Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins
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- We have unlimited power within us all.
- All frustrations and failures lay the foundation for a new way of living.
- Never settle for less than you can be.
- Concentration of power: focus all of your resources on mastering a single area in your life.
- Controlled focus can help us break through anything.
- How can I take immediate control in my life?
- What can I do today that can really make a difference and shape my destiny?
- How can I expand, learn, and grow, and share that knowledge in a meaningful and enjoyable way?
- Each of us has a talent, gift, and bit of genius just waiting to be tapped.
- The best use of our life is to invest it in something that will outlast it. Contribute in a way that will live on long after we are gone.
- Life is a gift, an opportunity, and the responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
- Man is born to live, not to prepare to live.
- Man is not a creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creature of man.
- It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
- The most powerful way to change our lives is to take action.
- The difference in results that people produce come down to what they have done differently than others in the same situations.
- If we want to control our destiny and our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions.
- What precedes all actions is decision.
- Decide who you are going to be in life.
- Decide what results you are committed to.
- Set standards for what you consider to be acceptable behavior for yourself.
- Live your life at the highest level no matter what the circumstances are.
- Making a true decision means cutting off any other possibility. There is no possibility that you will do what you don't want.
- I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
- Decide what to focus on in each moment of your life.
- That decision about focus is shaping how you think, how you feel, and what you do.
- What should I do now?
- Set a plan so you can make quality decisions along the way.
- Process for achieving success.
- Clearly decide what you want.
- What is it that you are absolutely committed to achieving?
- Take action.
- Take massive action to make it happen.
- Notice what is working and what is not working.
- When things aren't working, change your approach continuously until it does work and you achieve what you truly want.
- You must continue to persevere.
- 6 Keys to harness the power of decision:
- Remember the true power of making decisions.
- It's a tool you can use in any moment to change your entire life.
- A real decision is measured by the fact that you have taken new action, if there is no new action, you haven't really decided.
- Realize the hardest step in achieving anything is making a true commitment, a true decision.
- Make them quickly, just decide.
- Action needs to flow from it.
- Never leave the scene of a new decision without taking a specific action toward its realization.
- Make decisions often.
- The more decisions you make the better you are going to get.
- Muscles get stronger with use and so do your decision making muscles.
- Unleash your power by making decisions right now that you have been putting off.
- Learn from your decisions.
- Ask yourself, what is good about this?
- Stay committed to your decisions.
- Be flexible in your approach.
- Decide who you want to be in life but be open to alternate routes.
- Don't become rigid in your approach.
- Cultivate the art of flexibility.
- Enjoy making decisions.
- In any moment, a decision you make can change the course of your life forever.
- A truly committed decision is the force that changes your life.
- The secret to success is to learn how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you are in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
- Pain and pleasure control every decision in our entire life.
- Procrastination means putting off the pain.
- Most things require us to break through short term pain to allow for long term pleasure.
- It isn't actual pain that drives us but our fear of what we think will lead to pain.
- We aren't driven by reality but by our perception of reality.
- The way to take action is to change what you link pain and pleasure to.
- We can learn to condition our mind, body, and emotions to link pain and pleasure to whatever we choose.
- We are what we think. All of what we are arises from our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.
- Beliefs are what make the difference between a lifetime of joyous contribution and one of misery and devastation.
- The power of beliefs is unlimited. They can create or destroy.
- Belief is a feeling of certainty about what something means. It's a feeling supported by references.
- Believe in your capabilities to learn, to change, to adapt, to expand.
- All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in our beliefs.
- Take time to be quiet and get a sense of what things are going well.
- If you aren't happy right now, is what you are doing right now working towards happiness?
- Choose the beliefs that empower you.
- There is nothing training cannot do.
- You can change anything in your life instantly with the right strategy.
- Every change happens in a moment.
- Believe that you can change right now.
- We are responsible for our own change.
- Master steps to change:
- Decide what you really want and what is preventing you from having it right now.
- You get what you focus on in life so if you keep focusing on what you don't want, you will get more of it.
- Change what you are focusing on.
- Decide what you do want.
- The reason why we don't change is we link more pain to making the change than staying where we are.
- Get leverage on yourself.
- Get yourself to associate massive pain to not changing now and massive pleasure with changing right now.
- Change is not a question of capability it is a question of motivation.
- Create change right now.
- Find strong enough reasons to make the change right now.
- Interrupt the living pattern.
- If we keep doing the same thing we won't change.
- Create a new empowering alternative.
- Model people who have turned things around for themselves.
- Condition the new pattern until it is consistent.
- Rehearse the change.
- Make it feel good to you with incredible intensity.
- Set short-term goals and reward yourself.
- Test the new pattern.
- Your new pattern needs to provide the same satisfaction but in a new and empowering way.
- Make sure your new pattern falls in line with your core values and beliefs.
- Make certain that you link the old behavior with pain.
- Link pleasure with the new pattern.
- Is your new pattern in line with your goals and the person you want to become?
- Don't get caught up in making a living rather than designing a life.
- If we want to discover the unlimited possibilities within us, we need to find a goal big enough to challenge us to push beyond our limits and discover our true potential.
- Set goals that inspire you.
- Write down everything you want to achieve in your life that relates to your own personal growth.
- Your life doesn't change by listening, your life changes by action.
- Give yourself a timeline for each and every goal.
- Goals are dreams with a deadline.
- Choose your most important goal that will bring you the most happiness. That you will wake up early for and keep you up late.
- Write a paragraph about why you are committed to achieving this goal within one year. What will you gain by achieving it? What will you miss out on if you don't achieve it?
- Set career, professional, and economic goals.
- Write down your goals. What do you want to build, create or purchase? What do you want to do and where do you want to go?
- Remember to set a timeline.
- Write down your contribution goals. This is your opportunity to leave a mark. Come up with something that would inspire you.
- Twice a day, you must rehearse the feeling of achieving these highly valued goals.