Hal Elrod - The Miracle Morning for Writers: How to Build a Writing Ritual That Increases Your Impact and Your Income (Before 8AM)

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THE MIRACLE MORNING FOR WRITERS

Hal Elrod & Steve Scott

with Honore Corder

Copyright 2016 by Hal Elrod International, Inc. All rights reserved.

Cover Copyright 2016 by Hal Elrod International, Inc.

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A SPECIAL INVITATION FROM HAL

Fans and readers of The Miracle Morning make up an extraordinary community of like-minded individuals who wake up each day dedicated to fulfilling the unlimited potential that is within all of us. As the author of The Miracle Morning, it was my desire to create an online space where readers and fans could go to connect, get encouragement, share best practices, support one another, discuss the book, post videos, find an accountability partner, and even swap smoothie recipes and exercise routines.

I honestly had no idea that The Miracle Morning Community would become one of the most inspiring, engaged, and supportive online communities in the world, but it has. Im blown away by the caliber of our 40,000+ members, which consists of people from all around the globe and is growing daily.

Just go to www.MyTMMCommunity.com and request to join The Miracle Morning Community (on Facebook). Here youll be able to connect with others who are already practicing The Miracle Morningmany of whom have been doing it for yearsto get additional support and accelerate your success.

Ill be moderating the community and checking in regularly. I look forward to seeing you there!

If youd like to connect with me personally on social media, follow @HalElrod on Twitter and Facebook.com/YoPalHal on Facebook. Please feel free to send me a direct message, leave a comment, or ask me a question. I do my best to answer every single one, so lets connect soon!

DEDICATION

HAL

To the writers, may your words improve the world in ways you have yet to even imagine.

STEVE

This book is dedicated to the five most important people in my life whom I love more than words can say.

To mom, thanks for always being there and for showing me what it means to selflessly take care of the people you love.

To the Three Genes. My father who constantly gives great advice (even if its in a PowerPoint presentation), my brother who protected me (even when I deserved a butt whooping), and my son who changed my world as soon as he entered it.

To my amazing wife Kristin, who patiently listens to my crazy ideas without judging me. Ill always be your big stinker!

FOREWORD

By James Altucher

I can't believe three of my favorite authors asked me to write a Foreword to their book, The Miracle Morning for Writers.

I feel like the new drummer of the Rolling Stones.

Writing is hard. You have to sit for hours and type letters. You have to think of things that nobody ever thought of and tell them in ways that nobody ever told them before.

Humans weren't made to sit and write for hours. We were made to hunt and gather. And climb trees. Or whatever they did back then.

People say, "Every idea has been done."

This is not true. The world lives in a giant comfort zone. A good writer's job is to take us outside that comfort zone, to see something new inside of something old.

When I write, I'm terrified. I want to be able to say something new. I want to say it in an entertaining way. I want to be scared to hit publish. (If I'm not scared to write it, nobody will be scaredor even shockedto read it.) I want to take chances (else, how will I grow?). I want readers to say, "I can't believe he just said that!"

When I wrote the book Choose Yourself! I started off talking about how, at my worst moments, I wished I were dead.

Then I wrote about how I came back from that wish. How I thrived after having such a horrible wish. How my wishes didn't come true.

The goal of the book was not to give advice. But advice is autobiography. The best any writer can do is tell a good storynot preach from a pedestal or give advice with no backbone.

This is a book that seems to be about writing. But not really. Again ... advice is autobiography. This is a book by writers, and the story is how they do this amazingly difficult thing that humans were never meant to do.

Hal Elrod has written The Miracle Morning, which is not only a massive bestseller, but also the story of how he literally came back from death.

It's not about how you can come back from death. It's Hal's story. But it's a big enough story that it has literally inspired millions to try out and follow a path similar to Hal's. To establish their own healthy morning routines so they can come back from whatever deaths are in their lives.

I love how Honore Corder then took this simple idea and made it accessible for many other categories in her own writing. She took The Miracle Morning and then wrote X, Y, and Z.

And now this book.

I follow a Miracle Morning routine as well, and I am grateful for it.

Steve Scott has written dozens of books. I can't even keep track of the number of books Steve (and his alter ego, SJ) have written.

When I first started seeing Steve's name all over the bestseller lists I knew I had to call him and ask him how he did it. So I did, and he told me.

Now he's telling you in this book. He's not telling you what to do. He's telling you how he did it. And how he makes a great living doing it.

I follow a morning routine for my writing. If I didn't, I would never write. I've written 18 books. I have a children's book coming out soon. I have a book on mentorship coming out soon.

And I hope to write many other books in my life.

Writing is an IV transfusion directly into my soul. It takes out the bad blood inside me and puts in good blood. Without a Daily Writing Routine, I think I still would be dead, or stuck, or unhappy, or unsatisfied, and I would have less opportunity and fewer friends in my life.

Hal, Steve, and Honore are my friendsentirely because I write and that's how we met and bonded.

I wake up, I exercise, I shower, I read, I drink coffee, I play around with ideas, and then the writing begins.

I can go into more detail of this routine. Particularly what I read to inspire my writing. And how I come up with ideas. And how I mine my past to dig for gems that I haven't discovered before. And how I put words together to tell a story that I think will be fun for people to read.

But that would take an entire book.

And instead, Honore, Hal, and Steve have written the book. I know that what they describe works. Because it works for them, and I have seen a routine work for me.