If you're one of those who'd rather stay up late
and get up late
only to discover that
your workplace doesn't fit your schedule,
and you roll out of bed
cursing the alarm clock every morning.
Maybe you could start with the little change of going to bed
half an hour earlier than normal,
and maybe you'll see in time, of course,
you can't train your body overnight.
Maybe you'll find out that
you jump out of bed in a better mood.
And that your day will start better.
At some point, you have to make a decision,
and you'll often hear me say,
you're one decision away
from a different life, a better life.
You have plenty of time
to create a life that makes you happy
to create a life that is full of meaning for you,
whatever that means.
But you have to make the decision.
No one's coming to make the decision for you.
You have to decide.
So you gotta have the discipline to grab control
and make it happen.
And when I say you need discipline for that,
what that means is these stresses
that you're avoiding,
they're not gonna go away if you avoid them.
So take the discipline
to face the stressful situation.
Get ahead of it.
Don't be afraid of it.
A true manifestation of the love
that you're sensing and feeling
towards a particular thing or a person to come to fruition,
you've got to build the character traits
the virtues of discipline.
Choose a thing
because you love it,
and then eventually you're gonna hate it
but stick with it anyway
because you'll come full circle.
Love it again,
and you'll be a stronger version of yourself
because of them.
It takes time and dedication.
It takes a willingness to accept
that you're not yet good enough.
It takes the ability to stare at the places
that you know that you're weak,
to really look at those things
and not let it affect your sense of self-esteem,
and not let it affect your sense of self-worth,
so that you can still get the momentum going.
But you have to understand that in the beginning,
we're all terrible.
Success is limitless.
You should be willing to go further
than you've ever done in your life.
Don't take the short road,
go the longer road.
Don't make it convenient.
Make it uncomfortable.
Believe in that,
cuz that's the best way you could be in your life.
Is that something that you
began to look at within yourself?
See, I say if you look at your life
and if you're not getting what you want,
you owe it to yourself
to do something differently.
If that's what it is,
you owe it to yourself to start strategically
working to change directions.
After life
has beaten you
and broken you into pieces,
resiliency is that gift and ability,
it's the discipline
to turn those pieces into a work of art.
Rise before the sun.
There is a reason many
of the great women and men of the world,
the great history makers,
the great poets, the great philosophers,
the great movement makers
rise before the sun.
There is a magic in the air at 5:00 AM
and that's why the 5:00 AM Club is so transformational
because it's the time of greatest quiet too.
And I believe tranquility is the new luxury on our planet.
It is the a time of intimate creativity
because you've just been rested.
Your brain is fresh.
there's very recent cutting
edge science coming out now.
When you sleep,
your brain actually has a mechanism to wash itself.
When you wake up in the morning,
your willpower is strongest.
When you wake up in the morning
you've got a full well of mental focus
and we know that focus in our world
is even more valuable than intelligence.
And I could go on and on on the benefits.
I mean, you get up at 5:00 AM
you've got the world to yourself.
There's no crowds.
You can think, you can plan,
you can care for yourself.
In a world where so many people
are so depleted
and so the 5:00 AM club really is a game changer.
And then it's not just get up at 5:00 AM
and you know, scratch your stomach
or stare up at the ceiling
or look at your phone
You can play with your phone or change the world.
You don't get to do both.
And so
the 5:00 AM Club method is based on the 20/20/20 formula.
That's the revolutionize
and it started from my experience with
working with many billionaires.
I've coached many of the most successful financiers and
times of industry for over two decades.
And one of the things I would run them through is
the way you begin your day
sets up the way you live your day.
And so the 20/20/20 formula
that the book is based upon is pretty simple.
I go into great detail in the book, but
essentially it's from 5:00 to 5:20
The first pocket is move.
I'm a fanatic about neuroscience and
Why do you get up and move?
Because you're gonna release serotonin,
which is gonna make you feel better.
You're gonna release dopamine,
which is the pleasure and inspirational neurotransmitter
you're gonna release no epinephrine,
which will boost your focus.
You'll promote neurogenesis.
you can actually grow new brain cells.
Increase your metabolic rate.
So the way you feel when you first wake up
is not the way you're gonna feel at 5:20
second pocket of the 20/20/20 formula,
20 minutes from 5:20 to 5:40
That's on reflection.
So a lot of us are busy,
but what's the point of being busy
if you're doing the wrong things?
The billionaires, the great creatives,
the people have great impact.
The people who live beautiful lives are very intentional.
they're very deliberate.
They're very conscious.
So for 20 minutes you write in a journal
You can visualize, you can pray, you can meditate.
You can simply contemplate.
How you're gonna live your day?
What you wanna stand for during the day?
for example....
And then the final pocket of the 20/20/20 formula
is all about grow.
And that's where you just read
from a biography or a business book,
or a philosophy book
And so, That's 20 minutes of growing.
Because I think we're most alive when we are growing.
And I believe the leader who learns the most wins.
So that's in a nutshell the 20/20/20 formula.
Why is the morning routine so important?
Couple things.
How you wake up
has a
scientifically proven impact on your ability to focus
on your happiness
and on your productivity all day,
the two to three pieces of it are for me
I wake up when the alarm goes off
I then get up
and for the first
couple minutes of the day, I plan my day.
And I have a particular process
that I go through that leverages something from Harvard
Business School called the Progress Principle.
I have a mindfulness practice.
That could be anything that you want.
It could be gratitude journaling,
it could be meditation,
it could be five slow deep breaths.
It could be taking
Your dog outside for a walk.
And then on mornings when I can,
I have a micro exercise practice
where I do planks for five minutes
or I do something to get my blood pumping
on the mornings that I can.
and I do all that
before I ever even look at my phone
because I put myself
and my mindset first deliberately
before I ever allow the world access to my mind.
You do not want anybody
to have access to what's going on up here
until you've gotten deliberate about
what you are thinking about first.
What you're watching here is gonna be a very short video,
so I'm gonna ask you to bring your will to hear.
And focus, really focus on this idea
because it's an idea that can change your life.
It certainly changed mine.
People are always asking me in seminars, Bob,
how do you schedule your day?
And you know, that's not an easy answer for me
because every day is different with me.
I do a lot of different things,
but there is one constant.
It's how you start your day.
Earl Nightingale taught me that a long, long time ago.
He said, Bob, it's not how you spend your days,
it's how you start your day.
You start your day off right
and everything is going to work in your favor,
and you put seven of 'em together
and you've got a very successful week.
So he said, pick a good idea.
Well, you know, I have a book here.
How To Sell Yourself to Others by Elmer Wheeler.
Elmer Wheeler was one of America's greatest salespeople.
So I use that and I just opened it here,
what we call manners
That's an idea, what we call manners.
If I mannerly all day long, if I keep that in mind,
I want to be mannerly with everybody all day long,
that's gonna help me.
So I take an idea like that every morning
and I write it down,
I put it in a piece of paper, carry it my pocket
and that's an idea I'm gonna work on all day long.
If something goes a little wrong, I work on that idea.
I take that idea,
you do this and you're going to win.