The 5 am club

The 20/20/20
Formula
that you need to run over your Victory Hour. The time between 5:20
and 5:40 
AM
is when you ‘Reflect.’”
“What exactly do you mean by ‘Reflect’?” asked the artist, exemplifying
his newfound confidence in being a great student. He rubbed his goatee as he
voiced the question. His arm rested around the entrepreneur’s shoulder.

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“As I’ve been suggesting during our time together, managing your
morning well is a main skill of exceptionalists. Using the front end of your
day expertly is such a key determinant of business eminence and personal
magnificence. And one element of a cleverly granulated morning routine is a
period of deep peace. Some quietude and solitude for yourself before the
complexity starts arriving, and your family needs your energy, and all your
other responsibilities take over. 
Tranquility is the new luxury of our society.
So, during this segment of your Victory Hour, savor some stillness.
Contemplate how you’re living and on who you hope to become. Be
thoughtful and intentional on the values you want to be loyal to over the hours
ahead of you. And how you wish to behave. Consider what needs to happen
for this to be a great day amid the construction of a legendary life.”
“This pocket will be super-important to me,” remarked the entrepreneur as
her bracelets clinked together. One of them was shiny and new. It bore the
phrase “All these early mornings will make me an icon someday.”
“I agree with you,” expressed the billionaire. “Reflecting on what’s most
important to a life beautifully lived will leave you with what The Spellbinder
calls ‘residual wisdom’ throughout the rest of the day. For example, thinking
quietly about the weighty value of purely producing work that represents
mastery or remembering your commitment to treating people kindly and
respectfully during the second pocket re-anchors those virtues within your
awareness. And so, as you experience the remainder of your day, the residue
of your reconnection with this wisdom stays in focus, infusing every single
moment and guiding each one of your choices.”
Another butterfly flitted by. Three more soon followed the first, almost
poetically. The billionaire decided to deepen his explanation on reflection, but
first popped another pill. He put a hand on his heart and looked at the
sensational view of Rome. “The way the light falls here really is like nowhere
else,” he thought. “I’ll miss my Roma.”
The billionaire stared down the steps at the white boat sculpted by Pietro
Bernini and then glanced at the flower shop, also in the square below.
“In so many ways, reflection is a main source of transformation because
once you know better, you definitely can do better. During this twenty-minute
segment of The Victory Hour, all you need to do is get serene, stay silent and
enter the stillness. What a gift you’ll give yourself in this era of such scattered
attention, worry and noisiness.”
“That would be a giant gift to give to myself—and to my business,”
acknowledged the entrepreneur. “I’m realizing I spend so much of my time
doing and reacting, and so little of my time deliberating and planning. You’ve

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talked about how the great ones leverage periods of isolation. I’ve read that
many famous geniuses had a habit of sitting in solitude for hours with nothing
more than a pad of paper and a pen for capturing the insights that would start
flashing across the screen of their imaginations.”
“Yes,” commented the billionaire. “Developing a tremendous imagination
is a highly important portal into a celebrated fortune. One of the things that
makes the historic sites here in Rome so special is the sheer size of the
structures. What vision and confidence the Romans who created them must
have had! And what skill to have turned the ideas into something real. My
point is that every single one of the sensational edifices in The Eternal City is
the product of the imagination of a human being, properly used. So, yes, you
should also use the reflection pocket to invent, visualize and dream. ‘Twenty
years from now,’ a quote I think comes from Mark Twain says, ‘you will be
more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.
So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade
winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.’”
“All great artists dream about a future few believe is possible,” stated the
artist sagely.
“Yup,” nodded the billionaire. “Another tactic you can practice at this
time is to write out what The Spellbinder calls a