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The 5 AM Club book (and practice) review
This is not my first Robin Sharma book I read another one, which title I don’t remember at this moment that I particularly enjoyed. It was one of those easy to read books, with short suggesting chapters, read during a summer holiday in the beach.
I hate those self improvement, guru type books, and Robin books quite fill into it, but I was changing my morning routines, finding more a more value on getting up as early as possible and when The 5AM Club was launched I thought to myself that it won’t hurt me. In fact, read anything, a book will never hurt you.
The book teaches the morning and daily routine from a story about a troubled entrepreneur an unsuccessful artist and a billionaire master, so it’s easier to read and loses some of the stiffened style of self improvement books. The story plot, partly based in Mauritius, one of the most beautiful parts of thei world that I visited, made the book easy to read and as I fit the reading into one of the 20 minutes blocks of my morning routine. I finished to read it quite fast. In fact I started the book on January 6th 2019 and finished on January 23rd 2019.
For me the most important part of the book, and my real objective was the morning routine, which I adapted to my feelings, realities and believings. The rest of the books it’s too much self-improvent and guru type for my liking.
Here my main notes on the book:
“One who sweats more in training bleeds less in war” Spartan warrior credo
“All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end”. We all know this, but maybe we don’t interiorise it enough and notice in which phase. Don’t be too hard on you when you’re thinking about quitting, just know that you’re in the first part. Notice when everything is getting messy, and congratulate yourself for being already in the second phase. Gorgeous will come. Stay at it.
“Elite production without quiet vacation causes lasting depletion”. This is something die hard hustlers don’t realise. You must take periodic “desintoxication” and rest periods to recharge batteries, interiorise learnings and move ahead.
Awareness is key: with better daily awareness you can make better daily choices, and with better daily choices you’ll…
