Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

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

19 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this solo YouTube monologue, Nick Hutchison shares his deep fear of living a repetitive, unfulfilled life and dying young while being remembered much later. He recounts repeatedly listening to Robin Sharma’s The 5 AM Club, which reignited his belief that he can achieve far more than his current reality. Hutchison describes how he has adopted a 5 AM wake‑up routine, using the quiet “golden hours” between 5 AM and 7 AM—before his baby and wife are up—to focus on high‑impact work. He credits these extra early‑morning hours for a record‑breaking month for his venture, Book Thinkers, emphasizing that the success is a direct result of disciplined early‑morning productivity rather than chance. Throughout, he balances gratitude for past achievements with an “itch” that drives him to keep expanding his potential.

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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.