Harvest the Robbins materials completely - it'll change your life

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I can tell how successful a person is by the way he reads the Reawaken The Giant Within (free) book, by Tony Robbins. It can be entertaining, idea inspiring, and hopeful.  And one can "feel good" that one has read the book and is now smarter... But a person who is not successful will stop at that and not do any implementation.  The exercises will be ignored.

But I hope that you take any exercise that seems worthwhile and do it for 15 minutes only, for now, and then put it in your notebook, with a tickle to finish it (list each started but to be finished piece under "Robbins project" in your task management system or on a piece of paper in the notebook). I'm recommending the "15 minutes only approach" so that it makes it easier and more likely that the exercises will at least be started (and then in the next step, finished).

“If you’re just powering through this book, scanning and reading rapidly, or if you have many distractions, you’re not going to get the answers you need.”

                                    - Robbins, Anthony. “Re-Awaken the Giant Within.”  

Interestingly, if one is grounded in reality and in wanting to have the best life, one will spend dozens of hours of follow up on such a book, making sure that each chosen piece is actually implemented in life.

Interestingly, while Robbins is an advocate of kaizen (small and gradual improvements every day), he notes that once you get a vision of what will change your life you would best be advised to then take "massive action" to get that into place as soon as possible and as effectively as possible, without distraction or diversion.  For our purposes here, I recommend the latter approach!!!!  Take massive action!!!!

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From a rare "proactive student" of the site: 

Hey Keith...thanks for the post on Anthony Robbins!
I came across references to his work on the LMA [Keith's site] site a few weeks ago, and I've been obsessing over his videos ever since!
Such a coincidence that you should bring him up too! Thanks again!

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As I write The Self Control Book, certain things are becoming rather obvious to me.

One, as one might guess, is that the little diversions I do to "relax" myself between activities are a zero return strategy.  (If I were to seriously want to relax and restore, I would do a quick deep meditation instead.).  Instead, I will refresh myself directly and then choose to power onward with doing what actually creates value... In instituting self control, systems and routines are very effective - but first they must be designed, so you'll want to read the next post after this one.