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There was once a billionaire who reached the top of his field. He achieved success in both his professional and personal life. He would leave a legacy for the world, but he attributed it to an unusual morning routine that started at 5:00 AM and included exercise and mental focus.

The author explains how to join the 5 AM club. He/she suggests that you learn how to rise early each day and use your time wisely. The author emphasizes that you can be like elite performers who get ahead by making the most of their morning hours, which are typically used for sleeping or wasting time with social media.

Here are four important points that will help you to be more productive. First, being distracted reduces your productivity. Second, slowing down your brain helps with focus and concentration. Third, establishing a routine is important for success. Finally, it’s critical to eliminate distractions in order to become successful.

Big Idea #1: A chance meeting drew a disillusioned entrepreneur and a frustrated artist to the secrets of the 5 AM club.

This is a story about three people. One of them, the Spellbinder, is a successful businessman who has helped many others to succeed in business. The other two are an artist and an entrepreneur. They meet at the conference where the Spellbinder gives his speech on how to live an extraordinary life. The artist and the entrepreneur don’t know that they’re talking with a billionaire disguised as a poor man because he wants to remind himself that money isn’t everything. He wears cheap clothes and carries only one thing that’s expensive—a watch worth thousands of dollars.

The billionaire tells them something interesting: Successful people make things happen for themselves instead of waiting for good things to happen by chance or hoping that someone else will help them achieve their dreams.

A billionaire and an artist were curious about a guru who was giving advice to their mentor. They went to him and asked what he had learned from the guru that he didn’t know before. The billionaire, in turn, told them about how his mentor taught him one thing that changed everything for him: having a solid morning routine is the most important thing you can do for yourself personally or professionally. He then offered to teach them more if they came with him on vacation so they could learn it themselves firsthand at 5 am..

The entrepreneur and the artist were a little skeptical about flying in a private jet, but they were soon convinced when they arrived at an airport to find a Rolls-Royce waiting for them. The chauffeur drove them to their plane, which had the logo “5AC.”

An entrepreneur asked his chauffeur what the logo meant on the side of their car, and he explained it stood for “The 5 AM Club.” They began talking about how a morning routine can change one’s life.

Big Idea #2: The solitude and enhanced brain state that you’ll experience at 5:00 a.m. will help you perform like the elite.

Early in the morning, a billionaire told an artist and entrepreneur how he had learned to achieve greatness by getting up at 5:00. He said that this habit promoted his creativity, doubled his energy, and tripled his productivity.

A billionaire once told a group of people that many great writers and musicians, including John Grisham and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, have understood the value of getting up early. They’ve found that their minds are sharper in the morning than later on in the day. Because we’re so busy throughout the day, our brains get distracted by all sorts of things—work, news, social media—and before you know it, we can’t really focus on anything anymore. But if you wake up early enough to do one thing without distraction for an hour or two while your mind is fresh (since you haven’t been bombarded with distractions yet), then you can accomplish more than usual during your day.