Robin Sharma is one of my favorite self help author. The first book I ever read related to self help is of Robin Sharma’s ” The monk who sold his Ferrari.” And that book taught me valuable life lessons and gave me whole new perspective about self help. And that was just starting of love affair with self help book and you will see many self help books in your way here because learning is the only thing I am focused to.
The beautiful thing about his book is that he teaches the most important life lessons by just a simple story which you can connect and understand very well. Robin Sharma is a leadership and performance expert known for his work all around the world. The 5 AM Club is considered one of his most admired books and it took him four years to craft this master piece.
This book revolves around story of two struggling strangers one is a business woman and other is an artist who meet an eccentric tycoon who became their secret mentor. How this two strangers’ lives have changed after meeting this tycoon mentor is worth reading for! The mentor gives them secret of success in every aspect of life by just early rising habit. The 5 AM Club concept based on revolutionary morning routine that helps maximize the productivity, activate their best health and bulletproof the serenity in this age of overwhelming complexity.
This book covers :
- A step by step method of morning routine, to protect the quietest hours of daybreak so you have time for exercise, self- renewal and personal growth.
- Tactics to defend your gifts, talents and dreams against distraction and trivial diversions so you enjoy fortune, influence and a magnificent impact on the world.
- A little known formula you can use instantly to wake up early feeling inspired, focused and flooded with a fiery drive to get most out of each day.
- A neuroscience based practice proven to help make it easy to rise while most people are sleeping, giving you precious time for yourself to think, express your creativity and begin the day peacefully instead of being rushed.
- There are mainly four sets you need to take care to 1) Mindset (psychology) 2) Heartset (emotionality) 3) Soulset (spirituality) 4) Healthset (physicality).
This book has to be in your must read book list if you are one a journey of self-growth.
I am quoting some of my favorite lines from the book.
“Life is too short to play small with your talent.”
“You need to remember that your excuses are seducers, your fear are liars and your doubts are thieves.”
“Idea are worth nothing unless backed by application. The smallest of implementations is always worth more than the grandest of intentions.”
“Becoming legendary is never easy. But I’d prefer that journey to the heartbreak of being stuck in ordinary that so many potentially heroic people deal with constantly.”
“The place where your deepest discomfort lies is also the spot where your largest opportunity lives.”
“Picasso said you should learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.”
“Your surroundings really do shape your perceptions and your implementations.”
“Every professional was once an amateur, and every master started as a beginner.”
“Obstacles are nothing more than tests designed to measure how seriously you want the rewards that your ambitions seek.”
“All the changes is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”
“In a world that seeks to keep you down, build yourself up. In epoch that wishes you would stay in the dark, step into light.”
“the writer Charles Bukowski said : Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
“Please consider that a bad day for the ego is a great day for the soul. And what your voice of fear claims is a mean season the light of your wisdom knows is a splendid gift.”
“The best in world have depth.”
“All shadows of insecurity dissolve in the warm glow of persistency.”
“Stop managing your time and start managing your focus.”
The closer you get to your genius, the more you’ll face the sabotage of your fears.”
“Your escalation requires your isolation.”
“Sweat more in practice, bleed less in war.”
“What makes the best the best is not their genetics but their habits. And not the extent of their gifts, but the strength of their grit.”
“With practice and patience, it’ll all get easier and eventually automatic.”
“Life’s finest treasures live in its simplest moments.”
“intuition is smarter than reason.”
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