Most people these days know who Tony Robbins is. Self help guru, author of countless books on self-improvement, including the best seller
- Unlimited Power, and all round successful guy. What few people know however, is that Tony Robbins not only sells the idea that you can be whoever you want to be, and do whatever you want to do, he has lived it too.
On February 9, 1960, when Anthony J. Mahavorick was born in California, no one would have guessed that he would one day become the motivational guru that he eventually became, although, as he grew up in Azusa, there were signs of his future career as a public speaker. In fact, Robbins' mother was quoted as mentioning his "big mouth" growing up.
When he did venture out on his own, it was not to immediate success, and Robbins himself admits, in his book, Awaken the Giant Within, that when he first started out, he was struggling to make the mortgage payments on his home.
Robbins pushed on though, and success was to follow. Today, Robbins Research International is a multi-million dollar company, and Robbins is one of the most sought after self-help coaches in the USA, and indeed, around the world, although he prefers the term "peak performance coach"
He has also gained some high profile connections, numbering the likes of the late Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, and Hollywood stars like Pamela Anderson and Anthony Hopkins among his friends. In short, the Anthony Robbins phenomena is a little like its own best commercial - if Tony Robbins himself could do it, it means that everyone who reads his books, or attends his seminars, has the same potential for success. His net worth is in the millions.