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Unlimited Power : The New Science Of Personal Achievement

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"Unlimited Power" is an exceptional compliment to "Awaken The Giant Within" and is easily one of the most powerful books I've ever read. In December 1994, after winning a battle with cancer, I stood, nearly bald, in the audience of my first motivational seminar, conducted by Anthony Robbins.

Shortly after the seminar I read "Awaken The Giant Within" and "Unlimited Power" to learn more about taking charge of my destiny. To this day, I refer to these books often for inspiration and guidance.

Over the years, I've read and listened to a great deal of self-help material in my quest to discover the secret to success. Without question, this book provides the clearest and most incredibly inspiring ideas. Since reading this book, I've greatly increased my level of health (by becoming vegetarian), doubled my income, and formed my own consulting company.

"Unlimited Power" consists of three sections:

Section I: The Modeling of Human Excellence

Section II: The Ultimate Success Formula

Section III: Leadership: The Challenge of Excellence

Although the book is quite long, it is a very exciting read. Starting off with "The Commodity of Kings" Robbins talks about how specialized knowledge (information) is available to anyone and can literally transform ourselves, and the world. Think of what Bill Gates, through Microsoft, really owns - almost nothing. Instead, he controls a vast reservoir of knowledge.

In summary, what I enjoy most about "Unlimited Power" and all of Anthony Robbins' other works, is that he challenges you to test his ideas for yourself, instead of accepting ideas on blind faith. Also, I must emphasize that "Unlimited Power" (or any other book for that matter) WILL NOT magically make you successful. It requires YOU to work with the material, develop strategies, and most importantly - take action.

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Michael Davis - Editor, Byvation

This book is priceless to me. I have read almost every self-help book I can find, yet I wasn't changing. I knew a lot about self esteem etc, but it's as if I was waiting for ONE FINAL PIECE, the missing part of how to succeed - in a big scale. And this book gave that to me. It's called Personal Power. If you're like me, having read a lot, know a lot as well, then you need that final piece. This book also gave me lots of effective STRATEGIES to control my mind, and it's scientific. From this book, I used the NLP 'swish technique' to get rid of my nail biting habit in just 2 minutes! That was just 2 months ago and I never bit it since( it actually feels unnatural to do it now). Learn how to increse your energy level and see your vitality 'explode'! There are many strategies in this book, many of them from Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) a science that can change your life, habits, fears, attitude, beliefs etc so quickly (in minutes!) that you'll be surprised. How do you motivate yourself to do the things that are good for you (eg study for that exam earlier) and feel happy doing it, and how to de-motivate yourself (eg to eat that pizza). Once you learn the skills in this book, your mind will be at your command literally (instead of letting it run you). How do you create rapport with people and even strangers so easily that they fell like they know you for a lifetime? Another essential formula I learned from this book got rid of my fear of failure that used to stop me from taking action. Since then, my life, my confidence changed so much that I can hardly believe it.

Some books teach just to be positive. Certainly having a positive attitude is better than being negative, but positive thinking is not enough.

Anthony Robbins teaches positive thinking but goes beyond that to positive doing. That is what personal power is all about, it is the ability to ake action and get the results you want.

Unlimited Power is an excellent book to show you how to bring out that power. Robbins advice works. Try it you'll ove it.

This is a book I keep re-reading! It sure is refreshing that "we" control how we think and not any outside influences. Robbins distills a great deal of hopeful and helpful information. I realize when he first wrote the book, he was a practicioner of "Neuro-Linguistic-Programing" which he has modified into "Neuro-Associative Conditioning". I enjoyed the re-prints of some of my favorite cartoonists...especially "The Dark Side" when the sheep stands up in the middle of the flock and shouts, "Wait, we all don't have to be sheep!" I also mastered a new skill in how to figure out one's strategy by how they shift their eyes when asked a question. Now I know if anyone is Visual, Audio, or Kinesthetic, so I can communicate better and have better rapport skills in the process. And it has helped me as a psychotherapist with some of my more challenging clients. I originally thought it was a bunch of new age gobblety-goop. But it is fun reading and I just couldn't put it down. I re-read it at least once a year. This book has powerful information. Read it, use it, make your life go for the best results. It's cool. It works (if you take action). Master it, and take your life to a new level.

I bought this book after reading Unlimited Selling Power--a great book. This one by Anthony Robbins leaves much to be desired. Interesting reading, but low on content.

I highly recommend Unlimited Selling Power for some real techniques. For relationships, read Phillip McGraws books. For personal development read Stephen Covey or Denis Waitley.

If you just like to read, then borrow this one from your library or pick it up for [low price] at a second hand book store.

This book is a great introduction to the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), without the jargon of NLP (OK, Tony has renamed it Neuro-Associative Conditioning, NAC). It uses simple language to help you access your inner power and as such is suitable for everyone. It is a practical manual that can help you to become greatly empowered. It is loaded with simple exercises and practices you can incorporate in your daily life to create dramatic changes - almost effortlessly.

This book is by far my favourite book ever! It contains so much information to immediately change your life the way you want it, and the bottom line is, the stuff WORKS!

Tony is one of the most sincere, caring, motivated guy that i have ever seen. And he's a great role model for me. This guy is congruent.

I've read hundreds of self-improvement books, none that comes close to this. This book got me to take MASSIVE ACTION, where before i was just reading but never really applying.

I see quite a few bad reviews of Tony's book. The truth is, these people are looking for a quick fix- WITHOUT wanting to apply Tony's stuff in their lives. If you wanna change something no matter how small it is, you gotto ge WILLING to TAKE THE ACTION to change it.

Many people finished reading the book and say,"Hey my life's still the same, no change".This is the clearest example of the saying that Tony always say " Many people know what to do, BUT they don't do what they know."

The thing is, IT'S ACTION THAT CHANGES YOUR LIFE, NOT JUST KNOWING IT. Ralph Waldo Emerson said "What you do shouts so loudly at me that I cannot hear what you are saying." It's an age old problem. So don't blame the author if you haven't changed your life. Take responsibility for your own non-action.

Your LIFE is in your hands... all he'd doing is giving you the tips and knowledge that IF AND ONLY IF YOU ARE WILLING TO APPLY, then you can have a change.

Get this, IF YOU JUST READ FOR KNOWLEDGE BUT DONT TAKE ACTION, YOUR NEXT 5 YEARS WILL BE THE SAME AS THE LAST 5.

If people are not willing to use what they know (cos they think just knowing is enough), then NOTHING can help em!

My Sister gave me this book 16 years ago and it sat on the shelf of every place that I lived but never read. About a year ago I hit a small rut and felt it was time to read this book... WOW! The simple diet chart on how to mix food is amazing AND IT WORKS! I stopped eating sugar, red meat and pork, and 99% of the processed foods I used to eat and my energy sky rocketed; I've become more focused and positive and goal oriented. I'm back in school working on a business degree and over the past 8 courses, 6 in the last semester, I have a 4.0 GPA, and I didn't even feel challenged. This coming semester I decided to do something else Tony suggests from another book, "If you can't... you must!" So I've registered for 8 university courses and I'm not ever worried about the workload.

I suggest you read any thing Tony writes and add it to your arsenal.
BEWARE though, once you read this book and follow its instructions you'll soon notice how negative the world we live in is; how limited many people make themselves, and you may also discover what I have, that many people are victims of self-imposed struggles.

So many great things in this book but most of the other reviews cover those.

I agree with the reviewer that said that Tony Robbins only uses NLP for self promotion. In this book, he only touches on it and doesn't appear to understand it all that well himself.I do not recommend this book. Read NLP: The New Technology of Achievement or Learn NLP for some real meat without the fat.

Tony Robbins is the modern day king of life transformation! If you haven't been exposed to him, you're missing out on your maximum health and fitness potential.

I must admit years ago, I was completely averse to his message and his info-mercials. I think it was a mixture of fear to change and lack of trust pointed at the particular media. I couldn't stand the larger than life motivational speaker that I saw on late night TV.

A friend finally talked me into going to a weekend seminar and the skeptic in me was shooed away in just 4 days. The information he teaches creates flat-out success.

I had no idea I would be walking on hot coals, indentifying my hang ups, or even creating a clear and motivating action plan for the future (5, 10 and 20 years out). Plus, I never thought I would actually enjoy it!

Tony's work has exponetially expanded how I work with people to help them realize their health and fitness goals. I've used his techniques as well as other Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) models to create massive change in my clients' belief systems--as well as my own. I think the major aspect of his work is to take massive action (which is actually borrowed from Jim Rohn). Massive action is the key to any extreme success and Tony gives you the tools to be able to make huge leaps over and over again.

This book is not for the weak of heart! If don't want to succeed massively and live all your dreams, please don't buy it!

If you are ready to make huge progress toward some of your dreams, then this book is definitely one you should have in your self-help library.

Kevin Gianni, NCSF-CPT
Author, Personal Trainer