I’ve just finished watching a 20 minute video at Ted.com… AGAIN, this time I took notes! Ted has become one of my favorite resources for good stuff and shaping my perspective on the world. Yesterday a dear friend sent me on a link to a clip by Tony Robbins that is absolutely smashing!!
Tony Robbins coaches the best of the best in the world and although I’ve never been highly exposed to his teachings directly, I have benefited greatly through his followers as have we all.
In this clip the room is full of some of the world’s best citizens, major contributors and successful already by anyone’s standards. It’s really true, learning never stops as long as we’re breathin’, there’s always more to know and contribute to!
Tell me if you know who it is in the front row that cracks Tony and the audience up completely and notice how Tony gives it right back to him!
Why We Do What We Do, And How Can We Do It Better
As I listened I was entertained and expanded. I was reminded once again of the absolute importance of feeling good in as many moments as is consciously possible, and the tremendous significance of growing myself first. I realized that in making my growth a priority that I have created the perfect life to do nothing else but experience life and grow because of it while all my needs are handled. I definitely recognize “The Art Of Fulfillment” in my life as one of my greatest obsessions.
The accumulation of 20 minutes of learning here and there daily adds up over a decade! If I had to attribute my success to one single thing it would be that I simply kept “showing up” in the right places at the right times.
I have no idea what the next evolution of Me looks like and although I have a sense of what my “destiny” is, it is still unfolding. I’ve learned to “do what it takes” to put myself in the teachable space with others I aspire to be more like. I have access to the best coaches and teachers on the planet! Just by being there with them I am expanded and refreshed in my passion and drive for life.
I am left asking the same questions, “How can I contribute bigger or better? What gives me the most joy right now?” Just re-asking these questions from time to time keeps me in the now and causes movement forward in all aspects of my life.
Here’s the bullets that caught my attention:
- I’m into “immersion” – how did you learn language?
- What drives you TODAY? We are not our past.
- With our minds we can do anything.
- We can only feel so much alone
- Decision is the ultimate power.
- The defining factor is never resources, it’s resourcefulness.
- Emotional Fitness – there are 6000 English words to name emotions, typically we experience less than 12 in an average week and half of those make us feel like shit.
- Uncertainty is significant and essential – it’s why violence will always be around. We love only the good surprises and call the bad ones problems.
- If you get a pet, get a dog.
- Fulfillment comes from the needs of the spirit not the needs of the personality.
- The reason we grow is so that we have something to give of value.
- The greatest need is to contribute beyond ourselves.
- The secret of living is giving.
- Follow your calling.
- Imagine if your beliefs guarantee you can never get to where you want to go?
- If you didn’t lose someone [something] today, your focus is to serve someone else.
- Explore your web, the web in your head, the needs the beliefs the emotions that are controlling you for 2 reasons. So there’s more of you to GIVE – for your own fulfillment – and so that you can appreciate what’s driving other people.
- It’s the only way our world is really going to change!
