Podcast 175: The Leader Who Had No Title with Robin Sharma

A new, updated and expanded edition of this New York Times bestseller on how to reconstruct your life so it's not all about work
  
 Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan - there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, this book is the blueprint.

This step-by step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches:


The 4-Hour Working Week by Timothy Ferriss (Audiobook Extract) read by Ray Porter

Today’s topic is natural hormones versus synthetics.  Now, this is an area of tremendous confusion, not only for the average person, but also for a lot of health care practitioners.  People just don’t know the difference between a natural hormone and something that is not natural to the female human body.  I’m going to give you the most common examples.   Premarin is a natural hormone for a horse.  It is the most common form of hormone replacement, and it is made from the urine of pregnant horses.  So it’s a natural hormone, if your native food is hay.  

Now, progesterone is found in the human female ovary.  It’s also made by the brain.  It’s even made by some nerve cells.  Unfortunately, in most hormone replacement, the molecule that’s used is not natural bioidentical progesterone, but instead something known as medroxyprogesterone acetate, MPA.

Natural Hormones

So if I were you, I would start making sure that I had enough omega-3 fat in my diet, long before conception, and then, of course, once I conceived, I’d really start socking that stuff to me.  Red Alaskan sockeye salmon is loaded with DHA. 

If you’re vegetarian, you can get it made from marine algae. One of the brands that makes it from marine algae is called Neuromins. You want to shoot for at least 400 milligrams a day of this amazing substance. And by the way, for anybody at any age, fish oil has been shown to reduce all-cause mortality, meaning everything that you could possibly die prematurely from, fish oil helps you prevent, and it sure does wire in a healthy baby’s immune system and brain and so on. 

And what happens in the women I’ve told to take the fish oil, I later see their babies, and they have the smartest babies I’ve ever seen. This is just the truth. And the data on it is overwhelming. 

The other thing you should have preconception is high levels of folic acid. A supplement should contain at least 800 micrograms of folic acid, daily.  And again, the women whose bodies are replete in folic acid before they conceive are the ones least likely to have birth defects such as spina bifida and even cleft lip and palate. In fact, we’ve got data on people who have followed a very good preconception nutrition program, and their rate of congenital defects, birth defects in their babies is much, much lower. So please take my advice. If you are thinking of having a baby at any time, you start to feed your baby right two to three years before he or she is born.

The Importance of Preconception Nutrition

Run your own race

True Nobility lies in being superior to your former self - Native American

Robin Sharma on Running your Own Race

Here's the thing about doing your greatest work: as you get closer to what you're truly capable of producing, your ego will subconsciously seduce you to stop making.

You'll feel like Skyping the office or checking your Instagram feed or taking a nap.

Don't let your lower self cause you to betray the gifts embedded in you. Your loved ones need you to fly. And our world will be a whole lot better off when the brilliance of your light shines.

Is Fear Causing You to Betray Your Talent?

Wellness Calm Dreams – Relaxing Spa Background Music for Wellness Treatment, Body Care and Massage, Beauty Therapy, Aromatherapy

Detox and Regeneration

Your genetics predict your success SO much less than your daily rituals do.

Install world-class habits and you’ll experience world-class results.

Every morning, please record 5 tiny acts of beautiful progress that you commit to executing on before the day is done. The Daily 5 ritual ensures you’ll finish 150+ acts of excellence every month. And 1800+ achievements one year from today. Remarkable, yes?

You’re going to get to one year from today anyway. Why not arrive at this destination with a whole new level of momentum, mastery and personal power?

The Nightly 3 routine involves simply writing down three great things that happened to you during your day. 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.

Encode the Routines of Your Morning Review + the Nightly Debrief

Many talk of “hustle” these days. But the idea that working longer and harder makes you more productive and better is outdated.

This quick episode walks you through my philosophy on this essential insight [rare in our world right now].

The Myth of Hustle + Grind

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

Copying what your competition is doing just leads to being second best.

Only leaders who are willing to think differently can out-innovate everyone around them. Thinking the same thoughts produces the same results. Leadership is all about being The Brave Creative out in front in your marketspace (and your career) versus doing things the way everyone else does them.

Business doesn’t need more copycats. Business needs more Dreamers.

If You're Copying Others, You're Betraying Yourself

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.

The Myth of Hustle + Grind

Robin Sharma

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