Today’s Dadly Daily Declaration comes from Robin Sharma‘s newest book, The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning, Elevate Your Life. As a leadership and elite performance expert, Sharma introduced The 5am Club concept over twenty years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health and bulletproof their serenity.
A couple gems I garnered from the book today include:
- Pain is the doorway into deep. Suffering yields many rewards, including empathy, originality, reliability and authenticity.
- We only hear what we’re ready to hear. All learning meets us exactly where we’re at. And as we grow greater, we understand better.
- With every challenge comes the gorgeous opportunity to rise into your next level as a leader, performer and human being. Obstacles are nothing more than tests designed to measure how seriously you want the rewards that your ambitions seek.
- To find your best self you must lose your weak self. And that only happens through relentless improvement, continuous reflection and ongoing self-excavation.
That quote leads us to today’s Dadly Daily Declaration:
The wisest way to guarantee that you consistently produce mastery-level results in the most important areas of your professional and personal life is to install a world-class morning routine. Winning starts at your beginning. Wage a war against weakness and launch a campaign against fearfulness. Take excellent care of the front end of your day, and the rest of your day will pretty much take care of itself.
Release all the reasons that feed any stagnation of your strengths…The soreness of growth is so much less expensive than the devastating costs of regrets. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.
Every day, for the rest of your life, you’ll be faced with the chance of showing leadership wherever you are and in all that you do. Leadership is is about committing to mastery over all you do — and in who your are. It’s about resisting the tyranny of the ordinary, refusing to allow negativity to hijack your sense of awe and preventing any form of slavery to mediocrity from infesting your life. Leadership is about making a difference, right where you’re planted.
Written over a rigorous four-year period, this book aids the reader in discovering an early-rising habit that has helped so many accomplish epic results while upgrading their happiness, helpfulness and feelings of aliveness. The book is written as a story about two struggling strangers who meet an eccentric tycoon who becomes their secret mentor. The 5am Club walks the reader through:
- How great geniuses, business titans and the world’s wisest people start their mornings to produce astonishing achievements
- A little-known formula you can use instantly to wake up early feeling inspired, focused and flooded with a fiery drive to get the most out of each day
- A step-by-step method to protect the quietest hours of daybreak so you have time for exercise, self-renewal and personal growth
- A neuroscience-based practice proven to help make it easy to rise while most people are sleeping, giving you precious time for yourself to think, express your creativity and begin the day peacefully instead of being rushed
- “Insider-only” tactics to defend your gifts, talents and dreams against digital distraction and trivial diversions so you enjoy fortune, influence and a magnificent impact on the world
