Book Byte #182 "Awaken the Giant Within" by Tony Robbins

How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

📣 Curious Quotes from the Author

“Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.”

“Know that it’s your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.”

”It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.”

“Enjoy making decisions. You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever: the very next person you stand behind in line or sit next to on an airplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you’ve been waiting for to fall into place. If you really want your life to be passionate, you need to live with this attitude of expectancy.”

“In life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know.”

“Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.”

“One belief that I’ve developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God’s delays are not God’s denials.”

“Why not make cheerfulness, outrageousness, playfulness a new priority for yourself? Make feeling good your expectation. You don’t have to have a reason to feel good—you’re alive; you can feel good for no reason at all!”

“Three decisions that we all control each moment of our lives: what to focus on, what things mean, and what to do in spite of the challenges that may appear to limit us.”

“Your brain can’t tell the difference between something you vividly imagine and something you actually experience.”

📚 Cognition of the Book’s Big Idea

Tony Robbins' self-help book "Awaken the Giant Within" focuses on giving people the tools they need to take charge of their life by managing their relationships, money, health, and emotions. Robbins stresses the significance of taking decisive action, defining and attaining objectives, and embracing powerful ideas and ideals. The book presents doable methods for changing routines and behaviors, such as the effectiveness of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and the influence of conditioning on behavior and identity.

Robbins also explores the importance of pain and pleasure as motivating factors, proposing that people can effect long-lasting change by linking pain to poor actions and pleasure to favorable ones. He talks about how important it is to act decisively, hold oneself to a high level, and never stop developing. "Awaken the Giant Within" seeks to empower readers to realize their full potential and lead happy, purposeful lives through stories, activities, and motivational insights.

🤝Collaborative Insight for Techies

The power of these three questions is crazy, because they are always things we can always control:

What to focus on?
What things mean?
What to do in spite of the challenges that may appear to limit us?

If realizing that these 3 immutable questions are one of the few things we can actually control in this life, we’d all be a to better off than we are yesterday.

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