Change Your Story Quote:
“I would say change your story, change your life, because whatever your story is, becomes the shaper of all your perceptions. What you’re going to try or not try to do. The problem is most people are so addicted to telling that same story all over again. It does become their prison.” – Tony Robbins
Meaning Behind This Quote:
Tony Robbins and the Elephant story is a perfect illustration to help you understand the deeper meaning behind this quote:
“There’s a corny metaphor, but it’s true. I remember one time I was with my family at the circus and there was a person, and they had this big giant elephant.
And you look at this elephant, and they take this little rope put around their neck, and they drive the stake into the ground. You look at this, you know that elephant could rip down the entire tent with almost no effort.
And yet the elephant doesn’t struggle.
Doesn’t try. Why?
Because the elephants conditioned.
They condition the elephant when it was a baby elephant. That’s how they train them when it’s a little baby elephant and it doesn’t have the power yet.
They put a big rope around it’s neck, and they drive this huge stake in the ground and the elephant fights and fights and fights. And one day, finally, that elephant decides I’m not capable of pulling this out.
And once that becomes the definition of an identity of anyone, an elephant in this case, they don’t even try anymore. It’s just who I am. That’s how it is. That’s just the way it is in my life.
I’d like to ask you to take a look at any place you’ve got a limitation and ask yourself, when did I decide to accept that limitation?”
Other Famous Tony Robbins Quotes:
“Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.”
– Tony Robbins
“The quality of your life is directly related to the quality of your communication.”
– Tony Robbins
“We all have an identity — a set of beliefs that define who we are, what we can and cannot or will not do. And it’s based mostly on our past — some of which is painful, and some pleasurable.”
– Tony Robbins
“Knowledge is not power, knowledge is potential power, knowledge is trumped every day by execution.”
– Tony Robbins
“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”
– Tony Robbins
“Long ago, I realized that success leaves clues, and that people who produce outstanding results do specific things to…”
– Tony Robbins
“I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.”
– Tony Robbins
“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you”
– Tony Robbins
“Progress equals happiness. Even if you’re not where you want to be yet. If you’re on the road, if you’re improving, if you’re making progress, you’re gonna love it. You’re gonna feel alive.”
– Tony Robbins
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
– Tony Robbins
“If you talk about it, it’s a dream. If you envision it, it’s possible. If you schedule it, it’s real.”
– Tony Robbins
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.”
– Tony Robbins
Success
Quotes
“In life you need either inspiration or desperation.”
Happiness
Quotes
“I can tell you the secret to happiness in one word: progress.”
Time Management quotes
“If you talk about it, it’s a dream. If you envision it, it’s possible. If you schedule it, it’s real.”
Self Discipline
Quotes
“Complexity is the enemy of execution.”
Questions
Quotes
“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”
Change Your Life Quotes
“We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.”
Fear
Quotes
“It takes no courage to be a pessimist, to say it’s not going to work”
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