Miracle Morning

[wayfaringwordhack]

 (This was a longer, and arguably better written post <certainly more filled with personal anecdotes> in the first effort that the Internet ate, so here is a the whittled down version)

In May 2017, I started doing Hal Elrod's Miracle Morning in an effort to focus my time and improve the quality of my state of mind. If you haven't heard of it, it is a 6-step morning routine designed to help one be more productive and achieve important goals, whether those be financial, relational, health-related...

In a nutshell the acronym S.A.V.E.R.S. helps you start off your morning with Silence, Affirmation, Visualization, Exercise, Reading, and Scribing. I find the Silence, Affirmations, and Exercise to be the most helpful so far; I do not excel at Visualization and have never hit a Scribing (Journalling) stride. I usually just list three things I am grateful for, but I want to do something more. Just don't know what that is yet.

In the year and four months since I started my Miracle Morning routine, I have seriously fallen off the wagon several times, ceasing to do it when I probably needed it the most, but just not able to give up the extra hours of sleep that my body insisted it must have to function.

However, when I DO do it, I see such a marked improvement in how I spend my time and how I treat those around me, including myself. So, for the past two weeks or so, I have been starting my day with my routine again and feel better for it. As an aside, I also use a bullet journal in conjunction with my Miracle Morning, and my use of that has been more steady but still not up to snuff.

Do any of you do a Miracle Morning routine or use a bullet journal? If so, what do you find helpful about it/them? How do you use it/them?

Comments

[asakiyume]

The thing that comes closest to Miracle Morning that I've ever done was inspired by reading Zilpha Keatley Snyder's Greensky books when I was a kid. (These were a trilogy of books set in a a society that's done away with all violence and lives in these giant trees on an alien planet--but of course there are Dark Secrets, etc.) I was entranced with the society, which used lots of ritualized singing and dancing--so I tried to do that myself: made up a dance to do in the morning, and prayer/poem to calm myself before bed, etc. Buuuut.... it was very, very hard to keep doing it, and eventually I stopped.

How much time (this seems like a really overly pragmatic question...) do all the SAVERS activities take? It seems like even just incorporating the ones that are the most helpful and dropping the others would be okay.

I've never done a bullet journal, but one of my daughters does, and she says it really helped her feel less anxious and more organized, and she says it's a lot of fun too. How has it been for you?

[wayfaringwordhack]

I love your ritual, but I can see where it would be hard to keep it up.

I spoke a lot more to time in my first attempt at the post. The idea is to, ideally, give at least 10 minutes to each step, but the author says even 1 minute for each, resulting in a 6-Minute Miracle Morning, is better than none. However, I think, like you said, there are some that are more helpful, and just giving those more time is beneficial to getting a routine that fits you and your goals. I do find the affirmations to be really useful, but I am not going to say them for 10 minutes. I also like to take a bit more than 10 min for reading. I am going to make a series of posts on this topic, methinks, because I want to suss out how to make it more effective for me; and blabbering about might help me analyze and focus better.

I really like using a bullet journal, again because of its ability to be personalized. I have to get back into it, though, to keep its potential for organization applicable to my days. I was super good at it when I could leave it open on my dining table and see it as I walked past. However, Ti'Loup taking markers and pens to my pages (not once but several times) discouraged me from doing that. I need a new way. Maybe moving the pens, but he is a good climber now. :-/ And if I have to hide stuff, I won't go through the effort of digging it out again. Still, I must find a way. :P

[asakiyume]

Is Ti'Loup at the point where you could have one journal--even just a spiral notebook--that's his for him to draw in, but he mustn't draw in yours? It **is** awkward if your kids want to add their own art to your journal!

Looking forward to those entries as and when you have time to do them.