25 powerful life lessons from 2025 |
Dear Test, we’re leaving 2025 and entering 2026. As I often do at this time of the year, I quietly reflected on the insights that guided me and the principles that served me over the past 12 months (of one of the busiest years of my life).
In the spirit of service and helping you make the new year excellent, I’m sharing what I wrote. Please share the ideas if you find value in them so we uplift as many people as possible.
Ok my great reader, here you go…
1. As the world becomes messier we are given the opportunity to grow stronger.
2. We were all artists before the world trained us to be adults.
3. Success without soul is an empty victory.
4. The key to a great morning routine is a superb pre-sleep ritual.
5. You become your conversations and your environments shape your performance, so choose them well.
6. The key to productivity is simplicity. Become a master of subtraction not addition.
7. A small team of A+ players can run circles around a large team of average ones.
8. Leadership is about what you do when no one is watching.
9. Call your parents often, if you’re lucky enough to still have them. You’ll miss them once they are gone.
10. As the news grows more negative, read it selectively, and carefully.
11. Few things bring as much joy as a walk in nature with a faithful dog.
12. Rest isn’t a luxury but a necessity.
13. Give gifts in secret, for to give one with the expectation of a reward isn’t a gift but a trade.
14. Prayer is powerful and every single one of them is heard.
15. Fly 15 hours for a 15 minute meeting in person because the business of business is people and the greatest currency of commerce is human bonding.
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16. 4 am is the new 5 am.
17. Reading is a master skill so read every book you can get your hands on.
18. Journalling is praying on paper.
19. Your ability to love others depends completely on your capacity to love yourself.
20. The harder the project you commit to (and deliver on) the greater the payoff in terms of your personal growth, your professional mastery and your internal self-respect.
21. If you have excellent health, a happy family and work that provides purpose, you have a form of wealth that money can’t buy.
22. Most fears are liars. Most excuses are thieves. Trust them not.
23. Life is shorter than we think so make it really really deep.
24. Writing your obituary is a very wise exercise.
25. Be the nicest person you know yet always protect yourself.
Hope my list is inspiring as well as practical. From my family to yours, happy 2026. Thank you for following my work, reading my books and being the kind of person who spreads more good in the world.
Love and respect, |
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Robin Sharma Humanitarian + Leadership Missionary |
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