Our idea of a real problem is someone else's idea of an ultimate dream. Put the 'problem' in perspective
Tony RobbinsRead
Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.
Interpretation
Making a committed decision can transform your life.
This quote by Tony Robbins emphasizes the profound impact that deliberate and aligned decisions have on an individual's life. It suggests that true change occurs when one makes conscious choices that resonate with their values and goals, leading to a transformative shift in circumstances and mindset.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire young adults to take charge of their lives.
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!
Rwanda has emerged from the devastation of genocide and become more secure and prosperous than anyone had a right to expect.
What was it Catelyn Stark had called them, that night at Bitterbridge? The knights of summer. And now it was autumn and they were falling like leaves.
To resolve the climate crisis, good will, statements of intent are not enough. We are at breaking point.
Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so.
The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.
Nothing in the past is as powerful as what we choose to do in the present moment.
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