So many people have made major impacts on my life.

But when I think back to the days before it all began,

before the business, before the podcast, before the big audience,

I needed the motivation to become someone greater

than my fears and my limitations.

And one of my first inspirations was Tony Robbins.

This straight-laced kind of teacher, I'd seen him off the class, and he said, you know why I'm here to talk to you? You have a gift, and I'm looking at him like he's crazy. I have a speech here that I'd like you to read, and if it appeals to you, he said, I think this is your life. The title was the will to win. I could cry, just thinking about it, it was so intense.

I mean, I'm reading it and crying, just going,

I'm only here still all that I've been through

because of my pure will that I will not give up.

I still remember the first time I walked into a Tony Robbins event.

I was 16 years old.

I was searching for direction, for belief,

for something to grab onto. And I had no idea how deeply that experience would stay with me. Designing a life is a different way of living.

And it requires courage. You can have courage if you can trust in a higher understanding that

everything has higher purpose. And this isn't unfolding for me. But I found if you live enough in a higher understanding that everything has higher purpose and this isn't unfolding for me

what I found if you live enough life

with that faith and with the drive to find it

you'll find those answers.

Tony Robbins is one of the most

influential personal development teachers

of our time.

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