TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE
One Simple
Habit To
Transform
Your Life
Jim Jubelirer On Tony
Robbins’ Philosophy
T
hroughout
human
history,
great leaders have used the
power of words to transform
our emotions, to enlist us in
their causes, and to shape the
course of destiny. Beliefs are formed
by words—and they can be changed
by words. Words provide us with a
vehicle for expressing and sharing our
experience with others.
Do you realize that the words you
habitually choose also affect how you
communicate with yourself and what you
experience?
Over the past 40 years, Tony Robbins has
worked with more than 50 million people.
He has observed the power of changing
just one key word in your communication
and the way it instantly changes the
way people feel–and how they behave.
Simply by changing your habitual
vocabulary—the words you consistently
use to describe your emotions—you can
instantaneously change how you think,
how you feel, and how you live. This
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is the power of consciously using your
words to improve the quality of your life
today and for the rest of your life.
The English language contains some
500,000 words. Yet the average person’s
working vocabulary consists of 2,000
words. That’s only 0.4 percent of the
entire English language. And the number
of words we use most frequently—
the words that make up our habitual
vocabulary? For most people, it averages
200–300 words. Isn’t that unbelievable?
Of the 3,000 words which describe
emotions, two-thirds describe negative
emotions. With such amazing resources
with which to express our feelings and
ideas, you don’t have to accept such an
impoverished vocabulary.
Words have a biochemical effect on the
body. The minute you use a word like
“devastated,” you’re going to produce
a very different biochemical effect than
if you say, “I’m a bit disappointed.” The
challenge is that the words we attach to
our experience become our experience.
If someone said to you, “I think you’re
mistaken,” versus, “I think you’re wrong,”
versus, “You’re lying,” your response
would vary drastically, right? The
same exact process happens with the
words that we use within ourselves, but
unfortunately, we do not consciously
choose our words to describe our
emotions. For emotions that we
experience that are distressing, we have
habitual words that we attach to them,
and we’re less conscious of their impact.
Making simple changes to the
way you speak can have profound
benefits. The following is a story
that Tony Robbins tells directly in
his own words:
“I first became aware of the power of the
words we use to label the experience
of our emotions during an intense
negotiation, more than a decade and a
half ago. The other side unjustly closed a