Tony Robbins -Re-Awaken_the_Giant_Within

How do you do this? Realize that day to day you’re expending nerve energy through your actions,
and as obvious as it sounds, you do need to make sure that you rest and recharge. By the way, how
much sleep are you getting? If you’re regularly logging eight to ten hours of sack time, you’re probably
getting too much sleep! Six to seven hours has been found to be optimum for most people. Contrary to
popular belief, sitting still doesn’t preserve energy. The truth is, that’s usually when you feel most tired.
The human nervous system needs to move to have energy. To a certain extent, expending energy gives
you a greater sense of energy. As you move, oxygen flows through your system, and that physical level
of health creates the emotional sense of vitality that can help you to deal with virtually any negative
challenge you could have in your life, so realize that a sense of vitality is a critical emotion to cultivate
in order to handle virtually any emotions that come up in your life, not to mention the critical resource
in experiencing consistent passion. Once your garden is filled with these powerful emotions, then you
can share your bounty through . . .
10. CONTRIBUTION. Years ago, I remember being in one of the toughest times in my life, driving down
the freeway in the middle of the night. I kept asking, “What do I need to do to turn my life around?”
Suddenly an insight came to me, accompanied by such intense emotion that I was compelled to pull my
car off the road immediately and write down one key phrase in my journal: “The secret to living is giving.”
There’s no richer emotion I know of in life than the sense that who you are as a person, something you’ve
said or done, has added to more than just your own life, that somehow it has enhanced life’s experience
for someone you care about, or maybe someone you don’t even know. The stories that move me most
profoundly are about people who follow the highest spiritual emotion of caring unconditionally and acting
for others’ benefit. When I saw the musical Les Misérables, I was deeply moved by the character of Jean
Valjean, because he was such a good man who wanted to give so much to others. Each day we should
cultivate that sense of contribution by focusing not only on ourselves, but on others as well.
Don’t fall into the trap, though, of trying to contribute to others at your own expense —playing
the martyr won’t give you a true sense of contribution. But if you can consistently give to yourself
and others on a measurable scale that allows you to know that your life has mattered, you’ll have
a sense of connection with people and a sense of pride and self-esteem that no amount of money,
accomplishments, fame, or acknowledgment could ever give. A sense of contribution makes all of life
worthwhile. Imagine what a better world it would be if all of us cultivated a sense of contribution!
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