This YouTube extended trailer, created and uploaded by Hal Elrod, promotes "The Miracle Morning," a morning routine built from six practices that the creator says can transform lives. The trailer mixes motivational claims (early rising, daily rituals create great lives), an origin story (an epiphany to combine six practices into one hour), and personal stakes (Hal Elrod's health crisis and family responsibilities) to argue that changing your morning can change your life.
Questions this video answers
November 23, 2020
Six practices
One hour
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
"I lost £90 in eight months."
Chapters
Changing millions of lives one morning at a time.
What if you could change anything about your life just by changing the way you start your day? What would you change?
It's easy to blame other people, outside forces. But when we allow our outer world to dictate our inner world, we give away our power. We lose control. And in doing so, we feel stressed and we get depressed and we experience fear and anxiety and life becomes a struggle.
I thought, I'm going to go home and I'm going to go online and I'm going to Google what are the world's most successful people do every day? And I had an epiphany. What if I woke up tomorrow and I did all six practices in one hour? And he calls it the miracle morning. And then it started to catch on. See how a simple idea grew into a worldwide movement? Anyone can do the miracle morning. The miracle morning. Miracle morning. I actually got up at 5am we saw things like, it saved my marriage. And we came up with this mission. Change millions of lives one morning at a time. Through the miracle morning and my routine, I lost £90 in eight months. I was like, I gotta do this. I typed how to get out of depression. That's when I had suggestions. And part of it was the miracle morning. Learn the morning routines of the world's most successful people. If you look at many of the most productive people in the world, they all had one thing in common. They were early risers. Great lives are created one great day after another. And those great days start with great mornings. My morning routine is everything. You don't think that it's a routine, but hitting the snooze alarm four or five times a morning is a routine. I use my morning routine to remind me of who and what I really am. When we have a solid morning routine that works for us, we start the day on our terms. Your morning rituals are the cure to insecurity. That date that I started the miracle morning, that was the date that changed everything. Dive deeper into the science behind morning routines. The brain patterns produced when you're imagining a scene are actually the same as when you're seeing that thing. Meditation actually increases different neurotransmitters in our brain. We now know that the more sleep deprived you are, the faster cancer cells multiply. I wish I had more energy to be more chipper, but it's going on. It's 1:13 in the morning. I've had my lung drained four times and I can't figure out what's wrong. I've been diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Can a morning routine save your life?
Despite all the positivity. I could die with a wife and two babies. Leaving them is terrifying. Not a morning person.
