"Kindness is like a seed; the more you scatter, the more it grows."
~ Unknown
24 Top Lessons of 2024
The 24 TOP Lessons 2024 Taught Me - Robin Sharma |
1. Every human being has a deep human hunger to be seen, heard and celebrated, no matter how cool and hard they pretend to be. 2. We were all artists before the world trained us to be adults.
3. Having too many amazing opportunities can be just as dangerous as having zero opportunities. Both can lead to mediocrity, if one's not careful. 4. 4am is the new 5am. Period. Try it. (Oh, and the key to 4am is to sleep at 9pm; try it for a few weeks. It's beautiful). 5. To become the MVP (Most Valuable Player) of your game, market and life practice MVP (Meditation, Visualization and Prayer) every morning. The titans and moguls I mentored over 2024 found this tool ever so powerful. 6. The more people you help the happier you'll feel. Service to others is a gift you give yourself.
7. Being around world-class art in museums and galleries causes a little of the magic of the masters to rub off on you (and all you do). 8. Sleep is not a luxury. It's a necessity (and a secret weapon for elite productivity). 9. Having even one new friend playing above your pay grade and performance level can transform your life. So always be seeking to surround yourself with outright legends. 10. Getting up super early makes me super happy. It's not a chore. It's a blessing that I grant to my days. 11. Country music makes my life richer and painting in the evening helps me breathe. 12. As your parents get older it's important to call them even more often and hug them even harder.
13. The bigger the dream the more essential the team.
14. Money is the marketplace's reward for magic rendered. 15. As you become more successful become even more careful about losing your success. Protect your good name by doing good things, only push mastery into your field and leave everyone you meet better than you found them.
16. The discomfort of growth is always less difficult than the heartbreak of regret.
17. A joyful heart, fit body and a happy home is true winning. 18. Getting the best business partners possible is mission-essential to making your mighty mission real. Find ones that keep their promises, contribute deep value and execute like a SWAT team. 19. Whether you're up or down, KMF: Keep Moving Forward. One foot after another foot after another foot. A few years ago Taylor Swift was the most hated person on the internet. This year, she became one of the most popular and enjoyed a tour that grossed over one billion dollars.
20. If there's a book you love (I loved The Stranger in the Woods this year, for example) buy 10 copies. Bring one to a friend at lunch and a new associate at dinner. Be a gift-giver. It'll wow the receiver and increase your own self-respect. 21. Prayer really really really works. Pray for your family, for your team, for your customers and suppliers, for your neighbors, for your heart's desires to manifest and for the unfolding of a brighter world.
22. A book is more valuable than a phone. 23. Writing about your death each morning helps a human live to the point. And not postpone the things that must be done. 24. That being of use to as many people as possible is the main purpose of life. I wish you and your family a truly brilliant 2025. Thank you for your faith in my work. I am grateful. Love + respect, |
Robin Sharma Humanitarian + Leadership Missionary |
Historical accident
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
-George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)
Duty and Crime
Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
-John Morley, statesman and writer (1838-1923)
Change POV
Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
-Paul Klee, painter (1879-1940)
different ways
Men are divided in opinion as to the facts. And even granting the facts, they explain them in different ways.
-Edwin Abbott Abbott, schoolmaster and theologian (1838-1926)
...questionable acts
Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power.
-Chelsea Manning, activist and whistleblower (b. 17 Dec 1987)
...excited by their questions
I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when he got home, his dad asked him not what he learned in school but his dad said, "Did you ask any great questions today?" And I always thought, what a beautiful way to educate kids that we're excited by their questions, not by our answers and whether they can repeat our answers.
-Diane Sawyer, journalist (b. Dec 22, 1945)
...other way
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
-Juan Ramon Jimenez, poet, Nobel Prize in literature (1881-1958)
...not of atoms
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
-Muriel Rukeyser, poet and activist (1913-1980)
Clever & Wise
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
-Naguib Mahfouz, writer, Nobel laureate (1911-2006)
...emergency
"Faith" is a fine invention /
For gentlemen who see -- /
But microscopes are prudent /
In an emergency.
-Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)
World and mankind
Our country is the world -- our countrymen are all mankind.
-William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist, journalist, and suffragist (1805-1879)
Unfinished..
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
-Christina Rossetti, poet (1830-1894)
-Christina Rossetti, poet (1830-1894)
...one of them
The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.
-Turkish proverb
unexercised & unbreathed
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,
unexercised and unbreathed,
that never sallies out and sees her adversary,
but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for,
not without dust and heat.
unexercised and unbreathed,
that never sallies out and sees her adversary,
but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for,
not without dust and heat.
-John Milton, poet (1608-1674)
...appealing to logic
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
-Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902)
you deserve peace
"Forgive others not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace."
~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie
good excuse...
If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.
-Woody Allen, author, actor, and filmmaker (b. 1 Dec 1935)
Time is Life
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Man = wickedness
A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
-Joseph Conrad, novelist (1857-1924)
suspended moment
There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you'd been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you're suspended knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself.
-Ann Patchett, writer (b. 2 Dec 1963)
...when the victory is won
If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
-Louisa May Alcott, writer and reformist (1832-1888)
imaginary with real...
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
-Marianne Moore, poet (1887-1972)
can you hire ?
One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.
-Peter Drucker, management consultant, professor, and writer (1909-2005)
outstanding people
If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.
-Soichiro Honda, industrialist (1906-1991)
stay human when...
We haven't yet learned how to stay human when assembled in masses.
-Lewis Thomas, physician and author (1913-1993)
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