The 5 am club

Tactic #1: The Tight Bubble of Total Focus (TBTF)
The Insight:
An addiction to distraction is the death of your creative
production. Your attraction to digital interruption is costing you your fortune
—financially, cognitively, energetically, physically and spiritually. To have
the income and impact only a few people currently have, you need to run your
days like very few performers currently do. The Tight Bubble of Total Focus
is a metaphorical moat that you build around your assets of genius, so they
not only stay strong—they increase. The five primary assets that all
superproducers defend are mental focus, physical energy, personal willpower,
original talent and daily time. Your bubble has a porous membrane that
encircles it so that you decide what information, which people and the nature
of the activities that enter your orbit. Anything negative, toxic and impure
gets blocked at the gate. Essentially, this way of being in the world is your
bulletproof defense system to reject any stimuli that would decry your
greatness.

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The Implementation:
The Tight Bubble of Total Focus strategy preserves your
focus as well as your primal brilliance by giving you long stretches of time
free from trivial fascinations and any influences that dissolve your inspiration
—and deteriorate your A-game. Each morning, you enter this invisible bubble
of your own making that is completely empty of other people’s superficial
messages, spam, fake news, advertisements, silly videos, irrelevant chatting
and other forms of cyber-hooking that will destroy your life of monumental
potential. Part of this philosophical construct is your Personal Menlo Park, the
place where—like Thomas Edison—you get lost from the world and go to
generate the masterworks that will raise you to industry dominance and global
eminence. The real key here is solitude for a scheduled period each day, in a
positive environment that floods you with creativity, energy, happiness and
the feeling the work you’re doing is for the upliftment of humanity. The
spaces you inhabit shape the output you produce. This concept can—and
should—also be applied beyond your professional routine. So your private
time is free of negativity, energy vampires and soul-hurting pursuits. Of
course, tinker with this metaphorical wall of armor around your five assets of
genius so you have a wonderful social life. And so you don’t become a
hermit. Using the TBTF in your personal life means you live your days in an
alternate universe of your own joyous creation. Remember, the bubble has a
porous membrane, so you can carefully choose who you allow into your
private reality as well as the elements of beauty, wonder and peace. Specific
application ideas include selling your television, avoiding the news for the
remainder of your days, staying out of noisy shopping malls where you buy
things you don’t need, unfriending energy-draining people you follow on
social platforms, turning off all notifications while you’re in the TBTF and
deleting apps with constant announcements.