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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
Tony Robbins |
I started listening to the tape in my companies gymn and I was hypnotized. I remember laughing and smiling the whole time. It felt great. I will never forget the moment whenTony finally tells the story of the Frog and the Scorpion and how the Scorpion stings the frog. At that moment I made the decision to quit smoking and I have never touched a cigarette again.
Get The Edge
I quickly got hooked to Tony and I spend at least an hour listening to his tapes every day. There was so much to life that I had just overlocked. Mostly opportunities. Get The Edge helped me to be aware. It helped me to recognize important moments in life that often would shape up my financial state. The programme works like a wake-up call and you realize how rich life is and how easy it can be to have a wonderful time while we here on Planet Earth.
Er, Sly Stallone, Sylvester Stallone, Rocky… Rocky's story is this even right? …But Slys's too, Sly is a good friend of mine. And,when I first met him years ago. He listened to my tapes and stuff and he invited me over for dinner, we started talking and I said I heard your story from other people but I really want to hear it from the horses mouth. I don't know how much is mythology and Urban Myth and how much is true…so he told me his whole story, the essence of it though was, he said he knew his whole life what he wanted to do since he was very very young, he wanted to be in the movie business. Period. I mean Not just TV…Movies. He said why was, for him, it was a chance to have people not only escape but to inspire people and by the way that drive is what made most of his movies inspire people what they capable of, overcome unbelievable obstacles, cause of his own life he felt like he did that..when he was born he was pulled out by the forceps, that's why he looked the way he did, that's why he talked the way he did. Then he said so I really want to do that and I new why I want to do it and I wasn't gonna settle for anything else..and he said what happened was, I went out to try and get jobs and its not like they went “Hey Adrian”, they went hey you're a star, it didn't work out very well.
They looked at me and said Hey, You're stupid looking, do something else, DOh Doh…there's no place for you in that stuff you're never gonna be a star in the movies, you're insane. No one's goinna want to listen to someone who looks dopy and talks out of the side of their mouth. And he got no after no after no..after no he said I was thrown out more then fifteen hundred times of agents offices in New York. I said there aren't fifteen hundred agents in New York. I know, I've been to them 5,6,7 ,8, 9 times.
He said their number 1 guy went in there and I got in there at 4'o clock and he wouldn't see me and I stayed there, I would not leave and I stayed there over night he came back the next morning and I was still sitting there. That's how I got my first job...continued below
The guy said, fine, come in here! And he sat down and he went through this and he gave me my first movie. Oh really? I thought Rocky was your first movie? He said, no, this other movie, I'd never heard of it. Well, what character did you play? … I was init for about 20 seconds. I was the thug somebody beat up. He said because they made me fee like you know “people hate your guts, you're getting beat up will be a good thing”. And he did like three movies like that…never got anything, kept going out, rejection, rejection, rejection. So finally he realized it wasn't working, so he changed his approach. He said I was starving, by the way, he said I couldn't pay for even to have heat in my apartment. My wife was screaming at me everyday, go get a job. I said why didn't you?
He said because I knew if I got a job, he said I get seduced back and I'd loose my hunger. He said I knew the only way I can do this as if it was the only choice if I burnt all other bridges, caus if I did a normal job pretty soon I'b be caught up in that rhythm and that stuff and I feel OK about my life and I feel like my dream would just gradually disappear.
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He said I wanted to keep that hunger, that hunger is the only thing I thought was my advantage. He said my wife didn't understand that at all. He said we got these vicious fights and he said it was freezing so I was broke, we had no money and he said so I finally went to the public library one day because it was warm. I didn't want to read anything. I went in, New York Public Library. So I was hanging out there, sat on this chair and somebody left a book there and he said I looked at this book and it was the Poems, the stories of Edgar Allen Poe and he said so I started reading it and I got totally into Edgar Allen Poe and he knows everything about him, so he goes on for another 20 minutes telling me about Edgar Allen Poe he knows everything, how he died, what it was about, what really happened and I said What did Poe do for you? He said Poe got me out of myself. He got me to think about how I can touch other people not to worry about myself so much. And he said he made me decide to become a writer I said just image “Rocky the writer...to be continued
