The Everyday Hero Manifesto by Robin Sharma

The Everyday Hero Manifesto: Activate Your Positivity, Maximize Your Productivity, Serve the World by Robin Sharma is memoir/self help hybrid book. It probably would have been slightly more successful if he chose one or the other path but it still wasn’t enough to put me off the book.

I liked it so much that I was disappointed when I finished it. Sure it has some flaws but I was using the book for a very specific purpose and it did it’s job well! I wake up ridiculously early each morning and I like to start the day with reading something ridiculously positive and motivational. Later on in the day I can read about geopolitics or something else equally depressing but my first twenty minutes of everyday is sacred. You mess with my first waking minutes at your own risk.

So I was starting each day with reading a chapter from The Everyday Hero Manifesto. There’s literally 101 chapters in the book, some of them very short, but every one of them was filled with densely packed paragraphs of positive words. It didn’t bother me when he was getting a little too biographical or talking about a story that I didn’t relate to because he still shoved as many positive words into each sentence that he could. I’m really missing this book and I’ll probably read it again next year.

Who is the book for?

If you’re a Robin Sharma fan then you’ll love it as he shares some of his personal life and throws in a whole bunch of his systems and theories used in his coaching, seminars, and educational material. I’ve only read the 5AM Club so I wouldn’t call myself a Robin Sharma fan but I still really enjoyed the book. Start your day positively with a chapter like I did and you can thank me later.

I’m giving The Everyday Hero Manifesto a very positive 7 Stars out of 10.

Book Details

Book Title: The Everyday Hero Manifesto: Activate Your Positivity, Maximize Your Productivity, Serve the World
Book Author: Robin Sharma
Book Publisher: Thorsons (HarperCollins Publishers)
First published in 2021.
Paperback. 385 numbered pages. No index.

Quotes from The Everyday Hero Manifesto Book

Life loves those everyday heroes who understand that they possess abilities, capabilities and the force to shape all events that destiny carefully places on their path. Robin Sharma

The words you use have major force fields around them, attracting outcomes that resonate with them the way magnets draw iron filings to them. Also know that the words we use each day reveal our most entrenched beliefs to everyone around us, even if those beliefs don’t serve us (they may even be pure lies that someone we trusted early in our lives taught us). Robin Sharma

Oh yes, whether you accept this or not, you are a lion, not a sheep. A leader, never a victim. A person worthy of exceptional accomplishment, uplifting adventure, flawless contentment and the self-respect that, over time, rises steeply into a reservoir of self-love that no one and no thing can ever conquer. You are a mighty force of nature and a dynamic producer, not a slumbering casualty caught flat-footed in a world of degrading mediocrity, dehumanizing complaint, compliance and entitlement. Robin Sharma

Fundamental personal change is often painful because it is so very transformational. And we cannot become everything we are meant to be without leaving behind who we once were. Robin Sharma

Life really does favor the obsessed. Great fortune truly does shine on those mesmerized by their gorgeous ambitions. And the universe most definitely supports the human being unwilling to surrender to the forces of fear, rejection and self-doubt. Robin Sharma

Table of Contents: Book Chapters

• 1. A Manifesto for the Everyday Hero within You
• 2. Being Faithful to Your Ideals is a Force Multiplier
• 3. The Final Hours of Your Defeatable Self
• 4. It’s Okay Not to be Okay
• 5. The Gold Miner’s Paradox
• 6. The Victim-to-Hero Leap
• 7. The Time my Private Journals were Taken
• 8. Instruction from Heavyweight Mentors
• 9. The Joy of being Laughed at
• 10. The Orson Welles Memo
• 11. Nothing’s Perfect
• 12. The Chestnut Seller Doctrine
• 13. The IPOP Principle for Accelerated Positivity
• 14. Stop Calling your Genius Sh*t
• 15. What J.K. Rowling Taught me about Relentlessness
• 16. Guard Good Health like a Pro Athlete
• 17. My Four Chocolate Croissant Evening
• 18. A Contrarian Philosophy for Mastering Unexpected Change
• 19. You’re Absolutely More than Enough
• 20. The Starter’s Activation Declaration
• 21. The Very Good Bearded Man in the Really Cool Baseball Cap
• 22. Train with Stronger Teachers
• 23. A Red Flag is a Red Flag
• 24. The Shortest Chapter in the History of Creativity?
• 25. The Rule-Bender’s Hypothesis
• 26. Have Bravery like Swifty
• 27. A Teacher Called Trauma
• 28. The People Builder’s Mantra
• 29. The 7 Threats to World-Class
• 30. Expect Ungrateful
• 31. That Time I was Left Alone at the Top of a Mountain
• 32. The Peak Productivity Strategies Pyramid
• 33. Join the Hope Brigade
• 34. 40 Things I Wish I’d Known at 40
• 35. The Misty Copeland Confidence-Making Technique
• 36. The 40 Copies of a Single Book Habit
• 37. The Meaning of Disgrace
• 38. A Basic Motto for Stunning Prosperity
• 39. Hug the Monster
• 40. The 4-Figure Dessert Rule
• 41. Don’t be a Sloth
• 42. Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtue Habit Installer
• 43. The Peacock’s Complaint
• 44. The Most Costly Conflict
• 45. Kill Your Darlings
• 46. Avoid the Third Reward
• 47. To Heal your Once Wide-Open Heart Makes you a Great Master
• 48. What I learned from Leonardo’s Private Notebooks
• 49. The “You Won’t Win if you Don’t Even Try” Attitude
• 50. The Hard Worker who Never got any Better
• 51. The Dark Sides of Your Upsides
• 52. The 3 Step Success Formula (and my Broccoli-Eating Behavior)
• 53. What I Think about when I Think about Difficulty
• 54. Why I Write to Heartbreak Country Music
• 55. The Patient Who Blinked a Book
• 56. The Possibilitarian’s Secret
• 57. The Big Lie of Positive Thinking
• 58. That Time I went Camping
• 59. The 13 Hidden Traits of the Billionaires I’ve Advised
• 60. The 8 Forms of Wealth
• 61. The Algorithm for a Beautifully Balanced Life
• 62. The “Just Because” Code for Everyday Heroes
• 63. Death’s Just a Hotel Room Upgrade
• 64. Why Aristotle Slept on the Floor
• 65. Shatter Your Winning Formula Like Miles Davis
• 66. The Antifragile Artist in the Shiny Purple Suit
• 67. The Keep Your Fire Blazing Theory for a Lifetime of Audacity
• 68. How Heavyweights Work
• 69. The Little Things are the Big Things
• 70. Become a Creative Athlete
• 71. How SuperProducers Do it
• 72. Escape Post-Moonwalk Astronaut Affliction
• 73. Resilience Lessons from the Human who Lost his Face
• 74. Charles Darwin and Extreme Agility Advantage
• 75. The Free Money Model for Advanced Prosperity
• 76. Put Down Your Phone and Talk to a Person
• 77. The Shortest Chapter in the History of Productivity
• 78. Business is a Beautiful War
• 79. Be Serious When you’re Serious
• 80. The 4 Major Communication Practices of Movement-Makers
• 81. That Time I learned How to Surrender
• 82. You Never Know Who is Standing in Front of You
• 83. The GCA Index for A-Lister Performance
• 84. Steve Job’s Last 6 Words
• 85. When Things Seem Hard, Trust Your Strength
• 86. You Can’t Inspire if You’re De-Inspired
• 87. The Six Months Left to Live Question
• 88. Fame and Fortune for a Line on your Tombstone?
• 89. Resist the Titan’s Decline
• 90. The Necessity of Artistic Unpopularity
• 91. The Troll Deconstruction
• 92. That Time I met Muhammad Ali
• 93. Don’t Worry About Your Legacy
• 94. A Hero Named Desmond Tutu
• 95. The Life Regrets of People on their Deathbeds
• 96. The Good you do Lasts Forever
• 97. Be Happy to See Live People
• 98. Verses of the Everyday Hero Who Can’t be Defined
• 99. Windows of Opportunity and Your Second Chances
• 100. Be Not a Dream Postponer
• 101. A Philosophy for Returning to Human
• What’s Next on Your Heroic Adventure?
• Fuel Your Rise by Reading
• Appendix 1: My 25 Books to Read Before You Die List
• Appendix 2: My 25 Favorite Films
• Appendix 3: My 25 Favorite Documentaries
• About the Author

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