Mike Robbins
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Mike Robbins Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Appreciation, Authenticity, Empowerment
- Best Sellers
- Focus on the Good Stuff: The Power of Appreciation
- Career Focus
- Author, Speaker, Coach
- Affiliation
- NSA, Stanford University
Mike Robbins is the author of four books, Nothing Changes Until You Do, Focus on the Good Stuff, Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken, which have been translated into 14 different languages, and his latest, Bring Your Whole Self to Work. He’s a sought-after speaker who delivers keynotes and seminars throughout the world. Some of his client include Google, Wells Fargo, eBay, Schwab, Gap, Microsoft and the San Francisco Giants. For more information about Mike and his work, visit www.Mike-Robbins.com.
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Mike Robbins Books
FOCUS ON THE GOOD STUFF
https://www.amazon.com/Focus-Good-Stuff-Power-Appreciation/dp/0787988790/
BE YOURSELF, EVERYONE ELSE IS ALREADY TAKEN
https://www.amazon.com/Yourself-Everyone-Else-Already-Taken/dp/047039501X/
NOTHING CHANGES UNTIL YOU DO
https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Changes-Until-You-Self-Compassion/dp/1401944647/
BRING YOUR WHOLE SELF TO WORK
https://mike-robbins.com/work/
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Trust is Granted Not Earned
How easily do you grant your trust to other people? What factors play into your ability or inability to trust cert ain individuals around you? What do people need to do to ea your trust?r
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Be Flexible
How flexible are you? For me, it depends - on my mood, how much fear or resistance I have about something, how attached I am to a particular outcome, and various other factors. However, as I look throughout my life (now and in the past), I realize that the situations, relationships, and experiences that cause me the greatest stress and frustration, are almost always the places where I'm not being flexible.
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We Are Not Our Bodies
I shaved my head again last week. This is the fourth time in the past five years I've done this. As has been the case for me before - it feels both liberating and vulnerable. My hair has been thinning for about ten years (most significantly in the past two or three) and, as I've written about a few times previously, this has caused me a great deal of fear, insecurity, and self criticism. These feelings are not new and aren't specifically related to my thinning hair (although it is definitely something that triggers them for me in an intense way).
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The Power of Desire Without Attachment
For many years I've had mixed feelings about my wants and have been a bit confused about the true power of desire. While I know that desire is an essential piece of the manifestation process, I also know that focusing a lot of my attention and energy on what I want has caused a great deal of fear, pain, and disappointment in my life. Over emphasizing my desire has also gotten in my way of appreciating all that I already have and who I really am at the deepest level.
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Keep Your Head in the Clouds and Your Feet on the Ground
A few weeks ago while I was on a run, the saying "keep your head in the clouds and your feet on the ground" popped into my head. I'm not sure why I thought of this, but once I did I couldn't get it out of my mind.
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Distract Yourself in Healthy Ways
We live in a world of distractions. All day, every day we are bombarded with opportunities to be distracted.
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Appreciate the Simple Things
Last week my left ear got plugged up and it was difficult for me to hear out of it for about 48 hours. It was scary and challenging. Thankfully everything was okay, it's all clear now, and I'm able to hear just fine out of both ears. Having this happen was yet another example of how easy it is for me to take something simple, but very important (like hearing), for granted. Sadly, we often don't appreciate the simple things in life until they're threatened, impacted, or taken away from us in some way. What if we did appreciate the simple things all the time, in an authentic way?
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Be Your Own Cheerleader
I recently saw a wonderful video on YouTube that has been making its way around the internet of a little girl passionately affirming herself and her life in the bathroom mirror ("My whole house is great, I like my hair, I can do anything, I like my family," etc.) If you haven't had a chance to see it, check it out - it's adorable, funny, and a beautiful example of appreciation in action.r
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Are You Willing to Be Uncomfortable?
How comfortable are you with being uncomfortable? I know this may seem like a paradoxical question, but it's not. In fact, Michelle and I took a workshop this past weekend where they emphasized the importance of being uncomfortable - related to expanding our growth, success, fulfillment, and more. Over the past few days I've been taking some real inventory of my own life and looking at how willing (or unwilling) I am to be uncomfortable myself. I notice that in certain areas of my life, I'm quite willing to be uncomfortable; while in others, not so much.r
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Gratitude and Victimhood Can't Co-Exist
How often to you feel like a victim? If you're anything like me, probably more often than you'd like to admit. Although I usually pretend to be too "evolved" to play the role of victim in my life, I do catch myself at times feeling, thinking, and talking in that old, familiar, "oh poor me" kind of way. Can you relate? I remember one of my mentors telling me years ago, "Mike, you can't simultaneously be grateful and victimized."
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Vulnerable Leadership
Vulnerable and leadership are not usually two words or concepts we put together. Most of us, myself included, have been taught that to be a "good leader" we have to be strong, convicted, and confident. "Never let 'em see you sweat," we've been told. However, I believe it's time for those of us who want to inspire, motivate, and lead others to step into our role as a leader with transparency, honesty, and vulnerability. As Mother Teresa said, "Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway."
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Want What You Have
Recently someone said to me, "Mike, I read the best book of my life a few years ago. It only had four words in it, 'want what you have'." As simple of a concept as this is, I was struck by its wisdom and began to think about it in my own life. Sadly, as I thought about it more deeply, I realized that I put more of my attention and energy tha I'd like to admit on either wanting things I don't yet have or thinking that some of what I have isn't quite good enough the way it is. Can you relate?
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Mike Robbins
Mike Robbins' Quotes:
"The key to true success and fulfillment in life is our ability to genuinely appreciate ourselves, our lives, and those around us."
-Mike Robbins
"Don't wait 'til it's too late, appreciate yourself, your life, and those close to you, right now!"
-Mike Robbins
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