| LIFE This looks like an interesting book (maybe, self-affirmation?) "The 5 AM Club."

[TerryP]

@It Takes Eleven

I'm more of a 40/40 guy, normally several hours earlier: a 2 AM club? ...exercise and reflection combined and then reading or something. I decided yesterday I'm going to buy a lathe for Christmas...that'll be my "learning" for awhile.

The book is written as a fable, but the core message is Sharma’s advice to wake up at 5 A.M. and follow his 20/20/20 rule. That is: spend the first hour of your day doing 20 minutes of exercise, 20 minutes of reflection, and 20 minutes of learning.

https://www.amazon.com/AM-Club-Morning-Elevate-Life/dp/1443456624

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_5AM_Club/Nh9PDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT7&printsec=frontcover

 

[It Takes Eleven]

@It Takes Eleven

I'm more of a 40/40 guy, normally several hours earlier: a 2 AM club? ...exercise and reflection combined and then reading or something. I decided yesterday I'm going to buy a lathe for Christmas...that'll be my "learning" for awhile.

https://www.amazon.com/AM-Club-Morning-Elevate-Life/dp/1443456624

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_5AM_Club/Nh9PDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT7&printsec=frontcover

Yes, that's been said a number of different ways for many years, including in scripture. For me, the exercise piece has waxed, waned and moved about the day over the years. Even when I wasn't focused, the self-development piece was driven by a thirst for learning and an interest in many topics. It's been a happy accident that I've been able to take random experiences and add some flavor to a stone soup life.

I've mentioned it before, but I count Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield among my more consequential non-spiritual reads. I found it at a good time in my career, and the additional focus and industry it fostered helped me along the way.

Amazon.com

By midweek, I'll be looking at the last hundred days of my job. Easy to look back at a time like this, but the view forward is nice.

RTR,

Tim

 

[TerryP]

Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield

I had to look at the cover to be sure. I saw that a few months ago at the ReStore store. But, my bag was full.

On a different note: I wish I could have a mind programmable like what you saw in The Matrix. I picked up a National Geographic book last week, "Field Guild to the birds of North America." Hard cover: probably cost .70 in the end. Pretty cool book...

It has me reconsidering buying one of those bird houses with cameras installed...AI telling you what kind of bird it is when it lands.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Read the first several dozen pages. It's in the same zip code at Turning Pro, with a little Energy Bus thrown in. For those of you interested, a pdf of the book is attached.

 

[TerryP]

Read the first several dozen pages. It's in the same zip code at Turning Pro, with a little Energy Bus thrown in. For those of you interested, a pdf of the book is attached.

Thanks. Saved me a few bucks

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Thanks. Saved me a few bucks

You're welcome. If you're ever looking for a book that's been out a while, google the name and add pdf to the search. It's amazing what you'll find.

 

[TerryP]

You're welcome. If you're ever looking for a book that's been out a while, google the name and add pdf to the search. It's amazing what you'll find.

As big of a "hacker" as I am...never thought of that.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

As big of a "hacker" as I am...never thought of that.

I asked one of the best guys I ever saw at sniffing out fraud, "how can you see these patterns, records or interrelating circumstances, and see fraud?" He said, "it's easy, I've always thought like a crook, I'm just too chickensh!t to actually do it."

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I knocked out the 5AM Club this week. First, it uses a story to put out the author's theory of morning primacy and day/life management. At times it's interesting, goofy and annoying, sometimes all at the same time. As with most management/leadership/self-improvement books, there are things that are really great, and in this case in particular, there are big swaths of stuff that I won't re-read or adapt. It gets too much on the mystic side toward the latter portions, and it drifts into to biohacking your chemistry. The key theme of "Own Your Morning, Elevate Your Day/Life" is sound, but not original in any way. How you do it, in the 20/20/20 is interesting, with an initial 20 minutes of intense exercise (Move), 20 minutes of meditation/prayer/journaling (Reflect) and 20 minutes of intentional reading/learning (Grow).

Final analysis - glad I didn't buy it, but there were some decent parts. It drags in the wrong places, and doesn't go into sufficient detail in others. The pdf was just the right price.

Here's a good summary of the book, I'll be more likely to go back to it rather than the book itself.

Book Summary: The 5AM Club by Robin Sharma - Hustle Escape

A book summary of the key ideas from The 5AM Club by Robin Sharma, along with informal notes and my favourite quotations from the book.

www.hustleescape.com

 

[TerryP]

The key theme of "Own Your Morning, Elevate Your Day/Life" is sound, but not original in any way. How you do it, in the 20/20/20 is interesting, with an initial 20 minutes of intense exercise (Move), 20 minutes of meditation/prayer/journaling (Reflect) and 20 minutes of intentional reading/learning (Grow).

A fifty-fifty read in my view. There were parts, half of the time, I flew through like a speed reader on meth. Others, made me stop for a second and ponder.

It did make me realize, once again, how much of a creature of habit I am and how a day can be disrupted by the lack of those few minutes.

Dawns on me...reminds me of a book/workbook on the Armor of God I read through ... geez, back when DuBose was coach. A guy/pastor out of GA wrote it...Hour of Prayer or something like that.