Awaken The Giant Within

by Anthony Robbins

I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.

The way to make better decisions is to make more of them. Then make sure you

The three decisions that control your destiny are: 1. Your decisions about what to focus on. 2. Your decisions about what things mean to you. 3. Your decisions about what to do to create the results you desire.

Success and failure are not overnight experiences. It’s all the small decisions along the way that cause people to fail. It’s failure to follow up. It’s failure to take action. It’s failure to persist.

Deciding to commit yourself to long-term results, rather than short-term fixes, is as important as any decision you’ll make in your lifetime.

Know that it’s your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

they keep trying to change their behavior, which is the effect, instead of dealing with the cause behind it.

But if we fail to direct our own associations to pain and pleasure, we’re living no better than animals or machines,

what drives our behavior is instinctive reaction to pain and pleasure, not intellectual calculation. Intellectually, we may believe that eating chocolate is bad

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

products. If we want to take control of our lives, we must learn to “advertise” in our own minds—and we can do this in a moment. How? Simply by linking pain to the behaviors we want to stop at such a high level of emotional intensity that we won’t even consider those behaviors any longer.

has two sons, born a mere eleven months apart, one of whom grew up to be

It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

most of our beliefs are generalizations about our past, based on our interpretations of painful and pleasurable experiences. The challenge is threefold:

can change virtually every aspect of your life in a moment! Remember: Once accepted, our beliefs become unquestioned commands to our nervous systems, and they have the power to expand or destroy the possibilities of our present and future. If we want to direct our lives,

feeling of certainty

“I feel certain that I’m intelligent.” That sense of certainty allows you to tap into resources that allow you to produce intelligent results.

With enough emotional intensity and repetition, our nervous systems experience something as real, even if it hasn’t occurred yet.

Every great achiever I’ve ever interviewed has had the ability to get themselves to feel certain they could succeed, even though no one before them had ever accomplished it. They’ve been able to create references where no references existed and achieve what seemed to be impossible.

After attempting to learn a new skill, the pessimists are always more accurate about how they did, while the optimists see their behavior as being more effective than it actually was. Yet this unrealistic evaluation of their own performance is the secret of their future success. Invariably the optimists eventually end up mastering the skill while the pessimists fail.

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

how we deal with adversity and challenges will shape our lives more than almost anything else.

learned helplessness.

system. Eight years ago, when I had hit rock bottom and despaired of ever turning things around, I thought my problems were permanent. That was the closest thing to emotional death I’ve ever experienced. I learned to link so much pain to holding that belief that I was able to destroy it, and I’ve never indulged in it again.

If we don’t see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed. After all, how do you change your entire life? Isn’t that more difficult than just changing your actions in a particular area? Be

The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief.

You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it’s costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

New experiences trigger change only if they cause us to question our beliefs. Remember, whenever we believe something, we no longer question it in any way.

If

you question anything enough, eventually you’ll begin to doubt it.

ones. Our beliefs

opinions, beliefs, and convictions.

opinion is something we feel relatively certain about, but the certainty is only temporary because it can be changed easily.

A belief, on the other hand, is formed when we begin to develop a much larger base of reference legs, and especially reference legs about which we have strong emotion.

People with beliefs have such a strong level of certainty that they are often closed off to new input.

it’s possible to interrupt their pattern of closing off, and get them to question their references so they begin to allow for new input. This creates enough doubt to destabilize old references and make room for a new belief. A

A person with a conviction is unwilling to ever question their references, even for a moment; they are totally resistant to new input, often to the point of obsession.

1) Start with the basic belief. 2) Reinforce your belief by adding new and more powerful references.

3) Then find a triggering event, or else create one of your own. Associate yourself fully by asking, “What will it cost me if I don’t?”

4) Finally, take action. Each action you take strengthens your commitment and raises the level of your emotional intensity and conviction.

It’s vital to examine our beliefs, and their consequences, to make sure that they’re empowering us. How do you know what beliefs to adopt? The answer is to find someone who’s producing the results you truly want in your life.

of empowering beliefs. The way to expand our lives is to model the lives of those people who are already succeeding.

Meetings with Remarkable Men,

The beliefs that we hold in business and in life control all of our decisions, and therefore our future. One of the most important global beliefs that you and I can adopt is a belief that in order to succeed and be happy, we’ve got to be constantly improving the quality of

Begin today to develop the habit of focusing on the consequences of all your beliefs. Are they strengthening your foundation by moving you to action in the direction you desire, or are they holding you back?

“There’s always a way to turn things around if I’m committed.” When I read my list, I thought, “This is a belief that needs to be strengthened and turned into a conviction.”

If you’re not getting the results you want in your life, I suggest you ask yourself, “What would I have to believe in order to succeed here?” Or “Who is already succeeding in this area, and what do they believe differently than I do about what’s possible?”

What could I learn from this situation? What was really going on here?

NAC is a step-by-step process that can condition your nervous system to associate pleasure to those things you want to continuously move toward and pain to those things you need to avoid in order to succeed consistently in your life without constant effort or willpower.