Tony Robbins: How to Overcome Stress and Depression [+Video]

1. Decide to be Happy

Happiness is a decision. How so?

You can choose to watch comedy shows and laugh your lungs out or you can choose to dwell on your sad life while watching others’ hip photos on Facebook. And you can choose to enjoy music or spend quality time with family or you can choose to curl up in your bed thinking about the past.

You are the creator of your life, so wake up to this truth and choose to be happy. To overcome stress and depression, make this choice every single day.  

2. Raise your standards

If you want to get more from life, you have to first get more from yourself.

Whether it is in relationships, career, wealth, or spirituality – if you want more, decide to raise your standards. When you raise your standards, you refuse to accept any less than what you want.

For example, if you want to earn 100k per year but you’re only making 60k per year, make a solid decision that you will not stop working hard until you make 100k. Brainstorm some ideas to grow your skills and put a realistic timeline on your goal.

To overcome stress and depression, raise your standards. Stop accepting a gloomy life and do things that bring you joy.

3. Better Yourself

“The quality of your life is the quality of where you live emotionally.” – Tony Robbins

According to Robbins, we create an ‘emotional home’ for ourselves over the period of our lives. As you might already know, happy people are always happy, stressed people are always stressed about something, and angry or whiny people are always whining about things.

Here are the five tools to overcome stress and depression and better yourself.

• Feed Your Mind With Positivity – What you feed your mind will become your reality.
• Strengthen Your Body – The emotions of fear, stagnation, numbness are -physical. So get in a peak physical state every day with intense exercise.
• Find Your Mission – Stephen Hawking said, “Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.” So you need to work towards a mission that holds great meaning for you and fuels emotional commitment.
• Find a Role Model – Role models inspire you and teach you how to take life head on.
• Help Others – Studies have shown that volunteering efforts bring the utmost joy to people. When we give to others, our own life becomes richer.

4. Believe in Yourself

No matter how corny it may sound, belief is the strongest power in the world. You can look at all your faults and stop believing in yourself or you can look at your strengths and start believing. The choice is yours.

Before you get the right relationship or the right level of success, you have to get the results in your mind. You have to see the results in your mind. Research shows that visualization is a great way to “talk” to your subconscious mind and program it for success.

To overcome stress and depression, believe that life is worth it.

5. Find Meaning in Life

To be happy, you have to know your values. What makes you happy? Is it work, relationships, giving, art, music? You have to find what brings you the most joy in life to overcome stress and depression.

Whatever meaning you give to every-thing in your life, becomes your life.

If you think life isn’t good because you don’t have enough money, then you’re wrong. Money is only a means to accomplish things. It’s not the end goal. If you want to be happy, set a meaningful goal. For writers, the goal could be to write in such a way that it mesmerizes, entertains, and educates people. For teachers, the goal could be to build great minds for the future.