losing client after client after client. Not because it was a Bad coach. Because they're like, hey, my business is being affected. I need to cancel coaching. And so in six months, I lost over half of my income. I could not pay my mortgage, so my house was foreclosed on. I canceled my gym membership. My body fat percentage tripled. And for the first time in my life, I got deeply depressed. Now, you might be well, Hal. You have the can't change it philosophy and the five minute rule. How'd you get depressed? Right? I had never in my life dealt with worsening circumstances that continued to spiral downward. Right. Meaning car accident happened. Worst case scenario, it happened great. Can't change it. Move on. Well, when I lost my first client, I was heartbroken. I thought, I can't change it. At peace, moved on, lost another client. Oh, man. Can't change it. But I wasn't prepared for the downward spiral into debt and depression. I didn't know how to handle it. I wasn't mature enough. I wasn't self aware enough. I couldn't do it. And after six months, my wife, who was my fiance at the time, Ursula, she said, sweetheart, I was sitting on the couch one day just like, all mumpy and depressed, and she said, sweetheart, I hate seeing you like this, because when she met me, I was the most positive person that you've ever met in your life. She said, I don't know how to help you, and you're not asking anyone for help. Anybody ever suffer in silence? Raise your hand if you ever. Yeah, right. No. She said, why don't you call your good friend John Berghoff? You always tell me he's one of the smartest business people you know. Why don't you get his advice how you can make more money and get out of debt and turn your business around. And immediately I was like, yeah, why didn't I call John six months ago? Like, you're so right. So I called John and I told him everything. I said, john, I've been suffering in silence, man. Nobody knows how bad it's gotten. I put on a happy face in front of everybody. I am struggling. I don't know what to do. We're gonna be kicked out of this house in a matter of months. I'm in debt. My credit went from 800 to 500. Like, I don't know what to do and everything. I'm trying to get more clients. It's not working. And, you know, I'm like, holding back tears. And John says, buddy, I'm so sorry to hear that. Are you exercising? Every day I go and I'm Picturing him maybe, like, playing a game on his phone or something, right? I'm like, what the hell does that have to do with anything? I just said? And he goes, actually, a lot. He said, if you're not exercising every day and putting yourself in a peak physical state, which will then help you be in a peak mental and emotional state, he said, then you're not going to be able to solve the problems that you are facing. He said, if I were you, I would exercise every morning to release endorphins. It'll improve your mood. It'll get blood and oxygen to your brain, so you'll think clearer, more mental clarity. You'll have better decision making. He said, that will put you in the state you need to be in to turn your situation around and to make more money and to figure out how to solve your problems. And I was like, dude, I'm just calling you for, like, some tips on how to get clients, bro. I don't. And he said, I'm gonna send you an audio that I want you to listen to, and I want you to listen to it while you're going for a walk. At that time, we had the ipods, which I was this close to selling for food. And so I put it on my ipod and I'm, like, disgruntled. And the next morning, I'm going for a jog and listen, I'm like, this is so stupid. I need to be in my office calling prospects. Why am I on a run? This is a waste of time. And then I heard the following quote from Jim Rohn. Jim Rohn said, oh, your levels of success will rarely exceed your level of personal development. I had probably heard it before, but, you know, sometimes you got. You know, it goes in one out in one ear and out the what out the other. And sometimes you gotta be in the right state, the right mindset for it to land. And in that morning, I heard it, I rewound it, I listened to it again, and I quantified it immediately. I went, okay. If Jim is saying my levels of success will rarely exceed my level of personal development, two questions came up for me. What level of success do I want? On a scale of 1 to 10, what do you think it is, y'? All? 10. 10. I've never met anyone that's like, I don't wanna be too successful or too happy or too healthy or have too good of a marriage. I don't wanna be, like, the annoying happy person, right? No. Human nature is. We all want to live our lives at a level 10. And then I asked myself the second question. Well, if my level of success, level 10 success is not going to exceed my level of personal development, what's my level of personal development? And at that time in my life, I was like, it's like a two, maybe a three on a good day. And they all, I believe this is the disconnect for the majority of our society. Far less in this room, to be fair. But majority of society is, we all want level 10 health, happiness, marriage, success, finances, you name it. But very few people have a dedicated, disciplined, proven, daily process for personal development to enable us to become the level 10 version of ourselves that is capable of creating and sustaining that level 10 success in every area of our lives. And so I ran home and I googled what are the world's most successful people do for personal development? And I spent about an hour just searching, reading articles, and I was looking for one practice, maybe two, and I ended up with a list of six practices. And the savers were born. Silence. That's your prayer, your meditation, your deep breathing affirmations. Not the goofy way y' all have probably been taught in the past, which we'll handle that here in a sec. Anybody watch Stuart Smalley on Saturday Night live in the 90s, right? I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me, not those affirmations. The V is for visualization, which, think about it, the greatest athletes in the world utilize visualization not just to visualize winning the championship, but to mentally rehearse performing at their best in practice, in the game, every single day. The E is for exercise. That morning, I got more mental clarity from a little exercise and a little bit of learning than I had in six months. The R is for reading, not romance novels, but, like personal growth. And the final S is for scribing, which is a fancy word for journaling, but the J would have made the acronym awkward. So. Thank you, thesaurus. I owe you one. We're going to dive into these right now. So the first S in silences or first S in savors is for silence again. Meditation, prayer, breath, work. It's starting your day in peaceful, purposeful, intentional silence. When do you hear your deepest wisdom? Is it when you're scrolling your phone, answering emails, prospect? Or is it in the shower, falling asleep late at night? Right. So this is not leaving those periods of silence to chance. It's engineering your day to begin with silence, so that you can access the wisdom of higher intelligence, of your deepest wisdom of God, whatever you want. To call it. And so for me, it's a combination of prayer and meditation. In fact, today's day four. I normally pray for like a minute and then meditate for five or 10, sometimes 20. But I'm reading this book and it talked about like doing a prayer challenge where I'm doing 15 minutes of prayer every single morning. Today's day four or five. I think I did it this morning in the hotel, right? So the beauty of the savors is you can mix it up. Like if it gets boring, you're like, I'm doing the same thing every day. Great. For silence, you could do any meditation, a guided meditation, a self directed meditation. You could pray, you could try breath work, right? So it's very scalable and customizable. I'll give you my favorite meditation. I call it mindset optimization meditation, or MOM for short. Identify your optimal mental and emotional state. So this is the idea, most meditations are just to clear your mind, follow your breath, which is great. That's how I start. But I'm a very results oriented person. Like I would much rather than just be in a state of silence, I would actually be in a state of silence for the purpose of cultivating an optimal mental state that would serve me throughout the day. So I start by asking myself, what state do I wanna be in today? Mentally and emotionally and in general, I just wanna be in a blissful state. That's like my daily generic. I just wanna be in a state of bliss, like peace, love, joy. Call me a hippie, like that's my favorite state. But if I've got like an important presentation, I wanna be in a state of like, purpose, confidence, focus, right? If I'm interacting with my wife in the morning, I wanna be in a state of like, love. Let's say we fought the night before. I wanted to say like forgiveness, empathy, joy. If it's a Saturday morning and my kids are gonna wake up in an hour, I want to be in like a playful, fun dad state. So I identify the optimal state for me to win today. And second step, I affirm and embody that state. So I'll affirm. I choose to be at peace in this moment. I choose to feel bliss, love, joy. And I'll breathe and I'll just get into that state and then I'll set my timer for whatever I've got, 1, 5, 10 minutes and I'll meditate in that state. Now what's happening is in our neurochemistry, right? You are creating neural pathways in your brain that will allow you to experience that state not only in the moment, but as those neural pathways deepen, you will be making these chosen states, these optimal states, your default states. So if I'm meditating in the morning to be in a peaceful state and in the middle of the day, I'm dealing with some challenge, I can immediately go right back into that, either hand on the heart or hands in prayer position, and I can bring that state back into my being. So that's my favorite form of meditation, although I mix it up and keep it interesting and try different forms. The A in Savers is for affirmations. This is my favorite of the savers. They're not all equal. In my mind, I have a favorite, just like y' all have with one of your kids, even though you don't admit it. I'm just kidding. So two reasons affirmations haven't worked for most people. If you have been disillusioned by affirmations, here is why. Number one, lying to yourself doesn't work, right? We've all been taught that by some well meaning self help guru. If you're struggling financially, just affirm, I am wealthy. I am. But if you affirm something that isn't actually true for you, you create a disconnect, an internal conflict, as if we didn't have enough of them already. If you check your bank balance on your phone and you're like, oh my God, I'm overdrawn. Ugh. I am wealthy. I am. It doesn't work. The second problem with affirmations is that passive language does not produce meaningful results. What do I mean by that? You've probably all heard some version of this affirmation. I am a money magnet. Money flows to me effortlessly and in abundance. That's not how money works. I've never ever heard an interview with a millionaire or a billionaire and they're like, how did you do it? What was your secret? They're like, I just became a money magnet. And then money flowed into my life effortlessly and in abundance. Now, the weird part is that affirmation has stood the test of time. Like, people still say that, right? And I'm not judging by the way, if you're like, I said that this morning, like, that's fine. But here's my point is that I think the reason that affirmation has stood the test of time is because it's like taking a shot of tequila, right? It's like if you're looking at your phone and going, oh, my bank balance is negative. And then you go, okay, reality doesn't feel good. So I'm gonna delude myself into by saying I'm a money magnet and money's going to magically flow into my life effortlessly, thank God, because I don't have any motivation. And in abundance. Right. Want to teach y' all three steps, very specific steps on how to create affirmations that produce measurable results. Before I do, I want to show you a real life example. When I had cancer, affirmations I believe, helped save my life. And when we were filming the miracle morning movie, our director was at my apartment. It was an apartment we rented, me and my dad right by the cancer hospital. Because I was so sick all the time, I needed to be right. I could only make it, you know, two minutes down the road. And Nick said, hey, Al, I want to film you doing your miracle morning routine. So he said, you know, read your affirmations out loud. I normally read them to myself. He said, read them out loud. Can you for the camera? I said, sure. I didn't know what was going to happen. This was very unexpected. But here's what happened. My 2017 healing cancer affirmations. I will do whatever it takes, putting forth extraordinary effort to beat cancer and live a long, healthy life for my family. I will beat cancer for Ursula because I committed to her forever in a day. And I want to grow old and spend the rest of our long. Spend the rest of our lives together. I'll be cancer for Sophie because she needs her daddy. I'll be cancer for Halston because he needs my love, leadership and guidance. I'll be kidding. I don't normally read these out loud. Read them to myself. I'll beat cancer for dad because he gave up everything to heal me and save my life. I'll beat cancer for mom because she doesn't deserve to lose another child. I'll beat cancer for me because I want and deserve to live a long life. And I'll beat cancer for the millions of people who are themselves battling cancer or some other disease and don't have the knowledge or resources that I do and desperately need my leadership and support. All right, those are my affirmations. Time to visualize. When I felt like giving up. And there were a lot of times that I felt like giving up. In the midst of 750 hours of chemotherapy and many nights in the ER with 103, 104 degree fever, lost 25% of my body weight. Right. It was the hardest time in my life. And those affirmations were my anchor. Every single day. I'd read Those and go, I can't give up. I'm doing it for my wife, my kids, my mom, my dad. Right? And in the same way I apply the formula that I'm about to teach y' all to every goal in my life. At that time, I only had one goal and it was to beat cancer, as you might imagine. To live. Yeah. These are three subsequent affirmations that produce results. Step one, affirm what you are committed to in life. You don't get what you want just cause you say you want it. You get only what you want when you transition it from a want to a commitment. I was committed to beating cancer no matter what. There was no other option. Number two, affirm why. It's a must for you. Again, it wasn't the commitment that drove me to keep going. It was the why, the reasons, the connection to my family, the people that I loved and that I led, that mattered to me so much that giving up wasn't an option, even when I felt like it. And that's the power of getting those reasons why in your affirmations is that even when you feel like giving up, and we all do at times, the market gets hard, work gets hard, family gets hard, marriage gets hard. Right? But if you remember your why, as Simon Sinek would say, right. You can overcome any challenge. The how reveals itself. And number three, affirm which actions you'll take and when. And that's when you get really specific. Right. In order to follow through with that commitment that I'm clear on why I'm committed to it. I'm gonna do these things at these times. Now again, y' all got The Miracle Morning 30 day journey affirmations that follow those three steps and have a fourth additional affirmation space for you to add inspirational quotes or notes from this talk, to read these every day to keep you going through the 30 day journey that I'm gonna invite you to here in a few minutes. Next in the savers is visualization. Now, visualization can be counterproductive, similar to affirmations where if all you do is visualize your ideal outcome, it tricks your brain into thinking it's a foregone conclusion. So if you just see that, you know, if you've ever made a vision board, if all you do is just see, oh, I know it's gonna happen because I see it happening. It's like, well, are you visualizing the actions that you need to take to make sure that it happens? You go, no, I didn't think about that part. I'm just visualizing the thing happening. So much so that I've tricked my brain into thinking it's a foregone conclusion. So here are two steps to create affirmations. I'm sorry, visualizations to make it effective. Number one. Yes. Visualize your ideal outcome. That is important. You want to see it so clearly that it pulls you toward it. I ran a 52 mile ultra marathon during when I started the miracle morning. A year after my first miracle morning. About a year and a half later, I ran a 52 mile ultramarathon. And I did it because I hated running. I know that sounds weird, but I asked myself, what would a level 10 be in my fitness this year? Every year it was setting my level 10 goals. What would level 10 be in my fitness? And I had two friends that had just run a 52 mile ultramarathon. And while I never would have even thought of it, I was like, hey, if they did it, that's evidence that it's possible for me. So every morning I'd visualize crossing the finish line so that it was compelling and I'd want to do it. But the most important part is I would mentally rehearse myself getting off the couch when it was time to go for my training run and going in my bedroom, getting dressed in my running clothes, heading through my living room. I would literally spend a few minutes seeing myself go through the sequence and then opening the front door. And then I would recite the affirmations that I had just read a few minutes before I started visualizing. I am committed to running 52 miles on October 29, 2009. No matter what. There is no other option. I'm doing this to overcome my limiting belief that I'm not a runner. So I could overcome every other limiting belief in order to follow through. I will follow the training regimen in the non runner's marathon trainer book whether I feel like it or not. So I had just affirmed it. You're starting to see how your savors sequenced together. I just affirmed it. Now I'm visualizing doing the thing today that I just affirmed and that compelled me when it was time to run instead of going, eh, I don't feel like it. I didn't mentally rehearse not running. I did whatever I rehearsed that morning. That's the way to use visualization every day. Whatever you need to do for the day, mentally rehearse doing it in a peak mental and emotional state. The E is for exercise and there's no advanced training here. It's Just the idea that move your body first thing in the morning. And why? Because it increases your energy. You get blood flow to your brain, you feel better, you think clearer. And so for me. And by the way, the sabers, you can do them in any order. I usually do them pretty close to this order. Exercise is usually last, but sometimes if I wake up and I'm in a fog and I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm like, I think I was hit by a truck last night while I was sleeping. We've all been there. I will move the E exercise to the front and I will immediately. In fact, I did it this morning. This morning in my hotel room. I was sitting in bed and I was doing the 15 minutes of prayer. And I was like, I kept dozing off. I was like, all right, this doesn't work. So I went in front of the mirror and I did 45 jumping jacks. Cause I'm 45 years old, so I just, whatever, I'm like 45. I counted 45. I did really fast jumping jacks. And then I was like, now I'm awake. Let's go. And then I sat down and then I was doing my miracle morning and my energy started to drop. I got out of bed, I went and did it again. So you guys see, these are tools. You can do them in any order you can do more than once, right? Like, you get to totally customize your miracle morning and evolve it over time. The R is for reading. Again, no rocket science here. But you're all one book away from any aspect of your life that you want to improve or transform. You want to be happier. There's some books for that, right? You want a good morning routine. I know a book for that. And the final S in Savage is for scribing, which, remember, that's just a fancy word for journaling. And here's a three step scribing. Practice number one is a stress dump. So the first thing I do when I journal is I just. I quiet my mind. I go, is there any stress that I'm holding onto? Is there anything I'm worried about, afraid of? Is there anything I'm resisting wishing it didn't happen from, you know, yesterday? And whatever it is, I write it down. I get the stressful thoughts and feelings out of my head, so I'm not harboring them. And. And I put them on paper. So now I create separation. Now I'm not those things. I see them and I can deal with them, I can leave them, I can take care of them. Later, whatever. Number two, gratitude. Writing down what you're grateful for and really feeling the gratitude. So whenever I write it down, I put my hand on my heart and I usually close my eyes and I think of. I picture the thing I wrote down. I wrote down my daughter Sophia. I picture Sophia. I think about our last interaction, if it was a good one. She's 15, you know, so they're mostly good. But I feel deep gratitude so that it again, I want to create neural pathways and be the most grateful person I could possibly be. I believe. Great way. Great way. Gratitude is the gateway to happiness. And number three, it's my transition out of the miracle morning. I look at my to do list for the day, I look at my goals and I prioritize. I make sure that as I'm transitioning out of my personal development into my workday, that what's the number one thing I need to get done today that I'll commit to do before anything else? And then what's number two? And what's number three? Not what do I wanna do, not what's easy to do, not busy work, which we tend to gravitate towards. Right. I'll just do these things and then I'll feel like I'm doing something, but I'm not actually moving the needle in my life or business. So I use the final step to prioritize. Now, those six practices, any one of those will change your life. But I'm gonna quote my friend Robert Kiyosaki, who said, what Hal did with the savers. Oh, back a slide. You don't have to write everything down on that slide. I would just write down silence, affirmations, visualization, exercise, reading and scribing. I know you are overachievers. I love that. So Robert Kiyosaki, who is a personal miracle morning practitioner, I met him when he, his assistant reached out and said, robert has read your book three times. It's changing his life. And he wants to interview on Rich Dad Radio. And when my jaw came up off the floor, I was like, oh, my gosh. Robert in the interview said this. What Hal did with these say words is combined six of the most proven, ancient, proven practices and one which, sorry, into one ritual, a ritual that's now transformed my life. And he said it transformed his marriage, his health. In fact, after the miracle morning, he lost like 60 pounds. And he attributes that to what the miracle morning did for his mindset and everything else and the affirmations around his health and all those things. And then my friend Mel Robbins says The Miracle Morning. Yeah, we got a few Mel Robbins fans. Yeah. If you haven't seen the Miracle Morning movie, by the way, Mel is in the movie, so is Robert. She said the Miracle morning is a proven system that will help you fulfill your potential and create the life you've always wanted. And we're gonna wrap up with the miracle morning 30 day journey. It's three simple steps. Number one, wake up 30 minutes earlier. If you wanna do a full hour, you can, but I recommend making it as easy as possible, especially if you're new to this. If you're new to the Miracle morning, wake up 30 minutes earlier. And again, you overachievers, you're like, I'm doing a full hour. Whatever you want. Number two, do one or more of the savers. Right? Meaning if you want to do all six savers. My first miracle morning was all six savers and it has been ever since. But you don't have to go 0 to 6. You can go 0 to 1. In fact, if somebody's new to the Miracle Morning, I always recommend get the Miracle Morning updated and expanded edition. This is the new edition that came out last year with 70 pages of new content. And all you have to do is wake up 30 minutes earlier and do the R. Just read and we get to the chapter on silence. Integrate that into your Miracle Morning. And then affirmations. Integrate that, like, build it over time. It's not all or nothing. And then last but not least, use the Miracle Morning app to track your progress and stay consistent. If you have your cell phone, you can bring out your cell phone right now. Oh, you got. Yes. Day 51. What's your name? Pascal. Pascal, that's amazing. She just showed me the Miracle Morning app and she's day 51 on her streak. Congratulations, Pascal. Round of applause. If you want to pull out your phone, you can scan this QR code or just download it in the app Store. But the Miracle Morning app, it's not a requirement at all. It's optional. But if you like to use apps to help track your progress, be consistent. You can guided tracks, you can journal all these different features. That is a great option. And as we close, I want you to keep in your mind the person or persons who you love and lead. These are mine. You can put them back on the screen again. My daughter Sophia. My son Halston. My wife Ursula and I believe that the greatest gift we can give to those we love and those we lead is to wake up every day and fulfill our potential so that we can help them to Fulfill theirs. And so, as you begin your miracle morning journey, not to become a morning person, not to wake up early, to become the best version of yourself, to become the person that you need to be to create everything that you want for your life, and to be the person that can support and encourage and love and lead the people who you love the most in your life. So do it for you. Do it for them. Whoever you do it for, wake up tomorrow and fulfill your limitless potential. Thank you. There. Come on. Oh, wait. Selfie. Selfie. Hey, come out. Creek. Halo Ron.

Great stuff. He's a funny guy. Funny, funny guy. You guys enjoy that? Yeah. How many of you already do the miracle morning savers already? Pascal, I know you're on it. Yeah. How many of you, at some point started and you drifted a little bit, and how many of you are feeling extra guilty about that and you're realizing you need to. Yeah, exactly. To get back to it? Well, Hal mentioned, you know, that book came out years ago. Now, there's been a recent new edition that just came out, And he's such a nice guy. He autographed all these copies.

But I'm.

Not gonna give him away. Who's laughing now, Hal? I'm just kidding.

We got a copy of Hal. There we go. You get a buck, you get a bug. Oh, that's right. Awesome.

So, hey, can we say thanks to Hal Elrod again? So you got to be careful when you try to roast the mc. So much power. All right, it's time for your last Synergy lunch, folks. Your last synergy. Now, here's the thing. Lock in with me for a second. This is the third day, and I know you've got your cups filled. You're like, how much further could we even possibly go? Trust me, stay locked in. Stay locked in for this last. We have these speakers on this third day. Intentionally, Right? We had Liz Bohannon this morning to talk about the importance of connecting with each other, letting your guard down, being vulnerable. To reinforce that message. Stay locked in. Stay authentic. Keep sharing your challenges. Keep sharing your wins, keep sharing your burdens.

Right?

I believe in you guys. I know you can do it. Sometimes the biggest breakthroughs happen on the last day. So stay locked in. Same thing as normal. When I let you go, you're go straight to your table, start synergizing right away. The team will come around to dismiss you to lunch table. Same thing. Stay locked in 90 minutes or so, and then you take the rest of the lunch break to check emails, do whatever you got to do. See what Blake Lively's up to. Whatever you got to check in on.

All right?

And then I want to hear from those synergy group leaders when we come back, share some takeaways. I want to hear what's coming up in your synergy groups. You guys do that. Okay? All right. We're gonna be back here at 2 o'.

Clock.

What time? 2 o'.

Clock.

Enjoy your lunch. We'll see you at 2.