I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
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Tony Robbins
Anthony Jay Robbins (born Anthony J. Mahavoric; February 29, 1960) is an American MLM advocate, businessman, and author. He became infamous for his infomercials and self-help books: Unlimited Power, Unleash the Power Within and Awaken the Giant Within. In 2007, he was named in Forbes magazine's "Celebrity 100" list, earning an estimated $30 million annually. 2Early life Robbins was born Anthony J. Mahavoric in North Hollywood, California, on February 29, 1960. His surname was originally spelled 'Mohorović' and is of Croatian origin. Robbins is the oldest of three children and his parents divorced when he was 7. His mother then had a series of husbands, including Jim Robbins, a former semiprofessional baseball player who legally adopted Anthony when he was 12. His father could not provide for their family, so he left them. His mother started abusing alcohol and prescription drugs sometime after. While growing up, Robbins helped provide for his sibling
You got a pattern of judging women by their exterior, we can't talk about it, we need to break it, I want you to ask yourself has there ever been a time where you have been increasingly shallow, you just looked at a woman and thought you were better then she was.
Haven't you ever heard that beauty is in the eye of the beholder?
Discipline never works long term. Never. What works is when you become addicted to something positively new. You trade one addiction for another. You shift from having to do something, to wanting to do something.
And I said, "Well, what's the secret to your physical passion?" And she said, "Well, we try anything once. And if we like it, we do it again!
If you stop growing, you start dying inside.
Progress equals happiness. Even if you're not where you want to be yet. If you're on the road, if you're improving, if you're making progress, you're gonna love it. You're gonna feel alive.
The ultimate question I'm always asking is: how do I help people to break through? The question is what are you breaking through to?
The reason that you get yourself in a passionate place is so that you change your life. And the only thing that changes your life is making a decision.
So, if you've got a good business, and you're in it right now, I love you, I respect you as a brother or sister. And I know you're a crazy son of a bitch just like me. You have to be! Who gets in a sport where the longer you play the more likely you die?
Creativity, decisiveness, passion, honesty, sincerity, love. These are the ultimate human resources. And when you engage these resources, you can get any other resource on Earth.
Resources are never the problem. It's a lack of resourcefulness is why you failed.
In fact, the most successful people are the most successful people because they've failed more than anybody else.
It's not what we CAN do in life that makes a difference. It's what we WILL do.
Whatever we focus on consistently, we tend to manifest in our lives.
Failure is not an overnight experience, and neither is success. Failure is the result of failure to make the calls. Failure to follow through. Failure to say, "I love you.
Most people have a belief about what their potential is no matter what you tell them and that affects how much action they take. And then, of course, that affects the results. And then, ironically, that result reinforces their belief. And then their belief affects it.
What's the holy grail between somebody taking action or not? It's one word: certainty.