MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom (Tony Robbins Financial Freedom)

by Anthony Robbins

Not within a day or an hour, but in that moment your life changes—and it changes forever.

massive and immediate action to make a change.

You do have the ability to change everything in your life. No matter how long it’s been this way, you can change it all in a moment, a moment of real decision, a decision that is acted upon. That’s a breakthrough, and one is waiting for you right now.

What are the three biggest challenges people face in America? What are the three areas that show up over and over again, causing pain in people’s lives? Our finances, our relationships, and our bodies.

If you want to change your life you have to change your strategy, you have to change your story, and you have to change your state.

I always say that 80% of success in life is psychology and 20% is mechanics.

If you’re not taking action and the answer is sitting there in front of you, there’s only one reason: you’ve created a set of beliefs that you’ve tied into a story—a

What’s wrong with your life is just as easy to find as what’s right with your life,

Stories control our emotions, and emotions drive all of our behavior and actions.

I not only made doing well financially something wrong but also subconsciously sabotaged my own success.

I told myself that money was not spiritual.

Anyone who’s become truly wealthy knows the truth—the only way to become wealthy, and stay wealthy, is to find a way to do more for others than anyone else i...

If you become a blessing in other people’s lives, you too will be blessed. Money is only one of those blessings, but it is a blessing. It’s simpl...

Money is nothing more than a reflection of your creativity, your capacity to focus, and your ability ...

If you can find a way to create value—that is, add value for a massive number of people—you will have an opportunity to have a massive amo...

I was tired of blaming others for my lack of financial progress.

Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation and marry the story of the truth, and everything changes.

when you get rid of the limiting stories, take massive action, and find the strategies that work, the results you can create are truly miraculous.

Unleash the Power Within (UPW), where we use the power of Strategy, Story, and changing the State of your mind, body, and emotions to create breakthroughs in every area of people’s lives. UPW is intense: I use music, dynamic movement, humor, and a host of other tools to put the audience in a peak state—and that’s

We are not born believing money is good or evil. So where did this belief come from?”

Julie grew up hearing the stories over and over: how the rich exploit the poor,

Imagine how hard it is to build wealth when your core belief is that money is evil.

They dumped their high-cost mutual funds and transferred their IRA to a diverse portfolio of index funds with Vanguard.

There’s a part of you that, when it’s turned on, can make anything happen; but when it’s turned off, the world is dead.

by changing your body first, you can change your mind.

I teach many ways to create immediate change in your state, but one of the simplest ways is to change what I call your physiology. You can change the way you think by changing the way you move and breathe. Emotion is created by motion. Massive action is the cure to all fear. Think about it, fear is physical. You feel it in your mouth, in your body, in your stomach.

you can move from one to another in a matter of milliseconds if you learn to make radical shifts in the way you move, breathe...

Two minutes of posing can lead to the changes that either configure your brain to be assertive, confident, and comfortable, or really stress reactive. Our bodies are able to change our minds!

With state and story combined, you’ll not only find the strategies that work, you will execute them and experience the rewards you desire and deserve.

Use your body as a tool to snap yourself into a place of sheer will, determination, and commitment. Face your challenges head on with the core belief that problems are just speed bumps on the road to your dreams.

It’s time to no longer be one of the many but to become one of the few.

Instead, let your disappointments drive you to find new answers;

when you seek Significance, you’re always comparing yourself with someone else. And there’s always someone bigger, taller, stronger, faster, richer, funnier, younger, more handsome, more beautiful, with a bigger yacht, a nicer car, a nicer home. So while there’s nothing wrong with significance, if you make it your number one need, you’ll never be fulfilled.

But the problem is, when you have this huge goal in your head—if in your gut you don’t believe it’s going to happen—your brain rejects

The goal seeps down into your subconscious, and it goes to work to make your dream a reality. That’s when the magic happens!

they don’t have Certainty that they can do it. And Certainty is the first human need that influences our behavior or actions. Fact. If you’ve failed to act in your financial world, it’s partly because you’re uncertain, you’re unsure as to what is right or wrong and which approach will succeed or fail. Or you’re feeling overwhelmed by the complexity of the system that no one has taken the time to walk you through with clarity.

I’ve purchased and converted it into a protected ecological preserve with over 500 acres of land and nearly three miles of ocean frontage. I’ve turned Namale Resort and Spa into the number one resort in Fiji for the last decade, and it’s consistently rated among the top ten resorts in the South Pacific.

You can have it all. Just not all at once. —OPRAH WINFREY

Is your dream to travel the globe, exploring ancient cities or photographing lions in the Serengeti? Is it owning your own beach house

“I’m certain! I promise myself I can get there!” Like all journeys, before you get started, you’ll need to take stock of where you are.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. —ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

She’s automated her savings of 10% of her income. She’s putting it in a Roth 401(k), where it’s being invested in low-fee index funds with an estimated growth rate of 6%. (This is the percent that Jack Bogle estimates the markets will return over the next decade. However, the average stock market return has been 9.2% over the last 20 years.) We ran it through the wealth calculator, which you’ll do in the next chapter, and she found out that instead of the $3 million she thought it would take to achieve financial security, she would need to accumulate only $640,000 in her Freedom Fund to have that $34,000 a year for the rest of her life—less than a quarter of the amount she thought she needed!

home, food, utilities, transportation, or basic health care! By the way, these five items, on average, represent 65% of most people’s expenses.

For some people, all they want is financial security, like someone in a later stage of life who may have taken a hit in 2008.

What makes most people just dreamers versus those who live the dream is that dreamers have never figured out the price of their dreams.

There isn’t a dream you can’t realize if you’re committed enough and creative enough, and if you’re willing to find a way to add more value to other people’s lives than anybody else.

If you’re a baby boomer who’s had a tough time since the meltdown of 2008, which one of these dreams is the absolute must for you? Security, right? Here’s the good news: you may not have as many years to build your savings and investments to a critical mass, but you can absolutely have Financial Security, and I’ll show you how.

Step 1: Unleash Your Hunger and Desire, and Awaken Laser-like Focus.

Or you hit a wall, a threshold, a place inside yourself, and affirm that you will no longer settle for life as it has been.

Step 2: You Take Massive and Effective Action.