Most of my morning is all faith-based. That's my version of the miracle morning.

Affirmations are my favorite form of personal development. I think they're the most effective

and the most misunderstood. And they're misunderstood based on the two reasons I gave. Either

you're taught to affirm something that's not true or affirming this magical result that,

you know, money's going to flow into my life. Everything's getting better. The miracle equations where you're like, okay, I'm growing in the morning. Now I'm going to maintain unwavering faith all day through the ups

and the downs and the setbacks and the challenges. There's three phases. The first 10 days are

what I call the unbearable phase. Seconds in days, I call the uncomfortable phase. And the third 10 days

are the unstoppable phase. The reason for that is unbearable is like...

What's up, well, butters?

Today, I have got an author who wrote a book I read about 10 years ago that has drastically impacted the way that I start my day.

This book is called The Miracle Morning, and I've got Hal Elrod.

What's up, man?

Dude, it's good to be here, Ryan.

Yeah, it's crazy because I saw you, like I said, 10 years ago on like bigger pockets

with Brandon Turner, who's been on the show many times.

And I remember listening to you talk and I was like, that makes sense why I'd want to start

my morning the right way.

And now I've become like this massive advocate for a morning routine.

Awesome. And it kind of seems like entrepreneurs have been like the anti-morning routine lately.

I don't know if you, you probably are all up to date on the morning routine stuff.

Sure.

Yeah, you know, I think that most entrepreneurs, the morning routine is it was when they started being an entrepreneur.

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