The 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life. by Robin Sharma

Gives us a lot of insights on how we can master the day and teaches a lot of values. Highly recommended!!

Such an interesting and good read so far! I’m about half way through and it’s making me think differently about every morning

I like the way the author present the different principles in the 5AM Club, using a narrative as the story plot. The teachings are relevant and is worth implementing. I definitely recommend this book.

I’m halfway through this and so far, it feels like 5% amazing guidance/advice and 95% fluff (or at most 10/90) Great advice, but after the first 5 chapters or so, I just had to go to a skim/scan approach – just too long-winded and repetitive. BUT – there’s some really wonderful and inspiring guidance in there, if you don’t mind having to wade thru the mediocre story-telling in between.

UPDATE: Just finished it. Wow. Writing that is often so bad that I laughed out loud; fiction is NOT Mr Sharma’s gift and hard to understand how his editor would allow this to be published in it’s current form. Forced dialogue, shallow characters, overall clumsy storytelling. (And I just read another reviewer say it’s the best book he’s ever read !??!!!??? He must be fairly new to reading, or otherwise have not been exposed to any skillful storytelling.)

And yet – there are some lovely, powerful ideas here. Nothing new – all of this familiar and timeless advice is available many other places – but a decent compendium of useful guidance and tips on achievement, habit development, life in general and a variety of personal growth/development ideas. This would have been a GREAT and really useful 20 page eBook guide if stripped of the shallow, repetitive, awkward storytelling.
So I guess I’ll stick with my 3 star review, tho if there was a 2.5 option available, I’d have chosen that.

PS: Recently finished James Clear’s “Atomic Habits” – excellent. The scope of that book is narrower than this book, but TERRIFIC habit formation and related advice.

I almost set this book down several times because it’s so wordy and repetitive and wasn’t adding much to my knowledge. I felt as if my time was wasted on a cheesy plot peppered with occasional words of wisdom that were repeated over and over again. The good parts were mere breadcrumbs to keep you reading and frankly I was bored. I never felt satisfied, UNTIL near the end, perhaps the last quarter of the book.

I already knew a lot of this information but there was some new info that I appreciated. Although, if you read business and self-improvement books much, you’ll likely already know a lot of this. I’m truly not that picky when it comes to books because I love reading and usually give 5 stars but after 2/3rds through it I was still not getting much value.

With regard to the writing method, teaching a bunch of lessons while engrossed in a fictional plot CAN work. If you’ve read the Ishmael series or the Celestine Prophecy, you’ll know how it’s done! This frankly would have been best if written as a smaller book, condensing the first half.

BUT, the last quarter or so of the book picked up. Sharma hit his stride! The density of valuable information greatly increased, almost totally making up for its lack in the rest of the book. The cheesy factor diminished and I even cried a little during the Mandela section. I had to chuckle at how he came right to the edge of discussing the Law of Attraction without ever actually saying the words, likely not wanting to turn off less-spiritual readers. But for those of us who know LOA, it was scattered throughout. I loved that. And the practical productivity models and techniques were really good. I did learn some new things there. In the end, I will gladly recommend this book but with the caveat that you’ll have to show some forgiveness as you read the first half. It’s worth it. 😊

The concept of the 5am Club is so simplistic yet not easy for many of us to accomplish! The writing keeps you inthralled and the experiences make you yearn to visit and be apart of it all while mapping out your own ideas for a future worth leaving behind all the self doubt and unnecessary stressors we have adapted that is holding us back from being the best we can be. Hats off to Robin Sharma 🙏🏼