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Tony Robbins
pain and misery are unnecessary and finally end when the people take charge of their beliefs, feelings, and actions in order to modify the process of their lives.
“A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.” —BENJAMIN DISRAELI
What a feeling to know that beyond a shadow of a doubt I had the information, strategies, philosophies, and skills that could assist any one of these people in empowering themselves to make the changes they desired most!
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives. Controlled focus is like a laser beam that can cut through anything that seems to be stopping you. When we focus consistently on improvement in any area, we develop unique distinctions on how to make that area better.
we’re all here to contribute something unique, that deep within each of us lies a special gift.
less than 10 percent of people who buy a book read past the first chapter.
Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.
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.
We must develop a sense of certainty that we can and will meet the new standards before we actually do.
lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know.
1. Emotional Mastery Mastering this lesson alone will take you most of the way toward mastering the other four! Think about it. Why do you want to lose weight? Is it just to have less fat on your body? Or is it because of the way you think you’d feel if you freed yourself of those unwanted pounds, giving yourself more energy and vitality, making yourself feel more attractive to others, and boosting your confidence and self-esteem to the stratosphere?
the greatest resource is a relationship because it opens the doors to every resource
4. Financial Mastery By the time they reach the age of
let me assure you that the more money you have, the more pressure you’re likely to feel.
how to experience on a consistent basis the values, beliefs, and emotions that are essential to experiencing wealth and holding on to it and expanding
I’m talking about actually taking time and distorting it, manipulating it so that it becomes your ally rather than your enemy.
willingness to take massive action,
most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year—and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
you don’t have to believe or use everything within it. Grab hold of the things you think are useful; put them in action immediately.
the benefits of my own experience, but that of the thousands of books, tapes, seminars, and interviews that I’ve accumulated over the last ten years of my life,
simple and specific strategies for addressing the cause of any challenge and changing it with the least amount of effort.
In Unlimited Power, I made it abundantly clear that the most powerful way to shape our lives is to get ourselves to take action.
Different actions produce different results.
take control of our consistent actions.
It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
What precedes all of our actions? What determines what actions we take, and therefore, who we become, and what our ultimate destination is in life? What is t...
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it’s in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
“Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men.” —BENJAMIN DISRAELI
when I decided who and what I was committed to having and being in my life.
Not only do you have to decide what results you are committed to, but also the kind of person that you’re committed to becoming.
If you don’t set a baseline standard for what you’ll accept in your life, you’ll find it’s easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that’s far below what you deserve.
the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
decisions are the catalyst for turning our dreams into reality.
“This is who I am. This is what my life is about. And this is what I’m going to do. Nothing will stop me from achieving my destiny. I will not be denied!”
it’s not where you start out but the decisions you make about where you’re determined to end up that matter.
“The Ultimate Success Formula,” which is an elementary process for getting you where you want to go: 1) Decide what you want, 2) Take action, 3) Notice what’s working or not, and 4) Change your approach until you achieve what you want.
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 learn from each one, including those that don’t seem to work out in the short term: they will provide valuable distinctions to make better evaluations and therefore decisions in the future.
repetition is the mother of skill.
I’m constantly figuring out how to communicate this knowledge with people in ways that truly empower them to improve their mental, emotional, physical, and financial destinies.
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” —ANTHONY ROBBINS
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.
it’s your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you’re going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.
Know that if anyone is enjoying greater success than you in any area, they’re making these three decisions differently from you in some context or situation.
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.” —HENRY DAVID THOREAU
It’s likely that whatever challenges you have in your life currently could have been avoided by some better decisions upstream.
Although you may never have even thought about it, your brain has already constructed an internal system for making decisions. This system acts like an invisible force, directing all of your thoughts, actions, and feelings, both good and bad, every moment that you live. It controls how you evaluate everything in your life, and it’s largely driven by your subconscious mind.
This system is comprised of five components: 1) your core beliefs and unconscious rules, 2) your life values, 3) your references, 4) the habitual questions that you ask yourself, and 5) the emotional states you experience in each moment.
It determines why you do what you do and why you don’t do some things that you know you need to do.
By changing any one of these five elements—whether it’s a core belief or rule, a value, a reference, a question, or an emotional state—you can immediately produce a powerful and measurable change in your life.
