Tony Robbins Says This Affordable Book Changed His Life
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Today, Tony Robbins is known as the sharply dressed motivational guru who helps countless people with his New York Times best-selling self-help books and high-energy seminars. But he started as a broke janitor in Los Angeles, living in an abusive household and taking care of his siblings as a teen.
Desperate to get his family out of the toxic situation, he credits a book for taking him from despair to the journey that launched him into mega success and a net worth of $600 million.
‘The Magic of Believing’
“For me, one of my pivotal experiences was when I was 17 years old,” Robbins said in an interview with Men’s Journal. “I had a number of different fathers in the house, about four, and my mother kicked the last one out. Then she thought I was on his side, so she also kicked me out. He returned east to Chicago, and I went to a bookstore.”
He continued, sharing, “I was so depressed, and I knew I had to feed my mind. I stumbled upon, ‘The Magic of Believing’ by Claude Bristol. It is all about conditioning your mind and turning your fears into strengths. Once I had read that, I lived that book.”
How This Book Changed His Life
Robbins connected to a specific message in the book that helped kickstart his positive mindset and put him on a different path.
“What you put out there and what you believe could actually come to be; how true beliefs are actually based in a feeling of certainty,” he told the outlet. “Not only that, but you could create that feeling of certainty.”
In order for his new thinking to be effective, he projected what he wanted out loud.
“If you do it right, you are getting the message deep into your unconscious mind and changing your conditioning,” he explained.
According to Robbins, “The Magic of Believing” also helped him beat depression.
“In the book, they instructed us to put our core statements on the mirror, so that you could see yourself and your message together every morning,” said Robbins.
“I was living in someone’s laundry room at the time, in this tiny house, and I wrote in soap on the mirror, ‘Only a loser is depressed.’ Because I was feeling depressed every day, and I knew I wasn’t a loser.”
As a result, Robbins was able to let go of his trauma, forgive his mother, who was an addict and physically abusive, and build an empire.
“The fact is, if my mother had been the mother I hoped for, I wouldn’t be the man I am proud to be today. All of this is inside me somewhere, driving me to visit 14 countries in a year and work 50 hours on a weekend,” he told Men’s Journal.
“I suffered so much; I didn’t want anyone else to suffer, and I was obsessed with finding answers. Now, I am obsessed with having the answers and sharing those answers.”
Anyone seeking a similar mindset shift should snag a copy for themselves. You can easily find a used copy online (or in your local secondhand bookstore) for less than $5. Or you could buy it new from Amazon for $9.95.
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