November 10, 2025 • 21 mins
Ever feel your mornings run you instead of the other way around? We’ve been there—work piling up, kids home, routines slipping—until the day we chose a gentler restart. Today we share a candid update on parenting getting easier as kids grow more independent and how that small shift opened the door to rebuilding our inner calm with a practical morning ritual you can actually keep.
We walk through The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod—found through the always-inspiring Kathy Heller—and break down the SAVERS method: Silence, Affirmations, Visualization, Exercise, Reading, and Scribing. No perfection required. We show you how to scale it to five-minute blocks, how to shrink the routine on hard days without breaking it, and why momentum matters more than motivation. You’ll hear how simple practices like a minute of breathing, a single empowering statement, or one page of reading can steady your focus, mood, and confidence.
Along the way, we talk about the people who shape our ceilings—why you truly are the average of your closest five—and how to audit your inputs across friends, feeds, and self-talk. We take aim at self-fulfilling prophecies, fear, and imposter syndrome with practical language shifts and tiny actions that restore agency. If you’ve been waiting for a clean slate or a New Year to start fresh, consider this your nudge: ritual beats resolution, and the best day to begin is the next morning you wake up.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:02):
Hello everyone, this is Still Roses Podcast.
This podcast is created forwomen by women to elevate
women's voices.
I hope everyone is doing very,very well this week so far.
Um I do realize that it's justMonday end of day, but I also
realized that my kids don't haveschool tomorrow.
So after a whole week home,they're all home again tomorrow.
(00:26):
Um, nevertheless, we march on.
I did want to provide an updatebecause I did mention it in one
of the recordings last week thatum that they were gonna be home
and I was nervous about it, andit's very interesting because
when they were younger it wasmuch more intense and it was
much more frightening when theywere home and I had to work
(00:49):
because they obviously needed somuch more attention.
But now um they're moreself-sufficient, it has gotten
easier, thank goodness.
They understand and respect andand you know, get that mommy has
to work, and you know, it itjust wasn't bad.
And I actually thoroughlyenjoyed having them home, which
(01:10):
I again like if you had heard melike years ago, you wouldn't
have heard that coming out of mymouth.
So it's just it's it's such apleasant thing, and you know,
it's funny, well, ironic really,because when they were really
little, people would tell me allthe time oh, just give it time,
you know, give it till whenthey're like eight years old,
(01:31):
seven, eight, it starts to geteasier.
And they were little, they werelike one or two at the time when
people were telling me that, andI remember just wanting to punch
people in the face when theywould say that.
Because I'm like, that's nice,that's in six years.
How is that helping me now?
But again, survived it, made itthrough to the other side, and
now I can actually also be oneof those annoying people that
says gets easier when they getolder.
(01:52):
I annoy my stepdaughter withthat comment.
Um, I wanted to revisitsomething with you guys that I
have talked about before.
So um, I I've talked aboutmeditation before affirmations,
I've talked about how key andcrucial this is to really my
well-being and development andmy family and everything in our
house.
(02:12):
Like this is key.
This is the big success keyhere.
Um one of the things that I dowhen I'm off track, which
happens, I got off track withmeditating um in May of this
year.
Um, I was very busy with work.
I j I just lost everything.
I really and I did, honestly, Idid.
(02:34):
I lost everything for a solidlike six weeks, and then I
couldn't get it back, and itjust took me a long time to get
back into the rhythm.
So one of the things that I didmost recently, because I'm only
just getting back on track now,um, is I revisited the miracle
morning.
So this is a book by Hal Elrod.
I heard about Hal, Hal's book,um, through Kathy Heller.
(02:58):
So Kathy Heller is a podcaster,but she's also this really
tremendous woman who givesguidance and insight and
basically a second life to many,many people, not just women.
Um, she hosts virtual seminarsand summits.
She does things live out inCalifornia and Florida.
(03:21):
Actually, she does it in acouple locations.
It's not just um West Coast,it's East Coast too.
And, you know, she Kathy Hellerwas one of these people that she
changed my whole life.
And I'll I'll talk more indetail about that on another
episode.
But this one, um, so I found outabout Hal through Kathy because
she she interviewed him on herpodcast.
Um, so his book is called TheMiracle Morning, and in the
(03:42):
book, he talks about he'd gonethrough these really horrible
downturns in his life.
He um was in he was at the high,you know, he had just started a
career in sales and he was atlike, you know, peaking really.
He was doing really, really wellin his early 20s.
Gets in this horrendous caraccident.
He's making more money than hecould ever think of in his life.
Then he ends up getting intothis, he was out giving a speech
(04:05):
at a conference, basically highon life, driving home, like just
thrilled that he was just atthis big thing making an
impression of people, and heends up in a head-on collision
with a vehicle, loses theability to walk, and he's told
he most likely will not be ableto walk again unassisted.
He beats this.
(04:27):
Then he has another one where itwas the 2008 recession, loses
everything.
Like, so he talks about thisvery briefly, by the way.
He doesn't really go like deepand hard onto those because that
those were like the catalystmoments.
So I don't know if you guys haveheard this before, but the human
being, the human beings that weare in the human race, we only
(04:52):
reach our greatest points whenwe are on the precipice of
something really big changingand and disrupting, and
something that's like soabrasive that we're forced to
make a definitive decision.
We cannot drag our feet.
Being a mother, for example,once you have a child, that's
it, you never go back.
(05:13):
But all jokes aside, there arepivotal moments in your life
that will push you into the nextpivotal moment and pivotal, like
you know, years of your life.
This is what happened to him.
So through his story, heeventually um develops this
thing called the miraclemorning.
And the what what it is is theyuse this method called savers,
and savors stands for let me seeif I can remember it: silence,
(05:36):
affirmations, visualization,exercise, reading, and scribing.
Sounds like a lot, but it's not.
So the way the book isstructured, you can you're
supposed to be doing miraclewarning.
You're supposed to get upearlier in the day and go
through the routine of silencebeing meditation, affirmations,
(05:57):
visualiz visualizing, and so onand so forth.
Exercise, reading, scribing,scribing is journaling.
Now, you might hear that like,well, I can't do that.
That sounds crazy.
That's what they say in thebook, too.
Guess what?
Lots of people feel that way.
But if you look it up, a lot ofpeople employ this method, and
the way Hal describes is you cando it for 20 minutes per thing,
(06:20):
you can do it for five minutesper thing, as long as you do it,
as long as you take a minute toelevate yourself every single
day.
Doesn't matter if it was onlyfive minutes, it doesn't matter
if it was like an hour.
I mean, clearly an hour isbetter, but you get my gist,
right?
So there's some quotes in thisbook that I wanted to highlight
for you today, which were likereally interesting, and I
highlighted them the first timeI went around, and now this is
(06:42):
my third or fourth time goingaround this book.
Um, so I'm using it to reallyreinvigorate myself and get
myself back on track.
Um, one of the quotes, let's seehere, you are the average of the
five people you spend the mosttime with.
I think that's a common one,right?
Um, that one's Jim Ron saidthat.
(07:03):
And it makes sense if you lookat your social circle and you
look at the people around you,if you're incredibly unhappy
with who you are as a person, orif you're incredibly unhappy
with your life, if you lookaround at the people that you've
been socializing with or thatyou're surrounding yourself
with, not even socializing, butwell, socializing too, but if
you look at the people that youspend the most time with, are
(07:26):
they successful people?
Are they on the right path?
Are they encouraging you to dothe right thing?
Are these people really having agood influence or a bad
influence?
Are they bringing you down intotheir pits and dips and lows, or
are they helping to elevate youbecause they're also on a
positive path forward?
These are the things that youknow I've talked with my kids
about too, that like you have toselect friends that are really
(07:50):
showing up for you.
Because if you're really showingup for people, you want them to
reciprocate that.
But on a higher elevated note,you also want people that are on
the same wavelength as you.
If you are with a bunch ofpeople that are being lazy and
just, you know, no offense toanybody out there.
But if you're with a bunch ofpeople that are lazy, eat
poorly, don't work out, drinkall the time, you know, like
(08:12):
really aren't goal-oriented,like, chances are that's gonna
rub off on you becauseeverything around you seems
like, oh, this is fine.
They're all right.
Are they though?
You're gonna feel it eventually.
So, really, it's one of thosethings like take a look at who
you're with.
This other one I thought wasgood.
Um, it is often said that miseryloves company, but so does media
mediocrity.
Don't let the fears,insecurities, and limiting
(08:35):
beliefs of others limit what'spossible for you.
I'm pausing because I think thatthis is something that we all
deal with.
Now, if you think about it, um,I remember when I was very
young, um, I had I was veryinterested in psychology, and so
(08:55):
I had read something um aboutself-fulfilling prophecies.
You basically areself-fulfilling a prophecy.
Well, you'll say, like, well, Inever I never do this.
I never, I never, I never dobetter than this.
I'm never gonna get, I'm nevergonna achieve this.
I'm never gonna buy a house.
I'm never going to get a newcar.
(09:15):
I'm never gonna have a job thatpays well enough.
If you keep talking like that,no, you never will.
There's always a way.
Where there's a will, there's away.
That's so cheesy, but it's soflippin' true.
Um fear and insecurity arethings that I battle with on a
regular basis, almost everysingle day.
(09:36):
And I think I've said that toyou guys too, where um I have to
battle imposter syndrome everysingle day.
I don't know why it happens, andevery single day at night I have
to talk myself down and tell meI'm okay and put myself to bed
because I am okay.
There's nothing bad.
Like I'm doing really well, andI'm happy to be able to make a
good impression on people.
(09:57):
I'm happy to help the people onmy team.
So it's one of those thingsthat's like if you really step
back, you recognize what it is.
You recognize that it's notreal, you recognize that the
feelings aren't real, and thenyou can get past them.
I do this with fear, I do itwith depression, I do it with
anxiety.
It takes a hell of a lot ofbrain power to step back and
(10:17):
understand that what you'relooking at is not real, and to
say to yourself, like, you'reokay, this is okay, we just
gotta get through this moment.
It is what it is.
So strong recommend if you havethe time to pick up the miracle
morning.
It's it's just one of thosethings.
And honestly, Hal mentions awhole bunch of people in this
(10:38):
book.
There's a lot of things that hetalks about that I've read in
other books.
There's a whole grouping ofpeople out there that are really
invigorating this movement, andit's gonna make all of us
better.
It is the biggest thing you cando to change your life.
I know New Year's resolutionsare on the horizon for a lot of
people, even though I don't lovethem and I don't do them myself.
Um, but if they're on your listand you think you want to do
(11:00):
something really big, this isit.
Guess what?
You don't have to wait for NewYear's for it.
You can get it right now.
Um, I hope you found thisepisode informative.
I am a day late in a dollarshort this week.
Um, a little bit hectic, but Iam gonna make sure I'm getting
you some episodes.
Uh, thank you for being with metoday, and I will catch you on
the next one.
Take care.
(11:23):
Hello everyone, this is StillRose's Podcast.
This podcast was created forwomen by women to elevate
women's voices.
I hope everyone is doing very,very well this week so far.
I do realize that it's justMonday end of day, but I also
realized that my kids don't haveschool tomorrow, so after a
whole week home, they're allhome again tomorrow.
(11:43):
Nevertheless, we march on.
I did want to provide an updatebecause I did mention it in one
of the recordings last week thatthat they were gonna be home and
I was nervous about it, and it'svery interesting because when
they were younger it was muchmore intense and it was much
more frightening when they werehome and I had to work because
they obviously needed so muchmore attention.
(12:04):
But now they're moreself-sufficient, it has gotten
easier than goodness.
They understand and respect andand you know get that mommy has
to work, and you know, it itjust wasn't bad.
And I actually thoroughlyenjoyed having them home.
Which I again, like if you hadheard me like years ago, you
wouldn't have heard that comingout of my mouth.
(12:26):
So it's just it's it's such apleasant thing, and you know,
it's funny, well, ironic really,because when they were really
little, people would tell me allthe time, Oh, just give it time,
you know, give it till whenthey're like eight years old,
seven, eight, it starts to geteasier.
And they were little, they werelike one or two at the time when
people were telling me that, andI remember just wanting to punch
people in the face when theywould say that.
(12:47):
Because I'm like, that's nice,that's in six years.
How is that helping me now?
But again, survived it, made itthrough to the other side, and
now I can actually also be oneof those annoying people that
says gets easier when they getolder.
I annoy my stepdaughter withthat comment.
I wanted to revisit somethingwith you guys that I have talked
about before.
So I talked about meditationbefore affirmations, I've talked
(13:08):
about how key and crucial thisis to really my well-being and
development, and my family, andeverything in our house.
Like, this is key.
This is the big success keyhere.
One of the things that I do whenI'm off track, which happens, I
got off track with meditating inMay of this year.
Um, I was very busy with work, Ijust lost everything.
I really and I did, honestly, Idid.
(13:30):
I lost everything for a solidlike six weeks, and then I
couldn't get it back, and itjust took me a long time to get
back into the rhythm.
So, one of the things that I didmost recently, because I'm only
just getting back on track now,is I revisited the miracle
morning.
So, this is a book by Hal Elrod.
I heard about Hal, Hal's book,through Kathy Heller.
(13:50):
So, Kathy Heller is a podcaster,but she's also this really
tremendous woman who givesguidance and insight and
basically a second life to many,many people, not just women.
She hosts virtual seminars andsummits.
She does things live out inCalifornia and Florida.
(14:11):
Actually, she does it on acouple occasions.
It's not just um West Coast,it's East Coast too.
And you know, she Kathy Hellerwas one of these people that she
changed my whole life.
And I'll I'll talk more indetail about that on another
episode.
But this one, um, so I found outabout Hal through Kathy because
she she interviewed him on herpodcast.
So his book is called TheMiracle Morning, and in the
book, he talks about he'd gonethrough these really horrible
(14:34):
downturns in his life.
He um was in he was at the high,you know, he had just started a
career in sales and he was atlike, you know, peaking really.
He was doing really, really wellin his early 20s.
Gets in this horrendous caraccident.
He's making more money than hecould ever think of in his life.
Then he ends up getting intothis, he was out giving a speech
at a conference, basically highon life, driving home, like just
(14:58):
thrilled that he was just atthis big thing making an
impression of people, and heends up in a head-on collision
with a vehicle, loses theability to walk.
And he's told he most likelywill not be able to walk again
unassisted.
He beats this.
Then he has another one where itwas a 2008 recession, loses
(15:19):
everything.
Like, so he talks about thisvery briefly, by the way.
He doesn't really go like deepand hard onto those because that
those were like the catalystmoments.
So I don't know if you guys haveheard this before, but the human
being, the human beings that weare in the ri human race, we
only reach our greatest pointswhen we are on the precipice of
(15:43):
something really big changingand and disrupting, and
something that's like soabrasive that we're forced to
make a definitive decision.
We cannot drag our feet.
Being a mother, for example,once you have a child, that's
it, you never go back.
But all jokes aside, there arepivotal moments in your life
that will push you into the nextpivotal moment and pivotal, like
(16:07):
you know, years of your life.
This is what happened to him.
So through his story, heeventually um develops this
thing called the miraclemorning.
And the what what it is is theyuse this method called savors,
and savors stands for let me seeif I can remember it: silence,
affirmations, visualization,exercise, reading, and scribing.
(16:28):
Sounds like a lot, but it's not.
So the way the book isstructured, you can you're
supposed to be doing miraclewarning.
You're supposed to get upearlier in the day and go
through the routine of silencebeing meditation, affirmations,
visualiz visualizing, and so onand so forth.
Exercise, reading, scribing.
(16:48):
Scribing is journaling.
Now, you might hear that and belike, Well, I can't do that.
That sounds crazy.
That's what they say in thebook, too.
Guess what?
Lots of people feel that way.
But if you look it up, a lot ofpeople employ this method.
And the way Hal describes is youcan do it for 20 minutes per
thing, you can do it for fiveminutes per thing, as long as
you do it, as long as you take aminute to elevate yourself every
(17:10):
single day.
Doesn't matter if it was onlyfive minutes, it doesn't matter
if it was like an hour.
I mean, clearly an hour isbetter, but you get my gist,
right?
So there's some quotes in thisbook that I wanted to highlight
for you today, which were likereally interesting.
And I highlighted them the firsttime I went around, and now this
is my third or fourth time goingaround this book, so I'm using
it to really reinvigorate myselfand get myself back on track.
(17:32):
One of the quotes, let's seehere.
You are the average of the fivepeople you spend the most time
with.
I think that's a common one,right?
Um, that one's Jim Ron saidthat.
And it makes sense if you lookat your social circle and you
look at the people around you,if you're incredibly unhappy
with who you are as a person orif you're incredibly unhappy
(17:54):
with your life, if you lookaround at the people that you've
been socializing with or thatyou're surrounding yourself
with, not even socializing, butwell, socializing too, but if
you look at the people that youspend the most time with, are
they successful people?
Are they on the right path?
Are they encouraging you to dothe right thing?
Are these people really having agood influence or a bad
influence?
Are they bringing you down intotheir pits and dips and lows, or
(18:16):
are they helping to elevate youbecause they're also on a
positive path forward?
These are the things that, youknow, I've talked with my kids
about too, that like you have toselect friends that are really
showing up for you.
Because if you're really showingup for people, you want them to
reciprocate that.
But on a higher elevated note,you also want people that are on
the same wavelength as you.
(18:37):
If you are with a bunch ofpeople that are being lazy and
just, you know, no offense toanybody out there.
But if you're with a bunch ofpeople that are lazy, eat
poorly, don't work out, drinkall the time, you know, like
really aren't goal-oriented,like, chances are that's gonna
rub off on you becauseeverything around you seems
like, oh, this is fine.
They're alright.
Are they though?
You're gonna feel it eventually.
(18:58):
So, really, it's one of thosethings like take a look at who
you're with.
This other one I thought wasgood.
It is often said that miseryloves company, but so does media
mediocrity.
Don't let the fears,insecurities, and limiting
beliefs of others limit what'spossible for you.
I'm pausing because I think thatthis is something that we all
deal with.
Now, if you think about it, um,I remember when I was very
(19:20):
young, I was very interested inpsychology, and so I had read
something about self-fulfillingprophecies.
You basically areself-fulfilling a prophecy.
Well, you'll say, like, well, Inever I never do this.
I never, I never, I never dobetter than this.
I'm never gonna get, I'm nevergonna achieve this.
I'm never gonna buy a house.
(19:40):
I'm never going to get a newcar.
I'm never gonna have a job thatpays well enough.
If you keep talking like that,no, you never will.
There's always a way.
Where there's a will, there's away.
That's so cheesy, but it's soflippin' true.
Um, fear and insecurity arethings that I battle with on a
regular basis, almost everysingle day.
(20:01):
And I think I've said that toyou guys too, where um I have to
battle imposter syndrome everysingle day.
I don't know why it happens, butit does happen.
And every single day at night Ihave to talk myself down and
tell me I'm okay and put myselfto bed because I am okay.
There's nothing bad.
Like I'm doing really well, andI'm happy to be able to make a
(20:22):
good impression on people.
I'm happy to help the people onmy team.
So it's one of those thingsthat's like if you really step
back, you recognize what it is.
You recognize that it's notreal, you recognize that the
feelings aren't real, and thenyou can get past them.
I do this with fear, I do itwith depression, I do it with
anxiety.
It takes a hell of a lot ofbrain power to step back and
(20:44):
understand that what you'relooking at is not real, and to
say to yourself, like, you'reokay, this is okay, we just
gotta get through this moment.
It is what it is.
So, strong recommend if you havethe time to pick up the miracle
morning.
It's it's just one of thosethings.
And honestly, Hal mentions awhole bunch of people in this
(21:05):
book.
There's a lot of things that hetalks about that I've read in
other books.
There's a whole grouping ofpeople out there that are really
invigorating this movement, andit's gonna make all of us
better.
It is the biggest thing you cando to change your life.
I know New Year's resolutionsare on the horizon for a lot of
people, even though I don't lovethem and I don't do them myself.
But if they're on your list andyou think you want to do
(21:26):
something really big, this isit.
Guess what?
You don't have to wait for NewYear's for it.
You can get it right now.
Um, I hope you found thisepisode informative.
I am a day late in a dollarshort this week, a little bit
hectic, but I am gonna make sureI'm getting you some episodes.
Uh, thank you for being with metoday, and I will catch you on
the next one.
Take care.
Hello everyone, this is Still Roses Podcast.
This podcast is created forwomen by women to elevate
women's voices.
I hope everyone is doing very,very well this week so far.
Um I do realize that it's justMonday end of day, but I also
realized that my kids don't haveschool tomorrow.
So after a whole week home,they're all home again tomorrow.
(00:26):
Um, nevertheless, we march on.
I did want to provide an updatebecause I did mention it in one
of the recordings last week thatum that they were gonna be home
and I was nervous about it, andit's very interesting because
when they were younger it wasmuch more intense and it was
much more frightening when theywere home and I had to work
(00:49):
because they obviously needed somuch more attention.
But now um they're moreself-sufficient, it has gotten
easier, thank goodness.
They understand and respect andand you know, get that mommy has
to work, and you know, it itjust wasn't bad.
And I actually thoroughlyenjoyed having them home, which
(01:10):
I again like if you had heard melike years ago, you wouldn't
have heard that coming out of mymouth.
So it's just it's it's such apleasant thing, and you know,
it's funny, well, ironic really,because when they were really
little, people would tell me allthe time oh, just give it time,
you know, give it till whenthey're like eight years old,
(01:31):
seven, eight, it starts to geteasier.
And they were little, they werelike one or two at the time when
people were telling me that, andI remember just wanting to punch
people in the face when theywould say that.
Because I'm like, that's nice,that's in six years.
How is that helping me now?
But again, survived it, made itthrough to the other side, and
now I can actually also be oneof those annoying people that
says gets easier when they getolder.
(01:52):
I annoy my stepdaughter withthat comment.
Um, I wanted to revisitsomething with you guys that I
have talked about before.
So um, I I've talked aboutmeditation before affirmations,
I've talked about how key andcrucial this is to really my
well-being and development andmy family and everything in our
house.
(02:12):
Like this is key.
This is the big success keyhere.
Um one of the things that I dowhen I'm off track, which
happens, I got off track withmeditating um in May of this
year.
Um, I was very busy with work.
I j I just lost everything.
I really and I did, honestly, Idid.
(02:34):
I lost everything for a solidlike six weeks, and then I
couldn't get it back, and itjust took me a long time to get
back into the rhythm.
So one of the things that I didmost recently, because I'm only
just getting back on track now,um, is I revisited the miracle
morning.
So this is a book by Hal Elrod.
I heard about Hal, Hal's book,um, through Kathy Heller.
(02:58):
So Kathy Heller is a podcaster,but she's also this really
tremendous woman who givesguidance and insight and
basically a second life to many,many people, not just women.
Um, she hosts virtual seminarsand summits.
She does things live out inCalifornia and Florida.
(03:21):
Actually, she does it in acouple locations.
It's not just um West Coast,it's East Coast too.
And, you know, she Kathy Hellerwas one of these people that she
changed my whole life.
And I'll I'll talk more indetail about that on another
episode.
But this one, um, so I found outabout Hal through Kathy because
she she interviewed him on herpodcast.
Um, so his book is called TheMiracle Morning, and in the
(03:42):
book, he talks about he'd gonethrough these really horrible
downturns in his life.
He um was in he was at the high,you know, he had just started a
career in sales and he was atlike, you know, peaking really.
He was doing really, really wellin his early 20s.
Gets in this horrendous caraccident.
He's making more money than hecould ever think of in his life.
Then he ends up getting intothis, he was out giving a speech
(04:05):
at a conference, basically highon life, driving home, like just
thrilled that he was just atthis big thing making an
impression of people, and heends up in a head-on collision
with a vehicle, loses theability to walk, and he's told
he most likely will not be ableto walk again unassisted.
He beats this.
(04:27):
Then he has another one where itwas the 2008 recession, loses
everything.
Like, so he talks about thisvery briefly, by the way.
He doesn't really go like deepand hard onto those because that
those were like the catalystmoments.
So I don't know if you guys haveheard this before, but the human
being, the human beings that weare in the human race, we only
(04:52):
reach our greatest points whenwe are on the precipice of
something really big changingand and disrupting, and
something that's like soabrasive that we're forced to
make a definitive decision.
We cannot drag our feet.
Being a mother, for example,once you have a child, that's
it, you never go back.
(05:13):
But all jokes aside, there arepivotal moments in your life
that will push you into the nextpivotal moment and pivotal, like
you know, years of your life.
This is what happened to him.
So through his story, heeventually um develops this
thing called the miraclemorning.
And the what what it is is theyuse this method called savers,
and savors stands for let me seeif I can remember it: silence,
(05:36):
affirmations, visualization,exercise, reading, and scribing.
Sounds like a lot, but it's not.
So the way the book isstructured, you can you're
supposed to be doing miraclewarning.
You're supposed to get upearlier in the day and go
through the routine of silencebeing meditation, affirmations,
(05:57):
visualiz visualizing, and so onand so forth.
Exercise, reading, scribing,scribing is journaling.
Now, you might hear that like,well, I can't do that.
That sounds crazy.
That's what they say in thebook, too.
Guess what?
Lots of people feel that way.
But if you look it up, a lot ofpeople employ this method, and
the way Hal describes is you cando it for 20 minutes per thing,
(06:20):
you can do it for five minutesper thing, as long as you do it,
as long as you take a minute toelevate yourself every single
day.
Doesn't matter if it was onlyfive minutes, it doesn't matter
if it was like an hour.
I mean, clearly an hour isbetter, but you get my gist,
right?
So there's some quotes in thisbook that I wanted to highlight
for you today, which were likereally interesting, and I
highlighted them the first timeI went around, and now this is
(06:42):
my third or fourth time goingaround this book.
Um, so I'm using it to reallyreinvigorate myself and get
myself back on track.
Um, one of the quotes, let's seehere, you are the average of the
five people you spend the mosttime with.
I think that's a common one,right?
Um, that one's Jim Ron saidthat.
(07:03):
And it makes sense if you lookat your social circle and you
look at the people around you,if you're incredibly unhappy
with who you are as a person, orif you're incredibly unhappy
with your life, if you lookaround at the people that you've
been socializing with or thatyou're surrounding yourself
with, not even socializing, butwell, socializing too, but if
you look at the people that youspend the most time with, are
(07:26):
they successful people?
Are they on the right path?
Are they encouraging you to dothe right thing?
Are these people really having agood influence or a bad
influence?
Are they bringing you down intotheir pits and dips and lows, or
are they helping to elevate youbecause they're also on a
positive path forward?
These are the things that youknow I've talked with my kids
about too, that like you have toselect friends that are really
(07:50):
showing up for you.
Because if you're really showingup for people, you want them to
reciprocate that.
But on a higher elevated note,you also want people that are on
the same wavelength as you.
If you are with a bunch ofpeople that are being lazy and
just, you know, no offense toanybody out there.
But if you're with a bunch ofpeople that are lazy, eat
poorly, don't work out, drinkall the time, you know, like
(08:12):
really aren't goal-oriented,like, chances are that's gonna
rub off on you becauseeverything around you seems
like, oh, this is fine.
They're all right.
Are they though?
You're gonna feel it eventually.
So, really, it's one of thosethings like take a look at who
you're with.
This other one I thought wasgood.
Um, it is often said that miseryloves company, but so does media
mediocrity.
Don't let the fears,insecurities, and limiting
(08:35):
beliefs of others limit what'spossible for you.
I'm pausing because I think thatthis is something that we all
deal with.
Now, if you think about it, um,I remember when I was very
young, um, I had I was veryinterested in psychology, and so
(08:55):
I had read something um aboutself-fulfilling prophecies.
You basically areself-fulfilling a prophecy.
Well, you'll say, like, well, Inever I never do this.
I never, I never, I never dobetter than this.
I'm never gonna get, I'm nevergonna achieve this.
I'm never gonna buy a house.
I'm never going to get a newcar.
(09:15):
I'm never gonna have a job thatpays well enough.
If you keep talking like that,no, you never will.
There's always a way.
Where there's a will, there's away.
That's so cheesy, but it's soflippin' true.
Um fear and insecurity arethings that I battle with on a
regular basis, almost everysingle day.
(09:36):
And I think I've said that toyou guys too, where um I have to
battle imposter syndrome everysingle day.
I don't know why it happens, andevery single day at night I have
to talk myself down and tell meI'm okay and put myself to bed
because I am okay.
There's nothing bad.
Like I'm doing really well, andI'm happy to be able to make a
good impression on people.
(09:57):
I'm happy to help the people onmy team.
So it's one of those thingsthat's like if you really step
back, you recognize what it is.
You recognize that it's notreal, you recognize that the
feelings aren't real, and thenyou can get past them.
I do this with fear, I do itwith depression, I do it with
anxiety.
It takes a hell of a lot ofbrain power to step back and
(10:17):
understand that what you'relooking at is not real, and to
say to yourself, like, you'reokay, this is okay, we just
gotta get through this moment.
It is what it is.
So strong recommend if you havethe time to pick up the miracle
morning.
It's it's just one of thosethings.
And honestly, Hal mentions awhole bunch of people in this
(10:38):
book.
There's a lot of things that hetalks about that I've read in
other books.
There's a whole grouping ofpeople out there that are really
invigorating this movement, andit's gonna make all of us
better.
It is the biggest thing you cando to change your life.
I know New Year's resolutionsare on the horizon for a lot of
people, even though I don't lovethem and I don't do them myself.
Um, but if they're on your listand you think you want to do
(11:00):
something really big, this isit.
Guess what?
You don't have to wait for NewYear's for it.
You can get it right now.
Um, I hope you found thisepisode informative.
I am a day late in a dollarshort this week.
Um, a little bit hectic, but Iam gonna make sure I'm getting
you some episodes.
Uh, thank you for being with metoday, and I will catch you on
the next one.
Take care.
(11:23):
Hello everyone, this is StillRose's Podcast.
This podcast was created forwomen by women to elevate
women's voices.
I hope everyone is doing very,very well this week so far.
I do realize that it's justMonday end of day, but I also
realized that my kids don't haveschool tomorrow, so after a
whole week home, they're allhome again tomorrow.
(11:43):
Nevertheless, we march on.
I did want to provide an updatebecause I did mention it in one
of the recordings last week thatthat they were gonna be home and
I was nervous about it, and it'svery interesting because when
they were younger it was muchmore intense and it was much
more frightening when they werehome and I had to work because
they obviously needed so muchmore attention.
(12:04):
But now they're moreself-sufficient, it has gotten
easier than goodness.
They understand and respect andand you know get that mommy has
to work, and you know, it itjust wasn't bad.
And I actually thoroughlyenjoyed having them home.
Which I again, like if you hadheard me like years ago, you
wouldn't have heard that comingout of my mouth.
(12:26):
So it's just it's it's such apleasant thing, and you know,
it's funny, well, ironic really,because when they were really
little, people would tell me allthe time, Oh, just give it time,
you know, give it till whenthey're like eight years old,
seven, eight, it starts to geteasier.
And they were little, they werelike one or two at the time when
people were telling me that, andI remember just wanting to punch
people in the face when theywould say that.
(12:47):
Because I'm like, that's nice,that's in six years.
How is that helping me now?
But again, survived it, made itthrough to the other side, and
now I can actually also be oneof those annoying people that
says gets easier when they getolder.
I annoy my stepdaughter withthat comment.
I wanted to revisit somethingwith you guys that I have talked
about before.
So I talked about meditationbefore affirmations, I've talked
(13:08):
about how key and crucial thisis to really my well-being and
development, and my family, andeverything in our house.
Like, this is key.
This is the big success keyhere.
One of the things that I do whenI'm off track, which happens, I
got off track with meditating inMay of this year.
Um, I was very busy with work, Ijust lost everything.
I really and I did, honestly, Idid.
(13:30):
I lost everything for a solidlike six weeks, and then I
couldn't get it back, and itjust took me a long time to get
back into the rhythm.
So, one of the things that I didmost recently, because I'm only
just getting back on track now,is I revisited the miracle
morning.
So, this is a book by Hal Elrod.
I heard about Hal, Hal's book,through Kathy Heller.
(13:50):
So, Kathy Heller is a podcaster,but she's also this really
tremendous woman who givesguidance and insight and
basically a second life to many,many people, not just women.
She hosts virtual seminars andsummits.
She does things live out inCalifornia and Florida.
(14:11):
Actually, she does it on acouple occasions.
It's not just um West Coast,it's East Coast too.
And you know, she Kathy Hellerwas one of these people that she
changed my whole life.
And I'll I'll talk more indetail about that on another
episode.
But this one, um, so I found outabout Hal through Kathy because
she she interviewed him on herpodcast.
So his book is called TheMiracle Morning, and in the
book, he talks about he'd gonethrough these really horrible
(14:34):
downturns in his life.
He um was in he was at the high,you know, he had just started a
career in sales and he was atlike, you know, peaking really.
He was doing really, really wellin his early 20s.
Gets in this horrendous caraccident.
He's making more money than hecould ever think of in his life.
Then he ends up getting intothis, he was out giving a speech
at a conference, basically highon life, driving home, like just
(14:58):
thrilled that he was just atthis big thing making an
impression of people, and heends up in a head-on collision
with a vehicle, loses theability to walk.
And he's told he most likelywill not be able to walk again
unassisted.
He beats this.
Then he has another one where itwas a 2008 recession, loses
(15:19):
everything.
Like, so he talks about thisvery briefly, by the way.
He doesn't really go like deepand hard onto those because that
those were like the catalystmoments.
So I don't know if you guys haveheard this before, but the human
being, the human beings that weare in the ri human race, we
only reach our greatest pointswhen we are on the precipice of
(15:43):
something really big changingand and disrupting, and
something that's like soabrasive that we're forced to
make a definitive decision.
We cannot drag our feet.
Being a mother, for example,once you have a child, that's
it, you never go back.
But all jokes aside, there arepivotal moments in your life
that will push you into the nextpivotal moment and pivotal, like
(16:07):
you know, years of your life.
This is what happened to him.
So through his story, heeventually um develops this
thing called the miraclemorning.
And the what what it is is theyuse this method called savors,
and savors stands for let me seeif I can remember it: silence,
affirmations, visualization,exercise, reading, and scribing.
(16:28):
Sounds like a lot, but it's not.
So the way the book isstructured, you can you're
supposed to be doing miraclewarning.
You're supposed to get upearlier in the day and go
through the routine of silencebeing meditation, affirmations,
visualiz visualizing, and so onand so forth.
Exercise, reading, scribing.
(16:48):
Scribing is journaling.
Now, you might hear that and belike, Well, I can't do that.
That sounds crazy.
That's what they say in thebook, too.
Guess what?
Lots of people feel that way.
But if you look it up, a lot ofpeople employ this method.
And the way Hal describes is youcan do it for 20 minutes per
thing, you can do it for fiveminutes per thing, as long as
you do it, as long as you take aminute to elevate yourself every
(17:10):
single day.
Doesn't matter if it was onlyfive minutes, it doesn't matter
if it was like an hour.
I mean, clearly an hour isbetter, but you get my gist,
right?
So there's some quotes in thisbook that I wanted to highlight
for you today, which were likereally interesting.
And I highlighted them the firsttime I went around, and now this
is my third or fourth time goingaround this book, so I'm using
it to really reinvigorate myselfand get myself back on track.
(17:32):
One of the quotes, let's seehere.
You are the average of the fivepeople you spend the most time
with.
I think that's a common one,right?
Um, that one's Jim Ron saidthat.
And it makes sense if you lookat your social circle and you
look at the people around you,if you're incredibly unhappy
with who you are as a person orif you're incredibly unhappy
(17:54):
with your life, if you lookaround at the people that you've
been socializing with or thatyou're surrounding yourself
with, not even socializing, butwell, socializing too, but if
you look at the people that youspend the most time with, are
they successful people?
Are they on the right path?
Are they encouraging you to dothe right thing?
Are these people really having agood influence or a bad
influence?
Are they bringing you down intotheir pits and dips and lows, or
(18:16):
are they helping to elevate youbecause they're also on a
positive path forward?
These are the things that, youknow, I've talked with my kids
about too, that like you have toselect friends that are really
showing up for you.
Because if you're really showingup for people, you want them to
reciprocate that.
But on a higher elevated note,you also want people that are on
the same wavelength as you.
(18:37):
If you are with a bunch ofpeople that are being lazy and
just, you know, no offense toanybody out there.
But if you're with a bunch ofpeople that are lazy, eat
poorly, don't work out, drinkall the time, you know, like
really aren't goal-oriented,like, chances are that's gonna
rub off on you becauseeverything around you seems
like, oh, this is fine.
They're alright.
Are they though?
You're gonna feel it eventually.
(18:58):
So, really, it's one of thosethings like take a look at who
you're with.
This other one I thought wasgood.
It is often said that miseryloves company, but so does media
mediocrity.
Don't let the fears,insecurities, and limiting
beliefs of others limit what'spossible for you.
I'm pausing because I think thatthis is something that we all
deal with.
Now, if you think about it, um,I remember when I was very
(19:20):
young, I was very interested inpsychology, and so I had read
something about self-fulfillingprophecies.
You basically areself-fulfilling a prophecy.
Well, you'll say, like, well, Inever I never do this.
I never, I never, I never dobetter than this.
I'm never gonna get, I'm nevergonna achieve this.
I'm never gonna buy a house.
(19:40):
I'm never going to get a newcar.
I'm never gonna have a job thatpays well enough.
If you keep talking like that,no, you never will.
There's always a way.
Where there's a will, there's away.
That's so cheesy, but it's soflippin' true.
Um, fear and insecurity arethings that I battle with on a
regular basis, almost everysingle day.
(20:01):
And I think I've said that toyou guys too, where um I have to
battle imposter syndrome everysingle day.
I don't know why it happens, butit does happen.
And every single day at night Ihave to talk myself down and
tell me I'm okay and put myselfto bed because I am okay.
There's nothing bad.
Like I'm doing really well, andI'm happy to be able to make a
(20:22):
good impression on people.
I'm happy to help the people onmy team.
So it's one of those thingsthat's like if you really step
back, you recognize what it is.
You recognize that it's notreal, you recognize that the
feelings aren't real, and thenyou can get past them.
I do this with fear, I do itwith depression, I do it with
anxiety.
It takes a hell of a lot ofbrain power to step back and
(20:44):
understand that what you'relooking at is not real, and to
say to yourself, like, you'reokay, this is okay, we just
gotta get through this moment.
It is what it is.
So, strong recommend if you havethe time to pick up the miracle
morning.
It's it's just one of thosethings.
And honestly, Hal mentions awhole bunch of people in this
(21:05):
book.
There's a lot of things that hetalks about that I've read in
other books.
There's a whole grouping ofpeople out there that are really
invigorating this movement, andit's gonna make all of us
better.
It is the biggest thing you cando to change your life.
I know New Year's resolutionsare on the horizon for a lot of
people, even though I don't lovethem and I don't do them myself.
But if they're on your list andyou think you want to do
(21:26):
something really big, this isit.
Guess what?
You don't have to wait for NewYear's for it.
You can get it right now.
Um, I hope you found thisepisode informative.
I am a day late in a dollarshort this week, a little bit
hectic, but I am gonna make sureI'm getting you some episodes.
Uh, thank you for being with metoday, and I will catch you on
the next one.
Take care.
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