Personal Power2 Notes: Beliefs

Tony Robbins talked about how to eliminate negative beliefs and to install new empowering ones. He uses a technique that he developed after watching a movie.

The Dickens' Pattern
This technique works for:
- eliminating negative beliefs
- istalling empowering beliefs

Using the Dickens' pattern

1. write down your negative belief (or say it loud)
2. imagine what is the impact of having this belief:
• physically
• emotionally
• on your relationships
• on your time
• on your finances
• on your career
• on your sens of contribution
3. step five years into the future and repeat step 2
4. step ten years into the future and repeat step 2
5. step twenty years into the future and repeat step 2
6. change your physiology: walk, jump, do something silly, ...
7. write down your empowering belief (or say it loud)
8. imagine the impact of having this belief:
• physically
• emotionally
• on your relationships
• on your time
• on your finances
• on your career
• on your sens of contribution
9. step five years into the future and repeat step8
10. step ten years into the future and repeat step8
11. step twenty years into the future and repeat step 8 

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Personal Power2 Notes: Values

• According to Tony Robbins, there are two types of values: Moving-towards values and Moving-away-from values.
• Moving-towards values can be such as the following: love, connection, intimacy, health, respect, freedom, joy, sens of contribution, growth...
• Moving-away-from values can be: anger, despair, depression, frustration, anxiety, fear, disrespect, humiliation...

What's the difference between Values and Pain&Pleasure?
Pain&Pleasure are the ultimate driving forces. Each one of them comes in different levels. The Moving-towards values are different levels of Pleasure. The Moving-away-from values are levels of Pain.

How can we determine what our values are?
This is simple. Ask yourself these questions:
- What's the most important to me in life? This question gets you your Moving-towards life values
- What am trying to avoid the most in life? This question gets you your Moving-away-from life values

To get the correspondent values in your career, ask similar questions:
- What's the most important to me in career?
- What am trying to avoid the most in my career?
You can apply this set of questions to any areas you want.

Means Values (or End Values): The most important thing in my life is my Iphone
No, really. It's not your most important thing in your life. But think about what makes it so important. What does it bring to you? Maybe it makes you look trendy or cool. Maybe its applications make you laugh or maybe they break the routine.
These are called Means Values. They are values to an end. They don't have intrinsic value.


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P90X Progress, Part 1

As you may have read, I began the P90X program some time ago. It's a long journey. Now I'm at the last week of the program. And believe me, it's as hard as the first.
Let me tell you why: it takes a LOT of discipline NOT to fall in the trap of "I'm seeing results. So a a chocolate cake after dinner won't harm"!

The 13th week seemed hard to me because I got ill in the middle of it.  Although I'm using the chunking technique to finish each session, I still haven't made it to the end!

So, if you're a P90X student, you may face three big stones:

Stone 1: in the beginning of the program
Program routines will seem long and hard. It will seem to take a lifetime to finish a one-minute workout :)

Stone 2: in the middle of the program
you'll wonder "why am I repeating the same workout over and over? ". You'll see small improvements in your body and in your mood. This is the best time for quitters to quit :)

Stone 3: near the end
This is for the fans of the unachieved tasks like me :) you have no more patience. And, if you did not stick to the program daily, you'll wonder why you aren't having the same results as those guys in Youtube :)

What's your stone?

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