Anthony Robbins was born in 1960 on February 29th. This is the day of the leap year, which makes his birth day only come once every four years. His mother jumped from one guy to another during his childhood and he felt as if he had several fathers over this amount of time. His family was quite poor and they were offered many charity giving especially around holidays.

Tony Robbins is a big goal oriented type of person and always has been. Even in his later teen years he had found himself studying things like Nero Linguistic Programming or NLP. He did this with a man named John Grinder, who was a founder of NLP. There was a type of pure determination in Tony that allowed him to convince John to show him the skills of NLP. Still not even twenty years of age and he had already began to help others with their fears and phobias.

His big break came in Canada, when he went on a radio show and said that he could cure anybody of their phobia or fear rather quickly. A local Physiologist took this challenge with a patient that he had been working with for many years and was unable to cure. It all started at a hotel on stage when Robbins and this Physiologist had their dual. This lady was afraid of snakes and nothing had helped to cure her fear in the past. Anthony Robbins used his skills with NLP and some good entertainment and within minutes the lady was thrilled to have snakes around her.

This event sent his career into overdrive. Everybody wanted a taste of his incredible knowledge and wanted his help with conquering their fears. It only took Anthony Robbins one year to amass millions and become the king of his own castle in California. Every book he wrote started at the top of the best sellers list and all of his tapes became tops sellers as well.

He has helped many celebrities and very successful people earn the status they have today. Even with some of his fans becoming upset when he and his wife divorced he still has gone on to become the Anthony Robbins we all know today. He is now in his forties, sleeps only a few hours per day, and still gives some of the best motivational talks out there, even though they often last to early hours of the morning.