Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

What do you think of Hal’s SAVERS acronym?

3 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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In this YouTube monologue, the speaker recounts how the six core practices of the Miracle Morning—originally meditation, affirmations, visualization, exercise, reading, and journaling—were renamed to form the memorable SAVERS acronym. While drafting his book, he struggled to organize these practices, prompting his wife to suggest using a thesaurus to find alternative words. This led to the transformation of the practices into Silence, (State) Affirmations, Visualization, Exercise, Reading, and Scribing (a fancier term for journaling). The speaker emphasizes that the acronym not only aids recall but also aptly reflects how these practices “saved” him from self‑destruction, underscoring their personal and transformative significance within the Miracle Morning framework.

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Yeah. So the acronym wasn't from day one. So I had the 6 practices. And when I was writing the book, it just— I tell this kind of quick, funny story, but I was writing the book and I had these 6 practices that again, none of them were new. So here's before the acronym was meditation, affirmations, visualization, exercise, reading, and journaling. And I'm writing the book and I'm trying to piece this together and I'm frustrated. And I go out to get some fresh air and my wife sees me and she goes, what's wrong? You look frustrated. I said, well, the Miracle Mornings, it's changing people's lives. But in order to put it in a book, it's got to be memorable. It's got to be organized. It's got to make sense. And I said, I don't know how to organize these 6 practices. And she goes, why don't you get a thesaurus? And type each practice in and see if there's another word for each that you could form into an acronym. And I'm like, oh, interesting idea. And I go in the office and meditation becomes silence, affirmation, state affirmations, visualization, right? These are the SAVERS. Silence, affirmations, visualization, exercise, reading, and then journaling became scribing, which is, you know, fancy word for writing or journaling. And those became the SAVERS. And what I love about the acronym first and foremost is that it's aptly named. Like these were the 6 practices that saved me from self-destruction, right?