Today sees the continuation of our Dadly Daily Declaration series with insights drawn from Robin Sharma‘s newest book, The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning, Elevate Your Life.
Last week’s declarations focused on The Twin Cycles of Elite Performance, codified in the graphic below:
Today’s reading brings us Sharma’s idea of using joy as your GPS. This idea is illustrated below:
Today’s reading expounds on this Joy As Your GPS idea:
- There’s such an enchantment to life. It’s right in front of you. Available to anyone. We all can become magicians of sorts. But to experience this higher reality, you’ll need to leave the world a lot. Play in common society and succeed in the game it sells you but disconnect from it often, so you’re never really owned by it.
- The sport the majority is playing is only an illusion—sort of a waking dream—that too many good people are donating the best mornings of their finest days to as they put money over meaning, profits over people, popularity over integrity, being busy over family and achievement over loving the basic miracles of the now.
- You enter the magic by using your joy as a GPS.
- To know ever-increasing amounts of happiness, trust what makes you feel happy. Your heart knows where you need to be. It’s so much wiser than your head. Instinct knows so much more than intellect and intuition is smarter than reason…
- Our intelligence is made up of what those around us have taught us. It’s limited. It’s confined by logic—and what’s been done before. Your sovereign self knows better. It operates in possibility, not practicality. It’s visionary. It’s unlimited.
- Your heart is always wiser than your head. It knows where you must be. Follow it. Trust it. You’ll find the magic.
Today’s reading ends with this mantra: “I am part of all that is. The great power of the universe is within me. All I desire, with active faith, positivity, expectancy and purposeful conviction, is on its way to me. And if that which I wish for does not come, it’s simply because something even better is on its way. I know this belief to be true. All wizards know it to be true.”
That leads us to today’s Dadly Daily Declaration:
Follow your joy. Only be around those people who fuel your joy. Only perform those pursuits that feed your bliss. Only be in those places that make you feel most alive.
It’s hard to live this model perfectly. So, see this framework as an ideal to move toward. It is a process—not an event. It’ll take time. But it begins with being aware of this model. And then allowing your joy to be your GPS.
