Habits to Steadily Optimize Your Health

One of the brain tattoos of my teachings that has helped so many of my clients is this one: Energy is more important than intelligence. To dominate your game and build your empire you don’t need to be the smartest person in the room. Not at all. You just need to have the most energy. To implement your visions. To bring application to your dreams. And to handcraft a life you adore. I'm truly super excited over the upcoming release of my new book The Robot and the Gardener: Being Fully Human in...

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  Hi, it's Robin Sharma and welcome to Daily Mastery. This is my short form podcast where I'll walk you through the insights, methodologies, and tactics that I've shared with many of the world's most successful people as their mentor, including celebrity billionaires, NBA superstars, world-class artists, and global humanitarians. I hope you find great value in today's episode.

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  More than ever before, I understand that food is medicine. And through the food that you consume every day, you're either destroying your health, creating disease, increasing inflammation, or through the food you eat, you're becoming healthier.

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  Your nutrition also affects your moods. I'm going to repeat that again because it's so important. Your nutrition affects your moods. And of course, your nutrition is affecting your health set. It'll affect your skin. It'll affect your energy. It'll affect the quality of your thinking. It'll affect your performance. So you really want to dial in on the right nutritional plan that is best for you. I think a really smart idea is working with a nutritionist who can really help you calibrate the right foods for you to eat. And on the subject of nutrition, I'm going to talk a little bit about hydration. I think most people are dehydrated.

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  And by the way, first thing in the morning, while you're working out, drink a lot of great water because most people wake up dehydrated. There's some very good science confirming right now, you're going to love this piece, some very good science coming out right now confirming that proper hydration is absolutely essential for proper mitochondrial function. If you don't drink enough water, you're not going to have enough energy. And like I suggest to you, protecting and battle-proofing your energy is so important. You can have great dreams, great opportunities, great talents.

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  If you don't have the energy, that fire to execute all day long, to be great at work, great with your family, run your rituals, do your deliverables, you're never going to rise to world-class in your own unique form of private greatness. So drink a lot of water. Make sure you're very, very well hydrated. The final thing I'll just touch on briefly because it's so fascinating and important to me is fasting. There's also good research coming out talking about the benefits of caloric restriction. Rats were studied on a restricted calorie diet and these rats performed better and

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  lived longer than the non-calorie-restricted rats. There's also research confirming that periods of intermittent fasting reduce inflammation and some of the markers for longevity. I think it's fascinating. If you look at a lot of history's greatest heroes and a lot of the great wisdom traditions, they all had one thing in common: periods of fasting. Sure, some of these people did it for spiritual purification.

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  Sure, some of these saints and heroes did it to clean out toxic emotions so they elevated their heart set. But I've also seen some of the greatest creatives, some of the most productive people on the planet, some of the true inventors and creative geniuses, they all had one thing in common: they fasted. And personally, I fast 24 hours, two times a week. And what it does for my mental clarity, what it does for my energy, what it does for my self-discipline is amazing. And the ability to sit there if I'm working on a new book and just drink fresh lemon tea,

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  just drink fresh water, just drink my two cups of coffee in the morning and then lock and load and bring it on for eight or nine or 10 hours working on the book, not having to get up, not having to distract myself from my tight bubble of total focus because I'm in a fasted state, is amazing. What it does for my self-discipline, my mental clarity, my productivity is incredible. So that's a little bit of a rant on fasting, but it just works so well for me. And like anything I'm sharing with you, try it. It might be another game changer.

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  Hi, it's Robin Sharma. I hope you've received strong value from today's episode. I encourage you to read my latest book, The Everyday Hero Manifesto, which is helping people from right across the world live soaring lives. If you'd like to go into further learning, you can head over to robinsharma.com where you can download my free ebook, The World Changers Manifesto. And when you do that, you'll also get full access to the Everyday Hero Training Formula, which is a complete system to help you upgrade your productivity, positivity, impact, and the quality of your life. Have an outstanding day.