Is the AVID morning ritual better than the SAVERS? (Interview with Mike Merriam)
Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod
Hal Elrod
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2016
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes the best guests are the ones that offer us actionable lessons and strategies that we can extract and use to achieve amazing goals. These thought leaders, thinkers, and knowledge distillers give us value because we can take action. On this podcast you'll get distinct strategies and morning rituals that you can implement immediately with our guest, Mike Merriam.
Mike Merriam is a husband, father, author, bio-hacker, and life enthusiast. His work is focused on showing people how to stop living in the unhappy, unfulfilled, and disengaged majority by taking the time to understand and answer six fundamental questions. He discusses these six fundamental questions in his new book, Closer Than You Think.
[02:41] About our guest, Mike Merriam
[04:57] Mike's First Defining Goal
[08:10] Mike's AVID Morning Ritual- Anchor, Visualize, Intentional action, and Debrief
[13:00] The reason behind the six questions you have to ask yourself
[15:54] Question #1: What are your core values?
[17:48] Question #2: What are your unique strengths?
[18:45] Question #3: What are your top priorities or motivations?
[19:17] A summary of the next three questions
[22:40] Official Launch date: November 14th
[24:15] Today's Take Away: Our words create our worlds
Reach out to Mike at PersonalEvolutionPlan.com or text EVOLVE to 44222 for an overview of these topics.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the |
| 0:05.0 | the Achieve Your Goals Podcast. You're listening to the podcast |
| 0:07.6 | guarantee to take your life to the next level |
| 0:10.1 | faster than you ever thought possible. In each episode you'll learn from someone who has achieved extraordinary goals that most haven't. |
| 0:17.0 | He's the author of the number one best-selling book, The Miracle Morning, |
| 0:20.0 | a Hall of Fame business achiever, international keynote speaker, ultra marathon runner, and the founder of Best Year ever coaching. |
| 0:28.0 | Here is Hell Arod. |
| 0:31.0 | All right, all right. |
| 0:33.0 | Welcome to the Achieve Your Goals Podcast. |
| 0:35.3 | This is your host and your friend, Hal-L-R-R-R-R-D, formerly Yop-Pel-HAL. |
| 0:40.0 | That was mom's nickname that she gave me. |
| 0:41.8 | But today, I'm excited for this interview. |
| 0:45.5 | We you know sometimes I bring on guests and they're not necessarily thought leaders |
| 0:51.1 | they're just people that have achieved amazing goals. And the |
| 0:54.6 | difference in that is that people that have achieved amazing goals sometimes being |
| 0:59.6 | able to articulate how you did that, you know, right? like what what were the how did I do that or even more so what are what are the actionable |
| 1:09.3 | lessons and strategies that I can extract from what allowed me to achieve these amazing goals that are then simple for anyone listening to achieve, right? |
| 1:19.4 | So that's not necessarily easy to do, but when you're interviewing someone that is a |
| 1:22.6 | thought leader someone who is you know they've whether they've written a book or |
| 1:27.0 | they've you know they're a speaker they've essentially they've distilled |
| 1:31.5 | their experience and their knowledge in a way that is simple for other |
| 1:36.8 | people to internalize and for other people to implement, right? |
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