Robin Sharma

Well, have you been to a coffee shop where let's say there's 10 people working, nine are checked out, one still has a sparkle in her eye?

Have you been to a hotel where you walk in, most people are going through the paces?

They're like cyber zombies, not present, yet there's one who goes the extra mile and is a merchant of wow.

That's someone who sees that all labor has dignity.

That's someone who takes their work seriously.

And I think all too often we want the rewards of world class without doing what world class requires.

We live in a world right now where people want to be fit, but they don't want to join the 5am club or the 6am club.

We want a world right now where people want to be billionaires, but they want to watch TV for hours all night or watch Dancing Puppies or whatever.

We all have 168 hours in a week.

I've heard that so many times.

And I say this very, very respectfully and very sincerely.

But I hear people saying, I don't have time.

And I wish we could put a video camera on that person for a week so they could see how they're spending their time.

Someone once said, we wish we had more time, but we squander the time we have.

So if we were to follow, I would predict if we were to follow 100% of those people who say they don't have time, they would be shocked by all the time they're wasting.

on, especially on digital pursuits.

I mean, you can look at the numbers right now, how much time we spend in front of the white screen every day, chasing trivial pursuits that amount to nothing.

I believe that an addiction to distraction is the death of our creative production.

How many of us are doing real work versus fake work?

How many of us are involved in re-creation