The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life

All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

Take excellent care of the front end of your day, and the rest of your day will pretty much take care of itself. Own your morning. Elevate your life.

Art feeds my soul. Great books battleproof my hope. Rich conversations magnify my creativity. Wonderful music uplifts my heart. Beautiful sights fortify my spirit.

Remember, every professional was once an amateur, and every master started as a beginner. Ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary feats, once they’ve routinized the right habits.

A bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul.

Life’s too short to play small with your talents,

If you sense your life’s a mess right now, this is simply because your fears are just a little stronger than your faith.

Living the same week a few thousand times and calling it a life. I need to tell you that too many among us die at thirty and are buried at eighty.

The smallest of implementations is always worth more than the grandest of intentions.

Limitation is nothing more than a mentality that too many good people practice daily until they believe it’s reality. It breaks my heart to see so many potentially powerful human beings stuck in a story about why they can’t be extraordinary, professionally and personally. You need to remember that your excuses are seducers, your fears are liars and your doubts are thieves.

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.” —Steven Pressfield

Elite producers and everyday heroes understand that what you do each day matters far more than what you do once in a while.

Life’s way too valuable to hang with people who don’t get you. Who you just don’t vibe with. Who have different values and lower standards than you do. Who have different Mindsets, Heartsets, Healthsets and Soulsets. It’s a little miracle how powerfully and profoundly our influences and environments shape our productivity as well as our impact.

Everyone dreams of being a legend until it comes time to do the work that legends do.

F1 racer Mario Andretti said: ‘If everything seems under control you’re not going fast enough.

All shadows of insecurity dissolve in the warm glow of persistence.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” —Friedrich Nietzsche

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing that I can do to any fellow-being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

your escalation requires your isolation.

An addiction to distraction is the death of your creative production.

You need to remember that your excuses are seducers, your fears are liars and your doubts are thieves.

Own your morning. Elevate your life.

Live in a way that feels true to you and pay attention to the small miracles every day brings.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

World-class begins where your comfort zone ends is a rule the successful, the influential and the happiest always remember.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours.” —Ayn Rand

...the soreness of growth is so much less expensive than the devastating costs of regret

The time you least feel like doing something is the best time to do it.