Don’t mistake movement for progress:
“I’ve learned in my life not to mistake movement for achievement.”
– Tony Robbins
The meaning behind the quote:
Jim Rohn says that time in front of the prospect is the most important time.
It’s easy to fool yourself in sales by running around, but the real important time, is the time in front of the prospect.
It’s the only time that really counts.
It’s possible to be running, running, running but you have to stop and ask yourself doing what?
You may find that you’re running in figure eights.
So the big idea behind this quote is to not mistake movement for achievement and to not mistake movement as progress.
An example…
In your business or even in your personal life you should have something you can measure that shows you’re making progress. And it better if you can make it something you can proactively control. For example, in creating this website I can measure progress by the number of new posts created every week or month.
This is a number that can actively be controlled by me.
The number of visitors that come to the site is worth monitoring in connection to the number of posts to see if the posts are working, but it’s a metric that I can’t actively influence and little more out of my control. If people aren’t coming maybe the posts aren’t good enough or the competition is too steep – I should then refine my approach on the topics I write about.
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FaceBook monitors their monthly active users – for them it’s the most important metric to measure for the success of their business. If they don’t have people using their product they won’t have advertisers willing to pay. The decision they make internally should contribute to this main goal.
Other Famous Tony Robbins Quotes:
“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
“Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.”
– Tony Robbins
“When people succeed they tend to party but when they fail they tend to ponder.”
– Tony Robbins
“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”
– Tony Robbins
“Activity without purpose is the drain to a life of fulfillment.”
– Tony Robbins
“Complexity is the enemy of execution.”
– Tony Robbins
“We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.”
– Tony Robbins
“Leaders anticipate losers, react” – Tony Robbins
“We live who we believe we are”
– Tony Robbins
“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once…”
– 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”
Feel free to add or start a conversation in the comment thread below with your interpretation of this quote.
Do you agree or disagree with Tony on this quote?
What other quote comes to mind when you read this?
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