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Hi, it's Robin Sharma, and this is your Morning Mastery meditation for building self-discipline.
As you know, self-discipline is the DNA of world-class. Without the willpower to execute on your deliverables during the day ahead, and to make the choices that will strengthen your mindset, heart set, health set, and soul set, great ambitions get no traction. So, this meditation for this morning will help you scale your willpower so you can get big things done while you craft a life that is joyful, along with being soulful in service of the world.
Please close your eyes and start breathing in through your nose and exhale through your mouth. Inhale deeply through your nose. Exhale through your mouth. Breathe in through your nose and let go of any tension you're carrying through your mouth. Breathe in strength, exhale weakness. Breathe in glory, exhale insecurity. Breathe in your brilliant future. Let go of all of the pains of the past. Breathe in your natural genius. Let go of all doubt, fear, and disbelief.
I want you to feel the heaviness in your feet right now. The heaviness moves up through your ankles, slowly progresses up your legs. Keep breathing very deeply in through your nose, exhaling any stress through your mouth. Your legs feel even heavier. You're feeling more relaxed. There's a growing sense of serenity within you at your core, while the heaviness moves up through your midsection. Your chest is feeling heavy. The muscles of your back are relaxing deeply. The heaviness and profound sense of relaxation is now moving down your arms into your hands, throughout your fingers. You're feeling incredibly tranquil right now. You're feeling strong and peaceful, very centered. You're very much in the moment. You're experiencing deep freedom from distraction, while the heaviness moves up into your head. Your jaws feeling relaxed. You can actually, actually feel the weight of your eyeballs. You actually feel any tension in your forehead releasing and clearing. You're growing even more serene. You're becoming even more centered. You're feeling even more tranquil.
I want you to imagine you're on a magnificent [Music] beach. It's a perfect summer's day. You smell salt from the ocean. You're on the vacation of a lifetime. You have your swimsuit on, you're barefoot, and you're walking along the beach, feeling the sand touching your feet. You look around, you see palm trees, and you're completely alone on the sand. You realize this is the most beautiful island you've ever been on, and the most beautiful beach you've ever walked. You feel happy. You feel creative. You feel inspired. You feel strong. Any pains of the past, any disappointments, any fears you've been carrying, any worries that have been going through your mind, you're releasing them in this very moment. You're breathing in power. You're releasing any fear. You're breathing in self-faith. You're letting go of limitation. You're breathing in heroism. You are letting go of victimhood. And you're feeling this access and intimacy and fluency with this core of willpower that sits at your center.
This morning is a fresh day and a new opportunity, along with a platform for possibility. Just because you couldn't achieve something yesterday doesn't mean you can't win today. Today is a blank slate. Today is your gift. Today is a new beginning. Today is a fresh chance to experience your greatness.
You continue walking along this majestic, pristine beach. You balance feeling very peaceful with feeling very confident, and you feel a knowing. And you actually feel this in your body, a knowing and a sense of the glory that you were built to become. I want you to own that feeling and sensation.
At the end of the beach, you notice a beautiful, yet simple, white cottage. Beautiful flowers are all around this cottage, and it sits fairly close to the sea. The cottage has marine blue shutters on it. The cottage has a little garden all around it, and with grace and honor and strength and natural power, you move towards the front door of the cottage. You're feeling very alive. You're feeling very much in the moment. You have no worries. You're connecting to your ambition and your gifts and your talents, and you're feeling so excited about the day ahead.
Very carefully and intentionally, you open up the front door of the cottage, and there's a very clean, yet Spartan, living room. And the living room has a desk, a chair, and a screen on the wall. You sit down on the chair, and as you do, quite remarkably, the screen turns on, and images start moving across this screen in full and vivid color. And you hear sounds, and you recognize the character on the screen because this is you, but not you as you now are. This is you as you've always dreamed of becoming.
You watch yourself living the day ahead, making the choices of world-class, making the decisions that strengthen and fortify your mindset, your heart set, your health set, and your soul set – the four interior empires that precede every exterior empire, whether that's economic or health or spiritual or relational or creative or productive. You watch yourself living the day like you've never imagined yourself living before, as an everyday hero, as a willpower warrior, as a fully alive leader, as a great humanitarian, as a creative genius, as an elite performer, as a person with not only power and strength, but as a human being with a wide-open heart, giving to other people, serving the world, while you deliver on your dreams.
The intensity of the images on the screen becomes even more vivid. Witness yourself standing in possibility. See yourself not only owning this morning but elevating throughout the day. You get magnificent things done. You are enthusiastic. You are passionate. You are fearless. And should you stumble, you rise. Should you be confused, you find clarity. You radiate hope and optimism to everyone you meet throughout this day, and you do so with a grateful heart, along with enormous strength. Keep watching the images of you at your absolute best, operating at world-class on the screen in front of you, and feel yourself living what you see as the day ahead unfolds. I'll give you two minutes to go even deeper into the images before you, and then I'll come back to this Morning Mastery meditation on you growing magnificent [Music] willpower.
Welcome back to this Morning Mastery meditation on heroic willpower. I want you to then imagine yourself standing up in the cottage, opening the front door, walking back out onto this amazingly serene and beautiful beach. You're walking alongside the water. You smell the sea. The sunlight is warming your skin. You can still smell the fragrance of the flowers that were set around the cottage. This is a magical moment for you. In this moment, as you walk down the beach all by yourself, you feel so serene and so confident and so in love with life, and so fluent and intimate with the gifts and talents that you were born into. There's not a doubt about you living a world-class day ahead. There's no fear whatsoever. As you move into your unstained future, you absolutely own the insight that you are built for greatness and constructed for glory in your own original and authentic way. And while you ascend to your mountaintop of creativity, productivity, and inherent genius, you do so with grace and honor and integrity and soulfulness, because success without joy is an empty victory.
You now return to your starting point on the sand. I want you to wiggle your fingers. I want you to wiggle your toes right now. And ever so gently, I want you to open your eyes and come back into the room that you're in. Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out.
Remember, please, that willpower is a muscle, and the more you flex it as you go through the day ahead of you, the stronger it will grow. There is no doubt whatsoever that you can do amazing things, realize extraordinary results, and make your mark on the world. And this day ahead is a platform for possibility, and you're meant to do special things. I wish you all green lights, and I wish you a world-class day.