Big Idea Daily | The Miracle Morning
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The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life Before 8 AMby Hal Elrod |
“Always remember that when you are committed to a life purpose that is bigger than your problems, your problems become relatively insignificant and you will overcome them with ease.”HAL ELROD |
BIG IDEA
Taking Life Head On
FROM THE BOOK“I believe it is crucial for us to embrace the perspective that anything another person has overcome or accomplished is simply evidence that anything—and I mean anything —we need to overcome or want to accomplish is possible for us, no matter what our past or current circumstance.
It begins with accepting total responsibility for every aspect of your life and refusing to blame anyone else. The degree to which you accept responsibility for everything in your life is precisely the degree of personal power you have to change or create anything in your life.”
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Brian's Notes
Step 1.
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We need to take COMPLETE responsibility.
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Challenging things happen. Weird things happen in life. (Like getting hit by a drunk driver head on at 70 mph.) We can’t control that. That’s just part of the deal.
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We CAN, however, choose how we will RESPOND to those challenges.
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As Hal tells us, it all starts with taking absolute responsibility for how we respond to life. Period.
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And I just love the way he describes the fact that anything another person has overcome or accomplished is evidence that WE can overcome and/or accomplish the same things.
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Marcus Aurelius echoes this wisdom. He tells us: “Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for a man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.”
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Joseph Campbell echoes the power of taking our challenges head on as well. He tells us: “There is an important idea in Nietzsche, of Amor fati, the ‘love of your fate,’ which is in fact your life. As he says, if you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing. Furthermore, the more challenging or threatening the situation or context to be assimilated and affirmed, the greater the stature of the person who can achieve it. The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.”
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Here’s to loving our fate, swallowing demons and getting its power and taking life head on!
Big Ideas
01: TAKING LIFE HEAD ON
02: WRITING A GOOD STORY
03: WHY MORNINGS?
04: LIFE S.A.V.E.R.S.
05: S IS FOR SILENCE
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”ALBERT EINSTEIN |
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