The 5AM Club

The brain’s prefrontal cortex, or that part of you that makes you worry or analyze things over and over, is temporarily shut down in the peaceful early hours.

You become undefeatable in the world by what you do when no one else is watching.

Stop managing your time and start managing your focus.

Leadership is a lot less about having a formal title, a large office and money in the bank. And a lot more about committing to mastery over all you do - and in who you are.

The first fifty years of our lives are a lot about seeking legitimacy, you know. We crave social approval. We want our peers to respect us. We hope our neighbors will like us. We buy all sorts of things we really don’t need and obsess about making money we really don’t enjoy.

Our culture tells us to pursue titles and trinkets, applause and acclaim, money and mansions. All that’s fine - it truly is - so long as you don’t get brainwashed into defining your worth as a human being by these things. Enjoy them, just don’t get attached to them. Have them, just don’t base your identity around them. Appreciate them, just don’t need them.

A-Players don't get lucky. They make lucky.

The Daily 5 Concept: During Pocket 2 of the 20/20/20 formula, list the 5 small things you want to achieve in the day. Repeat daily.

The 60/10 Method: After the 90/90/1 segment of the day, focus on 60-minute bursts of intense work followed by 10-minute periods of regeneration and rest.

The 90/90/1 Rule: Use the first 90 minutes of your workday to focus on that one project that matters the most. Do this daily and with absolute consistency for a “Gargantuan Competitive Advantage”.

To regularly do that which is hard but important when it feels most uncomfortable is how warriors are born.

An intense concentration only on what matters most is how the pros realise victory. Simplify. Simplify. Simplify

Freedom from distraction. Distractions – particularly cyber-distractions – risk destroying our productive potential. Removing complexity and distraction is critical to peak success. Focus on making a few brilliant projects rather than diluting your attention across countless ideas.

Increasing Self-Control In 1 Area Elevates All Areas

Submit Yourself To Voluntary Discomfort Regularly

You Must Routinize The Right Habits

Victims have big TVs. Leaders own large libraries.

You need to remember that your excuses are seducers, your fears are liars and your doubts are thieves.

World-class begins where your comfort zone ends is a rule the successful, the influential and the happiest always remember.

Life’s way too valuable to hang with people who don’t get you. Who you just don’t vibe with. Who have different values and lower standards than you do. Who have different Mindsets, Heartsets, Healthsets and Soulsets. It’s a little miracle how powerfully and profoundly our influences and environments shape our productivity as well as our impact.

Everyone dreams of being a legend until it comes time to do the work that legends do.

The smallest of implementations is always worth more than the grandest of intentions.

A bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul.

Remember, every professional was once an amateur, and every master started as a beginner. Ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary feats, once they’ve routinized the right habits.

Dream Big. Start small. Act now.

Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.

To have the results The Top 5% of producers have, you must start doing what 95% of people are unwilling to do.

Take excellent care of the front end of your day, and the rest of your day will pretty much take care of itself. Own your morning. Elevate your life.

All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

World-class is a process, not an event.

I believe the humblest is the greatest. Pure leaders are so secure in their own skin their main mission is the elevation of others. They have such self-respect, joyfulness and peacefulness within themselves that they don’t need to advertise their success to society in a feeble attempt to feel a little better.