You Have to Know What You Want Before You Can Get It
You Have to Know What You Want Before You Can Get It
The catch phrase for the positive thinking movement is to seek “the mind of the millionaire”. In theory what this means is that by learning the concepts of how to focus our positive emotions and thoughts, we too could achieve the same wealth that millionaires know. It is regrettable that so much of what the culture knows about some of the great teaching that is part of this movement, such as the writings of Anthony Robbins, is focused on that narrow goal of becoming a millionaire.
What that catch phrase really brings to light and what Anthony Robbins focuses on his writings and seminars is that we can harness the power of the mind to become goal driven and to develop the focus to achieve our hopes and dreams. Putting it that way makes the temptation to become more informed about what Anthony Robbins really teaches much more interesting. While none of us would turn down the chance to be independently wealthy, which is what “becoming a millionaire” really means, financial wealth is not all there is to using the force of your ability to focus your mind to achieve your dreams and to fulfill your destiny.
What Anthony Robbins really teaches is that we all have certain high ambitions and “dreams” that we may have once held as our destiny in life. But sometimes life with its trials and tribulations combined with failures and set backs have caused those dreams to fade and we have replaced those dreams with excuses and come to “settle for” something less than what we deserve and what we can achieve if we can recapture that dream and the passion to go after it.
It isn’t enough though to just set out on this quest to “fulfill your destiny” because that kind of platitude is not specific enough to set off your internal focus and dedication to keep pushing past diversions and set backs and sustain the focus until you achieve success. To energize that process, you need to put some flesh and blood on that dream and get specific about what success really means to you.
For one thing, knowing specifically what your goal is the first step toward knowing how to get there. Part of the process of making a far away goal become a reality in your life is an exercise called visualization. Through visualization, you literally create a very vivid mental image of how you see your goal or your deepest wish to come true. There are two big values to the exercise of visualization. The first is that when you can “see” the object of your ambitions, it becomes real in your mind and in your thoughts and emotions. That reality is the first step of bringing that goal or dream to concrete reality. In other words, if you can visualize it, that is the first step of making it real.
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The second value that visualization can bring to you is that when you can put specific and detailed imagery to your goal in life, the path to getting there often becomes very clear. When you know what you want and you know that to some degree of detail, the differences between your life now and how life will be when you have realized you dream become vividly clear. Often there is a moment when your visualization reaches a sufficient level of detail that suddenly the path between you and success becomes so clear to you that you can (and should) take a piece of paper and create a step by step plan to get you from where you are to the realization of that dream.
Once you have that broad plan of attack, each step takes on greater and greater detail. Of course, the step toward success that you need the most detail about is the first step. But when you see how to start down the road to success, you can easily create the task steps that will take you from where you are to the completion of that first step. Whether that means simply registering for some classes at the junior college or preparing to sell your home so you can move to the place where your dream to come true, visualization helps you make your plan which you can then carry out systematically as you drive toward that ultimate goal.
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You Don’t Know if You Don’t Ask
You Don’t Know if You Don’t Ask
“What if?”
That is a pretty powerful two-word question. But this is the type of question that we can learn how to ask again from the teachings of Anthony Robbins. In fact, the art of asking questions is at the heart of the Robbins message. But the questioning talents that we can learn from a seminar or book by Anthony Robbins are just that – skills. They are questions that are carefully designed to help us turn around the way we think and the way we react to life so we turn ourselves into winners who are on an upward path toward success.
Using this technique of employing questions will empower you in how you react to what life dishes out. It is both a different way of reacting to daily occurrences and a discipline that will cause a remarkable change in how you think and even in how you behave. That is because the kinds of questions you learn to pose to yourself are questions that challenge you to bigger and better things. And when those questions replace negative statements, you are laying a path to success.
An example will go a long way. Suppose you want to get into a certain school which will enable you to achieve a dream job of yours. After sending off for the application materials, you get back the package from the school and there are a lot of requirements of you to even qualify to get into the school. And by the nature of the entrance requirements, you suspect that you might have a hard time being a success once you got accepted to attend the school.
There is a natural reaction you might have which is to make a decisive statement to yourself like, “I will never be able to qualify to even start going to the school”. But that is a negative declarative statement that we sometimes use to prepare ourselves to accept defeat. The Anthony Robbins method would have us turn that around and replace that negative declarative statement with one or two questions such as
“What do I have to do to get started on the application process?”
“How great would it be to even complete the application requirements?”
“What is to stop me from getting started?”
You can see from these questions that they are enabling questions. These questions take you an opposite direction from the negative self-talk you naturally are inclined to use which give you permission to not try and by not trying, to fail. These questions open the door for success. They both ask that age old question of “why not?” and they put a challenge at your feet to at least take the first step on that long road to success.
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You can see the genius that Robbins has built into this kind of self enabling question asking. This is a middle ground between simple positive thinking and negative self-talk that is so paralyzing. Positive thinking would have you make a positive affirmation like “I can get into that school if I can visualize myself getting in.” But even if you discover sufficient faith inside yourself to believe positive affirmations, simple positive affirmations miss the boat in one important way. They do not empower you to take action and begin the path to success one step at a time.
Positive questions like in our example are grounded in the firm belief that you can succeed at the goal that is ahead of you. But they go to the next level of challenging yourself to discover how to be a success. By turning each negative statement you might feel into a positive question, you enable your own active participation in your success. You are not just going to hold your breathe and believe in “The Secret” or any other external force that is working on your behalf. While those forces are at work, you are doing the best thing you can do to empower the law of the universe to work for you. You are taking action by empowering yourself with action questions that say
“How hard is it to get started?” and
“Why can’t I do the first step right now?”
In that way you are off and running on the path of success before you know it. And once you get some of the work of achieving that success behind you, your momentum will make you unstoppable.
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Why You Changing Your Life is Good for Your Kids
Why You Changing Your Life is Good for Your Kids
One of the great values that you get from learning the principles taught by Anthony Robbins is how to focus on what really matters to you in life and to set your priorities correctly. But there is a disconnect between understanding what your priorities are and being able to do something about them. Too often we give lip service to the areas of life that deserve most of your attention and actually giving those areas priority time and energy every day.
This is especially true when it comes to your family and raising kids. If you wrote the top five priorities in your life, your children and family life would rank high in that short list. Most of us are concerned about our children. Worry about whether you are doing a good job being mom or dad ranks as one of the biggest concerns most adults worry about every day.
We know that the best thing you can do for your kids is to give them not only your quality time but quantity time with you. If you could plug in with your children for several hours a day, you would understand them better and be better able to speak to their hopes and fears and guide them at each stage of their lives. Moreover, if the communication lines were stronger with your kids, you would not worry as much about whether you were doing a good job as a parent because you would know what is going on with your children. And that is what good parents do.
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As odd as it may seem, the answer to how to fix the problem of real versus real priorities may lie in the teachings of Anthony Robbins. The heart of what Robbins teaches is first to understand and document what your real priorities are in life. But Robbins doesnt stop there. Instead, he goes to the next level of identifying what are the enemies of your time and what is getting in the way of making your stated priorities your real priorities which get your quality time each day.
If you evaluate each hour of your day, you know what is robbing you of your time. Of course, you do have to do your job and take care of the concerns of life. But what Robbins teaches is that we often allow hobbies, social engagements that do not contribute to our core priorities and distractions to take away from the time we give to what is really important including time with your kids.
A good example is phone calls. Suppose you set aside two hours to just be with your children to play with them, help them with their homework or talk to them about things that are on their minds. But that phone just keeps on ringing. Each time it rings it might be a member of your parents association, someone from the church, a solicitor or someone else who wants fifteen minutes of your evening for what is to you a non-priority conversation. But you can make a decision that the only kinds of phone call that will get any of your priority time are emergencies. By investing in a simple caller ID system, you can know who is calling you. And then you just need the discipline not to answer calls that are not emergencies during the hours you have set aside for your kids.
By using tools and the discipline you learn from Anthony Robbins, you can give your children the time they deserve from you. And when you do that and you become the parent you really want to be, your life will change and so will your children’s lives for the better. That is a wonderful outcome of learning the power of focus from Anthony Robbins teachings.
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