Date With Destiny is a seminar for the soul.
I’ve had the great joy of going twice now, my first time in 2013 and recently this past December in Boca Raton, Florida.
One might think why would you go to the same seminar twice?
Date With Destiny is never the same…
Date With Destiny is a journey into what’s been driving every single decision you’ve made up until now.
Date With Destiny is an accelerator course to remembering who you are and what you’re made for.
Date With Destiny is a new beginning…and a new destiny.
Date With Destiny is sacred, beautiful, amazing, epic, awesome, inspiring, transformational, and a mind-blowing experience where you experience 6 1/2 days with the legendary Tony Robbins and 3,000 other beautiful souls.
And Date With Destiny was recently produced into “I am not your Guru”, an award-winning documentary by Joe Berlinger.
Just like I shared 11 amazing life lessons from Unleash The Power Within, this episode is geared to give you the top lessons and insights I gained from my favorite Tony Robbins seminar.
These amazing life lessons include…
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1) Frustration means you’re about to have a breakthrough.
Nobody ever changed their life when they were satisfied or ok with how things are going. Its when you’re so frustrated and you hit a threshold that enough is enough and you must change NOW! The new version of a breakthrough is living in a beautiful state, because success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure. When you live in a beautiful state, you’re producing so much energy that you’ll not only make the breakthrough…you’ll enjoy every moment along the way.
2) Be cheerful instead of happy.
The difference between cheerfulness and happiness is that when you’re cheerful, people get to see and experience it too. Happiness is in your mind, cheerfulness fills people up from the Soul.
3) What’s your primary question?
We all have a question that drives our focus moment to moment. Often, this question is unconscious and we don’t even realize it until we take the time to focus and discover what it is. For me it was How can I make progress faster? This may sound like a great question because its focused on growth and progress, but it also carries with it stress when things aren’t happening “fast enough”. Thus I chose to change my question and a week after Date With Destiny, I sprained my ankle and embodied trusting the timing of everything.
4) Perfection is not a standard.
If you’ve been a perfectionist throughout your life, this is your wake up call. There is no such thing as perfection. Perfection is not even a high standard…its a standard that nobody will ever meet. When you choose to be a perfectionist, you will never be able to accept things as they are…which means you can’t be with life and this causes an enormous amount of stress and destruction in life.
5) Remember who you are at your core essence.
Masculine and feminine, which is your core? Society, media and recent movies have flip-flopped masculine and feminine roles…confusing us in how to act to fit in with society. This causes challenges not only in relationships, but also in owning oneself as a person. How can you tell what your core is?
Masculine is driven by purpose and mission, craves freedom and brings raw presence.
Feminine is driven by intimate relationships, craves filling up and brings radiance and light.
We’re made of both energies, however there’s one that we’re dominant with. Remember what your core is and lead from there.
6) Polarity creates passion.
Generally marriages don’t fail because of a lack of love. They fail because of a lack of passion. In fact, almost all relationships fail because of a lack of passion…and polarity is the key to passion. When a man shows up as feminine and his partner is feminine, there’s no polarity. Same for if a woman shows up as masculine and her partner is masculine. If you are in a relationship and you feel that you’ve been experiencing these challenges, check out this article I wrote with solutions to bringing back intimacy in your relationship.
7) Triggers for masculine…
The three main triggers for the masculine happen when their partner criticizes them, closes up on them or tries to control them. Solutions to all three include appreciating the masculine, opening up to them with playfulness and giving them the freedom they need.
8) Triggers for feminine…
The three main triggers for the feminine happen when their partner makes them feel unseen, doesn’t try to understand them, and makes them feel unsafe. The main solution is to give them raw presence…every time they need it.
9) Consciously choose your values.
We’re often conditioned with rules as we grow up. We can change our rules, and what’s stronger than our rules is our values. For me, I chose to make my #1 value God/Universe/Soul-guided decisions. Why? Because Tony says that its our decisions that lead to our destiny so I figured that these are the best decisions to make.
10) Live like so wide awake…like you’re driving a Bugatti at 233 mph.
Tony said one of the coolest experiences of his life recently was driving a Bugatti at 233 mph. Date With Destiny is all about living life wide awake and conscious, and he used this metaphor because in order to drive and survive the experience…he had to be so wide awake. Any turn he made with a slight margin of error could’ve meant crashing…which could’ve meant death. When we live wide awake, we’re able to show up and bring and receive greater value from every situation in life.
11) Live an integrated life.
I first heard about spiral dynamics at Date With Destiny back in 2013. Its a map created by Claire Graves and later further developed by Ken Wilber on the stages of human consciousness since the dawn of mankind. Currently there’s a first tier and second tier of consciousness. Donny Epstein spoke about the second tier of consciousness in a previous episode, and this has to do with humanity’s new awakening. Tony does an exercise where people wear hats representing each stage of consciousness within the first tier and ends it with announcing the importance of living an integrated life. We are all one, everyone has value, there are many parts of us…internally and externally. When we live from the 2nd tier of consciousness, abundance is our natural playground and love is our legacy.
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What’s really interesting is listening to the podcast episode after reading the summaries. It really brings the experience together. I’ve never been to a Tony Robbins event, so it’s great hearing your enthusiasm come through.
Love those lists of yours! Those thoughts about the masculine and feminine and really eye-opening, and #s1 and 4 are so good to remember when you’re going through a rough patch. Darkness before dawn!
The point on how polarity creates passion really made me stop and think. While it’s important to share the same values as your partner, you made a good point that it’s equally important to be the opposite of your partner when it comes to your “essence” “core energy”
It’s pretty much when there’s too much of the same thing it creates a comfort zone, and if you sit in a comfort zone for too long without spicing things up you then start to sway into boredom. Would be interesting to see an article on this topic for millennial dating and relationships.
So awesome! I love hearing about your experience, and really love #2 – be cheerful instead of happy. I use the term Joy instead of Cheerful, but it’s really the same thing; it’s the state of happiness that can be shared and observed. And I love the quote about success and fulfillment – I have a really great conversation coming up about fulfillment with Cam Adair in episode 47.
Adam, this post was awesome!! I got a lot out of your points but most of all with the question we ask ourselves. I’ve never thought about that before and within three seconds I knew I’ve been asking my self the wrong question. Thank for sharing your wisdom and keep these up! I really enjoy your points for progress and growth!
I love this lists, especially 1, 3 and 5. To paraphrase Steven Pressfield : ” Sometimes the obstacles, frustrations and pain are like compass telling you that you have found your true north”. Growth only exists out of our comfort zone. I like the thinking behind “What our primary question”. I never thought about it that way. I guess I should pay attention to it now. Thank you Adam
Love your thoughts on frustration – so often I’ve seen it as a problem, when actually it’s the doorway to something new and better as it drives me to change. Thanks for the reminder……
Awesome post Adam! I Am Not Your Guru was also amazing too. Have you blogged about this documentary on your site?
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