Tony Robbins, "Date with Destiny"

[CasanovaFrankenstein]

Here is my question: is anyone here familiar with Tony Robbins' "Date with Destiny" event? I remember on one of Tony's tapes he mentioned it when he started talking about values. It was about how if a person's top value (the emotional state he will do the most to experience) is "comfort" or "security", and his bottom value is "adventure", and then you switch them and put "adventure" on top and "comfort/security" on the bottom you'll change virtually everything about them.

Well for as long as I can remember I've had "comfort/security" on top and "adventure" at the bottom, and as a result I'm 35 and most high school kids have lived more than I have. I'm driven MUCH more by fear than desire, as Dennis Waitley would put it, with few exceptions. I don't have the X thousands of dollars that I'm sure "Date with Destiny" costs. But is anyone familiar with how people at that event "rearrange" their "moving toward" and "moving away from" values? What goes on there that allows them to do that, and is there a less expensive way of doing what Tony does there (read: MUCH less expensive)?

That's another problem of mine, my "moving away from" values, as Tony would put it. The emotional states you will do the most to avoid experiencing. Adventure, self-discovery, passion for living in general, these are all probably pretty high on my list of things I would like to experience, but they are nowhere near as important to me as my wanting to avoid unpleasant emotional states. Driven more by fear than desire as I said.

Okay, thanks.

 

[Daddy The Pimp]

I don't know about Date with destiny but i do know that Tony Robbins is the SH!T. Watch under my name , there is a thread with his seminar. Watch it , tons of value.

 

[Hooligan Harry]

Never read one of his books. Never listed to a tape.

I remember on one of Tony's tapes he mentioned it when he started talking about values. It was about how if a person's top value (the emotional state he will do the most to experience) is "comfort" or "security", and his bottom value is "adventure", and then you switch them and put "adventure" on top and "comfort/security" on the bottom you'll change virtually everything about them.

That right there I think just changed it.

 

[GQ_Confidence_1]

I use to be into Tony, so I speak from experience.

Did Personal Power II in 2001/2002. Did his UPW seminar in the summer of 2002. Use to participate some on his forum. Also got his sales mastery course, his old one. Like Tonys playbook on sales and persuasion. Pretty powerful.

But I've definitely graduated from Tony. His stuff was too "must oriented" for me. I dont operate like that. I think DWD is $5,000, at least it was in 02. Maybe some people can answer with direct dwd experience on his web community.

I think he tries way too hard to be great in every subject....finance, relationships, emotional mastery, goals, etc. Spreads himself too thin. And some is contradictory...i.e, relationship mastery, when he's been divorced! Hard to sell that IMO. And some of his stuff is just plain kooky, i.e., his q link pendant. Quackery, lol.

At his UPW seminar, he does a real hard sell of dwd and mastery university at the end. This was sunday night, his seminar started friday afternoon. You go into an emotional high friday (firewalk), then all day saturday (started early, at 9 or 10, and went to midnight or 1). Then sunday started early. And by 4 or 5 pm sunday, you're beat, and very suggestible to "upselling". And he goes into this pitch about..."if now you're ready to take it to the next level...you need mastery!

I think a bunch of people signed up for mastery and dwd that couldnt really afford it ($5 or $10 grand, most people dont have that kind of money lying around). Their fear/scarcity value was at the top...and after going $5 or $10 k more in the hole, I think it only increased.

You meet a bunch of people at upw (you do backrubs, and go to lunch with patners). One girl I knew, she was probably 23 or 24, I think signed up, but couldnt really afford it.

I dont know...just one persons experience. Also of value was his lessons in mastery cd's. Those were good....just a few ideas can be worth the value of the cd's.

One quote that I remember that was brilliant from lessons in mastery...."if you want answers no one else has, ask questions that no one else is asking". Stuff like that I think is brilliant. But most of Tony wasnt me.