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and I wonder if I look at this
differently what if I look at what have
I done in my life during my most
difficult times and this might be useful
for you to kind of look at your own life
and say when I was in the toughest times
I was able to pull myself through how do
they do it what were some of the
elements that made the biggest
difference in your life when you did
those turnarounds when you made it
through whatever was your toughest stuff
the first thing I believe you got to do
to turn yourself around it’s really take
control of your mind or specifically you
got to feed and strengthen the mind the
mind is an interesting place isn’t it I
mean fear can take us over uncertainty
kind of unleashes all these thoughts but
make a start to the lead very often that
things will always be bad that we’ll
never be able to turn it around or that
we don’t have the capability it’s just
the nature of those inner voices and
everybody feels at times now maybe
you’re not feeling it right now but I’m
sure there times that you have so to
take control of your focus what do you
do well then I was told all sudden I had
a tumor or way back when when I’m on my
own trying to figure out what to do I
realized that somehow to take control of
my mind how to feed it that if I didn’t
feed my mind I’d you know I’ll be living
on the weeds that came around me I mean
today if all you do is you know pick up
your phone you’ve got all kinds of
messages they’re gonna get your full
attention or flip on Google and check
out the news or watch CNN or whatever it
is you do it’s constantly coming at us
one of my first teacher Jim Rohn taught
me something years ago he’s a Tony
everyday you got to stand guard at the
door of your mind he said you know I’ll
give you a good lesson he said think
about this what if your worst enemy in
the whole world came and brought some
sugar in your coffees what would happen
to you
I was just a 17 year old kid just
getting started and I said what do you
mean I’d have sweet sugar he said that’s
right he said what if your best friend
with the best intention in the world
drop one drop of strychnine in your
coffee I said I’d be dead that’s right
so remember life is both sugar and
strychnine and you better stand guard at
your coffee stand guard at the door of
your mind because things get in there
you start to accept them they start to
become beliefs you start to make up
meanings
to take over your life my fastest way of
providing that when I was first
brand-new you know just trying to figure
out what to do with my life was to read
and I was poor I was really sleeping in
my car so I named she enough to remember
when there wasn’t to internet and when I
would go to the library and I’ll go to
the library and my whole goal was speed
to mine
be in mine for at least an hour minimum
a day and sometimes more than that where
I would read somebody’s biography I read
the story of somebody who went to some
unbelievably difficult time and how they
turn it around and it gave me
perspective or I read a book like as a
man thinketh if you haven’t read it it’s
worth reading again and again you can
read the book in about 20 minutes or I
read man’s search for meaning where all
of a sudden Viktor Frankl a man who is
literally living at that time and uh SH
wits losing all of his family and he
figured out how to make it through that
time and add value these story these
things fed my mind something nutritious
something strong if we are what we eat
we are what we read we are what we
listen to
later on I think I to feed my mind you
know about understand the ideas about
health principles and how people who
turn themselves around without tumors
who had cancer I did the same thing most
of my life starting one of seventeen by
listening to audio tapes I went out I
was constantly feeding my mind I didn’t
let or hope that a good I’m good idea
when in a you know in a rock near
interjected self up on me I knew a great
idea how to be pursued I had to go after
it I had a speed and strength in my mind
every single day so I did with audio
tapes I did it with books and I did it
by literally doing incantations saying
to myself something over and over again
with such intensity to my mind began to
believe it so reading listening feeding
your mind is the first step to get out
of that place of uncertainty and start
to recap into your real ability to
thrive in any environment
what’s the second key well number two is
you got to feed and strengthen your body
as simple as that sounds if you’ve been
around any of my work at all you know I
believe physiology first sometimes even
try to feed your mind you can see in it
but those thoughts keep coming back
what’s going to change that line faster
anything else so radical change in your
body a radical shift in your physiology
how do you do it well then
when times are really uncertain fear
kicks in
what is fear here’s something quite
physical to take the hold of you when
it’s really daring intense we’ve all had
that gut level fear that dark night of
the soul at times I feels like I know
nothing’s going to work so how do you
turn it around yeah you feed your mind
but you also strengthen that body when
the last time you really push yourself
you went on a run a slight jog or walk
but at the end you pushed yourself for
that last two minutes five minutes
whatever it was to you felt like your
heart was pumping up I gonna spit out
blood where there was an intensity in
you I know he sound over the top but
that’s what I turned myself around way
back then when I was literally just
starting my journey I was 38 pounds
heavier than I am now and I start to
feed my mind but it wasn’t enough I had
a really feed my body and why I did is I
decided to go on this run I picked up
you know these in those days I had set
tapes and then that’s how ancient I am
sorry of time there was a time before
you know iPods or anything of that
nature I listened to this song this
cassette tape was by this group and it
was a female group cold heart the song
was Barracuda never forget and I went
out there and I decided to go on a run
man run for god only knows how long you
know years a nice big fat belly but
again I push myself so hard I had
nothing left I pushed myself even more
and when that blood started rushing in
me when that was pumping in my brain in
my body or go out and lift weights go
and push yourself and feel yourself out
to force through whatever was your
limitation before when that gets inside
you that physical strength again that
sense breaking through every part of you
starts to operate differently your body
changes so does your mind what’s the
third cake well that third step is you
got to get a role model that inspires
you and really shows you the way one of
the biggest things that will change you
once you’re mentally and physically
strong is you need to believe you need
to not just have a sense of certainty
but you got to believe that there is a
pathway to get to where you want to be
whatever it is you want to change
whether it be your body your mind your
emotions your finances your relationship
you need a role model so for example
last October I realize I only had a few
minutes to be on television how do I get
these people to think they lost their
nest
we’ll never come back to not just think
I’m being positive but show them a real
example that’s what a role model s is I
should say it’s a real example so I
thought well the best example is just
show them history so at that time you
know the interviewed me and they said
well many stocks have gone from $80 and
the last few months they’re down to $8 I
said well let me tell you the good news
and the bad news
some of those $8 stocks are going to be
$5 or 2 or $1 many of they’re going to
go to 75 cents and you know people want
to pull back and saying well that’s not
very positive I said well here’s what’s
positive if you study the patterns of
history if you look back to what
happened the 1930s if you see what
happened to 1970s during that time as
well when the market went through this
huge crash in the depression or in the
70s there was a period of time not that
long afterwards when there was this big
growth a neat dollar stock that went
down to a dollar or 75 cents didn’t make
it back to $80 right away that took
decades but 75 cents doc have been $80
or 50 or 60 we go from 75 cents to $5
literally in a month or two or three
it’s happened twice before it’s happened
to during this same pattern there’s a
role model for this that means you would
go from 75 cents to 5 dollars that’s a
2,000 percent increase
that’s a greater return and most
investors will see over their entire
lifetime it could happen to two or three
months you can make it back now I said
but I don’t know if now’s the time to
jump in I just know that time is coming
you gotta study it and then you know I
told investors look at Sir John
Templeton he just passed away a few
months before I have fortune enough to
know him you don’t know the name is one
of the greatest investors in history and
he became an investor a billionaire I
should say by being an investor he
started with $10,000 how do you do that
he did it because he believed you make
all your money at times of maximum
pessimism that was his role model in
1939 the depression is going on Hitler
invades Poland and he’s in a place where
all Huck is breaking loose and he took
his ten thousand dollars being invested
and all he could in the stock market
bought stock the cost of dollar many of
these stocks were near bankruptcy but
what do you think happened after
learn things got back to normal this
season always comes back he became a
billionaire from those investments he
invested in Japan when no one would
invest in Japan no role model would do
that there they just got bombed the
country’s down to mud and dirt
he bought things her pains that grew and
he sold them for a huge profit if you’re
looking to make your business successful
today you’re trying to say how do I do
this in this tight economy look around
it role models who around you is still
doing well there are people you just
gotta find them look at Zappos topless
is a company that only a few years ago
was sitting around in a garage and in
this economy they’re thriving selling
shoes they’re gonna do a billion dollars
this year or better yet if you’re just
feeling like you lost your job you know
you’ve lost your home
you’ve lost your income your nest egg or
you’re facing just unbelievable
challenge then look at somebody like a
Nick V if you don’t know I’m talking
about go to my blog and watch a video of
him I’m shortening his name it’s very
hard to pronounce his name I’ll be
respectful but I’ve got his whole story
there you can watch it here’s a guy that
was born with no arms and no legs I mean
literally he can’t dress himself can’t
mood can’t feed himself he wondered he
died he was totally depressed and then
one day he figured out a different way
of looking at life he somehow began to
strengthen his mind and body and he got
a different role model what was possible
inside of himself and now he inspires
people all over the world little kids
who think they have a big problem adults
if they have a big problem need here we
go how does he even make a phone call
you know and you’ll see him do it he’s
got like one little webbed foot please
go see it you’ll be inspired we all need
contrast sometimes not only role models
of how to get it done and be successful
but role models how to deal with our
problems and our challenges so get a
role model that will inspire you and
show you the way and a 40 now is you’ve
got to get a proven plan and you got to
take massive action don’t worry about a
proven plan there are lots of role
models hopefully I’ll prove it to you
but get a plan do something I tell
people all the time you just gotta
remember the power of massive action so
often in life people don’t begin the
journey because they’re not quite sure
what to do
how to do it right and how to do it
perfect you want to change your body get
yourself moving don’t wait for the
perfect trainer just growing up here
move put on your shoes and move and get
momentum
just remember progress equals happiness
if you can start to make progress and
you get yourself going it’s not perfect
if it doesn’t work you know what to do
just change your approach that doesn’t
work change your approach but if there’s
anything that’ll shift your life it’ll
get you to thrive in a difficult
situation it takes a massive action try
something else
change it try it move it I wanted on
this but respectful to your time so let
me give you the final key number five
five I think is the most important ball
so just to remind you first thing you
got to do is feed and strengthen that
mind we’ve listened see the mind take
control of that focus stand guard and
what other people are saying focus on
what it is you’re here to give what you
can control what you can make happen
number two feed and strengthen that body
remember fear uncertainty is physical
experiences so the best way to deal with
something physical to get physical
change that body go lifts and weights go
for that run do something that’s going
to get you in that state you’ve been to
our seminars you know exactly what you
do but get that our power going that 15
minutes to thrive so if you’re familiar
with that to train your body and mind to
be strong again number three and sure
you put yourself in that position where
you find a role model it’s going to
inspire you and show you that way maybe
it’s a contrasting role model you think
your life so tough times somebody with
tougher who’s really turned it around or
maybe it’s just somebody who’s really
succeeded but you can now see there is a
way there’s a way through there’s a way
to make this happen even in the toughest
times there’s always a way for make sure
you get yourself into action get a plan
take massive action and the number five
most importantly of all of them feed
your spirit feed and strengthen your
spirit and there’s only one way to do
that it’s to find what you’re grateful
for and to take time whether it be
prayer for you or just taking a moment
to think about what is it so lucky in
life there’s there’s a rejuvenation in
our spirit when we stop taking things
for granted and when most importantly
what feed your spirit is to give to find
a way to do something for someone else
who’s worse off than you are
because what is this all about it’s
about strength and it’s about
perspective it’s about action it’s about
emotion it’s about heart and so many
people you know miss the opportunity to
feel like their life makes a difference
I’m a big believer that motive does
matter but why you do something people
can feel that people may be skeptical
they may have their judgments or their
fears – they’ve been through so much but
in my experience ultimately while you’re
doing something people fee on it you’re
doing this because some part of you
knows that you’re here in life not just
to get but to give then there’s a spark
that happens at other people because
they feel the genuineness of that and
there’s a spark that happens and you
could remind you what you’re made for
and you know I’m telling you this now
and I shared this with you because I
want to give you some tools but also
because I want to invite you to
participate in something Thanksgiving is
coming and it’s supposed to be a time of
giving thanks ok but unfortunately for a
lot of people what we’re finding is it’s
just about eating turkey or you know
eating so much and go and watching the
ballgame and forgetting what the spirit
of holidays really about many of you who
know me probably know the story what’s
happened to my life and why I’m sharing
this with you right now because when I
was 11 years old my family and young
brother and sister I’m the oldest and my
father and my mother we were to
Perdition where my father lost his job
we had no money and no food and we
wouldn’t starve certainly we’re going to
have a Thanksgiving dinner that’s for
sure and it was depressing and my father
was saying things to my mother and
mother was saying things to my father
that you know you never forget and you
can ever take back and we were in this
psychological emotional hole and it felt
like nothing to get better and what
changed my life was a simple act of
kindness somebody who to this day I must
even think about skill so why I want to
talk to you today um to the stand on who
it was but they decided our newer family
I guess and they said a guy and delivery
guy to knock on the door and you know my
cats were fighting so I answered the
door
and there’s this coal man standing on
this big box of food everything you can
imagine for this holiday and beside them
on the ground was this black pan with an
uncooked turkey in it he said as your
father here and that’s just one moment I
quickly went over and grabbed my dad and
didn’t tell him who was at the door just
you got to answer he got to answer it
and open the door and and unfortunately
my father didn’t take in the gift he was
angry so you know we don’t accept
charity was very intense about it and it
was a it was a seminal experience in my
life because I wanted to celebrate and
ultimately it became a celebration for
the rest of my family my father didn’t
take in the fact that strangers can care
that strangers could really look out for
you that there could be an opportunity
for you to take in a gift in life and my
father certainly after that experience
left our family it was one of the more
intense moments of my life but the
beauty that came out of that event is
the reason why I’m here right now I’m
not just talking to you and this
conversation you’re on the internet but
the reason I do what I do is because I
was penetrated by this kindness because
the meaning I gave it was that strangers
care as strangers care about me that I
care about strangers I got to find a way
to give back and I promised I’d find a
way to do that and so a time I was 17
years old I figured how to do it I
wasn’t real successfully and as you
might guess but I thought I was going to
see two families and I went to the
grocery store and I got two baskets and
I went around and put enough food you
know for two different families to have
this incredible dinner and I started the
journey and I began by feeding the
family with five kids who I had no clue
but the father had left and it was it
was destiny for me next year I decided
it was so moving and emotional I was
going to feed four families and I didn’t
tell anybody and next year eight I
wasn’t doing it for stars on my chart
but eventually eventually I thought God
I could use some help so I got my
friends involved and gradually through
some of my small companies and my
employer got involved and really proud
to tell you that you know 30 plus years
later today we’re in a situation now
where through the foundation together
with people like yourself we gave more
than three million people last year in
32 countries
so my final kind of offering to my
invitation
come join me let’s go on touch some
souls let’s go out on Thanksgiving and
let’s see if we can just touch it it
doesn’t take I don’t want your money I
mean welcome to sends the money
foundation if you want but that’s not
what this is about what I really wanted
you to have the experience of reach on
touching a stranger for no good reason
except that’s right because I know what
that will do to your spirit if you’re
successful it’s going to make you feel
something more than success it’ll give
you a life more meaning if you’re facing
some real challenges and you into a
place like when I went down to South
Bronx I’ve never forgotten you know
entering a place that no electricity
where people were literally starving or
a man who was literally on the streets
and we brought in this big basket it was
beautiful and getting blankets and socks
and food and I literally jumped out of
the van I was with this amazing man from
the Salvation Army was driving around
and jumped out handed this big basket to
huge basket this man and I mean first he
just looked shocked then he started get
this big smile but he got teary eyed
when I was there leaving there was this
moment you never forget you can do this
you can do this by yourself you can do
this with couple family members you can
just do two baskets of food where feels
like a gift well it’s not a handout like
my father expected but really a gift or
it feels like a present something
special and if all you do is go to every
Robbins foundation.org Matthew Robbins
foundation.org you can put yourself in
there and say I’d like to be a
coordinator for a basketball game even
if it’s just you and they’ll send you a
little booklet how to do it we have a
little book called notes for a friend
which is this tiny little book I wrote
show somebody how to turn their life
around you can give that or you can just
give food or you could do this with your
family you can do this with your company
and get that spirit back inside your
company with the employees and do it
really easily or all over the country
and all over the world we have large
basket brigades where people come
together and you could join a group
that’s going to do this so this is my
invitation I sent this video to you
hopefully during the holidays hopefully
have some value to you to remind you and
what I know you know you can thrive no
matter what the obstacle no matter what
the economy no matter what the challenge
the fundamentals are really basic and
you can take that control of your life
and if you’re doing well it’s to say to
you man you and I if we’re doing well we
have responsibilities gifts um
not only responsible even an opportunity
so thanks for listening for so long
Elizabeth I was refined emotional but it
doesn’t matter how many decades I’ve
been a part of this there are people out
there suffering people out there that
you could touch and I’m one of those
people that got touched I’m here because
of it and I think I’ve been able to help
lots of people in my life because of
those challenges because of someone
caring and I know you care too he was
still when you watching this crazy video
so thank you for watching and please go
to Anthony Robbins foundation org and
join me in the basket brigade or do
something to make this Thanksgiving
different or more meaningful and I hope
this has been helpful to you and your
life in some way and again I appreciate
your time and I look forward hopefully
our paths cross again sometime soon till
then live strong live with passion and god bless you
and I wonder if I look at this
differently what if I look at what have
I done in my life during my most
difficult times and this might be useful
for you to kind of look at your own life
and say when I was in the toughest times
I was able to pull myself through how do
they do it what were some of the
elements that made the biggest
difference in your life when you did
those turnarounds when you made it
through whatever was your toughest stuff
the first thing I believe you got to do
to turn yourself around it’s really take
control of your mind or specifically you
got to feed and strengthen the mind the
mind is an interesting place isn’t it I
mean fear can take us over uncertainty
kind of unleashes all these thoughts but
make a start to the lead very often that
things will always be bad that we’ll
never be able to turn it around or that
we don’t have the capability it’s just
the nature of those inner voices and
everybody feels at times now maybe
you’re not feeling it right now but I’m
sure there times that you have so to
take control of your focus what do you
do well then I was told all sudden I had
a tumor or way back when when I’m on my
own trying to figure out what to do I
realized that somehow to take control of
my mind how to feed it that if I didn’t
feed my mind I’d you know I’ll be living
on the weeds that came around me I mean
today if all you do is you know pick up
your phone you’ve got all kinds of
messages they’re gonna get your full
attention or flip on Google and check
out the news or watch CNN or whatever it
is you do it’s constantly coming at us
one of my first teacher Jim Rohn taught
me something years ago he’s a Tony
everyday you got to stand guard at the
door of your mind he said you know I’ll
give you a good lesson he said think
about this what if your worst enemy in
the whole world came and brought some
sugar in your coffees what would happen
to you
I was just a 17 year old kid just
getting started and I said what do you
mean I’d have sweet sugar he said that’s
right he said what if your best friend
with the best intention in the world
drop one drop of strychnine in your
coffee I said I’d be dead that’s right
so remember life is both sugar and
strychnine and you better stand guard at
your coffee stand guard at the door of
your mind because things get in there
you start to accept them they start to
become beliefs you start to make up
meanings
to take over your life my fastest way of
providing that when I was first
brand-new you know just trying to figure
out what to do with my life was to read
and I was poor I was really sleeping in
my car so I named she enough to remember
when there wasn’t to internet and when I
would go to the library and I’ll go to
the library and my whole goal was speed
to mine
be in mine for at least an hour minimum
a day and sometimes more than that where
I would read somebody’s biography I read
the story of somebody who went to some
unbelievably difficult time and how they
turn it around and it gave me
perspective or I read a book like as a
man thinketh if you haven’t read it it’s
worth reading again and again you can
read the book in about 20 minutes or I
read man’s search for meaning where all
of a sudden Viktor Frankl a man who is
literally living at that time and uh SH
wits losing all of his family and he
figured out how to make it through that
time and add value these story these
things fed my mind something nutritious
something strong if we are what we eat
we are what we read we are what we
listen to
later on I think I to feed my mind you
know about understand the ideas about
health principles and how people who
turn themselves around without tumors
who had cancer I did the same thing most
of my life starting one of seventeen by
listening to audio tapes I went out I
was constantly feeding my mind I didn’t
let or hope that a good I’m good idea
when in a you know in a rock near
interjected self up on me I knew a great
idea how to be pursued I had to go after
it I had a speed and strength in my mind
every single day so I did with audio
tapes I did it with books and I did it
by literally doing incantations saying
to myself something over and over again
with such intensity to my mind began to
believe it so reading listening feeding
your mind is the first step to get out
of that place of uncertainty and start
to recap into your real ability to
thrive in any environment
what’s the second key well number two is
you got to feed and strengthen your body
as simple as that sounds if you’ve been
around any of my work at all you know I
believe physiology first sometimes even
try to feed your mind you can see in it
but those thoughts keep coming back
what’s going to change that line faster
anything else so radical change in your
body a radical shift in your physiology
how do you do it well then
when times are really uncertain fear
kicks in
what is fear here’s something quite
physical to take the hold of you when
it’s really daring intense we’ve all had
that gut level fear that dark night of
the soul at times I feels like I know
nothing’s going to work so how do you
turn it around yeah you feed your mind
but you also strengthen that body when
the last time you really push yourself
you went on a run a slight jog or walk
but at the end you pushed yourself for
that last two minutes five minutes
whatever it was to you felt like your
heart was pumping up I gonna spit out
blood where there was an intensity in
you I know he sound over the top but
that’s what I turned myself around way
back then when I was literally just
starting my journey I was 38 pounds
heavier than I am now and I start to
feed my mind but it wasn’t enough I had
a really feed my body and why I did is I
decided to go on this run I picked up
you know these in those days I had set
tapes and then that’s how ancient I am
sorry of time there was a time before
you know iPods or anything of that
nature I listened to this song this
cassette tape was by this group and it
was a female group cold heart the song
was Barracuda never forget and I went
out there and I decided to go on a run
man run for god only knows how long you
know years a nice big fat belly but
again I push myself so hard I had
nothing left I pushed myself even more
and when that blood started rushing in
me when that was pumping in my brain in
my body or go out and lift weights go
and push yourself and feel yourself out
to force through whatever was your
limitation before when that gets inside
you that physical strength again that
sense breaking through every part of you
starts to operate differently your body
changes so does your mind what’s the
third cake well that third step is you
got to get a role model that inspires
you and really shows you the way one of
the biggest things that will change you
once you’re mentally and physically
strong is you need to believe you need
to not just have a sense of certainty
but you got to believe that there is a
pathway to get to where you want to be
whatever it is you want to change
whether it be your body your mind your
emotions your finances your relationship
you need a role model so for example
last October I realize I only had a few
minutes to be on television how do I get
these people to think they lost their
nest
we’ll never come back to not just think
I’m being positive but show them a real
example that’s what a role model s is I
should say it’s a real example so I
thought well the best example is just
show them history so at that time you
know the interviewed me and they said
well many stocks have gone from $80 and
the last few months they’re down to $8 I
said well let me tell you the good news
and the bad news
some of those $8 stocks are going to be
$5 or 2 or $1 many of they’re going to
go to 75 cents and you know people want
to pull back and saying well that’s not
very positive I said well here’s what’s
positive if you study the patterns of
history if you look back to what
happened the 1930s if you see what
happened to 1970s during that time as
well when the market went through this
huge crash in the depression or in the
70s there was a period of time not that
long afterwards when there was this big
growth a neat dollar stock that went
down to a dollar or 75 cents didn’t make
it back to $80 right away that took
decades but 75 cents doc have been $80
or 50 or 60 we go from 75 cents to $5
literally in a month or two or three
it’s happened twice before it’s happened
to during this same pattern there’s a
role model for this that means you would
go from 75 cents to 5 dollars that’s a
2,000 percent increase
that’s a greater return and most
investors will see over their entire
lifetime it could happen to two or three
months you can make it back now I said
but I don’t know if now’s the time to
jump in I just know that time is coming
you gotta study it and then you know I
told investors look at Sir John
Templeton he just passed away a few
months before I have fortune enough to
know him you don’t know the name is one
of the greatest investors in history and
he became an investor a billionaire I
should say by being an investor he
started with $10,000 how do you do that
he did it because he believed you make
all your money at times of maximum
pessimism that was his role model in
1939 the depression is going on Hitler
invades Poland and he’s in a place where
all Huck is breaking loose and he took
his ten thousand dollars being invested
and all he could in the stock market
bought stock the cost of dollar many of
these stocks were near bankruptcy but
what do you think happened after
learn things got back to normal this
season always comes back he became a
billionaire from those investments he
invested in Japan when no one would
invest in Japan no role model would do
that there they just got bombed the
country’s down to mud and dirt
he bought things her pains that grew and
he sold them for a huge profit if you’re
looking to make your business successful
today you’re trying to say how do I do
this in this tight economy look around
it role models who around you is still
doing well there are people you just
gotta find them look at Zappos topless
is a company that only a few years ago
was sitting around in a garage and in
this economy they’re thriving selling
shoes they’re gonna do a billion dollars
this year or better yet if you’re just
feeling like you lost your job you know
you’ve lost your home
you’ve lost your income your nest egg or
you’re facing just unbelievable
challenge then look at somebody like a
Nick V if you don’t know I’m talking
about go to my blog and watch a video of
him I’m shortening his name it’s very
hard to pronounce his name I’ll be
respectful but I’ve got his whole story
there you can watch it here’s a guy that
was born with no arms and no legs I mean
literally he can’t dress himself can’t
mood can’t feed himself he wondered he
died he was totally depressed and then
one day he figured out a different way
of looking at life he somehow began to
strengthen his mind and body and he got
a different role model what was possible
inside of himself and now he inspires
people all over the world little kids
who think they have a big problem adults
if they have a big problem need here we
go how does he even make a phone call
you know and you’ll see him do it he’s
got like one little webbed foot please
go see it you’ll be inspired we all need
contrast sometimes not only role models
of how to get it done and be successful
but role models how to deal with our
problems and our challenges so get a
role model that will inspire you and
show you the way and a 40 now is you’ve
got to get a proven plan and you got to
take massive action don’t worry about a
proven plan there are lots of role
models hopefully I’ll prove it to you
but get a plan do something I tell
people all the time you just gotta
remember the power of massive action so
often in life people don’t begin the
journey because they’re not quite sure
what to do
how to do it right and how to do it
perfect you want to change your body get
yourself moving don’t wait for the
perfect trainer just growing up here
move put on your shoes and move and get
momentum
just remember progress equals happiness
if you can start to make progress and
you get yourself going it’s not perfect
if it doesn’t work you know what to do
just change your approach that doesn’t
work change your approach but if there’s
anything that’ll shift your life it’ll
get you to thrive in a difficult
situation it takes a massive action try
something else
change it try it move it I wanted on
this but respectful to your time so let
me give you the final key number five
five I think is the most important ball
so just to remind you first thing you
got to do is feed and strengthen that
mind we’ve listened see the mind take
control of that focus stand guard and
what other people are saying focus on
what it is you’re here to give what you
can control what you can make happen
number two feed and strengthen that body
remember fear uncertainty is physical
experiences so the best way to deal with
something physical to get physical
change that body go lifts and weights go
for that run do something that’s going
to get you in that state you’ve been to
our seminars you know exactly what you
do but get that our power going that 15
minutes to thrive so if you’re familiar
with that to train your body and mind to
be strong again number three and sure
you put yourself in that position where
you find a role model it’s going to
inspire you and show you that way maybe
it’s a contrasting role model you think
your life so tough times somebody with
tougher who’s really turned it around or
maybe it’s just somebody who’s really
succeeded but you can now see there is a
way there’s a way through there’s a way
to make this happen even in the toughest
times there’s always a way for make sure
you get yourself into action get a plan
take massive action and the number five
most importantly of all of them feed
your spirit feed and strengthen your
spirit and there’s only one way to do
that it’s to find what you’re grateful
for and to take time whether it be
prayer for you or just taking a moment
to think about what is it so lucky in
life there’s there’s a rejuvenation in
our spirit when we stop taking things
for granted and when most importantly
what feed your spirit is to give to find
a way to do something for someone else
who’s worse off than you are
because what is this all about it’s
about strength and it’s about
perspective it’s about action it’s about
emotion it’s about heart and so many
people you know miss the opportunity to
feel like their life makes a difference
I’m a big believer that motive does
matter but why you do something people
can feel that people may be skeptical
they may have their judgments or their
fears – they’ve been through so much but
in my experience ultimately while you’re
doing something people fee on it you’re
doing this because some part of you
knows that you’re here in life not just
to get but to give then there’s a spark
that happens at other people because
they feel the genuineness of that and
there’s a spark that happens and you
could remind you what you’re made for
and you know I’m telling you this now
and I shared this with you because I
want to give you some tools but also
because I want to invite you to
participate in something Thanksgiving is
coming and it’s supposed to be a time of
giving thanks ok but unfortunately for a
lot of people what we’re finding is it’s
just about eating turkey or you know
eating so much and go and watching the
ballgame and forgetting what the spirit
of holidays really about many of you who
know me probably know the story what’s
happened to my life and why I’m sharing
this with you right now because when I
was 11 years old my family and young
brother and sister I’m the oldest and my
father and my mother we were to
Perdition where my father lost his job
we had no money and no food and we
wouldn’t starve certainly we’re going to
have a Thanksgiving dinner that’s for
sure and it was depressing and my father
was saying things to my mother and
mother was saying things to my father
that you know you never forget and you
can ever take back and we were in this
psychological emotional hole and it felt
like nothing to get better and what
changed my life was a simple act of
kindness somebody who to this day I must
even think about skill so why I want to
talk to you today um to the stand on who
it was but they decided our newer family
I guess and they said a guy and delivery
guy to knock on the door and you know my
cats were fighting so I answered the
door
and there’s this coal man standing on
this big box of food everything you can
imagine for this holiday and beside them
on the ground was this black pan with an
uncooked turkey in it he said as your
father here and that’s just one moment I
quickly went over and grabbed my dad and
didn’t tell him who was at the door just
you got to answer he got to answer it
and open the door and and unfortunately
my father didn’t take in the gift he was
angry so you know we don’t accept
charity was very intense about it and it
was a it was a seminal experience in my
life because I wanted to celebrate and
ultimately it became a celebration for
the rest of my family my father didn’t
take in the fact that strangers can care
that strangers could really look out for
you that there could be an opportunity
for you to take in a gift in life and my
father certainly after that experience
left our family it was one of the more
intense moments of my life but the
beauty that came out of that event is
the reason why I’m here right now I’m
not just talking to you and this
conversation you’re on the internet but
the reason I do what I do is because I
was penetrated by this kindness because
the meaning I gave it was that strangers
care as strangers care about me that I
care about strangers I got to find a way
to give back and I promised I’d find a
way to do that and so a time I was 17
years old I figured how to do it I
wasn’t real successfully and as you
might guess but I thought I was going to
see two families and I went to the
grocery store and I got two baskets and
I went around and put enough food you
know for two different families to have
this incredible dinner and I started the
journey and I began by feeding the
family with five kids who I had no clue
but the father had left and it was it
was destiny for me next year I decided
it was so moving and emotional I was
going to feed four families and I didn’t
tell anybody and next year eight I
wasn’t doing it for stars on my chart
but eventually eventually I thought God
I could use some help so I got my
friends involved and gradually through
some of my small companies and my
employer got involved and really proud
to tell you that you know 30 plus years
later today we’re in a situation now
where through the foundation together
with people like yourself we gave more
than three million people last year in
32 countries
so my final kind of offering to my
invitation
come join me let’s go on touch some
souls let’s go out on Thanksgiving and
let’s see if we can just touch it it
doesn’t take I don’t want your money I
mean welcome to sends the money
foundation if you want but that’s not
what this is about what I really wanted
you to have the experience of reach on
touching a stranger for no good reason
except that’s right because I know what
that will do to your spirit if you’re
successful it’s going to make you feel
something more than success it’ll give
you a life more meaning if you’re facing
some real challenges and you into a
place like when I went down to South
Bronx I’ve never forgotten you know
entering a place that no electricity
where people were literally starving or
a man who was literally on the streets
and we brought in this big basket it was
beautiful and getting blankets and socks
and food and I literally jumped out of
the van I was with this amazing man from
the Salvation Army was driving around
and jumped out handed this big basket to
huge basket this man and I mean first he
just looked shocked then he started get
this big smile but he got teary eyed
when I was there leaving there was this
moment you never forget you can do this
you can do this by yourself you can do
this with couple family members you can
just do two baskets of food where feels
like a gift well it’s not a handout like
my father expected but really a gift or
it feels like a present something
special and if all you do is go to every
Robbins foundation.org Matthew Robbins
foundation.org you can put yourself in
there and say I’d like to be a
coordinator for a basketball game even
if it’s just you and they’ll send you a
little booklet how to do it we have a
little book called notes for a friend
which is this tiny little book I wrote
show somebody how to turn their life
around you can give that or you can just
give food or you could do this with your
family you can do this with your company
and get that spirit back inside your
company with the employees and do it
really easily or all over the country
and all over the world we have large
basket brigades where people come
together and you could join a group
that’s going to do this so this is my
invitation I sent this video to you
hopefully during the holidays hopefully
have some value to you to remind you and
what I know you know you can thrive no
matter what the obstacle no matter what
the economy no matter what the challenge
the fundamentals are really basic and
you can take that control of your life
and if you’re doing well it’s to say to
you man you and I if we’re doing well we
have responsibilities gifts um
not only responsible even an opportunity
so thanks for listening for so long
Elizabeth I was refined emotional but it
doesn’t matter how many decades I’ve
been a part of this there are people out
there suffering people out there that
you could touch and I’m one of those
people that got touched I’m here because
of it and I think I’ve been able to help
lots of people in my life because of
those challenges because of someone
caring and I know you care too he was
still when you watching this crazy video
so thank you for watching and please go
to Anthony Robbins foundation org and
join me in the basket brigade or do
something to make this Thanksgiving
different or more meaningful and I hope
this has been helpful to you and your
life in some way and again I appreciate
your time and I look forward hopefully
our paths cross again sometime soon till
then live strong live with passion and god bless you
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