This document outlines Tony Robbins' 5-step weekly planning process that the author has adopted. The process involves:
1) Setting aside 1-2 hours at the start of each week for planning.
2) Connecting to your big life goals and visualizing what you want to accomplish.
3) Celebrating your accomplishments from the previous week.
4) Writing down lessons learned and inspirations from the past week.
5) Analyzing what didn't get done the previous week and how to improve for the future.
The author finds this process extremely effective for staying focused on priorities and getting important projects done on time.
Презентацията съдържа обобщение на семинара на Tony Robbins - Unleash The Power Within. Семинара е най-големият по рода си в световен план за личностно развитие и усъвършенстване. Тони Робинс е един от най-добрите експерти в тази насока и е помогнал на над 5 000 000 души по целият свят да променят и подобрят живота си. В презентацията има изключително много упражнения от семинара.
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Whatever you may have heard about the impact that Tony Robbins’ world famous firewalk event has on people's lives - to really know, you need
to go.
Tony has dedicated over 30 years to discovering what it takes to Change Your Life to Extraordinary.
Some of the world’s most accomplished people like Hugh Jackman, Serena Williams and Bill Clinton have turned to Tony to help turn the life of their dreams into reality.
At Tony Robbins’ All New Unleash the Power Within you’ll discover how to become everything you can be
UNLEASH THE POWER WITHIN is about not waiting any longer. It’s about seizing the power that is already within you and challenging you to lead a life of your own design, rather than one that’s been scripted by your environment, society or anyone else.
AT UNLEASH THE POWER WITHIN you will:
Break through the fears that hold you back (including unconscious fears).
Create momentum in your life to make difficult things become effortless.
Develop powerful new routines that create maximum energy, optimum health and peak vitality.
NEW! Implement a fail-safe system to ensure that you follow through long-term, especially when the demands, distractions and frustrations of life begin to vie for
your focus.
NEW! Harness the key strategies for wealth creation, regardless of the economy
or any other external forces.
The Japanese secret of a long and happy life. it has facts about Okinawa and about the world's centenarians' statements.
this ppt has a personality test and know yourself exercise also 10 rules of IKIGAI
Презентацията съдържа обобщение на семинара на Tony Robbins - Unleash The Power Within. Семинара е най-големият по рода си в световен план за личностно развитие и усъвършенстване. Тони Робинс е един от най-добрите експерти в тази насока и е помогнал на над 5 000 000 души по целият свят да променят и подобрят живота си. В презентацията има изключително много упражнения от семинара.
UPW - Ultimate Personal Development - Anthony Robbins LIVE, March, 2014 in Lo...Iacob Ioan-Adrian
Whatever you may have heard about the impact that Tony Robbins’ world famous firewalk event has on people's lives - to really know, you need
to go.
Tony has dedicated over 30 years to discovering what it takes to Change Your Life to Extraordinary.
Some of the world’s most accomplished people like Hugh Jackman, Serena Williams and Bill Clinton have turned to Tony to help turn the life of their dreams into reality.
At Tony Robbins’ All New Unleash the Power Within you’ll discover how to become everything you can be
UNLEASH THE POWER WITHIN is about not waiting any longer. It’s about seizing the power that is already within you and challenging you to lead a life of your own design, rather than one that’s been scripted by your environment, society or anyone else.
AT UNLEASH THE POWER WITHIN you will:
Break through the fears that hold you back (including unconscious fears).
Create momentum in your life to make difficult things become effortless.
Develop powerful new routines that create maximum energy, optimum health and peak vitality.
NEW! Implement a fail-safe system to ensure that you follow through long-term, especially when the demands, distractions and frustrations of life begin to vie for
your focus.
NEW! Harness the key strategies for wealth creation, regardless of the economy
or any other external forces.
The Japanese secret of a long and happy life. it has facts about Okinawa and about the world's centenarians' statements.
this ppt has a personality test and know yourself exercise also 10 rules of IKIGAI
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* Is mindfulness just a Buddhist or religious concept?
* How do I practice mindfulness?
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The ONE Thing, a #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller, has been featured on more than 108 bestseller lists including The New York Times and USA Today.
Learn how to discover your ONE Thing at www.the1thing.com
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This presentation has slides that cover most of the topics from the Atomic Habits book by James Clear. This is a super long slide set with templates. I took a subset of these slides for the free one hour workshop I hosted in November 2022. I'm posting all the slides here in case there is anyone out there looking for a more comprehensive summary of the Atomic Habits book with the habit loop and tools, techniques, and templates for creating the habits you want and stopping the habits you no longer want.
How To Start Kindle Publishing - How to instantly write at least 2,000 words ...Kindle Publishing Tips
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My website: http://bit.ly/2NdEAyb
How To Publish A Book On Amazon - How to instantly write at least 2,000 words...Kindle Publishing Tips
How To Publish A Book On Amazon - I will take you by the hand and show you step-by-step how you can finally make a killing just by selling Kindle e-books that will generate passive income, month after month.
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Session Overview
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How tony robbins plans his week (my 5 step process + free worksheet download) live your legend
1. How Tony Robbins Plans His Week (My 5-Step
Process + free worksheet download)
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“There is no excuse for not preparing for something that is inside your control.”
- Anonymous
Update: After being asked more times than I can count, today I’m sharing my Full Weekly Planning Process
I’ve done religiously for the past 5 years (which I learned from Tony Robbins).
This article is meant to be a reference piece. I’ve also included a free Weekly Planning Worksheet download
at the bottom, to make sure this stuff is super easy for you to actually do.
*If reading this in email, you must click here to read it online, to get access to the worksheet.
Oh, and keep an eye out next Monday – I’m sharing my favorite tool for finding and deciding on a passion-
2. based career!
For now let’s get into the fun…
“I don’t have enough time.”
Think about that statement for a second. How often do you say it? How many times a week or even each day?
There is no bigger killer of dreams than those five words.
But have you ever noticed that the busiest and most accomplished people never seem to say them?
The CEO always has time for that last minute event. Warren Buffett has a nearly clear calendar. Tony Robbins
connects and speaks with tens of thousands of people a year, all over the world, and still manages to launch new
ventures non-stop. Or even my biggest mentors, who get 100x more requests for their time than I do, always
seem to be free for a last minute call or lunch.
The list goes on.
But what set’s them apart?
They have a strategy. Most of us do not.
There’s only one real reason why the big-time successful people seem to get so many of the important things
done – and still have time left over (aside from working out, which we covered in our Richard Branson article
last month). It’s not because they were born with something special or only sleep 3 hours a night.
Stop telling yourself they’re special, because they’re not.
They simply have found a strategy that works. And they execute on it continuously.
Most people go into the week with little idea of how they see their days unfolding. They have a jumbled list of
tasks at best.
It’s no wonder why much of the world spins their tires on email, Facebook, Twitter and petty tasks and
requests, complaining about hating their work and dreaming of a new career, while the Living Legends change
the world.
Doing work you love is not easy. In fact it’s damn hard. Without a process for doing what matters, on a daily
and hourly basis, the odds will kill you.
The good news is with the right process it’s very possible. Last year I developed Live Off Your Passion to help
you create a passionate career. What I didn’t realize is that many of us still don’t think we have the time to give it
the attention it deserves.
You can do magnitudes more (of what matters) than you realize.
3. But you need a process that gets results.
Nearly every day I get people asking me what my weekly planning process is. So today I wanted to share it with
you.
But I certainly did not invent it (I find very little logic in starting from scratch these days – I prefer to build off of
what already works).
About five years ago I started working with a long-time Tony Robbins coach (likely the best business/life
decision I’ve made). They’ve worked together for nearly two decades (like from before most people knew who
Tony was). During one of our first sessions she shared Tony’s (and her) weekly planning process.
Whether you like the guy or not, between the 4 million+ people he’s touched in over 100 countries, the best-
selling books and the dozens of businesses he’s created, Tony Robbins has a process that works, and it’s
allowed him to help more people than most could dream of. I am one them.
It literally changed the game for me.
It’s allowed me to launch serious projects in a matter of weeks and months (like Live Your Legend, Live Off
Your Passion and the Should I Quit Test – all while running my investment business). Without this process each
of those could have easily taken a year or more.
I’ve used it religiously every week for the past five years (except when out exploring or vacationing).
Below is the process I go through every Monday morning – I’ve made a couple modifications to Tony’s over the
years .
The simple purpose is to connect your dreams, outcomes, and desires to the actions you take on a daily and
weekly basis.
This goes hand-in-hand with my Goal Setting and Action Workbook.
Remember, there’s a free workbook download of the full process at the bottom of this article for you to actually
fill out each week (if you’re reading this in email, you’ll need to click here to read the full version online to get the
workbook).
Enjoy!
4. Tony Robbins’ (and my) 5-Step Weekly Planning Process:
Note: the process is usually 5 steps, but I made it into 8 for explanation purposes…
1. Make Time – Establish a Ritual
The days of diving into Monday morning totally unprepared are over. Reserve a minimum of an hour (maybe
1.5 or 2) each week for the below process. At first this is as couter-intuitive as working out – but no matter
how crazy your schedule is, you will be more effective, confident and calm, if you take time before you jump into
the storm. Look at your schedule and decide when is your best time at the start of each week. Ideally this is the
same time every week so we can establish a ritual. For me it’s usually from 8-9:30 on Monday morning.
Sometimes it’s Sunday.
Just be sure you do it before you start any of your weekly tasks, and especially before you check email! If this
means spending an hour Sunday night then so be it.
Make it something you look forward to. Put on your favorite relaxing music (mine is usually classical or
something meditative). Pour a cup of your favorite tea or coffee. Shut off the Internet. Get away from the world.
Do This: Write down your planning time and schedule it.
2. Connect and Visualize the Big Picture
Time recommended: 2-5 minutes
Take a few deep breaths. Then take some time to look at your big lifetime goals and dreams. What do you want
to be remembered for? What do you want your life to be about for the next 3-10 years? Look back over your
lifetime goals and Areas of Attention from the Goal Setting and Action Workbook process. Starting with the big
picture allows us to keep our focus on what really matters (i.e. building a loving family vs. worrying about paying
your cable bill).
Do This: We’ll get to the little tasks later but for now just visualize, feel and connect with the biggest
things you want to be a part of your life. 8o need to write anything down.
5. 3. Celebrate Last Week
Time recommended: 5-10 minutes
This is the most important step of all – I absolutely love it. Write down everything from the past week that you’re
proud of. Anything and everything positive goes – having a record sales week, getting a rewarding thank you,
having a hot date or sticking to your workout. A marathon or walking around the block – it’s all sacred.
We rarely take the time to appreciate the things we’ve accomplished, big and small, before diving into
what’s next. This leaves us with a constant feeling of dissatisfaction. I guarantee there are things you did last
week that you can be proud of. Recognize them. Bask in them. Celebrate it all. That pride turns into confidence
and that confidence snowballs into the week to come.
A couple of mine from last week include: Being a guest expert for Jonathan Fields’ Good Life Project,
making fun plans for my wife’s birthday, having time to spend Friday and Saturday in the sun with close friends,
being a part of Simon Sinek’s latest project (more on that soon), sorting out a new healthcare plan and doing
an awesome webinar with Corbett Barr. Seriously, anything goes.
Do This: List at least 10 things – but feel free to write down as many more as come to mind. You’ll
often find that once you start, it’s hard to stop. Perfect. This will put you in an unbelievably powerful
state for tackling what’s to come. Have fun with it.
4. Write Down Major Lessons
Time recommended: 2-5 minutes
We learn new things every day. But an education is worthless if you don’t make the lessons a part of your life.
Write down any key learnings from the past week: major lessons, meaningful quotes and things that inspire you. I
also keep a list of “dream connections”, which I’ll get to more in the Connect with Anyone course, but this is
basically a list of people I’d love to connect with and my progress in making it happen.
A big lesson for me last week was: Digital communication is great for trading information but terrible for
emotional discussions – leave those for phone or in person. Simon Sinek made this point on our call and it really
stuck, so I took note.
Do This: Look back through your notes and ideas from last week and list all the lessons that come to
mind. Give them a chance to become a part of your life.
5. Analyze What Didn’t Happen
Time recommended: 2-5 minutes
Nothing ever goes exactly according to plan. Look back on the important things you wanted to accomplish last
week. What didn’t happen? Be totally honest with yourself. List them out. Only list the things that actually
mattered. For each one, write down why it didn’t happen. Was it for a good reason (i.e. other more important
things happened), or was it for a bad reason (i.e. you got sucked into checking emails for 9 hours straight)?
What could you have done to avoid this? How will you improve it going forward?
6. For me, one of my misses last week was: I didn’t complete the outline for my Connect with Anyone course,
but it was because creating content related to last week’s webinar was more important at the time.
Do This: Be honest with yourself and list the big things that didn’t happen and what you can improve
for next time.
6. Clarify and Commit to Your Biggest Outcomes
Time recommended: 5-10 minutes
Now that we’ve properly reflected on last week, it’s time to dive into what’s to come. I like to start by quickly
reviewing my mission/purpose, values and strengths, to get in the right place (I keep a list of all these on a couple
sheets of paper). Now look at each major area in your life and the related goals (in the Goal Setting and Action
workbook, we call these Areas of Attention).
Decide on on a maximum of 6-7 outcomes you want to accomplish related to the various areas in your life. This
could be creating a personal budget, cooking a healthy meal or having a great meeting with a mentor. You get to
decide. Just be sure they get you closer to your yearly goals. That’s the key. So “checking Facebook” would not
count.
One of my big outcomes for this week is: writing this article and the free workbook to go with it (you can
download that at the bottom).
Do This: Pick a total of 6-7 outcomes max and spread them throughout the week.
7. Schedule Everything
Time recommended: 5-15 minutes
This is the missing link for many. Everything you do takes up time in your day. Yet most of us create lists of tasks
with no concept of how long they’ll take. In fact I bet if you took your current task list and wrote down how long
each item would actually take, you’d find you need about 20 hours for today’s tasks. Ever feel like you never get
everything done in a day? This is why. We drastically underestimate how long things take. Since everything
takes time to do, we need to assign actual time to the things that matter most to us.
Look at your 6-7 weekly outcomes and decide what core tasks will need to happen to accomplish these. Now
spread these out throughout the week. Most people can’t accomplish more than 1-3 meaningful things in a day,
7. so that’s your limit. Pick 1-3 “most important tasks” (MIT’s) as my buddy Leo likes to call them, and schedule
them throughout the week. Keep in mind any meetings you have or calls you need to make.
Now actually reseve the time on your calendar. I mean actually book a meeting with yourself on an actual
calendar. You should see my Apple iCal – it looks like someone spilled a pack of skittles on it with all the self-
appointments for each big task related to my Areas of Attention. If I need to do something important, it gets a
place on my calendar. Period.
Do This: If you want it to get done, you have to schedule it. Schedule 1-3 important tasks for each
weekday. If you don’t have a calendar yet, then get one. I love iCal because it syncs with my iPhone and is
visually really fun.
Here’s a taste of what my calendar looks like most weeks…
8. Fill in the Gaps and Housekeeping
Time recommended: 5-10 minutes
Most of us fill our days with the little tasks – the ones that are easy to do, but also that don’t end up getting us
any closer to our goals. These need to get done, but not at the expense of the things that help us accomplish what
actually matters. Once you’ve scheduled your outcomes and MIT’s, now is where you get to fill in anything else.
Do This: Look at what’s left on your to do list. 8ow look at your calendar and see when you could fit
the little things in. Schedule these as well. By the end of this process you shouldn’t have any stray to-do lists
or tasks.
And also, since nothing happens without help, I like to take a minute or two and think about two questions in the
context of my week:
8. 1. Who can I help this week?
2. Who could help me accomplish what I have planned for the week?
Write down 1-3 people for each.
And as final housekeeping I like to review my expenses from the last seven days – I use Mint.com so this usually
takes about 3 minutes to categorize and see if everything looks right. If I put it off until the end of the month, this
stuff turns into more of of a mental monster than it needs to be. A few minutes goes a long way.
*A small note on how I track To-Do’s: I use the to-do list program called Things, which has seriously been a
lifesaver. I have a version on my MacBook Air, my iPhone and my iPad (yes, I’m part of the cult). They all sync
together. I’m able to categorize to-do’s into various projects, easily search them, drag to my calendar, assign
dates and keep everything sorted. As soon as I think of an idea throughout the week, I immediately write it down
– so I don’t forget it, and so that I don’t have to worry about forgetting it. Don’t estimate how mentally freeing it
is to get ideas onto paper. I must have 100 project or lists tracked in Things. Only 5 or 10 are active at once, but
everything is recorded in there.
If you don’t have a way to easily keep track of ideas and to-do’s, get one. Things is an excellent
option.
How to not fail at weekly planning – a few tips:
So there you have it – the most powerful hour I spend each week.
Once you get a handle on the process, it’s a lot simpler than it looks. But there are a few things that seem to trip
people up. Keep these in mind…
1. Everything takes longer than we think. If you think it’s going to take an hour to write an article, then
schedule an hour and a half. Worst case you’ll end up having free time.
2. Leave windows of “buffer time”. Do not fill in every second of every day. Unexpected things will
always come up. Don’t let them snowplow your week. Give yourself time to take care of last-minute stuff
that matters, and to be spontaneous with things.
3. Know you won’t get it all done. Even with great planning, it seems like we tend to be over ambitions (at
least I am ). Be ok with leaving a little for next week. It gives you something to look forward to
anyway.
4. Schedule the most important things early in the week. Given the above, front-weight your most
important tasks so that no matter what comes up, at least a few of them will get done.
Everyone has enough time.
There is a reason why the people who get the most done, tend to continue to be able to do more and more of
what matters.
Many of them also tend to love the work they do.
None of this is a coincidence.
9. They traded excuses for a proces that get’s results.
Whether you use this process or any other – please just use something.
There is no excuse for showing up underprepared.
If it’s in your control, then it’s time to start controlling it.
Trust me, you have enough time to do the things that matter.
We all do.
The only question left is how are you going to spend it?
-Scott