Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!

by Tony Robbins

we can develop beliefs about anything if we just find enough legs—enough reference experiences—to build it up.

everything we do, we do either out of our need to avoid pain or our desire to gain pleasure, and if we associate enough pain to anything, well change.

question our beliefs. Remember, whenever we believe something, we no longer question it in any way.

opinions, beliefs, and convictions.

belief that in order to succeed and be happy, we’ve got to be constantly improving the quality of our lives, constantly growing and expanding.

My own commitment to constantly improve, to constantly raise my own standards for a quality life is what’s kept me both happy and successful.

Constant And Never-ending Improvement.

I don’t worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it.

he who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. I’ve found that 20 percent of any change is knowing how; but 80 percent is knowing why.

One of the best ways to interrupt someone’s pattern is to do things they don’t expect,

all of our feelings are based on the images we focus on in our minds and the sounds and sensations we link to those specific images.

Remember, your brain can’t tell the difference between something you vividly imagine and something you actually experience.

The third and most powerful way to motivate people is through personal development. By helping your employees to grow and expand personally, they begin to feel passionate about life, people, and their jobs.

The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.

To change your ability, change your state. To open up the multitude of resources that lie within you, put yourself in a state of resourcefulness and active expectancy—and watch miracles happen!

Anyone can continue to feel good if they already feel good, or if they’re “on a roll”; it doesn’t take much to accomplish this. But the real key in life is to be able to make yourself feel good when you don’t feel good, or when you don’t even want to feel good.

Getting old is not a matter of age; it’s a lack of movement.

You don’t have to have a reason to feel good—you’re alive; you can feel good for no reason at all!

Focus determines whether you perceive your reality as good or bad, whether you feel happy or sad.

The number-one fundamental they teach in driving is: Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

If you think about the pleasurable experience right now, and make the image brighter and brighter, you probably feel better, don’t you?

If you’ve been consistently focusing on the worst that could happen, there’s no excuse for continuing to do that. Start now to focus on the best.

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel tons of pleasure and very little pain—and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain. Someone who’s achieved a lot but is living in emotional pain all the time, or is surrounded by people in pain all the time, isn’t truly successful.

All that you really want in life is to change how you feel.

You can feel ecstasy right now, or you can feel pain or depression or overwhelmed—it’s all up to you. You don’t need drugs or anything else to do it.

I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions.

successful people asked better questions, and as a result, they got better answers.

Quality questions create a quality life.

many people fail to commit to a relationship simply because they keep asking questions that create doubt: “What if there’s somebody better out there? What if I commit myself now and miss out?”

The questions you ask will determine where you focus, how you think, how you feel, and what you do.

If you’re feeling really sad, there is only one reason: it’s because you’re deleting all the reasons you could be feeling good. And if you’re feeling good, it’s because you’re deleting all the bad things you could be focusing on.

Whatever we look for we’ll find.

your brain will obediently come up with an answer for anything you ask of it.

Often our resources are limited only by the questions we ask ourselves.

THE PROBLEM-SOLVING QUESTIONS

“What’s great about this?” and “How can I use this?”

There’s a point at which you must stop asking questions in order to make progress.

At some point, you’ve got to stop evaluating and start doing.

“If you get upset, then you lose control.”

“Then the other guy wins.”

the words that we attach to our experience become our experience.

Sometimes a coach doesn’t even teach you something new, but they remind you of what you need to do at just the right moment, and they push you to do it.

just because you don’t see immediate results from your current actions, it doesn’t mean you’re not making progress.

you can feel any way you choose at any moment in time.

If you go out today and plant a seed, you can’t go back tomorrow and expect to see a tree.

“If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.”

If you’re regularly logging eight to ten hours of sack time, you’re probably getting too much sleep! Six to seven hours has been found to be optimum for most people.

they wanted nothing from us except to share the bountiful happiness they felt for life.

at least twice a day, you must rehearse and emotionally enjoy the experience of achieving each one of your most valued goals.