Your Blueprint for Life's Toughest Challenges, with Hal Elrod

Afford Anything

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Business, Investing

4.6 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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#480: The death of a sibling. Being declared dead after a head-on collision with a drunk driver. Suffering financially during the Great Recession. CANCER. Today’s guest, Hal Elrod, has battled all of these tough challenges. His little sister passed away in his mother's arms. Years later, Hal was hit by a drunk driver, broke 11 bones, declared dead, and once revived, learned that he might have to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. (He eventually regained his ability to walk.) And after that, he was slammed hard in the wallet during the Great Recession. But he's a fighter. He needed to develop practices to build his resilience. So Hal created “The Miracle Morning,” a morning routine practice that gained massive popularity when he released it in 2012. The six-step Miracle Morning routine is coined S.A.V.E.R.S. -- silence, affirmations, visualization, exercise, reading, and scribing (writing). The routine became wildly popular, in part due to its flexibility; Hal explains that time-crunched people can start this as a six-minute routine; dedicating just ONE minute to each of these six steps. Over time, people can see the positive changes that this makes, and expand the time they allot for this. The routine is now the subject of a documentary, also called the Miracle Morning, available on Prime Video. Midway through filming, Hal was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia and given a 30 percent chance of survival. He let the cameras roll as he coped with his diagnosis in real time. He joins us on this podcast to describe that experience, and to talk about the practices that he's used to stay productive in the face of grief, severe injury and cancer. He talks to us about: the powerful Five-Minute Rule that helped him recover from a nearly fatal car crash the six most popular personal development practices of the successful specific tactics you can harness to create YOUR most successful life. As we move into the New Year, many of you are setting goals and resolutions. Hal describes specific, actionable tactics that you can use to build scaffolding and support around your new goals. Enjoy! For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode480 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:16.5	Happy New Year's 2024. With the start of a new year, so many of us have goals. We have resolutions, we have dreams. There are things that we want to accomplish in 2024 because when we look back at where we were one year ago at this time and we compare the lengths that we've gone through in the past year we see how far we've come how we've accomplished, and we know that we want to build on that in the year ahead.
0:28.0	And yet, when we set New Year's goals, we often do so with the assumption that everything is going well, that we're healthy, that we're happy, that we're safe, that our families are doing well, and based on that assumption, based on starting from a baseline of things are good,
0:46.0	we often then want to improve and see if we can level up,
0:49.2	see if we can become better than before.
0:51.2	What happens when things are not good? What happens when we are
0:57.4	dealing with grief, with loss, with illness, with injury? How do we develop resilience so that we can continue to achieve our goals,
1:09.0	to improve our lives, to become better versions of ourselves. How can we do that even in the face of turmoil
1:18.8	and tragedy? Today's guest, Hal Elrod, has specific actionable tactics that can help us through this.
1:29.0	Welcome to the Afford Anything Podcast, the show that understands you can afford anything, but not everything.
1:34.5	Every choice that you make is a trade-off against something else.
1:37.3	And that doesn't just apply to your money, that applies to your time, your focus, your
1:40.9	energy, your attention to any limited resource that you need to manage
1:45.0	and that opens up two questions.
1:46.0	First, what matters most?
1:49.0	And second,
1:50.0	How do you make decisions accordingly?
1:53.0	Answering these two questions is a lifetime practice and that's what this
1:56.7	podcast is here to explore.
1:59.8	My name is Paula Pan, I am the host of the Afford Anything podcast, and today's guest,
2:04.7	Hal Elrod has endured his fair share of hardships. He has lived through the death of a sibling.
2:15.0	He lost his little sister when he was very young,
2:17.7	when they were both young.
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