Arnold Schwarzenegger: Find your vision and follow it. You see, I think it's the most important thing
that we have a very clear vision of where we go, a goal, well where do we go? Because you can have
the best ship in the world, you can have the best cruise liner, but if the captain does
not know where to go that ship would drift around the world and out there, that sea
and we'll never end up anywhere. And this is exactly the way it is in real life.
If you don't have a goal, if you don't have a vision, you just drift around and you're
not going to be happy. This is why it is so important to have that vision.
Do you know what you want? If you don’t, find out, because that is
the very first step in the journey to success. When a teenage Arnold Schwarzenegger entered
a store after school and saw a magazine with bodybuilder Reg Park on the cover,
he discovered what he wanted to do. He wanted to be a bodybuilder and
actor and make millions of dollars. He didn’t want to be just like everyone else around him,
a farmer or a factory worker. He wanted more and he went after
it. Despite disbelief and hardship, he went on to accomplish these dreams.
And when new dreams arrived, he didn’t stay comfortably in his fame and success.
He pursued them one more time. And even with more doubts from
the outside opinion, he became the Governor of California and a successful businessman.
His ambition had no limits, so his success didn’t as well.
His clear vision kept him going further and further along his journey.
He knew exactly what he wanted and how to get it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: In America, for instance,
when you study you will see the percentage of people that like their jobs.
74% hate their job in America.
Though there is not much difference 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 did have a goal and they followed
this goal. They're just aimlessly drifting around and then all of a sudden there's a job opening so
they get their job. Because you have the work. But then when you broke it's a chore. It's work, it's
not fun. So, if you think about only a quarter of the people really enjoy what they're doing 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 that studies and knows he 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 they 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 on your face?
The others are working out just as hard as you do and it looks sour in the face. Why is that?”
And I told people all the time, I said because, to me, I am shooting for gold, in front of Mr.,
Mr. Universe title. So, every rep that I do gets me closer to accomplishing that goal,
to make this core, this vision turn into reality. Every single set that I do, every repetition,
every weight that I lift will get my step closer to turn this goal into reality. So,
I couldn't wait to do another 500-pound squat, I couldn't wait 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 of posing and all the kind of things that you have to do, you'll be a champion.
I felt so great knowing where was going and to tell you it worked.
I mean think about it and, and I was just not visualizing just my exercise
but I was really lifting the trophy over my head that's what I was thinking about.
When you don’t know where to go, you can’t achieve anything.
But knowing where to go is just the first step. After you take it, you have to garner the
courage to actually do something about it. You have to garner the courage to leave your
unhappy situation and follow your joy. The decision is upon you.
Will you keep doing something that you hate? Or will you do something worth your while?
Will you follow your passion? No matter how much training it takes, how
many hours you have to put in, how many limits you have to overcome, will follow your dreams anyway?
A champion is one who not only goes after what he wants but is happy to do so.
Success is just a matter of time when you apply yourself to it.
Work hard and enjoy the ride!
Arnold Schwarzenegger: 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 to do something for 45 minutes to an
hour a day to improve, if it is physically improve or if 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 you study about the history of musicians, of composers. How much you would know?
Imagine if you would 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 it, we don't have the time we have 24 hours a day, we sleep six hours a
day so that gives you still 18 hours. Now there's someone shaking the head out here in front,
they say probably “I don't sleep 6 hours, I sleep eight hours.” Right? Just sleep faster.
Time is a matter of choice. There are people who choose to use it to scroll through social media,
there are people who use it to play games and there are people
who use it to improve themselves. Saying you have no time is just an excuse.
It is an indication that whatever you think you have not time for is actually not a priority.
So, what is your priority? To enjoy fleeting moments of
fun? Or to build a solid base where you can achieve lasting happiness?
Is your business really less important than the things you are doing right now?
Rework your priorities. Redo your schedules.
And put your business and your projects on top. Only then you’ll start to see real results.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: I think that when it comes to actually being a, becoming a
bodybuilding champion the most important thing is that you are inside your muscles when you train.
That you really feel the bicep when you do your curls, that you really
feel every rep that you do when you do your bench press or your flies or your pullovers and so on,
or that you really feel inside down to the bone your calves when you do your calf raises. There's
so many people that just are in the gym and they just go and they go up and down and they think
and they think about something then they go and they check their iPhone while they're exercising.
I mean I'm telling you it's not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen because the muscle needs
absolutely full concentration, it's that simple. That's the way you get the pump to be inside
and to go and concentrate and to visualize at all times when you train your deltoids it's that huge
gigantic deltoids and if you visualize that the deltoids are growing and then the chances of them
growing is much greater than if you start looking at an iPhone while you're doing your exercise.
So it's not gonna happen. So this is why I always believe very strongly that when I go to the gym,
I want to go and focus 100% on my training in the gym. Focus but when I walk out of the gym I didn't
want to talk about it anymore. It's over because there's some people that like to talk about it,
and talk about it, and talk about the same thing over and over. It burns me out if I would do that.
I like to go into the gym and then I look at the equipment and then I say, okay, the day is
arms and legs so I'm gonna go and concentrate and then I see those machines and I start walking
around and they go from one set to the next step to the next step then the next set and just,
it's like a machine to go from one thing to the next and to really keep training hard and to
not just do your 10 reps but to do as many reps until you fail. Because it's the only way that
you know how far you can push yourself, is if you're willing to fail in every set. And
that is how I grew, this is how I became the champion and there is no shortcut to
that whatsoever, no matter what training principles you use, if you use higher reps
or low reps or any of those things, you got to go and concentrate 100% in what you're doing.
We live in the age of distraction.
There’s always a shining object, a shining thought around the corner to entertain us.
But succumbing to these distractions harms your brain and your objectives.
Stop doing things half-heartedly! Put in REAL effort.
Give A HUNDRED PERCENT of yourself. FOCUS is the key.
Nothing can beat a focused mind. It is the means through which you
can see your goals clearly, plan your strategy and build the perseverance
to endure any pain that comes your way. Always give 100% out and you will get 100% back.