Why You Keep Taking the People You Love for Granted | Tony Robbins Full Intervention
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Tim's core issue is focusing on fear, future problems, and self-worth instead of his wife, which has made him take her for granted and drained the passion from their relationship. The solution is shifting focus to appreciation and presence—looking at her with love, speaking words that affirm commitment, and living in the moment rather than in anxiety about work or success. Lasting happiness comes from what you become and how you treat people, not from achievements, and the relationship will improve when both partners feel they are already enough and choose each other daily.
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When feeling stressed, the question to ask is: "What the hell am I focusing on? What am I thinking about? What's on my mind?" All pain and suffering begin with the illusion of loss. Tim believes he controls everything and fears losing it if he leaves. He does not truly control his entire life, his children, his work, or his clients. Loss of money, loss of business growth, and all tension created are based on scenarios he invented himself. He thought about these scenarios, felt them, and lived them in his body.
Fear is an unguided imagination that grows automatically like a weed. Faith is also an illusion since the outcome is unknown. Achievers call fear "stress" or "nervousness" because they are not supposed to be afraid. Both fear and faith require imagination, but fear is unguided while faith can be directed. The survival brain has existed for two million years to protect against threats like the saber-toothed tiger. Today, people suffer from anxiety about what others think of them.
Intention is the foundation of your life. A new intention along with sufficient energy and hard work will create a new person. Tim's intention is to rekindle passion and vitality with his wife. The main thing preventing increased passion is routine and taking his wife for granted.
The only thing that will make life better is the ability to find what you love at any moment and find something you can appreciate. This habit gives energy to solve every other problem. When focused on problems, stress, uncertainty, or fear, performance decreases and treatment of others worsens. The ability to appreciate is not about being positive but about being smart.
Everyone has a higher self capable of escaping fear instantly. Fear leaves when focus shifts to what is loved most or what can be appreciated, especially in unfair, painful, or scary moments. Loss can be found in anything if wanted, and offense can be found in anything anyone does. Freedom comes from training the mind to concentrate on what is loved and finding beauty in things.
Tim focuses on his fears rather than his love. In a relationship, the partner needs to know they are the most important thing. This is not because he doesn't love her or care about her, but because he is still trying to become someone who deserves all the things he wants. He directs energy toward feeling enough rather than toward his wife. Western consumer culture trains people that they are not enough until they accomplish certain things, earn certain amounts, or achieve certain levels.
Tim believes reaching certain levels of work, freedom, wealth, and success will make everything wonderful. However, when goals are achieved, the wonderful feeling does not last. The next day after achieving a goal, the question becomes "What's next?" The purpose of achieving goals is not just to achieve them but to become better, because what you become makes you happy, not what you get. Achievement does not create lasting satisfaction.
Most people have a plan: "Someday, someone, somewhere, then I'll be happy." Many people possess things that were once dreams or goals but now take them for granted. Tim is not consciously trying to take his life for granted but makes fear, anxiety, and problems his focus. He creates problems that have not yet appeared instead of focusing on strengthening what he loves.
Tim and Juliana had passion when they first met. What changed is taking each other's presence for granted and the allure of familiarity. This is human nature. The focus on stress drains energy and creates the feeling that nothing is enough. What is broken is the model of the world - the outlook on life that creates certain emotions, actions, and results.
Everything felt grateful for is a product of the outlook on life. Unsatisfied aspects are also results of the model of the world, beliefs, values, outlook on life, and rules about how people should treat each other. These rules accumulate over years and are sometimes reactions to childhood environments. If parents were overprotective, one either follows the example or values freedom more than security. What works at work does not necessarily work in relationships.
To change the relationship immediately, focus on moments that created great happiness together, physical closeness, and romance. Juliana is more focused on the child while Tim focuses on work. Both return home exhausted with no passion. They focus on child and work not because they don't like each other but because each is trying to find a way to be enough. She finds it through the child, he finds it through work.
If both knew they were already enough, they would remember how they looked at each other when they first met, what they dreamed about before their first kiss, what they prayed for and hoped for. Marriage, having a child, and work success are beautiful things but not as beautiful individually as when combined with presence and appreciation. Their six-month-old child does not receive equal attention from both parents despite equal love.
Juliana chose security and got a secure and loving man, but this does not ignite the spark of love. What makes the planet alive is opposing poles of energy. North and South Poles are opposite. Electrical outlets have opposing energies that create electricity. If energies are the same, energy fades and a wonderful friendship remains. Great friendship is the foundation of any great relationship, but vitality comes from different sources.
Stories like "He doesn't care" or "She only cares about the child" start to control behavior. Change your story, change your life. The biggest challenge is having old stories and reacting to them. What attracted Tim to Juliana was her "luscious" quality. What attracted Juliana to Tim was her really beautiful energy.
The solution is to focus more on the present moment rather than the future. Tim uses fear by anticipating problems that might occur, which reduces energy, causes stress, and creates tension. Juliana lives in the moment more because the baby crying brings her back to the present. Making moments more impactful requires a new habit of focusing on the present.
What makes Juliana feel most loved is what Tim says to her and what he does, including a certain tone of voice and way of looking at her. The instruction is to look into her eyes, feel with heart and soul, and repeat "I love you. You are mine. I will take care of you forever" in the mind. Non-verbal communication through eyes creates powerful feelings without words.
Nothing is wrong between them. One or two patterns work well at work but are very bad with the woman loved. At work, multitasking and getting everything done creates a pace that frightens her. Presence means focusing on her rather than yourself, plus calmness and communication. Tim's nature is to please others and be fearful, which makes him hurry. Hurrying has become a habit that prevents presence.
Fear comes from evaluating yourself. All suffering is related to the self. Suffering about children comes from thinking you have let them down, not from the children's actual condition. If wanting to start the week with a new life, learn the song "We" because life is not about me, it is about us. There is a limit to joy you can have on your own. Sharing multiplies joy. The first thing done when really excited is to announce it and share it.
Trying to please others is a habit that doesn't benefit work because it causes stress, doesn't benefit the relationship with wife, and doesn't increase happiness. The real self has been forgotten because the habit of pleasing others has become dominant.
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