Personal Power is the Ability to Take Action by Tony Robbins

 The path to success is to take massive, determined action,” says Robbins. “Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision…It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”

Robbins believes that if you want to change your life, you need to avoid taking a passive approach and change it. Set your goals and begin to work towards them, now. Don’t wait for an opportunity to present itself, for if you’re not willing to act now, it never will.

“You are now at a crossroads,” says Robbins. “This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.”

According to Robbins, there is no such thing as failure, just results. “Consider the adage: Success is the result of good judgment, good judgment is the result of experience, and experience is often the result of bad judgment,” he says. Begin to set your goals and work towards them even knowing that failure is a possibility. “You might say, what if I screw up?” asks Robbins. “Then screw up big! Go for it! Do a big screwup!”

Without goals, without committed action, without mistakes, you will never make a change in your life. You will continue down the same path of mediocrity that you always have. And, while you might find security on that path, you will never achieve a life of fulfillment, believes Robbins. “Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird,” says Robbins. “Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.”

Robbins committed himself long ago to CANI – Constant And Never-ending Improvement, setting new goals at every step along the way. “The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum,” he says. “The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.”

In the end, it isn’t the number of goals that you set for yourself that will determine your success; it is only your actions that will decide your destiny. “A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided,” says Robbins. “You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.”