Author: Robin Sharma
Date: 12.10.2024
8 forms of wealth:
1. Growth
Daily self-improvement habit. The regular pursuit of personal growth is one of your most valuable assets.
The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom. - Rumi
Personal mastery is a currency that will make you authentically wealthy.
Winning within is much more important than winning in the world.
1a. Honor your greatness.
The most important investment you can make is in yourself.
The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is yours.
1b. Live the outer change follows inner change law
Leadership is the opposite of victimhood.
Don’t complain, blame or expect others to make things better.
1c. Don’t be a resentment collector
We see things not as they are but as we are.
1d. It’s okay to be sloppy
1e. Memorize the PENAM principle
These letters explain how you become you.
P - parents
E - environment
N - nation
A - associations
M - media
1f. The best way to start is to start
1g. Fears are ghost stories
1h. Stop saying these two bad words: “I’ll try”
1i. Be the grown-up in the room
Assume absolute personal responsibility for the way your life looks.
1j. Remember that small steps make giant gains
1k. Worship your wounds
1l. The human who reads the most wins
Reading a book is having a conversation with the author
Reading daily grows your knowledge base.
45/15 reading rule: read for 45 minutes, take notes for 15.
1m. Deep growth is meant to feel weird
1n. Expect the best from people (and you’ll mostly get it)
Most people are incredibly good and profoundly decent.
“If we treat people as if they were what they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1o. Eat alone fairly often
1p. It’s wise to keep a journal
- Journaling promotes wise behaviour
- Journaling increases artistry and captures peak ideas
- Journaling is prayer on paper
Train your brain on where you are winning rather than upon the frustrations you may be facing.
Research: happiest people are the ones with the largest gratefulness (Sonja Lyubomirsky - The how of happiness)
Write down what you seek and record what you want to see more of in your world. What you focus on really does grow and what you think about expands.
1q. Hang with clowns, expect a circus
You become your associations, and your conversations noticeably affect the way you see the world. Increase your bonds with those who fuel your faith in opportunity, bravery, and human possibility.
1r. Don’t let self-care ruin your self-worth
To be great, you absolutely need to be focused, productive, relentless, and undefeatable in passionately pursuing projects.
You’ll love yourself more when you do more of things that you don’t love doing. You’ll be happier by becoming more productive.
1s. Become a yes person
The illusion of safety is always more dangerous than the discomfort of growth.
2. Wellness
Steadily optimize your health habit.
Try to walk as much as you can and keep your love of nature - Vincent Van Gogh
2a. Know your genes are not your destiny
epigenetics ( tolookinto )- study of factors beyond your genetic code.
2b. See food as medicine
Let food be the medicine and medicine be the food. - Father of Medicine, Hippocrates
Eat more cleanly, clearly and intentionally.
Avocados, brazil nuts and eggs are scientifically shown to be strong fatigue-fighters.
2c. Defend the health of your mind
Get good at savouring.
Improve your self-talk. Be kind to yourself.
2d. Microdose meditation
The key to a great life is to be in the world yet not be attached to it.
I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one - Mahatma Gandhi
2e. Practice the naked sunbathing rule
Sunlight in your eyes increases mental focus, daytime alertness and the depth of your sleep.
2f. Do a 30-day zero sugar challenge
Sugar promotes cancer, creates brain disturbances and increases metabolic disorders.
Nothing tastes as good as top health feels.
2g. Become a professional sleeper
Proper sleep rinses the brain of toxins, repairs brain cells damaged by stress and allows for memories to be assembled and integrated.
2h. Show up in the gym the way you wish to show up in life
- Focus: use your workout as meditation
- Dedication
- Persistence
- I do not quit
2i. Go OMAD weekly
Caloric restriction is good for your health and extends your lifespan.
Once a week go OMAD: one meal a day.
Intermittent fasting creates low-dose stress on the body, which activates hormesis.
2k. Laugh more to live longer
We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.
When I face a problem, I ask myself “Has anyone died here?” and if not I move ahead quickly and cheerfully.
2l. Breathe like a samurai
Breathing deeply (diaphragmatic breathing) relaxes you and optimises your attention span.
2m. Chant like a monk
Sound therapy and mantra meditation tone the vagus nerve.
Mantras:
- every day and in every way I’m getting stronger and stronger, healthier and happier, and kinder and kinder
- I am accomplishing hard projects easily and joyfully, and continuously growing in energy, mastery and bravery
2n. See solitude as a wellness method
3s forces: concentrate often on being in Silence, seeking Stilness and enjoying the gift of Solitude.
Henry David Thoreau - philosopher tolookinto
deliberate gratitude - psychology tolookinto
2o. Consider that cold showers decrease doctors
Cold immersion can lead to more positive moods, enhanced cognitive function and immune response, quicker recovery after exercise, and better cardiovascular health.
Putting yourself in 14 C increases dopamine (european journal of psychology)
Better brain health: release of cold shock proteins which protect against neuronal loss
Why does it work? Hormesis.
2p. Exercise your spiritual wellness
Reconnect with your wisest self.
3. Family
Happy family, happy life habit. Enrich connections with the ones you love.
Love knows not its depth until the moment of parting - Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran in his masterwork The Prophet
3a. Practice the 3 great friends rule
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain
3b. Record the ride
Take photos of moments you want to remember.
3c. Turn into a people-builder
To care about making people in your life bigger, better and braver.
3d. Be a perfect moment creator
3e. Listen better than you speak
To show someone that you care and to honor their presence and to confirm that they matter is an exercise in grace.
- Don’t interrupt others. And stop finishing their sentences for them. They are doing their best to finish them.
- Know that the one who is asking questions is the one enriching the conversation.
- The person doing the listening is the person gaining the learning
- Many of us are rehearsing our answer while the other is talking. Not good. Be better.
4. Craft
Work as a platform for purpose habit.
The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul - Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Commitment to doing your work as skillfully as you can - in honor of your talents and in service to delivering deep value to other human beings.
4a. You don’t get lucky you make lucky
Heaven helps those who help themselves. Do your best and then let life do the rest.
5. Money
Prosperity as fuel for freedom habit.
6. Community
To lead a great life, fill your circle with great people
7. Adventure
The joy comes from exploring not possessing habit.
8. Service
The life is short so be very helpful habit.