[Tony Robbins] Get The Edge || Step 3 Create An Action Plan (DVD10)
so let’s go to step number three step number three is you’ve got to create a real plan now we’ve already begun that because an rpm plan by the way we call it rpm because rpm stands for the rapid planning method this is what i teach in the time of your life when we teach it in companies and we show people how to immediately bam produce a quick plan that people really follow through on because most people when they do a plan they think the job’s over but the truth is we’ve got a plan the jobs begun and the only way you’re going to follow through is if you have absolute clarity of what you’re after because along the way a lot of actions you take aren’t going to work so if you think the action is the goal like we said earlier if you think running 20 miles is the goal rather than losing 20 pounds well then if something interferes with your ability to run then you can’t achieve the goal you’ve got to make sure you know what you’re after and you can change your approach to get there and you’ve got to know why you’re after it because when the going gets tough the difference in falling through or not is having enough reasons reasons come first answers come second if you get a big enough why to do something big enough reasons you can figure out how to do it so you might want to juice up the result you wrote down like this is what i’m after maybe be more specific buy when and you might want to write a few more reasons but then i want you to step three i want you to draw out a map and when i say a map i want it to be very simple and specific just write down anything first that you could do to achieve that goal instead of trying to be perfect again and saying well i go to this first and then this and then this that makes it hard just brainstorm anything you could do when you’re done with that map you’re going to asterisk the things that you think are musts meaning you might come up with 10 or 15 things you could do to achieve that outcome it’s 10 or 15 steps you might need to do them all but i want you to asterisk the two three four five of them that you must do and that you can do that are within your control that would absolutely get you the result you’re after so you can have that sense of certainty that this is really going to happen so i want you to do that right now you can refine your result put a deadline on it add a few reasons so you got a good strong purpose and then do the m and rpm the massive action plan what specific actions are you going to take immediately to get this done and by the way i’ll give you a clue write down little things you can do immediately because one of the beliefs i have is never ever leave the site of setting a goal without doing something towards its achievement this is how you get momentum if you get all excited and you start to create this plan and you don’t actually do something immediately you’ll get back caught up you’ll get distracted by your other work commitments or someone else have a demand from you or something at home will get you you get caught up in the normal grind so i never leave the side of setting a goal without doing something towards entertainment send an email make a phone call book a meeting go get a book right do something specific that moves you towards this immediately so you want to make write some things you can do immediately and write some little things and some big things one of the ways to get a really great plan is do something that really commits you in that action so maybe if you’re overweight again using that same example maybe what you do is you go in the kitchen and you rip out everything in that kitchen everything in the refrigerator that you know doesn’t belong there it’s not good for you and then you carry it under your arms delicately and you head for the bathroom you bring a cd player or an audio tape and you lift up that porcelain goddess and you play the music in the background as you dump the stuff down the toilet and you flush it away forever maybe the music you play is we are the champions of the world i don’t know what you do do something crazy committed act do something that commits yourself write down your massive action plan and make it very specific things you’re going to do maybe instead of saying well i’ll do some research on the internet maybe this week say on thursday i’m going to do one hour of research on the internet i’m going to compare three companies to look at to decide where to invest or you know what i’m gonna do exercise for 25 minutes five times a week be as specific as possible i don’t know what the specific thing is for you but do it and if you can get yourself to not only write something down but today go do something that commits you you’re gonna get momentum you’re going to find yourself saying this is easy and everybody around you including yourself is going to know you mean it see when we say we’re going to do something and then we don’t do anything it tells your brain you don’t mean it so let’s start right now by coming up with that plan okay write down your massive action plan and you can come up with all kinds of things you can always shorten it later come up with a brainstorm a whole list of things that you can shorten if you want to all the possibilities so you got a lot of choices okay all right go go go do it right now pause the cd and let’s do it okay i’m assuming that you’re now back with me because you’ve completed your map in fact you’ve got an rpm plan by the way what does rpm stand for besides rapid planning method well it’s a results-focused purpose-driven massive action plan and that’s how you get life results you don’t get it by thinking about it or talking about it or rationalizing it you get it by getting incredibly focused on the result you get in the sense of drive from your purpose and you create a map a massive action plan that’ll get you going to get the result and to make that result a reality now this rpm by also as a metaphor obviously it’s like in a car when you increase the rpms you increase the energy the power to actually produce results that’s what this does as well so i’ll give you a couple examples and see how these relate to yours if there’s anything you could learn from these one of the people here earlier who said that they really want to do these songs but haven’t done it in 20 years at the same level anyway so it’s actually very simple they decided they’re going to make sure that they’re working on songs every single week and the action plan is number one within this next week he’s gonna put a clipboard by his bed step two when he opens his eyes every single day five days a week he’s gonna spend the first 30 minutes just writing as if he’s going to write stuff that’s going to go in the trash so there’s no limitation he’s totally in the creative flow because once you get in that flow more comes through you now by the way does this sound almost like a part of his hour of power you bet he’s starting out with the first half hour for himself for his greatest passion by the way how do you think that’ll affect the rest of his day no matter what else he does so he said then the next thing he’s going to do is on the weekends he’s going to commit one hour to review those notes and edit them and actually put them into something that’s real see if he can take from these great ideas and actually produce something of real value now if he does that every single week his chances of his songwriting exploding are absolutely you know i can’t say guaranteed nothing life is guaranteed but the opportunity for that to happen it’s gonna occur you know why he’s no longer talking about it he’s no longer just envisioning it he’s begun to plan it which makes it possible it’s not possible when you’re just talking about it and now he’s scheduling it so it’s real that’s gonna get him the results he wants and by the way he has the same thing for his workout schedule he’s got his outcome of what he wants to do he’s going to work out three times a week aerobically twice anaerobically he’s got the days and most importantly he’s got starting with today as his first action item and he’s got the time during the day and he gave himself a little bit of flex factor between one and three because he knows his schedule flexes so he’s not setting himself up for failure which we’re going to talk about later on he’s setting himself up to win another person here the person who owns the studio said that he’s actually decided his result is he’s locked in to complete his first product online by march 1st what’s great about that it’s very specific and it’s got a deadline so i said how you going to do it he said simple i have 50 email responses i should have sent out a long time ago from people that already want this kind of product and i’m gonna send it out this week number two i’m gonna send out a hundred new emails to potential clients number three i’m gonna take out some banner ads with at least two different publications and then on march 5th you’ll have a second product online and on april 1st is third so he’s very specific and by the way is this something achievable now see it’s really hard even you get yourself motivated then unless you got something very specific to focus on and you know the reasons you know exactly what to do you won’t do it because you’ll get caught up that’s why having this rpm planning process this rapid planning method is so valuable in the beginning you’re kind of weak at it but after you do it for a while you’ll get really specific you’ll come up with great purposes and you’ll come up with great plans it’s like anything it’s a little muscle use a little bit it’s going to grow another person here described the fact that they were unhappy what disturbed them we didn’t talk about their example earlier was being overweight and not being able to change it they’d lost weight like 15 pounds a year ago they gained it all back and they’ve not been able to get rid of it and so this person said now the result is really clear i’m going to produce this result i’m going to lose these 15 pounds and most importantly because i deserve to i deserve that the energy the feeling the sexiness et cetera et cetera et cetera they described all things that disturb them to get the energy but then this person focused on the result specifically by when and he had a powerful purpose but was interesting was what they learned when they did their action plan this person said you know what they realized what was missing is in the past when they lost weight they had a buddy they had someone to share the experience with and she became totally certain she wrote down who her buddy would be that she could then do this the second step was to pull out that darren stairmaster and actually plug it in a unique concept what does that do again convenience clarity so many things we don’t do just because they’re not convenient because they’re not immediate what’s immediate gets our attention so she’s taking that out making that happen and then she has a date by which she’s going to make this all happen for each of these specific aspects but i want to point something out here we’re going to talk about this later on when i talk about really setting yourself up to win which is one of our principles but as long as it’s being said here i’ll tell you this both of these people found something that they know will work because they modeled their successes from the past you see for this woman she was able to lose the weight when she had a buddy and i’ll explain a little more why that worked later on other than the obvious the gentleman with the songwriting wrote a song that was on a tv show more than 20 years ago but he stopped doing this and he hasn’t had that kind of result in his songwriting since then so what you’ve really got to be able to look at is there are times in your life when you’ve already succeeded and you need to go back and model what you did and putting together your action plan because then you’ll have certainty it will work one things i do in one of my seminars is i have people write down everything in their life that’s here today that once was a dream once was a goal things you may now take for granted like you know the person who’s now in your life that you hoped at one point would go out with you or the job you now take for granted at one point you were wishing for or the business that you now own and you’re complaining about that one time in your life you would have prayed for and then i have people write all these things down and then i say okay now circle one or two that really seemed impossible now write down how you made that happen and what you begin to see is that there’s a pattern the pattern is similar to what we talked about something disturbed them they may have been upset disturbed sometimes as they saw something that disturbed their status quo instead of being comfortable they wanted more it didn’t have to be painful you know sometimes you’re disturbed because you see something great and you want it that’s disturbing too what’s disturbing is you don’t have it that’s a good thing so someone said you know i really want my own studio i don’t want to work for somebody else you know this is what i want this is the kind of life i want to have it on my terms but then what happens is you get disturbed you get specific about what you want you get enough reasons to follow through you come up with a plan of action you may do it consciously or unconsciously and you get the psychology together make it happen you take massive action you get results but then we forget how we did this stuff then what happens is pretty soon there’s a big gap between where we are where we want to be because it’s natural that once you achieve something you want more so you want to make sure you get your plan here create a little map hopefully these ideas have triggered you a bit and remember if you want to take some action on something like you want to master your health then get a coach we got coaches here get the living health product look at something that’ll guide you step by step day by day the more specific the coaching the more powerful you’re going to be to follow through and if there’s someone physically there to follow up with you then you can’t make excuses because there’s somebody else you’re talking to other than yourself it’s so easy to talk yourself out of anything but when you have a result there you gotta make happen it changes so if you don’t get a professional coach in order to make your plan work get a buddy get some leverage make sure that someone else knows your plan so you can’t just create a plan and not follow through okay
