The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM)

The Morning That Turned My Life Around
Then, in a single morning, everything changed. I woke up feeling
depressed, as I had been for weeks, but this morning I did something
different. I took a friend’s advice and went on a run, to clear my head. Now,
make no mistake, I was not a runner. In fact, running for the sake of running
was one of the only things I can honestly say that I despised. However, my
good friend, Jon, told me that whenever he was feeling stressed or
overwhelmed, going for a run enabled him to think more clearly, lifted his
spirits, and helped him come up with solutions to his problems. I was
desperate. I had nothing to lose. I was going to go for a run.
So, that morning I laced up my Nike Air Jordan® basketball shoes (I
told you I wasn’t a runner), grabbed my iPod so I could listen to something
positive, and headed out the front door of my soon-to-be bank-owned home. I
had no idea that, on that run, I would have one of the most powerful,
profound, life-changing breakthroughs in my entire life.
Listening to a personal development audio from Jim Rohn, he said
something that although I had heard before, I never really got it. You know
how sometimes you hear something over and over again without actually
implementing it, but then one day it finally clicks for you? It just takes you
being in the right state of mind to really get it? Well, that morning I was in the
right state of mind—a state of desperation—and I got it. When I heard Jim
proclaim with certainty, “Your level of success, will rarely exceed your level
of personal development, because success is something you attract by the
person you become,” I stopped in my tracks. This one philosophy was going
to change my entire life.
The Success Parallel
All of a sudden, it hit me! It was like a tidal wave of reality that came
crashing down, and I became present to the fact that I had not been
developing myself into the person I needed to be to attract, create, and sustain
the level of success that I wanted. On a scale of one to ten, I wanted Level 10
success, but my level of personal development was at about a two—maybe a
three or a four on a good day.

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I realized this is the problem for all of us. We all want Level 10 success,
in every area of our lives—health, happiness, finances, relationships, career,
spirituality, you name it—but if our levels of personal development
(knowledge, experience, mindset, beliefs, etc.) in any given area are not at a
Level 10, then life is always going to be a struggle.
Our outer world will always be a reflection of our inner world. Our level
of success is always going to parallel our level of personal development. Until
we dedicate time each day to developing ourselves into the person we need to
be to create the life we want, success is always going to be a struggle to
attain.
I ran straight home. I was ready to change my life.