Arnold Schwarzenegger This Speech Broke The Internet AND Most Inspiring Speech- It Changed My Life
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| Arnold Schwarzenegger This Speech Broke The Internet AND Most Inspiring Speech |
I'm
here to talk about success right the first rule of success is to have a vision
you see if you don't have a vision of where you go and if you don't have a goal
where you go you drift around and you never end up any where it's like you can
have the best ship in the world you can have the best airplane in the world if
the pilot or the captain doesn't know where to go it would just drift around he
would noted up anywhere almost like in the wrong place so I was very fortunate
did I stumble onto my vision I mean as you know I was born in 1947 in Austria
after the Second World War and I didn't really like Austria grew up I
couldn't wait to get out of there I couldn't see myself becoming a farmer or a
worker Ina factory or anything like that even though my parents wanted me to
stay there and have a normal life my father wanted me to become a police
officer like he was my mother wanted me just to stay there and marry a girl in
the name of Heidi hopefully and have a bunch of kids and run around like the Von
Trap family in The Sound of Music but that was their vision not mine my vision
was totally different I felt that I was born for something special for
something unique for something big didn't know how great it felt that I knew
where I was going imagine the majority of people don't know where they're going
it's when you have a goal when you have a vision everything becomes easy because
remember that in America for instance when you study you will see the percentage
of people did like their jobs 74% hate their job in America now there is not
much different when you come to Europe the majority of people don't like what
they're doing because they're really not doing it because they didn't have a
goal and they'd followed this goal they're just aimlessly drift around and then
over said and if there's a job opening so they get their job because if the
world but then when you grow it's a joy it's work it's not fun so if you think
about only a quarter of the people really enjoy what they'redoing in life that
is unbelievable if you think about it so I felt so blessed that I knew what I
was doing it's like a medical student said studies and know she wants to become
a doctor you know where to go so I know where to go so people always ask me when
they saw me in the gym in the pumping iron days you say why is it that you're
working out so hard five hours a day six hours a day and you have always a smile
in your face the others are working out just as hard as you do and then look
sour in the face why is that in the told people all the time is it because to me
I am shooting for gold in front of mr. Universe title so every rep that I do
gets me closer to accomplishing the goal to make this call this vision turn into
reality every single set that I do every repetition every weight that I live
will get mystep closer to turned his goal into reality so I couldn't wait to do
another 500 pound squat I couldn't wait it to another 500 pound bench press I
couldn't wait to do another 2,000 reps of sit-ups I couldn't wait for the next
exercise for the next half hour posing and all the kind of things that you have
to do you'll be a champion and with the age of 20 with the age of 20 I went to
London and I won the Mr Universe contest as the youngest mr.
universe ever and
it was because I had a goal so let me tell you something visualizing your goal
and going after it makes it fun you got to have a purpose no matter what you do
in life you got to have a purpose so that's rule number one have a vision rule
number two is don't listen to the naysayers don't listen to the naysayers
everything I ever did the thing that they heard out of people's mouths was
that's impossible that can't be done Oh No so whenever someone said to me it
can't be done I heard it can be done when they said no I heard yes and when they
said it's impossible I heard it is possible I'm a strong believer what Nelson
Mandela said that everything is always impossible until someone does it well I'm
gonna be the one that said to myself I'm gonna do it and I'm gonna show it to
them maybe it has never been done before that's perfectly fine with me but I am
gonna do it and I did not listen to the naysayers I think the third point that
I'm gonna make to you is before we sit down with your gun and talk about the
rest of the three is work your ass off there is no magic bill there is no magic
out there you cannot get around you have to work and work and work and it drives
me crazy when people say they don't have enough time to go to the gym for 45
minutes a day and work out or do something for 45 minutes to an hour a day to
improve if it is physically improve of it is mentally to improve imagine you
read one hour a day about history how much you will learn after 365 hours in one
year think about if it's study about the history of musicians of composers how
much you would know imagine if you who work on the business and some business
that you want to develop every day for an hour imagine how further along you
will go and get so it drives me nuts because we have when people say they don't
have the time we have 24 hours a day we sleep 6 hours a day so that gives you
still 18 hours but there's someone shaking the head out there in front to say
probably I don't sleep 6 hours I sleep eight hours right or just sleep faster
So
we have 18 hours a day the average person works around 8 to 10 hours so let's
assume it's 10 hours so if you have 8 hours left then you travel around an hour
a day maybe 2 hours a day so now you've still 6 hours left so what do you do it
is 6 hours well you do with the 6 hours then we eat a little bit and we schmooze
a little bit talk a little bit the people and all that stuff but you can see how
much time 2 is available if you organize your day so you got the work hard I
mean let me tell you something when I went to America I went to college I went
and worked out five hours a day and I was working on construction-because in
those days in bodybuilding there was no money we didn't I didn't have the money
for food supplements or anything so I had to go to work say we worked on
construction I went to college I worked out in the gym and at night from 8
o'clock at night to 12 midnight I went to acting class four times a week say I
did all that there was not one single minute that I wasted I became very
friendly with Muhammad Ali in the 70s Muhammad Ali worked his butt off and I saw
it firsthand now remember that there was a sports rider that was there in the
gym when he was working out and he was doing setup sand they asked him how many
sit-ups do you do and he said I don't start counting until it hurts now think
about that he doesn't start counting his setups until they be feels pain that's
when he says counting that is working hard and so you can't get around the
hardware it doesn't matter who it is so maverick
I believe what Ted Turner said
work like hell and advertise you get it work like hell go to bed and early early
to rise work like hell and advertise so you work your ass off and then you let
the world know about your work that's what it is all about let people know if
you have a company if you have a movie if you do a sports work your ass off but
then advertise and let everyone know I hate plan B and I tell you why because we
have so many doubters as I've said earlier they eat the no sales we have so many
of those people that say no and you can't do it it's impossible that is ok
because we just turn off as I said earlier and B's listen and be here that now
being a yes you can't do it do it you can't do it and all that so that that is
possible to do that among-st all the negative people around you but when you
start doubting yourself that's very dangerous because now what you're basically saying
is is that if my plan doesn't work I have a fallback plan have a plan B if that
means that you start thinking about Plan B and every thought that you put into
Plan B you're taking away now that thought and that energy from playing a and
and it's very important to understand that we function better if there is no
safety net because Plan B becomes a safety net it says that if I fail then
afar and I get picked up and I have something else there that was they will
protect me and that's not good because people perform better when there's no
safety net people perform better in sports and everything else if you don't have
a plan B to me it is very dangerous to have a plan B because you're cutting
your self off from the chance of really succeeding and the reason one of the main
reasons why people want to have a plan B is because they are worried about
failing what is if I fail then I don't have anything else well let me tell
you something don't be afraid of failing because there's nothing wrong
with failing you have to fail in order to climb that ladder there's no one
that doesn't fail we all fail it's okay what is not okay is that when you
fail you stay down whoever stays down is a loser and winners will fail and get
up fail and get up fail and get up you always get up that is a winner that is
a winner hey we all lose we all have lost us this is okay and this is why I say
don't be worried about losing because when you're afraid of losing then you get
frozen you get stiff you're not relaxed you got to be in order to perform well
in anything fit's in boxing or if it is on your job or with your thinking is
only happening when you relax so relax it's okay to fail let's just go all out
and give it everything that you got that's what it is all about so don't be
afraid to fail this is one of my six rules to success you can only feel complete
as a personify you think about what can you do for your fellow member around you
that maybe needs help I felt like that everyone has different motivation why
you get into that I was an immigrant going to America and I saw how America was
the most generous country in the world I mean they opened up their arms to me
they helped me they invited me for Thanksgiving dinner the people they brought
me the bodybuilders in the gym brought me plates to my apartment because I had
no blade said no silver ware I had no bed where I had no pillows at the blanket I
had no TV I had no radio I had nothing they brought it to my apartment they
helped me that's all that firsthand this generosity in America in the
center myself as an immigrant that is being embraced with open arms that I need
to go and make sure that I give something back
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