Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

Have you read this book yet? 📖: The 5AM Club by Robin Sharma #selfhelpbooks #robinsharma

24 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this solo monologue, Nick Hutchison shares his deep fear of living a repetitive, unfulfilled life and dying before truly experiencing his potential. He recounts repeatedly listening to Robin Sharma’s The 5 AM Club, which reinforced his belief that he can achieve far more than his current reality allows. Motivated by this insight, Hutchison has adopted a disciplined routine of waking at 5:00 AM and using the quiet two‑hour window before his family awakens—what he calls the “golden hours”—to focus on high‑impact work. He credits these extra early‑morning hours for the unprecedented success of his community, Book Thinkers, which experienced its best month ever. Throughout, he balances gratitude for past achievements with an itch for further growth, emphasizing that there are no excuses and that his current position is a result of deliberate effort.

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My greatest fear is to live the same week a couple thousand times and call it life. To clock in, clock out, do my work, and not really live up to my potential. My greatest fear is to die at 30 but be buried at 80. And I just reread— actually listened to— The 5 AM Club by Robin Sharma for the 4th or 5th time. Comment down below and let me know if you've read this amazing book. And it reminded me of this lesson. That I am capable of so much more than my current reality. And there are no excuses. I am in the position that I deserve to be in, which is amazing. Listen, I've accomplished goals that I set out to achieve. I thought they would make me happy and they didn't. Now, that's not a lesson of not showing gratitude for how far I've come, because I am so grateful every single day. But I also feel this itch, like this tingling in my spine, that I know I am capable of doing more with my life. And so for the last couple of months, I've been waking up at 5:00 AM. And that time between 5:00 AM and 7:00 AM before the baby wakes up, before my wife is up, those are the golden hours, man. That's where I'm getting so much done. Last month, Book Thinkers had its greatest month ever. Is that by chance? No, it's not. It's because I'm putting in those extra hours to living up to my potential.