WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT STRATEGY IN LIFE FROM TONY ROBBINS

The capacity to increase and strengthen your hunger is the one common denominator of the most successful people in the world.

This morning I woke up and my sleeping app told me I was experiencing ‘lucid’ dreams. You may ask, “what is a lucid dream?” I said the same thing to myself, so here’s what it means.

A lucid dream is a dream during which the dreamer is aware they are dreaming.

To make it even more simple, it feels like you’re awake, but you’re dreaming. I sleep like this all the time and sometimes it feels as if I’m not sleeping at all. It’s super fascinating and also gives me great rest.

So anyway, I slept good last night only to wake up at 5:45am to darkness and the thickest fog you could imagine. I put my running shorts on, hoodie, grabbed my phone and got on with my morning routine of ‘learning’.

As I marched up the hill from my house, I began to listen to Tony Robbins and Lewis Howes. One of the first questions Lewis asked to Tony was, “what is the single greatest life strategy you’ve experienced over 40 years?”

The answer to this question is the quote in which I started, “the capacity to increase and strengthen your hunger.”

If you’re inquisitive at all, the following question to Tony would be, “how do you get more capacity for hunger and growth?” Yes, that is a great question and one in which Tony responded with lightning speed and said, “hang out with people who think and already have that type of hunger.”

Who you spend time with is who you become. — Tony Robbins

If you’re like me and grew up around church or wonder what the Bible says about a quote like this, here you go.

‘If you want to grow in wisdom, spend time with the wise. Walk with the wicked and you’ll eventually become just like them.’ Proverbs 13:20

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m usually never the smartest person in the room. I’ve never felt intellectually superior. I barely graduated high school, I dropped out of college, however, I always knew that in order to be successful, I needed to learn. I needed to ask questions. I may not have excelled in school but I learned from an early age to learn from other people’s experiences.

Here’s a funny story that just came to me. When I was around 18, I was working at my dad’s church. Every summer, our church would host a conference. The conference would draw great speakers and a great crowd of people searching to be inspired and grow their life spiritually. It was a great time of the year for the church, our family and everyone involved.

My job during the conference was to pick the guests up from the airport and bring them down to the suburbs of Chicago. One of the things my dad taught me and other very successful people was to use the time when I drove to ask questions of the guests.

It’s hilarious now thinking about it. I would first ask the guest if they minded if I recorded our time together. Most of them knew who I was as I introduced myself as Robb Thompson’s son. They could see I was hungry to learn and obliged. I don’t know where any of those cassette tapes are but it taught me how to be bold. This would have been around 1998 so podcasts weren’t even a thing yet — but I was already doing it. Ha!

I never liked reading until I heard story after story of how much successful people read. If you can read a biography of someone who has navigated life for 40, 50 or 60 years and you can read that story in a couple of hours, why wouldn’t you?

I’m hungry to be successful, to make my life count so I can help other people. This is why I learn everyday. This is why I turn the TV off and grab a book. Like I said, I don’t have the pedigree of degrees but I do have the time invested in studying the ways of success. And, I get more hungry and inspired after reading their failures and their fortunes.

What about you? What are you hungry for today? Who’s around you that is more hungry than you? Who inspires you to reach for the stars? If you don’t have those people in your life, then you have a great goal ahead of you.

And, if you think it’s impossible, just remember the word possible is always hiding in the shadow of ‘impossible’.

You’ve got this. Always be learning. a.