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  • before the sun rises is the time of least distraction before the sun rises, where you could build intimacy and fluency with what you want to stand for in your day before the sun rises the luxury and tranquility of the early morning hours.

  • You can do that deep in our work that will allow you to go out in the world and play at your best way live in a world where a lot of people are busy being busy.

  • But what's the point of being busy around climbing the wrong mountain Everest?

  • And so clarity is one of the DNAs of mastery.

  • But if you look at the greatest billionaires, if you look at the greatest producers on the planet, these people have one thing in common.

  • They are ridiculously curious, and no matter how much money they make it, no matter how much impact they have, they maintain a white belt mentality, one of the keys to epic performance.

  • He is a relentless commitment to daily growth as you begin your day, so you handcraft the rest of your day, and if you have consistently great days, you're gonna have consistently great weeks, quarters year in a lifetime.

  • We live in a world that suggests the doorway Thio success.

  • It swings outward if you build the business.

  • If you get the jet, if you get the money.

  • If you get the cars.

  • If you get the beautiful spouse, then you're gonna be happy.

  • What I believe and there's a model in the five AM club that I think is a very disruptive model.

  • But it's a transformational model.

  • It's called the Four Interior Empires, and it's not just mindset.

  • It's mindset.

  • Heart set health set in Seoul set But I worked on those for interior empires when I was a very unhappy litigation, like I'd made money, I was successful.

  • I two law degrees, and yet I wake up every morning, Tom and I go into the bathroom mirror, and I looked at myself and I was completely empty person, and nothing is more expensive than losing your joy and your peace of mind.

  • And so what I did was I started working on myself, you know, I worked on my mindset and I read all the books and e went to the courses, but that's only your psychology, and I think that's one of the missing links in our field, which is everyone's talking about mindset.

  • But mindset is just your belief system is just your psychologies.

  • It's very important, but that's 25% of the personal mastery equation.

  • I believe the second piece is your hearts and I worked on that purifying your heart.

  • That's your emotionality, not just your psychology.

  • You're never gonna make history dominate your domain and handcraft a world class life If you've got a great psychology that you're carrying the pain and sadness, disappointment and trauma of the past.

  • So I worked on my heart set your health set Don't die if you want to change the world like dead people don't change the world What have you done today to be different?

  • What have you done to step outside the conventions that you set for yourself, the conventions and the rules set by your past.

  • Today you have the power to move on.

  • Today you have the power to move away from your past and move towards a successful future.

  • This is your decision your call to make in your future.

  • This is how your life can gain its own direction.

  • And this is where your life could be so much more, so much better.

  • You can make it better.

  • You have always had the potential to take one more step.

  • The potential to take the risks.

  • Others are too scared to take because you arm or and you are stronger and you have the determination and the courage to be so much more know how to be someone better toe.

  • Look for something better to become someone with the purpose to constantly look for change toe always look for somewhere to improve for somewhere to be better because this is where you begin.

  • You own your success.

  • So let it take control.

  • Take control of your life and take control of your power.

  • This is where the power is in your control.

  • Get after it.

  • You go out in the world every single morning.

  • People might ridicule you because every geniuses ridiculed before they're revered.

  • People might throw stones at you, but you use them to build monuments of mastery.

  • People might not understand you because any disruptor is gonna be misunderstood.

  • And even your if you're an army of one of Galileo, where a Steve Jobs or how Phil Knight you continue at all costs.

  • It all starts with who you are, because you'll never rise any higher than what's going on within you.

  • What terrifies you most go directly there because discomfort is simply growth in Wolf's clothing to lead and to become a great hero or an everyday hero.

  • The doorway is through embracing our suffering and doing difficult things.

  • I think pleasure has been promoted too much in our society like no great titan of industry, no legendary cellist, no great athletes.

  • Great ones all understand that suffering is the price of greatness.

  • So how would become braver?

  • You do the difficult things that you don't feel like doing, but, you know, have the payoff.

  • You know, be crazy.

  • The great leaders are insane, and I say that they're insane to the majority, the great ones are all misfits on their all weird e mean, the very nature of being a disrupter and a leader means you're not a follower.

  • And if you're not a follower, then you're not buying the Kool Aid that society sells you.

  • If you're not a follower, you're not like this all the time.

  • Looking for likes.

  • If you're not a follower, you dress the way you want to dress.

  • If people criticize you, they criticize all the great ones.

  • Critics.

  • They're nothing more than dreamers who got scared and never got off their chairs and got back in the game.

  • So you've got to be willing todo 5 a.m. weird.

  • Who does that?

  • Why not sleep?

  • Leaders have to be willing not to be followers.

  • Stop blaming others.

  • Stop blaming people for the reasons you find yourself in.

  • Now stop blaming your situation.

  • Stop blaming your parents.

  • Stop blaming the government.

  • Stop blaming your genetic.

  • Stop blaming your finances.

  • Stop blaming your past, Claude yourself back into life.

  • Stop blaming everybody else.

  • The only person you can truly blame is you because you are the only person who could get yourself out of it.

  • Live life a victor, not a victim.

  • You might even be right.

  • You might be poor because of your parents or broken because of your relationship, you read.

  • But what does blaming people or society do for you?

  • It will keep you in the same hole, and all you're doing is digging the hole even more.

  • It's because your situation where you right now hasn't changed in order to go forward and to get out of the hole is growth.

  • Instead of bringing other people down to your level, build yourself up to them, Claude yourself out of that hole and you will get to see the sun once again.

  • Massive success is how you prove people wrong and prove yourself right, Theo.

  • On leeway you get upstream is to swim against the current.

  • You're permanently ruining your future, your halting your progress.

  • Life is made not to be easy.

  • Not one's life is ever easy.

  • How did you ever think you were ever going to make any progress?

  • You can make this your time.

  • You can take control of the life you want to live, have the authority to know what you need to change, to know how to change and then to take action, have discipline for yourself into progress.

  • Switch your routine, make your life hard.

  • Difficult situations force you to make improvements, force you to learn to educate yourself.

  • Prove this to yourself.

  • Make others jealous.

  • Make yourself jealous like you're gonna only be so pretty.

  • You're only gonna be so smart, like like there's there's things they're gonna be natural.

  • And there's things that you could actually control.

  • I do believe.

  • And I don't know if I'm right or wrong.

  • I don't.

  • But I do believe that work ethic is a taut behavior.

  • It's something you do have more control over.

  • I feel like there's a shift that could make people work harder.

  • The big one that I pushes you're gonna die, like like if your complaint like to me, life is broken down into complaining and not so if you're not complaining, well, then I have no have no advice for you, but I'm pumped like you did it.

  • We're beating ourselves up like everybody sucks.

  • That's something right?

  • Like we all have shortcomings.

  • And we all have strengths.

  • And for me, it's like, Why don't we just audit that?

  • Like, why don't we just look at it that way and be like, All right, well, I'm good at this, but I'm not gonna that like And then and then and then I only focus what I'm good at, right?

  • Like I don't dwell that I can't fix it around the house.

  • I call somebody to fix it.

  • Don't lose yourself on the way to the top.

before the sun rises is the time of least distraction before the sun rises, where you could build intimacy and fluency with what you want to stand for in your day before the sun rises the luxury and tranquility of the early morning hours.

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