Name: Heartset Work is an Act of Heroism by Robin Sharma
Duration: 2 min 12 s
Description: Even when people disappoint you and life hurts you, keep your heart open. This is how heroes roll.

Groundbreaking research on elite performance and ultra-achievement has confirmed that keeping a journal on a regular basis boosts mental focus, increases self-confidence, elevates your mental attitude and increases the levels of happiness that you feel.

It’s a fine place to record your gratitude, process through pain, note your victories and reclaim your most luminous self in hard times.

Keep a Lockdown Journal to Magnify Your Positivity

In 2021, read, write, strategize and reflect for at least 60 minutes a day. For breakthrough results.

[Please don’t tell me you are too busy to spend at least 60 minutes a day learning. Some of the busiest people I know read or listen to CDs or do online training for at least an hour a day].

A lot of people are too busy being busy. Shift from being busy to getting results.

Success Belongs to the Relentless Learner

We are shaped by our conversations. We are influenced by the ideas we hear and the people we meet. Listening is a master skill for personal and professional greatness. Leaders listen. Staggeringly well.

When we go deep into listening to the person we are communicating with, we truly have the opportunity to get behind their eyeballs and learn, grow and evolve into our highest and best from their sharing. And if you are lucky enough to be talking to the right person – at the right time – that single conversation might be the one to change the way you think, feel and behave.

Listen Deeply to x5 all of Your Relationships

Most of my life is spent working with teams in companies – helping grow leaders at all levels. I hear so much talk about "our competitors" and "how hard it is to win in these tough times" and that "the market’s shrinking." 

Thinking about your competition is a waste of time and a loss of minutes that you could be using to innovate and arrive at new forms of excellence. Every minute you spend worrying about and benchmarking your peers is a moment you’ve stolen from innovation, building a better team and growing your own brand. 

Now is a superb time to create even more value for your customers and be of acute use to even more people. Work on your professional knowledge and career skills even more. Listen to audiobooks, podcasts and coaching resources so you leap ahead of your previous leadership self. The marketplace demands [and will reward] your mastery as never before. And you’ll be an absolute standout. Which is what I wish for you.

Why You Shouldn't Focus On Your Competition in 2021

There’s zero doubt in my mind that you were made to become a masterful communicator. And by making the trait of being terrifyingly transparent in your communication, you’ll get to genius in the way you connect quicker than you might imagine.

1 Potent Tactic to Become a Masterful Communicator

Research and science is confirming the power of mirror neurons and the phenomenon of emotional contagion. We become our conversations. And we model our associations.⁣⁣⁣⁣
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One of the best things I’ve done in my own life to maximize my creativity and amplify my peace is to delete the energy vampires and release the hope thieves. It’s not easy, yet life’s just too short to hang with people who bring you down.⁣⁣⁣⁣
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Encode this Piece of Neuroscience to Improve Your Behavior

In this age of downsizing and cost-cutting, more than ever I suggest it’s mission-critical to enjoy life’s simplest pleasures. The things we used to take for granted when times were great. The activities we’ve overlooked as life became dramatically busy. The pursuits that used to nourish us. And make us happy.

Savour the Simple Pleasures in Life [to Become Fully Human Again]

Persistency wins.

Work on your resilience muscles so you hunt down the opportunity that exists within adversity. When you most feel like giving up is when you absolutely must carry on.

I do believe that the real value of any work or challenge you face is what the process makes of you.

By continuing when you’re faced with doubt, by persisting when you feel like giving up and by optimizing when you think it’s good enough -- we grow closer to our finest selves. And show the world what’s possible.

Fortune Favors the Relentless [and Punishes the Passive]

Find your circle of genius.

Behavioral scientists have discovered the phenomenon of “emotional contagion.” This describes the fact that, unconsciously, we adopt the beliefs, feelings and behaviors of the people we spend most of our time with.

Want to get ultra-fit? One of the finest ways is to join a running group or make friends with athletes. Ready to be happier? Then remove the energy vampires and complainers from your life. Set to build a truly world-class company? Then start spending far more time with those who have been there and done it. Their mindsets and ways of being will automatically influence you, over time. And associating with people whose lives you want to be living shows you what’s possible. And once you know more, you can achieve more.

Your Associations Predict the Level of Your Success

What if the true reason you may not have the productivity or prosperity you long for is not because such rewards are not meant for you but due to patterns of deep self-sabotage that are keeping you stuck?

If you’d like to go x5 deeper into this question then definitely listen to this 12-minute episode to raise your craft, impact, and domain dominance.

Stop Self-Sabotaging and Get in the Game [12-Minute Episode]

Even when people disappoint you and life hurts you, keep your heart open. This is how heroes roll.

Heartset Work is an Act of Heroism

Bestselling author of 15 books (including The 5AM Club), globally celebrated leadership expert and philanthropist; Robin Sharma is considered to be one of the top 5 leadership experts in the world. His work is embraced by rock stars, royalty, billionaires and many celebrity CEOs. 

Deeply passionate about helping children in need live happier, healthier lives, Robin founded The Robin Sharma Foundation for Children (RSFC) as a registered charitable foundation. 

Visit www.robinsharma.com to learn more.

Heartset Work is an Act of Heroism

Robin Sharma

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