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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

1283 | Hal Elrod: “If It’s Out of My Control, It’s Out of My Control.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

If you were told that you would never walk again, how would you handle it? On today’s episode, Hal Elrod shares how he used the 5-Minute Rule and three powerful words to unconditionally accept that he could be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Ask yourself, what circumstance or challenge — one that you cannot change — is robbing you of your happiness and emotional well-being? How can you use Hal’s story to become emotionally invincible?

Source: Hal Elrod's Keynote Speech (2020): "The Miracle Morning”

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0:00.0

Yo, today's QLD is, if it's out of my control, it's out of my control.

0:05.7

Here we go.

0:32.3

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host, Sean Croxton, a Sean Croxton.com.

0:37.2

We've got Hal Elrod, author of The Maricle Morning on the show today. And he's about to share

0:42.6

a powerful, powerful story about accepting the things that you cannot control in life.

0:51.9

By using something, he calls the five-minute rule and asking yourself three powerful words that

0:59.0

will make you emotionally invincible. Hal Elrod coming up.

1:05.3

I broke 11 bones. I've got a titanium rod in my leg. I've got two screws in my elbow, a rod in my

1:12.0

arm, three metal plates in my eye. Short term, remember to loss all these things, but I wake

1:17.2

up from this comment. I'm told I'm never going to walk again. And it was a lot to process.

1:23.6

And the way that I processed it, ended up being very empowering. And I'm going to share this with

1:28.2

you because this is the foundation of emotional invincibility. So I come out of the coma. A week

1:36.9

goes by. All these tests are done every day. They've already done all these surgeries to repair.

1:42.5

Well, I was in the coma for six days. So during that time, all the surgeries were done. I flat

1:46.8

lined twice more in the coma, flat lined. I was dead for six minutes at the scene of the accident.

1:51.9

So I had technically died three times at that point in that week. And I was seeing

1:58.8

psychologists every day. And I started in a physical therapy doctor. So I'd try to never walk

2:02.8

again. And that I'd been in the hospital for about a year. That was their that was their

2:07.1

estimate estimate. And my mom and dad were called in by the doctors after I had been awake for a

2:16.0

week. And I've been evaluated by all the psychologists. And the doctors sat them down. They said,

2:21.5

we want to give you an update on how physically he's made it to the worst. He should be with us

2:25.7

for a long time. And at that time, that's all they cared about. Mom and dad were like, you know,

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