Anthony Robbins - Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement

If you read one book this year to help you become more successful, this is it. I have never seen a more powerful technology or a more powerful communicator. He walks his talk.

Scott Degarmo
Editor-in-Chief
Success Magazine

A comprehensive and intelligent success achievement program for setting and following through with personal and professional goals.

Publishers Weekly

Unlimited Power is a great way to be mentally and emotionally fit for life.

Harvey and Marilyn Diamond
Authors of Fit For Life

Robbins is a persuasive communicator who spends more linage on step-by-step details of his recommendations than in selfboosterism. This approach could attract considerable readership from dedicated self-helpers.

The Kirkus Reviews

The hottest trend in the human potential movement since est.

East/West Journal

The New Science of Personal Achievement

Anthony Robbins

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The Library of Congress has catalogued the Simon & Schuster edition as follows:
Robbins, Anthony.
Unlimited power: the new science of personal achievement / by Anthony
Robbins.
p. cm.
1. SuccessPsychological aspects. 2. Neurolinguistic programming
Popular works. I. Title.
BF637.S8 R56 1986
158.1dcl9 86-10165

ISBN 0-671-61088-0
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eISBN 978-1-4165-8637-1

The author wishes to express his thanks and appreciation to the following who granted permission to use the following material:

A Boy of Unusual Vision 1985, the Baltimore Sun, printed with per-mission of the Baltimore Sun. The story was written by Alice Steinbach, Pulitzer-Prize winner for feature writing in 1985.

Artemas Cole for Ten Salads cartoon 1985. Reprinted with permission of Artemas Cole. Originally appeared in New Woman.

Harper & Row for permission to quote from In Search of Excellence by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr.

Bill Hoest for Call the Cat, Harry cartoon 1981. Reprinted courtesy of Bill Hoest.

Jay Milton Hoffman, N.D., Ph.D., for permission to quote from The Missing Link in the Medical Curriculum Which Is Food Chemistry in Its Relationship to Body Chemistry, printed by Professional Press Publishing Company, 13115 Hunza Hill Terrace, Valley Center, CA 92082.

Hank Ketcham for DENNIS THE MENACE used by permission of Hank Ketcham and by News America Syndicate.

The Federal Express story, as related by William Lackey, was used with permission from Skip Lackey.

W. W. Norton for permission to quote from Anatomy of an Illness by Norman Cousins 1979 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Material used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Simon & Schuster for permission to quote from The Mind/Body Effect by Herbert Benson 1979 by Simon & Schuster.

Simon & Schuster for permission to quote from Life-Tide by Lyall Watson 1979 by Lyall Watson.

United Feature Syndicate, Inc., for permission to use PEANUTS cartoon 1960 United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

Universal Press Syndicate for permission to use ZIGGY cartoon. Copyright, 1985, Universal Press Syndicate. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.

Warner Bros., Inc., for permission to reprint portions of the lyric It's Alright Ma (Im Only Bleeding) by Bob Dylan 1965 Warner Bros., Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Dedicated to the greatest power within you, your power to love, and to all those who help you share its magic

Most of all for me, to Jairek, Joshua, Jolie, Tyler, Becky, and my Mom

As I began to think of all the people to whom I would like to express my appreciation for their support, suggestions, and hard work in making this book possible, the list continued to grow. First, I would like to thank my wife and family for creating an environment where I could let the creative juices flow at any hour of the day or night and have my ideas received by sympathetic ears.

Then, of course, there were the combined efforts of the outstanding editing on my brainstorms by Peter Applebome and Henry Golden. At various stages of development, the suggestions of Wyatt Woodsmall and Ken Blanchard were extremely valuable. The book could never have come into being without the efforts of Jan Miller and Bob Asahina, who, along with the staff at Simon & Schuster, hung in there with me in those final hours of last-minute changes.

The teachers whose personalities, methods, and friendships have affected me mostfrom my early communications development with Mrs. Jane Morrison and Richard Cobb to Jim Rohn, John Grinder, and Richard Bandlercan never be forgotten.

Thanks also to the art, secretarial, and research staff who worked hard under deadline pressures: Rob Evans, Dawn Aaris, Donald Bodenbach, Kathy Woody, and, of course, Patricia Valiton.

And last but not least, special thanks to the Robbins Research corporate staff, center managers, and the hundreds of promotional staff members around the country who daily support me in getting our message out to the world.

When Tony Robbins asked me to write the foreword for Unlimited Power, I was very pleased for several reasons. First of all, I think Tony is an unbelievable young man. Our first meeting came in January 1985, when I was in Palm Springs to play golf in the Bob Hope Desert Classic Pro-Am Tournament. I had just left a typical golfer's happy hour at the Rancho Las Palmas Marriott, where everyone was competing for the days bragging rights. On our way to dinner, a friend of mine from Australia, Keith Punch, and I passed a sign announcing Tony Robbin's Firewalk Seminar. Unleash the power within you, read the sign. I had heard of Tony, and my curiosity was piqued. Since Keith and I had already had a drink, and we did not want to take any chances, we decided we could not walk across the coals, but we did decide to attend the seminar.

For the next four and a half hours, I watched Tony mesmerize a large crowd made up of business executives, housewives, doctors, lawyers, and the like. When I say mesmerize, Im not referring to any black magic. Tony had everyone on the edge of their seats with his charisma, charm, and the depth of his knowledge of human behavior. It was the most exhilarating and uplifting seminar I have ever attended in twenty years of involvement in management training. At the end, everyone but Keith and me walked across a fifteen-foot bed of hot coals that had been burning throughout the evening. And all without injury. It was a sight to see and an uplifting experience for everyone.