What 20 Years with Tony Robbins Taught Me (Most Replayed Personal Development Wisdom Snippets) | #597

[Agi Keramidas]
Welcome to Personal Development Mastery Podcast. This is another snippet of wisdom where I select the most insightful moments from previous episodes. Let's dive right in.

[Dave Albin]
State management. Okay, let me start with state management. It really comes down to managing your state and what you think about and proximity and your friends, right?

Another thing. So if we start with state management, managing your state every day, right? And that can come from consistency and having rituals and you get up every morning and you do this and then you do that and then you just create this beautiful life in and around those consistencies.

Doesn't mean you're not gonna have problems. It just means how I show up to that problem, right? It's like Tony used to say.

He said, listen, we're all gonna have problems, but if you maintain a good attitude and you earn money and you do all that, at least you can arrive at your problems in style, right? And then I think the other part of that is, I learned early on, why don't people get what they want in life? And they don't get what they want in life because there's a story they tell themselves of why or why they can't have it.

So in America, Henry Ford, who developed the automobile, the Ford Motor Company, I love what he said. He said, if you think you can or you think you can't, guess what, you're right. So you gotta be very, very careful what you tell yourself every day.

Tony also teaches proximity. You are who you spend time with. And he says, love your family, choose your friends.

And you better choose wisely because you will become who you spend time with. For me, back in the day when I was drinking a drug and I was hanging around pimps and prostitutes and drug dealers and drug addicts and mean, nasty people that they will hurt you, they will kill you. You can die in the streets out there.

And so, but that was my peer group. And then the next thing you know, boom, I'm over here with a bunch of people in AA. So I immediately, because they told me early on, look, you gotta change your play places, play things and play friends.

And so again, Tony's in and around all his teachings. And the other kind of a thing that he kind of taught me that led me to understand that it's kind of a generational thing, right? Cardone talks about this, Gary Vee talks about this, Wayne Dyer talked about this.

If you go back in your ancestry, if you go back 12 generations, right? That's 4,094 people that got you to here. Right now, you and I communicate.

And those 4,094 people went through all of life. The pain, the suffering, the love. 4,094 people were spread out all over this world.

Without all 4,094 of them for you and for me, we're not having this conversation. So from my perspective, again, it goes back to what I said earlier. The most important time I was born was it.

And then when I figured out why. I remember Tony talking about one time, he said, all humans have two lives, IG. And the second one starts when we realize we have only one.

And so for me, that was groundbreaking. I'm like, oh my gosh, that's it. That's it, right?

So I had breakthroughs and epiphanies all along my way, along the career. Tony and I saw some cool, awesome stuff. Like we were in Tampa one time and there was a young man down there, high school student.

He got hit by a drunk driver, lost both legs. Next thing I know, he's at a firewalk. He's there, I'm on Tony's lane, I'm shoveling, right?

Tony looks at me like, oh my gosh, I think we're gonna see something pretty amazing here in a minute. And he looks, right? And we're both looking and here comes that kid in that wheelbarrow, or excuse me, in that wheelchair.

I'm at my wheelbarrow. And all of a sudden, next thing you know, he moves himself and without any help, he goes into a handstand and he walked across the fire on his hand. And Tony and I looked at each other and tears coming down our face.

And so it's moments like that. And that's why that environment is so critical. And like when you and I were talking earlier, I'm like, yeah, immerse yourself in it, man, because you're gonna see and be part of things that you're not gonna see anywhere else in life, typically.

I don't think exactly at that level, you know what I mean? In that environment in four days. So yeah, state management from Tony, be aware of who you are and what you're doing right now and focus on all those kinds of things.

And also help others. If you help enough people get what they want in life, we always get what we want in life. And then there's one last thing that I think is critical that Tony teaches that he brought to my attention years ago and that was pay attention to your achievement, okay?

You can achieve at a high level, you can make lots of money, you can buy all the toys, you can have all this stuff. However, if it's not balanced with fulfillment, it's failure. Because I'm in his environment, I met a lot of wealthy people.

You know, lots of actors and actresses and professional athletes and Olympians and rock and roll stars and MMA fighters, you name it, cross the board, all the athletes out there. And here's the thing, from my perspective, you know, you can achieve at a high level, but if you don't learn to balance fulfillment with it, you're gonna get to the end of your life and go, that wasn't the way to do it, right?

[Agi Keramidas]
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