A few years ago I studied Robin's 21 Day Success System, taking notes and reviewing it as I went. This was a personal project that I undertook, and I wish to share it with you here, slightly updated, for the Steemit audience. I have gone back over this work again recently, and believe it can still be of benefit to others.   
 

Please note that what I will be presenting over several posts is merely a summary of the product. These are the notes that I took to help me maximise my benefit from Robin's work. If any of this resonates with you then by all means feel free to look further into Robin's work. This particular product can still be purchased here: http://www.robinsharma.com/nl/feb-2011.html
 

I decided to take Robin Sharma's 21 Day Success System as it sounded interesting, and powerful enough to motivate me in the direction of making positive changes in my life. Particularly to help with organisation and better use of time and energy, and maximising efforts. I hadn't heard of Robin Sharma, and after taking a look at his website thought this particular product was worth pursuing.

I was not expecting the quality of a one-on-one coaching session, but was looking to receive a quality and type of material that would help me progress in a way that matched my efforts.

Day 1 - Introduction to the System and Crafting a World Class Life

Notes for Day 1

• It's all about leading without a title.
• It's a great day to be alive.
  Whether you are doing well or going through struggles.
  The very fact we are alive means we will have challenges and problems.
  Problems allow us to tap into our inner resources and give us a glimpse of who we are.
  If we didn't have problems we wouldn't get to know the deeper levels of our authentic power.
• Better Awareness = Better Choices = Better Results.
• Leadership and excellence will come when you get really clear on where you're going and come up with a plan.
• What 5 things need to happen to make this the best year of your life?
  Professionally;
  Personally;
  Physically;
  Socially;
  Economically;
  Spiritually;
• Keep it simple - all great truths are simple.
• Come up with a plan.
• Focus.
  All great geniuses spend roughly 10,000 hours working at their craft.
  We all have a chance to be Best-In-World, but we allow ourselves to be too busy to spend the 10,000 hours focusing on our plan - and becoming geniuses in our fields.
• Focus on the vital few.
• Have the self-esteem, the inner leadership, to say no to things that are unimportant.
• Practice - every day, do things such as this coaching program.
• Suggests having a "holy hour" - at 5am, and spend 1 hour working on your self, on practice, focus, on your plan. Write in your journal. 
• All great acts are done by inspired people.
• Do it now.
• Writing creates an exact mind - allows for/creates clarity (reason why a journal is so powerful).
• Use declarations - words are power - crystallised thought, and thinking is creative.
  Be impeccable with your words - they are powerful.   
   

Review for Day 1 

For this first session, I was expecting to get a foundation for what lay ahead, and enough tips and information to make a start on my stated goals for this program.

I would rate this session a 7/10. It was good, it had what I hoped for. Perhaps the sound quality was a bit hard to hear at times, as he was in the Alps, going skiing, and the wind was quite strong at times.

His video style is a travelogue of sorts, and it can get a bit annoying at times, but mostly it works. If you focus on the information, and it is useful information, I found.

This material is not new. Is there any new material out there? Perhaps so, but I didn't buy into this program believing I would be dealing with an originator, per se, but with someone who has the ability to teach, to explain, to motivate certain fundamental life principles, and to help me maximise my own inherent strengths and abilities. Having gone through the entire program I do believe he does that. The rest - the implementation phase - that part is up to me.

The principles he outlines above are obvious on one level. But here they are laid out in one place, one easy to watch video (or series of videos), easy to take notes from, to review, and watch again. And that is the value in a program like this.

Principles such as "Better Awareness = Better Choices = Better Results". It helps to know he sees this as such a fundamental principle he included it in week one. To me awareness is key. Being clear on your goals, on your mission, on your perceived purpose. Learning to see yourself and understand yourself, clarifying your weaknesses so as to be able to deal with them, as well as an ability to identify your strengths and enhance those. I have started focusing and getting specific on a daily basis since first watching this program. Keeping a journal, and one step at a time, narrowing down my focus, and removing the noise from my head, and getting specific on where it is I wish to go.

So the implementing of this program, for me, hasn't been a one step, now it is in place, type of thing. But a daily routine, as best I can.

He mentions that life does have challenges, but it is those challenges that help us to see who we really are. To get to know the deeper levels of our authentic power. I do know this to be true. Without going into too much details, I had a major health issue in 2002, I was in and out of hospital for the best part of 12 months, lost my job as a result, and spent the next ten years putting the pieces back together. It wasn't all doom and gloom - it was life, but it was an extreme situation. It was a challenge, a very large one, but it quite literally forced me to find my authentic power, if I was to get any where in life. But the principle here is in the knowing of this fact, this information, and extracting maximum information and wisdom out of experiences for a better future.

As regards the 10,000 hours to genius, I have come across that information before, recently. I don't know how factual that is, but at least as a metaphor it works for me. It basically is saying that to be brilliant at something we need to dedicate ourselves to it.  The principle is there - be prepared to sacrifice a lot of your life, and expert level will develop, or start to show itself. Just keep learning, and being open to learn. And spend the time to learn.