On My Journey To Success I Had To Figure Out, "How Do You Do That?"
By Mr. C
From book after book on creating success in your life it tells you "what to do" but not "how to do that". Here's how I solved "how to do that"...
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In my mid 20's I was on a mission to create success in my life. I knew there had to be more to life than doing the typical 9 to 5. At this point I was married and had a son who was born 6 weeks premature which forced us to move from our home town to Spokane, WA which is more of a medical community.
Bluntly, I wanted to be as much a part of my sons life as possible and didn't want to be away from my family 9 hours a day.
I read so many books on success, all of which offered a lot of great information and instructions on what to do. The problem is, they'd tell you what to do but not how to do it. There lies the problem!
I've always been an over-thinker and a deep thinker.
Fear is one of the top reasons why people fail... fear of the phone to make calls, fear of failure, fear even of success, fear of rejection, etc.
I wasn't immune to fear which became the first obstacle I had to overcome.
Fear Is The #1 Thing Stopping People From Creating Their Dream Life
Like the majority of people who want to create a better life for themselves, I had fears which held me back. There were things outside of my comfort zone which I was scared to do. Remember, I'm young, barely an adult trying figure life out and the things that needed to be done made me very anxious, even fearful.
I did many Bible studies to help me live a better life and to overcome things holding me back or affecting my life. I also read many books on success. I was determined to succeed and create a great life.
One of the biggest Bible studies I did was on fear because it stops people from creating their best life. Here are some scriptures about fear...
- Isa 41:10 So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. (NIV)
- 1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. (KJV)
- Rom 8:15 For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." (NIV)
- Ps 27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation-- whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life-- of whom shall I be afraid? (NIV)
- Ps 56:3 When I am afraid, I will trust in you. 4 In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me? (NIV)
- Matt 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. (NIV)
Fear is one of the top things holding people back from creating an amazing life. I was not going to allow fear to stop me from creating the life God intended for me.
But the Bible can be confusing, and even hard at times to put into action. As a young adult trying to figure things out, I found it hard to not be afraid just because it said to "not to fear" in the Bible... How do you do that?
Many times I thought maybe my faith wasn't strong enough questioning my faith when I couldn't shake the fears. I knew God gave us all of the answers, but I couldn't find the answer to this one.
As an adult I learned that every great book on creating success in our lives was based off the Bible so I started reading books on creating success in your life. It was book after book... Think And Grow Rich, How To Win Friends and Influence People, numerous Og Mandino books and many more. I have a heck of a book library.
Still things weren't clicking. What was I missing?
My Mission To Answering, "How Do You Do That?"
One thing I realized was all of the books I've read up to this point told you what to do, but they didn't tell you how to do it.
Book after book after reading important points in them I kept asking the same question, "How do you do that?" I prayed constantly for the answer to this question! I knew that until I figured this one thing out I would never achieve the level of success I desired in life.
You see, I wasn't born with charisma. I wasn't a born salesman. Everything I did in my life was a challenge, a struggle. I had to work for it. I had to study hard to learn how to do key things. Nothing came easy to me. Maybe you can relate.
But one thing I never did was I never gave up!
This is a big difference between me and many others... I never gave up. I may have had to study harder, spend more time learning and then constantly testing/applying what I learned and then tweaking things until I got it right and it may have taken me longer to achieve the results I was after, but I never gave up.
Because everything I did was hard for me and I had to learn how to do things, I also became a great teacher to teach others how to achieve greatness in life. Unlike the high majority of people who only tell you "what to do" I'm able to follow that with "how to do it" which is the real key to learning the skill and is the same thing I was constantly trying to figure out.
I Learned "How To Do That" In A Book...
My prayers were answered. I did finally learn "how to do that".
The answer came in a book called, "Unlimited Power" by Anthony (Tony) Robbins.
This book, "Unlimited Power", is like a text book. It's a "how-to" book to taking back control of your life. It teaches you how to use the mind/brain God gave us.
This not a book to read for entertainment value, it's a book written more like a text book to teach you how to use and harness the power in the brain God gave us. It's exactly what I needed. It was a prayer answered.
I literally dissected this book. My book has highlights and things underlined throughout it. I also took all kinds of notes.
To give you an idea of what was covered in this massive book, here's the index for the book Unlimited Power...
SECTION I: The Modeling of Human Excellence
I. The Commodity of Kings 3
II. The Difference that Makes the Difference 22
III. The Power of State 35
IV. The Birth of Excellence: Belief 53
V. The Seven Lies of Success 69
VI. Mastering Your Mind: How to Run Your Brain 83
VII. The Syntax of Success 112
VIII. How to Elicit Someone’s Strategy 125
IX. Physiology: The Avenue of Excellence 149
X. Energy: The Fuel of Excellence 166
SECTION II: The Ultimate Success Formula
XL Limitation Disengage: What Do You Want? 197
XII. The Power of Precision 216
XIII. The Magic of Rapport 230
XIV. Distinctions of Excellence: Metaprograms 253
XV. How to Handle Resistance and Solve Problems 276
XVI. Reframing: The Power of Perspective 289
XVII. Anchoring Yourself to Success 314
SECTION III: Leadership: The Challenge of Excellence
XVIII. Value Hierarchies: The Ultimate Judgment of Success 343
XIX. The Five Keys to Wealth and Happiness 371
XX. Trend Creation: The Power of Persuasion 385
XXL Living Excellence: The Human Challenge 404
Then Tony came out with a training course based off this book and I was beyond ecstatic! It was called Personal Power.
This course was so impactful in my life, I've purchased it three times... first time was on cassettes, then when they came out with it on CD's I bought it again, and then when Tony updated the course to Personal Power II I bought it again.
They've since rebranded it to just "Personal Power".
Here's an outline of what is taught in Personal Power II: (Click the header to open it up to see what you'll learn)
What You'll Learn: Days 1 - 7
Listen, learn and actually put into action these powerful success strategies:
- How to use the Ultimate Success Formula to take command of your future.
- How to speed your success by role modeling.
- How to harness the controlling forces in our lives: use pain and pleasure instead of letting them use you.
- How to erase the fears that hold you back.
- How to interrupt your present patterns of failure and condition yourself for lifetime success.
- How to use your body to create a higher state of intensity and passion in your life.
What You'll Learn: Days 8 - 14
Exercise your new knowledge and personal understanding to create change:
- How to control and direct the focus of your mind.
- How to harness the power and skills you already possess.
- How to resolve the inner conflicts that have limited your success.
- How to stop sabotaging your success and experience the joy and pleasure you deserve.
- How to make pressure work to your greatest advantage.
- How to set and achieve goals for every major area of your life.
What You'll Learn: Days 15 - 21
Experience measurable results as you put your personal powers to work:
- How to condition your mind to attract -- and keep -- all the wealth you want.
- How to avoid the silent killer -- procrastination.
- How to create consistent action toward the goals you have set.
- How to use 7 Action Strategies to achieve financial freedom.
- How to overcome your fears of failure and success.
- How to stop sabotaging your financial success.
What You'll Learn: Days 22 - 30
Enjoy unlimited success, confidence and personal power!
- How to create unstoppable self-confidence.
- How to solve problems quickly and effectively.
- How to increase the passion and intimacy of your personal relationships with Dr. Barbara de Angelis.
- How to achieve and maintain vibrant health and energy with Dr. Deepak Chopra.
- How to improve the quality of your life and career with Dr. Stephen Covey.
The Content in Details
1. Unleash Your Personal Power!
Purpose: To create a new momentum in your life for maximizing your Personal Power—the capacity to take massive, consistent, and intelligent action to produce the results you truly desire in your life. To offer you a new understanding of what controls all your thinking and actions and how you can change any aspect in your life.
CD 1: The Key to Personal Power
- The key to unleashing your own personal power
- How to take action consistently
- The Ultimate Success Formula
- How to use role models to save time and energy
* CD 2: The Controlling Force that Directs Your Life
- Why we do what we do
- How to harness the twin forces that drive all human behavior
- Why you sometimes sabotage yourself
- How to use your greatest "motivator"
2. How To Shape Your Destiny Now
Purpose: To describe how your destiny is determined and how to shape the destiny you desire using the science of Success Conditioning.
CD 3: Taking Control: The First Step
- How your destiny is determined
- The four elements of destiny
- How you can condition yourself for consistent success
CD 4: The Science of Success Conditioning: Neuro-Associative Conditioning (NAC)
- The three levels of responsibility necessary for lasting change
- The three basic elements of NAC
- How to use NAC to create massive change in your life
3. How To Get What You Really Want
Purpose: To reveal the one thing in life we all want and how you can learn to achieve it instantly at will.
* CD 5: What Everyone Wants and How You Can Get It!
- What we all want-and why
- How to develop passion in your life
- How to manage your emotions
- How to use the power of physiology
* CD 6: The Power of Focus
- How your “focus” determines what you get
- How what you represent in your mind controls your state
- How to use the power of quality questions to get what you really want
4. The Ultimate Secret To Lifelong Success
Purpose: To reveal how you can empower yourself to achieve unlimited success by clarifying your values and changing your limiting beliefs.
* CD 7: Values & Beliefs: The Source of Success or Failure
- How your values can limit or liberate you
- How your “global beliefs” and “rules” impact your life
- How to resolve the inner conflicts that have limited your success
* CD 8: How to Take Complete Control of Your Life
- How to clarify your values
- How to change your beliefs
- How to use the “Dickens Pattern” to create powerful change
5. How To Create A Compelling Future; A New Way To Set And Achieve Goals
Purpose: To guide you to set the right goals for yourself and provide you with a guaranteed plan for achieving them.
CD 9: The Power of “Why”
- How the right goals can change your life
- How to create a big enough “why” to carry you through
- How to make “pressure” work to your greatest advantage
CD 10: Creating Your Future: The Goal-Setting Workshop
- How to dream creatively
- The importance of knowing where you are now
- How to set and achieve goals for every major area of your life
6. Moving Beyond Procrastination To Unlimited Power!
Purpose: To develop your ability to take action consistently using NAC techniques—until it becomes effortless.
CD 11: Success Conditioning: The Power of Rituals
- How daily rituals increase your daily power
- How to move beyond procrastination to consistent action
- How to start each day in a peak state
CD 12: Anchoring Yourself to Success
- How your “anchors” influence your states and your behavior
- When and how to use anchoring to induce peak states
- How to free yourself of negative anchors
- How to use “swish patterns” to program yourself for success
7. How To Unleash The Financial Genius Within You
Purpose: To develop your ability to find the appropriate vehicle for building wealth by doing what you love most, doing it massively, and making sure it creates tremendous value for other people.
CD 13: How to Condition Yourself for Wealth
- The seven reasons why most people never make it financially
- Strategies for attracting, managing and sharing money
- A financial checkup to determine your “wealth wounds” and heal yourself quickly
CD 14: Ending Financial Self-Sabotage
- Begin attracting wealth today
- Eliminate financial self-sabotage
- Empowering beliefs that will lead you to financial freedom
8. Turn Fear And Self-Sabotage Into Confidence And Success
Purpose: To provide four dynamic sessions to guide you in applying NAC techniques to overcome your fears and establish unshakable self-confidence and success.
* CD 15:
- Overcoming Fears of Failure and Success
- Overcoming Fear of Rejection
* CD 16:
- Eliminating Self-Sabotage
- Creating Unstoppable Self-Confidence
9. How To Increase Your Energy; The Power of Successful Relationships
Purpose: To assist you in developing consistently high energy and experiencing the joy of successful relationships with your family, friends, and business associates.
CD 17: How to Increase Your Energy
- The first key to vibrant health and energy
- The benefits of eating water-rich foods
- How to establish a daily ritual for lifelong health
CD 18: The Power of Successful Relationships
- The two major factors that destroy relationships—and how to avoid them
- How to condition yourself to create the relationships you want
- Several powerful techniques for enhancing your relationships
10. The Final Breakthrough!
Purpose: To guide you to the final breakthrough to unlimited success, and personally challenge you to make your life a masterpiece!
* CD 19: How to Solve Problems Quickly and Effectively
- How to manage your state during problem-solving
- How to use the "What would happen if"-strategy
- Questions you can use to solve problems
CD 20: My Personal Challenge to You
- The basic life paths available to you
- The power of commitment to move you ahead
- How to make your life a masterpiece
11. Program Yourself For Total Success!
CD 21:
- Total Self-Confidence
- Vibrant Health and Energy
CD 22:
- Unlimited Financial Success
- Getting Into Action!
12. The Driving Force: The Six Human Needs; Meeting With Masters
Purpose: To make you aware of the six needs you have in common with every other human being and how to use this knowledge to achieve mastery in your life.
CD 23 & 24: The Driving Force: The Six Human Needs
- How to replace short-term leverage with the long-term drive that will give you extraordinary results
- The four classes of experience in life and how this understanding can help you stay focused and get what you really want
- How an understanding of the Six Human Needs can give you the ability to positively influence those around you
- The secret of truly effortless change-how changes can be made immediately and easily when they are tied to your deepest needs
CD 25: Meetings with Masters
- You’ll meet Dr. Stephen Covey, who will offer you valuable insights on how to improve the quality of your life and career. Then Dr. Deepak Chopra will reveal some powerful principles you can use right now to achieve and maintain optimum health. Finally, Dr. Barbara DeAngelis and Dr. John Gray will provide you with key distinctions to help you increase the passion and intimacy of your personal relationships.
For your information, I almost always see Personal Power II on Ebay for great prices. I'm telling you, if you really want to create an amazing life you should get this course and study it, do the lessons and apply it to your life.
This is a 30 day program where you do one lesson a day for 30 days. After each lesson you have an assignment to help you maximize what you just learned and to apply it to your own life. Those assignments are key because they really make you think and dig into who you are as a person and what makes you you.
What you will find is your first time through this course you'll fix the top level issues. You'll want to go through this course multiple times over the next 5 years because as you're going to find your issues go many levels deep and each time you go through this course you clean out another level.
To get a better picture of how your brain is being programmed and the things that are influencing you and creating your beliefs, go to this article of ours: "A Success-Driven Mental Attitude – The True Key To Success". This article will help you understand how you've been programmed your whole life and the things which have had the biggest impact on you.
Next to the Bible, nothing has made more of an impact in my life and my learning how to make the changes I needed to make in my life than Tony Robbins Unlimited Power book and his course.
I finally learned how to use the brain God gave me to overcome the fears that held me back. Along with this I learned about our "belief system" and how to rid myself of disempowering beliefs and how to create empowering beliefs, about our "values" and the important role they play in our life to include how to create positive values, and so much more. This is when my life really changed and my income massively grew.
Tony Robbins is who taught me how to use what God gave us.
When my son was in high school I gave him a copy of the 30 day Personal Power II course to creating success in your life. He says this was the best thing I've ever done for him because it gave him the knowledge and understanding of why people fail and how to create success in your life. He's extremely grateful for being introduced to this program.
As he also found out, success is 99% attitude (your frame of mind) and 1% skill. If you don't believe you can achieve success you won't even try.
His journey to success started early with him following a very logical pathway to great success of which he just ended the first core step to it by closing down his offline business. He made a nice 6-digit income the past 7 years, saved like crazy, invested wisely and planned out his next maneuver in life.
After 35 Years Of Studying Personal Development I've Only Ran Across One Person Who Not Only Teaches You What To Do, But HOW TO DO IT!
As far as I'm concerned, Tony Robbins was a godsend. He was a prayer answered. God gave us an incredible mind but like a computer we have to program it properly and clean out all of the viruses and malware we accumulate in our minds as we journey through life.
Tony is the only person I've ran across who teaches us how to clean our minds of the negative, disempowering things which block our ability to create greatness in our lives.
Your life is your life to do as you please. You have one life to live so make it your best life. Don't settle for mediocrity or living a life of just getting by. Life is a beautiful thing and great relationships make it that much better so take the time to learn how to have great relationships and create a successful life.
Here's the link to Tony Robbins book "Unlimited Power" and his course "Personal Power".
Create your best life, and just know that there are a lot of things influencing you and controlling your beliefs which will greatly affect the life you're living. You can learn more about this at this article: "A Success-Driven Mental Attitude – The True Key To Success".
So often in life it's what you don't know which will stop you from creating the life you desire. Never stop learning!