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If you want to live a fulfilling and happy life, start your day with a morning routine. You can do this by waking up early and doing several simple things that will help you get what you want out of life. For example, multimillionaires, top managers and TV stars are famous for starting their days earlier than most people. If they’re successful at it, there must be something in it for the rest of us as well.

In this article, you’ll learn how to change your thinking and habits in order to achieve your goals.

The book will also give you the keys to success science from professional athletes, why hitting snooze is a costly mistake, and how to follow through with your healthy habits.

Big Idea #1: Many of us live a mediocre life, though we all have the potential to be successful.

The average American has $10,000 of debt and is overweight. They don’t like their job and have fewer than one person to call a close friend. They’re mildly depressed.

It’s clear that most Americans are not living up to their potential.

The Social Security Administration says that if you select a hundred people at the beginning of their working life and observe them for 40 years, only one will have become wealthy, four will be financially stable, five will need to continue working, 36 will have died, and 54 will lean on friends and family for financial support. These statistics paint a grim picture indeed.

If none of these people planned to just get by through their lives, then 95% of them aren’t living the life they wanted for themselves.

Financial success is tied to a sense of freedom because you don’t have to worry about paying your bills or being trapped in debt. Furthermore, more prescription drugs are taken than ever before, and one out of every two marriages in America ends in divorce. We also have more individual debt than ever before and obesity has become an epidemic. Despite all of this, we can still lead successful lives.

The author, Hal Elrod, is a stunning example of this. He actually died for six minutes following a car accident. After spending several days in a coma, he awoke to doctors telling him that he had permanent brain damage and might not be able to walk again.

He was able to overcome his circumstances. He accepted the fact that he had a problem and stopped trying to wish it away. Instead, he focused on finding solutions and creating a better life for himself.

Big Idea #2: Rearview Mirror Syndrome and Isolating Incidences prevent people from reaching their full potential.

Have you ever considered that the way you think about your life might be hindering your potential? The majority of us tend to make decisions based on our past experiences. We suffer from something called Rearview Mirror Syndrome (RMS). If you are an RMS sufferer, you believe that who you used to be is who you are now and your choices and decisions are informed by the limitations of past experience. Therefore, when new opportunities come up, people with RMS often turn them down because they’ve never experienced it before.

For example, someone who can’t commit to their partner because of failed relationships in the past probably has RMS. Aside from RMS, another reason we don’t reach our potential lies in our habit of Isolating Incidents.

This means that we often treat events in our lives as though they’re disconnected from everything else, which is contrary to the reality.

For example, perhaps you think it’s OK to skip your workout today because you can always do it tomorrow. However, that one decision has a much larger impact than just this moment in time. In his book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, author and businessman T. Harv Eker explains how decisions affect our future by saying, “How you do anything is how you do everything.”