Awaken The Giant Within, Anthony Robbins

For me, the chapter that had the biggest impact was Chpt 6 - How To Change Anything In Your Life; The Science Of Neuro-Associative Conditioning.

Here I learnt about associating massive pain to not changing and massive pleasure to changing and for me that tipped the balance.

Because my goal was to lose weight, I needed to find a way of associating massive pain to NOT losing the weight. The extra pounds had been steadily creeping on over the years - as they do - so it wasn't too hard for me to realize that they would continue to do that.

I stood in front of the mirror - naked as a jay bird - and really took in the growing dimensions of my body. I looked at the bits that rolled. I jumped up and down and watched what flopped and what didn't, I bent over and really took in just how many spare tires appeared round my middle.

I'm sure it was an hilarious sight watching me contort myself about - but it worked. I saw my body without the rose colored glasses I usually wear.

I'm normally fairly tolerant of physical imperfections on both myself and others. I believe that is a healthy trait. But sometimes, if you want to change things then you need to look at things differently.

Now I have to emphasize that this is not a book about weight loss. It is a book about change. About your own ability to change anything you want to in your life. For me that happened to be those steadily increasing inches but for you it might be something quite different.

It could be your personal relationships or your finances.

The WHAT is not important.

Awaken The Giant Within teaches you the HOW. That is the important piece of the equation - how you can change more or less anything in your life and change it quickly.