If you want a world-class life, then develop a world-class interior core because everything you do and everything you touch reflects who you are. Build your warrior character because life is a mirror and we get from life, not the things we hope for. We get from life who we are. And so I’m going to encourage you to focus on building what I call The Four Interior Empires of Mindset, which is your psychology, Heartset, which is your emotionality, Healthset, which is your physicality and Soulset, which is your spirituality. All external empires of prosperity or fame and fortune or applause or lifestyle. All exterior empires come from and flow from The Four Interior Empires of Mindset, Heartset, Healthset, and Soulset. So how do you do that? Well, the first thing you want to do is calibrate an excellent morning routine. Rise before the sun. Join The 5AM Club. Win the battle of the bed. Become an early riser like so many of the greatest women and men of the world because the way you start your day sets up the way your day unfolds. It creates the tone of your day. So by getting up early, building out what I call a victory hour, 60 minutes from five o’clock to six o’clock, where you can exercise and electrify that pharmacy of mastering your brain through dopamine, reducing cortisol, provoking serotonin and norepinephrine, which builds your focus. Maybe in that victory hour you pray and you meditate. Every prayer is heard, by the way. Or you write in a journal about the person you want to be during the day ahead, or you write about your hopes and your dreams. Or if you’re one of the valleys of darkness that we all experience in life, maybe you talk about your trials and your feelings and the pain you’re going through so you use the journaling process to purify you and burn off the dross that covers your gold. What else can you do during your victory hour? You can paint. You can read the heroic books so the stardust of the great artists and the great warriors and the great industry titans rubs off on you and suddenly affects you in the most positive way
