The 5 am club

The Billionaire’s Maxim #8
Continue Raising Your Life Standards Toward Absolute World-Class.
Hedonic adaptation describes the psychological circumstance where human
beings adapt to environmental and life changes. You receive the pay raise
you’ve wanted for years, and you’re overjoyed for a day. Then, this new
income level becomes your new normal. The joy you felt fades. Or, you move
into a noisy apartment close to train tracks, yet over time you stop hearing the
trains. Or maybe the dream car you just purchased staggers you with
excitement until, after a few weeks, it becomes just another part of the
scenery. These are examples of hedonic adaptation in operation. And the
phenomenon unfolds for each of us, inside all our lives.
One antidote to this human way of existing is to constantly increase your
personal standards and raise the quality of your life. Make each quarter better
than the last, and each year better than the previous one. This is how titans
and legends roll.
Related to this is a very important philosophy that has served me well: go
through life at world-class. Life’s just too short not to treat yourself as
amazingly as possible. And as you take better care of you, your relationship

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with others, with your work, with money and with the world will be lifted
correspondingly because your relationship with everything outside of yourself
cannot help but be a demonstration of your relationship with all that is within
you. This is just the way it is.
Invest in the finest books you can buy, and you’ll be rewarded in
multiples. Eat fantastic food of the highest caliber, even if all you can
currently afford is an excellent starter salad at a luxurious local restaurant. Go
have a coffee at the greatest hotel in your city. If where you live has a
professional sports team that you love, sit courtside for one game rather than
hanging out in the cheap seats for a few seasons. Drive the best car you
possibly can. Listen to joyful music daily. Visit art galleries, like I have taught
you, so the creativity and consciousness of the painters will rub off on your
soul. And remember, be around flowers often—they raise your frequency as
well as your ability to see the alternate universe all visionaries tap into. Why
do you think so many of the great saints, seers, healers and sages kept flowers
beside them? You’ll be pleasantly stunned at what this does for your powers
to generate all that you desire.
Magic charm number nine was a heart. And here’s what the associated letter
said: