A short motivational talk by Robin Sharma about how to achieve success through disciplined habits. He emphasizes three central lessons: (1) grit — persistent commitment to vision and learning from failure; (2) carefully curated influences — building a "pristine bubble" that protects focus and energy; and (3) scheduling — making a one-page plan with a "big five" yearly priorities and top values to turn ideas into work.
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Hi, it's Robin Sharma and I want to talk to you a little bit about success. Maybe you've read my book, the Leaderhood own title. Maybe it's been the Monk who Sold His Ferrari. Maybe you've been to one of my events. Maybe you simply follow me on Twitter or Facebook. But you know that I teach people how to work like Picasso painted. You know, I teach people that the number one way to lose your power is to think you don't have any power. I mean, we're not dogs, we're not cats. We have the power to strip away from the busyness, to do great work that matters. We have the power to be the most positive people we know. We have the power to shift from making excuses to creating results. You have the power to use today to make a choice, to get really fit or to create the financial life that you want. You have the power to go out in the world and inspire people. Even if you clean a toilet, clean the toilet like Picasso painted, you have the power to do that. You have the power to use your work as a chance to birth creativity into your world and to uplift other people. You have the power to do your part to change the world. And that's really what this video is about. It's about success. It's about doing genius level work. It's about making your dreams come true. And I want to give you some simple ideas on that. Number one. The number one reason we don't achieve success is and we resign ourselves to mediocrity and we get swallowed into failure and discouragement. And it becomes sometimes so deep that we can't see the possibilities that our lives could be. I mean, your life doesn't have to be your current life 30 days from now. But most people can't see that. And the number one reason is this word called grit. Researchers say the number one defining factor of whether we become successful or average, whether we have grit. Grit is the ability to stay true to your vision and not dilute it when you get laughed at. Grit is the ability to try an innovation, experience failure, and to say, I'm going to continue and I'm actually going to learn and use that experience to get me closer on my path to the mountaintop. I mean, what the ordinary person sees as failure, the master simply sees as part of the process of refining your craft. So number one, you've got to have grip. You've got to literally, when you get knocked down, force yourself to get back up. Because then you start to develop a new brain. Yes, you develop A new neural pathway. Yes, you develop new muscle memory and yes, you develop confidence. Remember that every time you get knocked down, it's an opportunity for you to develop more confidence, develop more experience, develop more inner power. Okay? Every time you do something that you didn't feel like doing, like getting back up after you failed, or staying true to yourself after you've been laughed at or told, it can't be done. Literally, you become more powerful. And every single time you don't feel like persisting and you do, you take back your power to the thing that you gave your resistance to. So, number one, just think about grit. Number two, simply remember the incredible importance of, of your influences. I mean, you know this, you've heard me talk about this. I'm bringing it to you again. So you remember, if you spend your days watching the news, playing with victims, being around people who gossip, being around people who spend their best hours in entertainment, on video games, too much tv, too much sms, too much reading of trashy novels, then literally their beliefs and their behaviors will infuse your beliefs and your behaviors through what scientists call emotional contagion. People's mental viruses and people's emotions, the people that you surround yourself with influence you at very profound levels. So if you really want to play it world class, you absolutely must build a pristine bubble. A pristine bubble around your influences, around what you allow into your mind, around what you allow into your emotional life. You, you know, look at your workspace. Is it messy and cluttered or is it inspirational? Build a bubble around the twin assets of your focus and your energy. So literally, you only allow into your life things that will uplift you, things that will make you more creative, things that will make you more productive, things that will lift up your energy versus tear down your energy. Number three, unbelievably important, which is the importance of scheduling. You know, I talk a lot about having a dream, having a plan, you know, being inspired. But all ideas don't work unless you do the work. And some of the best work you can do is getting really good at creating a one page plan. Have your big five, the five things that need to happen this year for this to be your best year yet on a one page plan. Your top five values, put them on that same plan. Your.
