A couple of years ago I was given one of Tony Robbins’ audio programs, Personal Power II. This was received when the in-person UPW event was cancelled in April 2020 and was replaced with a virtual offering the following year.

This is a fantastic program if you are interested in taking your first steps into the world of personal development.

“Personal development consists of activities that develop a person’s capabilities and potential, build human capital, facilitate employability, and enhance quality of life and the realization of dreams and aspirations.^{[1][better source needed]} Personal development may take place over the course of an individual’s entire lifespan and is not limited to one stage of a person’s life. It can include official and informal actions for developing others in roles such as teacher, guide, counselor, manager, coach, or mentor, and it is not restricted to self-help. When personal development takes place in the context of institutions, it refers to the methods, programs, tools, techniques, and assessment systems offered to support positive adult development at the individual level in organizations“

The concepts of this program are incredibly simply, addictive and incredibly effective. The program is designed to be taken over 30 days and each day has multiple sections but are no longer that 15 minutes. This layout ensures even people with the busiest of schedules can adopt an approach that will allow them to digest this material and give you some useful insights and perspectives.

Key Takeaways

Pain vs Pleasure

Pain and pleasure are the guiding forces of our lives
People will do more to avoid pain then gain pleasure

Role Models

Identify people who are already getting the results you want and find out how they achieve this by modelling.

Sensory Acuity

When you are looking to create an outcome or result be aware of what is not working and change your approach until you get the result you want.

Role models are people who are

Neuro Associative Conditioning

Neuro association defines our behaviour.
This is when we link meaning to a particular behaviour and this defines if we try to avoid pain or gain pleasure.

Examples:

Losing weight – Some people may associate pain to losing weight because this will mean giving up specific food or working out more

Some people however will associate more pain to staying over weight and will take action to make themselves healthier

Career Change – Some people will associate more pain to change career because they may need to seek new qualifications, make sacrifice existing commitments to focus on changing career.

Some people however will associate more pain to staying in the existing career then changing

What stops people following through?

Fear stops people following through and as they associate failure and rejection or believe it’s too much hassle or not a good use of time.

Learning how to change our associations to what we link pain and pleasure is key to how we define our lives.

There are a number of audio programs that Tony Robbins has published

If you have not done this program, I hope this may of given you a small insight.