Aug 11
5
How to Get Up Early
Getting up early in the morning takes discipline. But it’s an essential top performer skill that will take you and your business to the next level of excellence. Waking up early is a great gift. Give yourself a 60 minute personal leadership hour. Robin shares 5 essential keys to help you get up early in the morning.
5 Tips On How To Wake Up Early
1) Get Fit
2) Every Single Week Get A Massage
3) Eat Less Food – Don’t Eat After 8pm
4) In The Morning Write In A Journal
5) Learn to Find Ways To Love Your Current Job
How to Get up Early
My whole life is really about teaching people exceptionalism and one of the real strategies for high performance and leading without a title is getting up early.
You might say getting up early is not really relevant to you and yet if I look at the best of the best, whether it’s in business, in science, in the arts, in sports, these are people who have trained their brains to show up and discipline.
And getting up early is not only an incredible competitive advantage because most of your competitors are asleep, but getting up early is a great gift to give yourself. You get more life.
Ben Franklin said it really well; he said, “There will be plenty of time to sleep when you’re dead.” So getting up early and giving yourself that 60 minute personal leadership hour, you practice and prepare just like how Bekham practices to be world class as a footballer, or Hamilton Lewis practices on the track to be a world class car racer. Or Mozart practiced to be a world-class composer.
You give yourself one hour from 5-6 and you do your practice.
But here’s the thing I really want to focus on.
How do you get up earlier? A few quick practical ideas:
1) Get Super Fit:
When you’re in world class physical condition you just need less sleep. Your metabolic rate is higher; you have a lot more energy, a lot more stamina and a lot more passion. Get super fit and you’re just going to need less sleep.
2) Every Single Week Get A Massage:
Getting a massage is not a waste of time. Its not a cost. It’s an investment. Why? Because it will increase your circulation, it will help you get by on a lot less sleep. Its something that every peak performer should do every 7 days just to allow yourself to play at your absolute best
3) Your Diet, Eat Less Food:
You’ll have more energy. Don’t eat after 8:00 and eat every 4 hours. Little bit of protein, a little bit of carbs. Manage your diet but the key is to eat less food and you’ll need less sleep.
4) Get Up In The Morning and Take The Time To Write In A Journal:
In other words, dump the worries on your mind onto a crisp white piece of paper. When you worry you lose energy. I call it dissipation and the more things you worry about the less energy you will have and the more sleep you will need.
5) Learn To Find Ways To Love Your Job:
Lead without a title. I have met room cleaners who have cleaned hotel rooms like Picasso painted. So find ways in your current job to be passionate about your job. Be the absolute best in your job. Why? Because few things create more energy than going to work everyday and feeling that your work is meaningful. Feeling that you can show leadership in your area of responsibility. Feeling that your work is a craft whether you flip hamburgers or work in human resources but one of the great secrets to passion is purpose in your work.
Getting up early would be one of the best moves you make for leadership, success and having a great life.
by Robin Sharma is the author of the #1 international bestseller “The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life
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Jul 11
31
5 Ways To Protect Your Business
1. Have a Board of Advisors. Find people who have built great companies and ask them to sit on your advisory board. Meet every quarter. Show them your numbers. Share your struggles. Listen to-and act on-their advice.
2. Set Up A Peace of Mind Fund. Install a reserve fund with at least 12 months (and ideally 24 months) of operating expenses. Set it up so a portion of your monthly sales automatically goes into this account. You’ll sleep better at night knowing your business can run even if income slows down.
3. Focus on People and Culture. The single best way to protect your business is to hire top talent and invest in training your people so they amp up their performance in good as well as hard times. And work on your culture. That’s the “special sauce” that brings out the best in a team.
4. Work On Your Business vs In It. The old Michael Gerber distinction is key here. I spoke at a YPO/EO event last week and met a young entrepreneur who’d just sold his company. I asked him for the single best move he made. “I worked on my business vs in it.” He explained his core concentration was on building systems and processes so the business ran superbly without him.
5. Become Obsessed with Value Creation. This is not some pie in the sky idea. It’s a hard-hitting business growth tactic. Obsess (yes, obsess) over how you can add more value to more people and the revenues will take care of themselves.
by Robin Sharma is the author of the #1 international bestseller “The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life
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By Robin Sharma, author of the #1 bestseller “The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life
1. Do important work vs. merely offering opinions.
2. Lift people up vs. tear others down.
3. Use the words of leadership vs. the language of victimhood.
4. Don’t worry about getting the credit for getting things done.
5. Become part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
6. Take your health to a level called superfit.
7. Commit to mastery of your craft instead of accepting mediocrity in your work.
8. Associate with people whose lives you want to be living.
9. Study for an hour a day. Double your learning and you’ll triple your success.
10. Run your own race. “No one can possibly achieve real and lasting success by being a conformist,” wrote billionaire J. Paul Getty
11. Do something small yet scary every single day.
12. Lead Without a Title.
13. Focus on people’s strengths vs. obsessing around their weaknesses.
14. Remember that potential unused turns into pain. So dedicate yourself to expressing your best.
15. Smile more.
16. Listen more.
17. Read the autobiography of Nelson Mandela.
18. Reflect on the words of Eleanor Roosevelt who said: “Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.”
19. Persist longer than the critics suggest you should.
20. Say “please” and “thank you”.
21. Love your loved ones.
22. Do work that matters.
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- Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do.
- Give away what you most wish to receive.
- The antidote to stagnation is innovation.
- The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having.
- Leadership is no longer about position – but passion. It’s no longer about image but impact. This is Leadership 2.0.
- The bigger the dream, the more important to the team.
- Visionaries see the “impossible” as the inevitable.
- All great thinkers are initially ridiculed – and eventually revered.
- The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you’ll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.
- To double your net worth, double your self-worth. Because you will never exceed the height of your self-image.
- The more messes you allow into your life, the more messes will become a normal (and acceptable) part of your life.
- The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.
- The best leaders lift people up versus tear people down.
- The most precious resource for businesspeople is not their time. It’s their energy. Manage it well.
- The fears you run from run to you.
- The most dangerous place is in your safety zone.
- The more you go to your limits, the more your limits will expand.
- Every moment in front of a customer is a gorgeous opportunity to live your values.
- Be so good at what you do that no one else in the world can do what you do.
- You’ll never go wrong in doing what is right.
- It generally takes about 10 years to become an overnight sensation.
- Never leave the site of a strong idea without doing something to execute around it.
- A strong foundation at home sets you up for a strong foundation at work.
- Never miss a moment to encourage someone you work with.
- Saying “I’ll try” really means “I’m not really committed.”
- The secret of passion is purpose.
- Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.
- To have the rewards that very few have, do the things that very few people are willing to do.
- Go where no one’s gone and leave a trail of excellence behind you.
- Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating.
- Accept your teammates for what they are and inspire them to become all they can be.
- To triple the growth of your organization, triple the growth of your people.
- The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily. Investing in your self-development is the best investment you will ever make.
- Other people’s opinions of you are none of your business.
- Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.
- Measure your success by your inner scorecard versus an outer one.
- Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something.
- Nothing fails like success. Because when you are at the top, it’s so easy to stop doing the very things that brought you to the top.
- The best leaders blend courage with compassion.
- The less you are like others, the less others will like you.
- The thoughts you think today determine the results you’ll see tomorrow.
- Excellence in one area is the beginning of excellence in every area.
- The real reward for doing your best work is not the money you make but the leader you become.
- Passion + production = performance.
- The value of getting to your goals lives not in reaching the goal but what the talents/strengths/capabilities the journey reveals to you.
- Stand for something. Or else you’ll fall for anything.
- Say “thank you” when you’re grateful and “sorry” when you’re wrong.
- Make the work you are doing today better than the work you did yesterday.
- Small daily – seemingly insignificant – improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.
- Peak performers replace depletion with inspiration on a daily basis.
- Take care of your relationships and the sales/money will take care of itself.
- You can’t be great if you don’t feel great. Make exceptional health your #1 priority.
- Doing the difficult things that you’ve never done awakens the talents you never knew you had.
- As we each express our natural genius, we all elevate our world.
- Your daily schedule reflects your deepest values.
- People do business with people who make them feel special.
- All things being equal, the primary competitive advantage of your business will be your ability to grow Leaders Without Titles faster than your industry peers.
- Treat people well on your way up and they’ll treat you well on your way down.
- Success lies in a masterful consistency around a few fundamentals. It really is simple. Not easy. But simple.
- The business (and person) who tries to be everything to everyone ends up being nothing to anyone.
- One of the primary tactics for enduring winning is daily learning.
- To have everything you want, help as many people as you can possibly find get everything they want.
- Understand that a problem is only a problem if you choose to view it as a problem (vs. an opportunity).
- Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plans/goals/deliverables. And then block out all else.
- The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure.
- Lucky is where skill meets persistence.
- The best Leaders Without a Title use their heads and listen to their hearts.
- The things that are hardest to do are often the things that are the best to do.
- Every single person in the world could be a genius at something, if they practiced it daily for at least ten years (as confirmed by the research of Anders Ericsson and others).
- Daily exercise is an insurance policy against future illness. The best Leaders Without Titles are the fittest.
- Education is the beginning of transformation. Dedicate yourself to daily learning via books/audios/seminars and coaching.
- The quickest way to grow the sales of your business is to grow your people.
Note: Robin Sharma is the author of the #1 international bestseller “The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life
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