Case study: Anthony Robbins, part 2

Case study: Anthony Robbins, part 2

This is my last post in my case study series for now. In future case studies, I may research and write about Bill Gates and other millionaires and billionaires, and I even intend to write an article on how to become a billionaire, based on my research here on my ideas site.

This article is about the psychological side to what Anthony Robbins talks about and how we can adapt his ideas and what he does to our use, which is making money and becoming rich.

The key difference between quotes by people like Warren Buffett and quotes by Anthony Robbins is that Anthony Robbins' quotes are mainly psychological and mainly rhetoric meant for motivation and self motivation purposes. Warren Buffett quotations, on the other hand, have some use in terms of what they teach in terms of logic, in terms of real ideas on how to make money, and in terms of real principles of finance and principles of how to make money on the stock market, as well as the occasional quip here and there. Therefore, the only real use for Anthony Robbins for our purposes for making money is to see what he does and to answer the question if what he does is replicable for us or not.

That is not to say that Anthony Robbins' psychological motivation and the good words that he has are not useful; they are - it's just that between such words and the quotes from a wise man who invests in the stock market, you would probably want to choose the man who knows how to make money.

I have already written some of the psychological and motivational quotes from Anthony Robbins in my earlier post, and here are some more famous quotes from Anthony Robbins that have inspired me psychologically. Bear in mind that these are good pieces of advice in their own right, but we shall not focus on them; we shall just read them then go on to analyse what he does in terms of how he makes his money and how we can learn to become rich.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Having dealt with the psychological part, the next question is what tangible lessons can we learn from Anthony Robbins? This site is all about ideas on how to become rich and ideas on making money, after all. How can he teach us to make money and become rich?

1. Motivational seminars are low cost events that can have the potential to make a lot of money. Yet it seems that you need to be already recognised or have the potential to be recognised, before this is a good option for you to make your money from this kind of thing. You will also need skills and abilities to convince people to come to your seminars and to listen to what you have to say, and above all, feel that their money has been well spent on your advice and motivational ideas.

2. Writing books on motivation may turn out to be a more important and better way of making money, because this one does not require you to be recognised first, if you are a good writer and you can find a good and reputable publisher. Yet it also seems to me that if you want to become rich doing this, you may need to write many books and ultimately you face the same dilemma that you need to be famous in order to make more money. That is, you can make some money from writing motivational books. But the real money in it is not from writing motivational books and being unrecognised, but rather in writing motivational books then becoming very recognised and then from there branching out into motivational talks and other such stuff. Then, and only then, will future books earn you a lot of income. Therefore, the fame factor still comes into play when writing books to make money.

3. NLP. This is actually a very controversial field, and I even have written entire articles about it elsewhere. It plays almost no role in our study because we are now ignoring the psychological part of making money and looking into how we can actually, tangibly, make money and become rich using Anthony Robbins' ideas.

4. Acting. Above all, Anthony Robbins is a performer and an actor. He can make money doing this but this might not be a good idea for most of us and the majority of us will never be famous actors or performers. Yet this does not rule out the fact that one or two of you readers may become famous actors or performers or even famous TV personalities. Anthony Robbins is basically teaching us to leverage on our strengths to make money.

In conclusion, here are the aspects of money making that really matter - the ideas on how to become rich that we have extracted from Anthony Robbins' ideas:

1. Motivational seminars are low cost events that have the potential to make a money. Yet you need to be already recognised or have the potential to be recognised.

2. Writing books on motivation may turn out to be a more important and better way of making money, because this one does not require you to be recognised first, if you are a good writer and you can find a good and reputable publisher. Yet it also seems to me that if you want to become rich doing this, you may need to write many books and ultimately you face the same dilemma that you need to be famous in order to make more money. Therefore, the fame factor still comes into play when writing books to make money.

3. NLP. This is actually a very controversial field, and I even have written entire articles about it elsewhere.

4. Acting. Above all, Anthony Robbins is a performer and an actor. Anthony Robbins is basically teaching us to leverage on our strengths to make money.

Thanks for reading and there will be more finance articles coming in future posts here on my site on Ideas on how to become rich. Recently in Sep and Oct 2008, with economic conditions worldwide becoming bad, with subprime in the USA and a crisis of confidence in banking worldwide, there is an even more pressing need to be financially educated and wise with money and investments, so I will try my best to educate, share ideas, teach and suggest. Stay tuned for more here on my great site! Thank you.

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Case Study: Anthony Robbins, part 1

Case Study: Anthony Robbins, part 1

Welcome to my case study on Anthony Robbins and how to make money and become rich by studying what he does. Some of my friends have asked me why is it I haven't written anything about Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and the other more famous/ "common"/ established billionaires, who have definitely got skills in making money, but have instead chosen to focus on several other people instead. Well, here's a couple of justifications before I write on Anthony Robbins and how he makes his money.

Firstly, I am definitely going to write about Bill Gates and other billionaires, and indeed I am going to attempt to write an article here on my Ideas on How to Become Rich site on "How to become a billionaire", but that will be in another post. That will be an epic post, and it will be good, trust me!

Secondly, these people I have chosen for my case studies are all special in their own way. Warren Buffett is a billionaire, but he is quite unlike other billionaires. He makes money in a special and unique way that should be analysed and read seriously, and I have done that. If you have learnt anything and taken away some knowledge and absorbed some materials for your own good, then that's great and I have achieved some measure of financial education. Trump is also a billionaire, and his area is in real estate, as well as other fields in which he makes money and we can learn from those fields. Kiyosaki is someone who is not that rich but has made it, and he makes money in a manner different from the other two while espousing quite unique views (true or not, depends on which of my analyses you believe - the pro Kiyosaki, or the anti-Kiyosaki).

So having said that, this will be the last post in this series of case studies, and I will resume the series later. I will be writing about financial topics, finance and other financial matters and of course the theme is still on how to become rich and how to make money.

Without further ado: Anthony Robbins, part 1

Anthony Robbins is not that famous worldwide, and he is not as rich as Bill Gates or Warren Buffett, but he is quite recognised in his field and he makes a lot of money doing the following:

writing about self motivation and self actualisation, speaking about the same topic, and acting.

Basically, Anthony Robbins makes his money from motivational seminars and motivational books. And he makes a lot of money.

I first came across when I read his famous book called Awaken the Giant Within. Basically he is a famous person because of his emphasis on NLP, but there has been a huge debate whether or not he has made the field his own and incorporated his own thinking and ideas into the field, but that is not of our concern. We are only concerned about what he says about making money and becoming rich, and we are also concerned about how he makes his money and how we can learn from his example. What can we learn about money from his ideas, as well as from his actual actions?

The key point is that he has become very rich writing and speaking about motivation to lots of people, and basically he is a life coach, life trainer, personal coach, motivational speaker, or even less charitably, a spin doctor. I will talk a bit about Anthony Robbins here first, and in the next post I will give my analysis. Right now, this is what you need to know about Anthony Robbins and his ideas:

Anthony Robbins believes that you need to condition yourself to thinking big and thinking rich, and by doing so you will become rich. For instance, he has a personal programme to coach people called Personal Power that argues that people can be conditioned into becoming positive thinkers, and that your life can be changed by yourself.

Here are some of the famous quotes that I managed to find:

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body... The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

One can see immediately to answer the question on how to become rich, Anthony Robbins goes for action, conditioning and positive thinking. These are the key ideas for him on how to become rich and make money: by changing your psychological attitude and your perspectives. The question you must ask is that do action, conditioning and positive thinking play an important role in making money or are they part of a larger framework?

In my next post on Anthony Robbins, where I analyse what he has spoken about, I will deal with the psychological part on how to become rich that Anthony Robbins has suggested, and I will also deal with learning and adopting his ideas for our use.

Cheers and thanks for reading!

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