5 AM Club

Book Review

The 5 AM Club book is for all those people who want to become Titans & Leaders in their field by utilizing the Victory Hour of the day and installing habits which helps you to be focused, inspired and energetic through out the day. It also talks about a step by step method to protect the quietest hours of day break so that you can have time for exercise, self renewal and personal growth.

This book helps you to begin your day peacefully instead of being rushed and gives you time to think and express your creativity and a neuroscience based practice for a installing new habits.

Well not only this but this book also tells an "Insider-only" tactics to defend your gifts, talents and dreams against digital distraction and trivial diversion which take away very important hours of our life and takes away the opportunities to enjoy great fortune, influence and magnificent impact on the world.

What I liked in this book the most was how it not only focuses on making yourself the best but also lays equal importance to make our society a better place by contributing in it through different ways and helping each other. It also lays emphasize on how important it is to stay connected with the nature and to stay humble even when we are Great Leaders and Titans in our field.

The interesting plot twist for me was when The Artist and The Entrepreneur fell in love with each other as they were learning the techniques to become Great Achievers in Life. Another interesting thing about this book is that how the mood of the reader is changed with change in location of the places varying from Rome, India, Mauritius, Brazil and South Africa.

So to conclude with my review I liked the book as it is backed up with lots of research work and other scientific evidences and would surely recommend it to all so that even you can Own your Mornings & Elevate your Life.

Book Summary

The 2x3x Mindset

To double your income and impact, triple your investment in 2 core areas - your Personal Mastery and Professional Capability.

The 3 Step Success Formula

The 95% of performers don’t invest painstaking attention into the tiniest of details and fail to refine the smallest of finishes like the great masters do. The grade of work you offer to the world reflects the strength of the respect you have for yourself. Those with unfathomable personal esteem wouldn’t dare send out anything average. It would diminish them too much. If you want to lead your field, become a performer and person of depth. They’d spend weeks, months, sometimes years getting the finishing touches perfect. Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul, with better daily awareness you can make better daily choices, and with better daily choices you’ll start seeing better daily results.

Challenge yourself to consistently make the shift from superficiality to granularity. There’s a ton of competition at ordinary, but there’s almost none at extraordinary.

Raise your commitment. Step up your standards. And then get busy on hardwiring in this way of being as your default. And that’s really important: you have to optimize daily. Consistency really is the DNA of mastery. And small, daily, seemingly insignificant improvements when done consistently over time yield staggering results. Tiny, daily wins and iterations stack into outcomes of excellence, over the long-term. But few of us have the patience these days to endure the long game. As a result, not many of us ever become legends. You are most alive when your heart beats quickest. And we are most awake when our fears scream loudest.

The 4 Focuses of History Makers

1) Capitalization IQ

Many of the finest athletes in the world had less innate skill than their competition. But it was their exceptional dedication, commitment and drive to maximize whatever strengths they had that made them iconic.

“It’s the old ‘It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog’ insight

The Victory Hour

Your productivity, gratefulness and calmness would improve so much if you had some personal time every morning before it all gets so hectic.

“The Spellbinder taught me early on that investing sixty minutes in developing my best self and my greatest skills during what he called ‘The Victory Hour’ would transform the way the rest of my life unfolded mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually.

Dedication and discipline beats brilliance and giftedness every day of the week. And A-Players don’t get lucky. They make lucky. Each time you resist a temptation and pursue an optimization you invigorate your heroism.

Victims have big TVs. Leaders own large libraries.

Real leaders never negotiate their standards.

Alexander the Great once said:

‘I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.’”

You’ll never have a positive influence in your field and make a beautiful life if you hang with negative people

There's a staggering difference between being busy and being productive. “High-impact performers and genuine world-builders aren’t very available to whoever seeks their attention and demands their time. They’re hard to reach, waste few moments and are far more focused on doing real work versus artificial work—so they deliver the breathtaking results that advance our world. Other avoidance tactics from the pain of potential unexpressed are hours mindlessly surfing online, electronic shopping, working too much, drinking too much, eating too much, complaining too much and sleeping too Much.”

2) Freedom from Distraction

An addiction to distraction is the death of your creative production. The importance of winning the war against diversion and cyber nuisances is an extremely serious issue in our culture. In some ways, the new technologies and social media are not only eroding the Everests of our glorious productive potential, they are also training us to be less human. We have fewer real conversations, fewer true connections and fewer meaningful interactions.

Simplify. Streamline everything. Become a purist. Less really is more. Concentrate on just a few work projects so you make them amazing versus diluting your attention on too many. And socially, have fewer friends but go deep with them so the relationship is rich. Accept fewer invitations, major in fewer leisure activities and study, then master a smaller number of books versus skimming many. An intense concentration only on what matters most is how the pros realize victory. Simplify. Simplify. Simplify

Comparison is the thief of Joy.

Stop managing your time and start managing your focus

Cognitive bandwidth explains the point that we have a limited amount of mental capacity when we rise each morning. And as we give our attention to numerous influences ranging from the news, messages and online platforms to our families, our work, our fitness and our spiritual lives, we leave bits of our focus on each activity we pursue. Massively important insight to consider. No wonder most of us have trouble concentrating on important tasks by noon. People are far less productive when they are constantly interrupting themselves by shifting from one task to another throughout the day because they leave valuable pieces of their attention on too many different pursuits. Work on one high-value activity at a time instead of relentlessly multitasking—and do so in a quiet environment.

The solitude, silence and stillness of daybreak also triggers the production of neurotransmitters like dopamine, the inspirational fuel that serves superproducers so well, and serotonin, the beautiful pleasure drug of the brain. Automatically and naturally, you enter what I described earlier as ‘The Flow State.’

3) Personal Mastery Practice

A performer must invest at least two hours and forty-four minutes of daily improvement on their chosen skill for ten years. Your influence in the world mirrors the glory, nobility, vitality and luminosity you’ve accessed in yourself.

During your Victory Hour, from 5 to 6 AM each morning, concentrate on upgrading what The Spellbinder calls The 4 Interior Empires. To experience empires in your outer life you need to develop your inner ones first.

Mindset: Your thinking forms your reality and that, by improving your mind, you’ll improve your life. For sure, calibrating your mindset is an essential move to make toward the personal mastery that will then lead to a legendary outer reality.

Heartset: is your emotional life. Even with battle proofed beliefs and the distinguished thinking of a world-class Mindset, you won’t win if your heart is full of anger, sadness, disappointment, resentment and fear. Just think about it: How can you produce amazing work and realize astonishing results if toxic feelings are weighing you down?

And it’s only when you grow and deepen your relationship with this natural authority that exists at your core that you can ascend into the company of the virtuosos. As you elevate your four interior empires, you’ll begin to achieve success in the external world at a level you’ve never believed you could achieve. And more elegantly than you’ve ever imagined.

Sigmund Freud wrote that ‘unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.’ If you want to experience exponential growth and unparalleled performance you need to dial in a masterful Mindset but also repair, rebuild and reinforce a winning Heartset. So that all the dark and toxic emotion from your past pains are cleared out. Released and cleansed and purified. Forever. And so your heart, once hardened by life’s trials, reopens in all its noble glory. Heartset isn’t only about removing negative emotions that have built up from life’s frustrations, disappointments and burdens. It’s also about amplifying the healthy ones. That’s why part of your morning routine needs to have a gratitude practice as part of it. To feed your sense of awe and fuel your reservoirs of exuberance.

Healthset: this one speaks to your physical dimension, Beautiful things happen once you commit seriously to peak fitness and go hard on cheating aging. Just imagine living an extra few decades and staying ultra-healthy as you do so. That’s another few decades to refine your craft, to grow into an even more influential leader, to produce work that’s radical artistry, to compound your prosperity and to build a luminous legacy that will enrich all of humanity. Epic producers and great leaders understand that you just can’t rise to mastery without leveraging and then armor-plating your vitality. Every day is just dramatically better with some exercise in it.

Soulset: The sages, saints and seers of history all rose at dawn to forge even weightier bonds with the hero we all have at our cores. Insecurity, scarcity, selfishness and unhappiness are all children of fear. These characteristics were taught to you. They sure aren’t your natural state. After we are born, we begin the departure from our spiritual power and descend into more of what this damaged world wants us to be. We become more about acquiring, hoarding and comparing instead of creating, helping and adventuring. Awake human beings work on elevating their Soulset in the serene hours before daybreak, in the sanctuary of solitude, silence and stillness.

4) Day Stacking

Micro Wins : A few navigational shifts, seemingly irrelevant and infinitesimal, when done consistently over a long voyage, make the difference between ending up in breathtaking Brazil or fantastic Japan.

All you need to do to pretty much guarantee a hugely successful and a splendidly meaningful life is Own the Day. Make those 1% course corrections and improvements over each twenty- four-hour allotment you receive, and these days will slip into weeks and your weeks into months and your months will slip into your years.

Small daily, seemingly insignificant improvements, when done consistently over time, yield staggering results

The 5-3-1 Creed of The Willpower Warrior

“I hated every minute of training. But I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’” —Muhammad Ali

The hero does not become great during periods of comfort. The illustrious and noble souls of our world became strong, brave and moral whilst standing resolutely in the storms of adversity, difficulty and doubt. It is in the moment that you face your deepest weakness that you receive the chance to forge your greatest strengths. Real power, then, comes not from a life of ease but one of intense effort, devoted discipline and demanding action in the direction of what your supreme self knows to be right. To continue at a time when you ache to stop. To advance when you long to quit. To persist in the instant when you feel like giving up is to claim your membership among the great warriors and honorable characters who led humanity to a better place through their earned invincibility.

The 5 Scientific Truths Behind Excellent Habits

Truth #1: World-class willpower isn’t an inborn strength, but a skill developed through relentless practice. Getting up at dawn is perfect self-control training.

Truth #2: Personal discipline is a muscle. The more you stretch it, the stronger it grows. Therefore, the samurais of self-regulation actively create conditions of hardship to build their natural power.

Truth #3: Like other muscles, willpower weakens when tired. Recovery is, therefore, absolutely necessary for the expression of mastery. And to manage decision fatigue.

Truth #4: Installing any great habit successfully follows a distinct four-part pattern for automation of the routine. Follow it explicitly for lasting results.

Truth #5: Increasing self-control in one area of your life elevates self-control in all areas of your life. This is why joining The 5 AM Club is the game-changing habit that will lift everything else that you do.

The 3 Values of Heroic Habit-Makers

Value #1: Victory demands consistency and persistency.

Value #2: Following through on what is started determines the size of the personal respect that will be generated.

Value #3: The way you practice in private is precisely the way you’ll perform once you’re in public.

The 1 General Theory of Self-Discipline Spartans

To regularly do that which is hard but important when it feels most uncomfortable is how warriors are born.

Yet another GCA—a Gargantuan Competitive Advantage, “To remain loyal to your noble ideal not only during the weeks after you thought up the dream but over the long months and perhaps extended years in the parched desert of creative implementation while you endure rejection, exhaustion, the stones of jealous peers, the skepticism of your loved ones, being diverted by other attractive opportunities and finding your way through the isolated winters of self-doubt. This is what separates the also-rans from the icons. Anyone can be great for a minute. The sport of icons is sustaining genius-grade performance over a lifetime. And that takes unusual grit and patience uncommon in these superficial times. The kind that the majority of society today has sadly failed to develop.”

“Gray explained that ‘the common denominator of success—the secret of success of every man and woman who has ever been successful—lies in the fact that they formed the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do.’”

“Top producers make it a habit to do the high-value activities that average ones don’t feel like doing—even when they, too, don’t feel like doing them,” the billionaire continued. “And by practicing the desired behavior over and over, their self-mastery and personal discipline grows. And the new routine becomes automated.”

Spend your days diverted by your devices, tethered to television and majoring in mindless pursuits and your brain will be weak and flabby through your mistreatment of it. Just like other muscles, it will atrophy. And this will result

in weaker cognition, slower learning and lower processing power. Your competition will destroy you and your targets will elude you.

Strengthening Scenarios: The single best way to build your willpower is to voluntarily put yourself into conditions of discomfort. Your Self-discipline muscles are very flabby because you don’t exercise them, you can do the following things to train them:

Once a week, sleep on the floor, taking cold showers every morning, Twice a week fast. The real key is to push your brain to develop new neural pathways and to force your willpower muscles to flex and stretch, intentionally working these natural resources up to their highest level. This is how anyone can become so strong, courageous and undefeatable that, no matter what obstacles they face and difficulties they experience, they continue on their quest to meet their glorious goals. Research proves that training yourself so your willpower becomes maximized is one of the crowning achievements of an epic life. Small, daily, seemingly insignificant improvements, when done consistently over time, yield staggering results.

The Lifetime Habit Arc

This simple model is based on the latest studies on how habits are formed, your starting point is to create some kind of a trigger. To embed the early-rising ritual into your mornings, this could be as simple as having an old-school alarm clock next to your bed that goes off at 5 AM.

Jump straight out of bed before your reasoning mind—the prefrontal cortex—can give you a bunch of excuses about why you should go back to sleep. It’s in this very moment that, by getting out of bed, you build the early-rising neural circuit in your brain through the power of neuroplasticity. And remember: brain pathways that fire together wire together into a potent neural highway, over time. It’s in the very instant when you’re faced with staying on the mattress or standing up and starting your morning in a great way that you have the chance to make your willpower stronger. It’s uncomfortable at the start, All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

Always use the power of rewards for the advancement of your triumphs. Your reward for rising with the sun could be a nice piece of dark chocolate for dessert at lunch. It could be taking a nap later in the day, another favored rite of the planet’s greatest creatives. It could be treating yourself to the book you’ve been wanting to buy for your library. You can figure out what feels right for you.

Each time you follow through, you’ll deepen the relationship with your sovereign self. Each time you rise at dawn, you’ll purify your character, fortify your willpower and magnify the fires of your soul.

How disciplined you are in your practise matters more than how you perform on the actual day. Willpower weakens once it gets tired. Scientists call the condition ‘ego depletion.’ So, the key is rest and recovery of the self-control muscle, Never allow it to get too tired. Your willpower really is weakest when you are most tired. Key awareness to build on here. We make our worst decisions and our lowest choices when we’re exhausted. So, don’t allow yourself to get exhausted.

Please also know the research also supports the idea that external order increases your discipline. That’s why Steve Jobs made sure the workplace at NeXT was minimalist and painted all- white when he was there. Mess lowers your self-control as well as steals your cognitive bandwidth.

The Habit Installation Protocol

Sixty-six days of training to make a new habit yours. So, don’t quit after a few days, or a few weeks, or even after two months.

The Destruction Stage : you need to overcome your deeply ingrained habits, dominant rituals and traditional states of performance.

When faced with a choice, always choose the one that pushes you the most, increases your growth and promotes the unfoldment of your gifts, talents and personal prowess.

The Installation Stage : because it’s like you’re going through an interior renovation, of sorts. Former foundations need to be torn down so that much better ones can be put up. This stage will make you feel confused, stressed out and frustrated. You’ll feel like quitting even more—and dismissing your decision.

The Integration Stage: You’re nearing the end of the roughly sixty-six-day period required for a human brain—and being—to encode a routine. So now it’s success time. You’ve advanced through the initial disruption, you’ve made it through the dangerousness and chaos of the middle phase and you’ve come out the other side stronger, more skilled and with greater intimacy of your most supreme and invincible nature. You’re now the next version of your greatest self, able to bring on a bigger game, influence more people by the glorious power of your example and be more useful to the world because you’ve owned more of your primal heroism.

The Automaticity Point:

The exciting fact is that once you arrive at the automaticity point, you no

longer need any willpower to get up at 5 AM. The new regime’s implementation into your human operating system is complete. Awakening before dawn becomes second nature. And easy. Here’s the real gift from your excellence and devotion over the sixty-six or so days: the willpower you were using to lay down the early-rising habit is now freed up for another world- class behavior, so you have the chance to grow even more productive, prosperous, joyful and successful.

This is the hidden secret of all pro athletes, for example. It’s not that they have more self-discipline than the average person. It’s just that they capitalized on whatever impulse-control they had for sixty-six days until the game-winning routines got installed. After that, they redirected their willpower to something else that would improve their expertise. Another practice that would help them lead their field and achieve victory. One habit installation after another habit installation is how the pros play. Over time, their winning behaviors became automated. Systematized. Institutionalized. Absolutely no effort was required to run them once they got hardwired. And these superstars practiced their habits of victory so often, they’ve arrived at a place where they forgot how to not do them.

Thousand Pushups Challenge

Doing one thousand push-ups a day is a Superb exercise. One of the best. So simple. Keeps you lean and chiseled. Good for your core. And the exercise also recruits your glutes. Doing a thousand push-ups a day is also a ritual to remind me to keep going. Keep expanding. Keep elevating my Mindset, Heartset, Healthset and Soulset and escalating my rise to my best.

Leaders run less by the selfish addictions of the ego and more by the selfless dictates of our greater wisdom.

“My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.”

~Maya Angelou

“If everyone would only clean their own doorstep, the whole world would be clean.”

~Mother Teresa

The 3 Tactics that help you to lock in your new Habit:

#1. To make a habit last, never install it alone.

#2. The teacher learns the most.

#3. When you most feel like quitting is the time you must continue advancing

The 20/20/20 Formula

The first twenty-minute pocket of The 20/20/20 Formula requires that you Move. Simply put, doing some sweaty exercise first thing every morning will revolutionize the quality of your days.

The second pocket encourages you to Reflect for twenty minutes. This segment is designed to help you reaccess your natural power, boost self-awareness, dissolve your stress, fuel your happiness and restore your inner peace in an era of acute overstimulation and excessive activity.

The last twenty minutes is centered around ensuring that you Grow, whether that means investing some time reading a book that will improve your understanding of how the best lives were made or an article that will refine your professional prowess or listening to an audio session on how the virtuosos accomplish their unusual results or watching an educational video that will show you how to lift your relationships or increase your finances or deepen your spirituality.

Move

You must begin your day with intense exercise. This is a non-negotiable. Otherwise The 20/20/20 Formula won’t work. Training rigorously first thing in the morning is a total game-changer. Moving vigorously shortly after you get up will generate an alchemy in your brain based on its neurobiology which will not only wake you up fully but electrify your focus and energy, amplify your self-discipline and launch your day in a way that makes you feel on fire.

Science has also shown there’s a vital link between physical fitness and cognitive ability. The sweating from a powerful workout releases BDNF(brain-derived neurotrophic factor) which supercharges that organ for a winning day. BDNF has been shown to repair brain cells damaged by stress and accelerate the formation of neural connections, so you think better, and process faster, it also promotes neurogenesis, so you’ll actually grow new brain cells.

By exercising intensely during the first twenty-minute pocket of The 20/20/20 Formula, you’ll also release dopamine, which you well know is the neurotransmitter of drive, along with elevating your amounts of serotonin, the wonderful chemical that regulates happiness. This means that by 5:20 AM, while your competitors are counting sheep, you’re already amped to lead your field, achieve excellent results and make the day ahead epic.

As soon as the alarm goes off, bolt out of bed before your weaker self sucks you into all the reasons to stay in bed. Before your rational mind can come up with reasons to remain under the covers. You just need to make it through that sixty-six-day habit installation process so that waking up at 5 AM reaches The Automaticity Point.

Working out first thing in the morning also elevates your metabolism—and it fuels the fat-burning engine of your body so you burn any excess more efficiently and lean out more quickly.

Reflect

One element of a cleverly granulated morning routine is a period of deep peace. Some quietude and solitude for yourself before the complexity starts arriving, and your family needs your energy, and all your other responsibilities take over. Tranquility is the new luxury of our society. Savor some stillness. Contemplate how you’re living and on who you hope to become. Be thoughtful and intentional on the values you want to be loyal to over the hours ahead of you. And how you wish to behave. Consider what needs to happen for this to be a great day amid the construction of a legendary life.

Reflecting on what’s most important to a life beautifully lived will leave you with what is called ‘Residual Wisdom’ throughout the rest of the day. For example, thinking quietly about the weighty value of purely producing work that represents mastery or remembering your commitment to treating people kindly and respectfully during the second pocket re-anchors those virtues within your awareness. And so, as you experience the remainder of your day, the residue of your reconnection with this wisdom stays in focus, infusing every single moment and guiding each one of your choices.

You should also use the reflection pocket to invent, visualize and dream. Mark Twain says, “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Another tactic you can practice at this time is to write out what The Spellbinder calls a Pre-Performance Blueprint. This is simply a written statement of your ideal day ahead. Researchers confirm that pre-commitment strategies work beautifully to increase your focus and discipline to get things done. So, take at least ten minutes to write out your perfect day.

Don’t write only the positive elements of your current life but also those aspects of your experience that are causing discomfort and pain. Because the quickest way out of hard emotions is to have the wisdom and courage to go straight into them. Feel them to heal them. Name them to let go of them.

Because once you reclaim the power blocked by layers of toxic emotions and the wounds of the past, your Mindset, Heartset, Healthset and Soulset will all soar exponentially. And when your four interior empires escalate through your effortful self- purification, your supreme self begins to assume command. This then yields the external empires you both hope to see more of. Difficult feelings that you don’t find a healthy way to remove become repressed, which creates stress, poor productivity and even disease.

Meditate

Find at least a few moments during the second pocket, between 5:20 and 5:40 AM, to meditate. It profoundly helps my concentration, my confidence, my performance and the calm that I feel. And calm performers are the highest achievers.

Current research proves that regular meditation helps lower levels of cortisol, thus lowering your stress. It’s also a strong way to grow the relationship you have with yourself. You need to make more time for you. To scale your fluency and intimacy with your higher nature.

Grow

The final segment of The Victory Hour is when you deepen your base of knowledge, increase your acumen, improve your expertise and outlearn your competition.

During the final pocket, from 5:40 to 6 AM, of The 20/20/20 Formula, work on becoming more valuable, to your industry as well as to society. See, you don’t receive success and influence only because of what you want. You attract it into your life based on who you are—as a person and as a producer. Private desire without personal development is like dreaming of having a gorgeous garden but not planting any seeds. We magnetize ourselves to excellent rewards by raising the value of ourselves, you can do following

Study the lives of the greatest men and women of the past by consuming their autobiographies during the ‘Grow’ pocket.
Learn about the latest advancements in psychology.
Devour works on innovation and communication, productivity and leadership, prosperity and history.
Watch documentaries on how the best do what they do and grew into who they are.
Listen to audiobooks on personal mastery, creativity and business- building.

One of the traits all my billionaire friends and I have in common is we absolutely love to learn. We grow and capitalize on our gifts and talents relentlessly. We invest in expanding ourselves and our pro games constantly. We are all totally into reading, improving and feeding our limitless curiosity. Fun for us is going to a conference together. We go to one, at least one, every three months so we stay inspired, excellent and absolutely switched on. We don’t spend much time on meaningless entertainment because we’re just too invested in endless education..

Essentialness of Sleep

Science now confirms that one of the primary ways we bring on an early death is by not sleeping enough.

Melatonin affects Sleep

Research is now confirming that the blue light emitted from our tools of technology reduces the amount of melatonin within us. Melatonin is the chemical that informs your body that it needs to get sleep. There’s zero doubt that checking your gadgets all day long impairs cognitive function, as you’ve learned. And there’s no question at all that being in front of your screens before bedtime causes sleep dysfunction. I could go deeper and explain how the light of your devices activates photoreceptors called ‘intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells’ that limit melatonin production and negatively affect your circadian rhythm, which hurts your sleep.

When we don’t sleep enough, not only is it fiercely difficult to get up early, but a number of other highly damaging things impair your productivity and minimize your performance along with reducing your happiness and eroding your health.

Sleep Quality

When you sleep and the key here is not only the quantity of sleep but the quality of your sleep states

Human growth hormone (HGH)

is produced in the pituitary gland of the brain and is important for healthy tissues in your body, a strong functioning metabolism and a long lifespan. Increased levels of HGH raise your moods, cognition, energy levels and lean muscle mass, while reducing your cravings through the regulation of leptin and ghrelin. Here’s the main point: while HGH is released through exercise, which is part of the reason pocket number one of The 20/20/20 Formula is such a game-changer, 75% of HGH production happens when you sleep! And here’s the real key: to maximize the process of the brain being washed properly and HGH being produced excellently so you expand your creativity, productivity, vitality and longevity, you need five complete ninety-minute sleep cycles. That’s what the scientific studies are now confirming. That’s seven and a half hours of sleep each night. You also should know that research proves that it’s not only sleep- deprivation that kills. Over-sleep, nine or more hours, also has been shown to shorten life.

The 10 Tactics of Lifelong Genius

The greatest of leaders were all servant leaders. The less you make it all about you, and the more your obsession focuses on the upliftment of others, the more you’ll increase your identity as a genuine empire-builder. And grow into a history-maker.

“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”

“Don’t diffuse my genius on being pretty good at many things when I have it in me to be legendary by working intensely only on one thing”

~ Thomas Edison

1) The Tight Bubble of Total Focus (TBTF)

An addiction to distraction is the death of your creative production. Your attraction to digital interruption is costing you your fortune —financially, cognitively, energetically, physically and spiritually. To have the income and impact only a few people currently have, you need to run your days like very few performers currently do.

The five primary assets that all superproducers defend are mental focus, physical energy, personal willpower, original talent and daily time. Your bubble has a porous membrane that encircles it so that you decide what information, which people and the nature of the activities that enter your orbit. Anything negative, toxic and impure gets blocked at the gate. Essentially, this way of being in the world is your bulletproof defense system to reject any stimuli that would decry your greatness.

The Tight Bubble of Total Focus strategy preserves your focus as well as your primal brilliance by giving you long stretches of time free from trivial fascinations and any influences that dissolve your inspiration —and deteriorate your A-game. Each morning, you enter this invisible bubble of your own making that is completely empty of other people’s superficial messages, spam, fake news, advertisements, silly videos, irrelevant chatting and other forms of cyber-hooking that will destroy your life of monumental potential.

The real key here is solitude for a scheduled period each day, in a positive environment that floods you with creativity, energy, happiness and the feeling the work you’re doing is for the upliftment of humanity. The spaces you inhabit shape the output you produce. This concept can—and should—also be applied beyond your professional routine. So your private time is free of negativity, energy vampires and soul-hurting pursuits. Of course, tinker with this metaphorical wall of armor around your five assets of genius so you have a wonderful social life.

Specific application ideas include selling your television, avoiding the news for the remainder of your days, staying out of noisy shopping malls where you buy things you don’t need, unfriending energy-draining people you follow on social platforms, turning off all notifications while you’re in the TBTF and deleting apps with constant announcements.

2) The 90/90/1 Rule

Doing real work versus artificial work, daily and with absolute consistency, will give you a Gargantuan Competitive Advantage born of mastery. Productivity of virtuoso-level quality is rare. And the marketplace pays most for something that is scarce. Legendary achievers concentrate all their attention and effort on one core project at a time so they harness the fullness of their cognitive capacity and their precious energy on releasing glorious products that turn their industry on their head.

For the next ninety days, schedule yourself to invest the

first ninety minutes of your workday on the one activity that, when completed at world-class, will cause you to own your field. This ninety-minute period must be completely free of any noise and interruptions. Place your devices in a bag marked, “for my 90/90/1 period.” And then leave that bag in another room. Installing clear boundary fences that block access to temptations is a potent tactic to decrease them.

3) The 60/10 Method

Research supports that the greatest performers don’t work in a linear way—working harder and longer with the hope of arriving at stronger and better results. Instead, the way elite creatives do what they do is by understanding the power of oscillation. They structure their work cycles so that they alternate bursts of deep focus and ferocious intensity of performance with periods of real rest and full recovery. In other words, they work in a balance—and cycle awesome output with times to refuel their assets of genius so they don’t deplete them. Armed with data concluding that human beings do their most astonishing work when they are fresh and relaxed versus exhausted and stressed, genuine pros dedicated to the glorification of their genius operate in a mode of pulsation, operating more like sprinters than marathoners.

After you’ve run the 90/90/1 segment of your workday, use a timer and work at your best for sixty minutes straight while sitting or standing quietly, in your Tight Bubble of Total Focus. Train yourself not to move. Just concentrate. And create the highest results you can possibly make. After your sixty-minute productivity sprint is done, refuel for ten minutes. Ideas for this recovery cycle include going for a quick walk in fresh air, reading a book that will advance your leadership or personal mastery, meditating, visualizing or listening to energizing music with headphones on like many championship athletes do before they step onto the court, so that their brain’s attention shifts from the ruminating and worrying behaviors of the left hemisphere into the creativity and flow of the right section. After ten wonderful minutes of regeneration, go back and perform your next sixty- minute work segment, full of inspiration, excellence and ingenuity. And then your next ten-minute cycle of renewal.

4) The Daily 5 Concept

Studies show that the most effective business leaders are at their productive peak on the days when, even if they’ve faced some serious setbacks, they’ve actively engaged their mindset on the progress they’ve made. In so doing, they’ve inoculated themselves from the self-sabotaging influence of the brain’s negativity bias. One of the great keys to terrific performance, then, is to train your attention on making consistent 1% wins and micro-achievements throughout each hour of your workday. Small daily achievements, when done consistently over time, definitely do lead to stunning results. And by deliberately reflecting on the areas where you are moving ahead, you’ll insulate your ambition, guard your confidence and defeat the dangerous trickster of fear, so you get amazing feats done.

During the second pocket of your Victory Hour, list the five tiny targets you wish to accomplish over the day ahead for you to feel it was one well-spent. After just thirty days, you’ll have accomplished 150 valuable victories. And after a year, this strategy alone will be responsible for you achieving 1,825 high-value targets, guaranteeing that the next twelve months are the single most productive twelve months you’ve had yet.

5) The 2nd Wind Workout (2WW)

Moving the body regularly lifts your concentration, speeds up the processing potency of your brain as well as accelerating its learning capacity, raises your energy, elevates your optimism, helps you sleep better via the production of more melatonin and promotes longevity through the release of human growth hormone (HGH), along with the lengthening of your telomeres. Telomeres keep the ends of our chromosomes from fraying— they’re like plastic caps at the tips of shoelaces. Aging shortens our telomeres, which is why they are sometimes compared to a bomb fuse. The powerful point here is that it’s well-documented that exercise slows this shortening, helping you stay healthy longer. You should also note that meditation, a diet rich in whole foods, proper sleep quality and intermittent fasting (which The Spellbinder calls The 16/8 Dividend because you don’t eat during a sixteen- hour fasting window and then break the fast over an eight-hour period) have all proven to protect our telomeres from degenerating.

To execute The 2WW practice, schedule a second workout at the end of your workday to give you a second wind for a great evening. You’ll beat the exhaustion most people feel after work, re-energize your willpower batteries so you improve your evening choices and even find your cravings for sugar in the nighttime are significantly lower. One of the finest activities you could possibly do at this time is a one-hour nature walk.

You’ll gain another block of time free from digital interruption, letting you do more deep thinking and downloading of valuable ideas. You’ll also be rewarded with the benefits that walking within natural surroundings with sunlight and fresh air bring to your Mindset, Heartset, Healthset and Soulset.

Other ideas for your 2WW include going for a sixty-minute mountain bike ride, having a long swim or attending a yoga class. In running this routine, you’ll also burn even more calories and speed up your metabolic rate, reducing body fat. The 2WW is a game-changer.

6) The 2 Massage Protocol (2MP)

Studies have demonstrated that massage therapy is a modality that generates significant improvements in brain performance, mood, your ability to fight stress, and in terms of your general wellness. The benefits of a massage include a 31% reduction of cortisol (the fear hormone) levels; a 31% increase in dopamine (the neurotransmitter of motivation); a 28% elevation of serotonin (the neurochemical responsible for regulating anxiety and raising happiness); reduced muscle tension; improved pain relief via the sending of anti-inflammation messaging to muscle cells; and elevations in the signaling of those cells to make more mitochondria. The key here is to have a deep- tissue massage versus simple relaxation bodywork. It needs to hurt a little for it to work well. This awesome practice also reduces the stress that causes telomeres to degrade, optimizing your good health and maximizing your lifespan.

To apply The 2MP, lock two ninety-minute massages onto your weekly schedule.

7) Traffic University

Participating in Traffic University is all about leveraging your traveling time—whether to and from work or grocery shopping and errand running—to learn, expanding your professional prowess and personal knowledge. Specific ideas to help you do so include listening to audiobooks and consuming valuable podcasts. The fact is, even one new idea you learn in a book or online course could make you millions or even billions of dollars. Or multiply your creativity, productivity, vitality and spirituality exponentially. There is simply no other investment vehicle available today that will yield a higher return than investing in your education and growth.

8) The Dream Team Technique

Professional athletes structure a full team to support their rise to Best in World (BIW). Delegate tasks that not only are a poor use of your hours but also diminish your happiness. Ideally, restructure your entire life so you’re doing only the things you’re great at—and love to do.

With such a setup, you’ll not only escalate in your performance because you’re prioritized around just a few things, but you’ll enjoy significantly more personal freedom. And serenity. As well, because you have people on your Dream Team who are leaders at what they do, your rise to legendary will be swifter since you have great people in your corner.

Specific members of your Dream Team could include a fitness trainer who you work with regularly, a nutritionist, a massage therapist, a financial coach to fortify your fortune, a relationship adviser to help you maintain rich bonds with the important people in your life and a spiritual counselor to assist you in staying grounded on the eternal laws of a life well-lived.

9) The Weekly Design System (WDS)

You now know that things that get scheduled are the things that get done. Designing a week without a granulated game plan for the seven

days ahead of you.

Carve out and then ritualize thirty minutes early each Sunday morning to create your “Blueprint for a Beautiful Week.” Start the process by writing a story in your journal about the highlights from the seven days you just lived. Then record your lessons learned and optimizations for making the coming week even better. Next, on a large piece of paper that has each day running from 5 AM to 11 PM on it, note down all your commitments.

The key here is to list more than your business meetings and work projects. Set clear periods for your Victory Hour, your 90/90/1 sessions, your 60/10 cycles and your 2nd Wind Workouts, as well as time for your loved ones, blocks for your portfolio of passions and segments for your errands. Doing this weekly will build extraordinary focus into your days, yield marvelous momentum, enhance your productivity significantly and improve your life’s balance noticeably

10)The 60 Minute Student

The more you know, the better you will do. Legendary leaders all have boundless curiosity and a limitless appetite to grow into their greatest selves. And education truly is inoculation against disruption. Peak producers are lifetime learners.

For at least sixty minutes a day, study. Do whatever it takes to fireproof your commitment to relentless growth. Learning daily will raise your acumen, deepen your wisdom and incite a blazing fire that stokes your grandeur. You’ll become a weighty thinker and an outright superstar. Specific tactics for your sixty minutes include reading every good book you can get your hands on, reviewing your journal notes, working through an online program, talking with a mentor and watching skill-building videos.

The Twin Cycles of Elite Performance

“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”

~ Oscar Wilde

Longevity really is a key to legendary, is one of the main keys to your rise to iconic. You really must learn how to balance working intensely and brilliantly with deep rest and recovery so you can remain fresh and strong over a long career. As you do this, you won’t blow out your gifts by hyperextending them, in the same way that some pro athletes blow out their knees—preventing them from ever playing again. The geniuses all know and apply this remarkably important principle.

Your growth happens when you’re resting. The mainstream thinking tells us that to get more done, we must put in more hours. To achieve more, we need to do more. But solid research now confirms that that kind of linear approach ‘work harder to produce better’ is seriously flawed. It isn’t sustainable. It just leads to burnout. Exhaustion. Loss of inspiration and the reduction of your private fire to lead the field and enhance our world. That old-school way of operating also causes a visceral depletion of the very human resources which, if applied intelligently, will make you the master of your marketplace.

The 5 Assets of Genius. “As you’ve now learned, every morning you wake up with a full battery of creative power. The 5 Assets of Genius are your mental focus, your physical energy, your personal willpower, your original talent and your daily time.

These primary assets are at their highest early in the morning. That’s why you want to start your day well and perform your most important pursuits during your most valuable hours instead of wasting this precious opportunity fooling around with your technology, watching the news or oversleeping.

Top performance truly isn’t a linear game. Elite accomplishment is much more like a heartbeat, more like a rhythm, more like a pulse. If you want to show up as a great master over decades so you literally dominate your domain for an entire career and lead a life you love well into old age you absolutely need to alternate High Excellence Cycles, those periods of intense and fantastic output, with times of meaningful recovery, Deep Refueling Cycles.

Growth does happen in the resting phase. We’ve been programmed to think that if we’re not creating and producing, we’re wasting our time. We feel guilty if we’re not doing.

THE LEGENDARY PERFORMANCE EQUATION:

PRESSURE × REFUELING = GROWTH + ENDURANCE

Tennis great Billie Jean King said that pressure is a privilege, pressure and stress aren’t bad.

They’re actually absolutely necessary for the expansion of your capacity. You must push your talents hard. Even when you don’t want to. Past your comfort zone. Only then will they grow. Always remember this: The time you least feel like doing something is the best time to do it. And part of the reason for this, as you also now know, is because when you enlarge your willpower muscle in one important area, your self-discipline in every other area rises with you.

Pressure and stress are wonderful blessings that A-Players exploit. Our gifts don’t increase when we stay in our safety circles. Nope. Challenge and stretch your capacities past the normal. Muscles expand only when we take them past our usual limits. And then allow for some time to refuel and recover.

I rest to allow all my training to take effect, Profound way of seeing things. All work and no break depletes your greatness, over time. If you want to build stronger abdominal muscles you stress them past their current boundaries.

If you usually do a hundred sit-ups, you do two hundred. If two hundred is your daily quota, go up to three hundred. This actually causes the muscle to rip apart. The exercise physiologists call the phenomenon ‘micro-tearing.’ Yet, if you want the muscle to grow, you can’t keep exercising it relentlessly or you’ll experience injury. You need to rest the muscles for a day or two. And it’s in that recovery cycle when the actual growth happens.

Growth happens in the resting phase—not in the performing stage.

Self-care is essential to self-love,” remarked the billionaire. balance is vastly important to world-class performance. Working day and night didn’t make me more efficient at all. It just made me more tired. And cranky. So, now I make the time to rest, to nourish myself, to mountain bike, to read the books I’ve always wanted to read, to enjoy a glass of excellent wine like the glass of amazing Pinotage I savored last night in front of the blazing fire in my cottage here in the valley.

To be specific and tactical: take at least two full days off each week. No technology. ‘Zero Device Days’ is what The Spellbinder calls them. Full recovery. And every quarter, take off even more time. Being successful without feeling soulful is the highest of defeats.

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, that’s for sure. 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.

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. Look, I know it’s hard to live this model perfectly. So please see this framework as an ideal to move toward. And like everything else I’ve taught you, it’s 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.

The magic that lives at the essence of life. Love it so much. Fills me with more serenity and tranquility than any material object ever has. And this is the importance of balancing being successful with being soulful.

Your heart is always wiser than your head, it knows where you must be. Follow it. Trust it. You’ll find the magic.

The Eleven Maxims for Financial Fortune & Exquisite Life

The Billionaire’s Maxim #1: Mirror

To Create Magic in the World, Own the Magic within Yourself

Look in the mirror. Your relationship with you predicts your relationship with the world. Remember that you have a primitive longing for silence and solitude—and that it is in quietude that self-awareness rises. French mathematician Blaise Pascal wrote: “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

Release your need for complexity and immerse yourself in the stillness only the early morning can provide so you get to know yourself again. Because a flight from solitude really is an escape from freedom. To become an everyday magician, so your life is rich with passion, plenty and peace, grow more comfortable being still. So you start to hear the whispers of the great genius who slumbers within you. In restfulness, you’ll remember all you truly are.

You’ll reaccess that supreme self, abundant with creativity, potency, invincibility and a love that has no conditions. In this sanctuary of silence, you will also be afforded something so rare in this age: time for yourself to be. And the more you do so, the more you’ll discover how life really works.

You’ll also begin to differentiate between your beliefs that are merely cultural constraints and those that are actual truths. And between the trustworthy voice of your intuition and the persuasive pronouncements of your fears. In solitude, you’ll also receive the disruptive insights that will transform your field. I know it sounds strange but amid serenity, you’ll actually visit the alternate reality.

Why do you think the legendary scientists, inventors, industrialists and artists all made so much effort to be alone? I’ve shared with you that long stretches spent in noiseless contemplation is one of the secrets of the advanced mind. Ultimately, you’re the only person you’ll be with your entire life. Why not strengthen your relationship with your greatest self, fully know your genius and start a lifetime love affair with your most noble nature?

The Billionaire’s Maxim #2 : Flower

Collect Miraculous Experiences over Material Things.

The world has burdened and hardened you. As a child, your instinct showed you how to spot the miraculousness of a snowflake, find fortune in a spider’s web and adore the splendor of falling leaves on a colorful autumn morning. The pursuit wasn’t about acquiring things. It was about exploring life. 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. Laugh more often, dance more regularly and play more frequently.

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.

The Billionaire’s Maxim #3 : Door

Failure Inflates Fearlessness.

Every ending marks a new beginning. All we experience happens for a helpful reason. And when one door closes, another will always open for you, Trust always that life has your back even if what’s unfolding makes no sense.

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all in which case, you fail by default,”

~ J.K. Rowling.

The mighty goliaths of ambition and the massive behemoth of imagination within you must never be abducted by the tiny cowards of “What would people think?” “What if I get rejected?” and “I’ll probably look silly if I try this.” You can allow yourself to become paralyzed by a fear of rejection or you can go out there and astonish the world. But you just don’t get to do both.

Life’s reality is that you have a transcendent destiny that begs for your attention in this era of crushing complexity. Stop abusing your greatness, deforming your magnificence and denying your radiance by labeling something that didn’t turn out as you wanted a failure. We all know that within every seeming setback lies a distinguished opportunity for even greater success. And start saying yes more often in your life. Courage is an exquisite weapon to defeat the armies of regret that tear away at lives meekly lived.

The Billionaire’s Maxim #4 : Metal Box

Proper Use of Your Primal Power Creates Your Personal Utopia.

To enter the magic of your life, you must become aware of the four creative tools that turn each of your desires into your visible results. These four resources that will allow you to materialize miracles in the world are your thoughts, your feelings, your words and your deeds. Exercise your mind to think only thoughts that serve your ascent to mastery and happiness.

Sit regularly in feelings of gratitude, positive expectancy and love for all that you have in your life. Speak only the words of upliftment, abundance and encouragement as you saw me doing when I was upside down. And do only those acts that are in forceful alignment with the resident hero that sits at your most wise foundation.

Study someone playing small with their potential and you will understand clearly why their conditions are as difficult as they are. They focus their thinking on their lack instead of plenty. They disrespect the potency of the word by speaking continually of “problems”; by labeling their circumstances as “terrible”; and by classifying rewards such as vast success, financial wealth, contentment and energetic service to others as “impossible,” failing to understand that it is their own speech that disconnects them from their capacity to craft magic.

Words truly are creative multipliers. And in terms of the daily deeds of such stuck performers, they don’t work hard at all, doing as little as possible while hoping for a beautiful life, believing no one sees this crime against their humanity. Yet the most-high magician within them—their conscience and their subconscious mind—watches it all. And witnesses this theft from their best.

The Billionaire’s Maxim #5 :The Eye

Avoid Bad People.

For your own maximum productivity, top performance, boundless joyfulness and peace of mind, it’s really important to avoid ‘bad people,’ those who are filled with wounds from the past that they don’t have the self-awareness not to project onto you.

Fill your life with exceptionally excellent, enterprising, healthy, positive, ethical and sincerely loving people. And over time, you’ll exemplify these lofty traits. Allow dream stealers, energy thieves and enthusiasm bandits into your Tight Bubble of Total Focus and please know you’re sure to become like them.

The real key is to avoid trouble creators. People who have grown up in an environment riddled with drama and non-stop problems will consciously and subconsciously re-create drama and nonstop problems because, as amazing as it seems, such conditions feel familiar, safe and like home to them. Stay away from all drama queens and negativity kings. If you don’t, sooner or later,

they’ll dissolve your bigness and destroy your life. It’s just what they do.

Relate peacefully, as much as possible, with everyone. Even one enemy is an enemy too many. Pass through life gracefully, taking the high road when conflict shows up. Should someone do you wrong, let karma do the dirty work. And let a world-class life be your revenge.

The Billionaire’s Maxim #6 : Money

Money Is the Fruit of Generosity, Not Scarcity.

Be not misled by the dominant philosophy of the world. Poverty is the consequence of an inner condition, not an outer situation. To believe otherwise is to hand over your capacity to produce the magic of the prosperity that you want to the very things you are complaining of. Money is a currency that must flow like electricity.

Yes, cash is a current. It needs to circulate. Hoarding it stops the flow of it into your business and private life. All genuine magicians know this. So give more to receive more. Leave lavish tips for servers in restaurants, housekeepers in hotels and drivers in taxicabs. Donate to charities. Do wonderful things for your family and friends without a single thought of any return. A tsunami of abundance will be sent to you.

Four practices have helped me make my financial fortune, and so I gift them to you: positive expectancy, active faith, ever-increasing gratitude and extreme value delivery.

By positive expectancy I simply mean to tell you that I always maintain a mindset where I expect money will come to me regularly and from highly unexpected sources.

Active faith is when you behave in a way that shows life you trust it in its abundance and benevolence. The universe adores gestures of affluence like paying for a dinner you had with your friends at an expensive restaurant when you cannot totally afford to do so. Or buying the tools you need to raise your craft when there’s little cash in your wallet. I’m in no way suggesting that you throw yourself into a prison of debt. Not at all. Overleverage is such a destructive force in our civilization today. Just show nature you know prosperity is coming and perform acts that make you feel like you have plenty.

Ever-increasing gratitude, well, we’ve discussed that one a lot over our journey together. Continue opening your heart to everything and everyone in your life. Bless your money when you pay a bill. Bless the cashier at the grocery store and the farmers who harvested your food. Bless the motorist who lets you into a line in traffic and the musicians who write the songs that become the soundtrack of your life. Bless your legs for carrying you all these years, your eyes for allowing you to witness beauty and your heart for allowing you to feel alive.

Extreme value delivery just means giving others teammates, customers, family members and strangers exponentially more benefit than they ever could expect from you. Because we reap what we sow.

The great women and men of the world were all givers, not takers. Renounce the common delusion that those who accumulate the most win, instead do work that is heroic.

The Billionaire’s Maxim #7 : Shoes

Optimal Health Maximizes Your Power to Produce Magic.

Exercising first thing in the morning gets the primary win of taking care of your health out of the way. This all-important activity is now done, leaving your cognition, energy, physiology and spirit primed to create wonders within your day.

When you get into the finest fitness of your life, calibrate your nutrition to mastery-level, dial-in your sleep routine and minimize aging, you’ll notice vast increases in your ability to build intimacy with your sovereign self. So, you bring on more of your genius, glory and compassion into our world. This, in turn, will bring you great financial fortune. Much more importantly, you will be placed in a position of being able to make a bigger contribution.

The Billionaire’s Maxim #8 : Mountain Climber

Continue Raising Your Life Standards Toward Absolute World-Class.

Go through life at world-class. Life’s just too short not to treat yourself as amazingly as possible. And as you take better care of you, your relationship

with others, with your work, with money and with the world will be lifted correspondingly because your relationship with everything outside of yourself cannot help but be a demonstration of your relationship with all that is within you. This is just the way it is.

Invest in the finest books you can buy, and you’ll be rewarded in multiples. Eat fantastic food of the highest caliber, even if all you can currently afford is an excellent starter salad at a luxurious local restaurant. Go have a coffee at the greatest hotel in your city. If where you live has a professional sports team that you love, sit courtside for one game rather than hanging out in the cheap seats for a few seasons. Drive the best car you possibly can. Listen to joyful music daily. Visit art galleries, like I have taught you, so the creativity and consciousness of the painters will rub off on your soul.

And remember, be around flowers often they raise your frequency as well as your ability to see the alternate universe all visionaries tap into. Why do you think so many of the great saints, seers, healers and sages kept flowers beside them? You’ll be pleasantly stunned at what this does for your powers to generate all that you desire.

The Billionaire’s Maxim #9 : Heart

Deep Love Yields Unconquerable Joy.

Tell people how proud you are of them and how much you love them while you and they are still alive.

Part of your job as a fully alive human is to make people feel better about themselves. And to make others smile. It may shock you how little it takes to make someone happy. Write old-school love letters to everyone you care about, thank-you notes to those who have helped you and messages of consideration for anyone you think needs some appreciation.

Express how you really feel without being limited by the devilish fear of rejection. And always be more interested in other people than being concerned with coming off as an interesting person. Every human being you meet has a lesson to teach, a story to tell and some dream in their heart that longs for your support.

The Billionaire’s Maxim #10: Angel

Heaven on Earth Is a State, Not a Place.

Take daily voyages into awe and regular adventures into wonder. Wonder is such a potent source of happiness and a key skill in the promotion of your ever-increasing genius. Through my experiments with life, I now understand that what the immortal philosophers, mystics and saviors called “Heaven on Earth” isn’t a place to visit but a state you can inhabit. Trust me, as you cultivate your Mindset, purify your Heartset, optimize your Healthset and elevate your Soulset, the way you perceive and experience life will revolutionize your experience.

But if you don’t do this profoundly important work, you’ll never know. And my words will seem like the ramblings of an old eccentric. A sane person in a world gone crazy has always been considered insane, you know? So, as you dedicate more time to personal mastery, the amount of self- love you feel will expand. And all lavish successes and private joys do depend on loving oneself.

The Billionaire’s Maxim #11 : Coffin

Tomorrow Is a Bonus, Not a Right.

Postpone not your heroism and never delay your peacefulness. Your life can fall apart within an hour. I am an optimist and a genuine merchant of hope. And yet I am also a realist. Accidents, illness, loss and death happen every day. It’s human nature to think these things will never occur. Yet, all wise philosophers 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.

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.

The heroic Human Circle

These are the virtues each of us must aspire to, to become world- changers and heroes for the benefit of a better society.

Some Key points

We need to remember that our excuses are seducers, our fears are liars and our doubts are thieves.
Some of our lives are a mess because our fears are just a little stronger than our faith. With practice we can turn down the volume of the voice of our scared self and increase the tone of our most triumphant side.
We need to understand that the smallest of implementations is always worth more than the grandest of intentions.
All possibility requires hard work, regular intervention and a dedication as deep as the sea to leaving our harbors of safety, daily.
World-class begins where your comfort zone ends. It is a rule the successful, the influential and the happiest always remember.
Only those devoted enough to go to fiery edges of their highest limits will expand them.
The place where our discomfort lies is also the spot where your largest opportunity lives. The beliefs that disturb you, the feelings that threaten you, the projects that unnerve you and the unfoldments of your talents that the insecure part of you is resisting are precisely where you need to go.
You can fit in. Or you can change the world.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
The moment when you most feel like giving up is the instant when you must find it in you to press ahead.
‘Turn I cant's into I cans’ & ‘Done is Better than Perfect’".
Your surroundings really do shape your perceptions, your inspirations and your implementations.
Art feeds your soul, great books battle proof Hope, Rich conversations magnify Creativity, Wonderful music uplifts Heart, Beautiful Sights fortify your Spirit.
Uplifting Humankind is the master sport of Business that top 5% play. The real purpose of commerce is to serve the society and be helpful. Money, Power and Prestige are just inevitable by-products that come along the way.
Pain is the doorway into deep and tragedy is nature's great purifier. It burns away the fakeness, fear & arrogance that is of the ego. Returns us to our Brilliance and Genius, if you have the courage to go into that which wounds you. Suffering yields many rewards, including empathy, originality, relatability and authenticity.
The one who sweats more in training bleeds less in war.
High victory is made in those early mornings hours when no one's watching and while everyone else is sleeping. Your First hours are when Heroes are made.
The successful people are not born genius, they earn their results with a manomanical concentration around a single pursuit, astronomical focus on one skill, intensity of sacrifice applied to one aim, unusual levels of deep preparation and extreme amounts of solid patience.
'Education is the kindling of a flame' ~ Socrates.
'Self Education is I believe, the only kind of education there is' ~ Issac Asimov.
Chasing trivial pursuits and artificial amusements while neglecting living a real life. This is a formula for heartbreak at the end.
The job of the leader is to help disbelievers embrace your vision, the powerless to overcome their weakness and the hopeless to develop faith.
'Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself' ~ Tolstoy. Become a bigger person and you'll also automatically become a better leader and a great producer.
To find your best self you must lose your weak self'. And that only happens through relentless improvement, continuous reflection and ongoing self-excavation.
The first fifty years of our lives are a lot about seeking legitimacy, We crave social approval, we want our peers to respect us. We buy all sorts of things we really don't need and obsess about making money we don't really enjoy.
The last fifty years then become less about ‘Me’ and more about ’We’. Less about selfishness and more about service. We stop adding more things into our lives and begin to subtract and simplify. We learn to savor simple beauty, experience gratitude for smaller miracles, appreciate the priceless value of peace of mind, spend more time cultivating human connections and come to understand that the one who gives the most is victorious.
All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgy at the end.
Leadership is about making a difference, right where you're planted. Real leadership is all about sending brave work that exemplifies genius.
Never work for income, labour for the Impact. Develop the patience to stick with your dedication to absolute world class output even if over a lifetime you only generate a single masterpiece.
The top 5% are a lot less concerned with fame, cash and approval and a lot more invested in punching above their weight class within their craft, playing above their pay grade around their talents and creating the kind of productivity that inspires and serves millions. That's often why they make millions.
Display respect and compassion for all other people who occupy this tiny planet, regardless of their creed, color or caste.
My life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
Be committed, disciplined, patient and work hard.
Victims love Entertainment. Victors adore education.
Start your day by envisioning your ideal performance for the day ahead and reach deep into your emotions so that you feel like when you achieve the wins you have planned to accomplish. Lock yourself into an extremely confident state where any forms of failure isn't within the realm of possibility. Then go out and do your finest to live that perfect day. Armor plate your Mental focus and fireproof your physical energy.
Everybody can be great because anybody can serve, you don't have to have a college degree to serve. You only need a heart full of Grace and a soul generated by love.
Giving to other people is a gift you give to yourself. Raise the joy of others and you'll get even more joy. Generosity not scarcity is the trait of all the great men & women who have upgraded our world.
An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production. Empire makers and history creators take 1 hour for them before dawn, in the serenity that lies beyond the clutches of complexity; to prepare for themselves a world class day.
A small daily improvements, when done consistently over time, lead to stunning results.
All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end. Everything you now find easy, you first found difficult.
To have the results The Top 5% of producers have, you must start doing what 95% of people are unwilling to do. Remember that being labeled a freak is the price of Greatness.
When you feel like surrendering, continue. Triumph loves the relentless.
Most people stayed the same their entire life. Too frightened to leave the way they operated yesterday. Married to the complacency of the ordinary and wedded to the shackles of conformity while resisting all opportunity for growth, evolution and personal elevation.
The life of the caterpillar must end for the glory of the butterfly to shine. The old 'you' must die before the best 'you' can be born.
The flow of life rewards positive action and punishes hesitation.
Don't get brainwashed into defining your worth as a human being by these things (Titles, Applause, Acclaim, Money, Mansions etc.) Enjoy them, don't get attached to them.
The real riches come from living by noble virtues of productivity, self discipline, courage, honesty, empathy and integrity as well as being able to lead your days on your own terms versus blindly following the sheep.
All of the great teachers of history owned very few things. When Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa died they owned very few things.
To lead is to serve. Give up the drop, become the ocean.
Once your appetite for superficial possessions dematerializes and you become more hungry for substantial pursuits like honoring your creative vision, expressing your inherent genius and living by a higher blueprint you no more spend days in chasing objects that count for nothing at the end and reach a level of individual maturity. You cultivate your character to such a degree that you no longer had the common need of most to fill the themselves with distractions, attractions, escapes and luxuries.
Health is the crown on the well person's head that only the ill person can see. When we are young we sacrifice our health for wealth and when we grow old and wise we realize what's most important - and become willing to sacrifice all our wealth for even one day of good health.
Rest and Recovery isn't a luxury for anyone committed to mastery— it's a necessity. Inspiration gets fed by isolation.
Being a High-impact leader never requires being a disrespectful person. Take guts to be an encourager, anyone could be a critic.
"It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth and wisdom." ~ Aristotle
Punctuality is the trait of royalty.
Flowers are very important to anyone serious about creating magic in their work and private lives.
Develop the ability to concentrate on optimizing their particular skill for long, uninterrupted periods of time. The capability that top people have is because they are able to generate such high quality results in a world where too many people dilute their cognitive bandwidth & fragment their attention, accepting poor performance and ordinary achievements while leading lives of disappointing mediocrity.
Protection from distraction is precisely how you need to work if you're serious about dominating your field and winning at your craft.
Coffee is a fantastic cognitive enhancer when consumed in moderation each morning and also slows aging as it's packed with antioxidants.
The more powerful a powerful a person truly is, the less they need to promote it. The stronger a leader is, the less they need to announce it.

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