The Miracle Equation by El Halrod notes / summary
To create the miracles, you must believe the result is possible and YOU can produce it.
Successful people were all born normal.
You can be a miracle maven too.
Miracle: a remarkable event or development that brings welcome consequences.
Maven: Yiddish word meyvn and Hebrew word mebhin meaning “one who understands.”
Your external circumstances do not confine you, just as your past does not dictate your future.
You need to envisionn your ideal future clearly, then establish the belief that it’s possible.
What prevents anyone from creating the life they truly want is that either they lack faith that they can or they don’t put forth the necessary effort. That’s it. and many people don’t do either.
Decision 1: Unwavering faith — maintaining faith in your limitless capabilities isn’t natural. All worthwhile accomplishments come after several obstacles and setbacks.
Decision 2: Extraordinary effort — what makes work extraordinary is when it is sustained over an extended period of time. It is what fuels your faith. It is also unnatural.
The purpose of a goal is not to reach the goal. The purpose of a goal is to become the type of person who can achieve any goal by always giving it everything you have, regardless of your results.
Elrod came up with a mantra: “I’m committed to maintaining Unwavering Faith that I will sell $20K for push and put forth Extraordinary Effort until I do, no matter what, there is no other option.”
You are exactly where you’re supposed to be (and who you’re supposed to be) to learnn what you need to learn so you can become the person you need to be who is capable of creating everything you’ve ever wanted.
We all like being lazy. BUT to be lazy without guilt, you have to accomplish something first. EARN your laziness.
When you don’t put forth sustained effort, you don’t really deserve what you’re striving for, and you know it. This causes you not to believe in yourself, and not to believe that you deserve anything better than you have now.
All those who have ever gone from being average to being extraordinary began by first seeing themselves as better than they had ever been in the past.
This can feel inauthentic, but if you revisit that vision often (daily) over time, it feels more and dmore true and your vision becomes your reality.
Take the leap into Enlightened Entitlement and DECIDE that you deserve everything you want and are willing to put in the effort for!
The Five Minute Rule: It’s okay to feel bad when something doesn’t go according to plan, but only for five minutes.
When five minutes are up, say the words “Can’t change it” out loud to acknowledge that if you can’t change something, resisting it is pointless and painful. It just creates internal emotional suffering.
Elrod practiced this using h is phonen timer, and over time, he shortened the 5 minute rule to fewer minutes and began to build up emotional invincibility.
All emotional pain…is self-created by our resistance to our reality…The only way never to experience unwanted emotional pain again is to make a conscious decision to accept everything that has ever happened or will ever happen to you.
Use these 3 techniques to be emotionally invincible:
- The 5 minute rule
- The “can’t change it” mantra
- Accept life before it happens: use this after you’ve practiced steps 1 and 2 for a while. Don’t wait for hindsight to find peace.
What circumstance in your life or your past is unchangeable, yet you resist it and thereby create unnecessary emotional pain?
Now make a conscious choice to accept it unconditionally, be at peace with it, and be emotionally invincible.
The real purpose of every goal you set is to develop the qualities and characteristics of a goal achiever. It is WHO YOU BECOME through the procecss that will serve you for…life and trumps any short-lived achievement.
Who you’re becoming is always more important than what you’re doing, yet hte irony is that it’s what you’re doing that is always determining who you’re becoming.
As long as you maintain unwavering faith and extraordinary effort with every goal, no matter the results, you’ll always learn, grow, and be more capable than before.
Never give up until the very last moment. We often are tested to see how committed we arre. Only those who are commmitted to the last possible moment see miracles come to fruition. The final moments are critical.
Failure is how we grow. If you approach your goals this way, you’ll never fail to achieve your highest purpose.
Whatever you consistently think about yourself becomes your reality…To improve your life, you must first improve what you habitually think about.
Effort doesn’t always translate into success in terms of tangible results. But it will ALWAYS develop you into the person you want to be.
A common problem people have is trying to work on too many goals at once, with no clarity about the top priority. Multitasking makes people less efficient.
If you divide your focus among 5 goals, you’ll make 7% progress on one, 3% on another, and completely avoid one or two, and lose your initial drive and momentum.
If we’re not crystal clear on our highest priority…human naturer leads us to stay busy by pursuing the path of least resistance.
Your first hurdle to creating miracles is establishihng unwavering faith. The more we can bring y our mission toward “probable,” the more likely you are to get engaged and stay engaged with it. Here are some ways to do that:
- Establish monthly missions: Do more in 30 days than most people do in 12 months. A year is a long time, maybe too long. When we have too much time, we miss the valuable sense of urgency. What if your New Year began every single month? Every month is a new start? Have a monthly mission to keep up your urgency and keep you on track.
- Dr Seuss’s first book was rejected by 27 publishers
- Babe Ruth has the record on strikeouts AND home runs
- Van Gogh only ever sold one painting, but he kept painting and left 800 works after he died
All these people kept doing what they were doing. Dr. Seuss kept writing, Babe Ruth kept playing, Van Gogh kept painting. They all maintained unwavering faith.
Success almost never falls into your lap and there are no shortcuts.
Unwavering faith will always unlock the potential that hass been lying dormant within you and open up new possibilities that once seemed out of reach.
I am committed to maintaining Unwavering Faith that I will [insert y our mission], and I will continue putting forth Extraordinary Effort until I do. No matter what, there is no other option.
- Actions that move you closer to your ideal results: so you don’t waste time doing things that yield only short term benefits or minimal impact and only keep you busy and distracted. Actions should energize you, be measurable, and be meaningful.
- Actions that will probably take you out of your comfort zone: Where growth lies.
- Consistent effort over an extended time, regardless of results along the way: this is the glue that holds it all together. You can’t quit after a few steps. You have to be committed for a long time.
What tasks will you do each day BEFORE anything else?
To figure out your process, ask yourself:
Which activities, done consistently, will make my success inevitable?
There’s really only one reason for procrastination:
You associate some level of pain, fear, or discomfort with the activity you’re procrastinating about.
That’s all. So you have to understand that all the pain and fear and discomfort is imagined, in y our head.
Overcoming procrastination is simply a matter of taking the first, seemingly inconsequential step toward doing what you need to do to achieve your goals.
Once you start moving, you’ve already beat procrastination. Now just keep moving in the same direction. Do it every day with your predetermined process and you’ll crush procrastination.
1. Untrue statements make you feel inauthentic
Repeating untrue statements means lying to yourself and your subconscious will resist those lies, leading tot more inner conflict.
In 2009, Psychological Science wrote that people with low self esteem actually feel worse after saying an affirmation like “I am a lovable person.”
It just makes you feel like a liar on top of an already negative self image.
Affirmations should upgrade your subconscious mind by eliminating inherent conflicts, and direct your conscious mind toward most important activities.
Here’s how to write your affirmation
- Begin with your miracle mantra
- Articulate why your mission is deeply meaningful to you (your WHY) without a clear WHY we easily give up. The reason I am committed to my mission is because [insert WHY]
The key to creating miracles is consistency
Use language that resonates with you.
- I am committed to maintaining unwaver faith that…and I will continue putting forth extraordinary effort every day…there is no other option.
- The reason I am commmitted to my mission is because…
- To ensurer that I [reach goal], I will remain committed to my process of following all of my daily protocols….
- I am committed to my mission because I know I’m just as deserving of [goal] as anyone on Earth
Affirmations are just reminders of what matters most to you.
Imagine it’s the end of your life and you’ve done all you will ever do in this lifetime. Now imagine the person you could have become living at your full potenntial came into the room. Would these two people be similar or far apart, based on your current trajectory?
This is a great way to meaesure how fulfilling and productive your life currently is and can be.
It’s sad to go through life knowing you’re not achieving/contributing all you can.
If there’s any real secret of success, it’s this: Stay committed to your process without being emotionally attached to your results.
