The Greatness Guide, Book 2: 101 More Insights to Get You to World Class by Robin Sharma
Authors: Robin Sharma
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gifts that the journey does. We learn more from the times that test us than we do from times of success.
So the next time you feel impatient or frustrated or hopeless en route to the professional and personal life that you want, remember that precisely where you are might just be the best place you could possibly be. And maybe the journey is better than the destination.
I guess what I’m inviting you to consider is that the climb offers you far more value and as many rewards as getting to your mountaintop.
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WHAT IS SUCCESS?
To me, success is all about being
in the process
of joyfully creating a life that reflects your highest values, your deepest beliefs and your greatest dreams. There’s a lot in that statement and I invite you to break it down and reflect on it. There’s the part about the “process” of creating life on your terms (the journey really is better than the end). There’s the part about “joyfully” journeying through life because life is meant to be fun. There’s the element of living by your values and beliefs, which is all about being true to yourself and living life on your terms. And there’s that aspect of chasing your dreams, as these are what get us out of bed each day and fill our hearts with hope.
This reminds me of the words of Mark Twain: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” That’s true success.
To me, success is all about being in the process of joyfully creating a life that reflects your highest values, your deepest beliefs and your greatest dreams.
94
YOUR HIGHEST FREEDOM
One of my favorite books is
Man’s Search for Meaning,
written by Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychotherapist who survived confinement in Nazi concentration camps. So many of those around him perished. They lost hope. They fell into despair, then death. He managed to get through the ordeal by applying what I believe is our highest human freedom: our ability to choose how we respond to and process any event that happens to us. We can look for some good or we can become haunted by the bad. Frankl writes, “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing, the last of the human freedoms to choose one’s attitude to a given set of circumstances, to choose one’s way.” Such a magnificent thought.
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing, the last of the human freedoms to choose one’s attitude to a given set of circumstances, to choose one’s way.”
95
GO HOLLYWOOD
I was watching
The Big Idea
with Donny Deutsch the other night. I don’t watch much TV but I enjoy his show. Great guests. Interesting insights. And a ton of inspiration. He had on the creator of
CSI,
a man who used to drive a tram in Las Vegas for $8.50 an hour. His big idea? To write a script for a television show that married the traditional police show with forensics. That winning concept has made him rich. It also got me thinking. About screenplays and Hollywood writers. They get to write their own stories. List the cast of characters. And determine how the whole thing concludes. So do you. True, we can’t predict how life will unfold. In so many ways, the only thing we can expect is the unexpected. But by writing our stories and then doing our best to act them out daily, we can get a lot closer to our own Hollywood endings than those who don’t. So many of our professional and personal desires really can come true—if we write the script. And that’s a beautiful thing.
Many of our professional and personal desires really can come true—if we write the script.
96
ON THE BURDEN OF GREATNESS
I just watched the powerful Hilary Swank movie
Freedom Writers
once again with my kids. The story reminded me of what’s most important. At the end of
So the next time you feel impatient or frustrated or hopeless en route to the professional and personal life that you want, remember that precisely where you are might just be the best place you could possibly be. And maybe the journey is better than the destination.
I guess what I’m inviting you to consider is that the climb offers you far more value and as many rewards as getting to your mountaintop.
93
WHAT IS SUCCESS?
To me, success is all about being
in the process
of joyfully creating a life that reflects your highest values, your deepest beliefs and your greatest dreams. There’s a lot in that statement and I invite you to break it down and reflect on it. There’s the part about the “process” of creating life on your terms (the journey really is better than the end). There’s the part about “joyfully” journeying through life because life is meant to be fun. There’s the element of living by your values and beliefs, which is all about being true to yourself and living life on your terms. And there’s that aspect of chasing your dreams, as these are what get us out of bed each day and fill our hearts with hope.
This reminds me of the words of Mark Twain: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” That’s true success.
To me, success is all about being in the process of joyfully creating a life that reflects your highest values, your deepest beliefs and your greatest dreams.
94
YOUR HIGHEST FREEDOM
One of my favorite books is
Man’s Search for Meaning,
written by Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychotherapist who survived confinement in Nazi concentration camps. So many of those around him perished. They lost hope. They fell into despair, then death. He managed to get through the ordeal by applying what I believe is our highest human freedom: our ability to choose how we respond to and process any event that happens to us. We can look for some good or we can become haunted by the bad. Frankl writes, “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing, the last of the human freedoms to choose one’s attitude to a given set of circumstances, to choose one’s way.” Such a magnificent thought.
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing, the last of the human freedoms to choose one’s attitude to a given set of circumstances, to choose one’s way.”
95
GO HOLLYWOOD
I was watching
The Big Idea
with Donny Deutsch the other night. I don’t watch much TV but I enjoy his show. Great guests. Interesting insights. And a ton of inspiration. He had on the creator of
CSI,
a man who used to drive a tram in Las Vegas for $8.50 an hour. His big idea? To write a script for a television show that married the traditional police show with forensics. That winning concept has made him rich. It also got me thinking. About screenplays and Hollywood writers. They get to write their own stories. List the cast of characters. And determine how the whole thing concludes. So do you. True, we can’t predict how life will unfold. In so many ways, the only thing we can expect is the unexpected. But by writing our stories and then doing our best to act them out daily, we can get a lot closer to our own Hollywood endings than those who don’t. So many of our professional and personal desires really can come true—if we write the script. And that’s a beautiful thing.
Many of our professional and personal desires really can come true—if we write the script.
96
ON THE BURDEN OF GREATNESS
I just watched the powerful Hilary Swank movie
Freedom Writers
once again with my kids. The story reminded me of what’s most important. At the end of
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