424: Your Last Bad Day with Michael O'Brien

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

Self-improvement, Education, Business

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Michael O'Brien's last bad day was July 11^th, 2001. Riding his bike in New Mexico, he was hit head on by an SUV traveling 40 miles per hour and left crippled on the side of the road.

"I remember the sound of me hitting his grill… the thud I made as I crashed onto the asphalt below, and the screech of his brakes."

Wanting to make the best of the situation, Michael promised himself that if he survived, he'd stop trying to chase happiness and begin truly enjoying every day—a profound lesson we can all learn from.

In today's episode, Michael shares the story of what happened on his last bad day and how he reframed his situation over the course of several months to heal his mind and body. We dive into how he discovered Pause-Breathe-Reflect meditation, what his daily practice looks like, and how you can immediately begin applying his mindset to your life.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

How changing the conversations we have with ourselves helps us become more compassionate when we talk with others.
Why Michael had to shift his mindset to truly heal after his accident–and how the day of his injury became his last bad day.
Why all events in our lives are neutral until we label them–and how Michael processes bad, angry, and sad moments in his life without letting them define his experience.
Why Michael does something monumental on the anniversary of his injury every year–and why he's going on a 4,300 mile bike ride from Astoria, Oregon to Yorktown, Virginia this summer.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake
0:06.1	up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.
0:09.6	I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable
0:14.3	strategies to take your life to the next level, as well as interview world-class experts
0:19.0	and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves and we ask them to give you
0:23.9	a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do to do the same.
0:28.1	Ready?
0:29.1	Welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast.
0:38.6	This is your host Hal Elrod and thank you for tuning in today.
0:42.8	I really, really appreciate you listening and being here and as always, I want to make
0:46.5	sure I deliver a lot of value for you.
0:48.9	Today is an interview.
0:49.9	It's a conversation with Michael O'Brien, Michael, someone that my good friend, Brianna
0:54.6	Green Span, who you might know as the co-author and co-creator of the Miracle Morning Art
0:59.5	of Affirmations coloring book.
1:01.7	For adults and kids, Brianna knows Michael.
1:04.3	She met him in the Miracle Morning Clubhouse room and she's been telling me for the last
1:07.5	six months or so that we need to connect.
1:09.4	We need to connect.
1:10.6	And part of the reason was that we have such a similar story.
1:13.6	He was hit by a car head on, only he was on a bike.
1:16.8	I was protected by my car.
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