A new year means a fresh start and a time to focus on goals and the future.
Tony Robbins finds the time to run 114 companies that have generated $8 billion in business, and he knows what keeps many people from turning their goals into reality.
“I think it's past disappointments that stop people, whether it's a relationship, a job, a career, a body,” Robbins tells Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report.”
“So what really comes up is fear: fear of failure, fear of success, fear of rejection, fear of the unknown,” he says. “The deepest fear is that if I'm not good enough, I won't be loved. And love is the oxygen of life.”
“Many people still have great fear and are afraid to hope because they have experienced so many disappointments,” he continues. “Of course, if you don't have hope, if you don't commit to something, if you don't try your best every time because you're afraid of failure, you won't make it to the end.”
When people focus on fear, they form what Robbins calls a “restricted identity.”
“I believe that the strongest force in anyone's character, in human character, is the need to be consistent in how we define ourselves. They have their own identity. So you'll hear people say things like, 'There's a difference between someone who feels depressed and someone who is clinically depressed. mosquito?”
Robbins believes that people diagnosed with depression are less likely to embrace happy moments and successes. That's because it's not part of their identity.
“We have to meet that definition. If we don't know who we are, we can't make decisions. That's because people say that someone turns 40 and is facing a midlife crisis. It's like when you speak, what's really there is an identity crisis,” he says.
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