Tony Robbins - Personal Power Day 17

[Music] thank you unlocking the financial genius within you that's what today's subject's about here on day 17 of personal power I want to talk to you today about what I think it really takes to become wealthy in financial terms specifically we're going to talk about today how to condition yourself for wealth because I'm going to make a statement right now that may Sound like an oversimplification to you but I have to tell you that it's true in my experience and my experience is how to shift myself and other people's finances from struggling to Absolute Total

abundance and that statement is this if you do not have enough money in your life there is one and only one primary reason you have not conditioned yourself for wealth and I'm going to show you exactly how to do that in these two tapes today and tomorrow combined Let's start with a little understanding about money first of all when you talk about money have you ever noticed what an emotionally charged issue it is for people I mean people usually go one extreme or the other either it's like real positive for them and they're just real

excited or they say yeah I want to be able to make some money I want to make things happen in that area or you see the direct opposite extreme where people literally have contempt for it as If it was something evil or suspect something that you should avoid at almost all costs and that usually shows up obviously and their lack of economic well-being why is it such an emotional issue for us well we could spend several days just analyzing all the associations that have been attached to money throughout the years both in religious terms as

well as in business terms all the experiences that we've had but the truth is money is nothing but a Representation a means to measure the exchange of value between people so one of the questions that I've asked myself is why do so many people fail to Achieve Financial abundance in a country where Financial opportunity surrounds us literally at every moment it beckons to us and yet most of us never do that we never create the financial abundance we deserve to have so I asked the question why not why don't people succeed financially out of That

question I started getting some answers on my own but I also started getting Answers by going out and modeling some of the most successful people in the world financially people that are in the 100 million to billion dollar class I figured hey if I'm going to get some answers these people can tell me and I looked for people specifically in that area who have made it financially on their own people have started with little or nothing ideally And by the way there are many more than you realize we live in a country where people can

generate net worth of a hundred to five hundred million dollars starting with a little idea for a computer in their garage or somebody can go to IBM as a young kid and become a billionaire by his mid-30s an example of Bill Gates so there are lots of role models of unbelievable possibility and you may say well that's not my goal I can appreciate that but These people certainly know how to create and build wealth and more importantly maintain it you know years ago there was a book written called Think and Grow Rich and I'm sure

you've heard of it you've probably read it as well it's one of those very first books that I read when I first started reading personal development material and you know the book was based on the research done back in the early 1900s when Andrew Carnegie asked Napoleon Hill to actually Make a study of what it takes to build wealth and my own work in this area could be called think and go Rich today because that is in today's society with today's distinctions and today's technology what is today's approach to Building Wealth what really makes the

difference financially today and what I found is there are certain distinctions that have not changed because the building of wealth is fundamental and so a big part of my research has been what Is the mindset of wealth what does it allow certain people to not only expect it but find a way what I've found is that most people even when they learn how to do things if you don't handle what we're going to do in these next two sessions they usually sabotage it because most people have what I call Wealth wounds in fact I'm working

on a chapter for a book called wealth wounds the seven reasons why most people never make it financially and how to heal Those wounds and what I want to give you is a small preview here of at least some of those basic fundamentals right here in this program so that you can begin to use those right away so the obvious question is what is the number one reason why most people fail financially and the answer is so simple that it eludes most of us it's because we associate negative things to Having excess money in fact

the word excess by itself for most people is a negative so I wonder why we don't ever have it the very thing I talk to you about here earlier in this program the thing that runs our whole life is two things what are they anything we associate pain to we're going to avoid especially if it's major pain and anything we associate pleasure to we're going to move towards now you may again say well Tony what are you talking about of course I associate pleasure to making money because if I had money that I could only

have more Time time to be with my family I wouldn't have to work at certain things or if I had money I could give certain things that are really important to me or I could support a specific charity I believe in or you know what I could travel or I could just do whatever I wanted as quick as I wanted or I could have the ultimate wardrobe or jewelry or I could have favorite cars or homes whenever I wanted them or I could learn to fly or Master any skill or hire the Best teachers the

best coaches of course I want money if you don't have it you're right you do want it but not bad enough because while you want it you have an approach avoidance you also simultaneously have all the negative associations and we alluded to these earlier I don't know if you remember them but I want to remind you repetition being the mother of skill what are some of the negative associations that people sometimes Link In their subconscious mind of money that keep them from literally attracting it or they start to attract it and then their brain gets

scared and says oh my God this might lead to pain and then sabotages it well some of them are things like in order to make it I'm gonna have to work so hard I'll have no time to enjoy it so why even try or gosh by the time I earn a lot of money I'll be old and gray anyway so why even go after it or to make money you Got to be really smart and I'm not smart enough or to make money you have to take advantage of other people and I could never do

that or something like well gosh you know if I made money I wouldn't have any time to be with my family or if I made a lot of money people will start judging me or if I make a lot of money well then I'll just have to pay more taxes and then the IRS will be after me and then what will Happen people usually worry about these things and people have no money at all to start with they knock themselves out of the game before they even get the bat or if I make a lot

of money I probably won't be as spiritual I mean I'll get sucked in and of course I remember reading the Bible that said you know it's easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than the rich man to get into heaven and gosh you know it's hard for camels to get through needles Classic misinterpretations like that cause people to live in experiences of lack and I don't know of any place in the world where when people feel like they're living in lack where they feel like they don't have enough or that

encourages the highest level the human Spirit to come out on a consistent basis now I might be wrong about that but I got to tell you wherever I see lack I see crime in Mass wherever I see lack I see people trying to escape with drugs Wherever I see lack I see people taking advantage of other people and making it okay justifying it by why had to survive I don't think whack brings out the best in the human spirit I think when we have abundance what happens is we stop focusing on ourselves and how we're

going to survive and we have enough to start focusing on who we really are which are human beings or spirits that are here to contribute and I think when you're in the position of trying to Survive your focus is on you when you've learned to handle that message when you really know you've got your act together and you don't have to worry anymore it's much easier for people to look at how can I contribute to my fellow man now I'm not saying that you can't come from a position of lack and be a contributor obviously

you and I can name name after name of people who've been able to do this and are a role models of possibility even though they grew up With nothing financially and never had anything so I'm not saying money's the only answer I'm just saying in this culture in this time if you had a choice between having it or not having it why not go for it and have it too why not use your money as a powerful tool for positive influence on the people's lives you care about as well as your own and enjoy having

it get off the guilt trips that have stopped you in the past it is that sense of guilt that if you have More money than somebody else or what if you made more money than your father oh my gosh God what a wound that would be it's that kind of thing those negative associations that are keeping you from having what you want so if you do not have all the money you want your life you associate more pain to having more money than you have now than not having it it's that simple now with the

technology that we've learned you can condition yourself to change those Feelings and those beliefs and we're going to talk a little bit more about that on the next tape but I want you to know that is the number one reason that most people don't succeed financially according to people that are most successful in the world at obtaining maintaining and Building Wealth here's the second wealth wound and by the way I picked those words very specifically I want to get a clear picture that if you don't master and Handle the seven things I'm about to talk

about then every single day you're probably experiencing a financial bloodletting what's happening is you are experiencing the pain an ongoing basis of wounds things that are literally dripping out of you your own Financial well-being and there's no excuse for it you can handle it easily and quickly here's the second one the second reason these people say and have told me thus far that people do not succeed Financially is not only do they have negative associations to money but even if they have okay associations they never make having an abundance of money an absolute must interesting

distinction I'm not saying love money and make it your God because that's the way to absolutely be certain that you fail in life that you destroy everything that's valuable but what I am saying is make it a priority so you get it handled and make The priority not just getting by make the priority massive abundance and come up with a specific figure you hold yourself to I give an example people who consistently stay at a specific weight who are once fat but really stay thin and they don't really vary a whole lot in modeling these

people I found that they have certain things in common and I do a Whole Health seminar called my living Health seminar but just to give you an idea or distinction the one thing That they all have in common is they have decided upon an ideal weight a weight that they must be at and they have a specific amount they can vary and it's usually small let's say two or three or four pounds maximum if for example they say I'm going to weigh 235 pounds and all of a sudden they creep up and they see their

238 pounds instantly they do whatever it takes to get back to 235 because 235 for them is a must do you follow me the same Thing has to be true for you financially you've got to have a certain level of finances that you must be at if you ever vary you got to do something about it immediately otherwise you get caught up in what we call niagara's current right where day to day you just get caught up in making a living and doing things and putting things off and it doesn't happen so the only way

you're going to succeed financially is when you decide on a specific amount of money that you must Have in your life and it must be well beyond what your absolute needs are so in other words what I'm asking you to do is take something that seems right now to be an accessory money and make it a necessity find an amount of money that would be considered abundant and make that not only abundant but a necessity in your life you follow me that's critical if you're going to have long-term wealth financially and if you don't do

this there's no way you'll be Able to have the amount of money I know you'd like to have in your life the third major wealth wound that drains most people drive financially in fact keeps them from ever developing a great deal of wealth in the first place is suffering from the problem or falling into the Trap of never ever developing an effective strategy on how to build wealth in the first place I mean listen if all it took to succeed financially was for you to associate Lots of pleasure to having money pain to not having

it in other words you really made it a must and that was it then we'd all have it but see that isn't enough if that's all it took in life to succeed was absolute passion for something then every kid would have had a pony when he was growing up that's not quite enough you got to have an effective strategy hey if you're running East looking for a sunset you got a problem I don't care how enthusiastic you are so you've got To develop strategies on how to one attract money into your life in the first

place how are you going to create that initial income to how to manage that money so that you can invest it and get money to be your slave instead of you being a slave to money in other words get your money to make you more money so it's not taking more of your time and physical effort but where you literally begin to leverage yourself and then three strategies and how to share Money so it gives you a tremendous amount of Joy because to me that's a strategy that's critical also otherwise why are you going to

keep getting it your brain has got to link pleasure to it or it won't continue to work for it and if you can learn to share it with people I found that yes giving yourself things is fabulous and you should do that but if you're going also share that it'll give you even more joy it'll give you all those pleasurable feelings You've really wanted those are three strategies that are critical so how do we go about mastering these strategies where do we come up with this I mean we weren't taught this in school that's for

sure no one said hey take wealth building 101. so how do we go about it and the answer is simple we use modeling you remember one thing I talked to you about earlier that has helped me to be effective in various areas of my life is been getting Role Models finding people That are effective and finding out exactly what they do that's all you have to do in this area as well you need to find people that are successful financially and find it exactly what they do on an ongoing basis that creates that success in

other words they aren't just lucky in order to get this result they're doing certain things on a daily basis and it's a lot simpler than you can imagine hey I turned my entire life around financially in less than 12 Months I was the guy in that 400 square foot bachelor apartment 12 months later at a million dollar net worth that's not a small turnaround I moved from my little 400 square foot bachelor apartment to my castle all of that came from modeling successful people financially so there are lots of strategies in the short few minutes

that we have here I can't obviously cover all those strategies with you and this tape that is a study Within itself but I will tell you this if you're interested in developing absolutely effective plans on how to start from literally zero or a small amount of investment and build significant wealth Financial abundance in your life that's specifically what a good portion of my life has been focused on and I've interviewed and developed the strategies and modeled the strategies of some of the most successful people in the Country and I know how to put it across

simply so if you want to know about that please do call us because we do seminars on that specifically and you don't have to come to our seminars there are other people's too there are other books or you don't even have to go to any seminars you can go and meet these people directly and model them yourself you can find people in your own neighborhood people around you have done extremely well and find out exactly what They're doing that makes it work become like an investigator become like a hunter and your prey is now wealth

and what you're going to do is stalk it you're going to study its habits you're going to notice where it goes really follow this pray and then don't kill it make it your pet take it home home make it your friend take good care of this pet and this pet will take really good care of you gosh if you can make earning money and Developing wealth fun you can't believe what will happen in your life it doesn't become your whole Focus but it becomes a part of what creates joy for you in life and while

you're doing it by the way you're adding value to other people's lives because the only way you can possibly make money is to create an exchange of energy and value for other human beings that's the only way it can be done and by the way once you've really Studied and you've developed a plan to develop wealth the only thing you're going to need in addition is a good vehicle and again part of your plan should be how to get that vehicle how to develop something for you so the earning money even while you're sleeping how

would you feel then instead of feeling like every day there are things you had to do just to keep up just to support your family just have a certain level of Lifestyle so developing not only a plan But the right vehicle is very very important and again that's things that we teach and things you can learn on your own by modeling other people but that is wealth wound number three failure to get an effective strategy for consistent wealth building here's wealth wound number four this one's pretty simple failure to consistently follow your plan once it

gets set up see there are people who actually have Developed a good plan they've got some good Role Models they worked really hard they've studied finances but they don't get themselves every single day to follow through like for example I'm sure you've heard about all the different kinds of programs where people teach people how to get rich overnight and you know what some of them really would work a lot of them don't obviously a lot of them are scams but some of them really do work the problem is people don't work Them they go to

a seminar and they learn how they're supposedly going to build something financially but they never follow through it's mind-boggling but the problem is they don't have what we're teaching you which is how to get yourself to follow through how to condition yourself so you consistently take those small steps that create huge financial abundance I mean one of the simplest examples that I can give you is one you probably already know about but The question is have you followed through on it and that is the whole principle of compound interest you're familiar with it aren't you

gosh if you're not you need to introduce yourself to the principal what did they basically says is this if you take a certain amount of money and you set it aside and all you do is allow that money to continue to bring you interest in other words you lend it to a financial institution or make a simple investment A very secure investment and you get a return of let's say 10 or 16 percent now by the way when I say that to some people they say oh you couldn't get a secure investment at 16 percent

they simply don't know the strategies there are people whose net worths are over a hundred to five hundred billion dollars who will tell you that anyone even with a very small amount of money can earn over 20 percent annually on their money in a very secured way in fact that's Part of the strategies that we teach in our money seminars but the point is let's just say you took a small amount of money let's say for example 325 a day 100 a month and all you did was invest that and got 16 return on your

money and all you did was do that every single month in other words every day you followed your plan you put a little three dollars and 25 cents away hundred dollars a month and you invested it at sixteen percent what does that mean if You don't take that money out and you really stick to your plan answer after five years what you have is eight thousand dollars after ten years you've got twenty one thousand dollars just at a hundred dollars a month after fifteen over forty one thousand dollars after twenty years we've got seventy five

thousand dollars after twenty five you've got over a hundred and twenty five thousand dollars by investing a hundred dollars a month Now maybe that's not going to make you wealthy within 25 years but we're talking about a simple little thing you could do every day that would be absolutely painless hey let's say you decide to be a real big spender you said I'm going to be a major investor I'm going to put a big six dollars and 50 cents away a day that's right I'm gonna cut down on a few Pepsi's I'm going to cut

down on a few boxes of cigarettes whatever it is that You'd spend that on and I'm gonna actually put that away and invest it each month that's a whole 200 a month in Investments again at 16 check this out after five years at only 200 a month six dollars and fifty cents a day you've got almost nineteen thousand dollars after ten years without touching it simply six dollars and fifty cents a day investing it the way we would teach you to real simply you'd have over sixty thousand dollars After 15 years a hundred and fifty

thousand dollars after 20 years over 350 000 after 25 years you have just under a million dollars just by putting aside 650 a day see the biggest reason most people don't make money is not because they can't figure out how to do it but because they don't follow through they don't do those simple little daily things that can make them successful and again this is not the only way to be wealthy this is just A nest egg this is not learning all kinds of active strategies this is not learning all the ways you can build

wealth through additional income this is just taking the small amount of resources that any human being can virtually get their hands on and you can develop it that is a major wound not following your plan obviously what we teach you is how to be able to get yourself to follow through in anything especially a financial plan here's Wealth wound number five relying on Experts you go what do you mean Tony I mean who else can I rely on take a wild guess yourself you've got to get to the point where you have enough expertise that

you can make your own financial decisions if you don't you are going to experience a major Financial wound and it may kill you financially it may destroy you financially and create something like bankruptcy I'm speaking from experience I was in a position Where I thought I don't want to have to deal with this money stuff I don't care about money I just want to go out and help people and do my thing yeah well I got a company and stuff but let somebody else handle all that well I let them handle it all right and

I woke up a few years later 758 thousand dollars in debt I mean try that on for size when you've been working and doing 270 seminars in a year every day giving 100 caring about people and not paying attention and I Got good advice from good people but the bottom line is they gave me advice that wasn't effective you've got to know I'll tell you another area you better become an expert is and that's taxes because the tax laws are changing so often and even the experts who are supposed to be able to tell you

exactly what to do can't agree so either you give up and hope everything's going to work out well the IRS won't buy that if there's a problem They're going to come see you not your accountant so if your name's on the line you better know what's going on there otherwise you could get yourself in big trouble and if you know what's going on you can pay the appropriate amount of tax and not more than the appropriate amount of taxes that are out there as well Hey listen you wonder how important taxes are one-third of all

the wealth you're going to earn in your lifetime goes to the government in taxes One-third best you learn to manage that effectively and not overpay that's not being intelligent that's not being patriotic listen if you want to help your community take that money and invest it directly in a charity or something you really care about directly don't overpay simply because you don't know what the rules are just remember you're going to spend more money on taxes than you'll spend on your children's college education or Virtually any other investment you're going to make in your life

so it makes sense to understand this area again I'm not saying just go out and only be a self-study and don't get any input and don't get any advice I'm saying bear in mind the the decisions that you make financially are your decisions you will pay the price or you will reap the rewards so best you understand them wealth wound number six Financial complacency hey if you want to make sure That you absolutely fail in life the quickest and easiest way is to begin to rest on your laurels that is to get so comfortable that

you stop paying attention you stop doing the things that are necessary that create success it happens with your physical body where you start to take it for granted you don't exercise anymore and whamo you pay the price it happens in relationships you go well the person knows I love them and you stop expressing it and all of a Sudden the relationship begins to deteriorate there is a law of life that we must never forget if we want lifelong success and that is whatever you fail to use you lose remember the Bible story of the talents

remember the great Merchant one day he knew he's going to go on a trip and be gone for quite some time and he wanted to make sure that his money his talents which was a measure of silver in those Days was going to be invested effectively that in fact he would Prosper even while he was gone a very wealthy and bright man he decided to entrust his talents into his three servants and he brought the first servant and he explained that he'd be leaving and then he said I'm going to give you five talents please

take care of them while I'm gone the second servant he brought in he said I'm going to give you two of my talents I'll be leaving please take good care of them and I'll be checking in with you when I come back to see how you've done and again he did the same thing with a third servant giving him only one Talent when he finally returned he called each of the servants in one by one to see how they done with his talents the first servant came in and said sir I took the five talents

you gave me and I traded them and I used them and I invested them and they have multiplied I now have for You sir 10 talents and the master said well done that's excellent he brought in the second servant he said what happened with you the gentleman said well you gave me two talents you know it's kind of scary out there a little bit you know I went out there some people try to steal one of the talents it was kind of tough but I hung in there I pushed real hard I made some wise

Investments and sure enough I've doubled the talents they've gone from Two to four and the master said well done that's excellent the third servant was called in the man who was given one Talent he came in and the master asked him what did you do with the one talent I gave you he said sir well you only gave me one Talent so I couldn't afford to take any chances so I thought I'd protect the talent by taking it and wrapping it in a napkin and then I buried it that way nobody could steal it The

master turned to the servant and said you sir are a wicked and slothful servant which I guess means he was kind of upset with him and the bottom line he said take that Talent from this man and give it to the man who has ten now you might say well that's not very fair hey nobody said life was fair but in reality those who do well with what they've got will be given more and that's the first lesson to get from the story I think the second lesson is lots Of people when I talk to

them about wealth wounds why they don't have money and how they can turn it around the first thing they tell me is I don't have enough to do this I don't have enough to invest listen you don't have enough not to invest you must find a way otherwise you will never have what you want bearing what you have will not give you more it will cause life to take away what little you do have so the message is right from the Bible Itself if you don't use what's given to you you're going to lose it

period you've got to make sure that once you start to succeed with your wealth that you don't sit down on it because see if you don't actively try to build more you're not adding more value to other people the only way to multiply your wealth is to invest your money which creates more opportunity more possibility for others around you otherwise what you're doing is hoarding And it will be taken from you make sure you don't get so comfortable that you stop focusing Financial wealth comes from consistent focus on how to continually create maintain and build

your financial foundation so we've talked about six very powerful wealth wounds things that drain our capability financially and cause us to erode the foundation of unlimited Financial possibility and freedom what's the seventh one well let's imagine that You've handled the first six and you've really done well and you've built something up and now you finally have got something here you've really built some wealth you've got a major Foundation here you got some freedom and then one day something happened you never anticipated something happened you never thought would happen a million years you have what we

call a minor disappointment like losing 50 of your wealth overnight Or like being in the stock market one October day and seeing all that you've worked for dwindle down in a matter of hours how does this relate to wealth rule number seven well number seven is what kills most people even after they begin to really succeed It's the final kicker that if you can Master this one if you can patch this wound up and heal it you can remove all the scars from your financial body and actually get to Experience what it feels like to

move in the world we call Wealth abundance an unlimited sense of possibility in your ability to create opportunity for yourself and the people you care about the opportunity to have influence in your lifetime if you can heal number seven you get all of that if you don't all of a sudden everything you work for drops out and wealth rule number seven I'm sure you figured out by now is allowing financial crisis to turn into Financial ruin in other words I don't care who you are how bright you are how successful you are how hard you

work at being brilliant financially I can guarantee you one thing you're going to have some major learning experiences remember earlier when we said that success is the result of good judgment the good judgment is the result of experience and an experience unfortunately is often the result of bad judgment I can guarantee in your Lifetime they're going to be places where you have bad judgment the best financial managers have bad judgment there are things you cannot control if when those crises occur no matter how bad they may seem you allow that to become the completion of

your financial picture you say why even try or here I did all this and this is what I got rewarded or gosh I can never invest again because I tried this thing one time and I lost all my money if that Happens you have the ultimate wealth wound in fact you have a dagger that will murder your financial future the bottom line that may sound harsh but it is real this is the one that kills most people they go to well I tried this one thing one time so gosh I can't do that again or

I tried this thing and I gave it all and this is what happened so I better not do anything again and you know what that's called death rattle it'll never happen they'll never have What they want financially you've got to be like a rubber ball and bounce back up and learn from what happened there and reinvest Wherever You Are remember the key belief system I shared with you earlier the past does not equal the future if you believe it does it will control your financial future you must get up and take another cut at the

ball hey Babe Ruth struck out more times than anybody in baseball history but he also got more home runs you got to be Willing to get up there again if you focus on the failure you'll never have what you want you must take financial crisis and learn to transform it into Financial opportunity through the new distinctions you have you'll be able to accomplish much more but you do have to have a little thing called faith and I know that doesn't sound like a financial term but the bottom line is without it you'll never make an

investment in your life and you've got the ultimate wound Every religious book on the planet talks about the power of Faith or the faith of a mustard seed what you can do I'm not talking about Blind Faith I'm talking about learning from situations and then taking new action in a direction that makes sense you must heal the seventh wound in order to ensure your future and create ultimate Financial Freedom it's it's within your grasp so what I've offered you today in this tape is a very clear look at the reasons for financial Failure what I

want you to do now is to handle these things in advance the time to handle a problem is before it ever comes up and so what I want you to do is your exercise for today is to condition yourself for wealth how by understanding the seven fundamentals that make the difference between financial success or ruin you now know them let's begin to implement them I want you to take out your success Journal right now and I want you to use these seven distinctions To give yourself a financial checkup see if there's any place where you're

wounded or you need to heal yourself and quick how do you do it start with number one ask yourself specifically what are some of the beliefs that I have that are probably keeping me from increasing my personal wealth from attracting Financial abundance what are the beliefs I've got about that that are probably holding me back making me feel like oh God that wouldn't be right what are they And identify them question number two remember we said the reason people don't succeed they don't make having Financial abundance a must Financial survival is a must but not

abundance so ask yourself the question do I have a specific amount of money that I have selected that is well beyond my bare necessities something that would represent massive Financial abundance that I absolutely am committed to having that I have made a must and if not you need to Design that number and you need to get yourself to make it important enough that you will make this happen no matter what three do I have an effective strategy to build my wealth and to absolutely achieve those goals and surpass them if the answer is no I

want you to commit to do something today to find out more write somebody call somebody talk to somebody and find out what are some initial steps You can get to master your finances don't put it off even one day this is critical four practice what we're talking about here get yourself once you have the plan analyze have you in the past gotten yourself to follow through consistently if the answer is no please use what you're learning here on how to get yourself to follow through to use your personal power and just do a little bit

each day just like we're doing here we're taking things a little step at a Time each day but each day Builds on the day before give yourself that benefit question number five what do you need to learn so that you can make the financial decisions in your life with good input but what do you need to learn about taxes Etc and actually make a list of the things you don't understand and go find someone who can give you those answers six gosh I'm giving you a lot of work here aren't I I've gotten carried away

Here but this is an important subject and I want to make sure this gets handled for you because I see so many people that have such a great life emotionally and mentally in their family and I see them in so much pain because they just haven't handled their money it's so insane you know you've got to handle this thing I hope I hope I've gotten through to you on this and if I give you a lot of homework just do it okay all right six six just write Yourself a sentence or two that makes it

really clear why you're going to continue to follow through even when you start to succeed where you won't get caught up and going well I'm doing pretty good where you'll keep a financial vigil don't do what I did you know I had to learn the hard way learn the easy way pay attention to your finances consistently don't just you know get comfortable and allow things to dwindle or gives up the power to Somebody else and finally number seven develop a belief within yourself and when I say this as homework I'm asking you to develop a

write-up a belief that'll support you but if I was going to tell you what it is what it is for me develop a belief within yourself that no matter whatever happens financially that who you are personally is much bigger than anything that could ever happen to you financially bigger than anything that could happen to our economy you Know I know that there was a point when my whole financial World looked like it was an absolute ruins that it was over it looked like I was going to lose my home my castle after working so hard

lose the business that for me was like my child you know I'd given everything to and I remember my wife and I sitting down at Christmas right when we'd gotten some of this fabulous news that said that you know everyone was telling us We'd have to go bankrupt because of this unique interlude with a partner and I remember sitting down with her and saying you know honey I said maybe this is a test maybe this is a test to see whether or not we've gotten hooked financially where that's really what's most important so what's most

important to me is our relationship no matter what happens we've got that I mean we've made this money and we could do it again you know we might have to start over but who Cares you know we had a lot of fun building it we could create it again she said you know you're absolutely right and for a few minutes we just hugged each other we cried a little bit we hugged each other and then we felt incredible and I waited a few minutes and I thought you know now that we know that let's not

go into Financial Rune let's not prove it financially as long as we really know that in our gut let's turn this baby around and we got on a Horse and we did it and I'm telling you it was one of the most powerful experiences in our life of being able absolutely take control of adversity and turn it around so I offer you the same opportunity develop a belief in the core of your being that you are more than finances clearly as hard as I pushed you to really take care of this equally hard get clear

that finances is not the game of life but it's one of them and the Reason I stressed it strongly with enthusiasm is because I think it's the one that most people concentrate on least and creates the most amount of pain because getting in a relationship most of us figure out how to deal with getting a chance to handle our physical body there are a zillion books on dieting everybody's trying one next week but how many people really spend the same amount of focus on their finances we know the answer again 95 United States at age

65 is either dead broke or dead you don't want to be one of these people so let's make sure that this is a brand new beginning for you let's make sure that today you take some new action and one more thing I don't want to leave out and that is one of the greatest ways to become wealthy instantaneously is to understand the essence of real wealth and that is I had the privilege of interviewing Sir John Templeton several times in these obviously been a Facilitator at Financial Mastery and I asked him what does it take

to be wealthy and John's response was gratitude I thought wow he said yes Tony he said think about it how many people you know have an immense amount of money but they're emotionally poor they live in worry they live in fear they're angry all the time he said when you are grateful doesn't matter how much money you have when you're grateful you're Rich and no matter how much money you have when you're not grateful you're a boar I thought how true and so let me tell you a way that I use to keep that gratitude

because I have the unique privilege of my life now or I don't ever have to work another day of my life it's an amazing feeling so they only do things because you're passionate about them because you love them because it Taps into your six human needs you start to feel like you can really contribute And grow and make a difference because I have the experience very young of the stress of not doing well financially for my family I'm talking about when I was a child and we had a Thanksgiving where someone came and delivered food

to our home and my father was upset by it because he felt insulted but I'll tell you what what came out of it for me was unbelievable gratitude and the desire to give something back and it's a big part of what's Driven me ever since and so One of the things I started doing when I was 18 I didn't really have any money but I said I want to give back so I went out on Thanksgiving instead of eating turkey I just said what I do is I would go out and I would be grateful

and the way to do that for me was Thanksgiving was to give thanks to actually give back to others I went and fed three families actually two families the first Thanksgiving and then it became three for several years and I went as the Delivery boy so I wouldn't be insulting to them and it was the most incredibly Rich experience for me because it reminded me number one that I was capable of not just taking care of myself but taking care of other people too it reminded me of what the best parts of me were and

it made my life feel like it came full circle and that's grown as you might guess over the years as I became more successful I got my friends involved and then many years ago I created the Anthony Robbins foundation and now we feed 125 000 people in 65 cities in the United States and Canada and now there are programs overseas as well so my point is I want to invite you no matter how tough a situation you think you're in remember someone else is doing worse someone's in a tougher place your worst nightmare financially is

someone else's greatest dream especially if you travel to other countries in the world so one great way to change your Financial Consciousness if you would to change this old patterns these old associate Creations is go do something go do something in the next three or four days for someone you don't know go do something where you give even if you feel like you got nothing to give give of your time give your energy give of your money because when you do that you teach your brain that there's more than enough and that'll start to make

you feel grateful it'll make you feel like You're contributing and that'll make as big a change as any other form of neuro associative work you could ever go about so really don't just think about this go do it go do something either go and work just for an hour at an old folks home or go and talk to somebody who wants a friend or go and commit a small amount of money no matter how tiny you think it is and make a difference to something you believe in or take your kids and go down to

the shelter and just spend an Hour feeding people you know do something good and I think you'll begin to feel like hey you know I deserve to do well and I'll tell you one other belief I have one final one I used to struggle so much with doing well financially and I'd sabotage it and so forth to wonder if I you know what receiving is evidence you've given consistently If you're receiving a lot it's not luck it's sowing and reaping and if you keep Sowing good seeds you're going to reap but you know what sometimes

you're so good seeds because your mentality of mixed associations you basically don't reap you just let the new fruit the new value the new benefits are available to you you don't notice them so they die in the vine you've got to make this change when you do your life not only will change but all the people around you that you can touch can change because you remember something you cannot give That what you do not have you can't give money if you don't have it you can't give time if you don't have it and if

you get this area handled called abundance the richness of your life just jumps and you'll find that all this is synergistic when you do well in finances if you've worked on the other things we've talked about already you're going to get some real Synergy some real momentum and everything gets better so please take this seriously focus on this And if you're looking for tools like you say Okay Tony I've made the mental change you know how do I go about making this work well then let me give you a commercial you know come to financial

Mastery I mean you know I I know I'm sounding like I'm promoting it it's because I guess I am because I really believe in it for my heart and soul we got people from 42 countries who come together some are incredibly wealthy some have to borrow the money to come to The program but we spend six days together day and night and we know they change our mental Consciousness around money we show you flat how to earn more than you ever have in your life and then Adam keep it and then how to invest it

and then how to enjoy it you go teach me the first ones Tony I can figure out the last one right but really I'd enjoy it by giving and using it effectively and how to protect it so in this litigious Society somebody doesn't come and take What you've earned and how to create a plan from wherever you are today to where you're truly financially independent well you never have to think about money again when you don't ever work a day of your life except because you want to not because you have to and that's really

what we teach there so I haven't held anything back on this tape but you probably have noticed but I want to plant that seed because there's nothing like spending six days and Nights with 29 multi-millionaires and a billionaire and have them tell you how you do it it because you know they show you see man that guy can do this if I can see this guy over here it started with zero and a trash can and he built Hawaiian Tropics and they're doing hundreds of million dollars a year and he didn't have any business background

in any training just like me hmm maybe I can make enough to pay my lousy bills right maybe I could have more money Instead of more month at the end of the money you know maybe maybe I could make a shift in that area of my life and I I just want you to have that so whether you get it from me or somewhere else get it and if you're looking for investment advice there's so many choices around I'll tell you who we bring to financial Mastery Sir John Templeton Peter Lynch the best in the

world but I'll tell you who else we'd bring we bring the Beards down ladies have you heard about them They're these grandmas they're in their 60s and 70s they come from Beardstown Ohio and they form the little investment club and together over the last decade they have a larger return on investment than most investment advisors most financial traders in the whole world they've averaged 25 percent over the last 10 years can you imagine but what's so cool about them is they come in and instead of just you know you can go read their book but

at the seminar what we do Is they come in and they become like our grandmas we adopt them they adopt us you know and they I say now how do we do this walk us through it let's actually investigate like a company nearby and we do a field trip and we actually look at the company which they show you exactly what they do we all do it together and what's really neat is like one of them get something says now let me explain to you why investing is so much easier and so much more fun

than knitting right and She goes no really it's much easier let me show you how it is so cool so and then you leave with your own computerized planner how to achieve your goals based on your goals not what someone else has laid out for you so anyway I'm giving you a bit of a commercial here but all I'm trying to say to you is two things get a plan if not with me get a plan somewhere change your associations and one of the most powerful ways to do that besides Everything else we've talked about

is contribute go do something for other people just prove to yourself there's more than enough that's what changes people's lives and by the way if you say well I don't have the money to help somebody else ball I'll tell you I got to meet my wife she was in an audience where I was doing a quote free guest event this is back in the early days of my career and someone raised their hand and said well I'd like to go to that Seminar yours because I think it would teach me a lot but I don't

have the money and I said let me tell you something honestly from my heart if you don't have the money to go to the seminar then you better go to this seminar and the guy looked at me with a blank look on his face I said really I said because nothing's going to change until you learn the very tools I'm teaching you you know you got to make the investment in yourself you can't get To where you want to go by studying people that are struggling or people are just doing okay you got to get

to people who are doing the very best and I said what I'm teaching you is what others taught me and I had a struggle to get to their programs but I said it really make a difference and you know what my wife said I've got to find out years later she said I wasn't gonna go that similar when you said that I thought I don't know the money but that makes sense so I Say to you if you say you don't have the money to go help somebody you can't afford not to you can help

somebody and then the minute you do this the minute you reach down deep you find a way to do for someone else or do for yourself but especially when you find a way to do for someone else you teach your brain there's more than enough and that's what a lesson I want you to get from this tape I want you to change it I want you to see that wealth is abundance and Abundance usually causes more of the best of us to come out remember money will make of you more of who you are and

if you're good it'll give you more to be good with so let this day be a brand new beginning for you take some action today that shows that what we've been talking about is real for you go out and do something unique for someone else or make an investment in yourself or make an investment or go get a plan but do something so your brain starts say hey He or she means it they're going to follow through this time let's get some momentum because little action's a phone call a book a tape a seminar an

action something will get you on a roll so make it a day of New Birth in the financial realm a new dawning of your financial stability and your financial power and let yourself start to become a role model for the people around you of what abundance is mental emotional social physical spiritual and Financial that's Really my message to you go through those seven questions take a real good look eliminate the wounds and let's move forward and when you come back tomorrow what we're going to do is we're going to deal with what I consider to

be the final barrier to most people doing well financially in the long term because some people start to do well and then they sabotage it so take my challenge today mark this day as the beginning of your ultimate Financial Freedom and have Some fun with it enjoy the process so until tomorrow let's expand our minds let's attract all the money you deserve let's move our life to a brand new level and most importantly let's live with passion [Music] thank you