Name: Awaken the Giant Within
ISBN: 9780743478090

Anthony Robbins

The author offers advice on such matters as mastering emotions, overcoming debilitating habits such as over-eating, drinking and drug abuse, unleashing the hidden power of body and mind, improving personal and professional relationships, and taking control of personal finances.

Awaken the Giant Within

Tony Robbins

Wake up and take control of your life! From the bestselling author of Inner Strength, Unlimited Power, and MONEY Master the Game, Anthony Robbins, the nation's leader in the science of peak performance, shows you his most effective strategies and techniques for mastering your emotions, your body, your relationships, your finances, and your life. The acknowledged expert in the psychology of change, Anthony Robbins provides a step-by-step program teaching the fundamental lessons of self-mastery that will enable you to discover your true purpose, take control of your life, and harness the forces that shape your destiny.

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

matej yangwao

** spoiler alert **
           Book starts bit basic which is okay and explain subconscious messaging in brain like pain and pleasure in easy way to grasp concept of decision making. Book sounds similar as those about intentional rewiring of your brain to something new and learn ability to change in positive way.
Good lesson how to interpret your mind through words, right words. 

I must said, book made surprise and really good bites inside, however some facts are obvious and found in others mind control books, it's worth repeat and recall them again to not miss and be the change ;)

≥Decision-making has the ability to shape our lives

≥Yet, our dreams get concealed due to the frustrations and impulses of our daily lives.

≥How can I take immediate control of my life?
• What can I do today to make a difference for myself and others?
• How can I expand, learn, grow, and share knowledge with others in a good way?

≥To achieve a visible change in your life, you have to apply the following principles consistently:
• Decide to tolerate nothing less than excellence to be able to change yourself.
• Believe that your decision is feasible.
• Find means to make your decision achievable.

≥To be in control of your life, you need to exercise authority over the way you feel, your physical health, and intra- and interpersonal relationships.

≥Your goal is carved from your decision.

≥Choose a different behavior to fill the gap of the old behavior and provide the same pleasure the old behavior gives.
• Practice the new approach over and over until it becomes natural.
• Regularly reward yourself as you make progress to keep the progress sustainable.

≥Hence, you should continually ask yourself questions that will always keep you on track to succeed. Questions like: “How can I make today contribute to my success tomorrow? What will the next 10 years of my life look like?”

≥Erase the possibility of not achieving the desired results from your mind because it tends to take you back to the beginning instead of progressing toward your goals.

≥However, it might require a change of approach for you to remain genuinely committed to your decision. Have a long-term focus.

≥Make a decision, work towards achieving it, and adhere to it. That’s how you develop your potential for decision-making and demonstrate that you are in control of your life.

≥Understanding and utilizing the power of pain and pleasure is a great way to achieve massive results.

≥Change can happen only when your threshold for pain or pleasure is crossed.

≥To effect behavioral change, you need to attach pain to the old behavior, connect pleasure to the new behavior, and make the new behavior consistent. When we feel intense sensations of pain or pleasure, anything different that occurs consistently during those moments will become neurologically linked.

≥We don’t avoid real pain, but rather we avoid what we believe will lead to pain.

≥What we link pain and pleasure to modifies our destiny, and we have the power to change this association if we desire.

≥You can harness beliefs to create and to destroy

≥It is often said that our environment has tremendous power over us to the extent of controlling our lives. In reality, the control lies in what we believe about the events that happen around us, not in the events themselves. Meaning is in people, not in the message.

≥Our actions are based on our conscious and unconscious beliefs about what gives us pleasure and what takes pain away. Beliefs are the guides that determine what we should do to generate pleasure. How we handle our thoughts can produce limiting beliefs that determine the future choices we make.

≥Beliefs are the outcome of our past experiences, whether painful or pleasurable. To be open to changes in your behavior, you must be ready to eliminate beliefs that reinforce the behavior. What you believe can either create or destroy dreams.

≥To live optimally, we must understand that there are reasons for every tragedy and make something good out of every negative experience.

≥CANI is a simple mnemonic that Robbins developed to make his life a great adventure. It stands for Constant and Never-ending Improvement. This catchphrase applies to every facet of life and requires practice to generate results. The essence of CANI is to teach yourself to handle a problem before it becomes one.

≥Making a change happen involves positioning our nervous system to succeed every time. You can do this by taking a three-step procedure:
• Believe that there is something that needs to be changed.
• See yourself as an agent of change.
• Believe that change can happen.

≥When we understand the power of our brains, we will be able to alter the sensations we link to certain experiences to provoke change. Your brain is the most powerful computer on the globe.

≥Consequently, knowing how to think is important because asking quality questions will lead to an experience of quality life.

≥Questioning changes our mindset by giving us reasons to feel better, reminds us of what we may have forgotten, and determines the resources available. Beware of asking limiting questions.

≥The words you choose determine your communication with yourself and your experience.

≥Your words carry emotional intensity. The words we use to describe our feelings eventually become our feelings because they create a biochemical effect that transmits through our minds and entire lives. So, learning to change the words you use to express your feelings will change how you experience life altogether

≥Metaphors are great because they change our perceptions of words by making them feel more pleasurable than painful. If you’re not making progress in life, you need to check your choice of metaphor and make necessary adjustments. You may be feeding negative thoughts that will affect your reality.

≥Be selective of the choice of words and metaphors you allow people to suggest to you because it will shape your destiny.

≥If you hear people suggest metaphors that limit you, reject them and get new ones that work for your belief

≥Happiness is your responsibility, and you don’t need anyone’s approval to feel good about yourself.

≥Be intentional about overcoming negative or limiting feelings.

≥Learning to modify negative emotions like discomfort, fear, hurt, anger, frustration, disappointment, guilt, inadequacy, overload, and loneliness to correspondingly positive emotions will drive you to take actions that will produce outstanding success.

≥. A way to create the habit of excellence is by changing how you think.

≥To be consistent, you need to create a master system of evaluation — factors that determine how you feel and what you do at every point in time. To determine a person’s master system, examine the following:
• Their mental or emotional state while evaluating
• The type of questions they ask
• Their ranking of emotions
• Their beliefs
• The experiences they remember easily

≥For values to stand, you need rules. Rules help you translate your values into specific actions. Thus, you will be able to maintain your values irrespective of the environment you find yourself in. Clear rules and clear values make decision-making easier.

≥To change your behavior, change your feelings.

≥Understand that anything is achievable if you’re willing to make sacrifices to get it.

≥Take control of your time rather than allowing time to control you.

≥Learn from other people’s experiences. Take time off and rest to reduce stress.

Awaken the Giant Within

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