“Make yourself invaluable by learning the necessary skills you may be lacking”
Before Robbins was the inspirational speaker with a cult following that he is today, his career was going nowhere even though he was putting in long hours.
It was his mentor the late motivational speaker Jim Rohn who gave him the advice that eventually helped him turn it all around. As Robbins detailed in a recent Facebook Live Q&A at Business Insider’s New York office:
“He said, ‘Tony, you’re so focused on expecting things to happen so fast … Your worth in the marketplace is based on your ability to add more value than anyone else. If you can find a way to do more for others in your company, more for the employees, more for the clients, than anybody else, your gifts will make room for you. But in order to do that, you’ve got to build skills.'”
Other gems of wisdom from Tony Robbins:
“Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.”
“If you can’t, you must. If you must, you can.”
“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”