Tony Robbins is the definition of having The Will To Win.
Most people, in his same circumstances, would say things to themselves like:
“My life is terrible. Why is this happening to me?”
“Why hasn’t God given me more? Haven’t I done enough to deserve a better life?”
“What’s the point in trying? I could never be great at anything. MY LIFE is too hard. You wouldn’t understand.”
Tony Robbins is different than most people.
He had a goal to change lives. There was no room for compromise. He wiped away all excuses, distractions, and turned from negativity.
Tony embraced positivity. Like the sun revealing itself behind years of storms and cloudy weather.
Tony understands something many don’t.
You control your mind. So, you control your experience.
You have the right to complain. You also have the right to win. If you’re willing to culminate The Will To Win, you can do anything.
Most of us give up at the first sign of difficulty. We are pioneers, chasing the greatest version of ourselves. Until pioneering is no longer convenient, glamorous, or easy.
Ask yourself this: When was the last time something easy, ever had an impact on your life?
Tony never gave up. He was never “realistic” with his goals-the reason why he lives a life that seems impossible to so many of us. He visualized what he wanted from his life and pursued that vision until he got it. He would pursue it until he died, which is why he achieved it. But achieving your goal is not the point, being on the path is. Being on the path IS “the will”.
The Will To Win Speech didn’t motivate Tony Robbins.
The will to win speech awoke the will to win sleeping dormant within him, within you.
He created a goal, then made it crystal clear in his mind. Tony needed his goal to have as much clarity as possible: no second guessing goals.
All he needed to do was follow the map he created. You are the navigator of your own destiny, the wind in the sails. Some of us let that wind die out long ago. So we don’t move.
We stay in jobs we hate.
We stay in toxic relationships.
We’re satisfied with being a doormat for the world.
It doesn’t have to be like this.
Others chased goals like Tony’s and gave up. He continued in the face of adversity and kept going until adversity broke. Tony wasn’t going to break. He would die first. If you really want something, you need to throw yourself at it.
His desire to achieve what he knew in his mind he deserved superseded pain & suffering.
Have you ever wanted something this bad?
Tony Says Your Story Is Your Ultimate Tool.
He’s right.
Everything bad that’s ever happened to you is your fault.
This is a good thing. This is beautiful. It means you’re in control of your life, and not a victim of the world and your environment.
Victims stay prisoner to their own self-pity. Winners take their losses as lessons. They know they aren’t defeated when the fail, only when they give up.
Winners believe losses are lessons, and quitters are losers. Reframe your mind in the same manner, and watch how your world changes.
This means everything good that’s ever happened to you is your fault; your destiny is clay waiting to be manipulated.
The Will To Win Speech
By Vince Lombardi
Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win
once in a while; you don’t do things right once in a while; you do them
right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and
that’s first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay,
and I don’t ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl
game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has
been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win,
and to win.
Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he’s got to play from the
ground up – from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of
him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That’s O.K. You’ve got to
be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you’ve got
to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you’re lucky
enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he’s never going
to come off the field second.
Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of
organization – an army, a political party or a business. The principles are
the same. The object is to win – to beat the other guy. Maybe that sounds
hard or cruel. I don’t think it is.
It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive
games draw the most competitive men. That’s why they are there – to compete.
To know the rules and objectives when they get in the game. The object is to
win fairly, squarely, by the rules – but to win.
And in truth, I’ve never known a man worth his salt who in the long run,
deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline. There
is something in good men that really yearns for discipline and the harsh
reality of head to head combat.
I don’t say these things because I believe in the “brute” nature of man or
that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe
in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the
greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has
worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of
battle – victorious.
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Is The Vince Lombardi Will To Win Speech Correct?
Many have stated that the correct speech is The Will To Win by Berton Braley. You can read that speech here.
To confirm which speech was the correct version, I reached out to Tony Robbin’s team. They confirmed Vince Lombardi wrote the speech. Not Berton Braley.
Below is a link to a screenshot from the Tony Robbin’s team confirming the speech.
Confirmation of the correct speech
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