Hal Elrod lost 90 pounds in eight months using his Miracle Morning routine and shifted from chasing external validation to helping others. He moved away from measuring himself against others and toward a collaborative mindset focused on collective progress and empathy.
Through the Miracle Morning and my routine, I lost 90 pounds in 8 months. Not only did I lose the weight and keep it off, But I changed my lifestyle and haven't wanted to or even considered turning back. I posted a picture in the Miracle Morning Facebook group, and I got like 700 and something likes, like instantly. Hey, that's amazing what you've done. And in that moment, it clicked for me. I had spent my whole life being inspired by other people, but I never realized that by talking about struggling with my weight my entire life and then finally finding a solution in the Miracle Morning could give other people hope. So I always did stuff so that people would like me. Like, I thought that that's how you got value, was you had to perform. So like, I was always the class clown. You gotta do a front flip.
Belly flop. Don't do a belly flop. Oh, whoa.
Oh.
Oh my God.
And while it's all like funny to look back and laugh at, like, that was— I was so desperate for attention that all that was okay. Like, that didn't matter that, like, I was a human being or I put myself in danger or that, like, I could have drowned. I could have died from impact. Like, people can, you know, fall from 10 feet and die, and I just jumped off a 40-foot cliff because I wanted people to like me. I was also, like, a really angry person. Like, I was so just furious. And I think a lot of that came from feeling like the world owed me something, but I never did anything about getting it. And so I saw other people that had gotten it and I was angry at them. Like, I didn't want other people to be happy because I didn't feel like I knew how to be happy, so why should they? So I found Miracle Morning and then I knew how to be happy. I used to live with this concept that everybody was either better than or worse than me. And so I was always just on this ladder trying to move up and trying to be better than other people. That same element of competition in my life anymore. Like, I'm not on a ladder, I'm on a landscape, and we're all going forward, you know? And like, I get to be a part of that instead of being against it. I'm not angry at other people for being happy. I'm sad when I see them not realizing their dreams, and I want to bring them with me.
Hal Elrod shares the most effective tool he’s learned to quickly handle anything life throws at you.
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