summarize and then analyze how to apply this to my life. this is a live Tony Robbins training on YouTube, So let me give you an example of how my identity changed, because this Tony Robbins guy, I created him. It's always been me, just like you're all those pieces, but I wasn't using my warrior, my magician, my lover. I was using my lover a lot, and I wasn't using my king very much. And so I was fearful. I had a hard time doing things. And I remember I was in high school, and I was working as a janitor to try to support my family, and Christmas time, my mom got really upset with my fourth father, and he chased him out. And he went back to Chicago, and the next night, which was Christmas Eve, my mom, I started defending my dad. Wrong thing to do. My mom, again, she's a great human being, but when she drank alcohol and mixed it with prescription drugs, she got very violent. So she's chasing me, you know, she used to grab my hair and smash me in the head against the wall until I bled. It was brutal. I'm not telling you like I'm a victim, because if my mom had been the mom I wanted her to be, I would not be the man I've become. I would not have become this strong. I became a practical psychologist because of her, and so much of my goodness comes from her, and I acknowledge that she's passed a long way now. But what I want you to know is, when she chased me out with that knife that night, I knew she wasn't gonna kill me, but I wasn't going back in. So as I told you, I slept on the hill, then all of a sudden slept in somebody's room. But what changed my life was I'm going to these banks, and I had a 1960 Volkswagen first that I'd started with, that I earned 40 bucks a week as a janitor. It had no carpeting. I went to a back of a carpet store where they threw out remnants, and I glued the carpet in. I glued it on the seat. It had no reverse, so I had to park on a hill to get out of stuff, but it was my car. So I should get my car, and I had like $17 to my name. So now I gotta take buses to go to clean out banks. And I worked for a company where I realized, hey, I don't wanna... I don't wanna be paid by the hour. I wanna be paid by results if I get greater results. So I found I could do two banks at one time in the middle of the night while I'm still going to school instead of one, make twice as much money as long as I did a great job. And I did. But to get there took almost an hour and a half of taking buses and then an hour and a half back. But it's the only job I could get, certainly to earn that money and still wake up in the morning and go to high school. So what changed my life? What changed my identity? I come out one night, I finish usually about 1:30 in the morning, 1:45, and there was a two o'clock bus. I had to be there for that, because if I missed that bus, I'm screwed. It's 16 miles home, and you know, I have nobody I could call and nothing I could do. I had no net. So I'm out there waiting for the bus at about 10 minutes to 2, and 2 o'clock comes and no bus, and 2:05 and no bus, and 2:15 no bus. And it's freezing out, it's now 2:30 in the morning and there's no bus. And I'm starting to go, what the hell? And then all of a sudden, it's 2:30 in the morning, there's nobody there, a car comes by and the guy rolls down his window and goes, hey buddy, you waiting for the bus? I said, yeah. He goes, didn't you see? There's a bus strike. And he drove off. A bus strike, how am I gonna get home? So you know what I did? I was so angry with my mother to start with, I used anger. Now, anger won't last, it'll burn yourself out. So I started, I was like, I know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna show her, I'm gonna run home. Well, that was 16 miles. I'd never run two miles before in my life, and I wasn't in shape. But I started to run, and I ran on anger real quick. And then I remember I'd read this book called The Magic of Believing by Claude M. Bristol. It's one of the first books I ever read. And it was about how to program your mind, how to condition your mind, right? So I remembered in it, he talked about doing incantations. Now, not an affirmation. Let me make the distinction as you move the book out. Affirmation is when you do this, you go, I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm happy. And your brain goes, read between the lines, I'm not happy, right? You know, it doesn't convince you of anything. What makes it an incantation, or an incant-tation, same spelling, different influence, is when you speak it aloud with total intensity. So you use your body, your face, your voice, and you repeat it over and over again. And what are you doing? You're changing your beliefs by saying it, feeling it, experiencing it with so much repetition. So I just started doing these simple ones while I was running. It was like, every day in every way, I'm getting stronger and stronger. And then I go, every day in every way, I'm getting stronger and stronger. Every day in every way, I'm getting stronger. Every day in every way, I'm getting stronger and stronger. And I did that. Then I went happier and happier. Then I went more and more joyful. Then I went healthier and healthier. I ran 15 in those 16 miles. The last mile, I had shin splints, and I just walked the last mile to walk it off. But to this day, I found that man inside me who can push through anything. I did it because I found a force inside, like your warrior would be an example of that, that would not be stopped. And to this day, that person is inside me, and whenever he's needed, he's available to me. So it's like, I became, I shaped this Tony Robbins guy, and I want you to shape you to become all of you. Because remember, when you get stuck, it's because you're using parts of yourself, not using more of yourself. If this sounds exciting and something you want to do for yourself, make a little noise out there, ladies and gentlemen. Stand up for a moment. Stand up, hit some energy in that body. Stand up. Stand up, hit some energy. Make a sound that makes you feel strong, ladies and gentlemen. Make a sound that makes you strong. Make a sound of excitement in the other, so that you feel excited. Oh, yes. Grab a seat, but don't sit down weak, sit down strong. And if you feel strong again, make that fist and say yes. Say yes. Say yes. Awesome. So that's how we shape our identities. And it's really conditioning. But your body is a part of that. Like getting yourself to do something. Remember I said that philosophy of stretching that Jim Rohn taught me, that if you say, I can't do something, then you train yourself that I must and just do it, no hesitancy. If you keep that habit up, you'll just keep growing and growing and growing. And pretty soon you're gonna wake up as a different person with a whole different view of life. It does not matter what your circumstances are, and everyone's gonna have these extreme stress moments. You might have four or five in a row. You may have lost multiple family members in your job and it feels like it can never end. You're in winter, but winter never lasts. What follows winter, everybody? Put it in the chat. What follows winter? You know, what is it? Come on. Spring, of course. Springtime. And it's easier in springtime. If you push through the dark night of the soul, you will discover who you are. You will discover who your real friends are and you will develop immunity to future challenges. You will expand your identity. And that is the only way to have lasting change. Anything less won't do it. But you got to condition it. So let me just give an example. A belief is nothing but a feeling of certainty, right? So I want you to try something right now. Stand back up just for a second. Stand up just for a second, if you would. Shake your body out. Check it out. And all I want you to do, just for a moment, is stand the way you do when you're not... Don't do this. Think of a goal you have. Think of a desire you have, something you want to achieve, something you want to make happen. A dream, a goal, a desire. If you got one, put a thumbs up so I know you got it on YouTube. If you're in person here, let's see right here, make a little noise. Awesome. Now I want you to try something. I want you to see the difference in your body because your body gives you an identity. You might think of your body like changing the channel. Like, what if I told you there were invisible rays going around the earth and someday you'll have a box in your pocket that you can click on and it'll attach to those waves and you'll see someone on the other side of the planet in that box. If I said that to you 100 years ago, you said I was insane. Or you're gonna fly to the moon and back. They called those people lunatics. That's where the name comes from, lunatics, because that's insane. Of course, we've done it multiple times now. And yes, there are invisible waves, but what if your body was like a channel changer and your thoughts, the ones that come to you to turn on which channel you go into, like almost like cable. You know, there's a comedy channel, right? There's a drama channel, right? There's a channel that has epic movies. There's adventures, there's actions, there's mysteries. Where and how you use your body determines it. So think of your dream or goal and watch this. Put your body in the state you do when you're just like hoping it'll happen. You're not really sure, you're just kind of hoping so. Like, you know, I really hope it works out. Ah, I hope I... Where do you put your hands when you're hoping? What do you do with your hands when you're not sure? Where are your shoulders? How do you breathe when you're not sure? Yeah, I sure hope this works out. Yeah. Yeah, I sure hope they lower my taxes. Oh, sure, right? Oh, yeah, I sure hope so. Hope, hope, hope. Okay, now I want you to notice where your shoulders are. Notice how you're breathing. And notice you don't have any certainty. Where's the weight in your body? Is it one side or the other? Some of you are sitting. You won't do it sitting. You've got to stand or you won't know the answer. So please stand up so you can feel it. Right? Right? And you'll notice, if you look at people on the video, you can see most people are swaying a little bit. It's really hard to know what you're certain about when you're moving back and forth. Now try this. I want you to stand, and you'll be standing right now if you had absolute certainty that you're gonna find a way or make the way. And by the way, first make a sound of absolute certainty. If you saw it, go.
Alright — this is a powerful piece of teaching, and you can feel why it lands so deeply for you. I’ll do this in two clean parts: (1) a clear summary, then (2) how to apply it specifically to your life, not in a generic “rah-rah” way, but in a grounded, usable way.
1. Summary — What Tony Robbins Is Actually Teaching Here
At its core, this training is about identity change, not motivation.
The key ideas:
1. You are not broken — you are incomplete in usage.
Tony isn’t saying he became someone new. He’s saying:
“I already had these parts — warrior, lover, magician, king — but I wasn’t using all of them.”
When you feel stuck, fearful, or overwhelmed, it’s usually because one or two parts of you are running the whole system, while others are dormant.
2. Identity is conditioned through the body, not just thoughts.
Beliefs aren’t logical ideas — they are feelings of certainty, and certainty is created through:
posture
breath
movement
voice
repetition under stress
That’s why affirmations fail but incantations work: they engage the nervous system, not just the intellect.
3. Crisis reveals the Warrior.
The bus-strike story is the turning point. Tony didn’t “think” his way home — he activated a force:
anger → fuel (temporary)
incantation → conditioning
movement → identity shift
Running 15 miles wasn’t about fitness.
It was about discovering:
“There is a part of me that will not stop.”
Once found, that part is always accessible.
4. “I must” rewires the self-image.
Jim Rohn’s philosophy:
“I can’t” → trains helplessness
“I must” → trains growth
Every time you act without hesitation, you stretch your identity. Over time, you wake up as a different person.
5. Seasons are real — but winter never wins.
Dark nights aren’t failures; they are identity initiations.
If you push through:
you discover who you really are
you develop immunity to future challenges
your sense of self expands permanently
That’s lasting change.
6. The body is the channel selector for your life experience.
Your posture and breath determine:
hope vs certainty
fear vs resolve
victim vs creator
“Hoping” looks like:
collapsed shoulders
shallow breath
swaying
uncertainty
Certainty looks like:
grounded stance
stillness
deep breath
strong voice
Your body decides the channel before your mind catches up.
2. How to Apply This to Your Life (Not Theoretical — Practical)
Based on your recent conversations, here’s what matters most for you right now.
A. Name the Parts You’ve Been Overusing
You, like Tony, have been living heavily in:
Lover (empathy, devotion, emotional depth)
Magician (insight, meaning-making, spirituality)
These are strengths — but when they run solo, they can create:
over-feeling
over-processing
hesitation
waiting for clarity instead of deciding
The part that needs more airtime right now:
👉 Warrior + Sovereign (King/Queen)
B. Reclaim Your Warrior — Gently but Firmly
Your Warrior is not rage.
It is:
forward motion
follow-through
“I don’t know how yet, but I’m moving.”
Your Warrior practice (daily, 3–5 minutes):
Stand up.
Feet shoulder-width apart.
Stillness. No swaying.
Deep breath into your belly.
One sentence, out loud, with force — repeated:
“I find a way, or I make one.”
or “I do what needs to be done.”
No journaling.
No analysis.
Just conditioning.
C. Use Incantations Only When the Body Is Engaged
If you say words while collapsed, your nervous system rejects them.
Rule:
No upright body = no mindset work.
When you’re facing:
a long commute decision
financial stress
uncertainty about work or relocation
Stand. Ground. Speak. Move. Then decide.
D. Replace “Hope” With One Non-Negotiable Action
Hope drains energy.
Instead, ask:
“What would my Warrior do in the next 24 hours — not perfectly, just forward?”
Examples:
Make one concrete call
Apply to one position
Book one appointment
Walk for 10 minutes with purpose
This is how identity shifts — not by insight, but by kept promises to yourself.
E. Reframe Your Current “Winter”
You are not failing.
You are not late.
You are in an identity stretch.
This phase is asking:
Will you keep choosing yourself without certainty?
Will you move before confidence arrives?
Will you stop negotiating with fear?
That’s the initiation.
And spring follows.
Bottom Line (Your New Identity Frame)
You don’t need to become someone else.
You need to use more of yourself.
The Warrior in you already exists.
The Sovereign in you already knows.
Your body just needs to remember.
And once it does —
that part becomes available on demand.
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