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

My First Journal Re-view
On December 31
st
, after my first year doing The Miracle Morning and
writing in my journal, I began reading the first page I had written that year.
Day by day, I started to review and relive my entire year. I was able to revisit
my mindset from each day, and gain a new perspective as to how much I had
grown throughout the year. I reexamined my actions, activities, and progress,
giving me a new appreciation for how much I had accomplished during the
past 12 months. Most importantly, I recaptured the lessons I had learned,
many of which I had forgotten over the course of the year.
Gratitude 2.0 – I also experienced a much deeper quality of gratitude—
in a way that I had never experienced before—on two different levels,
simultaneously. It was what I now refer to as my first Back to the Future
moment. Try to follow me here (and feel free to picture me as Marty McFly
stepping out of a 1985 DeLorean). As I read through my journal, my current
self (which was also the future self of who I was at the time I wrote those
journal entries) was now looking back at all of the people, experiences,
lessons, and accomplishments that I took note of being grateful for throughout
the year. As I was in that moment reliving the gratitude that I felt in the past, I
was simultaneously feeling grateful in the present moment for how far I had
come since that time in my life. It was a remarkable experience, and a bit
surreal.
Accelerated Growth – Then, I began to tap into the highest point of
value I would gain from reviewing my journals. I pulled out a sheet of blank
paper, drew a line down the middle, and wrote two headings at the top:
Lessons Learned and New Commitments. As I read through my hundreds of
my journal entries, I found myself recapturing dozens of valuable lessons.
This process of recapturing Lessons Learned and making New
Commitments to implement those lessons aided my personal growth and
development more than almost anything else.

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While there are many worthwhile benefits of keeping a daily journal, a
few of which I’ve just described, here are a few more of my favorites: