If you study people who reliably hit their targets—across business, health, relationships—you notice something consistent: they don’t leave their mindset, their calendar, or their energy to chance. Tony Robbins has been hammering this point for decades. His core message isn’t “be lucky” or even “be talented.” It’s that success is a practice—a small set of repeatable habits that govern your state, your focus, and the actions you take.

Below are five daily habits, drawn straight from Tony’s frameworks and language, that I see high performers use over and over. I’ve included Tony’s exact quotes (with sources) so you can verify or dig deeper.

1) Prime your state every morning

Before email, before Slack, before checking revenue—get your physiology and focus working for you. Tony’s most famous morning practice is priming: 10 deliberate minutes combining breathwork, gratitude, and visualization to shift your emotional state on demand. His team describes it simply: “A combination of breathing exercises, visualization and practicing gratitude, it takes just 10 minutes each morning” to set you up to conquer the day. 

Why does this matter? Because, as Tony puts it, “Where focus goes, energy flows.” If you begin the day rehearsing problems, your attention—and behavior—will follow that path. If you direct focus toward clear outcomes and gratitude, the rest of the day bends around that choice.

How to do it (quick version):

• Breath (2–3 minutes): fast, powerful nasal breaths to wake the nervous system.

• Gratitude (3 minutes): bring three specific moments to mind and relive them.

• Future pacing (3–4 minutes): see three outcomes for today as already done—feel the relief and pride now.

If you want a handhold, Tony’s official priming page even includes a guided track to practice with.

Tony’s quote to remember: “Where focus goes, energy flows.”

2) Ask better questions all day long

Most of us run on autopilot questions: Why is this so hard? Why do I never have time? Your brain is a search engine—ask it a lousy question and it will dutifully retrieve a lousy answer. Tony’s antidote is simple and brutally effective:

“Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.” 

In practice, this looks like:

• Swapping What’s wrong with me? for What’s one useful move I can make in the next 10 minutes?

• Trading Why are they so difficult? for What do they need that I can speak to?

• Replacing How do I get through today? with What result would make today a win—and why?

You don’t need to overhaul your personality—just the prompts you feed yourself. Build a micro-ritual: before meetings, workouts, or writing sessions, ask three better questions. Over time, those questions become the rails your day runs on.

Tony’s quote to remember: “Quality questions create a quality life…”

3) Design your day by outcomes, not tasks (RPM)

To-do lists make you feel busy. Outcomes make you effective. Tony’s RPM (Rapid Planning Method) is a thinking system that forces you to clarify three things for everything that matters today:

• R — Result: What outcome am I truly committed to?

• P — Purpose: Why must this happen?

• M — Massive Action Plan: What are the few moves that will actually produce the result?

Tony developed RPM specifically to align daily action to life purpose, not to churn through tasks. His team describes RPM as “a weekly and daily connection to the goals and outcomes you want (Results) and the reasons you want them (Purpose) so that you can focus on doing the things that will get you there the fastest (Massive Action Plan).”

Two pro tips from Robbins’ world that amplify RPM:

• Use N.E.T. time (No Extra Time): fill commuting, walking, waiting time with learning that supports your outcomes—podcasts, audiobooks, course replays. 

• Anchor action with emotion: when you draft your MAP, write a one-line purpose under each action. Emotion is the fuel; reason is the steering wheel.

And when it’s time to move? Remember Robbins’ direct line: “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” Don’t nibble. Commit. 

Tony’s quote to remember: “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”

4) Practice CANI: improve a little every day

Robbins popularized CANI—Constant And Never-ending Improvement—because progress, not perfection, is what keeps momentum alive. His coaching materials don’t dance around it: “If you’re not growing, you’re dying.” Growth isn’t a once-a-year resolution; it’s a daily choice. 

What does CANI look like in a 24-hour window?

• One rep of skill: 15 minutes of deliberate practice on a needle-moving skill (a sales objection you keep losing, one Vietnamese pronunciation loop, one tricky code refactor).

• One feedback loop: quick debrief: What did I do well? What will I do differently tomorrow?

• One tiny standard raised: ship one thing with a higher bar—tighter headline, cleaner data table, clearer CTA.

Robbins also gives you a brutally honest reminder about effort and preparation: “It’s what you practice in private that you’ll be rewarded for in public.” The external results you want are lagging indicators of the private routines you’re willing to repeat.

Tony’s quotes to remember: “If you’re not growing, you’re dying.” and “It’s what you practice in private that you’ll be rewarded for in public.” 

5) Trade expectations for appreciation—and give, daily

Expectations create friction; appreciation opens the system. Tony and Sage Robbins teach a tiny mental shift that sounds soft but plays hard in real life: “Trade your expectations for appreciation.” It’s a daily reset you can apply to your team, your partner, your own body.

Underneath this is one of Tony’s deepest principles: “The secret to living is giving.” Contribution meets a human need that achievement alone cannot satisfy. If you want energy, meaning, and momentum to spill over into every domain, contribute—time, attention, praise, generosity—today, not when you “have time.”

How to apply it in 5 minutes:

• Write (or voice-note) one specific thank-you to someone who helped you this week.

• Ask yourself Tony’s favorite reframe: What can I appreciate about this person/situation right now? Then act on it.

• Do one small “nothing in it for me” favor before lunch.

You’ll notice something strange: when you shift from What am I owed? to What can I give?, stubborn problems soften, and people start opening doors you didn’t know existed.

Tony’s quotes to remember: “Trade your expectations for appreciation.” and “The secret to living is giving.”

Putting it all together (a simple daily template)

Here’s a compact, Robbins-inspired day you can test immediately:

1. 10 minutes priming (breath → gratitude → visualize three outcomes). Where focus goes, energy flows.

2. Outcome design (RPM) for your top two priorities: one clear Result, a one-sentence Purpose, and a 3–5 step MAP. Add one N.E.T. learning block you’ll do while walking or commuting. 

3. Massive, measurable action on Priority #1 before checking messages. “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” 

4. CANI block (15–20 min): one deliberate practice drill; capture one lesson learned. “If you’re not growing, you’re dying.”

5. Contribution & appreciation (5 min): send one thank-you, do one favor, or give a quick lift to someone on your team. “The secret to living is giving.” 

Do that for seven straight days and watch what changes. Your stress won’t vanish, your inbox won’t empty, your metabolism won’t magically reset—but your state will be sturdy, your focus will be clean, and your actions will stack. That’s the compound interest of these habits.

Final thought

Tony’s world can be summarized in a handful of lines. I keep them where I can see them:

• “Where focus goes, energy flows.”

• “Quality questions create a quality life.”

• “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”

• “If you’re not growing, you’re dying.” 

• “The secret to living is giving.”

If you build your day around those five truths—the priming, the questions, the outcomes, the tiny improvements, and the contribution—you won’t just perform better. You’ll feel better doing it. And that’s the point.