Anthony Robbins AWAKEN THE GIANT... - Lemma Coaching

change now—a point at which your brain says, "I've had it; I can't spend another day, not another
moment, living or feeling this way." Have you ever experienced this in a personal relationship, for
example? You hung in there, it was painful and you really weren't happy, but you stayed in it anyway.
Why? You rationalized that it would get better, without doing anything to make it better. If you were in
so much pain, why didn't you leave? Even though you were unhappy, your fear of the unknown was a
more powerful motivating force. "Yeah, I'm unhappy now," you may have thought, "but what if I leave
this person and then I never find anyone? At least I know how to deal with the pain I have now."
This kind of thinking is what keeps people from making changes. Finally, though, one day the
pain of being in that negative relationship became greater than your fear of the unknown, so you hit a
threshold and made the change. Maybe you've done the same thing with your body, when you finally
decided you couldn't spend another day without doing something about your excess weight. Maybe the
experience that finally pushed you over the edge was your failure to be able to squeeze into your
favourite pair of jeans, or the sensations of your "thunder thighs" rubbing against each other as you
waddled up a set of stairs! Or just the sight of the bulbous folds of excess flesh hanging from the side
of your body!
THE ALPO DIET
Recently, a woman attending a seminar told me about her fail-safe strategy that she had developed for
shredding unwanted pounds. She and a friend had committed over and over again to losing weight,
but failed to keep their promise each and every time. Finally, they both reached the point where losing
weight was a must. Based on what I taught them, they needed some leverage to push themselves
over the edge. They needed to make not keeping their promise more painful than anything they could
imagine. They decided to commit to each other and a group of friends that if they welshed on their
promise this time, they would each have to eat a whole can of Alpo dog food! So, to stave off any hint
of a craving, these two enterprising women told everyone and kept their cans in plain view at all times
as a constant reminder. She told me that when they started to feel hunger pangs, they'd pick up the
can and read the label. With ingredients boasting "horsemeat chunks," they found no difficulty in
sticking to their commitment. They achieved their goal without a hitch!
A lever is a device that we utilize in order to lift or move a tremendous burden we could not otherwise
manage. Leverage is absolutely crucial in creating any change, in freeing yourself from behavioural
burdens like smoking, drinking, overeating, cursing, or emotional patterns like feeling depressed,
worried, fearful, or inadequate—you name it. Change requires more than just establishing the
knowledge that you should change. It's knowing at the deepest emotional and most basic sensory level
that you must change. If you've tried many times to make a change and you've failed to do so, this
simply means that the level of pain for failing to change is not intense enough. You have not reached
threshold, the ultimate leverage.
When I was doing private therapy, it was imperative that I find the point of greatest leverage
in order to help people make changes in one session that years of therapy had failed to accomplish. I
started every session by saying that I couldn't work with anyone who wasn't committed to changing