Why You Don’t Need Tony Robbins
The king of personal success, the guru of getting rich, Tony Robbins, would love to sell you seminar tickets, books, and self-help tapes so you can Fix Your Life.
You don’t need it. You only need a few things.
- Develop a personal code of honor. Even pirates have a code. Regardless of your spiritual beliefs or lack of them, a code of honor will give you a higher purpose to live up to. Having a genuine sense of purpose will get you up in the morning.
- Don’t ever be afraid of faking it. Most people don’t have what it takes at first; even if they do have what it takes, they think they don’t. Now, I once taught some classes (er, community service, of course – pirates never do good deeds) in which I taught my students, a somewhat disadvantaged bunch, to Fake It Til You Make It. Then I made them tell me what they did, every class session, until I knew they had gotten it. You can do the same. Do you want to be a writer, an artist, a chef, a business genius? Dress and act the part. Learn everything you can. Hang around with successful people. You’ll get the feel, and you’ll start believing in yourself.
- Your personal attitude is what will determine your success. If you don’t think you can make it, you won’t. When is the last time you heard a celebrity, millionaire, or other successful person say they didn’t think they’d make it? Never, is my guess. That’s why they made it.
- Story – a captain was once piloting a ship, and trying to avoid a sandbar up the coast. He knew where it was, knew there was plenty of room, but didn’t think he could make it around. In the end, he sailed right into it. The lesson: look through the things that are obstacles in your path. You’ll be surprised at how easily you circumvent them.
- Love other people. (Of course, you should love their treasure more, but that’s beside the point.) If you bear a genuine love for your fellow man, they’ll pick up on it. That will make you friends who will help you along your road to success.
- Learn to recognize opportunities. Opportunities knock all the time. They probably dent your door. But most people don’t hear them. Start looking at every drawback as a potential opportunity. You’ll quickly start finding out how many of them really are.
OK - it’s a little bit more than that. The secret to happiness is quite simply the secret on how to change. And that, for all his toothy mockability, is Tony Robbins’ genius. He knows how to help people change, for real, for good, and relatively easily.
Basquette said this on October 2, 2006 12:05 am