What I read last week: 5 AM Club by Robin Sharma

The book has remarkable ways to overhaul daily routine. The book explores many techniques and reasons to switch daily schedules. The book by Robin Sharma is groundbreaking. I will try to follow the plan and keep you posted about my progress. This book was a detailed one and hence took some time to complete. I appreciate the people who reached out to me to ask about last week's issue. It's an immense pleasure to know that I could make a difference in your daily routine and serve you the books you have been planning to read for quite some time. Let me know if you have any suggestions or books that you want to summarise.?

Before I begin, here's a shorthand analysis of the points we will cover.?

1. Four focuses of history-makers:?

1. Improve upon your natural talents,?
2. free yourself from distractions,?
3. master your craft,?
4. build each day's successes on the last.

2. Habit installation:?

1. Choose a trigger, a ritual, and a reward to create new habits.?
2. Turn your patterns into motivations for other practices.

3. 20/20/20 formula:

Split the first hour of your day into 20-minute pockets of the following deeds

1. Intense exercise,?
2. Reflection,?
3. ?Study.

4. 90/90/1 rule:?

For 90 days, spend 90 minutes at the start of your day practising the most important skill for your field.

5. 60/10 method:?

Work in cycles of 60 minutes of intense focus and 10 minutes of deep rest for stellar productivity.

6. Traffic University:?

Spend your commute learning instead of allowing yourself to succumb to boredom.

7. Weekly design: The things you schedule are the things that will get done, so take 30 minutes every Sunday to design a beautiful week.

As an avid reader yourself. I am very sure that you would have heard about @Robin Sharma . The book 5 AM club follows his storytelling traditions via intricately written outstanding characters. The book emphasises the power of having an hour for yourself, which can be problematic in the contemporary lifestyle that chases rather than hunts. 5 AM club is not an ordinary self-help book, but it focuses on all the crucial verticals of life for development.

Every human is born with outstanding capabilities that our parents marvel upon, and sometimes we do too when we look back to our glorious past, pretending that it was something that is forgotten. We can't be our past selves again. However, the truth stands that we are as capable as we?were in the past and will be. We have just accepted the world and started living what our peers and social media told us to be.??

We made some wild fantasies that we failed to achieve and compared ourselves to hollow ideals. Your defeated self respited to the following activities.

1. Watching television for hours;?
2. Sleeping too long;?
3. Spending much time on social networks;?
4. Eating and drinking large quantities of food and drink;?
5. Gossiping.?

Then came the part where your started to see yourself as the victim, and that victim was or could have made it big. The constant repetition of this thought became a habit, and we became a shadow of our past selves of what we could have become or aimed to be. One unsuccessful venture or one unsuccessful attempt or might be several bought us down to be a shadow of what could have been.

The amygdala activates fear when it senses that you are out of your comfort zone and taking risks. It panics and withdraws. Destroying talents is a natural phenomenon that goes hand in hand with the fear of failure hence getting into the same predictable patterns. There is no shame if you were doing it takes years of effort to harness these hardwire mechanisms. Start by diverting yourself from your social persona and thinking about your goals, dreams and aspirations. The morning 5 AM hour should be your hour. When your energy, concentration, willpower, talent, and time are in your hands, they will slip like sand throughout the day.??

The fundamental 20/20/20.??

1. 5 AM and 5:20 AM, move and exercise; sport will drastically reduce the stress hormone , which is at its peak when we wake up. Exercise will also improve your metabolism. These first twenty minutes are the most important ones of your day!?

2. 5:20 and 5:40, think. Meditation, prayer or simple contemplation?will help you find inner peace.?

3. 5:40 and 6:00 AM, cultivate yourself. Deepen your knowledge and find inspiration. You'll develop expertise in the areas where you want to excel, making you a valuable person in the face of your competitors.?

To guide your actions after waking up, you must follow the fundamentals.?

Form habits to maximise your potential The first few hours of the day are when you will have the opportunity to accomplish the most. It would help if you established rituals, i.e., repeated actions, to guide the rest of your day. However, how can you be sure that you will adopt them? For your morning rituals to be anchored in your daily life, you must rely on the power of habit! Here's how to create lasting habits:??

1. Trigger: Set your alarm clock for 5 AM or ask a friend to call.

2. Set up your ritual, doing something you love after waking up.

3. Give yourself a reward associated with the ritual. By doing it regularly, you will want to continue your good habits;?

4. Repeat the action. It might be not easy as the days' pass, but it will be a habit to believe in yourself with practice.?

The days pass, and the harder it is to stay focused and not give in to temptations. You will accomplish more by getting up early, your willpower at its peak. It is the ideal time to form new habits! According to the UCL (University College London), it takes a minimum of 66 days to create a pattern:??

• The first 22 days are the destruction phase when you try to lose your old habits;?
• The following 22 days are devoted to installing the new habit. It is a transformation process that is very hard to maintain but which will lead you to the last stage ;?
• The last 22 days are the integration phase, where the habit becomes an automatism. After that, there is no longer any need for willpower because the practice is part of you.?

How can it help you become productive??

To establish a productive and fruitful lifestyle over the long term, you need to alternate periods of intense work with periods of deep recovery. Indeed, as with athletes, much of your growth occurs during your rest phases. In sports, the body's muscles only grow if they work more intensely than their standard capacities and are left to rest. This is precisely the same when you are working on a project! Your rest cycles are periods of renewal, where your inspiration and energy regain strength. Therefore, take at least two full days of rest per week.

?During this period :?

• Free yourself from technology;?
• Contemplate nature and the other miracles that can shape your daily life to reconnect with your inspiration;?
• Reconnect with your "you" child and try to see the world through the filter of their imagination.?

Likewise, to get up early and accomplish the 20/20/20 formula, you must have had an excellent night's sleep. Sleep is essential to keep you in good physical and mental health.?

According to sleep experts, getting about 7 hours and 30 minutes of sleep per night is vital to restoring your cognitive functions.? However, sometimes it can seem outlandish, but it may be worth it in the long run.

Fortunately, the 5 AM Club offers a sleep ritual to follow if you want to get a good night's rest:??

• 7 to 8 PM, turn off all electronic devices. It can be not easy, but it will be worth it. So try to minimise screen time before bed.?
• 8 PM to 9 PM, Reflect on your day and meditate just an hour before sleep.
• 9 PM to 10 PM, prepare for sleep by settling into a darkroom.

?There are methods to develop knowledge and improve productivity. The first morning rituals of the 5 AM Club generate other possibilities to prove your productivity.

What are the tips for maximising your potential???

1. Expand your knowledge: By reading and learning from the latest resources, you will open up your perception of the world and your possibilities;?

2. Execute your knowledge. You can make better choices with your newly acquired knowledge ;?

3. Get better results. By making better choices, your success increases tenfold.?

?In addition, four fundamental points must be at the core of your focus:??

1. Capitalising on your knowledge. Hard work will take precedence over your natural abilities, no matter how talented you are. To do so, maximise your expertise and your potential by doing enriching activities! ;?
2. Distractions disrupt your concentration and take you away from your best life. Instead, it would help if you focused on the essentials, such as choosing the best books and friends. Focus in- tensely on a few things and few people to maximise your potential;?
3. Become a master of your practices. Train more and more to become an expert in your desired field. According to psychologist Anders Ericsson, it takes 2 hours and 40 minutes of daily practice for two years to become a genius! ;?
4. Progress a little more each day. Every day counts in your journey to success. By improving your knowledge by 1% per day, your talent will be 365 times greater after one year!?

Finally, when you enter a work phase, several tips can improve your productivity :??

• The 60/10 method. It consists of working for 60 minutes non-stop and without distractions, then taking a 10-minute break to clear your mind. Take advantage of this break to walk, listen to music, and read.?
• Every Sunday, prepare for the week ahead by planning everything you need to do in detail.?
• Writing down and organising your tasks will force you to stick to them and save time. This way, you know what you need to do and when ;?
• Educate yourself every day for an hour. Your free time can be spent learning and practising new things. You are storing knowledge that is useful for your work.