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    I think you want more for your life. I know I do. If you’re being completely honest with yourself, you truly want to live an extraordinary life. That doesn’t necessarily mean being rich or famous. Everyone’s dream is different. What it does mean is living your definition of an extraordinary life. A life where you get to call the shots, and live life on your terms, with the freedom to do, be, and have everything you’ve ever wanted for your life. No excuses. No regrets. Just an incredible, meaningful, and exciting life! 
    As stated so truthfully by bestselling author, Robin Sharma:  “One of the saddest things in life is to get to the end and look back in regret, knowing that you could have been, done, and had so much more.” While this is the self-imposed fate of the masses, it absolutely does not have to be yours. Today you can draw your line in the sand. You can decide that mediocrity is no longer acceptable for you. You can claim your greatness. You can choose to become the person you need to be to create the extraordinary life that you truly want. Your life can be filled with an abundance of energy, love, health, happiness, success, financial prosperity, and everything else that you’ve ever imagined having, doing, or being. The Miracle Morning can give you that life.
    But first, an important question.
     

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    Why Did YOU Wake Up This Morning?
    You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if
you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.
—GEORGE LORIMER
    Your first ritual that you do during the day is the highest leveraged ritual, by far, because it has the effect of setting your mind, and setting the context, for the rest of your day.
—EBEN PAGAN
    W hy did you wake up this morning? That’s a question you’ve probably never been asked, but think about it for a second—why do you wake up most mornings?  Why leave the comfort of your warm, cozy bed?  Do you do it every day because you really want to?  Or is it because, for one reason or another, you have to?
    If you’re like most people, you wake up to the incessant beeping of an alarm clock each morning and reluctantly drag yourself out of bed because you have to be somewhere, do something, answer to—or take care of—someone else. Given the choice (do you have a choice?) most people would continue sleeping.
    So naturally, we rebel. We hit the snooze button and resist the inevitable act of waking up, unaware that our resistance is sending a message to the universe that we’d rather lie there in our beds—unconscious—than consciously and actively live and create the lives we say that we want. Most of us have resigned ourselves to a certain level of mediocrity and unfulfilled potential. We don’t like it. We don’t feel good about it. We know that there is absolutely another level of success, achievement and fulfillment that’s possible for us, but we feel stuck, and we don’t know what to do to get ourselves unstuck.
    You Snooze, You Lose:  The Truth About Waking Up
    The old saying, “You Snooze, You Lose” may have a deeper meaning than any of us realized. When you delay waking up until you have to—meaning you wait until the last possible moment to get out of bed and start your day—consider that what you’re actually doing is resisting your life. Every time you hit the snooze button, you’re in a state of resistance to your day, to your life, and to waking up and creating the life you say you want. Think about the kind of negative energy that surrounds you when you begin your day with resistance, when you respond to the sound of the alarm clock with internal dialogue along the lines of, “Oh no, it’s time already. I have to wake up. I don’t want to wake up.”  It’s as if you’re saying, “I don’t want to live my life, at least not to the fullest.”
    Many people who suffer from depression report that the morning time is the most difficult. They wake up with dread. Sometimes it is because of