Tony Robbins Breakthrough App Notes From The Ultimate Edge Program

Week 1

Decision & Destiny Part 1

Tony Robbins Ultimate Edge is about taking control in creating life on your terms, putting yourself in a position where the outside world is not the driving force in who you become or what you create in life.

We all have times in life when we are wanting to change something, feeling frustrated, overwhelmed or stuck. Then something inside of us snaps, might take 10 years to get there but there is a moment where it all changes. Tony has spent his life looking at that moment so we can make that moment happen now.

What we want is to take control of the internal forces that shape the direction of our lives so we can fully realize our emotional, physical, financial and spiritual potential. Working the Ultimate Edge program together we will uncover the insights, tools, strategies and positive triggers that can change the quality of your life… in a moment!

Week 2 

Decision & Destiny Part 2

2 Forces That Control Our Decision:

State (in the moment) Being confident, having certainty or willingness to adapt, will positively impact the quality of our decisions. Negative emotions can sometimes be useful to make a change. Being conscious of our moment-to-moment state gives us a better understanding of how we feel and ultimately control over our emotions.

Blueprint (long term) Our “Model of the World” a specific set of beliefs about how we’re supposed to be, how life’s supposed to be and how other people are supposed to treat us. We experience happiness whenever our Life matches our Model of the World. If there is an area of life that is causing you pain, it’s because your Life Conditions in that area do not match your Model of the World.

It is important to understand none of this is carved in stone. We can reprogram the mental matrix that creates our blueprint, directing our emotions to feel motivated and confident, and run a more effective blueprint in alignment with our true desires.

Pain Provides 3 Choices

When our life conditions do not match our blueprint, we have three choices as to how we’re going to handle the challenge.

• Blame
• Change your life conditions
• Change your blueprint 

First Choice: There are 3 things you can Blame:

1. An Event: Blaming an event is convenient because it helps preserve an ego identity that is designed to shield us from our true fears: the fear of failure and fear of not being loved or accepted.
2. Someone else: The story may be factually true, but it is convenient and only gives you comfort in the moment. “There’s nothing wrong with me. It is this other person.
3. Yourself: Beating yourself up. As long as you're blaming yourself, “I’m not good enough”, “I’m not strong enough.” You will not see a change. 

Second Choice: Change your Life Conditions.

If you feel like you’re making progress in an area of your life, you will start to be pleased in that area, even if you’re not 100% there yet. You start to get more focused and specific about what you want to change, and you find ways to build momentum toward your desired results. Progress = Happiness.

Third Choice: Change Your Blueprint.

Sometimes things are outside of our control, but we CAN control how we create our rules about how things should be. Sometimes adjusting your Blueprint means being willing to compromise some of your rules that would be hard or even impossible for you or others to live up to.

Week 3 

The Key to Personal Power

Tony did thousands of personal development programs as a young man. With his personal research on how the mind is wired mixed with his life lessons we receive decades of one’s man learning with the Ultimate edge.

Tony’s first major success lead him to an uncomfortable place within. He started falling back into old habits = self-sabotage.

Power is in reconditioning the way our mind operates.

4 steps for success

1. Know your outcome - create clarity.
2. Use it, make the decision, take action.
3. Notice what you’re getting, what are the results of your action. Are they better or worse?
4. Change your approach, until you succeed.

Gain the power of momentum by creating new habits.

“Study what you want to learn, you cannot just hope.” Tony Robbins
“The past does not equal the future, unless you live there.” Tony Robbins

Week 4 

3 Steps to Lasting Change

The only way to change a situation is to change the way you feel and the way you behave.

Build a massive emotional change within to create a new behaviour. To better understand this, read Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankel.

Condition yourself to the new behaviour you wish to have.

Creating Long-Term Change

1. Get Leverage, get to the point that you must change, you can change, and you will change.
2. Interrupt the current pattern, do whatever it takes to jolt your system out of the old way.
3. Create a new association, condition the new association, commit to the new way you will now behave moving forward.

Celebrate every time you take action to condition a new behaviour 🎉

Week 5

The Driving Force - Your 6 Human Needs

There is an emotional side to everything we do, most people are focused on getting the job done. Using our emotions to drive us is when life starts to flow.

4 classes of experience.

1. feels good, good for you, good for others, serves the greater good.
2. Does not feel good, is good for you, good for others, serves the greater good.
3. Feels good, not good for you, not good for others, does not serve the greater good
4. Does not feel good, is not good for you, does not serve others, does not serve the greater good.

Secret to success, happiness, fulfillment; learn to convert class two into class one experiences.

All humans have the same needs, we have different problems due to conflict of our human needs.

6 human needs.

• Certainty. 
• Uncertainty. 
• Significance. 
• Connection/Love. 
• Growth. 
• Contribution

Need one, certainty or comfort. Using faith, we can move into certainty. Searching for combinations of new references to gain certainty. No one can take it away from you, can only supply references, it is up to us on what we will believe. Certainty is a need to move towards.

We create vehicles to meet our needs. Negative and positive.

Negative way to get certainty. Grab something to gain instant comfort, food, drugs, organizing, controlling others. Some people will create a negative identity, I am a procrastinator, which will allow them to feel comfortable because they feel safe this way. It’s not my fault, it's just the way I am.

Create a positive identity. Be willing to decide you will find a way, use faith. My personal example. I am a force of nature. Grounded like an oak tree, able to withstand any storm, able to flourish in the light.  

With complete certainty you lose your edge. You will feel boredom. Become unhappy.

Uncertainty – it is a need! It supplies variety. A paradox with certainty and can be used as they complement each other.

Uncertainty supplies our need for excitement, surprises. Fuel for a state change.

People will violate their values to get their needs met.

Create a new vehicle to meet your need of Variety, easy to use to receive comfort. Ask yourself, how do I meet my need of variety currently? How do I create comfort?

Significance; to be needed, to feel important, sense of meaning in our lives. Not a desire, an emotional need.

We all have a reason for the things we do, a belief that we will meet one of our needs.

We all have the same needs; the difference is how we try to meet them.

-Vehicles for significance; our style, being eccentric, through our children, creating a new skill set.

Connection and Love; we all desire love. Babies will not survive without it.

Vehicles; Relationships. Sexuality. Spirituality. Nature to connect with yourself. Pets. Contribution to others. Being on a team/member of a club.

Whatever need you want to fulfill in your life; give it. Whatever need you want to receive in life; give it. You will get back whatever it is you give. Give what you wish to receive.

The first 4 needs we will always work towards meeting. The last two are optional. Growth and Contribution are where fulfillment is born.

Growth and Contribution are the primary essential needs of life. They are the laws of life; everything must grow or contribute, or they will not last.

We can meet the first 4 needs in a destructive way, but we will not grow and contribute.

Meeting them in a positive way will allow us to grow which = fulfillment, joy, happiness.

Week 6 

Results Workshop - Part 1

Success leaves clues. Successful people are not born that way, they have patterns they run over and over that bring success.

Establish a pattern that will have you moving towards your desires, over playing the game of saying or wishing for someday. Someday I will, someday I’ll have…

Commit to yourself, commit to time for yourself, time for gratitude, time to program or rewire yourself.

Exercise is involved to make this happen, which is why not many people do it. (Remember, it’s just moving your body. Walking for 30 minutes is exercise).

The word BUT is a way to okay our excuses for not having self-discipline.

How do you rationalize not doing the things you need to do? (The antidote is self-honesty).

Understand the power of now, just do one thing now. Make one call, walk just 15 minutes.

Momentum and “chunking” remove stress.

Instant pleasures make your pain bigger because you’re not playing life at the level you desire.

Most people are trying to make themselves feel good without changing anything which creates a life of mediocrity. You may be doing more or better than the people around you however, your life is not based on others. It is about playing at your best. Demand more from yourself than anyone would ever expect.

Some people wait for there to be so much pain in their life before they decide to change. Most of these people will only take action until the pain is removed.

Get disturbed by your pain and use it as a positive to make a change to a new identity.

Get around people that are playing at a higher level, the more you’re around these people the sooner you will create a new identity. Turn being disturbed into drive.

Be clear on what it is you want, know your true outcome. What do you want, why do you want it? Focus on the outcome/result/want over the actions you’re currently taking so you can adjust what is and what is not working to achieve your true desire.

Be honest with what is disturbing you right now. When you tap into the power of pain you can use it intelligently for drive to move you forward. If not, you will continue to use instant pleasures. Be clear what it is in front of you that you desire to have instead.

We are so busy covering up the things we are unhappy about, we never take the time to dig deep and get to the bottom of what it is that makes us unhappy. What matters to us most.

Running around and pretending there is nothing wrong is called lying to yourself, deceiving yourself. It will bite you in the ass sooner or later.

Model your past success, understand your success patterns. What were you doing, how did you feel?

What is something in your life you have right now that once would have been a dream to have? Notice what disturbed you enough to have it? To make a plan to get it, consciously or unconsciously.

Once you create your plan and have the actions you will take, know your why, have the drive. You will then receive your opponents. All the things that “have to” happen, the calls, the demands upon you. The people who are closest to you, kids, lover, friends. The internal, “I want this, but I also what that”

Week 7 

The Power of Relationships - Part 1

Relationships are where the greatest joys can come from, when handled ineffectively there is so much pain and life can lose its meaning.

Money is nice, achievement is great but when you do it alone it can feel worthless.

When we are young, we want to get things done, get the financial stuff done so we don’t have to work again, yet once we stop working, we become unfulfilled. Getting to the point where it becomes optional is joy.

If something is not growing it's dying. To be fulfilled we must be growing in all areas of life.

An extraordinary life is created by closing the gap from where you are to where you want to be.

The secret to close the gap is to be honest there is one.

If you don’t have a relationship and really want one, you have mixed emotions about what a relationship will mean. It’s not a MUST for you.

Everything in life has its dualities, for there to be joy there needs to be pain. Quality relationships are with people that will learn to enjoy the storm as much as the rainbow.

We all have a deep emotional need for relationships, they are not something we want there something we need.

When in a relationship you are either at a place where you want more from it, want out of it, or think there will be more pain if you leave so you stay in it.

Relationships are about an emotional association. We react or respond emotionally to the situations that come about.

We bring our past into relationships. Are you making this person into someone else? A parent, sibling, that horrible relationship you once had that you ran away from.

Want to change your relationships, ask a new question. What else could this mean? Come up with as many positive meanings as you do negative.

Remember, most of the time, it is not about you. Dig to find out what this means.

Relationships are about unity, how to help each other move to the next level. It is not about being right, being right leads to punishing the other.

People respond to pleasurable reinforcement. Negative reinforcement leads to an end.

We can get caught up in the “to do’s” of life which can have us overlook the power of the relationships we have and create in life.

Most of us do not know what it is we are after; we must get clear. Is it love, variety, challenge, intimacy, connection of spirit, someone to tease you?

The real purpose of a relationship is to magnify the human experience. The connection to share the human emotions we feel. To share this joy with someone. If you’re not able to share or care about someone else’s sharing, you’re not really “in” the relationship.

If you’re with someone whose primary emotions they experience on a regular basis are negative, you will end up magnifying those emotions. If you’re with someone whose primary emotions are positive you will magnify those good feelings. As we are not one or the other for most people relationships are their greatest pleasures and their deepest pains.

The real secret to a relationship is to understand it’s a place you go to give, not receive. Unlimited sharing, unlimited giving. The more rules you have for a relationship, the more pain you have.

Legendary relationships are based on connection, relating, sharing and opening space for them to share, to grow, to contribute.

Poor relationships are when you do not feel significant, special, unique, like you matter, bored.

As human beings we are raised dependent on another human. Someone putting your needs ahead of their own. This creates a level of pain in intimate relationships because the moment you feel like someone is not loving you, the fear of the loss of love, the fear of dying emotionally comes up. We will run to something else for the comfort (certainty), drugs, overeating, TV, infidelity.

Males and females are biochemically different. Causes conflict. The solution is to have an awareness of what the situation is about. It's one of the levels of fear.

You cannot give to others what you do not give to yourself first. Learn to love yourself so you can give the love to the people around you. Fill yourself up first.

The only thing that is keeping you from getting what you deserve and want is the story you’re your telling yourself about why you can’t do it.

List out all your reasons for loving yourself, not just saying you love yourself, build reasons, what do you truly love about who you are and what you do. If you don’t fully love yourself, can you fully love others?

What will make a relationship last is if both people share similar nature or natures that complement each other. Which is knowing if your relationship is based on the moment or will have a lasting impact. This is based on your beliefs.

When your nature is different from each other there will be conflict. Selection is important for long term intimacy.

With conflict there will be drama or pain. We could end up trying to have the other change to the kind of beliefs we hold. This leads to trying to be right over simply being loving. 

Week 8 

Pure Energy Live! The Keys to a Vital Life

We do many things for money, for our careers, we take care of our kids, but our bodies seem to come last or not at all. When we have no energy left for us, there is no joy, no juice.

Increased energy is an increase to the quality of our lives.

Health does not need to be a complex task.

Germs in our bodies is a sign of life, our bodies are driven by the mind and spirit.

Your philosophy of health is going to affect your health more than any specific thing you’re going to eat or do. The choices you will make, the way you deal with disease.

The garbage is there first, the rats come after. 

Our body is a unique system that’s working on electric currents tied with magnetism. The nerves in our body send signals through electricity. All our cells to be alive must be totally energetic.

What creates acid within our bodies? Emotions, anger, frustration. Acid strips or weakens the electric charge around red blood cells.

Aches and pains are a buildup of acid = Action signals.

Our bodies need to be alkalized to loss weight.

Nothing tastes as good as fit, vital and healthy feels. 

Week 9

Financial Freedom: Your Foundation for Lasting Wealth

Having money with lack of loving relationships and a vital healthy body it has no meaning.

To have more in finances it’s as simple as changing your psychology.

There’s a difference between wealth and financial security. You can have wealth today as it is a mindset. Once you feel abundant in all areas of life you will feel wealthy.

Holding on to the feeling of scarcity will have you to continue to live a life of scarcity. You will move towards instant pleasures to avoid the pain.

The only way to become wealthy is to add more value to other people’s lives than anybody else is adding.

Income is in direct proportion to your contribution.

Average life in 1900 was 47 years old, it is now common to live past 90. Investing at a minimum of $100 a month with compounding and never touching it will allow us to have money for our whole life.

Think of money being in 3 buckets.

1. Security
2. Growth
3. Dreams

Security bucket, first place to invest your money. Small risk investments grow slowly and over time builds. Never take money out of this bucket.

Growth bucket, invest in things that can grow and give a much larger return. It is riskier, potential for more growth. Depending on your age choose the split, 70/30 or 60/40. More towards security when your older so if/when a mistake is made your still secure for your old age.

Dream bucket, when you get a big hit in your growth bucket. Take a third of the profits, put it in your security bucket. Another third back in your growth bucket and the last third in your dream bucket. These are the things you desire, homes, car, trip etc.

12 steps to become wealthy and traps to avoid.

1. Be clear on what wealth means to you.
2. Do not make it a moving target.
3. They define it in ways that make it impossible to achieve.
4. They do not believe they can achieve it.
5. They never make it a must to be abundant.
6. No realistic plan to achieve it.
7. Fail to follow through on their plan.
8. They listen to others overstaying with their plan.
9. They give up when financial struggles show up.
10. They fail to conduct their life where they believe they must have a profit at the end of the year.
11. They allow other people’s emotions to control their thought process.
12. They never get quality coaching.

To be financially wealthy is simple. Spend less than you earn and reinvest the difference. Make it a must by not having a choice. I must invest in my future.

You’re not really wealthy unless your abundant in emotions, health, relationships. To expand financially expand spiritually. 

Week 10

The Final Day: Your Personal Blueprint

The three pillars of the Ultimate Edge. 

1. Focus 
2. Get the best tools, strategies, coach, mentor. 
3. Alignment. Get out of conflict.

What affects our lives the most is our decisions. Decisions are controlled moment to moment by our state. What affects us most long term is our blueprint.

How we create meaning in our mind. The one thing we all have in common is the same 6 human needs.

• Certainty, we all need it.
• Uncertainty, we need the variety and change to feel alive.
• Significance, the need to feel unique, special, important.
• Connection and Love, most people settle for connection as Love is too scary.

These first 4 needs drive all human behavior at its base. The fundamental needs. The final 2 needs you can see as the needs of the human spirit. We must Grow.

• Growth is the base of fulfillment.
• Contribute, you can see this as the center target for the game of life. The center is where we feel most alive. The spiritual needs.

Changing the order of your human needs to what you want to be at the top of your list will change the direction of your life. Thinking about how you can give love over how you can get it will change the direction and ultimately the destination of your life.

The second element is your beliefs. If your first driving force is the needs your meeting than the second is what is called the guiding force, the set of beliefs you have on what it means to be certain, significant, loving.

The difference in people in the moment is their state. Nice people can be mean in a moment, the toughest person can be nice, your state determines how you will be in the moment. Your blueprint will determine how you will behave, act, respond in the long term. How life is supposed to be, how others are supposed to be. The awareness will allow to change it, to be aligned within.

The third force that shapes us is based on the habits of emotions. The habit of your emotions is also filtered to your habits of meaning.

When our Life Conditions do not match our blueprint for how life is supposed to be, we feel pain. Pain is a part of life; however, suffering is a choice.

When we are happy about something with our life, our Life Conditions = Our Blueprint. They equal our expectations.

A tendency we have as humans is to negate how much pain we have. However, if we allow it to be strong enough, and not destroy us, it will drive us.

When feeling pain, look at how many rules you have in the area giving you pain. Notice how more rules makes it harder to feel pleasure. The point here is to take a look at what you’re going to do with the pain. Let your pain drive you to action over suffering.

The formula for suffering, Your Life Conditions, do not equal Your Blueprint + No Control. You feel like you cannot do anything about it. Learned helplessness.

Destructive beliefs, the 3 P’s.

• Permanent, when we believe this we do not change.
• Pervasive, believing that the challenges you have are way bigger than they are.
• Personal, believing the negative story your telling yourself is true.

What separates people is the blueprint of what they expect of themselves, not just the blueprint of what they expect to receive. Switch from what can’t I do to what can I do.

To eliminate suffering, you’re never going to eliminate pain. You get clear about what is driving you, where it is strong so you can reinforce it, where it is the essence of your soul vs some stuff you practice. Where it’s meeting your needs and where it is not. Be willing to add more value than you try to take back.

Hoping won’t make the shift, you must get to the place of certainty again. Drill into your body with the hour of power. Follow the process to step out of your fears and step back into your body and drill yourself into the sense of physical and emotion strength by focusing on what you really want.

Education usually costs a lot, our “failures” in life are just that. An education on your journey to a life of fulfillment.

3 Choices that lead to suffering. Blame, blaming an event, blaming someone else, blaming yourself. Get out of it with change. Change your life, your body, your relationships.

Our life blueprints are to be updated as we grow into stronger wiser beings. With new experiences and new challenges, we receive new information and our desires and wants from life change. Be conscious to what is happening around you. How does life need to be now, where is the opportunity in this season of life?

Repetition is the mother of all skill. Listen to the Ultimate Edge course multiple times. Dabblers are just that, they dabble through life.

Masters lift the weight over and over until they get the result they are looking for.