We continue our Dadly Daily Declaration series with insights drawn from 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.
Our declarations for this week center on The Twin Cycles of Elite Performance.
Today’s reading brings us Sharma’s Legendary Performance Equation:
THE LEGENDARY PERFORMANCE EQUATION: PRESSURE × REFUELING = GROWTH + ENDURANCE
Here are some gems from today’s reading, which illuminates the Legendary Performance Equation:
- Pressure and stress aren’t bad. They’re actually absolutely necessary for the expansion of your capacity.
- Pressure and stress are wonderful blessings that A-Players exploit. Our gifts don’t increase when we stay in our safety circles…Challenge and stretch your capacities past the normal. Muscles expand only when we take them past our usual limits. And then allow for some time to refuel and recover.
- You must rest to allow all your training to take effect.
- Growth happens in the resting phase—not in the performing stage.
- Self-care is essential to self-love…Balance is vastly important to world-class performance. Working day and night will not make you more efficient at all. It will just make you more tired.
That leads us to today’s Dadly Daily Declaration:
You must push your talents hard. Even when you don’t want to. Past your comfort zone. Only then will they grow. Always remember this: The time you least feel like doing something is the best time to do it. And part of the reason for this is because when you enlarge your willpower muscle in one important area, your self-discipline in every other area rises with you.
