Great Self-Help Audiobooks Episode 6: Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins
Awaken the Giant within is an excellent book. It showcases some of Robbin's motivational techniques and self-help tips. It covers a wide range of topics, from goal setting, to Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), personal finance, and relationships.
I read this book when I was undergoing my NLP Practioner course, about 6years ago. This book is like a reference manual to me. It's not only good for anyone who is picking a self-help book, it's also good for any coach, mentor or leader to guide their people.The book exposes us to so many eye-opening concepts.
The book constantly stretches your mental faculties in how you deal with things in your real time environment. In this book Tony also spends a lot of time dealing with your physiology and how it affects your moods, emotions and actions. He also makes the same connection by having you examine the words you most often use. The examples, stories and anecdotes, his life incidents that he uses are spectacular and bring the book alive.
In our journey towards the goal of self-actualization or self-transcendence , this helps us move towards understanding emotions, thought processes, desires, goals, and just gets us living life based on our own standards as opposed to living life in reaction.
We are constantly in a matrix in life, trying to live the values of others "How do we stop living life in reaction and bring value from within?" "What is true self esteem and how do I get it?"
Even questions like "What is my identity?" "Who am I?" "What do I value?"
All of these are tackled and explained in a very lucid context with action steps towards creating empowering thoughts, values, and belief structures to make life fulfilling and fun.
