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17/07/2018 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

Anthony Robbins: Getting Caught In A Mental Trap

Blog - Tony Robbins: Caught In a Metal Trap

Today’s wise words on getting caught in a mental trap comes from American Tony Robbins (born 1960).  Tony Robbins is an author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach.  He has touched many people’s lives – including my own through his health, wealth and peak performance books and seminars.  He has also worked with many high profile people on an individual basis including:  Bill Clinton, Serena William, Nelson Mandela, Princess Diana and Hugh Jackman.  Read more about my story in a moment.

Here’s today’s wise quote from Tony Robbins;

“Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift.  Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action.”
– Anthony Robbins.

The Mental Trap

My first experience with Tony Robbins was in about 2002.  It was at one of his seminars  when I attended his Unleash The Power Within.  At this event he coached thousands of ordinary people to walk across hot coals.  The purpose of the fire walk is for participants to experience a new level of what’s possible.  He  has been teaching since 1983.

In order to get people to do the fire walk he had to train them out of the mental traps.  Walking through hot goals is something that most people would perceive as life threatening, and would not even attempt.  The wrong mindset significantly increases the risk of burning your feet on the hot coals.  It also makes people quit and not even doing the activity.  The right mindset gets a person thinking and doing the right things to safely cross the hot coals.  So Tony had to prepare and train our minds away from mental traps which may prevent success. 

It was a powerful lesson.  Not everybody did the activity – but it certainly was an amazing experience for those of us that did the activity! It definitely showed what our mind is capable of when we focus our mind and take action (or avoid it).  When ordinary people get out of the mental trap they CAN achieve extraordinary things!

Breakthrough The Mental Traps

Whether your goal is to walk across hot coals or achieve some other important goal, it’s essential to break through any mental traps blocking you.  By doing so you’ll be better able to focus your mind and take actions.   Otherwise you’ll never achieve the goals and results you want to achieve.

For more information on some of the common blocks that you may need to breakthrough to achieve different results, visit my blog “3 Blocks That Sabotage Your Success And What To Do About It” .   You’ll learn – 3 ways you may be sabotaging your success, how these block keep you stuck and some exercises you can implement today to get unblocked.

Another way you can breakthrough is by working with a coach who can assist you with identifying where you’re getting stuck, creating a roadmap for breaking through, and supporting you to take the necessary actions to succeed   To see how I can help you click here to book a time with me and we’ll go over the options. 

Your Biggest Mental Trap

I’d love to hear  what your biggest mental trap is.  Please share your thoughts below or send me a message

With warm regards

Lisa

PS Remember -to take at least one action step today to progress your most important goals.

Filed Under: Goals, Health & Wellbeing, Quotes, The Whole Baby Thing, Transformation Tagged With: achieving goals, breakthrough, goal achievement, mindset, quote, quotes, success, the mind, transformation

19/10/2017 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

Courage Is The Key To Life and Other Success Tips

 

Courage Is The Key To Life

Hi There,

Today’s ‘quote “Courage Is The Key To Life” comes from American actor, producer and narrrator Morgan Freeman.  It comes from a short interview video. 

Today’s blog includes some interesting facts about Morgan Freeman and his “10 Success Tips”.

Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman first credited appearance was in 1971.  Since then he has [Read more…]

Filed Under: Goals, Health & Wellbeing, Quotes Tagged With: achieving goals, Blocks, breakthrough, Empowerment, goals, inspiration, life goals, quotes, stuck, success blocks

10/08/2017 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

You Don’t Have To Be A Fantastic Hero …

Today’s wise words come from New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist Edmund Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008.

“You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things – to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.”
— Edmund Hillary

On 29 May 1953, Sir Edmund Percival “Ed” Hillary KG ONZ KBE  and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay  became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of  Mount Everest.

Here’s another five interesting facts about Edmund Hillary: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Goals, Health & Wellbeing, Quotes, Transformation Tagged With: achieving goals, business goals, Empowerment, goals, inspiration, life goals, quotes, transformation

22/05/2017 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

Quote: Data is not information …

Quotes

“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.”
– Clifford Stoll

Filed Under: Goals, Quotes, Transformation Tagged With: achieving goals, breakthrough, business goals, education, Empowerment, goal acheivement, goals, inspiration, life goals, quotes, self empowerment, transformation

23/02/2017 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

Quote:You Cannot Hope To Build A Better World Without …

Quotes

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.  To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
– Marie Curie

Filed Under: Goals, Health & Wellbeing, Quotes Tagged With: business goals, change, Empowerment, goal achieve, goal setting, inspiration, life goals, quotes, self empowerment, transformation

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