This week's book: "The 5AM Club" by Robin Sharma.
"Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune."
- Jim Rohn
We've spent the whole week on that first hour. Today I want to focus on the last third of it, because it's the part that compounds the most.
The final twenty minutes of Sharma's morning he calls Grow. Twenty minutes to learn something on purpose. Not scroll but really pay attention and learn something to move you forward. A few pages of a book, an audiobook on the commute, a course you keep meaning to start, a goal you've been chasing. Why bother with twenty more minutes? Because it sharpens how you think, deepens what you know, and quietly but certainly builds your confidence. And stacked over months and years, it compounds into the things you actually want: more impact and income, real personal growth and better relationships, and a daily supply of inspiration.
As I mentioned earlier this week, years ago a friend offered me a job starting and then running a commodity brokerage division. I had no license, no background, nothing on paper that said I could do it. What I did have was the habit of teaching myself whatever was required. I passed all the exams, learned the business on the fly, came up with a new way to feed the brokers almost unlimited leads, and built it up from nothing. The degree on my wall didn't do that. The self-education did.
One thing to try today
Pick one thing to learn, a book, a course, a skill, and give it twenty minutes tomorrow morning before the day grabs you. Just twenty. Then do it again the next day. The stacked days are where the fortune hides.
What's one thing you've been meaning to learn but keep putting off? Hit reply, I read every one.
I'll go first: right now it's getting better at writing these posts and emails, and making them more useful for you. Twenty minutes a morning studying good writing, and I can already feel the difference.
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Talk tomorrow,
Mike
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