The Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma

The 1000-mile journey begins with your first step [paraphrasing Lao Tzu]. …there is GREAT power in starting. …you WILL be alone at the beginning. …people will say your hope is crazy [and that your aim is a joke]. Yet, fortune favours the devoted. And destiny supports the brave. It just DOES. After winning the first two games in the final championship series, Kobe Bryant was asked why he wasn’t smiling. “Job not done. The world needs you to continue. We all need you to shine. ...

31 Aug 20222min

Super fit performers are resilient, creative and excellent amid the stress of rocky times. Invest in a personal trainer (as you’ll never work out as hard alone as you will with a coach), calibrate your nutrition (more water, less sugar!), install The Second-Wind Workout protocol and deepen your sleep so you bring your A-Game to your craft and personal life. If you’d like so much more information like this to keep you focused on your mission in these trying times along with science-ba...

30 Aug 20222min

“Too soon old, too late wise,” says the saying. That’s the value of investing in your learning/growth/heroism and mastery. You collapse the timeline and avoid having to be old to know how to win at the game of life. Re-dedicate yourself to personal development and using this season we are in as fuel for growth, mastery and heroism. As you get better and stronger you will fortify yourself with more power to use change to succeed—and serve more people. If you’re seeking some st...

29 Aug 20223min

Yes, we do live in an extremely strange and uncertain and complex world right now. And yet, such times are precisely when heroes emerge. Why wait for them when you truly can become one of them? Approaching each day with a mind set to serve and a heart devoted to unusual helpfulness will electrify your positivity. And make your mark on society. If you'd like to significantly increase your happiness via real-world habits and practices that I’ve previously only shared with many of the ...

26 Aug 202211min

Too many good people want the rewards of world-class yet don't want to do the work that world-class requires. Magical thinking doesn't build a monument. Heroic focus, discipline, devotion and consistent effort does. ​ ​​The great masters all think long-term, develop rigorous patience to train daily on their skillset and move toward their most difficult projects, for there is where legendary lives. [It’s easy to blame conditions for anything you lack yet Leadership involves a good look in ...

25 Aug 20223min

Winning is both making your own ethical ambitions come true while giving those that you serve overwhelming benefit through the work you do, products you calibrate and services that you offer. So you become an exceptional—and unrelenting—force of good, on this tiny planet you and I inhabit. If you'd like to significantly increase your happiness via real-world habits and practices that I’ve previously only shared with many of the world’s most successful people including business titans, sports...

24 Aug 20222min

The secret of mastery (arguably) lives in a single word. Minimalism. 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 too many things]. Beethoven and Earhart, Ali and Mandela, Wy...

23 Aug 20222min

Words mean what words say. Legendary leaders and movement makers of the past have spellbound their followers by deploying the language of hope. And employing the vocabulary of possibility. And yet in our current culture, too many potentially great people are super sloppy with the words they use. ...if something is good they call it “dope”. ...if something is cool they call it “sick”. ...if you deliver a great performance they’ll say “you murdered it”. Yet dope and sick and murder are ba...

22 Aug 20223min