Robin Sharma - The Everyday Hero Manifesto

This is a book about the vast genius, decency and heroism that live within every beating heart on our planet today.

Creating this work for you has been exhilarating, frightening, inspiring and exhausting.

Writing The Everyday Hero Manifesto caused me to go to places within my craft, character and duty to serve well beyond what Id previously known. On finishing it, I was a different man than when I started the process.

On the pages ahead, youll discover a calibrated philosophy to materialize your finest talents, a revolutionary methodology to produce masterwork and a steady stream of insights to lead a life of breathtaking beauty, enduring joy and spiritual freedom.

Ive shared more of myself here than I have in any of my earlier books. Revealing this vulnerability has been a scary yet ultimately satisfying process. Taking an honest look at our failings helps us turn them into wisdom, right? And embracing our hurt allows us to remake it into strength.

As you read of all Ive gone through, my sincere hope is that you will learn what dangers to avoid, how to turn troubles into triumphs and of the wonderful way that life always unfolds in your favor, even when it doesnt seem like it.

The Everyday Hero Manifesto has been handcrafted for you as if it were my last book. I hope and pray I get to write many more. Yet a human life is a fragile ride and none of us know what tomorrow brings. And so Ive given you the best I have to give in this manual for supreme productivity, elite performance, sustained happiness and unusual service to society.

My genuine and heartfelt wish is that the knowledge you are about to acquire illuminates the gifts slumbering within you, electrifies the fire you have to create your magnum opus and helps you realize your personal magic so you lead the life you most desire. While making our world a better place.

With love + respect,

P.S. To access all of the learning models, implementation templates and tactical worksheets mentioned in this book, along with teaching videos to deepen your growth, go to TheEverydayHeroManifesto.com

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscoveredeither by themselves or by others.

M ARK T WAIN

Only those who devote themselves to a cause with their whole strength and soul can be true masters. For this reason, mastery demands all of a person.

A LBERT E INSTEIN

People always say that I didnt give up my seat because I was tired, but that isnt true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

R OSA P ARKS

It is easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.

N ELSON M ANDELA

If you have not discovered something you would die for, said Martin Luther King, Jr., you are not fit to live.

I would easily die fighting for the idea that you are great.

I would take a bullet for the concept that you are meant to make marvelous works, experience majestic events and know of the secret universe of mastery that was populated by the advanced souls who walked before us.

As a citizen of the earth, you have been called to harness your primal power to do amazing things, to make astonishing progress and to uplift the lives of your brothers and sisters with whom you caretake the planet.

I believe all of this to be truth. No matter where the hands of nature have now placed you, your past need not prescribe your future. Tomorrow can always be made into something better than today. You are human. And this is what humans are able to do.

Yes, we show up in different colors, sizes, genders, religions, nationalities and ways of being. Nelson Mandela, Harriet Tubman, Mahatma Gandhi, Florence Nightingale and Oskar Schindler are heroes of the highest order. Yet those who lead quieter livesthe ones who teach in schools or work in restaurants, write their poetry or launch their startups, pursue their trade in bakeries or parent their children at home; those who help within communities as first responders, firefighters and aid workersmay also be worthy of being called heroes. Many of these good souls do hard jobs, with a noble resolve to do them well. They work with smiles on their faces. And grace in their hearts.

I am humbled when my life intersects with such human beings. Truly. I learn from them, am uplifted by them and am somehow transformed upon meeting them.

These are everyday heroes. So-called ordinary people conducting themselves in virtuous and honorable ways.

And so, with sincere respect for all the possibility within you longing to express itself, as we begin our journey together, these words flow as my encouragement to you:

Starting today, declare your devotion to remembering the sublime soul, brave warrior and undefeatable creator that your natural wisdom is calling on you to be.

The trials of your past have skillfully served to reinvent you into one who is tougher, more aware of the powers that make you special and more grateful for the basic blessings of a life beautifully livedsplendid health, a happy family, a job that fulfils and a hopeful heart. These apparent difficulties have actually been the stepping stones for your current and future victories.

The former limits that have shackled you and the failures that have hurt you have been necessary for the realization of your mastery. All is unfolding for your benefit. You truly are favored.

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.

And with steadfast commitment and regular effort, you will evolve into an idealist, an unusual artist and a potent exceptionalist. A genuine world-changer, in your own most honest and excellent way.

So be not a cynic, critic and naysayer. For doubters are degenerated dreamers. And average is absolutely unworthy of you.

Today, and for each day that follows of your uniquely glorious, brilliantly luminous and most-helpful-to-many life, stand fiercely in the limitless freedom to shape your future, materialize your ambitions and magnify your contributions in high esteem of your dreams, enthusiasms and dedications.

Insulate your cheerfulness, polish your prowess and inspire all witnesses fortunate enough to watch your good example of how a great human being can behave.

We will watch your growth, applaud your gifts, appreciate your valor and admire your eventual immortality.

As you remain within the hearts of many.

When no one believes in you is when you most need to believe in you.

Those committed to the fullest expression of their native genius know that self-faith and staying true to yourself and your mighty missionespecially in the face of ridicule and uncertainty, attack and adversityis the gateway into legendary. And truly a pathway to immortality. Because your noble example will live on long after youre gone.

The journey to your most heroic life will be colorful, inspirational, messy, marvelous, tumultuous and most definitely glorious. Dedicating yourself to inhabiting your greatness, generating a vast barrage of beautiful results and doing your part to build a brighter world will be the wisest and best ride youll ever take. This, I promise you. And stepping into the immense splendor of your most creative, powerful and compassionate self will energize everyone around you to awaken to their gifts, making our planet a friendlier place.