The 5 AM Club (2018)
“Sharma, R. S. (2018). The 5 AM Club: Own your morning, elevate your life. HarperCollins Publishers.
"The great women and men of the world were all givers, not takers.
Create a private life strong in ethics, rich with marvelous beauty and unyielding when it comes to the protection of your inner peace.
Your life's a mess right now, this is simply because your fears are just a little stronger than your faith. With practice, you can turn down the volume of the voice of your scared self. And increase the tone of your most triumphant side.
If the road gets tough and requires some patience, we think we're on the wrong path.
Rich invest in time. The poor invest in money .
Her former way of existing no longer served her. It was time for a change.
All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.
Drama mamas...men and women who've caught the virus of victimitis excusitis.
The top 5% are a lot less concerned with fame, cash and approval and a lot more invested in punching above their weight class within their craft, playing above their pay grade and their talents and creating the kind of productivity that inspires - and serves - millions.
Victims love entertainment. Victors adore education.
Your time is limited. So don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.
The old 'you' must die before the best 'you' can be born.
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.
Real riches come from living by the noble virtues of productivity, self discipline, courage, honesty, empathy and integrity as well as being able to lead your days on your own terms versus blindly following the sheep that so many in our sick society have been trained to become.
You never want to be the richest person in the graveyard.
When we are young we sacrifice our health for wealth and when we grow old and wise we realize what's most important - and become willing to sacrifice all our wealth for even one day of good health.
We all work for the world, you know?
Anyone can be a critic. Takes guts to be an encourager."
5 AM diaries obsession swept the internet and of course I was not too special to be spared. Jumping on the bandwagon humbled me and showed me that I do not need to live the way the internet does.
At the start of 2024, I felt empowered to wake up at 5 AM. The beautiful transition from pitch black sky to misty grey, then warm orange to bright blue canvas dotted with cotton candy clouds was a lure I couldn't resist at the start of this journey. Bird songs echoed the empty space. I suddenly had so much more time in the day.
Then the daily crash introduced herself at 2 PM. Some days, I forced myself to push through: "don't be a weak shit" on repeat. Unkind. Demeaning. Bit by bit I chipped away my confidence, my self-awareness at the pretense of societal's definition of success.
Who's watching? Who cares? Only me. I was putting on a show to an audience of none other than moi and the critic reviews were less than ideal.
Took me 3 months to snap out of it when my body finally threw in the towel. All kinda of exhaustion symptoms became regular daily functions. I couldn't take it anymore.
5 AM club wasn't for me and that is okay.