The Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma
Welcome to the Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma where you’ll receive the mental models, daily routines, and productivity tactics that Robin Sharma has taught to the titans of industry, sports superstars, and elite performers who he has served as a private mentor to for over 31 years. You'll learn how to live a truly world-class life while you accelerate your productivity, grow your leadership, build your business, and scale your impact on the world.
The Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma
Self-Care is Mission Critical to Sustained Success
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In my experience, the single best way to amplify self-love is to take better care of yourself.
Often, we are our greatest abusers. And when we increase the caring of our selves, we begin to sense the secret glory that rests at our base. And come to know all that we truly are.
You can grow in your self-care by:
...resting when you’re tired and enjoying life when it’s time....eating foods that nourish your spirit and upgrade your health.
...appreciating yourself for how far you’ve come and the person you now are versus always feeling like there’s more to do.
...not comparing your path and progress to anyone else’s. Because you’re precisely where you need to be.
...setting clear boundaries so no one ever disrespects you. Ever again.
...giving yourself permission to re-engage with your playful heart. And have a very good time.
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Devote yourself to daily self-care. Essentially, you get on an airplane, one of the first things you're going to hear from the flight attendant is, in the event of an emergency, oxygen masks will come down from the ceiling. Put the oxygen mask on your mouth before you try to help anyone else, even your children. The point of wisdom is pretty clear. If you can't breathe, you can't help anyone else. If you don't have any oxygen, you can't be of service to anyone around you. And yet, so many people have forgotten that big idea. They say things like, well if I took time for myself and I cared for myself and I renewed myself and I did things that made me feel good, wouldn't that be selfish? Well, I believe taking care of yourself is a selfless act. Taking care of yourself allows you to be more for others. And then another thing I often hear is, well Robin, I know I should spend time in self-care, in personal renewal, intending to what I call the four awakenings, your mind, your body, your emotions, and your spirit. So they say, I know I should be caring for those four elements or these four awakenings, but Robin, I just don't have time. And to me, saying that you don't have time for self-care is a lot like saying you're too busy driving to stop for gas. Eventually, it will catch up with you. And sadly, what I've observed working with so many different people is that too many people need a crisis in their lives for them to wake up to what's truly important and to begin to care for themselves and focus on their inner work. I'll tell you, a number of my clients, when they first came to me, they wanted my ideas on how to grow their businesses to world class and how to develop their employees and how to be an elite performer. Again, that's the performance side of the platinum equation. And they neglected the pleasure side. And in this particular instance, a crisis occurred in their lives. It might have been the circumstance where they got back to the office, they picked up a voicemail, and it was their doctor. And the message sounded something like this. We just got the test results back from your recent physical. I'd like you to book an appointment. come into the office because there's some things we need to talk about. And they learned from that appointment that they were suffering from some kind of an illness. And that illness came about because they were so focused on performance and getting to their goals and being quote unquote successful in the world that they forgot about the importance of pleasure. And in this case again, what I'm talking about here with respect to pleasure is the importance of nurturing yourself and caring for your inner world. So devoting yourself to self-care is not soft stuff. Soft is hard. And why wait for a tragedy to strike in your life before you take really good care of yourself? And here's the paradox of it all. Taking care of yourself will actually make you a better performer. It'll actually make you more successful. It'll actually make you more money. It'll actually grow your career and grow your organization and get you closer to the mountaintop. Just like that climber and the metaphor I shared with you. If she's healthy, if she's energetic, if she's feeling good, if she's feeling alive, she's going to perform so much better as she gets to that mountain. And from time to time we all fall into this trap because it is so easy to forget that we play at our peak when we are fit, when we're relaxed, and when we're fully engaged in life. Perhaps the most powerful way I can bring home the idea to you on self-care is with a simple line, you can't do good if you don't feel good. Or to put it another way, you can't be a positive source of energy at work if you have no energy. So self-management is mission critical. Doing what it takes to care for yourself. So your highest and your best potential can shine when you go into work is simply non-negotiable. It's one of those things that if you really want to get to greatness, you have to do. Not maybe you should do it, not perhaps you should do it. If you want to play full out on the performance side and you really want to get to that mountaintop, self-care is the way to get there.