We’re approaching the end of Robin Sharma‘s newest book, The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning, Elevate Your Life. We should end our Dadly Daily Declaration series of insights from this book within the next two weeks. In the meantime, we continue our Dadly Daily Declaration series with insights drawn from this must-read.
Our declarations for this week center on The Twin Cycles of Elite Performance. Below is a graphic explaining this twin cycle and its focus on protecting your 5 assets of genius.
Here are some gems from today’s reading, which explains the Twin Cycles and the 5 Assests of Genius in more detail:
- Every morning you wake up with a full battery of creative power. Each dawn you awaken to a full well of five private treasures that, if properly managed, will cause you to overcome the violence of your excuses and avoid the knife blade of your past limits so that the great hero encoded within your soul meets the light of day. And enable you to become all you’re meant to be. As a maker of spectacular work, as a leader without a title and as a human being dedicated to living in awe of life’s most gorgeous graces.”
- These 5 Assets of Genius are your mental focus, your physical energy, your personal willpower, your original talent and your daily time. These primary assets are at their highest early in the morning. That’s why you want to start your day well and perform your most important pursuits during your most valuable hours instead of wasting this precious opportunity fooling around with your technology, watching the news or oversleeping.
- And so, your main move if you want enduring victory—professionally as well as personally—is to oscillate. To cycle periods of passionate, monomaniacally focused and potent work at the highest grade with blocks of time set for refueling, relaxing, recovering and pure fun.
That leads us to today’s Dadly Daily Declaration:
Top performance truly isn’t a linear game. Elite accomplishment is much more like a heartbeat, more like a rhythm, more like a pulse. If you want to show up as a great master—over decades so you literally dominate your domain for an entire career and lead a life you love well into old age—you absolutely need to alternate High Excellence Cycles, those periods of intense and fantastic output, with times of meaningful recovery, Deep Refueling Cycles.
