The Everyday Hero Manifesto – Robin Sharma

Introduction

Everyone in this world desires to be a hero, but very few of us know how to become a hero and be a hero every day. Robin Sharma, a well-known success and leadership mentor talks about it in his highly motivational book; The Everyday Hero Manifesto. In this book, he talks about the secret habits of the world’s greatest visionaries, techniques to turn fear, problems into tools and avoid distraction, adopting world-class routines, and gaining wisdom. In the Everyday Hero Manifesto, Robin Sharma makes us aware of the enormous opportunities present in everyday which can turn us from victimhood to everyday heroism. Our personal greatness is fully realized when with every passing hour, we make move towards a fruitful day. He asks us to make the following five leaps to materialize our mastery and lead our finest life.

Five Leaps to Materialize our Mastery

Leap 1: The Shift from a Mindset of Can’t to the Mentality of Can
Robin Sharma points out that victims are bound by the word, ‘can’t’. They give various reasons why an idea or enterprise can’t work or succeed and why an ambition cannot be achieved. But the main reason beneath them is their fear of failing, fear of not deserving victory, fear of not being good enough, fear of getting hurt, fear of being criticized, and fear of the imagined responsibilities of success. In contrast, all the great and successful people in the world avoid being infected with can’t, become experts at using hope as their language, execution as vocabulary, and freedom as the dialect. Watch this video to understand the importance of Self Belief:

So, along with the thoughts we think, we should make a leap to bring greater awareness to the language we use and begin from the procedure of eliminating all the can’t from our mind with this heightened consciousness towards reprogramming in the power of can. In a nutshell, the most potent way to escalate our confidence, impact, and performance in the world are by re-ordering our vocabulary towards leadership and exceptionalism.
Leap 2: The Shift from Making Excuses to Delivering Results
The second leap mentioned in the Everyday Hero Manifesto is to focus on delivering results rather than making excuses. Robin Sharma sharply points out that either we can make excuses or can change our world, we don’t get to do both. We should not be giving reasons to explain why our life is not working.
We should restrain ourselves from descending into an excuse cycle and instead view ourselves as the creator of our life. We grow up and increase our strength the instant we take absolute responsibility for the way our results look. In doing so, we take our sovereignty back from excuses to seek our desired improvements. When we practice this leap daily, we become an individual of self-discipline, outstanding character, productivity, and spiritual liberty.
Leap 3: The Shift from Living in the Past to Making a Brighter Future
We all are the victims of our past, a bygone era. While living in the past, we cannot embrace our fantastic future. We should not live in jail of our past, instead, we should see our history as an academy we can learn from. We should master ourselves in employing selective amnesia to remember only the good which we have cherished, letting go of the simmering resentments and languishing disappointments. We should exploit the hard events that brought us exquisite growth in making us a better and bolder people.
Leap 4: The Shift from Being Busy Being Busy to Becoming Productive
Robin Sharma asks us not to confuse ourselves with being busy meaning productive, movement with progress, and a packed schedule with success. Many potentially good legendary performers fall into the trap of doing fake work instead of real work. We often deceive ourselves into thinking we have much to do and then blaming this hard and cruel world for our lack of artistic victory and productive triumph. We should do our own game by blocking out all unnecessary interruptions and digital distractions. We should honor our native brilliance by doing our work so well that it mesmerizes all the witnesses of it.

Leap 5: The Shift from Taking from the World to Giving to the World
We should not listen to the wisdom of the status quo, according to which success means “winner takes all.” We should make it our consistent enthusiasm to give to the world and behave in a way that serves all citizens rather than taking from the world. The Stateswoman Golda Meir quoted, “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of higher achievement.”

Conclusion

The Everyday Hero Manifesto gives us an overview of the mistakes we overlook or make and how to amend or avoid them, thereby creating a rich and successful life for us. Your past need not define your future. You can always build a better tomorrow than today. This is the ability that every human possesses. The lessons that can be learned from The Everyday Hero Manifesto include the hidden habits of the world’s most successful people who use them to realize their visionary ambitions. The above-mentioned leaps are the techniques that help us turn our fear into fuel and our problems into power.