51 Ways Ordinary People Reached World-Class

By Robin Sharma

1. Know what you want. Clarity is power. And vague goals promote vague results.
2. Remember that every problem has a solution. Maybe you just cant see it. Yet.
3. In this Age of Dramatic Distraction, the performer who focuses the best wins the most.
4. Before someone will help you, you need to help them.
5. Become the most passionate person you know. Itll be contagious.
6. Know more about your craft/the work you do than anyone who has ever done the work you doin the
history of the world.
7. Join The 5 am Club. Your most valuable hours are 5am-8am. They have the least interruptions.
8. Devote yourself to learning something new about your field of mastery every day. Success belongs to the
relentless learners. Because as you know more, you can achieve more.
9. Remember that when you transform your fitness, youll transform your business.
10. Dont check your mobile when youre meeting with another person. Its rude. And rude people dont reach
world-class.
11. Every time you do what scares you, you take back the power that you gave to the thing that scared you. And
so you become more powerful.
12. A problem is only a problem if you make the choice to see it as a problem.
13. Stop being a victim. Your business and personal life was made by you. No one else is responsible. To make it
better, make better choices. And new decisions.
14. You can lead without a title. Dont wait to get a position to stand for excellence, peak quality and
overdelivery on every expectation.
15. Find your own style. Be an original. Every superstar differentiated themselves from The Herd. And marched
to their own drumbeat.
16. Understand that when you play small with your success, you betray your potential. And the birthright you
were born under.
17. Eat less food and youll get more done.
18. As you become more successful, stay really really hungry. Nothing fails like success. Because when youre
successful, its easy to stop outlearning+outOverDelivering+outthinking and outexecuting everyone around
you. (Success is Beautiful. And dangerous).
19. If youre not overprepared, youre underprepared.
20. The only level of great manners to play at is Exceedingly Polite. In our world, this alone will make you a
standout. And differentiate you in your marketplace.
21. Remember that the moment you think youre a Master, you lose your Mastery. And the minute you think
you know everything, you know nothing.
22. To double your results, double your level of execution.
23. Invest in your personal and pro development. All superstars do.
24. Get this years best Targets of Opportunity down onto a 1 Page Plan. Then review it every morning while the
rest of the world sleeps.
25. You dont get lucky. You create lucky.
26. When you push through a difficult project, you dont get to the other side. You reach The Next Level.
27. Smile. And remember to inform your face.
28. Spend time in solitude every day. Your best ideas live there.
29. Debrief on how you lived out your day every night in a journal. This will not only record your personal
history, it will make you uber-clear on what youre doing right and what needs to be improved.
30. If your not being criticized a lot, youre not doing very much. Ridicule is the price of ambition.
31. Develop a monomaniacal focus on just a few things. The secret to productivity is simplicity.
32. To get the results very few people have, be strong enough to do what very few people are willing to do.
33. Rest. Recover. Itll make you stronger.
34. Buy a smaller TV and build a larger library.
35. Remember that the bigger the goal, the stronger a person you must become to achieve that goal. So goal-
achieving is a superb practice for character-building.


36. Food fuels your body. Learning feeds your mind.
37. Dont ask for respect. Earn it.
38. Finish what you start. And always end strong.
39. Breathe.
40. In business, dont play to survive. Play to win.
41. Protect your good name. Its your best asset.
42. Remember that words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim.
43. Give more than you take. The marketplace rewards generosity.
44. Know that if its not messy, youre not making progress.
45. Be a hero to a kid.
46. In business, aim for iconic. Go for legendary. Make history by how awesome you are at what you do.
47. Please dont confuse activity with productivity. Many many people are simply busy being busy.
48. Your doubts are liars. Your fears are traitors. Stop buying the goods they are attempting to sell you.
49. The best anti-aging remedy in the world is working really hard.
50. World-Class performers have no plan B. Failure just isnt an option.
51. You have the power to change the worldone brave act and one person at a time. Please use it.
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