Today sees the continuation of our Dadly Daily Declaration series drawn from Robin Sharma‘s newest book, The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning, Elevate Your Life.
The next few declarations will focus on tactics to attain prodigious creative achievement. Sharma calls these The 10 Tactics of Lifelong Genius. Here are a few gems from today’s reading:
- Every distraction that steals our attention lowers our chance to do masterful work.
- Focus only on one project at a time; refrain from spreading out your creative power and physical energy on many projects.
- Don’t diffuse your genius on being pretty good at many things when you have it in you to be legendary by working intensely only on one thing.
- Wiring in these ten tactics will accelerate your progress in The 5 AM Club and set your gifts, talents and powers ablaze. Rising at dawn and running The 20/20/20 Formula is your main move to lead your field and upgrade your personal life. These ten calibrated habits are your amplifiers. They’ll ensure that you go from seeing results that are linear to rewards that are exponential.
The first tactic to lifelong creative genius is The Tight Bubble of Total Focus. According to Sharma, “an addiction to distraction is the death of your creative production. Your attraction to digital interruption is costing you your fortune—financially, cognitively, energetically, physically and spiritually. To have the income and impact only a few people currently have, you need to run your days like very few performers currently do. The Tight Bubble of Total Focus is a metaphorical moat that you build around your assets of genius, so they not only stay strong—they increase. The five primary assets that all superproducers defend are mental focus, physical energy, personal willpower, original talent and daily time. Your bubble has a porous membrane that encircles it so that you decide what information, which people and the nature of the activities that enter your orbit. Anything negative, toxic and impure gets blocked at the gate. Essentially, this way of being in the world is your bulletproof defense system to reject any stimuli that would decry your greatness.”
- “The Tight Bubble of Total Focus strategy preserves your focus as well as your primal brilliance by giving you long stretches of time free from trivial fascinations and any influences that dissolve your inspiration—and deteriorate your A-game. Each morning, you enter this invisible bubble of your own making that is completely empty of other people’s superficial messages, spam, fake news, advertisements, silly videos, irrelevant chatting and other forms of cyber-hooking that will destroy your life of monumental potential.”
- Using the TBTF in your personal life means you live your days in an alternate universe of your own joyous creation. Specific application ideas include selling your television, avoiding the news for the remainder of your days, staying out of noisy shopping malls where you buy things you don’t need, unfriending energy-draining people you follow on social platforms, turning off all notifications while you’re in the TBTF and deleting apps with constant announcements.
That first tactic leads us to today’s Dadly Daily Declaration:
Implement and embrace solitude for a scheduled period each day, in a positive environment that floods you with creativity, energy, happiness and the feeling the work you’re doing is for the upliftment of humanity. The spaces you inhabit shape the output you produce. This concept can—and should—also be applied beyond your professional routine. So your private time is free of negativity, energy vampires and soul-hurting pursuits.
