The book “5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life” is a popular book written by Robin Sharma to help a person’s life easy and better. The book talks about the process and benefits of earning your morning to have a wonderful life. The author represents 5 am as a victory hour. From the beginning to the end, the book showcases the importance of waking up early and owning it for personal development. It includes various motivational and influencing messages to assist a person to utilize personal time productively and practically. The book has provided strategies and tips to articulate the morning routine with the example of popular people who have established their careers and succeeded in many ways by acknowledging or possessing self-time in the morning via the 5 am club.
In the beginning, Robin Sharma talks about the importance of morning routine in an individual’s life to promote focus, and willpower and increase productivity. The book has provided tips and a stepwise guide to forming a morning routine and becoming an early bird from a night owl. It also emphasizes the side effects of social media addiction to not being able to sleep on time and get out of bed early. To help achieve success, the author has provided exercises and practical tools to build focus and self-discipline.
This book has mostly emphasized the importance of prioritizing cognitive, physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being which he refers to as mindset, heartset, healthset and soulset. For a successful and positive transformation, all of these should be an individual’s priority before starting a day.
According to the author, “All change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end”, which implies installing the morning habit. Rather than misusing technical devices to end creativity and shift focus on multiple tasks, the book has emphasized to the readers to use the power of visualization and initiate a journaling habit every day. The author has provided various formulas, cycles, diagrams, and quotes for the clarity of the readers. Formulas such as 20/20/20, 60/1, 90/90/1 rule, 60/10 method, 2 WW, and 2 MP have provided a blueprint to install the morning habit and develop productivity. Similarly, the author has also provided various examples of elite performers after building a morning habit with real-life examples.
In the beginning, as a reader, it was quite challenging to keep up the pace of reading but later, the book ended up giving wonderful messages with its attentive way of producing knowledge. To deliver the message to the reader, the author has used the strategy of storytelling by using the characters as mentors and learners. The whole book could be imaginative including the appearance and voices as they travel from one country to another with different learning experiences connected to the city and its culture. The book has provided insights to both successful and people struggling in their careers so that they could win the morning. The author has stressed owning the morning since 5 am exactly (not 4 am or 6 am) and starting the 20/20/20 formula right after giving only 15 minutes for personal time. This raises the question if 15 minutes is enough to get up and get freshen up to start a meaningful day. Moreover, some rules provided by the author might not be practical for everyone, specifically, for the people working 9-5 and dealing with the organization’s priority. Such readers may question the amount of personal time so, there could be possibly other techniques for them to imply. Nevertheless, the principal of mindset, heartset, healthset, and soulset is very logical and essential.
Overall, Robin Sharma teaches the importance of having a morning routine to improve productivity, willpower, and focus. To become an early bird with a successful life, this book provides exercise, tips, and practical tools for the readers to establish a morning habit. Moreover, to give a meaningful message, the author has used storytelling methods and real-life experiences.