The Top 10 Teachings of Tony Robbins

My first impression of Tony Robbins was not a good one.

I remember seeing his TV infomercials for Personal Power back in the late 90’s when I was 18 and mocking him. I didn’t like him. I thought he was a dork. I’d never had an interest in personal development and to be honest I didn’t even know what it was.

But all that changed one quiet Saturday afternoon back in 2001 when I walked into a large book store to kill some time. I’ve always loved spending time in bookstores ever since I was a kid. I remember approaching a stand of top 10 bestsellers and number 7 caught my eye because it was a book written by that same dork Tony Robbins I loved to mock. Curiosity got the better of me and I decided to pick it up.

The first thing I noticed was that the book was written in 1991, yet here we were ten years later in 2001 and it was still a bestseller. I started browsing through it curious as to what it was all about and surprisingly it actually looked quite good. In fact, it was damn interesting. I decided to buy it since it was only $20 and I spent the entire weekend reading it. Awaken the Giant Within blew my mind that weekend. I couldn’t put it down. It quickly became my new favorite book and surprisingly Tony Robbins became my new favorite person.

Although I’ve read, watched and listened to almost everything Tony has ever created, nothing has had as much of an impact upon me as his book Awaken the Giant Within. Not his first book Unlimited Power, nor his Personal Power or Get the Edge audiotapes or his videos. Not even seeing him speaking live in person at his seminars.

Why? Because I got it the first time. I didn’t need to be told over and over again. I didn’t need any more inspiration or motivation. I wasn’t just reading, watching or listening, I actually took action and did it. As Tony would say I was “one of the few who do vs the many who talk”.

I haven’t done his premier program Date with Destiny as seen on the Netflix documentary I am not your guru but I have done his Unleash the Power Within 4 day program where you walk on 800 degree burning hot coals at the end of day 1 (which I did and they were damn hot but I didn’t get burnt). It was entertaining, informative, fun, empowering and life changing! Twelve hours a day of nothing but ideas and insights, inspiration and motivation, high fives and hugs.

In fact, I loved Unleash the Power Within so much that I bought my Mum and Sister tickets for Christmas, and was furious when my Mother refused to go citing BS excuses as to why she wouldn’t be able to attend in 11 and 1/2 months time. (Apparently 345 days isn’t enough notice). My sister went however and absolutely loved it.

It’s hard to think of many people who have had a more dramatic or profound impact upon my life than Tony Robbins. As a young 21-year-old who had no direction and no clue what I wanted to do with my life, Tony came around at just the right time. I had so many questions and he seemed to have all the answers. He gave me strategies and techniques to achieve my goals and he shifted my focus from the crap that was going on around me to a better and brighter future, and most importantly, he gave me the pep talk my mother and father never did and he made me believe in myself when no one else did. Not even me.

Tony was more than just a life coach to me, he was a life expert. He was the mentor I never but had always needed. I loved Tony so much that I tried to convert everyone I knew into Tony Robbins fans. Friends. Family. Girlfriends. Workmates. Strangers. If Tony said it, I believed it. If he said do it, I did it. Why? Because everything he said worked for me in my own life when I tried it. His advice was good. His strategies were effective. His techniques worked. It was so simple too. It was just a matter of taking action and actually doing it. I’d never been as excited or enthusiastic about life.

I’m not exaggerating when I say Awaken the Giant Within was life changing for me. It was the difference that made the difference. It dramatically changed my thinking, beliefs and values and it got me started on the path of personal development that I find myself on today. To this day it’s one of the wisest investments I’ve ever made and the lessons I learnt in that book are still paying off for me 20+ years later. I know I sound like an infomercial for the book but it’s true.

How my life changed after Tony Robbins

• I quickly became the most driven and motivated person I knew. I started setting goals and I took action to achieve them. I wasn’t just a talker or a dreamer – I was a doer
• I started using my time wisely instead of wasting it. 7 days a week I was on
• I changed my diet
• I started martial arts
• I confronted my lifelong fear of public speaking and joined Toastmasters
• I changed careers and got a job hosting my own breakfast radio show
• I quadrupled my salary (in one year) and started investing
• I skydived from 15, 000 feet
• I made personal development a permanent habit and I began reading books such as “How to win friends and influence people”, “Maximum Achievement”, “Rich Dad Poor Dad”, “Think and Grow Rich” and “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”.
• I started associating pleasure to learning instead of pain and almost overnight I went from being a D student to an A student. Prior to reading Awaken the Giant Within almost everything I had learnt in school up to that point seemed so pointless and unnecessary and I would constantly be thinking to myself during class, “Why are we learning this? Why does this matter? Why do I need to know this? When am I ever going to use this? Why is this important?” 

But Tony spoke about things I was actually interested in such as:

• How to achieve my goals
• How to change my beliefs
• How to influence and persuade people
• How to deal with negative emotions and make them work for you
• How to learn
• How to make money
• How to get my dream job or start my own business
• How to live up to my potential

Finally someone was talking to me about things that actually interested me instead of crap I didn’t care about. Now it was different. I wanted to learn. I had my why. Information was valuable. Knowledge was power.

I loved Tony’s logic too, by reading books I could “compress decades into days”. Lessons and secrets that the world’s most successful people had taken a lifetime to learn they had summarized into a book which I could read in just a few hours and implement immediately without needing to spend years or even decades making the same mistakes myself. By learning from their successes and failures I could dramatically shortcut my learning curve and stand on the shoulders of giants. This tip alone transformed my life.

I’ve learnt so many things from Tony over the years but in this article I want to share with you what I believe to be Tony Robbins Top 10 Teachings.

Here we go:

Raise your standards

 

The most successful people in history and anyone who has ever achieved anything great all had one thing in common: Incredibly high standards.

Without high standards you will not achieve anything great. No one ever become a champion, legend or world class anything: Actor, athlete, author, comedian, entrepreneur, musician, philosopher, psychologist, scientist etc. without having incredibly high standards for themselves.

Consider some of the GOAT’s:

• Arnold Schwarzenegger – Bodybuilding
• Daniel Day Lewis – Acting
• Michael Jackson – Music
• Michael Jordan – Basketball
• Jeff Bezos – Business

These people are the definition of high standards.

If you want to achieve massive success you must raise your standards and demand more from yourself, the work you do, and the results you produce, than anyone else would. Forget about doing the bare minimum,  you must give it everything you’ve got and refuse to settle for less than you can be, do, have or give. Remember, good is the enemy of great. What is good for others cannot be good for you.

In life you get what you settle for. If you settle for less you’ll end up with less.

What are your standards? What will you settle for? What’s good enough for you?

Your answers to these questions determines what you will end up with.

“You don’t always get your goals, but you always get your standards.” – Tony Robbins

Standards aren’t a blanket thing either. Everyone has different standards in different areas. You might have high standards in one area of your life like your work where everything must be absolutely perfect, but low standards in another area of your life such as your diet, where almost anything is acceptable.

If you want to become successful you must raise your standards and turn your shoulds into musts.

In life you only get what you MUST have. Not what you should have. If it’s a should it probably won’t happen. Yes you should lose weight, yes you should eat healthier, yes you should make more money, but until it’s a MUST, it’s unlikely to happen.

One of the best ways to raise your standards is to study/spend time with people who are better than you are at what you do. People who are richer than you. Smarter than you. More successful than you. People that are more successful than you can help you to redefine your idea of what good is.

Finally, know that you might have to move somewhere where your standards can be met. If you have billion dollar dreams but you’re living in a broke and bankrupt dead end town, it’s probably not going to happen.

If that’s the case you have 2 choices:

• Either drop your standards according to the town or city you find yourself in
• Keep your standards high and move somewhere else where they can be met

Personally, I recommend the latter.

C.A.N.I: Constant and Never Ending Improvement

The Japanese call it Kaizen. Tony calls it C.A.N.I: Constant and Never Ending Improvement. Whatever you call it it’s about looking at everything in your life and thinking of a way to do it better, faster, smarter, more effectively and intelligently.

CANI is a habit. It’s not about perfection. It’s simply about being one percent better than you were the day before, because by improving the little things day after day consistently, over time they become the big things.

Decisions vs Conditions

How is it that someone born into poverty, violence and crime in a 3rd world country, the ghettos of America or the favelas of Brazil, can go from rags to riches and rise from the bottom to the top?

It’s because as Tony says, “It’s your decisions not your conditions that determine your destiny!”

Listen to me: It’s your decisions that determine your destiny. Not your conditions, chance, fate, luck or anything else.

I’m not saying that your conditions aren’t important because of course they are. They can be overwhelming. If you’re living in a 3rd world country or in a crime ridden violent neighborhood of course your conditions suck. Agreed. No doubt about it.

But know this: Just as your previous decisions affect you today, your future conditions will be determined by your present decisions. If you want better future conditions, make better decisions now, because the better your current decisions are, the better your future conditions will be.

Take my advice: If you don’t like the conditions you find yourself in, instead of waiting for them to magically get better all by themselves, do something to change them.

• If your city/town/neighborhood sucks – make the decision to move to a better one
• If your diet sucks – make the decision to change it
• If your friends suck – make the decision to get new ones
• If your relationship sucks – make the decision to either improve it or to start a new one
• If your job sucks – make the decision to either get a new job, change careers or to start your own business

PS: Once you make a decision it’s a firm commitment. There is no turning back. Tony defines a true decision as “Committing to achieving a result and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.”

Incantations

This is something you don’t hear a lot about, yet it’s without a doubt one of Tony’s most powerful tips.

In fact, Tony has credited incantations as the number one reason he was able to build up so much confidence and belief in himself.

What are incantations?

Incantations are similar to affirmations but they’re way more powerful. Think of them as like affirmations on steroids. They’re difficult to describe, and a lot easier to see.

Here is Tony giving a demonstration:

 

As you can see incantations are done with intensity and power – there is nothing weak or passive about them. You are not giving your mind a suggestion – you are telling it the way it is!

Tony still does incantations before every single one of his big seminars despite the fact that he doesn’t need to, because they put him into an optimal state where he is able to perform at his very best.

Tony’s incantations include:

“I HAVE UNLIMITED POWER”

“ALL I NEED IS WITHIN ME NOW”

“THANK YOU GOD”

“Every day and in every way, I’m getting better and better. Every day and in every way, I’m getting stronger and stronger!”

“God’s wealth flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires, and goals are met instantaneously by infinite intelligence, for I am one with God and God is everything!”

“Now I am the voice,

I will lead not follow,

I will believe, not doubt,

I will create, not destroy,

I am a force for good,

I am a leader,

I defy the odds,

I will set a new standard,

I will step up!” (Said by participants at the “Unleash the Power Within” Seminar)

Incantations build your confidence, direct your focus towards what you want instead of what you don’t, and they reprogram your subconscious mind with empowering beliefs that will help you in life instead of the crap the media/the world/other people want to fill your head up with.

I can speak from personal experience that incantations definitely work. If you make them a habit you will start to become more confident than you have ever been.

I’ve used them on many different occasions when I’ve needed to be at my best and especially when I’ve needed to focus my energy before giving a speech in front of hundreds of people.

If you live alone, and/or are able to get some privacy, I highly recommend them.

Modelling

“If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.” – Tony Robbins

Successful people are successful for a reason. It isn’t for no reason that winners win and losers lose, but unfortunately successful people don’t always directly share their secrets of success in a book, podcast, seminar or video, but that doesn’t matter, because you can still learn a lot about what makes someone successful simply by observing them and watching what they do because success leaves clues.

By modelling the habits and strategies of the world’s most successful people and making them your own, you can dramatically shortcut your learning curve and save yourself a ton of time, effort, energy and money.

Modelling questions

• Who has already achieved what you want to achieve?
• Who is the GOAT (Greatest of All Time) of what you want to do?
• How did they do it? How did they make it happen?
• What was different or unique about their approach, mindset, strategy and/or technique?
• What choices and decisions have they made that you have not?
• What chances, risks and/or sacrifices have they made that you have not?
• How do they spend their time differently than you?
• What does their day look like compared to yours?
• What is their diet like compared to yours?
• What habits do they have that you don’t?
• What resources do they have that you don’t?
• What training have they done that you haven’t?
• How do their standards differ from yours?
• How does their work ethic differ from yours?
• How do their beliefs differ from yours?
• How do their values differ from yours?
• What are the top 5 lessons you can learn from them?
• To what do they attribute their success to?
• What mistakes have they made that you should avoid?

I’ve modeled lots of different people throughout my life. It all depended on who I considered the best in the world at what they did. When I was learning public speaking at Toastmasters, I modeled Tony Robbins because he was the greatest public speaker I had ever seen and it really helped to bring out the best in me.

How to Model effectively

• Model the best. Modeling is an excellent idea if you model the right people in the right way. Unfortunately, most people have poor role models that aren’t worth following or listening to and they end up adopting their bad habits. Don’t do that. You will not go anywhere by modelling the people around you. If you’re going to model someone – model someone worth modeling. Model someone smart. Model someone successful. Model a winner. Only by modelling the top one percent, the very best of the best, the world’s most successful people, will you adopt the habits and strategies needed to achieve your goals and change your life for the better
• Listen with your eyes. It’s a good idea to listen to what successful people say but it’s even more important to watch what they actually do. Why? Because people often say one thing and do another. So don’t just listen to what people say and copy blindly. That’s what advertisers want you to do. The success of Michael Jordan or Lebron James has nothing to do with Nike. The success of Beyoncé or Michael Jackson has nothing to do with Pepsi. The success of Arnold Schwarzenegger has little to do with protein powder and a lot to do with steroids. I’m not telling you to go down that path I’m just saying see it the way it is and don’t lie to yourself or turn a blind eye to what’s really going on it just because you don’t like it
• You don’t have to copy everything either. Model the habits that make someone successful. If you want to become a rock star, copy the 8-hour a day guitar playing habit, not the drug and alcohol habits

The Power of Belief

Does it really matter what you, me or anyone else believes?

Yes it does.

It matters a lot.

It’s important to examine your beliefs because what you believe determines:

• What you say
• What you do
• How you act
• Your habits
• Your decisions
• Your goals
• Your values
• Your confidence
• Your comfort zone
• Your fears
• Your self-esteem
• Your self-image
• Your clothing
• Your diet
• Your career
• Where you live
• Who your friends are
• Who you spend time with
• Who you date
• Whether you get married or not
• Whether you have children or not
• The life you live
• And everything else!

So be careful what you believe because your beliefs will make or break you.

“Our beliefs are like unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what’s possible and what’s impossible, what we can and can not do. They shape every action, every thought, and every feeling that we experience. As a result, changing our belief systems is central to making any real and lasting change in our lives.” – Tony Robbins

It’s important to question and destroy any negative beliefs you might have because they can not only stop you from achieving your goals but they can ruin your life.

Common negative beliefs include:

• I can’t do it
• I don’t deserve it
• I’m not worthy
• I’m not good enough
• I’m not smart enough
• I’m a slow learner
• It’s too hard
• It’s not meant to be
• Other people are better than me
• Other people don’t/won’t like me
• The world is a terrible place filled with horrible people

Most people don’t challenge or question their long held negative beliefs. They just accept them as irrefutable and undeniable facts. But most of your beliefs are BS and have no basis in fact and are nothing but a bunch of crap that has been brainwashed into you by parents, teachers, celebrities, TV, internet and the media.

A good way to destroy any negative beliefs is to simply examine and question them and ask yourself “is this true?” and to also think seriously about the consequences of having those beliefs.

Ask yourself:

• What are the consequences of believing this and continuing to think and feel this way?
• What will it cost me in my career, life and relationships if I continue to believe this?
• What has this belief already cost me mentally, emotionally, physically, financially and spiritually?

If you want to change your life – change your beliefs.

Resourcefulness is the ultimate resource

If you ask anyone who has failed why they failed, most often they will say it was due to a lack of:

• Money
• Time
• Skill
• Talent
• Knowledge
• Experience
• Connections
• Etc.

In other words – resources.

But lack of resources isn’t why most people fail.

The reason most people fail is due to a lack of resourcefulness.

It’s not that most people need more ability, experience, knowledge, money, time etc.

It’s that they’re not using the ability, knowledge, skills, time etc. they already have.

They’ve got it – but they’re not giving it.

They have it – but they’re not using it.

They know it – but they’re not doing it.

If you want to be more successful, be more resourceful. Give what you’ve got. Do what you know. Show what you have. Stop holding back.

Don’t let what you can’t do, stop you from doing what you can do.

Don’t let what you don’t have, stop you from using what you do have.

Don’t let what you don’t know, stop you from doing what you do know.

Control your Focus

“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Controlled focus is like a laser beam that can cut through anything that seems to be stopping you.” – Tony Robbins

Keep your eyes on the prize and be careful about who and what you give your focus to.

Control your focus. Don’t just give your focus to anyone who wants it or give into meaningless distractions when they come up.

What is the number one focus in your life right now?

What do you think about most of the time?

Are you focused on what you do want or on what you don’t want?

Create a compelling future

“If you don’t design your own life plan chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn (Tony Robbins original mentor)

Ultimately it’s important to have some kind of goal, mission or purpose for your life.

Goals give you a target to aim for, and they focus your energy towards what you want instead of what you don’t. Without goals your life has no direction, no meaning and no purpose, and you’ll probably end up in a place that you don’t want to be, with people you don’t like, doing things you don’t want to do.

Now, it’s important to have goals, but it’s even more important to have the right goals to begin with.

Here’s how I define good goals vs bad goals…

Good goals

• Are aligned to your values and life purpose
• Improve your knowledge and skills
• Motivate you and are exciting and fun to think about
• Push you outside of your comfort zone
• Will change your life for the better forever if you achieve them

For example:

• Learning critical thinking (learning how to think)
• Learning how to learn
• Learning how to make decisions
• Learning how to influence and persuade
• Learning how to negotiate
• Learning how to sell
• Learning how to solve problems
• Learning martial arts
• Learning public speaking
• Traveling the world

Bad goals

• Aren’t aligned to your values
• Don’t interest or motivate you
• What you think will impress other people

So set goals – but make sure they’re the RIGHT goals to begin with!

Most people have trivial goals that aren’t worth having in the first place. They want whatever they’ve been brainwashed, conditioned and told to want. Advertisers, celebrities, movies, TV and the internet told them to want it and so they do. Or they’ve been tricked into believing that everyone else wants it so it must really be worth having. (Social proof)

Forget about trying to achieve someone else’s version of success.

I’ve never had an interest in climbing the corporate ladder or in being a manager or a CEO. It just doesn’t interest me. It never did. You couldn’t pay me enough to care.

Achieve someone else’s goals? Build someone else’s dream? Make someone else rich?

No thanks.

I’d rather achieve my own goals. Build my own dream. Make myself rich.

What would you love to do more than anything else in life?

What would you do for free?

What would you pay to do?

“People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals, that is, goals that do not inspire them.” – Tony Robbins

Pain vs Pleasure

Everything you do in life is based on either a desire to gain pleasure or a desire to avoid pain. That’s it.

If it feels good you will do it. If it feels bad you won’t.

Whether or not you engage in any of the following depends on whether you associate pleasure or pain to them:

• Exercise
• Learning
• Reading
• Meditation
• Alcohol
• Fast food
• Gossip
• Porn
• Weed
• Video games

The key to making a change in your life is to associate enough pleasure to what you do want and enough pain to what you don’t want.

Pleasure to eating healthy and pain to eating junk food.

Pleasure to leaving your comfort zone and pain to staying in it.

Pleasure to learning and pain to staying the same.

Pleasure to taking action and pain to wasting time.

Pleasure to working hard and pain to being lazy.

If you want to change something in your life start to think about what it will cost you if you don’t change now by asking yourself lots of pain inducing questions:

• What will this habit cost me if I don’t change?
• What will I miss out on if I don’t change?
• Where will I be in five years if I don’t change?
• What I look back in regret if I don’t change?
• How will my life change for the better if I do change?
• How will I feel about myself?
• How much happier will I be?
• How much healthier will I be?
• How much wealthier will I be?

“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.” – Tony Robbins

Where I disagree with Tony

I don’t agree with everything Tony says or endorse everything he does by the way.

In fact, there are lots of things I disagree with him about.

I don’t agree with Tony when he says that 95% of your focus should be on the solution and only 5% on the problem. I completely disagree. I think it’s the other way around. I think that the more you understand about a problem and what’s causing it in the first place, the easier it is to solve because the solution isn’t separate or apart from the problem.

“If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution”. – Albert Einstein

I agree.

I think because Tony is so solution focused, he’s often too quick to try and solve a problem before he even knows what it is or what’s causing it and it can lead him to jumping to conclusions.

In the Netflix documentary “I am not your guru”  at the 51 minute mark, Tony says he wants to bring someone up who is suicidal.

One of the audience participants who stands up is Dawn, a 26-year-old from Brazil.

Dawn: “No one really knows, what inside of me.” 

Tony: “So tell me, what’s really going on in there?”

Dawn: “I’m tired of having so much pain and carrying it for so many years”

Tony: “How old are you?

Dawn: “26”

Tony: “Oh give me a break, you can take another 30 years of this shit!”

“You’re not that fucking weak!”

“Don’t tell me that shit!”

“Don’t lie to fucking me!”

“You and I are gonna have some truth!”

Dawn: “Yeah you wanna hear it?”

Tony: “Yes I wanna hear it tell me”

Dawn then proceeds to tell Tony that she was born into a sex cult in Brazil called “Children of God”, where they believe that God’s love was sex, and everyone (including children) had to have sex with other people in the cult from the age of 6.

Dawn tells Tony not only was she was forced to have sex with strangers from the age of 6 but she also had to see her mother and brothers having sex with strangers and being abused. She tells Tony “I grew up with visions of a totally disgusting God, a Jesus that wanted to fuck you, that wanted to do horrible things with you. I don’t know what to do with so much pain. I’m 26 and I’ve never had a relationship, I don’t know what love is”. She says that her mother and brothers are a huge mess, her whole family is depressed and they all wanted to kill themselves.

Tony then tells her that she is a miracle to everyone in the room. She has been through spiritual pain, it’s beyond what most people could ever imagine in their lives and she hasn’t deserved any of it. He tells her that she is pure love, he tells her that she is incredible, and tells her that he loves her.

Now whilst Tony seemed horrified when he heard the story of Dawn’s past, if he had just taken a few seconds to listen to her to find out why she was in so much pain in the first place instead of just rushing to conclusions and telling her:

“You’re not that fucking weak!”

“Don’t tell me that shit!”

“Don’t lie to fucking me!”

He wouldn’t have come across like such an insensitive and obnoxious asshole. And I’m sure it’s not the first time. Or the thousandth time.

I think if he wasn’t so sure of himself, if he wasn’t so identified with being the teacher, the leader, the solutions guy, the expert, if he didn’t always feel the need to have an answer to every question and a solution to every problem, if he could just step back for a moment and take a breath without rushing to conclusions, he might actually improve upon what he does. But he’s afraid to let go and surrender. He wants to be in control and dominate every situation.

Tony doesn’t know everything – even if he acts like he does. He has a big ego, makes a lot of assumptions, talks a lot more than he listens and is often far too sure of himself and his philosophies. I’ve never once heard him say:

“I don’t know”

“I’m not sure”

“I could be wrong”

In fact, Tony hates the feeling of uncertainty and he doesn’t like it within you either. If he asks you a question and you reply with “I don’t know” he will likely challenge you by asking, “What would the answer be if you did know?”

Tony definitely has balls to stand up in seminars at just 20-years-old and dare to tell people how to live their lives before he had any life experience of his own. I wouldn’t have the balls to do it. It would seem ridiculous to me. It still does.

Conclusion

Tony Robbins is an incredible human being. There is no one else like him. He isn’t one in a million – he is one in a billion. He has achieved more than most people could ever dream of. He is successful by any measure: He has love, money, power and status. He is happy, healthy, wealthy and wise. He has more energy than 99% of 18-year-olds and more enthusiasm than 99.99% of the planet. He has gone from rags to riches doing what he loves and built up a $500 million dollar fortune along the way.

His advice is useful, his techniques work and he changed not only my life for the better but the lives of millions of other people too. The thing I love about Tony most of all is that he is a good guy with good intentions and a good heart. He genuinely loves people and he makes the world a better place.

How many other people can you honestly say that about?

When I think about Tony Robbins and why he is so successful, the first words that come to mind are:

• Confident
• Charismatic
• Driven
• Determined
• Doesn’t waste time
• Focused
• Hungry
• Obsessed with being the best
• Passionate
• Persistent
• Takes massive action and has an incredible work ethic
• Lives outside of his comfort zone
• Is a master of influence and persuasion
• Works for himself instead of in a job for someone else
• Hires other people to help him achieve his goals – doesn’t try to do it all himself
• Does what he’s good at: Public speaking, influencing and persuasion – not accounting, cooking or gymnastics

Finally, Tony is without a doubt one of the greatest public speakers on earth. If you’ve never seen him speak before check him out.

Tony Robbins Quotes

“Your past does not equal your future.” 

“Begin to live as though your prayers are already answered.”

“It is your decisions not your conditions, that determine your destiny.”

“It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently.”

“We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.”

“Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.”

“Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.”

“No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.” 

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