Our idea of a real problem is someone else's idea of an ultimate dream. Put the 'problem' in perspective
Tony RobbinsRead
I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and would never have to worry.
Interpretation
Helping others achieve their goals can lead to your own success.
This quote emphasizes the principle of reciprocity in achieving personal success. Tony Robbins suggests that by focusing on assisting others in attaining their desires and aspirations, one inevitably creates a pathway for their own fulfillment and goals, highlighting the interconnectedness of our ambitions with those of others.
In practice
This quote can be used during a motivational speech about leadership.
Our idea of a real problem is someone else's idea of an ultimate dream. Put the 'problem' in perspective
There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome... If you can handle rejection, you'll learn to get everything you want.
What's the ultimate price I'll pay if I don't stop this indulgence now? By asking questions like this, they'll associate pain to overeating, and their behavior will change immediately.
Happiness and success in life are not the result of what we have, but rather of how we live. What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life.
As a species, we're not only wired to choose today over tomorrow, but we hate to feel like we're losing out on something. The bottom line is, if we feel like we're losing something we avoid it, we won't do it. That's why so many people don't save and invest. Saving sounds like you're giving something up, you're losing something today. But you're not.
Any Idiot can point out a problem .... A leader is willing to do something about it! Leaders solve problems!
What's important to me is that all of my books are in print - and, in a way, that becomes the challenge, not winning this prize or getting that review. It's that the work is there, and you can walk into many bookshops throughout the world and buy it.
Without Fred Taylor I would never have become the player I became. Because he was selling defense and I bought it.
I've worked hard, but this business can be tough, and I just consider myself incredibly lucky to have had the career that I have, and to still be having so much fun playing drums and making music.
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
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