5 Rituals That Predict Success | Robin Sharma

hi it's Robin Sharma author if the leader who had no title founder of the Titan Academy and this mastery session is all about five rituals that predict success these are five SOPs standard operating procedures that I encourage you to wire into your daily life through consistent practice because as you know so well consistency is the mother of mastery it's not what you do once every year that is going to allow you to live a legendary life it's what you do every single day which brings me to ritual number one the ritual of early rising the way you begin each day sets up the way you live each day I mean the Spartan warriors set it so well sweat more in training bleed lessen war and if you want to be literally undefeatable in business literally unstoppable in life you really want to dial in your morning routine and so you want to do things like starting the day sweating because that releases BDNF brain-derived neurotrophic factor that repairs brain cells from stress you want to sweat because that's going to increase your metabolic rate which is going to give you energy and we live in a world where energy is even more valuable than it intelligence you want to in your morning routine take the time to write in a journal so you actually can detect your values reconnect with your goals each day get to know yourself even more because awareness is the beginning of transformation and you want to get your morning routine right so you take some time at the front end of your day to learn because as you learn more you know you're going to achieve more and as you understand better you can achieve larger which brings me to the second ritual that will predict your success and it's the ritual of strategic time blocking so you can tell me that excellence matters to you that productivity is a value that you adore that being great in business this is important to you that being a world-class family woman or family man is an imperative for you but show me your schedule and I'll get a sense of your true values I mean your schedule each day really does predict the rest of your life so it's not about what you talk about it's about what you actually scheduled and the things that we schedule are the things that get done I'm going to repeat that again because it's so important but the things that you schedule are the things that get done there's something absolutely powerful about taking out a written piece of paper and I like writing it and having that map right in front of you it's almost like a war sheet you're like a like a warrior and every day is a battle but you know obviously a positive battle a productive battle but you literally start to schedule out every single day and I do it on Sunday mornings it's like a sacred routine that I do and I take out this piece of paper and I literally do Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday and Sunday and I call this my blueprint for a beautiful week and actually you don't need a formal template you can do it in your journal you can do it on any piece of paper you can do it on a big piece of paper so you see it all day and again I like writing it out because if I put it in my digital device I forget about it I'm very I'm a very visual type of a person like a lot of creative people and so what I do is this is the ritual of strategic time blocking I block out times at the office with my team I block out times in creative work I actually blocked that out I block out times for beautiful family dinners with my loved ones I block out my two massages every week I call this my to massage protocol it's really a great source of staying on the top of my game and having tons of energy I block out my 5 a.m. routines and literally after this process it takes me about 45 minutes to do like I say every Sunday morning I have blocked out my highest priorities and so now I have a visual template a visual map for a world-class week so the second ritual that will predict your success is the rich of strategic time blocking why because the things get that gets scheduled are the things that get done and vague goals lead to vague results but with precision of these time blocks and a very detailed schedule you will do remarkable things in your week which brings me to the third ritual that will predict your success the ritual of over delivering it is so rare in business and in society right now to see people that consistently go the extra mile you're in a restaurant the server generally gives you what you expect or less than what you expect you go into a clothing store it's what you expect or less than what you expect you do business with any organization it's generally delivering on what you expect but more often even less so you have a gorgeous opportunity to lead the field in everything that you do by doing one thing practicing every single day because it's a muscle the ritual of over delivering don't just give your customers what they expect give them 10x more than what they expect don't just give your organization what your manager what your boss what the organization is expecting from you show something that is so rare in today's economy initiative initiative so you're asked to do a project give them five more things than they expect you're asked to give a presentation on something go the extra mile consistently dial in the daily habit of over delivering on people's expectations guess what you become a merchant of Wow you become indispensable to your organization I wrote a book a little while ago called the greatness guide and one of the chapters talked about the importance of being indispensable and I learnt that when I was a young lawyer and I remember talking to my mentor and I asked my mentor you know the top litigator at this firm how come he is the icon of the legal profession in this region and my mentor looked at me and said Robin that person is indispensable to this firm well how do you do that by practicing the ritual of over-delivering every single day for the rest of your life which brings me to ritual number four that will definitely predict your success the ritual of daily learning and I call this the 60-minute student the 60-minute student no matter how busy you are no matter what's on your plate you absolutely must if you want to be legendary in your marketplace you absolutely have to do this schedule 60 minutes a day for your learning it could be listening to audio books it could be the next day listening to a podcast it might be reading quietly it might be writing in a journal because writing in a journal about what you're learning what you learn from your day what you're learning from your life that is learning but 60 minutes a day I absolutely challenge you with great love and respect wire it into your day because that ritual will allow you to know more about your field than anyone who has ever done your field in the history of the world I mean education is inoculation against disruption and as you know more you can achieve more and we do live in a world where there is such a fascination with entertainment you know and everyone loves pretty pictures and it's really easy to spend the best hour of your best days looking at what your friends are eating and I'm suggesting to you you think like a student because you're watching this mastery session because something deep within you wants you to be the master of your game and here's the thing about every master every master thinks like a beginner they're always learning I mean when I look at the Masters they're like how did that person do that I'm trying to deconstruct how that icon of the field does it I'm always reading I'm always going to conferences I'm always having conversations with people I can learn from so remember the fourth ritual to predict your success is the ritual of daily learning and don't just do this once a of daily because as I said at the beginning consistency is the mother of mastery which brings me to a fifth ritual the ritual of private reflection well it's very easy to be busy being busy but let me ask you what's the point of being really busy in your work life or your personal life if you're busy around the wrong things I mean it makes no sense to spend the best hours of your finest days climbing these mountains only to realize on the last hour of your last day you climb the wrong ones and so what is the antidote to busyness and being reactive its reflection and it's not really common in our world right now you know a hundred years ago we would spend a lot of time on the farm I mean there wasn't a lot of technology we spent a lot of time in reflection taking these long walks writing in a journal having conversations with intimate friends where would we would reflect on deeper things and I'm simply suggesting to you that the fifth ritual that will absolutely predict your success is how much time you spend in silence solitude and stillness just thinking thinking about how you're living thinking about how you're working thinking about whether your daily behavior is aligned with your deepest values thinking and reflecting about what you want your legacy to be thinking and reflecting about what's your impact through the work you're doing here's a thing a great thing to reflect on ask yourself this question or write about it in your journal what is the one project that if I did it flawlessly over the next three months would literally change the game for me within my organization and within my marketplace but if you look at the people who are getting traction on great results they are people who spent a lot of time alone and they spent a lot of time thinking and they spent a lot of time in this ritual of reflection okay I hope this mastery session has been interesting fascinating but remember as I often say to you ideation without execution is nothing more than delusion and so you want to take at least one of the five rituals and absolutely find the time to practice it today because when you do that it's the beginning of a whole new way of working a whole new way of living and a whole new way of impacting the world that we live in and our world has never needed heroes the way that we need heroes right now and I'm looking to you to do your part to be the hero of your own life so together we build a better world I'll talk to you soon thank you so much and this is Robin Sharma I hope you receive great value from this mastery section if you'd like to receive potent training videos blog posts learning tools and information on my two live events personal mastery Academy and my flagship 4-day experience the Titan summer go ahead and visit Robin Sharma Dhokla [Music]

Channel: Robin Sharma

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Keywords: Success, Successful, Robin Sharma, Rituals, Routines, Rise, Personal Growth, Mastery Sessions, Personal Mastery

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Length: 12min 3sec (723 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 15 2016