Tony Robbins' Laws of Success Part III

Here is Anthony Robbins' Laws of Success - Part Three - Focus on What You Want, Not on What You Don't Want


By Nancy Stremmel



Anthony Robbins tells a powerful story of learning to drive a race car. His teacher taught that one of the most important lessons is how to come out of a skid.



Apparently, most people focus on where they don't want to go rather than on where they do want to go. When Anthony Robbins' turn to skid came up, he knew he was supposed to keep his sights on the road ahead, but he couldn't help but look at the wall. His instructor physically turned his head to be facing back along the road. The car wheels caught, and straightened, and they managed to continue along the track without nearing the wall. The next time, a verbal reminder to Anthony Robbins was enough. The third time, Robbins was able to remind himself.



He describes this as building muscles. We need to build our "goal facing muscles" so that they can withstand any skidding and still not look at the wall.



So, this is true in our lives, and we know it. When we focus on the unpaid bills, we aren't able to pay them. When we focus on the extra money coming in, more comes in. Whhooo, hooo. Keep building your goal facing muscles.



Ask the Right Question



Matthew said, "Ask and you will receive. Seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you." And, in any study of success, inspiration always plays a big part.



Anthony Robbins tells a story of a Krakow Death Camp escapee. His name was Stanislavsky Lech, and when his home was stormed and the Nazis herded him with his family into Krakow, he watched as they were all murdered. He was put to work. Eventually, he was weak and starving, in addition to his grief, and a thought crossed his mind that he would not survive one more day in Krakow.



He changed his question from "How can there be such a terrible place" to "How can we escape from such a place?" At first the answer was the same, "There is no escape." He kept asking in slightly different ways, "How can I do it?"



Soon, he smelled rotting flesh a few feet from where he was working, and noticed that the bodies of those who had been recently gassed were piled into the back of a truck. Again, he changed the "How can God allow this to happen?" to "How can I use this to help me escape?"



When he returned from work the next evening, the truck was there. He pulled off his clothes when no one was looking and, pretending to be dead, climbed into the pile of dead bodies. He waited while the cold of the corpses pressed against him, and the smell invaded his body. The ride to the open grave wasn't long, and he was dumped along with the others. He waited until it had been quiet for some time before he dared to look around.



They were gone. He got up and ran, naked, 25 miles to freedom that night.



He was able to free himself, in part, because he asked a different question. Our intuition, or higher self, will always answer our questions. Just as it is helpful to know what we really want, it is also helpful to know where we could use some help.



Questions can put you in a better state of mind:



Not only will questions be answered, but in the meantime they can help you have a better outlook on life.



One of Anthony Robbins' favorite morning power questions is



"What am I happy about in my life right now? What about this makes me happy? How does that make me feel?"



He suggests that if your answer is "nothing", then change the "am I" to a "could I be". This is a device that allows you to imagine yourself in a place where you are happy.



A question should always be in the present tense. It is only our most mundane and stressed level of consciousness that even knows about time. We're always asking our more evolved, higher self level of consciousness for help. Our higher self is another name for our soul self. One of its helpers is our intuition.



Anthony Robbins' question above sets you up. It puts you in a good state; an open state of abundance. It makes you grateful for past gifts. We can now ask our intuition for inspiraton:



- on creative endeavors,



- for settling disputes,



- for a way out of difficult situations or



- for next steps.



We only need to ask one time, because this is a demonstration of belief. As long as our request is in our best interest, it will be answered in a big way. The answer will not always be obvious, but it will be persistent.



Intuition speaks clearly, but succinctly. It will never come with an argument or historical persuasion. (That would be your ego speaking.)



Focus on what you want, not on what you don't want:



Remember, when you are formulating your question, to ask for what you want, rather than for what you don't want. For example, you might say, "I request assistance in receiving an extra $2000 this month." You wouldn't say "What should I do?" because the answer will be "Whatever you want." You wouldn't ask "How can I pay my bills?" because the answer will be "with a check." And worse, since you are focusing on bills, with emotion, you could manifest more bills. Or even worse, as Byron Katie points out, our higher self only wants us to be happy, so if the mortgage and the car payments are causing stress, the universe could take them away to solve this problem.



As Mike Dooley says, the Universe will always find the quickest, easiest way to answer us. You have to admit, the quickest way to pay a 30 year mortgage is to remove the mortgage altogether....



So, why is it that you want more money, if this is your wish? Focus on that. You want more employees? Focus on that. You want to send your child to camp for the summer? Focus on that. You want to make some improvements to your home? Focus on that.



More on manifesting at http://www.mindbridge-loa.com/manifesting-desires.html



And watch for more on Anthony Robbins here at Ezines!



Nancy J. Stremmel is the co-owner and developer of:

http://www.Mindbridge-LOA.com, the compendium of information on the Law of Attraction. She is a writer, licensed Social Worker, educator, artist and therapist. She believes that everyone can make the Law of Attraction work for them.



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