Be Extraordinary: The Greatness Guide Book Two: 101 More Insights to Get You to World Class
Do you want to find the inspiration, passion and enthusiasm to become extraordinary? Robin Sharma, author of no.1 international bestseller The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, will excite, energize and elevate you to world class greatness with his remarkable insights and powerful tools.Are you ready to take your work and personal life to a whole new level of greatness?Part manifesto for excellence, part business mastery manual and part inspirational companion, The Greatness Guide: Book 2 distils Robin Sharma's latest thinking into 101 simple yet powerful lessons to help you work brilliantly and live beautifully. You’ll discover:• the personal practices of spectacularly successful people• potent ideas to propel you to greatness• revolutionary tactics for peak performance• practical strategies to turn setbacks into opportunities• time management techniques that really work• breakthrough ideas to generate energy and health• tool kits for practical work–life balance
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ROBIN SHARMA
THE GREATNESS GUIDE, BOOK 2
101 More Insights to Get You to World Class
To the Dreamers amongst us—those brave souls willing to ignore the chattering voices of their critics in passionate pursuit of their highest ideals. You are the Great Ones.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
CONTENTS
4 Be So Good They Can’t Ignore You
5 The Success Expansion Principle
12 The Blank Slate of Tomorrow
19 Not All Leaders Are the Same
20 I Learn from My Mistakes (Sometimes)
28 The Brilliance of Acceptance
41 Richard Branson and Outrageous Optimism
51 First Principles for Great Relationships
54 The Best Practice Is Practice
56 Your Team’s Only as Good as You
58 Don’t Fight for Your Excuses
66 Smart Companies Compete for Emotion
81 Whatever Happened to Commitment?
Warren Buffet once observed, “There will never be a better you than you.” Brilliant insight. From a brilliant guy. There will never be a better me than me. And there will never be a better you than you. Some might try to copy the way you think, speak and act. But no matter how hard they try, they will only be a second-best you. Because you are unique. Only one of you alive today. Among the billions of us. Makes you stop and think, doesn’t it? Makes you realize you are pretty special. No, very special. And that there really isn’t any competition.
And so today, what will you do with you as you march out into a world that needs people playing at extraordinary with their lives more than ever before? Will you exert more of your hidden potential? Will you liberate more of your natural creativity? Will you uncover more of your authenticity? And will you be more of the you that you are meant to be? Just wondering. Because there will never be a better time to be the best you than today. And if not now, then when? Makes me think of what the philosopher Herodotus once said: “It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what may happen.” So beautifully said.
There will never be a better time to be the best you than today.
I’m sitting here at the airport in Los Angeles. Was here to speak to a group of General Electric’s high-potential employees. About Leading Without Title. About standing for world-class. About outright Greatness in all they do.
After the presentation I reflected on why so many of us play small in the core areas of our lives. Why we avoid change. Why we don’t innovate and express the creative genius that resides within each one of us. Why we refuse to accept the call on our lives. And why so many of us refrain from being remarkable. The answer I came up with? Invisible Fences.
Here’s what I’m talking about: I took a drive out into the countryside last week. To breathe. To renew. To think. I saw a sign from a dog training company on someone’s lawn. It spoke of an Invisible Fence. It’s a system that sets an invisible boundary that the dog can’t get past. The dog eventually becomes conditioned so that even when that fence is gone, it will not run beyond it. The dog sets up imaginary limits that determine its reality. We’re like that too. As we grow up, we adopt negative beliefs and false assumptions and sabotaging fears from the world around us. These become our Invisible Fences. We believe they are real. When we bump up against them at work (and in life), we retreat. We believe the boundary is true. So we shrink from all we are meant to be/do/have. The illusion seems so real. But it’s not. Please remember that.
