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Awaken the Giant Within

How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical & Financial Destiny!

by Tony Robbins

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Awaken the Giant Within by motivational speaker Tony Robbins is a comprehensive self-help book designed for people who want to feel in control of all aspects of their lives and fulfill their greatest potential in their relationships, career, finances, and personal lives.

Everyone is born with the capacity to be happy and achieve their greatest destiny, but not everyone is happy and fulfilled. To illustrate the powerful lessons hes learned about success, personal growth, and transformation, Robbins taps into his years of experience as a personal and professional coach, his own experience in surmounting obstacles and thriving, and anecdotes about high-achieving people. He indicates that these lessons are available for anyone to apply regardless of background or past failures.

At one time or another, everyone has had a glimpse of their best life, or who they think they could become in an ideal world. Sustaining the motivation to make those dreams a reality can be daunting in the face of everyday responsibilities. Over time, people adopt limiting beliefs about what they can accomplish; some even abandon their highest visions altogether.

However, with knowledge about human behavior and why people do what they do, individuals can develop a personalized strategy for changing their behavior so that it aligns with ultimate goals and values. This will allow them to take charge of their lives; effect real, lasting change; and improve the quality of their relationships, professional life, physical health, and emotional well being.

Awaken the Giant Within was published in 1992 by Summit Books and became an instant New York Times bestseller.

Tony Robbins is a strategist, entrepreneur, and self-help guru whose mission is to help people take control of their lives. He is a self-made multimillionaire and the author of several bestsellers including Unlimited Power (1986) and Money: Master the Game (2014).

1. The power of decision-making is the single most important factor in personal growth and transformation.
2. The three elements of significant personal change are raising standards, altering limiting beliefs, and adopting fresh strategies for action.
3. Two critical factors, the avoidance of pain and the quest for pleasure, motivate human behavior.
4. To change a negative behavior, people must learn to associate pain with that behavior instead of pleasure.
5. Events are neither good nor bad, but the meaning people ascribe to them will affect their emotional state for better or worse.
6. Change can happen instantly as long as there is a clear strategy and a willingness to question existing beliefs.
7. Personal responsibility is essential to growth and transformation.
8. People can utilize the power of their brains to effect lasting change by conditioning their nervous systems to react to certain behaviors.
9. People crave the feelings that they believe will come with certain achievements as opposed to the achievements themselves.
10. Well-crafted questions are key to directing change and achieving success in all areas of life.
11. People can learn to harness the power of their emotions, positive and negative, to direct their lives in a more productive and fulfilling way.

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The power of decision-making is the single most important factor in personal growth and transformation.

Analysis

Theres a difference between being interested in, say, losing weight, and committing to losing weight. If people are committed, they will take action. But before people take action, they must make a decision to commit to this goal. Then they can harness their own personal power and start to make incremental progress toward achieving it.

A-list actor Jim Carrey is a perfect illustration of how a single decision can direct a persons destiny. Carreys father chose to become an accountant even though he was more passionate about having a career in comedy. His father reasoned that accounting was a safer route to economic security. When Carrey was 12, his father was laid off, and this turn of events had a huge impact on the budding actor. In a commencement address to Maharishi University of Management, he told graduates, I learned a great many lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you dont want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love. Carrey made a decision to follow his heart instead of taking a seemingly safe route as his father believed he had. Following this decision, he achieved a great deal of success as the star of major motion pictures. [1]

The three elements of significant personal change are raising standards, altering limiting beliefs, and adopting fresh strategies for action.

Analysis

To enact real change, people first have to expect more of themselves and decide what it is they will no longer tolerate. Then, they must inspect their beliefs and choose only empowering ones so they can be confident that they can meet their new standards. Finally, they should choose strategic methods for achieving their goals.

To illustrate these principles, imagine a young, successful woman who is unhappy in her job as a private chef even though she makes a substantial salary and works for a prominent and kind family. She likes that her paycheck allows her to pay off her debts while affording her a luxurious lifestyle. But when shes cooking the same dinner for the hundredth time, she realizes that she needs to raise her own standardsshe is capable of starting her own artisanal food line, a lifelong dream, but instead has settled into complacency in her cushy job.

Once she has decided that she wont settle for an unfulfilling job, she quickly identifies the biggest roadblock to striking out on her own: the naysaying voice in her head that tells her its too scary to try something new because so-called vanity projects never make money. Since this belief doesnt gel with her decision to end the stagnant period in which she finds herself, she changes her thinking and tells herself, I can absolutely find happiness