Look. Would you not eat my pants . Ah nothing like ending a long week by repeatedly watching someone getting knocked over by a goat and hearing a goat scream. Have a good weekend, everybody. And watch your backs. Thats it for us. Lifenot about me, its about we. The secret to success. Add more value than anybody else does and youll have a chance to win. Happiness is not here every moment. Happiness isnt all its cracked up to be. And keeping america great. Our celebration of innovation and enterprise, our hard work and responsibility, these are constants in our character. We used to be able to have a dialogue, and today its youre right, youre wrong. People you never forget. The moment you were shot. What goes through your mind . Youve just got to get away. I went to combat four times. But i count my life as my fifth combat. I havent found any place where the human spirit is limited. For the hour, this is peers morgan tonight. Good evening. President obama sworn in for a second term. America facing the next four years with great promise and much uncertainty. A tough time in the nation with a struggling economy, Hurricane Sandy and the tragedy in newtown. For answers and hope, Teddy Robbins gives us both of those things. Hes changed lives around the world. Now he has a message for you and america. Hes brought a special guest with him. Welcome back. Thank you for having me back. I cant think of a better guy, really, to have here. I get a feeling its a really overriding feeling. America is hurting right now. America feels vulnerable, fearful, and you see this because of the gun crisis. Yes. You see it because of the financial crisis. Theres just a crisis of confidence generally amongst americans. Do you feel that . And what is the answer . Well, theres no single answer. You cant change the world overnight, but you can change yourself. I think the biggest challenge we face is were not just missing our confidence because were out of control. Were missing our confidence because we need to retool. The world has changed. Most people say you have to deal with change. Change is automatic. Progress is not. If you want to make progress, you and i have to develop more than selfconfidence. We have to have selfdiscipline and selfcontrol. Were part of a culture that taught us to build up your kids selfesteem. You cant get selfesteem from somebody else. You have to earn it from yourself. Selfesteem is from yourself. You only get that by pushing yourself to do things that are incredibly difficult. When you have discipline and selfcontrol and a sense of confidence or certainty, thats when people change their lives. Our country has had a series of events that has produced enormous uncertainty. We need to retool, not just get more confident. Some of the great periods in American History have followed extremely bad periods, postthe second world war. Rebuilding america in spectacular fashion. This isnt the worst time americas been through, not by a long way. I think the perspective has to be brought into this, right . Its perspective, but also understanding there are seasons. Every season gets different benefits and different pains or problems. If you were born in 1910, by the time you were 19 years old, it was 1929. As you were coming of age, people were jumping out of buildings. By you were 29, 1929, it looked like the world was going to end with hitler coming back. People developed emotional muscle. Not just intelligence, but a readiness that a lot of them changed the world. I think this is our season for development. Thats not just being positive, its just saying, heres the truth. Trauma either destroys you or drives you. We have to make the choice. Lets listen to something president obama said in his inauguration speech this week. A decade of war is now ending. An economic recovery has begun. Americas possibilities are limitless. For we possess all the qualities that this World Without boundaries demands. Youth and drive, diversity and openness, an endless capacity for risk, and a gift for reinvention. My fellow americans, we are made for this moment. And we will seize it, so long as we seize it together. The president there sounding upbeat. Acknowledging its been a tough time. There are challenges obviously ahead. How is he doing do you think . A lot of this comes from the leader in terms of the spirit of the country. In terms of its ability to resurge, if you like. Is obama the right man . Do you like what you see for maybe the second term obama already . I love the man. I voted for him originally. I actually went to a meeting with 18 of the top executives, the guys that started google. And in the meeting, everybody was a big supporter. I said, mr. President , i love your heart. I absolutely believe in your intelligence. I know you care. I voted for you the first time but i said i would love to know how its going to be different when theres such demonization going on. I think thats the significant problem in our country. Its not one person. We used to be able to have a dialogue. Today its youre right, youre wrong. That process happens in the gun debate, its happening everywhere in this country. I had a conversation with him and said, listen, if you think the solution that youre telling me youre going to do in your next term is youre going to raise taxes on the wealthy, im more than willing to pay that. Im supportive of that. But that will raise 80 billion. Even less now because they cut it from 250 as the cutoff. That will run the country for eight days. 10. 4 billion a day. Thats not even going to scratch the 1. 1 trillion. What else are we going to do . He said i think what will happen is the republicans will have a kickaround and well start working together. Theres no chance of coming up with an intelligent compromise. The president afterwards, he said, i think this is enough of this conversation. He said tony has given us creative tension and he pulled me aside and said, come to the white house and well talk about this. We have to have a unifying message. Were missing that right now. As you say, somethings changed in america. Now there are many rivals for that position. That will increase over the next few decades. America has to respond. It cant respond perhaps in the way it would have done 50 years ago. The president has his hands full, to be fair. He talked about the worst day of his presidency with sandy hook. But youre right, there needs to be unifying vision. Someone is saying, kennedy, were going to go to space, or have this war on poverty. Right now our goals are to pay our bills. Its hard to get people to find a way to power themselves when what theyre aspiring to is depressing. Thats not just the president s fault, its true, the leadership of our country has to say, heres where were going to go. We can pay our bills and were going to be okay. To be fair to the president , i think when you see tears in his eyes, its about the issue of there being a future for young people for the next generation. Tell me this. What is this future going to be in terms of America Incorporated as a Business Model . Because a lot of the things that america used to be great for, manufacturing, for example, theyve changed so dramatically and become so global, you cant really go back and do that again. Even if you have the money to do it. America needs to find other Business Models, doesnt it. It is. Its in the middle of it. Were in the middle of that process. In manufacturing, theres been growth primarily because we found the new technologies to bring us energy. We have more natural gas than saudi arabia has oil. People are coming back here because its cheaper to do business in america. I think whats more important is the average american. The average american, if were sitting and waiting for the government to come up with the answer for us, the president to come up with a vision, youll have a problem. If youve been on unemployment for 12 million americans, those jobs probably arent coming back. Its time to retool and say where is the next opportunity, is it in health care, is it in green. Where am i going to get the skills. The government is going to step up and say heres a pathway. Youve got to find it yourself. Weve seen apple and starbucks make a turn in the water. You talked about that the last time i was on. Apple has since then done so. It was a start. But its about the principle, really, of Great American companies in the tech world. They lead the world. But a lot of the stuffs outsourced outside of america. That doesnt really help the american jobs market, even though by being Successful Companies they do in that way. Yes. I think youve got to look at it in the context, talking about looking back through history. If you and i were having this discussion 100 years ago, 40 of americans were farmers. Now its just 2 . We dont just feed america, we feed the world. Its a chance for us to take those resources and redeploy them. Whats missing is the leadership saying heres where youve got to go. I donated 1 million meals last year. My foundation, 4 million meals. If you take people for two years and take care of them and dont give them new skills, they lose confidence. They lose certainty. And i find that theyre going to become institutionalized and not be a part of the new future. I think our job is to say here are the tools to get you to the next level of your life, so you can create the new american revolution. When you talk about this transformation, the posttraumatic stress in all its guises to postdraw traumatic growth, what do you mean . Most people know about posttraumatic stress, and it severely affects them for the rest of their life, they cant sleep, nightmares. But there are people who have gone through the exact same trauma and they found in themselves the drive where theyre no longer broken and they heal. Theres three things people find. If you make it to the growth side, where youre expanding and able to deal with it, the number one thing is you find out youre bigger than any of that. You find out who your real friends are. Not your facebook friends, your friends who show up, and those relationships, they deepen. The third thing is, its almost like you have antibodies. What people do is they decide, i wont be beaten by this. They draw a line in the sand and go, i know if i continue down this road, my lifes over. They make that decision. What they do is find something bigger than themself to go after, a mission. A woman loses her Family Member to drunk driving, she started madd, for example. Shes making that shift. She has a Mission Larger than herself. They start stacking the small victories. Out of that they get emotional muss am and theyre able to help other people. Does it apply to any other form of trauma, or are there grades of trauma . Ive seen it happen with people who have lost their children, ive seen it with people who have witnessed the death of people around them, people have lost limbs. I havent found any place where the human spirit is limited. I want to bring out a survivor of a high school shooting. Hes in a wheelchair. Hes an incredible story, a young man, i know youve been working with him. And i want to find out what you think of him. With the spark cash card from capital one, sven gets great rewards for his Small Business how does this thing work . 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A 17yearold opened fire killing three students and wounding three others. Tony robbins is my special guest of the hour. Welcome to you both. Thank you. I remember this happening. Another outrage involving guns in america. Let me start with you, nick, if i may. You were shot four times. You were paralyzed after what happened. Youre in a wheelchair now. The moment that you were shot, what goes through your mind . What i really what was going through my mind was i had to get out of the high school. And really, nothing else flows through your mind. Youve just got to get away. You dont have time to think about anything else. You were a fit, young sportsloving boy at school, suddenly youre in a wheelchair. The moment of realization for you when you know that that is going to be certainly for the foreseeable future, your new life, it must be a crushing thing to have to deal with. How did you deal with it . I had a lot of support. The community, my friends, and my family. Probably the best thing that i could ever ask for. Did you despair . I mean, i did, yeah. I did. But like i said, the community, friends and family did help me out. And they helped me not be so upset about what really happened. Ive just got to move on. Nick, im curious, was there a stage where some part of you just realized if i stay in this place of pain, it will be for the rest of my life, and then you made a decision to change . Or what do you think helped you to start to make the shift besides your family . What was it that they did that helped you . Well, i had a lot of support from other people texting me and calling me that are in wheelchairs. And one of thems scott hasel. Hes in a while chair. A great guy. He answers any question i have. Was he involved in the shooting at all is this. No. He was in a diving accident. He was able to talk you through, i guess, the psychological journey you were going to go on. Right. Because hes been there. Yeah. Because hes paralyzed, too. He knows exactly what i went through. People will tell me, you know, yeah, i know. If i tell them its hard for me, theyll be like, yeah, i know. But they dont know. You dont know. Somebody whos been paralyzed, and let me come to you, this is every mothers nightmare. This is your son. Hes 17, as he was at the time. And suddenly his whole life changes. I guess your first feeling is, thank god hes alive. And then you have to deal with the fact that hes paralyzed. What was it like for you as his mother . It really didnt happen that way. It was i think it was just denial at first. I said, nick was shot. Then somebody said, oh, he was shot through the shoulder. You know, youre like, okay, what happened . What is going on . You see it all over the news. And then when i got to the hospital it was a lot different. It was like, wow, this is my son. And i just remember him looking at me and he said, mom, i cant feel my legs. And that was one of the hardest things to hear in your whole life, you know. What is the prognosis, nick . They said that they were cautiously optimistic when they came out of surgery. So were still hoping and praying. You never know. Tony, its interesting, listening to nick there, that for all the love and support you can get from family, obviously led by holly, but many friends, family, texting and all that, thats helpful. Yes. In making you feel a little bit better. But actually, theres really the words for me, a young man whos been through a similar thing. Is that something you should look for . A particular support group, knows exactly what youve been through. Its somebody whos been through it, but has an outlook that looks positive. All human beings when we go through trauma, what gets us through today is if we have a promising tomorrow. Tomorrow may not be that im able to run, but tomorrow is, i can have a beautiful relationship, i can become a person who has impact. Thats the number one thing. Something that makes you say, theres something i value more than my today pain. And its a tomorrow that i want to create for myself. He has that. You can see it in his eyes. We talked about it beforehand. The second thing that usually gets people through this, and i say through it, have a quality of life still. There are people who have all the use of their limbs and have a horrible life. They live in pain and frustration. And there have been people through hell on earth and they have promising lives. If managing your own thoughts and selfdiscipline and selfcontrol, but its also having a mission bigger than yourself. Since youve been helped, i talk about each one teach one, i wonder if you would go with me to the families of sandy hook and do what you did. Youre already doing unbelievably well. I had a chance to meet you backstage. I think you could go to another level. What do you think of that . I would love that. Lets do it together. Shake on it . He came to me a few days after the tragedy at sandy hook and said that me and some of my friends want to go there. We want to talk to them and tell them how it feels, you know, that youre going to be angry, youre going to be sad. Every day is going to be so different. Yes. And it will come back. Then it will go away. There are two traumatic situations. One is being paralyzed. The other one is actually having been shot in a massacre situation, which is really the stuff of nightmares. I suppose my question for you is, how hard is it for you . You seem such a calm, confident young man, despite whats happened to you. How hard is it when other shootings happen, and you hear or read about it . Does that bring it all back . Yeah. It brings me a little confusion, too. Like i just dont understand why all this happens. This isnt what america was made for. You know, its just sad. Its really sad. What can really make the difference is things happen in life, and when theyre meaningless, the pain never goes away. I have the use of my life, but people who have dealt with your situation is when they can find, because this happened, i can make Something Else better for another human being. Thats when theres a positive meaning. You dont wish it on anybody. But only people who have gone through spiritual pain have the spiritual strength to heal other people. I dont mean it in a religious experience. You have that power, because you made that shift in yourself. This can be the beginning of that journey. What ambitions do you have . Has it changed your outlook . Do you have particular goals now . Obviously one would be to get out of the wheelchair. But aside from that. Have you set things for yourself that you want to achieve . Well, obviously i had to switch around my career a little bit. That i was aiming for. But i really just want a good career. What would you want to be . I wanted to be just an electrician, in the union. I dont believe that can happen practically right now. So im actually taking an auburn class, which is an alternative study class for any electrical components. Im going to switch to Small Electronics instead. Good for you. Ill see what i can do with that. Same kind of thing, just a different way of doing it. Right. Which is adapting to whats happened to you. Nick, holly, thank you so much for coming in. Its an awful story, but inspiring story. I think your attitude is absolutely the right one. I think its right, go to sandy hook and help there. Its a great example of how you give back and get on with things. Thank you very much. Thank you. When we come back, tony and i will talk to a former marine about the posttraumatic battles hes faced in afghanistan and other war zones, and now conquering at home. I have low testosterone. There, i said it. How did i know . Well, i didnt really. 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He has ptsd something many war heroes suffer from. Its powerful and moving address you gave there. You can see the physical effects. You were shaking and youve clearly been through all sorts of trauma, in different ways. Before you met tony, what was your life like . I was doing a lot of current therapy, you know, psychiatry, psychology, which i started in 2011. 2010, i started doing trying to figure out my life, because i went through a second divorce. And so i didnt understand the whole process, why was i feeling this way. So i started to seek treatment at that time. I was going to acupuncture, healing touch, meditation. Did it help, any of that . Yes. It was helping to an extent, you know. Like i said, i was just 20plus years in the marine corps. I had severe trauma at a child which i didnt realize was a problem until, you know, i just added more stuff after more stuff in my life. Tell them what the sim tms were at the time. Basically, insomnia. I sleep probably four or five hours a night. But i would wake up probably every 45 minutes to every hour. You know, i had severe tremors. I was before i knew of my light sensitivity, i always had headaches and migraines. I would have to go into dark rooms, take a nap. And, you know, i would just be breaking down myself in a sense. What was the rock bottom moment for you . The rock bottom moment for me, in a sense, was it was after my second divorce. Just being i pushed so many people away. I couldnt figure out why i felt this way. I deployed eight times. You know, i went to combat four times, but i count my life as my fifth combat. You know, the deployment. Ive been fighting myself prior to in my younger age, until my age i am, 39 years old, when i went to date with destiny september 1st, where i needed to get a little bit of motivation, because here i am about to retire from the marine corps. Tony, there are tens of thousands of American Service men and women who go through similar trauma. Its been a terrible period for the american military. Constantly in combat in various countries. What do you say in that situation . It isnt just saying. Weve done this with hundreds of Wounded Warriors and different soldiers. Inside every human being, we have trauma. His was extreme trauma. Theres a personality in him that was beyond wounded. But inside of everyone, theres a part of you thats whole and strong. Thats truly untouched by the experience. So he was trying to express his pain. I felt that. Then i got him to connect to a part of himself that is whole. This part you can see on camera, we gave it a name. The name was tigger. When he changed to that kind of personality, his glasses came off, he was able to see without the headaches. He stopped tremoring. He had been shaking like this for hours. All that stopped literally in minutes. An hour later he was on stage with a group of, about 2,500 people from 80 countries rocking them, sharing his mission for his life. He found something greater than his pain. He found something he wanted to serve, like he served for his country. Now its to serve other people. Is that a regular people for people coming out of combat zones, i have military people in my family, even when theyre home, they get listless and restless, and start to feel strange, just not being where theyre used to being, in that dangerous environment. We dont know how to open up, or express our tell our story either. Thats also part of the problem. And the other part, too, as well, is being accepted in society. You know, because theres a brotherhood in the services around the world. And we have a problem when we come out of the service, you know, to the civilian world where people will judge us and use if they find out about our trauma, in one way or another, will use that against us. There is no brotherhood that i would say in a civilian community. When you see people who have gone through, what my previous guest went through, a school shooting, a young man and all the trauma thats happened to him. What do you think of that . What advice would you give him . Basically he has to take back his life. Finding forgiveness, you know, its more finding forgiveness for himself so he can find peace in his life. He has so much potential that hes able to basically be able to impact and change so many peoples lives. Tony, is that a regular thing, too, if you feel too angry and bitter about whats happened to you, thats a huge barrier to being able to get through it . Its not just a barrier to get through it, science shows five minutes of rage, you certainly have the right to have, and what hes been through in his life, will shut down literally your immune system for four hours. What successful people do is they stack victories. Thats also what we did with him. We said theres a different set of rules. You cant come as a marine, youve got to come as a guy who was whole. What was it like before. When he tapped into the playful guy who has this jump in his step and is laughing, thats when the glasses came off and he said i want people to see my baby blues. People were cheering. He felt people at the human level. Its also having something you value more than your pain. He values mission. He values being able to make a difference. He has a new mission back here at home. Good for you. Thank you for your service. Thank you. Which is still actually ongoing. More importantly, it was your life in the combat you made, extraordinary to see. Thank you. Good to see. A man who lost everything, and is now worth 50 million. Well find out how he did it, coming up next. With the spark cash card from capital one, olaf gets great rewards for his Small Business pizza [ garth ] olafs Small Business earns 2 cash back on every purchase, every day helium delivery. Put it on my spark card [ pop ] [ garth ] why settle for less . Great businesses deserve great rewards awesome [ male announcer ] the spark Business Card from capital one. Choose unlimited rewards with 2 cash back or double miles on every purchase, every day whats in your wallet . Im here with tony robbins. Millions of americans are still out of work. My next guest knows exactly how they feel. Mike is a Business Owner who lost everything in 2008. I mean everything. Now hes overcome that financial ruin and runs two businesses with revenues worth 50 million. Congratulations. Thank you. Its been a roller coaster ride. Youve known tony for 17 years. And youve been up and down in that period of time. Correct. Tell me quickly the journey youve been on. I started off coming from a very challenging background, single mother, raised by a single mother. Had no education. And really, no hope. And what i always say, i was lucky that i was put in front of an icon of empowerment. He is. Every time i interview him, i feel empowered. Thats true. What he is is an incredible educator. By the grace of the universe i was able to fall in the lap of this educator. He helped get me out of that place where i was, where there was no home. He was homeless at the time. What i love about mikes story, is mike just didnt help himself, he started a Small Business to start with. One of the young women who worked for him was addicted to meth. How did you end up in your new business . The young woman had come to work for me a number of years ago. You could tell something was wrong. She was addicted to methamphetamine. She was completely off drugs in a few days. It ournd out her father, her dad was incredibly successful in the Metal Recycling business. I got a call from him shortly thereafter who said anybody who has influence over human beings like this needs to help. He taught me the business. Seven months later he allowed me to buy him out. Years later, i continued to grow and grow and grow. Amazing. Until 2008. You built up this 13 million business. And then you literally almost lost it overnight in the big crash of 08. It was interesting. Four months before the crash, tony calls me and says, mike, you need to prepare. And as everyone in the country kept saying, were strong. The economists are saying, were strong. I didnt listen to him. I should have listened to him. Why wouldnt you listen to tony robbins . Things were going great. That was mainly thanks to him. I know. Thats true. Overnight, as you know, the economy collapses. The metal business completely collapses. When that happened to you, and having gone from literally nothing, you were a homeless guy to 13 million business, and then it all disappears, what was that like for you . I didnt care about losing the material possessions. I had a 3yearold son at the time. Hes now 7. The only thing that was going through my mind was, how do i face my son. From the day he came home from the hospital, i was determined he was not going to grow up in the same environment that i did. And all i wanted to do is have my little boy sit on my lap when he was old enough and say, you know what, theres nothing you cant do. You can become anything. I dont want my boy to look up at me and say, daddy, if thats true, why havent you done it. That was what was crushing my heart. I just could not fail. And come up with an excuse for this little boy. Tony, can anybody be like this . Or do you have to have a little bit of ferocity of spirit . I think ferocity of spirit is critical for everybody. But we all have it. Do we all have it . Sure we do. But courage unused becomes weaker. Passion unexpressed gets smaller. Like any muscle, the more you use it. Hes been using it for years. His son, heres the other thing, he had a reason larger than himself. At the time he said he was worried about his employees and he really cares about his people. But you have to make that shift or its no longer an excuse. If you give yourself an excuse, humans will take it. He burned the boats and said ill find the answer. He shifted to psychology and got the skills. Like i said earlier, its not just confidence. You have to have skill. He has both. Tell them what you did. After that particular business mastering program, as tony said, 80 of it is psychology, and 20 of it is mechanics, or the strategies. Unless you get the psychology down, the mechanics dont matter. I can tell you, from that day in november of 2008, where i made that decision, that i was not going to fail, and i kissed my lady and said, im going back to work, and we went out there and i learned how to export. And when there was no market for steel in the united states, i was able to export to several different countries. And we took off from there. We continued to grow. And it was just, again, about a mindset. Its about having a level of pride. For me, it was coming from where i come from, the name didnt mean a whole heck of a lot. I was determined to change that. Its something i call generational influence. Im doing this for my son, not for me. Is that good advice, tony . There are millions and millions of americans out of work. Many suffering very hurt pride. And real financial hardship. Is that a good focus to look at children, to look at other things and say, you know what, stop feeling sorry for myself, its for him, for her, for that. Most of the i think whats beautiful about most human beings is well do more for people we love than ourselves. If you just try to do something for yourself, you only get a certain level of pride inside. If you do it for others, it comes to a level of insight. Mike got the belief out of Business Mastery that money is still changing hands. I need to see how to get that. How do i add value and where is that value available. What do you say to the people suffering in america right now . Tony is absolutely right. We need to take the focus off of ourselves and stop feeling sorry about ourselves. Its about serving humanity, about serving people. Its all about service. And we have just got to get out there. Tony talked about earlier about retooling. Its about learning new skills. When i talked about finding an icon of empowerment, whether its anthony robbins, whether its someone like oprah winfrey, a school or university, you need to get in there and learn the new skills. Then youve got to get out there and youve got to perform by serving. Serving humanity. It isnt about me, it isnt about me making money or dollar amount, its about protecting the people that i love, the people that i care about. If you follow that formula, you cannot fail. Bitterness and anger and resentment, selfpity is also a complete waste of time and energy. Its perfectly understandable. All of those emotions are just barriers to getting back on your feet, arent they . Thats correct. All emotions serve. Anger, frustration, its all valuable, but not if you live there. All those emotions that create pain, theyre designed to get you to change, to do something. If you just sit and live in the emotion, and you dont do anything, the pain just gets deeper and it becomes your groove and your grave. If you shift those emotional stages, which we teach people to do, physically, not fake positive thinking, but with a real strategy, a real action plan, thats all business is, add more value than anybody else does and youll have a chance to win. Thats what hes done. Great story. Mike, good to meet you. My pleasure. Tony gives you five ways to immediately change your life. With the spark cash card from capital one, sven gets great rewards for his Small Business how does this thing work . Oh, i like it [ garth ] svens Small Business earns 2 cash back on every purchase, every day woohoo so thats ten security gators, right . Put them on my spark card why settle for less . Testing hot tar. Great businesses deserve great rewards [ male announcer ] the spark Business Card from capital one. Choose unlimited rewards with 2 cash back or double miles on every purchase, every day whats in your wallet . Back now with special guest tony robbins. Its been a fascinating hour to meet people from very different experiences. Common things is theyve all had knocks in their lives of different degrees which cause a lot of emotions. Its how you deal with those emotions. Youve got a fivepoint plan anyone can follow to get over stress and trauma in their lives. Walk me through it. The quality of your life is the quality of where you live emotional. Angry people find a way to be angry. Sad people find a way to be sad. Caring people find a way to be caring for other people. One thing to identify is whats your home, whats your habit. Then the way to change it when i was homeless on my own just Getting Started i decided i had to go to a library and feed my mind. Weeds grow automatically. One teach i said stand at the guard door i dont have our mind and feed it. If your best friend by accident puts some poison in, youre dead. If you feed your mind every day. Second strengthen your body. Fear is physical. Right . So is stagnation, numbness, rage. When you change your body by an intense workout or run or walk, science shows it instantly changes your biochemistry. Third thing all these people in common, they found a mission bigger than themselves. Something they want to aspire to more than their pan. Then youve got to find a role model. You heard it with nick. Almost everybody finds a role model that makes it real. I was with Warren Buffett and sarah blakely. When women meet her, they dont just love spanx, her product. They love her because shes a role model of whats possible. If you get a goal plan and take massive action, its real. The last step, theres always more worse off than you are i dont care what youve done. If you can help somebody worse off, it puts your life in perspective. Its not about me, its about we. The secret to a great life is giving. When you realize theres something still to give even if you lost your legs and have been through a horrific financial situation, your life can improve. But more importantly youll have a meaningful life. Youre a fabulously successful, rich, famous, super fit, good looking guy. You sound like youre describing yourself. Not quite on the same fitness levels. If you can have any one thing you can have money, good health, the fame that allows you to inspire people. What would you choose as the one thing . Certainly i think without health youre not able to do anything. But i think its a life of meaning. I know it is. Feeling like your life matters. Because you have the experience. You and i both have friends whove achieved everything they dreamed of and are miserable. Theyre missing a meaningful life. Meaning comes from two things. Happiness comes from progress. If you can do something where youre growing and because you have grown you have something to give to other people that is meaningful, insight, love, caring, something. Then life is rich. Happiness comes and goes. It isnt all its cracked up to be. Meaning is. I met a woman who was 109 years old and was in the holocaust, that womans life is so rich because of all the pain shes used that to help other people. She does the things that makes she has a full life. Please come back soon. Thank you very much. Tony robbins. And well be right back. With the spark cash card from capital one, olaf gets great rewards for his Small Business pizza [ garth ] olafs Small Business earns 2 cash back on every purchase, every day helium delivery. Put it on my spark card [ pop ] [ garth ] why settle for less . Great businesses deserve great rewards awesome [ male announcer ] the spark Business Card from capital one. 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