Trauma is the consistent little things, it is the aggressions and micro aggressions in a person's life that causes them to have their own worldview.

Trauma 

I remember what Gabrielle Bernstein once said, "We are all traumatized. You can't be alive in this world right now at this time or even decades ago without experiencing trauma in some form."The big myth about Trauma is that it happens after a big tragedy. But that's not necessarily true. Oprah Winfrey said it all right: "Trauma doesn't have to have a great big capital T on it. It's really how you were loved. And that neglect and trauma are hand in hand because both are equally toxic".

Trauma doesn't have to have a big capital T on it

Oprah Winfrey: people are as dysfunctional, as unhappy, as disoriented in their lives based on how far they are from the centre of themselves. And the centre is where wholeness lies. Where there is no centre and sense of wholeness and love for yourself, there is going to be disarray, chaos, confusion, disfunction in life. People behave based on how they were loved, and they were able to process that in a way to love other people.

People Behave Based On How They Were Loved

As we grow up we pick up craps from this world and carry that baggage with us all our lives. We carry those traumas and pains that people have done to us. And now it's ours to deal with. We have to own it. It's now ours to fix the problem that people gave us. That makes no sense and it's not fair but if we keep living in the 'Always Me' mentality we will never come out of our traumas.We have such potential to heal ourselves. We are our own healers. Look inside of you and ask the voice inside of you and it will answer all the questions.

Start With Yourself

People suffer because they are living in a denial stage. The more the resistance the more pain it brings along with it. The first step towards healing is to acknowledge and be truthful about it. Awareness comes when we ask ourselves some crucial questions like—<ul><li>What are the memories that are stuck with me?</li><li>Where it came from?</li><li>Why I'm feeling the way I'm feeling?</li><li>What are the triggers?</li></ul>When we ask ourselves questions we finally allow ourselves with an opportunity to understand ourselves and others around us.

The First Step Is Awareness

To understand is to deeply analyze the situation from a different and unbiased point of view. Often our traumas are led by deep rooted anger, frustration and shame. These are buried deep inside our traumas and facing them is difficult. The whole process of facing and understanding them should be gentle. Don't put yourself in a position where you're gonna blow out your system with too much digging too fast.It is likely that after going through a traumatic experience we thought of that experience in one way, in the same way our whole life.

Understanding The Feelings

When we experience trauma we feel disembodied, we close up ourselves and build a fortress around us to protect us from experiencing that samepain again. But little do we know that the protector part of us is not actually protecting us, it's deepening the wounds but it looks like it's protecting us.Self compassion and compassion for others will liberate you from the pain. Learn to put yourself in the shoes of others, ask why they did what they did. Love for yourself is a huge part in healing that inner child within.

Compassion Is The Key

Trauma is the inability to be present.

Easier said than done, it's difficult to forgive, it feels so wrong but it's the one right thing you can do. It's in your hand. The more we hold onto something, old grudges, pain the harder it gets to let go because even if the incident is in the past we're carrying the baggage of it in our present moment. It weighs on you and hurts you more than the person who did it to you. The most freeing thing to do is to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

Learn To Forgive

We all know that Growth happens outside of our comfort zones. Similar is all the hardship we experience in life. Every experience and pain is a leverage for your growth. Every little discomfort makes you a more stronger, better version of yourself.We can look into the experience for what we've gained from it. Everything in life is for us, it's happening for us not to us to make us more resilient.

Learning And Growth

Every single event change us or change our worldview for better or for worse. Similar for our experiences. Every single event change us. We can always rewrite our stories with more love and compassion. We can always rewrite our limiting beliefs with a much more positive outlook and growth mindset for the betterment of our lives and in a way that serves us.

The Journey To Transformation

Fame isn't what you think of yourself, it's what other people think of you. If you come into that & you don't have a grounded centered self you'll be controlled by the outside instead of the inside. If you come in to fame not in the fullness of knowing who you are or what you're supposed to do with that fame, whenever somebody like you or doesn't like you that determines whether or not you're having a good day or bad day & you have lost control of your own life. What fame teaches you is to grow the wholeness within yourself so that you are not controlled by other's outside opinions of you.

Overcome Trauma And Still Be Successful

As humans we have a desire to remain in the familiar. All of the things that happened in the beginning to us begins to lay down pathways. We have all of these patterned routes that many of us have been rehearsing since birth. Usually this begins out of pain, out of experiences where we had to adapt. They have long term consequences but usually in the immediate we're avoiding something, some form of pain or discomfort or we're attempting to feel loved or connected. Anything out of this bound can feel threatening. Those patterns are what feels safest keeping us stuck in those patterns.

What's Holding You Back

The only way we can go forward is by going all the way back. To the beginning, to your childhood. That's where everything starts.

Sometimes you do horrible things to your child and later you reason that out by saying you're doing this out of love but deep down you know it's not true, something is broken inside you that still needs fixing.You think you're protecting your children or being okay when you're doing destructive things around your young children. They don't have the language but they are taking in the energy and frequency and they're absorbing it all.So please be mindful of yourself, be mindful when dealing with kids. Because what happens in the tender age is going to dictate the rest of their lives.

To Dear Parents

Everything that happened to you can also be a strength builder for you if you allow.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

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How To Heal Emotional Wounds & Trauma

Adi Shankaracharya asked a question in his book, Prashnavali :'Who shall achieve victory in the world?'The answer he provided was:'Those who have conquered their own mind'In this post we will learn to conquer our mind by knowing—<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">What is Thought</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Why Negative Thoughts Arise</li><li class="ql-align-justify">How to Identify Negative Thoughts</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Three Step System to Eliminate Negative Thoughts</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Discipline Your Thoughts— Pleasure vs Happiness</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Benefits of Solitude</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Positive 'Chintan'— Train Your Thoughts</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The Art of Effective Thinking</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Difference between Religion and Spirituality</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Four Aspects of Spiritual Thinking</li></ol>

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Thoughts are far more than the electro-chemical reactions happening in the brain. They are subtle energy forms created by the mind, with or without the assistance of the brain. It is pertinent to mention that not all thoughts require the brain's intercession. There are varieties of thoughts that can be generated by the mind only.Brain and Mind are not the same thing. Mind's function extends far beyond the gross tangible workings of the brain's neurons. It encompasses the intangible, invisible and transcendent world of feelings, attitudes and beliefs.

What Is Thought

1. Overgeneralization: We make a general assumption based on a single incident.2. Fallacy of Fairness: We feel that life should be fair.3. Expecting a Catastrophe: We expect the worst to happen.4. Filtering Out Positives: We take negative details of a situation and make mountains out of them, while forgetting all the positive aspects.5. Imagined Mind Reading: The thought process where we are sure we know what another person is thinking. And typically, we assume it is something negative about us.6. Labelling: We observe a particular behaviour by a person and apply a tag.

Why Negative Thoughts Arise

7. Personalization: We assume personal blame for things that are outside our control.8. Blaming: We engage in blaming others that they are responsible for our emotional pain.9. Imperative Thinking: We set the bar high and then project our expectations on others. And when people do not match up, we detest them for it.10. Polarized Thinking: This is all-or-none thinking that we must be fully successful otherwise we will be absolute failures.11. Emotional Reasoning: We think if we feel something is true, so it must be true.12. Finger Pointing: This thinking is filled with fault finding in others.

→ Automatic: They pop into your mind without any effort from your side.→ Distorted: They do not connect with all the facts. They jump to conclusions.→ Unproductive: They undermine your motivation, feed bitterness and rob your optimism.→ Justification: They provide excuses for you to be less than your best.→ Intrusive: They are disturbing or even vicious, and yet quite difficult to switch off.

How To Identify Negative Thoughts

1. Dilution— Distance Yourself From The Thought:Whenever a negative thought pops into the mind, remember that it is not you. Rather than adopting it, you can distance yourself from it.2. Substitution— Replace a Negative Thought With A Positive Thought:When unwholesome thoughts contrary to self-discipline and goodness arise in the mind, the reverse thoughts should be practised.3. Sublimation— Build A Positive Thought System:Focus building on the thought chain of positive emotions. Cultivate in your mind wholesome ideas of inspiration, optimism, cheerfulness.

Three Step System To Eliminate Negative Thoughts

The more a product gives us a dopamine rush, the more addictive it is. There is momentary gratification followed by regret. The more pleasure we seek, the unhappier we become.The experience of happiness is very different from pleasure. Physiologically it is attributed not to dopamine but to serotonin. This is not an excitatory chemical but a pacifying one, it does not fire the neurons rather, it calms them down.Do the opposite of mind's urges. Every time we resist the urge for momentary gratification, we break the mind's control over us.

Discipline Your Thoughts— Pleasure Vs Happiness

<ol><li>Helps us to unwind from the clamour and noise of today's busy world.</li><li>Stimulates the Parasympathetic System thus relaxes the muscle tension.</li><li>Allows our brain to relax. Helps us to calm down our overactive brains.</li><li>Promotes body-mind sync. It makes us feel more grounded and in control of ourselves.</li><li>Provides an opportunity for perspective. Coming to a standstill helps us step back from hustle bustle and helps us to muse about the bigger picture.</li><li>Allows us to plan our life. Quiet space provides us an opportunity to introospect and evaluate where we are in our journey versus where we wish to be.</li></ol>

Benefits Of Solitude

In Sanskrit, mental practice is called Chintan. It means 'deep reflective thought'.Strategies to train your Chintan:-<ol><li>Think Intentionally: Disregard the programmed response & instead consciously choose your thoughts.</li><li>Revise Desirable Thoughts: Push yourself past the complaining mind & practice the contemplative thinking.</li><li>Think New Thoughts: Try new ways of thinking.</li><li>Feed Your Mind: Feed the mind a good diet of wisdom, inspiration & knowledge.</li><li>Physical Exercise: Exercise releases pleasure chemicals that supercharge our thinking.</li><li>Spiritual Exercise: Invest time daily in keeping the mind healthy.</li></ol>

Positive 'Chintan'— Train Your Thoughts

This includes a huge variety of thought skills.<ul><li>Diffused Thinking: The conscious mind is relaxed, our subconscious gets to work. Often happens while our conscious mind is engaged in some diversion.</li><li>Focused Thinking: The conscious mind is in deep work to get tangible results.</li><li>Big Picture Thinking: We explore possibilities and identify opportunities amongst them.</li><li>Detail Oriented Thinking: Going into details of something to do excellent work.</li><li>Critical Thinking: Thinking clearly and rationally to understand a matter in depth.</li><li>Reflective Thinking: Allows us to revisit experiences with fresh eyes.</li></ul>

The Art Of Effective Thinking

<ul><li>Attachment Thinking: Our emotions prevent us from seeing things as they are.</li><li>Strategic Thinking: It's aim is to devise an effective blueprint for action.</li><li>Abstract Thinking: Thinking about intangible concepts such as freedom, equality.</li><li>Practical Thinking: Use of common sense to evaluate the feasibility of ideas.</li><li>Mature Thinking: Being aware of our emotions and having empathy for others.</li><li>Spiritual Thinking: To find a deeper purpose to life.</li><li>Divine Thinking: It imbues our every thought with selfless love</li></ul>Good thinkers are those who can use any or all of these styles depending upon situation at hand.

— Spirituality is the essence while religion is its external form.— Visit to a sacred place is religion. To sit down in one place and take our mind to the Divine is spirituality.— To take a bath in the holy Ganga is religion. To bathe our mind in Divine thoughts is spirituality.— To adorn the body with sacred tilak marks is religion. To adorn our personality with noble and sublime qualities is spirituality.— To offer oblations of ghee in the sacrificial fire is religion. To offer our obnoxious ego at the feet of God and become humble is spirituality.Both should be practiced to purify our mind.

Difference Between Religion And Spirituality

Self Awareness <ul><li>Distinguishing our lower nature from our higher nature.</li><li>Awareness of the purpose of our life.</li><li>Awareness of the values we live by.</li></ul>Universal Awareness<ul><li>Empathy for others.</li><li>Awareness of the interconnectedness of the universe.</li><li>Awareness of the Spiritual laws that govern the universe.</li></ul>Self Mastery<ul><li>Commitment to keeping our higher self in charge.</li><li>Living according to our values and purpose.</li><li>Commitment to pursuing our spiritual growth.</li></ul>Professional Mastery<ul><li>Serving through your professional work.</li><li>Serving in your personal relationships.</li><li>Serving through your position of leadership.</li></ul>

Four Aspects Of Spiritual Thinking

We are not material beings having a spiritual experience. Rather, we are spiritual beings having a material experience in this world.

About 2500 thoughts run through our mind every hour. Even at this moment we are bombarded with them. Imagine their potential healing power if they are joyous and optimistic. This book took an in depth approach to understand our thoughts.

Incredibly, the ingredients of a hugely successful life cost nothing at all. In fact, we mass-produce 60,000 of them every day. These are the thoughts that our mind creates. They are responsible for the happiness and distress we experience. They are the precursors of all we do. We grapple with improving our actions, only to find our attempts undone by impure thinking. If we focus on transforming our thoughts instead, incredible results will accrue from a fraction of the efforts. Since all aspects of our life are so strongly linked to our thoughts, we have much to gain by deepening our understanding of them. In this book, Swami Mukundananda, a world-renowned spiritual teacher from India and an internationally acclaimed mind-management authority, will teach you about watching your thoughts, directing them, dismantling harmful thought structures, creative thinking, meditation and much more. When you focus on revolutionizing your thoughts-the most fundamental aspect of inner personality-you will discover yourself evolving to divine heights to fulfil the purpose of your life.

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Religion & Spirituality

Incredibly, the ingredients of a hugely successful life cost nothing at all. In fact, we mass-produce 60,000 of them every day. These are the thoughts that our mind creates. They are responsible for the happiness and distress we experience. They are the precursors of all we do. We grapple with improving our actions, only to find our attempts undone by impure thinking. If we focus on transforming our thoughts instead, incredible results will accrue from a fraction of the efforts. Since all aspects of our life are so strongly linked to our thoughts, we have much to gain by deepening our understanding of them. In this book, Swami Mukundananda, a world-renowned spiritual teacher from India and an internationally acclaimed mind-management authority, will teach you about watching your thoughts, directing them, dismantling harmful thought structures, creative thinking, meditation and much more. When you focus on revolutionizing your thoughts-the most fundamental aspect of inner personality-you will discover yourself evolving to divine heights to fulfil the purpose of your life.

Swami Mukundananda is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Swami Mukundananda has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Swami Mukundananda's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

Swami Mukundananda

The Power of Thoughts

10 key takeaways from this wonderful book to succeed in every sphere of life:#1 Know Thyself: Passion & Desire→→Formula To Discover Your Passion#2 Goals vs Process#3 Self Mastery→→Reprogram The Subconscious Mind#4 Visualisation→→How To Visualise#5 Small Step Every Day→→5 Principles of Daily Execution#6 Life is Action & Death is The Only Rest→→Momentum#7 Be cool & Focus#8 Decision#9 Be A Loner→→Creative Space#10 Fake Failure

#10 Key Takeaways

The reason of our unhappiness is we are not in alignment with who we are. Everyone has come on this planet with talents, gifts and capacities to express. No one is left without it. Hence living your passion is not a choice, it's an obvious thing.When we begin training our passion, we get honest with ourselves. Living in the present, living your passion gives you inner peace because there lies your true joy and happiness. Discover your passion, understand it and pursue it.INTENSE DESIRE+ COMPREHENSIVE KNOWLEDGE+ MASSIVE ACTION= SUCCESS

#1 Know Thyself: Passion & Desire

FILTER 1 : Imagine money isn't a problem, and you've wealth in abundance.FILTER 2 : Now recollect the things you are interested in+ the thing you're good at.FILTER 3 : In those things, you're more interested in the process than the result.FILTER 4 : You'll love to learn and continually work, even after becoming number one in the world.

Formula To Discover Your Passion

Goals are preceded by a process. The secret to success is to remain unconditionally committed to that process.First understand your goal, a person who has no vision may not achieve anything wonderful but having wrong goals is the worst. Set some real goals which are inevitable, you can't procrastinate such goals and immerse yourself into them. The actions will come naturally.

#2 Goals vs Process

Without self-understanding, all activities result in ultimate defeat in the struggle for existence.No matter how rich you are, if you're not happy and always lack inner peace you will always feel unfulfilled. Inner peace comes from mastering yourself, because when you master yourself the reality depends on you and not the other way around. Reprogram the subconscious mind.Self-mastery is the key to growth. The mind is your only opposition. Understand how the mind works and you can direct your actions forward as a positive force.

#3 Self Mastery

#1 Replace negative words with positive ones to describe your emotions. Say "I'm a little annoyed" instead of "I'm angry."#2 When you're speaking or thinking about a happy experience, choose the strongest positive words to magnify the intensity of your emotions because it's all going into your memory.#3 Stop saying words which take away your energy such as lazy, bored, tired, depressed, hate, lonely, sad. Replace them with less-impactful words.#4 Speak about the opposite condition in every negative and disempowering situation.#5 Whatever you speak, always finish the last sentence positively.

Reprogram The Subconscious Mind

Our mind is very powerful, with proper mindset and visualisation we can convert our imagination into reality. When we vibe with the right frequency our ecosystem vibe with us.How To Visualise:1. Visualise how you want to see yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, financially, socially and spiritually.2. The most essential thing in visualisation is not just visualise the end result you want to achieve. Imagine the process as well.3. The best time to visualise is when you're most interested in it

#4 Visualisation

You're not here to make others understand you; you're here to understand yourself.

Small steps everyday can give tremendous results in long term. Because of taking one step forward every day, we gain tremendous confidence because confidence comes with taking actions and getting the desired result.Think of a goal and take one step forward everyday, in case failed to do so accept the failure and let go of the victim mentality. Failure makes us humble and keeps our ego in check.Always try to be with people who are more hard-working than you. It might hurt your ego, but it will boost your character.

#5 Small Steps Every Day

You can't change anything just by thinking, for real change you have to take real actions. Take action today, don't wait for tomorrow.The successful and the champions of life take massive action. They don't hesitate. They don't procrastinate. They do not fear failure. They fear to be average. They fear to be in the same place next year as they are today.We should not depend on our feelings before taking any action. Set apart your feelings and first create the momentum, it means taking action even if you don't feel inspired. After some time you'll be interested in the activities.

#6 Life Is Action & Death Is The Only Rest

P1. SET DESIRESSet the desires you want to accomplish. It may be a relationship, financial success or anything.P2. WRITE IT DOWNWrite it down in a small pocket diary and carry it everywhere.P3. THINK ABOUT THAT ONE STEP FOR THE DAY FOR EACH DESIRESee the diary in your breaks, free time or alone time and think about that one step for the day for each desire.P4. TAKE ACTIONExecute that single most important step.P5. DON'T GO TOO HARD ON YOURSELFIf in any day you failed to take that one step forward then accept it as a wasted day, use this anger to take further step for the next day.

5 Principles Of Daily Execution

There will always be some practical problems in your work because you are doing something. If you're not doing anything, then there will be no problem. If you take yourself too seriously, no one's gonna take you seriously. You can't solve every problem but you can focus on the problem or work which is right now in your hand.Multitasking costs your focus. The effectiveness and quality of your work would not be as it should be if you would have do the job one by one.

#7 Be Cool & Focus

We've become what we've become because of the accumulated decisions we've taken in our past. By choice or not we're always taking decisions. So it's high time we become conscious of our decisions without overthinking and overprocessing and shape our life the way we want it to be.It's far better to take the wrong decision in the right direction rather than taking the right decision on the wrong path.

#8 Decision

Our society process this term differently. Being loner doesn't mean become depressed. Make a creative space for yourself where you can think, discover and create something extraordinary. The best of ideas comes when you're isolated from distractions and still in your mind.Creative Space:1. Company of Right People2. Be Alone & Be Still3. Pursuits That Feed Your Soul4. Places That Gives You Joy

#9 Be A Loner

You'll face the biggest blow just one step before the ultimate success. This failure will shatter you completely. But this failure is not a failure at all. This is a strange illusion to brainwash you to quit the game. It is called fake failure.Everything happens for your growth, what you're thinking as your failure is nothing but an illusion of failure therefore hold tight. Things you've put your heart on to never gets wasted.A failure that makes you humble is better than a success that makes you arrogant.

#10 Fake Failure

You cannot achieve something by taking a thousand different actions at once. You'll achieve something by making one move a thousand times consistently.

Manage your wealth and handle your success. Key lessons to lead a life full of abundance.

There are only 1% or 2% of the world population actually living the life they want to live. They are driving the car they want to drive, living in the house they want to live in, travelling to the places they want to visit, loving the work they do, and doing the things they want to do. They have the personal, financial, professional and social life of their choice. - What separates them from the rest? - What do they do differently? - What kind of mindset do they possess? - What special skills and abilities do they possess? We all get 24 hours a day. Then what makes them so successful from the rest of the world in every area of their lives? In this book, you will learn those key differences which isolate the successful from the unknown. You will master how to acquire that mindset and how to change your conditioning permanently. The author is committed to change you physically, mentally, emotionally and psychologically to create success and wealth naturally and consequently. • The author has talked about why everyone must follow his/her passion, how to discover your passion through a formula, how we can transmute our negative emotions, why we need to master ourselves first, and how we can master ourselves to accomplish our real dreams and desires. • He has talked about how to take effective and consistent actions, how to increase your efficiency, productivity and concentration, and how we can achieve our desires in minimum possible time through a principle. • He talked about the role and importance of our decisions, how to make the right decisions, how to take risks in decisions, and what is the role of persistency, patience and failures in our lives.

There are only 1% or 2% of the world population actually living the life they want to live. They are driving the car they want to drive, living in the house they want to live in, travelling to the places they want to visit, loving the work they do, and doing the things they want to do. They have the personal, financial, professional and social life of their choice. - What separates them from the rest? - What do they do differently? - What kind of mindset do they possess? - What special skills and abilities do they possess? We all get 24 hours a day. Then what makes them so successful from the rest of the world in every area of their lives? In this book, you will learn those key differences which isolate the successful from the unknown. You will master how to acquire that mindset and how to change your conditioning permanently. The author is committed to change you physically, mentally, emotionally and psychologically to create success and wealth naturally and consequently. • The author has talked about why everyone must follow his/her passion, how to discover your passion through a formula, how we can transmute our negative emotions, why we need to master ourselves first, and how we can master ourselves to accomplish our real dreams and desires. • He has talked about how to take effective and consistent actions, how to increase your efficiency, productivity and concentration, and how we can achieve our desires in minimum possible time through a principle. • He talked about the role and importance of our decisions, how to make the right decisions, how to take risks in decisions, and what is the role of persistency, patience and failures in our lives.

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10 STEPS FOR ABUNDANT SUCCESS & WEALTH

When we were much younger, we understood how to live. Staring at stars filled us us with delight. Running in a park made us feel alive. And chasing butterflies flooded us with joy. Then, as we grew up, we forgot how to be human. We forgot how to be bold and enthusiastic and loving and widely alive. Our precious reservoir of hope faded. Being ordinary became acceptable. The lamp of our creativity, our positivity and our intimacy with our greatness grew dim as we began to worry about fitting in, having more than others and being popular.

Adults Are Deteriorated Children

Next 90 Days → First 90 minutes → Single Most Important ProjectLegendary achievers concentrate all their attention and effort on one core project at a time so they harness the fullness of their cognitive capacity and their precious energy on releasing glorious products.For the next ninety days, schedule yourself to invest the first ninety minutes of your workday on the one activity that, when completed at world-class will cause you to own your field. This 90 minutes period must be completely free of any noise and interruptions.

90/90/1 Rule For Exponential Productivity

~Twin Cycles of Elite Performance~• 60 minutes of High Excellence CycleWork at your best for sixty minutes straight, quietly with utmost focus. Just concentrate.• 10 minutes of Deep Recovery CycleAfter your sixty-minute productivity sprint is done, refuel for ten minutes. Go for a quick walk in fresh air, read a book, listen to energizing music.

The 60/10 Method

05:00 AM—05:20 AM MOVE•Intense workout, Sweat hardWHY→ Cleanses Cortisol, BDNF flows, Dopamine+Serotonin IncreasesBENEFITS→ More focus+ productivity, Energy flows, Less stress|05:20 AM— 05: 40 AM REFLECT•Journal, Meditate, Plan, ContemplateWHY→ Gratitude boost, Awareness+Happiness lifts, Wisdom develops, Serenity expandsBENEFITS→ Greater positivity, Decreased reactivity, Higher creativity, Stronger performance|05:40 AM— 06:00 AM GROW•Review goals, Read books, Listen podcast+ audiobooksWHY→ Knowledge deepens, Acumen+Confidence escalatesBENEFITS→ Domain dominance, Personal growth

The 20/20/20 Formula

• Organizes Your Thinking• Multiplies Clarity & Awarness• Activate Deliberate Gratitude• Fosters Hope• Reinforces Daily Learning• Records Where You Are Winning• Processes Low Energy Emotions for Release Versus Repression• Offers A Place to Work Through Confusion• Allows For Planning And Goal Setting So Execution Improves• Captures Your Life's Best Experiences• Allows You To Re-experience Joyful Times• Elevates Your Creativity Which When Translated Into Productivity Yields Mastery

Why Journaling Is Good For Your Overall Growth 

Positive ExpectancyAlways maintain a mindset where you expect money will come to you regularly and from highly unexpected sources.Active FaithActive faith is when you behave in a way that shows life you trust it in its abundance & benevolence. Just show nature you know prosperity is coming and perform acts that make you feel like you have plenty.Ever-increasing GratitudeContinue opening your heart to everything and everyone in your life.Extreme Value DeliveryExtreme value delivery means giving others exponentially more benefit than they ever could expect from you. Because we reap what we sow<warningtag>.</warningtag>

Four Practices For Financial Fortune

E1: Mindset (psychology)Your thinking forms your reality and by improving your mind you'll improve your life. Your deepest beliefs drive your daily behaviour and the way you perceive the world drives the way you perform in it.E2: Heartset (emotionality)Even with battleproof beliefs and the distinguished thinking of a world-class Mindset, you won't win if your heart is full of toxic feelings. Working on your Heartset isn't only about removing negative emotions. It's also about amplifying the healthy ones.

The 4 Interior Empires Part 1

E3: Healthset (physicality)If you want to lead your field and experience continuous escalation of your eminence: do not die. Beautiful things happen once you commit seriously to peak fitness and go hard in cheating aging.E4: Soulset (spirituality)Every single one of us has an unstained spirit and spotless soulfulness that rests at our very center. Spend some time in quietude to make the return to courage, conviction and compassion within you.

The 4 Interior Empires Part 2

The five primary assets that all superproducers defend are:1. Mental Focus2. Physical Energy3. Personal Willpower4. Original Talent5. Daily TimeProtect these 5 assets by following The Tight Bubble of Total Focus Strategy which preserves your focus as well as your primal brilliance.

Protection Of The 5 Assets Of Genius

The best in the world have depth. Members of the majority often get stuck in a mindset of superficiality in their work. Their whole approach is light. No real preparation. Very little contemplation. Geniuses understand that it's smarter to create one masterwork than one thousand ordinary pieces.<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Step 1: Learning→ Better Awareness→ Growing</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Step 2: Implementation→ Better Choices→ Execution</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Step 3: Income→ Better Results→ Impact</li></ul>

3 Step Formula From Superficialilty To Granularity

<ul><li>Capitalization of IQ: What makes a legendary performer so good isn't the amount of natural talent they are born into but the extent of that potential they actualize & capitalize.</li><li>Freedom From Distraction: Technology well used is a phenomenal thing, it's all the silly ways people apply it now.</li><li>Personal Mastery Practice: External always express internal, always reflect within. Your impact on the planet is always a sublime expression of what's going on inside of you.</li><li>Day Stacking: Concentrate monomaniacally on creating great days & they'll stack into a gorgeous life.</li></ul>

The 4 Focuses Of History Makers

The truth is that every challenging event you've experienced, each toxic person that you've encountered and all the trials you've endured have been perfect preparation to make you into the person that you are now.The seduction of complacency and an easy life is one hundred times brutal, ultimately, than a life where you go all in and take an unconquerable stand for your brightest dreams. Hard is good. Real greatness and realization of your inherent genius is meant to be a difficult sport. Only those devoted enough to go to the fiery edges of their highest limits will expand them.

Hard Is Good

Never delay your peacefulness. Your life can fall apart within an hour. Accidents, illness, loss and death happen every day. It's human nature to think these things will never occur. Yet all wise philosophers teach us of the transience of our existence.Tomorrow is a promise, not a fact. Enjoy every morning and appreciate each day you have on Earth. Take bold risks yet hedge them with common sense. balance living like there is no tomorrow with behaving like you'll live forever. So that when the end does come, you'll know you lived your life as a majestic testimony to the capacity for legendary.

Tomorrow Is A Bonus, Not A Right

Every one of us carries an instict for excellence within our spirits. No one needs to stay frozen in average and succumb to the mass mediocratization of behaviour evident in society along with the collective de-professionalization of business so apparent in industry. Limitation is nothing more than a mentality that too many good people practice daily until they believe it's reality. We need to remember that our excuses are seducers, our fears are liars and our doubts are thieves.

Limiting Beliefs = Mediocrity

<ol><li>People Fuel: Be around those people who fuel your joy.</li><li>Pursuit Fuel: Perform those pursuits that feed your bliss.</li><li>Place Fuel: Be in those places that make you feel more alive.</li></ol>

Joy As A GPS

You can fit in. Or you can change the world. You don't get to do both.

The 5 AM Club is a staple in my daily diet of practicing a healthy mindset and leading a productive life. The lessons here are rejuvenating and helped me go through some tough stages in life. Hope it does the same for everyone.

Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5am Club concept over twenty years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health and bulletproof their serenity in this age of overwhelming complexity. Now, in this life-changing book, handcrafted by the author over a rigorous four-year period, you will discover the early-rising habit that has helped so many accomplish epic results while upgrading their happiness, helpfulness and feelings of aliveness. Through an enchanting—and often amusing—story about two struggling strangers who meet an eccentric tycoon who becomes their secret mentor, The 5am Club will walk you through: How great geniuses, business titans and the world’s wisest people start their mornings to produce astonishing achievements A little-known formula you can use instantly to wake up early feeling inspired, focused and flooded with a fiery drive to get the most out of each day A step-by-step method to protect the quietest hours of daybreak so you have time for exercise, self-renewal and personal growth A neuroscience-based practice proven to help make it easy to rise while most people are sleeping, giving you precious time for yourself to think, express your creativity and begin the day peacefully instead of being rushed “Insider-only” tactics to defend your gifts, talents and dreams against digital distraction and trivial diversions so you enjoy fortune, influence and a magnificent impact on the world Part manifesto for mastery, part playbook for genius-grade productivity and part companion for a life lived beautifully, The 5am Club is a work that will transform your life. Forever.

Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5am Club concept over twenty years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health and bulletproof their serenity in this age of overwhelming complexity.      Now, in this life-changing book, handcrafted by the author over a rigorous four-year period, you will discover the early-rising habit that has helped so many accomplish epic results while upgrading their happiness, helpfulness and feelings of aliveness.      Through an enchanting—and often amusing—story about two struggling strangers who meet an eccentric tycoon who becomes their secret mentor, The 5am Club will walk you through:<ul><li>How great geniuses, business titans and the world’s wisest people start their mornings to produce astonishing achievements</li><li>A little-known formula you can use instantly to wake up early feeling inspired, focused and flooded with a fiery drive to get the most out of each day</li><li>A step-by-step method to protect the quietest hours of daybreak so you have time for exercise, self-renewal and personal growth</li><li>A neuroscience-based practice proven to help make it easy to rise while most people are sleeping, giving you precious time for yourself to think, express your creativity and begin the day peacefully instead of being rushed</li><li>“Insider-only” tactics to defend your gifts, talents and dreams against digital distraction and trivial diversions so you enjoy fortune, influence and a magnificent impact on the world</li></ul>Part manifesto for mastery, part playbook for genius-grade productivity and part companion for a life lived beautifully, The 5am Club is a work that will transform your life. Forever.

Robin Sharma is one of the world’s premier thinkers on leadership, personal growth and life management. The bestselling author of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, Who Will Cry When You Die? and The Saint, the Surfer, and the CEO and four other books on self-transformation. Robin Sharma is in constant demand internationally as keynote speaker at the conferences of many of the most powerful companies on the planet including Microsoft, Nortel Networks, General Motors, FedEx and IBM. He is a resident of Ontario, Canada. (Barnes and Noble)

Robin S. Sharma

The 5AM Club

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise. If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

Making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.

We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.

When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.

Everything on this earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive...and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us.

Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the Language of the World.

There is only one way to learn. It's through action.

Wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.

People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.

Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

Why don't people's heart tell them to continue to follow their dreams? Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.

When you possess great treasures within you, and you try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

If a person is living out his destiny, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

No project is completed until its objective has been achieved.

Timeless quotes from this timeless piece of literature

A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.

A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho.Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.

Paulo Coelho de Souza is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His novel The Alchemist became an international best-seller and he has published 30 more books since then.

Paulo Coelho

The Alchemist

The only perception we have control over is our own. How we perceive our world influences our attitude, which in turn affects what we attract. If we perceive a world of abundance, our actions and attitude attract abundance. If we perceive our life as lacking what we need, we worry more about conserving what we have rather than attaining those things we want and need. Our brains automatically process what we worry about as a threat. This Then changes our perception and even our body chemistry.

Perception

Once Mahatma Gandhi said, "It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there will be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."We may be equipped with tons of knowledge. We may have the best of skills, the most positive of attitudes and the strongest of beliefs. But if we wait for the right time and just keep planning, nothing is going to come out of it.

Stop Waiting For The Right Time

Our comfort zone is a dangerous place. It prevents us from improving, it stops us from achieving all the things we are capable of achieving and it makes us miserable. So, if we decide to bring about a change in our life, we need to shake ourselves out of our comfort zone.And this starts by asking ourselves some tough questions, questions that we have been refusing to acknowledge. We need to ask them to ourselves and we need to answer them also to ourselves. So, why do we resist? We resist because it makes us uncomfortable.

Comfort Zone: A Dangerous Place

There could be loads of reasons that we may not achieve what we wish to. We fail. We consider this a setback. Setbacks set us back. The biggest problem with a setback is that it requires more than the previous level of motivation to try again. We tried with a certain level of motivation, but could not succeed. Next time, it requires more self-convincing, more motivation, more efforts, more self-limiting beliefs to unshackle, more doubts and questions to overcome, more emotions to work on...to be able to get back on to our journey of life.

Setbacks

Action is the basis of all success. Every action may not give success but at the same time, no success is possible without action.

Any change that we desire requires constant learning and the skillful application of what we learn, to adjust our goals, strategies, and behaviors. But the most important learning we need to do involves learning from our own experience. This takes a whole different set of skills than those involved in absorbing what other people can tell us. The ancient Greeks had a word for this– praxis.Praxis is a four-stage process of:<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Observing our actions and their effects</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Analyzing what we observe</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Strategizing an action plan</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Taking action</li></ul>

Praxis

Awareness is the state of being conscious of something. More specifically, is the ability to directly know and perceive, to feel, or to be cognizant of events. The concept is often synonymous with consciousness. Awareness of our inner patterns of perception and reaction is the first conscious step towards transformation.Transformation does not lie in changing the past or controlling our environment. It lies within. What happens to us is not important. What happens in us is important.

Awareness & Transformation

Letting go is difficult. We get stuck in the same thought patterns over and over. We cling to and replay the past again and again in our minds. The desperate attempt to hold on to things limits our capability to experience happiness and joy in the present moment. Life is all about continuous change. No matter how hard we try to hold on to things, we will sooner or later be confronted with changes, whether we like it or not. The earlier we cease out attempts to own and control the environment we are living in, the faster we open up ourselves to new possibilities.

Letting Go

Through self-observation, mindfulness automatically streams into our life. The moment we realize we are not being mindful– we are mindful! We are now watching the mind instead of being swept off in its current. Any time we watch thoughts, we are being mindful. The key is– Don't believe your thoughts. Don't take them all seriously. Watch them, question them. In this way, thoughts and conditioned, reactive ways of living and thinking lose their hold over us. We no longer have to play them out.

Mindfulness: Watch The Mind

The weight that comes with the feeling of failure is not caused by the reality of the failure itself, but by the personal perception of that failure and what that means to us.

I Wanna Grow Up Once Again is a diverse collection of thoughtful and also thought provoking insights that deeply connects us with our inner self.

Why do I always feel that I am not good enough? Why do I always feel like a failure? What is holding me back? I don’t know how to try again. Why do I land up with the same old default behaviors? Do we not feel at some point of time in our life … I wanna grow up … once again? The book tries to connect us to certain deeper parts of us with thought-provoking issues like: • Why we don’t do what we want to do? • Why do we hold on? Why do we not let go!? • We all make efforts, but how do we handle setbacks and burnouts? • How to change our perceptions and break our patterns? It is an inward journey into how we have lived our life, till now and how we choose to live from now! “What happens in us is more important than what happens to us!”

Why do I always feel that I am not good enough? Why do I always feel like a failure? What is holding me back? I don’t know how to try again. Why do I land up with the same old default behaviors? Do we not feel at some point of time in our life … I wanna grow up … once again? The book tries to connect us to certain deeper parts of us with thought-provoking issues like: • Why we don’t do what we want to do? • Why do we hold on? Why do we not let go!? • We all make efforts, but how do we handle setbacks and burnouts? • How to change our perceptions and break our patterns? It is an inward journey into how we have lived our life, till now and how we choose to live from now! “What happens in us is more important than what happens to us!”

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