The 5 am club

Tactic #4: The Daily 5 Concept
The Insight:
Studies show that the most effective business leaders are at their
productive peak on the days when, even if they’ve faced some serious
setbacks, they’ve actively engaged their mindset on the progress they’ve
made. In so doing, they’ve inoculated themselves from the self-sabotaging
influence of the brain’s negativity bias. One of the great keys to terrific
performance, then, is to train your attention on making consistent 1% wins

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and micro-achievements throughout each hour of your workday. Small daily
achievements, when done consistently over time, definitely do lead to
stunning results. And by deliberately reflecting on the areas where you are
moving ahead, you’ll insulate your ambition, guard your confidence and
defeat the dangerous trickster of fear, so you get amazing feats done.
The Implementation:
During the second pocket of your Victory Hour, list the
five tiny targets you wish to accomplish over the day ahead for you to feel it
was one well-spent. This, like so much of what you’ve learned, is also a
practice: the more you do it, the easier this habit gets—and the stronger your
execution ability around it grows. So, stay with the process. After just thirty
days, you’ll have accomplished 150 valuable victories. And after a year, this
strategy alone will be responsible for you achieving 1,825 high-value targets,
guaranteeing that the next twelve months are the single most productive
twelve months you’ve had yet.