The brain has a negativity bias we need to relentlessly fight against. This primitive instinct served us 1000+ years ago. Destroys our brilliance today.

Noticing items to be grateful for is the antidote to apathy. And the cure for stagnation.

Recode Your Mindset to Overcome the Brain's Natural Negativity Bias

You can play with your phone all day, or you can change the world. You don’t get to do both. ⁣⁣

I love technology. Many of my most adored clients are tech giants like Microsoft and Satyam Computers. But it must be our servant – not our master. We must apply technology to advance our dreams – not spoil our days. 
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Starting today - turn off all notifications on your phone, as the distraction and interruption they generate is costing you a fortune.⁣⁣
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And stop using your phone as an alarm clock. It’s just too easy to begin your day checking email or notifications this way, taking you down a digital rabbit hole of terrific distraction and toxic interruption.⁣⁣

Your Phone is Costing You Your Fortune

Most people in business are very superficial. Because we live in a world where everything seems easy, everything is so accessible, so the majority of society accepts taking a light-hearted approach in business, with the products they produce, the service they deliver, with their health, with their education, and with their relationships. But the best of the best are very different. They aren't superficial: they're granular.

Shift from Superficiality to Granularity

Clarity precedes mastery. The more clear you can get on what you want to create in life, the more focused you will be in your daily behaviors.

The Missing Link to Personal Mastery

Study Jay-Z or Cirque du Soleil or Zuckerberg or Lady Gaga. All extreme achievers have one belief in common: good enough is definitely not good enough.

To start seeing explosive gains in your achievement levels, I invite you to make the commitment to using every single day of the rest of your long life as a platform for improvement and a vehicle for daily optimization.

Remember: as you live this day, so you craft your life (the best way to predict the future is to create it in the present). Leave everything you touch 1% better. 

Never stop improving your Mindset. Never stop improving your communication. Never stop improving your fitness.  Never stop improving your productivity. Never stop improving your knowledge base…you get my point…

One Powerful Acronym of Extreme Achievement

To win in business in these turbulent times, delivering only what’s expected is the price of admission. To grow market share, gain more loyalty and to build your brand you need to go well beyond the extra mile. You need to wow your customers. You absolutely must deliver unexpected value.

Today, think like a customer, for just a few moments. And then commit to ways of thinking, feeling and behaving that will deliver more to your customers than they have any right to expect.

Install the Ritual of Over-Delivering

I’m all about the construction of “Tight-Bubbles of Total Focus” on certain days of the week. On these days, I get lost from the world, go dark and focus monomaniacally on the few projects that will count the most.

When I work, devices are off, no one can reach me and I vanish completely. I retreat to a series of beautiful, light-filled, mess-free sanctuaries where my brain can then drop into “transient hypofrontality”. That’s the scientific term brain researchers use for when your mind waves slow down, a pharmacy of mastery is created within you and the pre-frontal cortex–the brain area where your noisy self-critic lives–becomes silent. Also priceless.

This condition–which you have the power to create under the right environment–is often called “Flow”. It’s the state where your natural genius shows up. Time slows down. You see solutions that were un-evident before. We all have this ability. But with the TV on, the notifications sounding and the distractions happening, only those with an acute understanding of the importance of installing world-class conditions get to capture this state where the creative giants play.

How to Leverage the Neurobiological Phenomenon of Transient Hypofrontality to Lead Your Field

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

The past is a servant and it’s a place to learn from, not a home to live in. ⁣⁣
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For you to embrace your next level of world-class, you have to let go of everything you used to be. ⁣⁣

How to Let Go of the Past Forever

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

As you leave the crowd in hot pursuit of a rare-air life, you will be misunderstood. Our world was built by people who the masses called ‘weird’.

Living your heroic ambitions and materializing the potential you have sleeping inside of you - especially in these times - isn’t a game for amateurs.

Nope. It’s for the pros.

Each day you step into the place where you work, you have the opportunity to nurture – and awaken – the artist that inhabits you. We all have a core craving to express who we are and to create something special. Part of being human.  Step out into the world each day and create your masterpiece. The world will be better for it.

Advanced Art is Always Misunderstood

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.