The 5 am club

The Billionaire’s Maxim #11
Tomorrow Is a Bonus, Not a Right.
Postpone not your heroism and never delay your peacefulness. Your life can
fall apart within an hour. I am an optimist and a genuine merchant of hope.
And yet I am also a realist. Accidents, illness, loss and death happen every
day. It’s human nature to think these things will never occur. Yet, all wise
philosopers teach us of the transience of our existence.
Armed with this insight, connect with your mortality. Understand that
your days are numbered. And with the passage of each glorious morning, you
grow closer to your end.
Don’t put off expressing your gifts and talents. And make certain you
enjoy this ride. Have a good time as you rise toward your magnificence. It’s
so sad how most people postpone having a beautiful, fun and magical life
until they are too old to fully savor it.
Life absolutely is a sublime journey. Yes, we all experience trials—and
heartbreak. But it’s all mostly good. Every hero story needs to have a villain
as well as some juicy tragedy along with the triumphs and ultimate victory for
it to be a tale worth watching.
And so, keep the shortness of life at the forefront of your focus. Don’t put
off your happiness until you have more time, or you get the promotion, or you
have more money in the bank. These are excuses, born of feelings that you
are undeserving. Sense them and then extract them from your orbit so that
you can keep ascending into your loftiest realms.
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 that every human being

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carries inside of them.
The billionaire then proceeded to kiss his students.
“I love you two, you know. I’ll really miss you.”
Then he disappeared into the vineyard, leaving only his mountain bike.

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Chapter 17
The 5 
AM
 Club Members Become Heroes of
Their Lives
“Live like a hero. That’s what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”