Anthony Robbins is the world’s highest-paid motivator, trainer, and speaker. Many people say that he is this century’s most excellent speaker, trainer, and motivator.
But no one would have thought that before he was as successful as he is today as a billionaire and the best motivator; he was just a toilet cleaner. What’s the story?
Anthony Robbins Biography
Anthony Robbins, real name Anthony J. Mahavorick, on February 29, 1960, in California, United States. His father’s name is Sage Robbins, and his mother’s name is Becky Robbins. Anthony Robbins was born into an impoverished family.
He comes from a ‘broken home’ family. His married mother divorced, so he had three stepfathers, so his family became disharmonious.
Anthony Robbins was so poor that he once had to light his house with candles. That’s because he couldn’t afford to pay the electricity bill. Stay up-to-date with Deltsapure! Provide accurate and updated news for readers.
Become a Toilet Cleaner
Seeing his condition, Anthony Robbins then left his home in 1977. He chose to work and separated from his mother. His job is as a Janitor or Toilet Cleaner.
His salary as a toilet cleaner was only 50 dollars a week. Because he had no place to live, he transformed the toilet into his residence.
His job as a toilet cleaner dissatisfied him, so he worked as a door-to-door salesman at the Pearl Music Company.
At his workplace as a toilet cleaner, he saw that the toilet was always empty of visitors because there were many beggars or homeless people in front of the toilet. This then made the owner of the toilet where Anthony Robbins worked order him to evict people experiencing homelessness and beggars.
Anthony Robbins does not have the heart to do this; apart from that, he also understands the situation when he feels very deprived, such as a beggar or homeless person.
The method adopted by Anthony Robbins was quite good; he advised and motivated people experiencing homelessness and beggars to change their fate and leave their place. This was quite effective; it also changed his life.
Several years after that incident, he met a beggar whom he had advised and given motivation. However, the beggar had become a manager at a company, and Anthony Robbins didn’t even know the beggar.
The person told him that Anthony Robbins had such an excellent talent for motivating people that he was invited to attend Jim Rohn’s Motivation seminar for 10,000 dollars. The homeless man said that he was able to be successful because he attended Jim Rohn’s seminar.
The Turning Point of Anthony Robbins
Ten thousand dollars is a tiny large amount for Anthony Robbins. For him, that was a lot of money. He was indeed thinking about participating in a seminar held by Jim Rohn.
He then racked his brain on how to participate in the seminar. Luckily, after looking everywhere for a loan, a grandmother who was quite rich was willing to lend him this amount of money. Anthony Robbins also convinced the grandmother that this event would change his life.
After attending the seminar, he applied the knowledge he gained as a salesman. With serious effort, he became a salesman with a monthly income of 10,000 dollars.
He did this when he was 18 years old. Even a national magazine in the United States made a headline with the title “Wonder Boy: 18-Year-Old Has Income of 10,000 US Dollars in Just One Month! Fantastic “.
Becoming the Most Expensive Motivator in the World
This success then changed his fate. He then started promoting Jim Rohn’s seminars and made Jim Rohn his mentor or teacher. Anthony Robbins worked with Jim Rohn for four years, from age 18 to 22. After becoming a teacher in the NLP (Neuro Linguistic Program) program, he succeeded in learning from John Grinder, the Co-Founder of NLP.
Anthony Robbins then succeeded in developing NLP through his Neuro-Associative Conditioning (NAC) method. He also studied firewalking from Tolly Burkan and incorporated this method into each of his seminars.
Here are 18 Key Messages to Success from Anthony Robbins as a Motivator
- Engage the audience in the presentation as quickly as possible.
- Commitment to giving audiences more than they expect.
- Constantly upgrade your materials to ensure you provide your audience with the best information.
- Don’t memorize/memorize your material and talks, but be a ‘product’ of your material.
- Connect with your audience through several ways, such as humor, life stories, stories, body language, etc.
- Remember that what you sell (convey) is not just words but feelings and emotions.
- You must be emotional about your topic if you want to speak with feelings.
- Use your body to support what you say.
- Use a tone of voice to create a variety of emotions throughout your presentation.
- Humor is a lubricant that helps soften your message.
- Ensure you have done everything possible to make your topic relevant and valuable to your audience.
- Give your audience specific/clear examples of what consequences will occur if they do not immediately ‘take action’ on your message. Following your message will give them tangible benefits that they will receive if they do what you say.
- The most effective way to illustrate your message is through the power of a story.
- You don’t have to be perfect at speaking. Messages or stories full of emotion and energy that your audience will never forget.
- Becoming the best speaker means speaking as often as possible, as often as you can.
- Your whole life changes the moment you decide your life.
- Make your dreams, goals, and what you want in written form.
- The key to achieving your goals is to make something a “must” and “make yourself unable to live without your goal.
His motivational seminars then made many people successful after watching the program. So, Anthony Robbins succeeded in becoming the best motivator in the world. He later became known as the world’s highest-paid motivator, trainer, and speaker. For one seminar, he was paid 1 million dollars.
Many of the books he wrote have become international ‘best sellers’, and even his video and audio seminars sell well in the market. Anthony Robbins even became a mentor for Tung Desem Waringin, one of the best motivators in the world.
