The 5 am club

part of you. So you are consistently serving society instead of gratifying the
ego hungers of your smaller self.”
“And with better daily awareness of our Mindset, Heartset, Healthset and
Soulset, we’ll make the better daily choices that will guarantee better daily
results, right?” pronounced the entrepreneur, reciting 
The 3 Step Success
Formula
she’d discovered in an earlier mentoring session.
“Precisely,” applauded the billionaire. “Exactly,” he added, nodding his
head.

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“And please, always stay sincere to what’s most important in a life greatly
lived,” pleaded the billionaire. “Be not seduced by the superficialities that
suffocate the human spirit and divorce us from the best within us.”
He pulled a thin wallet out of a front pocket and read the words of Tolstoy
from a tattered piece of paper that had been folded in a sleeve. Here’s what
you would have heard him say in his raspy yet dignified voice, if you were in
that SUV with them:
“A quiet secluded life in the country with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy
to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may
be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor—such is my idea of
happiness.”
The three companions were now standing outside the magnate’s house.
An owl was perched on a lemon tree. It hooted terrifically as it saw the
billionaire. He replied with a simple wave.
“Nice to see you, buddy,” the billionaire said. “What took you so long to
come home?”