Day 2 of Miracle Morning... woke up at 7AM 😑
haideralmosawi  •  17 Apr 2024   •   Â
If you’ve read my previous post on my Miracle Morning challenge (or are familiar with Miracle Morning), then you know 7AM is not when I was supposed to wake up. I was aiming for 5AM, but for some odd reason my alarm wasn’t making a noise loud enough for me to hear it. Even when I woke up my phone said it was snoozing, but when it rang, it was very faint.
Anyways, just because I didn’t wake up at 5AM doesn’t mean I simply get to drop the habits I would like to do in the morning, including this one. I already did 15 squats (trying to ease myself into exercising again) and I’ll meditate, read an affirmation, visualize my success, and read to learn so I can complete the SAVERS habits.
See you tomorrow!
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Yes, definitely need a strong motivator to be that consistent. Tbh I’m faltering these days cos bit tired out from all the early days and daytime work. Sometimes having to accept being inconsistently consistent helps too, for the long game
@tao The first time I did the Miracle Morning was probably around 2016, actually. A friend of mine introduced me to the book, and he’s the one I did the challenge then and doing the challenge with now. There are definitely several factors to making it work. If I don’t improve when I go to sleep I doubt I’ll be able to sustain it for long. Disturbing my wife is also a concern for me, but I have to accept that I will disturb her at some point. We never wake at the same time so someone is bound to disturb the other. 😂
My goal is to either skip some practices or ease into them with time, but to always wake up early. I don’t want to fall for the all-or-nothing approach. And it might be helping that I’m doing this with a friend instead of doing it on my own. It’s too early for me to figure out what I’ll need to make this sustainable, but hopefully I’ll be consistent for a long time and I’d be able to offer insights on how that’s possible for me.
@jasonleow I’m a huge fan of skipping days to maintain long-term consistency vs abandoning our goals when we fail to maintain a perfect streak.
I tried the Miracle Morning in 2016, back when it was a popular book and Hal was doing the usual podcast circuit but didn’t get on with it too well. Like with most things I try, I was inspired and it started well and I felt I was getting something out of it, but I found that getting up that early disturbed my wife too much. Also, I found that my enthusiasm for doing the SAVERS dropped off. Meditating just after you have got up really early is hard! I would also be dropping off by the time I got to the reading part.
I found that getting up and having something to work on much better, coding or writing. As long as I knew before I went to bed exactly what I would be doing in the morning, it would be ok. Otherwise I would get up early, sit in front of the laptop and end up scrolling Reddit, without any definite goal. I assume that’s also how @jasonleow can do it so consistently.