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Robin Sharma
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April 21 - June 19, 2025
“We will have eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them.” —Amy Carmichael
We win the victories a few hours before sun rise quote.
“Do not allow your fire to go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours.” —Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand the world is yours quote.
Your personal leadership requires—no, demands—that you stop being a cyber-zombie relentlessly attracted to digital devices and restructure your life to model mastery, exemplify decency and relinquish the self-centeredness that keeps good people limited.
You are a leader so you can't be doomscrollin.
Limitation is nothing more than a mentality that too many good people practice daily until they believe it’s reality. It breaks my heart to see so many potentially powerful human beings stuck in a story about why they can’t be extraordinary, professionally and personally. You need to remember that your excuses are seducers, your fears are liars and your doubts are thieves.”
Your excuses are seducers.
Nothing was an accident. Zero was a waste. You’re definitely exactly where you need to be to begin the life of your most supreme desires.
Zero was a waste.
“Ideas are worth nothing unless backed by application. The smallest of implementations is always worth more than the grandest of intentions.
Application>Ideas
World-class begins where your comfort zone ends is a rule the successful, the influential and the happiest always remember.”
World glass begins where your comfort zone ends
hyperbole
A rhetorical exaggeration.
Warren Buffett, the brilliant investor, said the rich invest in time. The poor invest in money.
"The rich invest In time, the poor invest in money"-Warren Buffet
tarmac
A paved surface in an airport
Picasso said you should learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.
Learn the rules like a pro so you can brak them Like a picasso
Jimi Hendrix. The phrase “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace”
Jemi Hendricks Quote
I’ve learned the importance of being around only the highest quality, wherever I go. That’s one of the best winning moves I’ve made to create the life I’ve crafted. In my businesses, I only allow in top players, because you can’t have an A-level company with C-level performers.
Only be around the highest quality people and things.
vagrant
A wondering homless person.
“Own your morning. Elevate your life.”
Own your morning,elevate your life.
Spartan warrior credo that says, ‘one who sweats more in training bleeds less in war.’
The warrior who sweats the most during traininng , bleeds the least during war.
“We only hear what we’re ready to hear,” observed the homeless man sagely. “All learning meets us exactly where we’re at. And as we grow greater, we understand better.”
We hear what we are ready to hear.
In a culture of cyber-zombies, addicted to distraction and afflicted with interruption, the wisest way to guarantee that you consistently produce mastery-level results in the most important areas of your professional and personal life is to install a world-class morning routine. Winning starts at your beginning. And your first hours are when heroes are made.
Winning starts at your beginning.
Our firsr hours are where heroes are made.
Take excellent care of the front end of your day, and the rest of your day will pretty much take care of itself. Own your morning. Elevate your life.
If you take care of your morning the rest of the day will take care of itelf.
gargantuan results are much less about your inherited genetics and far more about your daily habits.
Daily habits creat gargantuan results
Isaac Asimov wrote ‘Self-education is, I believe, the only kind of education there is.’
Issac Asimov Knowledge Quote
Heavily resist all piracy of your mastery from this world tempting you into distractibility and causing digital dementia.
Don't be distracted into digital dementia
Thomas Campbell said it beautifully when he observed, “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
Thomas Campbell immorality quote
Each of us—truly—has been built to make history, in our own authentic way. For one, this might mean being an excellent coder or a fine teacher who lifts young minds. For another, this opportunity could mean becoming a tremendous mother or a magnificent manager. To yet another, this good fortune may mean growing a great business or being a fantastic salesperson who serves customers superbly.
100% goig to be a great software engineer, husband and business owner.
“That part really resonated with me,” interjected the entrepreneur, slightly emotionally. “I’m definitely addicted to my technology. Can’t stop checking everything. First thing in the morning and last thing at night. It’s draining my concentration. I can hardly focus on the important deliverables my team and I have committed to. And all the noise in my life is taking my energy. It all feels so complicated. I just don’t feel I have any time for myself anymore. It’s fairly overwhelming, all the messages and notifications and ads and diversions.
This resonated with me as well, this is why I focus so much on avoiding my phone as much as I can.
I rather do everything on my laptops.
“please remember that the job of the leader is to help disbelievers embrace your vision, the powerless to overcome their weaknesses and the hopeless to develop faith.
The job of a leader.
They show up to determine how willing you are to improve into the kind of person who can hold that amount of success. Failure’s just growth in wolf’s clothing. And pretty much nothing else is as important in life as personal expansion, the unfoldment of your potential.
FaIlure is growth in wolf's clothing.
Tolstoy wrote, ‘Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.’
Tolstoy change yourself, change the world quote.
“My special teacher also told me that ‘to find your best self you must lose your weak self.’ And that only happens through relentless improvement, continuous reflection and ongoing self-excavation.
To find your best self you must lose your weak self.
Norman Cousins said: ‘The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.’”
Norman Cousins lifd tragedy quote
the soreness of growth is so much less expensive than the devastating costs of regret.”
The soreness of growth is much less expensive than the devestating cost of regret
The first fifty years of our lives are a lot about seeking legitimacy, you know. We crave social approval. We want our peers to respect us. We hope our neighbors will like us. We buy all sorts of things we really don’t need and obsess about making money we really don’t enjoy.” “Totally right,” muttered the artist, nodding his head aggressively and shifting his posture noticeably as his dreadlocks dangled over his shoulders. The event venue was now empty. “If we have the courage to look within, we discover that we do this because we have a series of holes within us. We falsely believe that
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The first 50 years is about "Me", the next 50 years are about "We"
“All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”
All change
And never work only for the income. Labor for the impact.
What impact do you have in your business?
“One of my favorite books is The Prophet,” mused the artist. “It’s one of the bestselling works of poetry ever written. I read that Khalil Gibran
Lookm into
The Prophet by Khahil Gibran
Rising at 5 AM truly is The Mother of All Routines. Joining The 5 AM Club is the one behavior that raises every other human behavior. This regimen is the ultimate needle mover to turn you into an undefeatable model of possibility. The way you begin your day really does determine the extent of focus, energy, excitement and excellence you bring to it. Each early morning is a page in the story that becomes your legacy. Each new dawn is a fresh chance to unleash your brilliance, unprison your potency and play in the big leagues of iconic results. You have such power within you and it reveals
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How and why the #4AmClub is the mother of all routines.
“Commitment, discipline, patience and work.
The golden recipe
“Victims love entertainment. Victors adore education.”
Victems love entertainment, victors love education
You need to take a trust walk with me, people. I’ll teach you everything I know about a world-class morning ritual. I’ll help you both become members of The 5 AM Club. You’ll learn to rise early, regularly—so you’ll get more done by noon than most people get done in a week, and so you’ll optimize your health, happiness and peacefulness. There’s a reason so many of the great achievers of the world get up before the sun—it’s the most special part of the day.
We get more done before noon than what most people do in a week.
“What are you doing now?” quizzed the artist. “Intense visualization of all I want to be and the higher order life I wish to create. A Turkish fighter pilot once told me that before every flight, he’d ‘fly before we’d fly.’ He was suggesting that meticulously rehearsing the way he and his team wanted the mission to unfold in the theater of his imagination set them up to execute that vision of mastery in reality, flawlessly.
Master visualization
Your Mindset is an enormously potent tool for private greatness, prodigious productivity and creative victory—along with your Heartset, Healthset and Soulset.
Mindset
Heartset
Healthset
Soulset
“This is just one of the SOPs I run daily to stay on peak. Good science is confirming that this practice helps me upregulate my genome by turning on genes that were previously asleep. Your DNA isn’t your destiny, you know. Not to worry, cats. You’ll learn about the breakthrough field of epigenetics when you’re on the island. You’ll also learn some beautiful neuroscience on multiplying your success in this age of scattered attention, so the weapons of mass distraction don’t destroy your amazingness.
Your DNA is not your destiny, according to nueroscience and epigenetics
“In his final sermon before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King, Jr., said, ‘Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s Theory of Relativity to serve. You don’t have to know the Second Theory of Thermodynamics and Physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.’”
"Everybody can be great because anyone can serve" -MLK
“One of the big lessons I’ve learned over the years is that giving to other people is a gift you give to yourself. Raise the joy of others and you’ll get even more joy. Increase the state of your fellow human beings and, naturally, your own state of being ascends.
Giving to otherd is a gift you give to yourself.
“5 AM,” instructed the homeless man. “Own your morning. Elevate your life.”
Own Our morning, elevate your life.
A gleaming Rolls-Royce, the color of coal, pulled up to the curb. With swift efficiency, a man in a crisp white uniform leapt out of the sedan and greeted the two with old-school civility.
I have to get a rolls royce
Epictetus, one of my favorite philosophers, wrote: “But neither a bull nor a noble-spirited man comes to be what he is all at once; he must undertake hard winter training and prepare himself and not propel himself rashly into what is not appropriate to him.”
You dont have to show what you are all at once.
“Hangar 21?” the artist asked as he eased languidly into the opulent vehicle like a rock star accustomed to this method of transport or a hip-hop artist ready for a weekend roll. “That’s where Mr. Riley’s fleet of jets are kept,” stated the driver succinctly. “Fleet?” questioned the entrepreneur, her beautiful brown eyes alive with an immensely curious look. “Yes,” was all the chauffeur would allow.
I have to get a fleet of jets
The Rolls soon arrived at a private airport. No sign of Mr. Riley. The driver accelerated up to an ivory jet that looked immaculately kept. The only color it bore appeared on the tail. In the hue of a mandarin orange, three characters read “5AC.” “What does ‘5AC’ stand for?” asked the entrepreneur tensely, gripping her gadget tightly. “The 5 AM Club. ‘Own your morning. Elevate your life.’ It’s one of the maxims Mr. Riley has conducted his many business interests under.
I'm going to put 4AC on my private jets.
To represent the 4am club
“It has been a great pleasure to meet you,” the driver called up to the jet, as he got back into the car. “Kindly convey my best wishes to Mr. Riley once you see him. And do have fun in Mauritius.” “Mauritius?” the companions exclaimed, as surprised as a vampire waking up to a garlic clove. “This is all unbelievable,” the artist said as he climbed into the cabin. “Mauritius! I’ve always wanted to go to that island, and I’ve read a bit about it. It’s a high-frequency place. French flavor. Tremendous beauty. And, from what they say, many of the warmest and happiest people on Earth live there.”
I will visit Mauritius
