"For this day presents your new dawn. And our world awaits your everyday heroism" ❤️

On Expressing Yourself ❤️

The Everyday Hero Manifesto | Robin Sharma

It so warms my heart to see the beautiful ways our students have been expressing themselves through their myriad talents, these past months, especially during these summer holidays.

Indeed! It’s truly inspiring as well, to see how thoughtfully they’re utilising their spare time in such creative ways.

Saru Krishna, Sabarinathan, Safa, Meeval, Beera, Parvathy, Abraham, Jaba Jasmine, Lal, to name a few. The list goes on...

Indeed, engaging in such productive pursuits speaks volumes about their initiative and drive.

Each post of yours is indeed such a joy to read!

May your unique voices shine through your creations. Keep sharing your wonderful perspectives with the world!

Keep investing in yourselves and thereby making the most of every opportunity!

You are, what Robin Sharma would proudly call, ‘Everyday Hero’.

Sample a blogpost by Saru Krishna on ‘Skin Deep Cinema’

https://rusticrodeo.blogspot.com/2025/05/skin-deep-cinema-ft-retro.html

Sample Meeval’s blogpost on ‘A Story of Identity and Inheritance’

https://kuchtohogakehne.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-story-of-identity-and-inheritance.html

Sample Parvathy’s blogpost on ‘Yesterday’s Takeaways and Today’s Gift’

http://toomuchrasam.blogspot.com/2025/05/you-in.html

Sample Safa’s blogpost on ‘Why we are Addicted to Novelty’

https://safasalsabeel.blogspot.com/2025/05/something-interesting.html

Sample Sabarinathan’s blogpost on ‘Let My Soul Settle There’

http://sabari555.blogspot.com/2025/05/let-my-soul-settle-there.html

Sample Beera’s blogpost on ‘A Rainy Day in Delhi’

https://beerarajan.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-rainy-day-in-delhi.html

Sample Abraham’s blogpost on ‘Chubby Idly’

https://abrahamanglistik.blogspot.com/2025/05/poem-302-chubby-idly.html

Sample Jaba Jasmine’s blogpost on ‘Making Sense with the World through Writing’

https://jabajasmine.blogspot.com/?m=1

To me, they are our everyday heroes and heroines.

So who pray, is an everyday hero, according to Robin Sharma?

They are the ones who turn their fear into fuel, their problems into power and their past troubles into triumphs.

They battle-proof themselves against distraction and procrastination so that they produce magic and create a positive impact on people around them, with their consistency and commitment.

They set clear goals and focus on what truly matters.

They practice gratitude and mindfulness.

They manage their environment for productivity and well-being.

They continuously learn and grow.

They serve others and contribute to the greater good.

They believe in expressing themselves in whatever ways they possibly can!

says Robin Sharma, in his book titled, The Everyday Hero Manifesto

Just giving us excerpts from his book –

Dedicating yourself to inhabiting your greatness, generating a vast barrage of beautiful results and doing your part to build a brighter world will be the wisest and best ride you’ll ever take.

This, I promise you. And stepping into the immense splendor of your most creative, powerful and compassionate self will energize everyone around you to awaken to their gifts, making our planet a friendlier place.

There’s no better time to become the human being you know you can be and handcraft the life of your most exuberant desires than now.

The world could completely change tomorrow. History has shown this to be true. Don’t live your finest hours in the waiting room of life.

Please. It’s wiser to take a chance and risk looking foolish,  than miss the opportunity and end up empty and heartbroken, on your last day.

So I took The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari to a respected editor with the intent of making it better. I was excited to get the feedback of an expert and pretty sure he’d tell me I’d produced something truly special.

Instead, the letter I received from the editor was a litany of criticisms. It began,

“There are major problems with The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, Robin. There’s no use mincing words.”

His take on my characters?

“Your characters don’t emerge as much more than stereotypes. For example, Mantle is successful, wealthy, brilliant, charismatic, tough, remarkably funny, etc., but the more you pile on, the more of a cliché he becomes . . .”

He ended the letter by saying,

“I’m sure my reaction to your work has disappointed you, but I hope my suggestions will be helpful. Good writing takes hard, hard work. Unfortunately, good writing looks easy. It isn’t.”

On reading the editor’s note, I sat in my car, hardly moving, heart pounding, palms sweating, in front of his red-brick house with neatly trimmed hedges. My manuscript sat on the seat next to me with elastic bands around it. I still remember the scene in detail.

And I recall how I felt. Embarrassed. Rejected. Dejected.

He sort of broke my heart, on that sunny day.

And yet instinct really is wiser than intellect.

And all real progress has come from daydreamers who were told by so-called “experts” that their consuming idea was foolish and their creative work was unworthy.

Please protect your respect for yourself and for your most honest artistry above the fear-fueled, impossibility-filled pronouncements of people who are masters of theory yet creators of nothing.

Some voice or strength or wisdom within me, coming from a place far higher than logic, instructed me:

“Do not listen to him. Just like the famous author who didn’t encourage you, this letter is just this editor’s view. Keep going. Your honor—and self-love—depends on your determination and loyalty to your mission.”

And so I continued. As I really, really, really hope you will do when you get knocked down and a little—or a lot—beaten up, bruised and bloodied.

Setbacks are simply life’s way of testing how much you desire your dreams, aren’t they?

As Theodore Roosevelt said in a speech entitled “Citizenship in a Republic,” delivered at the Sorbonne in Paris on April 23, 1910:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds…”

A few months after publishing the book, I was in a local bookstore with my son, who was four years old at the time.

Once inside the bookstore, we headed directly to the section where my book was displayed. I’d given the owner six copies - on consignment (which means if he couldn’t sell them, he could return them)

I collected the six copies from the shelf and headed to the front area, where I politely asked permission to sign my book. The cashier approved and with my young son perched on the wooden counter before me, I used one arm to steady him and the other to sign my utterly unknown book.

As I signed my name, I noticed an observer, wearing a green trench coat still wet from the rain, standing off to the side. He watched every move I made. After a few minutes, the man approached me and said, speaking very precisely:

“The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. That’s a great title. Tell me about yourself.”

I explained that I was a lawyer. That I’d been frustrated and unhappy a number of years earlier because I was living someone else’s life.

I shared that I’d discovered valuable ways to live more happily, more confidently, more productively and access far more aliveness.

I said that I had a deep drive to get my book to as many human beings as possible. And to serve society as best as I could. I added that I’d published the book in an all-night copy shop. And that I’d been ridiculed and criticized and minimized as I pursued my project.

He looked at me. He studied me. He waited for what seemed a long time.

Then he pulled out his wallet and handed me his business card.

On it were these words: Edward Carson. President. HarperCollins Publishers.

Synchronicity is destiny’s way of staying silent, right?

Three weeks later, HarperCollins bought the world rights to The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari.

For $7,500.

The book has gone on to become one of the bestselling books of all time, serving many millions of good human beings across our precious world in the process.

And so, as I round out this chapter, I encourage you to consider the ethical ambitions that sit silently in your heart, waiting to be made real.

I ask you to wonder how you can be the Cora Greenaway of someone’s life and the kind of human who makes people braver when they stand in your presence.

I invite you to go to the threshold of the fears that chain you, explore the boundaries that bind you and notice all the past hurts that now stop you—and rise above it all.

For this day presents your new dawn. And our world awaits your everyday heroism,

signs off Robin Sharma, and this blogger as well! 😊