The 5AM Club

by Robin Sharma

Own your morning; elevate your life

  • Take one hour for yourself before dawn to prepare yourself for a world-class day.
  • There’s a reason so many of the great achievers of the world get up before the sun—it’s the most special part of the day.

Solitude

  • Most people can’t stand themselves. So, they can never be alone. And silent. They need to constantly be with other people to escape their feelings of self-hatred over all their wasted potential, missing the wonders and wisdom that solitude and quiet bring. Or they watch TV endlessly, not realizing it’s eroding their imagination as well as bankrupting their bank account.
  • Long stretches spent in noiseless contemplation is one of the secrets of the advanced mind. Ultimately, you’re the only person you’ll be with your entire life.

Focus

  • Work on one high-value activity at a time instead of relentlessly multitasking—and do so in a quiet environment.
  • You must invest at least two hours and forty-four minutes of daily improvement on your chosen skill for ten years, as per preeminent psychologist Anders Ericsson of Florida State University.
  • An addiction to distraction is the death of your creative production.

Wealth

  • Renounce the common delusion that those who accumulate the most win.
  • To double your income and impact, triple your investment in two core areas—your personal mastery and your professional capability.
  • If you don’t feel deserving of abundance, you’ll never do what’s required to realize it.
  • As you increase your knowledge, you become more valuable to the fields in which you do business, which will lift your income and impact.
  • Many financially rich people are actually desperately poor. Nothing’s as valuable as happiness. Nothing’s as priceless as peace of mind.
  • Money is a currency that must flow like electricity. Yes, cash is a current. It needs to circulate. Hoarding it stops the flow of it into your business and private life.
  • Give more to receive more. Leave lavish tips for servers in restaurants, housekeepers in hotels and drivers in taxicabs. Donate to charities. Do wonderful things for your family and friends without a single thought of any return. A tsunami of abundance will be sent to you.
  • People measure their self-worth by their net worth.

And…

  • Create a private life strong in ethics, rich with marvelous beauty and unyielding when it comes to the protection of your inner peace.
  • Many among us die at thirty and are buried at eighty.
  • We’ve encouraged a culture of soft, weak and delicate people who can’t keep promises, who bail on commitments and who quit on their aspirations the moment the smallest obstacle shows up.
  • The place where your greatest discomfort lies is also the spot where your largest opportunity lives.
  • The moment when you most feel like giving up is the instant when you must find it in you to press ahead.
  • All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.
  • The way you begin your day really does determine the extent of focus, energy, excitement and excellence you bring to it.
  • Display respect and compassion for all other people who occupy this tiny planet, regardless of their creed, color or caste.
  • Your DNA isn’t your destiny.
  • Giving to other people is a gift you give to yourself. Raise the joy of others and you’ll get even more joy.
  • Small daily improvements, when done consistently over time, lead to stunning results.
  • Do what 95% of people will be unwilling to do. Being labeled a freak is the price of greatness.
  • A bad day for the ego is a great day for the soul.
  • Your past is a place to be learned from, not a home to be lived in.
  • You won’t win if your heart is full of anger, sadness, disappointment, resentment and fear.
  • Beautiful things happen once you commit seriously to peak fitness and go hard on cheating aging.
  • Every day’s just dramatically better with some exercise in it.
  • Comparison is the thief of joy. Someone will always have more fortune, fame and stuff than you do. Be detached and embrace the wisdom of knowing when enough is enough.
  • We’re all exactly where we need to be to receive the growth lessons we’re meant to learn. 
  • There’s a staggering difference between being busy and being productive.
  • Every time you become aware of yourself dropping into victim mode, make a more courageous choice; rewrite the narrative. Each time you vote for your superior self you starve your weaker side—and feed your inherent power. 
  • What you do each day matters far more than what you do once in a while.
  • Dreams don’t come true while you’re sleeping.
  • Ambition without implementation is a ridiculous delusion.
  • The secret of success of every man and woman who has ever been successful—lies in the fact that they formed the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do.
  • Science now confirms that our brains can continue to grow throughout our lives. When you use your brain intelligently by expanding its limits and running it like a titan, it will expand and increase its connectivity causing important gains in your productivity, performance and influence.
  • Always use the power of rewards for the advancement of your triumphs.
  • Installing a habit follows a sixty-six-day process.
  • Your willpower really is weakest when you are most tired. We make our worst decisions and our lowest choices when we’re exhausted.
  • Mess lowers your self-control as well as steals your cognitive bandwidth.
  • Boredom kills the human spirit.
  • One of the primary ways we bring on an early death is by not sleeping enough.
  • People who hurt others really are hurting within themselves.
  • Alternate between bursts of deep focus and ferocious intensity of performance with periods of real rest and full recovery.
  • Massage therapy generates significant improvements in brain performance, mood, your ability to fight stress, and in terms of your general wellness. 
  • Delegate tasks that not only are a poor use of your hours but also diminish your happiness.
  • For at least sixty minutes a day, study. Peak producers are lifetime learners.
  • Take at least two full days off each week for rest and full recovery.
  • Your heart is always wiser than your head. It knows where you must be. Follow it. Trust it. You’ll find the magic.
  • Your relationship with you predicts your relationship with the world.
  • We model the behavior of the people we spend our days with. Fill your life with exceptionally excellent, enterprising, healthy, positive, ethical and sincerely loving people. And over time, you’ll exemplify these lofty traits.
  • Relate peacefully, as much as possible, with everyone. Even one enemy is an enemy too many. Pass through life gracefully, taking the high road when conflict shows up. Should someone do you wrong, let karma do the dirty work. And let a world-class life be your revenge.

Quotes

  • ‘Self-education is, I believe, the only kind of education there is.’ – Isaac Asimov
  • ‘Pressure is a privilege. You get to grow. With every challenge comes the gorgeous opportunity to rise into your next level as a leader, performer and human being.’ – tennis legend, Billie Jean King. 
  • ‘Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.’ – Tolstoy.
  • ‘The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.’ – Norman Cousins.
  • ‘Everything will be okay in the end. And if it’s not okay, it’s not the end.’ – John Lennon.
  • ‘I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.’ – George Bernard Shaw. 
  • ‘Only people who are capable of loving strongly can suffer great sorrow.’ – Tolstoy.
  • ‘Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.’ – Charles Bukowski.
  • ‘The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.’ – Helen Keller.
  • ‘One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.’ – Dale Carnegie.
  • ‘Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.’ – Albert Einstein.
  • ‘The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.’ – George Bernard Shaw.
  • ‘With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?’ – Oscar Wilde
  • ‘All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.’ – French mathematician, Blaise Pascal.
  • ‘It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.’ – J.K. Rowling.
  • ‘I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing that I can do to any fellow-being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.’ – William Penn.

Disclaimer: The key points of the book presented here are not a substitute for reading the book. To get the entire holistic message the author has offered requires reading the book.

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