This MORNING ROUTINE Will Make You A MILLIONAIRE | Robin Sharma

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:10One of the most important things a human being can do is press the pause button each morning while the rest of the world is asleep. And ask yourself, how can I fortify my mindset? How can I insulate my heart set? How can I optimize my health set? How can I escalate my soul set? the four interior empires that I've introduced in the 5am club, so that when I walk out in the world, I'm creative, I'm productive, I'm compassionate, I radiate positivity, and I have resilience in case I get knocked down. And anyone can get up at 5am. One of the gifts of a human being is neuroplasticity. We are built to change.

0:50If we recite our excuses long enough, we actually believe they're true. We are built to change. We are built to grow. We are built to own our heroic nature. And so according to University College London, if we do any practice or habit for 66 days, we reach a point of automaticity where it becomes easier to do that new habit than not do the new habit. Once you wire in the new habit, for the first 20 minutes, 5 to 5.20, you move. Because you can release BDNF, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, which promotes neurogenesis. It optimizes your brain. If you move first thing in the morning, you release serotonin, which makes you feel good.

1:26It really is dopamine, which sets you up for inspiration. Second pocket from 520 to 540 is reflect. While the rest of the world is asleep, there's such quietude in the air. This is where you can pray, you can meditate, write in a journal, sit in quietude so that you're focused, living your life and your priorities through the day. And then the final pocket of the 2020 formula that I talked about in the 5am club is grow. You'll never get old if you grow. You'll never become obsolete in your business, even in a time of great volatility, if you're growing. You'll always stay happy if you grow. So 20 minutes at the end of this victory hour, you spend some time listening to a podcast like Lewis Howes on The School of Greatness.

2:11I've had a lot of night owls who have said, you know, I could never be a morning person. I've had a lot of people who've said, grandma couldn't get up early, grandpa couldn't get up early, my parents couldn't get up early, I don't have early rising jeans. If you don't read that book you've been resisting because you don't think it's for you, you might just miss your new favorite book. If you fall in love with your most closely cherished beliefs and you're not open to trying new things, you might miss trying your new favorite food. If you say, well, here's the kind of friends that I hang out with and I'm not open to anyone else, you might miss that new friend or that new mentor who will transform the way you run your craft and live your life.

2:56And it's the same for the morning routine. The 5am club, I mean, I've had so many people read the book, run the models in the book, live the message and achieve what they never thought they'd achieve. And so what I would say to a night owl or a lot of people say shift workers or whatever, I would say, give it a try. I don't just give it a try for for a week, you know, give it a try for three weeks, four weeks, the 66 day minimum and judge by your results. There's an excuse. I'm tired. And then there's a shift in the world. Does the 5 a.m. club shift at this time? Do people say, you know what, let me really take it easy for a few months.

3:38or is that an excuse for too long to get back into your vision? Trust your natural cycles because your higher power, call it your instinct, call it your intuition, call it your artistry, knows what it's doing. So there are times to be productive and there are times to rest. I very much believe in the 5am club in the 2020 formula. I very much believe that it will create a pharmacy of mastery within your brain. It's been proven by science. You know, even just the simple idea of starting your day with some sweaty exercise. When you sweat, it'll release the BDNF. But just that idea of exercising first thing in the morning will help you become more resilient, peaceful, strong during the day.

4:23So, yes, do your morning routine. Yes, run the 20-20-20 formula. And then judge by results. Having said that, if you've been up at 3 in the morning because you've lost your job, because you're just picking up on the energy of the world right now where there's so much fear, self-love, personal care requires that you rest, recover, and do what you need to do. You know, that's one of the things I say this with great respect, but when I read the books or see people saying you must be like a robot and follow a morning routine or a nightly ritual or whatever your best habits are, I believe there must be room for the hard seasons of life.

5:11You know, when my heart has been broken, when I've gone through my periods of suffering, I haven't been as disciplined. I haven't been as rigorous. I've had the inopportune pizza night. My ego, because a bad day for the ego is a great day for the soul. My ego says, Robin, you're not being productive. You're not on your A game. You're not a warrior. But you know what I've realized? I might not be creatively productive, according to the definition of society, during those cycles or seasons of suffering. But am I not spiritually productive? Am I not emotionally productive? When does a human being crack the shell of the ego that covers their hearts and learns the human virtues?

6:01we all have the ability as human beings to arrive at our own original form of greatness we have not been taught a lot of us have not been mentored on the mindsets heart sets routines rituals that will create and allow us to live our personal genius but you know if you look at the greatest women and men who have ever graced the planet these were so-called ordinary people who just set up their lives in such a way that their native gifts saw the light of day. All it takes is that one person who coincidentally shows up in our life. And maybe it's a book, maybe it's a podcast episode to introduce us to a new frame of reference and a new way of living.

6:48That's why I love reading so much. It could be one idea in a 300-page book, and that idea opens you up to a new galaxy of possibility, and the hand that puts down the book is a fundamentally different hand. I mean, all it takes is one new insight to change the way you see the world. Martin Luther King Jr. said, if you have not discovered something you're willing to die for, you're not fit to live. And I believe we all need to find our mighty mission and our crusade. It doesn't have to be lofty. It could be delivering pizza by Uber Eats. It could be a teacher. Sure, it could be a lawnmower. It could be a coder.

7:23It could be a grave digger or a street sweeper. All labor has dignity, but genius is less about genetics and much more about your daily habits. I have a brand new book called Make Money Easy. And if you're looking to create more financial freedom in your life, you want abundance in your life and you want to stop making money hard in your life, but you want to make it easier. You want to make it flow. You want to feel abundant. then make sure to go to makemoneyeasybook.com right now and get yourself a copy. I really think this is gonna help you transform your relationship with money this moment moving forward.

8:03We have some big guests and content coming up. Make sure you're following. And thank you for listening to this episode of the Daily Motivation Show.

8:17Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of The Daily Motivation, and I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to click the link in the description. That will take you to the full episode of our main podcast on The School of Greatness. And if you are loving The Daily Motivation, please follow us over on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and leave us a review over on Apple Podcasts right now. And if you want more exclusive content and ad-free listening experience, make sure to subscribe to our Greatness Plus channel on Apple Podcast right now. And if you want to get even more inspiration from our world-class guests and learn how to improve your life and take it to the next level, then make sure to sign up for the Greatness newsletter and get it delivered right to your inbox over at greatness.com slash newsletter.

9:07Again, have an amazing day, and I'll see you tomorrow with another episode of the Daily Motivation Show.