The 5 am club

The 20/20/20 Formula
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questions about how to run your morning routine now. No room for excuses.
It’s all laid out for you. Just run the play and you’ll own your day.
Procrastination is an act of self-hatred, you know?”
“Really?” asked the artist.
“Absolutely. If you really loved yourself, you’d relinquish all your
feelings of not being good enough to be great and renounce all slavery to your
weakness. You’d stop focusing on your deficiencies and celebrate your
amazing qualities. Just think about it: there’s no person on the planet today
who has the unique stack of gifts that you have. Actually, in all of history,
there’s never been even one person exactly like you. And there never will be.
Yes, you’re that special. That’s an indisputable fact. So, embrace the full force
of your lavish talent, luminous strengths and breathtaking powers. Let go of
the destructive habit of breaking the commitments you make to yourself.
Failing to keep self-promises is one of the reasons so many of us don’t love
ourselves. Not following through on what we tell ourselves we’ll do so
destroys our sense of personal worth and dissolves our self-esteem. Keep
behaving like that and the unconscious part of you will begin to believe
you’re not worth anything. And remember the psychological phenomenon
known as The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy I walked you through earlier. We
always perform in a way that is aligned with the way we see ourselves. And
so, our thinking creates our results. And the less we value ourselves and our
powers,” he went on, “the less power we have access to.”
The billionaire watched a group of butterflies fly by before continuing.
“That’s just the way it all works. So, my suggestion is that you stop
putting things off, flex those willpower muscles we talked about inside the Taj
Mahal, and make the remainder of your life an exercise in audacity, a
testimony to exceptional productivity and a rare expression of unstained
beauty. Honor all you truly are by living your genius instead of loathing
yourself, by denying your specialness. Procrastination is an act of self-
hatred,” the billionaire repeated. “So really go all in on installing 
The
20/20/20 Formula
as the core way of managing your morning.”
The billionaire showed the framework to the entrepreneur and the artist. It
looked like this:

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“As you can see from this learning model, there are three twenty-minute
pockets to install and then practice to mastery-level. The first twenty-minute
pocket of 
The 20/20/20 Formula
requires that you 
Move
. Simply put, doing
some sweaty exercise first thing every morning will revolutionize the quality
of your days. The second pocket encourages you to 
Reflect
for twenty
minutes. This segment is designed to help you reaccess your natural power,
boost self-awareness, dissolve your stress, fuel your happiness and restore
your inner peace in an era of acute overstimulation and excessive activity.
And you’ll round out this sixty-minute Victory Hour of personal fortification
with twenty minutes centered around ensuring that you 
Grow,
whether that
means investing some time reading a book that will improve your
understanding of how the best lives were made or an article that will refine
your professional prowess or listening to an audio session on how the
virtuosos accomplish their unusual results or watching an educational video
that will show you how to lift your relationships or increase your finances or
deepen your spirituality. As you cats now know, the leader who learns the

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most wins.
“One of the most helpful things I’ve ever learned from The Spellbinder
was that starting my mornings with a strong workout—pretty much right after
I jumped out of bed—was of the 
utmost
importance. I still remember his
actual words—and they were firm: ‘You must begin your day with intense
exercise. This is a non-negotiable. Otherwise