I get asked the questions, “If I could recommend one book, what would it be?”
That has always been the most difficult question for me to answer and I remember when I would always ask that to the people I looked up too… until I started getting the question.
Once I did, I realized that there is no one single book. It’s never one day, one action or one moment when it all came together or things became more successful. It is a constant effort, put forth over and over again that leads to the knowledge and success we strive for.
But now when I get asked that question, I tell them what I just told you… and then I recommend one single book that will push you towards that tremendously and truly changed my life after reading.
This book is, “The Leader Who Had No Title” by Robin Sharma.
Within that book are two things I want to share with you today. Two things that make you think deep, about your very last day and moment on this earth…
First is, The Ten Human Regrets.
(From Robin Sharma’s “The Leader Who Had No Title”)
1.) You reach your last day with the brilliant song that your life was meant to sing still silent within you.
2.) You reach your last day without ever having experienced the natural power that inhabits you to do great work and achieve great things.
3.) You reach your last day realizing that you never inspired anyone else by the example you set.
4.) You reach your last day full of pain at the realization that you never took any bold risks so you never received any bold rewards.
5.) You reach your last day understanding that you missed the opportunity to catch a glimpse of mastery because you bought into the lie that you had to be resigned to mediocrity.
6.) You reach your last day and feel heartbroken that you never learned the skill of transforming adversity into victory and lead into gold.
7.) You reach your last day regretting that you forgot that work is about being radically helpful to others rather than being helpful only to yourself.
8.) You reach your last day with the awareness that you ended up living the life that society trained you to want versus leading the life that you truly wanted to have.
9.) You reach your last day and awaken to the fact that you never realized your absolute best nor touched the special genius that you were built to become.
10.) You reach your last day and discover you could have been a leader and left this world so much better than you found it. But you refused to accept that mission because you were just too scared. And so you failed. And wasted a life.
I know… that was deep and somewhat depressing. But don’t let it get you down, let it open your eyes to what could be, what should be and how YOU CAN be achieving your goals.
And to help you visualize that even more, here are…
The Ten Human Victories
(From Robin Sharma’s “The Leader Who Had No Title”)
1.) You reach your end full of happiness and fulfillment on realizing that you are all used up—having spent the fullness of your talents, the biggest of your resources, and the best of your potential doing great work and leading a rare-air life.
2.) You reach your end knowing that you played at a standard of concentrated excellence and held yourself to the most impeccable standards in each thing that you did.
3.) You reach your end in noisy celebration for having the boldness of spirit to have regularly confronted your largest fears and realized your highest visions.
4.) You reach your end and recognize that you became a person who built people up versus one who tore people down.
5.) You reach your end with the understanding that while your journey may have not always been a smooth one, whenever you got knocked down you instantly got back up– and at all times, never suffered from any loss of optimism.
6.) You reach your end and bask in the staggering glory of your phenomenal achievements along the rich value you have contributed to the lives of the people you were lucky to serve.
7.) You reach your end and adore the strong, ethical, inspirational and empathetic person you grew into.
8.) You reach your end and you realize that you were a genuine innovator who blazed new trails instead of following old roads.
9.) You reach your end surrounded with teammates who call you a rock-star, friends who say you’re a hero, and loved ones that call you a legend.
10.) You reach your end as a true Leader Without a Title, knowing that the great deeds you did will endure long after your death and that you life stands as a model of possibility.
My suggestion to you with all this great info, is to obviously take it in… think hard and embrace it so you can let it shape your days and the way you do things in life to ultimately be happy and very successful.
But what I did, that helped the most, was printed this out and let it be somewhere I could see it every single day. I would skim over it daily and allow it to start my days in the right direction, reminding me WHY I do what I do, HOW I should be doing it and WHO I want to become.
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