Anthony Robbins AWAKEN THE GIANT... - Lemma Coaching

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FINANCIAL DESTINY: SMALL STEPS TO A SMALL (OR LARGE)
FORTUNE - DAY FOUR
Your Outcome: Take control of your financial future by learning the five foundational elements for
establishing wealth.
Money! It's one of the most emotionally charged issues of our lives. Most people are willing to give up
things that are much more valuable than money in order to get more of it: they'll push themselves far
beyond their past limitations, give up time with their family and friends, or even destroy their health.
Money is a potent source associated to both pain and pleasure within our society. Too often it's used to
measure the difference in the quality of lives, to magnify the separation of the haves and have-nots.
Some people try to deal with money by pretending it doesn't matter, but financial pressure is
something that affects us all every day of our lives. For the elderly especially, a lack of money often
translates into a lack of critical resources. For some people, money holds mystery. For others, it is the
source of desire, pride, envy, and even contempt. Which is it, really? Is it the maker of dreams or the
root of all evil? Is it a tool or a weapon? A source of freedom, power, security? Or merely a means to
an end?
You and I know, intellectually, that money is merely a medium of exchange. It allows us to simplify the
process of creating, transferring, and sharing value within a society. It's a convenience that together
we've created in order to allow ourselves the freedom to specialize in our life's work without having to
be concerned as to whether others will find our work worthy of barter.
We have learned to associate some of our most debilitating emotions to a scarcity of this commodity:
anxiety, frustration, fear, insecurity, worry, anger, humiliation, and being overwhelmed, to name but
a few. As we are now witnessing in Eastern Europe, political systems have been toppled by the
pressure associated to financial deprivation. Can you think of any country, any corporation, or
anyone's personal life that has not been touched by the experience of financial stress?
Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they
just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself,
rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of
your finances would not offer you greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself
and others.
So why do so many people fail to achieve financial abundance in a nation where economic opportunity
surrounds us? We live in a country where people can create net worths in the hundreds of millions
starting with a little idea for a computer that they first built in their garage! All around us there are
role models of unbelievable possibility, people who know how to create wealth and maintain it. What is
it that keeps us from getting wealth in the first place? How can it be, living in a capitalist country
where our forefathers died for our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, where economic