The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM)

You Snooze, You Lose: The Truth About Waking Up
The  old  saying,  “You  Snooze,  You  Lose”  may  have  a  deeper
meaning than any of us realized. When you delay waking up until you
have to—meaning you wait until the last possible moment to get out
of bed and start your day—consider that what you’re actually doing is
resisting your life. Every time you hit the snooze button, you’re in a
state  of  resistance  to  your  day,  to  your  life,  and  to  waking  up  and
creating  the  life  you  say  you  want.  Think  about  the  kind  of  negative
energy  that  surrounds  you  when  you  begin  your  day  with  resistance,
when  you  respond  to  the  sound  of  the  alarm  clock  with  internal
dialogue along the lines of, “Oh no, it’s time already. I  have to  wake
up. I don’t want to wake up.” It’s as if you’re saying, “I don’t want to
live my life, at least not to the fullest.”
Many people who suffer from depression report that the morning
time is the most difficult. They wake up with dread. Sometimes it is
because of a job they feel obligated to go to, or due to a relationship
that is failing. Some people feel this way simply due to the nature of
depression and its ability to weigh on a person’s mind, emotions, and
heart without needing a specific reason. The tone of our morning has
a  powerful  impact  on  the  tone  of  the  rest  of  our  day.  It  becomes  a
cycle:    waking  up  with  despair,  spending  the  day  continuing  to  feel
that way, going to sleep feeling anxious or depressed, then repeat the
cycle of melancholy the next day.
Not  only  are  people  missing  out  on  the  abundance  of  clarity,
energy,  motivation,  and  personal  power  that  comes  from  waking  up
each day on purpose, but their resistance to this inevitable daily act is
a  defiant  statement  to  the  universe  that  they  would  rather  lie  in  bed,
unconscious, than to create and live the life they desire.

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On the other hand, when you wake up each day with passion and
purpose,  you  join  the  small  percentage  of  high  achievers  who  are
living their dreams. Most importantly, you will be happy. By simply
changing  your  approach  to  waking  up  in  the  morning,  you  will
literally change everything. But don’t take my word for it—trust these
famous  early  risers:    Oprah  Winfrey,  Tony  Robbins,  Bill  Gates,
Howard  Schultz,  Deepak  Chopra,  Wayne  Dyer,  Thomas  Jefferson,
Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, and far too many more
to list here.
No one ever taught us that by learning how to consciously set our
intention  to  wake  up  each  morning  with  a  genuine  desire—even
enthusiasm—to do so, we can change our entire lives.
If you’re just snoozing every day until the last possible moment
you have to head off to work, show up for school, or take care of your
family,  and  then  coming  home  and  zoning  out  in  front  of  the
television until you go to bed (this used to be my daily routine), I’ve
got  to  ask  you: When  are  you  going  to  develop  yourself  into  the
person  you  need  to  be  to  create  the  levels  of  health,  wealth,
happiness,  success,  and  freedom  that  you  truly  want  and  deserve?
When are you going to actually live your life instead of numbly going
through  the  motions  looking  for  every  possible  distraction  to  escape
reality?  What  if  your  reality—your  life—could  finally  be  something
that you can’t wait to be conscious for?

There  is  no  better  day  than  today  for  us  to  give  up  who  we’ve
been for who we can become, and upgrade the life we’ve been living
for the one we really want. There is no better book than the one you
are holding in your hands to show you how to become the person you
need  to  be  who  is  capable  of  quickly  attracting,  creating  and
sustaining the life you have always wanted.

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