My "Hibernation Routine" to Activate Flow State

05/30/23 • 4 min

The Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma

Strange yet perhaps fascinating and I-promise-you-powerful idea: for an entire day [or longer], fall dark. Be hard to reach. Go ghost.
Say no to most social invitations, refuse new friendship requests, stop shopping at stores, avoid most restaurants and pull back from the world.
Instead, enter the wilderness (of sorts) and get monomaniacally focused, centered and grounded on what I call in my mentoring methodology “The Vital Few.”
For everyone asking, my “hibernation routine” goes like this:
—5 am rise and run in the gym
—meditate, pray and journal
—walk to Starbucks then to a little park
—start writing by 8 am
—no getting up until 1 pm
—no devices
—country music
—long afternoon walk
—hot bath with epsom salt
—eat clean in the room for dinner
—meditate one hour
—read three hours
—sleep
If you’d like to learn the tools, habits and daily routines of warriors, billionaires, sages and superstars then read (or listen to) The Everyday Hero Manifesto today. It’s a life-changing book. Get it here.
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A Powerful Insight for Deep Impact Leadership

When I stood in Mother Teresa’s room at her mission in Kolkata, I saw very few things.
I believe this is because she did not define her self-worth by her net worth.
Nor her value to the world by the value of her goods.
She cared not for adornments. She cared profoundly about service. To the sick. To the poor. To anyone in need.
She understood—as have all of the great spiritual masters—that our lives are ultimately short, trivial and meaningless journeys in the overall scheme of a well-intentioned universe.
As you rise in human maturity, you’ll be less interested in trivial pursuits. As you discover a mission that is larger than your own life, a bravery and nobility beyond intellectual understanding will begin to emerge.
The more you connect with a cause that is of helpfulness to other humans, the chains of your previously perceived reality fall away. And you will ascend toward a happiness that knows few bounds. And a peace that requires no luxuries.
If you’d like to learn the tools, habits and daily routines of warriors, billionaires, sages and superstars then read (or listen to) The Everyday Hero Manifesto today. It’s a life-changing book. Get it here.
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I enthusiastically encourage you to start the journey—now—of a single habit that will set you up for the remainder of 2023 becoming your most healthy, productive and joyful year yet.
Willpower scientists call this concept “a keystone habit”. The one habit that raises all habits.
Maybe yours will be...
... committing to exercising for an hour every morning.
...or dedicating yourself to studying your craft for an hour each night.
...or taking a digital sabbath, free of technology one day a week.
...or walking 15,000 steps every day.
...or cleaning up your language so there’s zero victimspeak and total leader talk.
...or having a family meal without phones three times a week.
I’m not sure what your “one best habit” will be yet please do remember the idea I’ve been teaching for over 25 years: a 1% improvement every day leads to a 30% improvement within a month and a 365% improvement in a year.
Yes: small daily seemingly insignificant improvements when done consistently over time lead to stunning results.
If you’d like to learn the tools, habits and daily routines of warriors, billionaires, sages and superstars then read (or listen to) The Everyday Hero Manifesto today. It’s a life-changing book. Get it here.
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The Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma - My "Hibernation Routine" to Activate Flow State

Transcript

The three Ss are incredibly important for great creativity and exponential productivity. The three Ss are silence, solitude, and stillness. Silence, solitude and stillness, write that down please. I think you can own your domain or you can be with lots of people all the time, but we can't do both. Blaise Pascal, the French mathematician, said it so much more elegantly than I ever could when he said, "Most of many miseries derive by his inability to sit quietly in a room by himself." We have be