Awaken the Giant Within

By Anthony Robbins

Awaken the Giant Within book

Awaken the Giant Within is a Tony Robbins classic bestseller. Written in 1992, it provides a readable overview of many of the early NLP techniques (repackaged as Neuro Associative Conditioning)

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The root of all problems is behavior. Emotional states drive behavior. Our moments of decision shape our destiny. It's not what we do occasionally that matters but what we do consistently.

The three principles of change

  1. Raise your standards and what you demand of yourself.
  2. Change limiting beliefs about how things are and what's possible.
  3. Change your way of doing things by modeling someone.

Five areas of mastery

Emotional Mastery

Just about everything we do is to change how we feel. People can disconnect from their emotions. We try to avoid emotions because we don't know how to control them.

Six steps to emotional mastery

  1. What are you really feeling.
  2. Acknowledge and appreciate your emotion.
  3. Get curious about the message - fear may be about needing more preparation.
  4. Get confident.
  5. Get certain you can handle it today, rehearse handling it in the future.
  6. Get excited and take action.

Physical Mastery

  • Health and fitness are not the same.

Relationship Mastery

  • Focusing on what you want in a relationship not on what you fear.

Financial Mastery

  • What causes scarcity in your life?
  • We often have debilitating emotions around the scarcity of money.
  • The key to wealth is to become more valuable.
  • Resources you're not using.
  • Wealth is created by distribution.
  • Spend less than you earn and invest the difference.
  • Linking pleasure to financial success.

Time Mastery

  • Time is a mental construct and the result of our mental focus.
  • You lose track of time when you don't focus on it.
  • Time seems to crawl when you are constantly checking your watch.
  • The most powerful way to compress time is to learn from other peoples experiences.
  • What are the leverage points? How can we do more with less effort?

Decisions

It’s what we do consistently that shapes our lives. Committed decisions are powerful. Make a commitment to long-term results.

Three decisions that control destiny

  1. What to focus on.
  2. What things mean to you.
  3. What to do to create the results you want.

Five factors that underlie our decisions

  1. Core beliefs and rules -- what will lead to pain and pleasure.
  2. Life values.
  3. References -- comparisons.
  4. Habitual questions.
  5. Emotional states -- enhance or stop action.

Changing what something means changes the decisions you make. Nothing in life has any meaning except for meaning you give it.

Values control the way we make decisions. All decision-making comes down to values clarification. Values evolve through lifelong conditioning -- punishment and reward. Our results are the accumulation of a host of small decisions.... Next >

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