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“Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want,” says Tony Robbins. For the past 15 years, Robbins has been doing exactly that. As one of the most celebrated motivational speakers and life coaches in the world, Robbins has come from humble beginnings to rise to the top of his game.

He not only talks about how to achieve success; with best-selling books and seminars behind him, as well as being Chairman of five private companies that together generate over half of $1 billion, Robbins has himself become a successful entrepreneur and a model of what it takes in order to achieve your dreams.

Anthony J. Mahavorick was born on February 29, 1960 in Glendora, California, a low-income suburb of Los Angeles. When he was just seven years old, his parents divorced.

His mother would later remarry twice, and he would take on the surname of his second stepfather, Jim Robbins. An ambitious child, Robbins dreamed of one day leaving his modest upbringings behind to become a sports reporter. He attended Glendora High School and in 1977, was elected president of his student body.

The passion, for which Robbins has since become legendary, was not so beneficial to him as a child; at the age of 17, Robbins was kicked out of his house for being “too intense.”

It wasn’t long before Robbins found his niche. After discovering the motivational speaker Jim Rohn, Robbins became inspired.

He began to read personal growth books by the hundreds – over seven hundred in just a few years. He also discovered that he had a personal knack for sales, where his early career excelled.

With his voracious appetite for self-help books and his impressive sales technique, Robbins soon found himself in the seminar business.

Initially, Robbins found himself selling tickets for another popular motivational speaker.

He had an impressive ability to sell tickets to almost anyone, even breaking all the sales records in his first month. By any measure, Robbins was a success and was now in an income bracket beyond his dreams. But, Robbins wanted more for himself.

“I remember the moment my life changed, the moment I finally said, ‘’I've had it! I know I’m much more than I’m demonstrating mentally, emotionally, and physically in my life,” recalls Robbins. “I made a decision in that moment which was to alter my life forever. I decided to change virtually every aspect of my life. I decided I would never again settle for less than I can be.”

Robbins began compiling all the knowledge he had amassed over the years and developed a unique motivational seminar that he himself began delivering to public audiences.

They were fast sellouts. Then, in 1983, Robbins discovered Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a radical and relatively new therapeutic technique that Robbins would go on to study and promote in his seminars.

After only briefly studying the basic principles of NLP, Robbins hit the road with his new seminar; it turned out to be the road that would establish his career and turn him into the success he is today.

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We all know the much overused cliché of “taking baby steps” in order to achieve big things.

Maybe that is why so very few people apply this amazingly powerful principle in their lives. I call it a principle because it is absolute and universal.

If you look closely at anything in nature you will notice how physically big plants for instance only consist of a number of smaller parts. It is the culmination of all the parts that make up the “bigness” that can only become and exist through a process of growth.

Tony Robbins often talks about the power of making small incremental changes in our lives. The reason why most people never succeed is because in planning on doing too much all at once, they never take the first step in doing something small.

Incremental advances taps into one of the building blocks of our universe called compounding. Modern science attributes the principle of compounding to the very existence of our universe.

The principle of compounding simply means that growth is incremental. One becomes two, two becomes four, four becomes eight, eight become sixteen ec. This is the way the universe “expands” and this is the way your life expands.

If a big oil tanker sets off on a 5000 mile journey halfway across the globe, obviously it wants to take the shortest route by going in a straight line.

Now what if the navigation system wasn’t properly calibrated? What if his course was off by just half a degree? The answer is simple: the tanker would end up at the wrong continent.

The moral of the story is that we need to really take control of the small things for they are not just important but they are everything. When it comes to fulfilling our dreams or achieving our goals the one very important aspect to keep close to heart is the fact that it only takes one idea to transform everything.

It takes just one small adjustment that over time can have a great effect in our lives.

In the movie The Butterfly Effect with Ashton Kutcher, this principle is beautifully illustrated. The butterfly effect refers to the knock on effect that is created in the universe by a butterfly flapping it’s wings.

At first is seems almost entirely unimportant and insignificant, but over time this can actually create a hurricane or something of great effect by the accumulation of a small effort.

It is the seemingly insignificant steps that eventually create the significant leaps in our lives.

We often avoid taking the very actions necessary to make our lives extraordinary because we see these actions as insignificant. Never underestimate the power of the butterfly effect. Always reinforces your decisions with actions and keep taking action towards what you do want instead of what you fear.

Tony Robbins often talks about the same principle. He calls it “global changes.” Global changes refer to the effect of making just one change that has the power and effect to change a lot of other things simultaneously.

The challenge is that this is different for every person and most people “give up” after “failing” with two or three attempts. Know this: giving up and calling something a failure also creates a butterfly effect.

Consistent and congruent action towards the attainment of any goal is the key to building momentum. Every small action accumulates and builds on the ones before until you create a snowball that will eventually be unstoppable.

It is likely that whatever challenges you are currently facing, it could have been avoided by some simple decisions and actions previously.

James Allen pointed out that our thoughts are “things” and that our thoughts manifest themselves in our lives through circumstances and events.

It is for this reason that we need to guard the doors of our minds for every thought will create a butterfly effect which at first might seem insignificant, but can eventually have great results and consequences in your life. Entertaining negative and destructive thoughts will only serve to strengthen this effect.

Don’t ever take the apparent small things for granted. It all has an effect and it all builds on past effects to shape and direct our lives.

Use your time and your mind wisely and above all “take positive and constructive action everyday towards becoming the kind of person you ultimately want to be”.For more information on Anthony Robbins visit http://www.anthonyrobbinseurope.com

“A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.”
- Tony Robbins