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 final maxim of Sharma’s Eleven Maxims to Increase Your Financial Fortune and Experience an Exquisite Life is: Tomorrow Is a Bonus, Not a Right.
Here are a few gems from today’s reading:
- Postpone not your heroism and never delay your peacefulness. Your life can fall apart within an hour. Accidents, illness, loss and death happen every day. It’s human nature to think these things will never occur. Yet, all wise philosopers teach us of the transience of our existence.
- Armed with this insight, connect with your mortality. Understand that your days are numbered. And with the passage of each glorious morning, you grow closer to your end.
- Don’t put off expressing your gifts and talents. And make certain you enjoy this ride. Have a good time as you rise toward your magnificence.
- It’s so sad how most people postpone having a beautiful, fun and magical life until they are too old to fully savor it. Life absolutely is a sublime journey. Yes, we all experience trials—and heartbreak. But it’s all mostly good.
- Every hero story needs to have a villain as well as some juicy tragedy along with the triumphs and ultimate victory for it to be a tale worth watching. And so, keep the shortness of life at the forefront of your focus.
That leads us to today’s Dadly Daily Declaration:
Don’t put off your happiness until you have more time, or you get the promotion, or you have more money in the bank. These are excuses, born of feelings that you are undeserving. Sense them and then extract them from your orbit so that you can keep ascending into your loftiest realms. Tomorrow is a promise, not a fact.
Enjoy every morning and appreciate each day you have on Earth. Take bold risks yet hedge them with common sense. Balance living like there is no tomorrow with behaving like you’ll live forever. So that when the end does come, you’ll know you lived your life as a majestic testimony to the capacity for legendary that every human being carries inside of them.
