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 Awaken The Giant Within 

by 

Anthony Robbins

Anthony Robbins is one among the top rated motivational gurus of our time. In this bestselling book, ‘Awaken The Giant Within’ Anthony Robbins shows you his most effective techniques for mastering self control.

The 3 big lessons

Here are 3 big lessons to help you feel more in charge of your life than ever before:

Associate bad habits with pain and good ones with pleasure.

Change the words you use to transform how you feel and deal with problems.

Make up your own rules and communicate them to become happier.

Lesson 1: Associate bad habits with pain and good ones with pleasure.

A very simple framework to look at the world is this: All of our actions are aimed at either avoiding pain or getting pleasure. You can use this framework to successfully break bad habits and establish good ones.

For example, if you want to quit eating chocolate, Tony says you should force yourself to sing a song you hate out loud every time you eat some.

Lesson 2: Use powerful words

Tony says it’s very important to watch your language, because the way you describe how you experience the world is a big and defining part of that experience.

Reinforce good feelings with powerful words and play down bad emotions with less intense language.

Lesson 3: Make up your own rules

All too often we make up rules where we give away control. For example, “I’ll be so happy if my boss appreciates me.” is not a good rule to have, because you hand over your happiness to your boss – whom you can’t control.

So first, make up your own rules. Secondly, communicate your rules as much as you can, because you can’t possibly expect other people to have the same rules as you do. 

“Remember: “It’s your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny”.

One-sentence summary

One-sentence summary of “Awaken the giant within” : To be successful, you have to succeed in mastering your emotions, body, relationships, belief and finance.