I have been inspired time and time again to share this with you. It is something that I learned at a Tony Robbins seminar some time ago and I am including it in this link for you in case you just prefer simply watching it.
For those of you who prefer reading, please read on and I will do my best to capture the significance of today's focus.
Tony starts out with talking about how he is living his dream, he was 25 at the time, doing what he loved, having huge positive impacts on millions of people's lives, traveling all over, meeting great people, and starting to make very good money achieving his success and living out his dreams.
He is walking after a dinner after finishing a weekend long seminar and an old scraggly fellow in his mid 60's comes walking through a plaza he is walking in and asks him for a quarter. Now Tony looks the stranger in the eyes and asks "Is that all you want? Just a quarter, are you sure?" The old beggar man replies "Yes, just a quarter, that's all I want, it will change my life" and so Tony reaches into his pocket and pulls out his money clip that is filled with $100 bills that he has on the outside of his clip that constantly reminds him that he is wealthy and worthy to receive abundance, so he makes sure the old man sees it. And he looks back at the guy and he asks again, if the guy is sure he only wants a quarter. The beggar man replies again, yup, that's it, just one quarter. So Tony goes into his other pocket and pulls out a quarter and gives it to him and as he does he tells him
"life will pay whatever price you ask"
The beggar instead of saying thank you, or ok, can I please have more or saying how much more he wanted, instead says, "You are weird" and he walks off.
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Is this all you really want in life? Really? Are you Sure you don't want more? Then Ask. |
Now how profound is this?
Tony is scratching his head and thinking to himself, is the man just nice, not selfish, didn't want to ask for too much, he was just playing it safe and not wanting to seem greedy and just take very little from many people so as to not upset anyone or change his initial request, etc. and so on. But the answer was just all to clear. The old man had conditioned himself to expect very very little from the world and that he was communicating to the world that he didn't deserve more, want more, need more, and was not worthy of more.
The old man was also putting himself in a place that only allowed him to just scrape by because he didn't believe in himself that he was capable of more and that one quarter at a time as a beggar was the best he could do.
As we all have seen, what you ask for and what you seek, you will always find and find more of.
Ok, now to be realistic in this case, the old man may have had some serious drastic background issues, he could have been a war veteran or have been through something else traumatic that put him in this situation but in the end it is our mind that is either damaged or taken over that ultimately determines our fate.