A Powerful Passage from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Minimalism is all about stripping away complexity and obsessing with the simplicity of living your days around only a few things. I’ve been teaching this for two decades. Saying that “minimalism isn’t just a design vibe. It’s a lifestyle.” Encouraging human beings in fiery pursuit of their private Mount Everests to do less to achieve more. …To stop chasing complexity and obsess with simplicity. …To reject maximalism and filling their days with too many activities [and their closets with t...

14 Nov 20223min

You know that winning starts at your beginning. You get that legendary leaders rise at dawn so they have an hour to strengthen themselves. You understand that the early hours are the days' quietest hours so wisdom demands that we use them well. The 5AM Club regime will multiply your productivity massively yet—ironically—also give you more time later in the day for rest. Read The 5AM Club (currently one of the bestselling books on the planet) to learn how the pros do it. FOLLOW ROBIN SHARM...

11 Nov 202210min

Winning is sensing the dignity of your labour and honouring your craft by optimizing it daily, even if no one applauds your obsession with mastery—because materializing your potential is a gift you grant yourself. And please remember... ...Small daily micro-wins when done continually over time lead to staggering results. If you’d like so much more information like this to keep you focused on your mission in these trying times along with science-backed insights and daily practices to ...

10 Nov 20222min

We live in a world where focus is more valuable than even your intelligence. To dominate your game and build your empire you don’t need to be the smartest person in the room. Not at all. You just need to have the most energy. To implement your visions. To bring application to your dreams. And to handcraft a life you adore. [I explain my entire creative and productive process in my #1 bestseller The Everyday Hero Manifesto; definitely get your copy here]. FOLLOW ROBIN SHARMA: Instagram F...

9 Nov 20222min

What hurts us can help us. Suffering is nature’s way of making you special. The greatest bleed the longest. What I mean by this is that it is actually within the fires of deep difficulty that the dross that covers the gold is burned off. Life loves you so much that it sends you difficulties to make you strong. In the quiet times of my own life’s largest heartbreaks, I retreated from the world [like a wounded animal retreats to the woods for healing]. And I remained in the wilder...

8 Nov 20223min

Life runs fast. It moves swiftly. Time passes quickly. No matter who you are and where you live and what you do, we all end up as not much more than a pile of ashes in a metal urn or as a bunch of bones under six feet of soil. Sorry to be so graphic yet not really so sorry. Because reminding you of your mortality is a powerful way to ensure that you live more urgently [in a world full of so many distractions and trivial diversions that our finest moments are stolen from us like a bandi...

7 Nov 20223min

Very few habits are as destructive to human happiness as looking at what others have and do—and feeling that you’re inferior. Yet in this world of social media and digital diversion, so many of us are spending the better hours of our best days looking at the lives of others and measuring our success by what we see. Look, we’re tribal and hardwired to fit into the community. Helped us survive on the savanna. It’s normal to watch what others are enjoying and judge yourself against that standard...

4 Nov 20227min

Frustration is the child of stagnation. We are most alive when we are making progress [even micro-progress] in the direction of ideals that excite us. Our spirits take flight when we stand steadfast along the path of the mighty mission and heroic ideals that call out the finest within us. And when we exercise our native creativity to make things that help others, push our craft to the jagged edges of its farthest limits and lean into what frightens us. Winning is sensing the dignity of your l...

3 Nov 20221min