The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs: Elevate Your SELF to Elevate Your BUSINESSHal Elrod’s The Miracle Morning Series kept popping up in my readings. I finally got the message and read The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs: Elevate Your SELF to Elevate Your BUSINESS. At its heart, this book is about helping entrepreneurs become more successful by being more mindful how they use their time.

 

The authors talk about the importance of mornings and provide readers with their Life S.A.V.E.R.S.  They also discuss the  3 Entrepreneur Elevation Skills: Self-Leadership, Energy Engineering, and Unwavering Focus as well as the 3 Entrepreneurial Elevation Principles: Create a Vivid Vision, Delegate Everything Expect Genius, and Yin Yang: A COO to Leverage You Up. Everything in this book builds to the Miracle Morning 30-Day Transformation Challenge.1

 

I read the Kindle version and decided to take advantage of the highlighting functionality. Below, I’m sharing the 11 passages and quotes that I highlighted.

 

 

“Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development, because success is something you attract by the person that you become. —JIM ROHN”2

 

 

“In other words, who you’re becoming is far more important than what you’re doing, and yet the irony is that what you’re doing, each day is determining who you’re becoming.”3

 

 

“Andrew Bryant, founder of Self-Leadership International, summed it up this way: ‘Self-leadership is the practice of intentionally influencing your thinking, feeling, and behaviors to achieve your objective(s) … [It] is having a developed sense of who you are, what you can do, and where you are going coupled with the ability to influence your communication, emotions, and behaviors on the way to getting there.’”4

 

 

“Thinking of yourself as less than capable assumes imminent failure and simultaneously thwarts your ability to succeed.”5

 

 

“Remember that, although where you are is a result of who you were, where you go depends entirely on the person you choose to be from this moment forward.”6

 

 

“While blame determines who is at fault for something, responsibility determines who is committed to improving a situation.”7

 

 

“Accountability is the act of being responsible to someone else for some action or result.”8

 

 

“[T]he future is scary to people who have become too comfortable in the present.”9

 

 

“Dan Casetta, had taught me: ‘The true purpose of a goal isn’t to hit the goal. The true purpose is to develop yourself into the type of person who can achieve your goals, regardless of whether you hit that particular one or not. It is who you become by giving it everything you have until the last moment—regardless of your results—that matters most.’”10

 

 

“Every day, think as you wake up, ‘Today I am fortunate to have woken up, I am alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.’ —DALAI LAMA”11

 

 

“Things do not change. We change. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU”12

 

 

After reading my highlights, I thought it was interesting that they all related to engagement. Specifically, they relate to the individual’s responsibility for their own engagement.

 

 

 

1 Elrod, Hal, et al. The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs: Elevate Yourself to Elevate Your Business. Hal Elrod International, Inc., 2016.
2 Ibid., p. 63.
3 Ibid., p. 64.
4 Ibid., p. 65.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid., p. 66.
7 Ibid., p. 68.
8 Ibid., p. 89.
9 Ibid., p. 158.
10 Ibid., p. 193.
11 Ibid., p. 209.
12 Ibid.

 

 

 

What are your thoughts on these highlighted passages? For those of you who have read the book, what passages did you highlight?

 

 

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