Podcast Summary: Anthony Robbins - Get the Edge Day 2 Disc 2

Podcast: Anthony Robbins - Get the Edge
Host: roadparc
Date: January 19, 2017
Episode Theme: How to maximize the quality of your life through seven steps to conscious change, focusing on shifting beliefs, taking massive action, and harnessing the power of environment.

Episode Overview

This episode continues Tony Robbins’ signature "Get the Edge" program, focusing specifically on Days 2's core teachings. Robbins breaks down steps 4 through 7 of his seven-step framework for creating lasting, conscious change in any area of life. The discussion centers on:

• Identifying and changing limiting beliefs
• Setting yourself up to win
• Taking massive, immediate action
• Leveraging the power of your environment and peer group

Through powerful examples, candid stories, and audience engagement, Robbins energizes listeners to create breakthroughs in health, fitness, business, and relationships.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

Recap of Steps 1–3 (00:49)

• Step 1: Get Disturbed: Let yourself get upset enough with your status quo that you must change.
  “There is power in that… Human beings have an amazing power to change anything in their life. When they get disturbed enough, when they hit their threshold” (02:00).
• Step 2: Decide What You Want: Shifting from just moving away from pain to moving towards a clear, compelling goal.
  “You’ve got to know precisely what you’re after.” (03:02)
• Step 3: Take Massive Action: Formulate a real plan to get where you want to go.

Step 4: Change Your Limiting Beliefs (03:18)

• Belief Defined:
  “A belief is really a feeling. What a belief is, is a feeling of absolute certainty about what something means.” (03:30)
• Your beliefs directly control your actions—if you feel certain you can’t succeed, you won’t even try.
• Conflicting or unconscious beliefs can hold us back (e.g., "look before you leap" vs. "he who hesitates is lost").
• Robbins’ Tip: When you feel negative emotions, ask, “What would I have to believe to feel this way?” (05:17)
• Notable Anecdote:
  Robbins shares the story of John McCormick, who, after a traumatic police incident and financial ruin, transformed his life and success by challenging limiting beliefs and focusing on assets instead of liabilities (08:08–21:50).

Notable Quotes

• “Certainty can be a pretty great asset. Sometimes you’ve got to believe when there’s no reason to believe. That, by the way, is called faith.” (07:05)
• “Any man who knows more about his liabilities than his assets is really in trouble.” (19:00)

Step 5: Set the Game Up to Win (42:25)

• People often set up their goals so rigidly that failure is inevitable.
• The secret: make the process enjoyable and rewarding along the way.
  “Do everything you can to make it so it’s enjoyable along the way. I call it scoring it.” (43:09)
• Robbins explains the principle of “net time” (doing multiple productive things at once, e.g., working out while listening to an educational audiobook).
• Measure diverse aspects of your progress—in fitness, chart emotional states to see the positive impact.

Notable Quotes

• “If you have to do it perfect or you beat yourself up, your brain’s gonna go, ‘Why even try?’” (42:50)
• “You want to enjoy the process, not just the outcome.” (44:45)
• “Remember, you could only build on success.” (58:36)

Step 6: Take Massive Action—Now (54:20)

• The biggest difference-makers in life take immediate, significant action on their goals.
• Never leave the site of setting a goal without taking at least one step towards its attainment.
• Robbins suggests using incantations—emotionally-charged repeated statements—to condition new beliefs and drive action.

Notable Quotes

• “There is no time but now. The power is in now. The power is not in the future. The power is not in tomorrow. The power is in this moment in which you act.” (54:50)
• “Massive action creates momentum. Massive action is the cure all.” (55:33)

Step 7: Harness the Seventh Power—Your Peer Group & Environment (58:25)

• The standards of your peer group directly affect the standards you maintain for yourself.
• “Most people’s lives are a direct reflection of the expectations of their peer group.” (58:53)
• To sustain high standards and lasting change, surround yourself with people who already live at the level you aspire to.
• “Love your family, pick your peer group.” (59:41)
• Coaches, mentors, or accountability partners can be invaluable; you want support, challenge, and positive reinforcement.
• Set up your environment not just to challenge but also to reward yourself.

Notable Quotes

• “Whoever you spend time with is who you become.” (59:17)
• “You gotta create an environment where you are reinforced for doing what it is you’re really committed to.” (59:50)

Memorable Examples and Case Studies

• John McCormick’s Transformation (08:08–21:50): From police officer risking his life for “twenty-seven dollars,” through business failure, to Inc. Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year—by facing his beliefs, finding mentors, and focusing on assets.
• Young Woman’s Fitness Breakthrough (22:05–35:42): Shifted from seeing exercise as pain to embracing it as fun and central to her life; redefined her self-worth and rituals.
• Robbins’ son Joshua (35:42–41:28): Overcame obesity through changing his beliefs, associating exercise and self-care with love and purpose, with lasting effects.

Action Steps for Listeners

• Journal Exercise (49:10):

  • Write down all beliefs that have previously stopped you from achieving your goals.
  • Create new, empowering beliefs to follow instead.
  • Example from a participant:
    • Old belief: “If I’m successful people might not like me.”
    • New belief: “People won’t like me unless I love myself.” (50:32)

• Juice Up the Process:
  Identify ways to make your journey enjoyable—music, variety, working with a buddy, measuring new kinds of progress.

• Immediate Actions:
  Take both one small and one big step towards your goal right now—call a friend, throw out “big clothes,” schedule a workout, etc. (56:23–57:50)

Final Remarks & Closing (1:00:00–end)

• Robbins emphasizes that all true results come from sustaining new beliefs, taking action, and immersing yourself in an empowering environment.
• The episode ends with a motivational push to not just plan, but act, reinforcing that consistency and enjoyment are the keys to lasting transformation.
  “Give up the story, go for the results... it’s about doing it, it’s about living it, it’s about experiencing it, it’s about not settling.” (1:00:05)

Timestamps of Key Segments

• 00:49 – Episode begins; Step recap and review.
• 03:18 – Step 4: Changing Limiting Beliefs.
• 08:08–21:50 – John McCormick’s story.
• 22:05–35:42 – Fitness breakthrough story.
• 35:42–41:28 – Robbins’ son Joshua’s transformation.
• 42:25 – Step 5: Set the Game Up to Win.
• 49:10 – Journal exercise for belief change.
• 54:20 – Step 6: Massive Action Now.
• 56:23–57:50 – Audience examples: little and big action steps.
• 58:25 – Step 7: Power of Peer Group & Environment.
• 1:00:00–end – Final remarks and call to action.

Notable Quotes (With Timestamps & Attribution)

• “A belief is really a feeling. What a belief is, is a feeling of absolute certainty about what something means.”
  — Tony Robbins (03:30)

• “Certainty can be a pretty great asset. Sometimes you’ve got to believe when there’s no reason to believe. That, by the way, is called faith.”
  — Tony Robbins (07:05)

• “Any man who knows more about his liabilities than his assets is really in trouble.”
  — Tony Robbins, quoting Abe to John McCormick (19:00)

• “If you have to do it perfect or you beat yourself up, your brain’s gonna go, ‘Why even try?’”
  — Tony Robbins (42:50)

• “There is no time but now. The power is in now. The power is not in the future. The power is not in tomorrow. The power is in this moment in which you act.”
  — Tony Robbins (54:50)

• “Most people’s lives are a direct reflection of the expectations of their peer group.”
  — Tony Robbins (58:53)

• “Love your family, pick your peer group.”
  — Tony Robbins (59:41)

• “Whoever you spend time with is who you become.”
  — Tony Robbins (59:17)

Summary

This episode of "Get the Edge" is a results masterclass. Robbins walks listeners through how to uproot limiting beliefs, set themselves up to win, act now, and most importantly, surround themselves with the right people. Through detailed personal stories, insightful questions, and practical exercises, Robbins invites you to not only aspire to more, but to systematize lasting change—physically, emotionally, financially, or in relationships—by living on “the edge,” where life is purposeful and passionate.

Action for the Day: Take at least two real steps toward your goal—one small, one big—and write down (and share with a supportive peer) both your limiting and your new empowering beliefs.

Closing words:
"It's my privilege to be your coach. I thank you for taking this journey with me and I look forward to being with you tomorrow. God bless you and live with passion." (1:01:53)