The 5 AM Club

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

We begin to realize that we’re not going to live forever and that our days are numbered. And so, we connect with our mortality.

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

Researchers now call this kind of a core behavior that multiplies all your other regular patterns of performing ‘a keystone habit.’

There’s a staggering difference between being busy and being productive

Mindset is all about your psychology and Heartset is all about your emotionality, and Healthset relates to your physiology, Soulset refers to your spirituality.

The secret of success of every man and woman who has ever been successful—lies in the fact that they formed the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do.’”

It had a quote from Oscar Wilde on it that seemed to fit the newfound awareness of the businesswoman. It read, “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

Sounds obvious, but jump straight out of bed before your reasoning mind—the prefrontal cortex—can give you a bunch of excuses about why you should go back to sleep. It’s in this very moment that, by getting out of bed, you build the early-rising neural circuit in your brain through the power of neuroplasticity.