It's the people who operate in different ways that get the greatest things done. So to have the results only 5% of the population has, you've got to be willing to think and do and operate as 95% of people are not willing to think, do and operate. So I would say own your freakish nature. And if people say you're crazy or strange or weird because of your daily routines or your SOPs, your standard operating procedures, or your philosophies, smile at them, send them the best and continue on your path. Be a daily hero. And that sounds very simple, and it is simple, yet it speaks to the idea that we must release our victim nature in order to own our heroism. There are too many good people on the planet today that are card-carrying members of the cult of mediocrity. It's not because they're bad people, it's because they've fallen into the trap of believing the programming of the world around them. When we are little kids, we are born into genius, but too often we resign ourselves to mediocrity. When we're little kids. We want to do amazing things with our lives. We are quite intimate with our gifts and our talents. We are okay and comfortable in our own skin. We walk our own walk, we talk our own talk, we trust our instincts. But then as we advance through life, we get hurt, and the people around us tell us how to think, and they suggest to us if we live this way, we will live soaring lives. And over time we experience a brainwashing of sorts and a heart-washing, and we close ourselves down, and we start to steadily and incrementally we contract, we play small, and we restrict ourselves, and it becomes the great forgetting. We forget who we truly are, and we wonder why we don't feel joyful, and there's a lack of soulfulness in our lives, and we don't feel alive. And it's because we have betrayed ourselves. Stop giving away your power to external things because that's what victims do. And every single time you refuse to make an excuse or offer a complaint and you take your power back from a fear or something maybe you've been procrastinating on, you become more powerful. And if every single day you practice micro bravery and you do uncomfortable things and you vote for difficult projects, you steadily become the hero that you're meant to be. We get from life not what we want, but who we are. So build your warrior character, because life is a mirror, and we from life, not the things we hope for, we get from life who we are. And so I'm going to encourage you to focus on building what I call the four interior empires of Mindset, which is your psychology, Heartset, which is your emotionality, Healthset, which is your physicality, and Soulset, which is your spirituality. All external empires of prosperity or fame and fortune or applause or lifestyle, all exterior empires come from and flow from the four interior empires of Mindset, Heartset, Healthset and Soulset. If you want a world-class life, then develop a world-class interior core, because everything you do and everything you touch reflects who you are.
Money is only one form of wealth. I’ll make this message for today fairly short, but it just might be one of the most important ones I’ve sent to you in a while.
Our culture has pushed and trained and brainwashed so many of us to chase money and watches and things so we become “rich.”
It’s sad. Because people get hurt (by getting nice things and losing their soul along the way).
And this brainwashing is designed to make us think that if we exhaust our energy and spend our lifeforce on this pursuit, we’ll get to a place where we wake up happy.
It’ll never happen. Never. Ever.
I’ve seen it time and time again with the billionaire clients that I’ve mentored for decades. They feel happy for a week and then the scientific phenomenon of hedonic adaptation takes effect, they normalize the new rewards and, of course, they want more.
Personally, I must share that though I’ve sold well over 25 million books and spoken in stadium after stadium for most of my adult life, such things have made pretty much no difference to my satisfaction levels. There are so many more important priorities for me.
20 years ago I introduced The 8 Forms of Wealth. My clients have found it deeply helpful in the building of an honestly beautiful life.
Once you learn each of them and then spend a little time each day making them more real in your hours I can assure you, you’ll become truly (versus fakely) rich.
A great life may have financial independence in it and if that’s important to you then win in this area, please. But without wellness, love, craft and the other forms (along with my unspecific tools that optimize each one) a person ends up as the richest person in the graveyard.
As we step into September, I just wanted you to take some time to reflect on what mountains you’re climbing. So you climb the correct ones.And, if you’d like to significantly increase your creativity and productivity between now and December so you end this year super strong, I enthusiastically encourage you to invest in a membership in my value-rich online course, HabitCamp. Here are the details.
I’ll leave you with one of my favorite quotes to keep you strong. I wish you a great day. Thank you for following my work. You’re great you know?
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all.” - Ayn Rand
Love + respect,
Robin
The world is in the most difficult and dangerous time in the past 100 years. Here are 10 lessons to help you lead and serve brilliantly amidst the chaos. I hope they help!
1. Dark times are when real leaders emerge. Keep asking: “how can I use the mess to create more value for others?”
2. When in fear, don’t blame—or complain. Look within and observe your fear. Befriend it and work with it to release it. Meditation and journaling will help you here. As you process through the fear, it will dissolve. Leaving you greater. Forever. In this way, all the uncertainty of this era becomes a tool for your rise.
3. As the majority grows more scared, become more kind.
4. Suffering is a giant source of creativity. Don’t stand stuck. Exploit this time to innovate. Question your winning formula and venture into blue oceans of striking possibility.
5. Protect your energy. Watch the news but don’t become obsessed with the news. Gain information to help you navigate the storms and analyze data to help you predict the future. Yet don’t allow it to bring you down. People count on you.
6. Keep perspective. Society moves through cycles. Breakthroughs require breakdowns. The geopolitical and economic dangerousness has happened before—many times. I don’t like the way so many pundits call all of this “unprecedented.” It not only gets boring. It’s happened before. And we all got through it.
7. Stay optimistic. Better days are definitely ahead. I think we’ll be in the mess for a while—I must always be honest with you. Having said this, know and trust fantastic times will come. The dark will pass. The light will appear. And it will be bright.
8. Get even fitter. Work on your thinking. Feed your emotional life. Run or bike or walk. Put your feet on some grass. Or in some soil. Help someone in need. Rest. Stay healthy.
9. Read for an hour each evening. Study history to understand the future. Listen to smart podcasts and consume audiobooks while you bike, walk and do your grocery shopping.
10. Push more magic into the marketplace. Even in economic depressions, fortunes are made. Upgrade your dedication to mastery of your craft. Cause people to live better and you’ll do better. Even when your competitors are falling.
I could write 100 more of these lessons for you (based on the content I’m sharing in my leadership keynotes and mentoring work with the organizations who engage me to help them win in this turbulent age).
Yet, please simply study, discuss and deliver on the 10 above. They will serve you and your team well.
And, if you’d like to significantly increase your creativity and productivity between now and December so you end this year super strong, I enthusiastically encourage you to invest in a membership in my value-rich online course, HabitCamp. Here are the details.
Ok. Hope all this helps you prosper in this weird era we’ve found ourselves in.
Love + respect.