Date With Destiny
Anthony Robbins’ ‘Date With Destiny’ event was pivotal in changing my life to the new, exciting and fulfilling direction I took just a few years ago that has led me to who I am today.
I first attended this outstanding event on the Gold Coast of Australia in April 2005 where I learned about who I was, why I behaved the way I did and why my relationships (intimate, family and friends) were not authentic or fulfilling.
Over 5 1/2 very long, intense and emotionally challenging fun-packed days, I discovered how my own deep-seated beliefs, values and rules affected my choices and behaviour in life, how I was in conflict with myself and how I was the only one holding me back from being the person I could be.
Throughout this challenging and inspiring event, I felt myself changing on all levels… emotionally… psychologically… even physically… changing… day by day… hour by hour… sometimes minute by minute…
I knew that what I was hearing, experiencing and admitting to myself about the life I had been living up until that time was shifting me through a point of no return… and then again… and then again…
With fascination I listened on ‘Relationship Day’ as Tony explained the principles of polarity, masculine and feminine, and creating true love and intimacy in an authentic relationship.
I really began to understand how I had been living for so many years… avoiding challenge, conflict and commitment… with no real direction in life, just drifting, waiting to ’see what happens’… a phrase I overused so many times… and then banished from my vocabulary because nothing ever did!
I could feel my entire being literally physically shift throughout the day… my spine straightening… my lungs filling with air… my body relaxing and becoming grounded as I began for the first time in years to actually feel truly aligned with my authentic core self.
Many aspects of my life flashed through my mind… and it all became clearer and clearer that day went on…
…my behaviour in relationships with various girlfriends over the years and how it never quite worked out… my parents eternally unstable relationship with each other… the differing polarity in the relationships I observed throughout my families and friends…. and how each of them and their behaviours had had influence on me and mine.
I knew in one clear decisive moment that the relationship I was in with a truly beautiful woman and incredible, loving, giving soul was not working and was not what I wanted any more.
I knew I had much work to do on myself and I could not do that in any relationship, let alone an inauthentic, depolarised, passionless one…
So my ‘Date With Destiny’ became its alter ego… the other name it is known as by so many people…. ‘Date With Divorce’.
And that’s not a bad thing by any means.
It is better to know and be who you truly are and to live that truth than to continue living an inauthentic life with those you are not serving and who are not serving you.
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‘Date With Destiny’ is without a doubt one of my top three favourites events of all that I have attended, both personally and as a professional in event audiovisual production.
A bizzare and strangely coincedental moment... I was working on the AV crew for this event, capturing video clips to be edited for the video you can see below.
I asked one of the guys to take a picture of me with Tony live on screen whilst he was on stage...and I thought 'wouldn't it be great if I could get Lisa (my partner who was attending the event with 1500 other people) in the picture too...
So without much real hope of finding a video clip with her in it, I clicked on the first one I saw in the folder with all the hours of video footage I had captured...the video clip opened...and within 2 or 3 seconds there was Lisa, standing in the middle of the crowd from the opening of the show earleir in the day!
Bizzare...
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I highly recommend it for anyone ready to understand who they really are, how you came to be that way and how we operate as people individually and in relationships.
