ROBIN SHARMA
The 5 A M Club by Robin Sharma ; Published by Jaico ;
Pages 314 ;Price Rs.350/-
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Robin Sharma is the founder of Sharma Leadership International Inc., a training firm with only one focus: helping people in organisations lead . Clients include NASA, GE, Nike, FedEx, Hewlett Packard, Starbucks, Oracle, Barrick Gold Corporation, Unilever, Microsoft, IBM, Yale University, TOMS Shoes, The Ritz-Carlton Hotels, and many other FORTUNE 500 companies.
Sharma has been ranked as one of the Top 5 Leadership Experts in the World in an independent survey of over 22,000 business people and appears on platforms with other luminaries such as Richard Branson, Bill Clinton, Jack Welch and Shaquille O'Neal.
Sharma is one of the world's premier speakers on Leadership and Personal Mastery. As a presenter, Sharma has the rare ability to electrify an audience yet deliver uncommonly original and useful insights that lead to individuals doing their best work, teams providing superb results and organisations becoming unbeatable. Sharma has published 12 other books, and founded the training company Sharma Leadership International.
Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5 A M Club concept over twenty years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximise their productivity, activate their best health and bulletproof their serenity in this age of overwhelming complexity.
Now, in this life-changing book, handcrafted by the author over a rigorous four-year period, you will discover the early-rising habit that has helped so many accomplish epic results .
Through an enchanting—and often amusing—story about two struggling strangers who meet an eccentric tycoon who becomes their secret mentor, The 5 A M Club will walk you through:
• How great geniuses, business titans and the world’s wisest people start their mornings to produce astonishing achievements
• A little-known formula you can use instantly to wake up early feeling inspired, focused and flooded with a fiery drive to get the most out of each day
• A step-by-step method to protect the quietest hours of daybreak so you have time for exercise, self-renewal and personal growth
• A neuroscience-based practice proven to help make it easy to rise while most people are sleeping, giving you precious time for yourself to think, express your creativity and begin the day peacefully instead of being rushed
• “Insider-only” tactics to defend your gifts, talents and dreams against digital distraction and trivial diversions so you enjoy fortune, influence and a magnificent impact on the world
Part manifesto for mastery, part playbook for genius-grade productivity and part companion for a life lived beautifully, The 5 A M Club is a work that is expected to transform one's life.
However ,the book is a completely blind story of disordered and random characters. You can never understand what the characters are doing and why they are doing that.
You can never understand that why an artist who is reasonably successful in his life is frustrated. Robin Sharma’s sermons and quotations seems to be repeated from the previous books. It's quite awkward to imagine that a big entrepreneur and an artist is taking lecture from a seemingly homeless guy.
The 5 A M Club is not just a book with some benefits of rising early, but it has a lot more value packed in it. It teaches you how installing a few new habits can change your life for the best.
It teaches you minimalism and how the legends, as well as the elite performers, have been able to accomplish what they have today.
The 5 A M Club is packed with motivation and step-by-step methods to which if learned and understood well and put into execution can transform your life completely.
The 5 A M Club is a fictional tale of 3 people learning to make the most of their time and days by waking up at 5 am each day. While the story is fictional the lessons are not. There are many books out there all touting the benefits of a productive morning ritual and there is a reason they are so popular. This particular story offers a framework perfect for getting started with trying out earlier mornings and is definitely worth a look.
The sheer number of books about or by successful people (Richard Branson, Michelle Obama, PepsiCo’s recently retired Indra Nooyi) who rise before dawn is staggering – to the point where it seems odd that Sharma is heading down such a well-travelled path for his new book. His argument is that The 5 A M Club is actually the culmination of a concept he has been honing for more than 20 years, which has helped his clients “accomplish epic results while upgrading their happiness, helpfulness and feelings of aliveness.”
The real problems with the book, then, are not his ideas but how Sharma has chosen to present them. He chooses to cloak all this in a fictional story of an entrepreneur and an artist who meet an eccentric, seemingly homeless man (actually a billionaire tycoon), who becomes their secret mentor.
It’s not entirely surprising that Sharma has taken this approach. He did something very similar with his bestselling book The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, a step-by-step guide to living with “greater courage, balance, abundance and joy” told via the fable of a lawyer battling to make sense of a far from harmonious life.
It is true that people around the world have loved listening to Sharma talk about The 5 A M Club over the past 20 years. Apparently he has been handcrafting this tie-in book over a “rigorous four-year period”.
The reason behind popularity for Robin Sharma’s books is simply his authenticity and his attitude towards whatever he does on daily basis.
Now, in this life-changing book, handcrafted by the author over a rigorous four year period, you will discover the early-rising habit that has helped so many accomplish epic results while upgrading their happiness, helpfulness, and feelings of aliveness.
Quotes from The 5 A M Club:
Take excellent care of the front end of your day, and the rest of the day will pretty much take care of itself.
Let me simply say that the place where your greatest discomfort lies is also the spot where your greatest opportunity lives.
The 5 A M Club Summary Notes:
The most reliable way to generate the best results in your personal and professional life is to build a world beating morning routine.
One of the biggest advantages of joining the 5 A M club is the quiet solitude and enhanced brain state we are in that hour of the day.As the day goes on our mental capacity is drained by all of the things competing for attention, things like work, news, social media.
5 A M in the morning is an excellent time for achieving a state of flow. This can be a result of your brain not needing to stress, worry and analyse anything in the day yet.
Most people are unwilling to get up at 5 and begin their days, by doing so you gain a competitive advantage.
Self-discipline and perseverance always trump talent and giftedness.
Freedom from distraction allows one to focus, simplify and concentrate. It allows you to work on your One Thing
The power in habits is not from the habit itself but in the accumulation of small improvements that consistent practice gives.
To show elite-level mastery of a subject or skill requires approximately 2.75 hours per day of practice each day for 10 years. Getting up earlier is an easy way to get these hours in.
A great outline for your first hour is the 20/20/20 rule. 20 mins to move, 20 mins to reflect and 20 mins to grow.
Robin Sharma could be a leader or a misleader.
Find out for yourself.
P.P.Ramachandran.
21/04/2019.
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