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.
The next eleven declarations will explain Sharma’s Eleven Maxims to Increase Your Financial Fortune and Experience an Exquisite Life. The second maxim is: Collect Miraculous Experiences over Material Things.
Here are a few gems from today’s reading:
- To switch the lens through which you see life from one that views what’s ordinary to one that perceives the extraordinary is to multiply your ability to create miracles. And to re-engage with the lost purity you knew in your youth before a broken society trained you to value objects and cash over joys and delights.
- Be more alive to the wonders that inhabit your days: gentle breezes, squirrels chasing each other in a park and music that is so wonderful it makes you cry. And you will begin to live as royalty along with heightening your primal powers to produce even more magic in your mornings.
- Never sacrifice your well-being and quality of life for greater annual income or larger net worth.
- The determinants of a magnificent life have remained the same for centuries: a sense that you’re growing and capitalizing on your human potential; effortful work that draws out your finest productivity and is profitable for humanity; weighty connections with positive people who escalate your jubilation; and time doing that which nurtures your spirit as you advance through your days with a grateful heart.
- Remember that your past is a servant that has made you all you now are—not a companion to spend much time with in your present or a friend to carry into your spotless future. It’s impossible to enter the magic that each fresh morning brings if parts of you are holding on to old disappointments, resentments and hurts.
That leads us to today’s Dadly Daily Declaration:
The more vividly you value everything in your life, the more everything in your life climbs in value. So, become a collector of awesome experiences instead of a consumer of material things.
Simplify your life and make a return to the essential enjoyments that are sitting right under your noses.
