Anthony Robbins AWAKEN THE GIANT... - Lemma Coaching

EXPAND YOUR REFERENCES AND EXPAND YOUR LIFE
We can always use whatever life has to offer in an empowering way, but we have to do it proactively.
The choices I have in my life come from a rich set of reference experiences that I have consciously
pursued on an ongoing basis. Each day I look for ways to expand. Into my thirty-one years I've packed
literally hundreds of years of experience. How can I say that? The number of challenging and enriching
experiences that I have in a month relates more closely to what most people experience over a
period of years.
One of the major ways I began to do this, starting at the age of seventeen, was through the rich
experiences that books provide. Early in my life, I developed the belief that leaders are readers. Books
could take me to other lands where I could meet unique people like Abraham Lincoln or Ralph Waldo
Emerson whom I could utilize as my personal coaches. I also knew that within the pages of books I
could find the answers to virtually any question I had. This breadth of references that hundreds of
books have given me has provided countless choices for how I can assist people. I pursued these
references because I realized that if I didn't feed my mind with the nourishment it craved, then I would
have to settle for the intellectual junk food that could be found in the nightly "sound bites" on
television news or through the opinions of the newspapers. If this is our major source of information,
then we can expect to get the same results as everyone else in society does.
The most powerful way to have a great understanding of life and people, to give ourselves the greatest
level of choice, is to expose ourselves to as many different types of references as possible. In my
youth, I was inspired to seek spiritual understanding when I realized that I'd attended only one church
and been exposed to only one religious philosophy for the majority of my life. In high school I received
a scholarship in journalism to attend a two-week program held at California Polytechnic State
University in San Luis Obispo. On that Sunday we were all given an assignment to write a story about
a church service.
As we began to walk through the community, deciding where we would go, I found myself gravitating
toward the church of my denomination 171 . But along the way, I heard several of my friends talking
about the Mormon Church we had just passed and how "horrible" those people were. It seemed to me
that people just aren't that deplorable 172 ; I had to see what was going on. So I attended the service,
and saw that the Mormons loved God as much as I did. The only difference was that they had a few
rules that varied slightly from my own.
This started my spiritual odyssey, which developed into a personal ritual for almost a year and a half.
Throughout my eighteenth and nineteenth years, two or three times a month, I would attend a totally
different type of worship: Lutheran, Catholic, Baptist, Episcopalian, Methodist, Jewish, Buddhist, and so
on. As a result of this, I truly began to live at a more spiritual level where I began to appreciate all
people's spiritual beliefs. Even if I didn't subscribe to their particular rules or perceptions, I had a much
broader base of understanding and compassion as a result.
171 denomination RELIGION Konfession; VOLKSWIRTSCHAFT Nennwert
172 deplorable bedauerlich, beklagenswert