The summer starts in June. I'm going to go to the beach in June and at that time
I want to be in great shape. So that creates an urgency that makes you really start
training hard and taking it seriously, because if you don't have a specific plan,
then you wander around them and you can have, as I have told you many times,
the best ship or the best plane in the world. But if you don't have a specific goal where you
want to go and when you want to get there, you just drift around and you never get anywhere.
Look, everyone has a problem with time, but the day is 24 hours
and we sleep six. Now, I know there are some out there that say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I
need eight hours to sleep a little faster, because the bottom line is we have six hours of sleep,
24 hours available. So if 18 hours now available to you, Brooke. Your family,
your hobbies, and also to learn something new or to do something new, which could easily be that
you want to learn a new language or that you want to read, as you know, a New Year's resolution,
have to read a book every week or you say, I'm going to go and reshape my body.
So you're going to go and take this out of your schedule and say, I'm going to train an hour every
day. So this is for most people, a huge challenge, but it is totally doable. I can tell them,
because the kind of things that I did when they came to this country, I mean, I went to school,
I was working in construction. I was working out my five hours a day. I was taking acting
classes from eight o'clock at night to 12:00 midnight. I was doing all of those things.
I wanted to make sure that out of the 24 hours of the day that I don't waste one single hour,
those hours were too precious. And so I just wanted to tell people, don't give me this thing.
I have a difficult time of it the time. And I don't have time for this. Now, if you have time,
you make the time. The summer starts in June. I'm going to go to the beach in June. And at that time
I want to be in great shape. So that creates an urgency that makes you really start training hard
and taking it seriously, because if you don't have a specific plan, then you wander around them and
you can have, as I have told you many times, the best ship with the best plane in the world. But if
you don't have a specific goal where you want to go and when you want to get there, you just drift
around and you never get anywhere. So this is why it is so important to create that urgency and give
a specific time when you want to be in shape. The most important thing is that you have a vision,
that you have a goal, because without that vision and without that goal, again, you're drifting
around and you're never going to end up anywhere. People don't become successful just by accident,
you know, I mean, maybe the guy that found gold in California and started the gold rush, but don't
count on that. That's the one in a in a lifetime kind of situation. So you got to really have a
specific goal. And to me, to have that vision that I want to be Mr. Universe. They don't want to be
the greatest bodybuilder of all time. That was a great vision. And specifically to look like Reg
Park and to be up there on that stage and to lift the trophy overhead and to win the championship
over and over and over again. So that was a great goal. You have to have a goal and it doesn't have
to be that specific goal, but it has to have some goal. This is why I always recommend to people,
sit down, take your time instead thinking about why do you want to work out, what is
your goal and then you can't be as crazy as it is. Could be. You know, I want to impress girls,
if that's your goal, so be it. But it motivates you. It could be that you're emulating a certain,
you know, bodybuilder or certain football player, a certain boxer, whatever it is, have those
pictures. But all over the wall, like I did when I was a kid, I put pictures of rich pocket, of Sonny
Liston, of boxers in the alley and have power lifters and weightlifters all over my bedroom,
you know, a wall, so that every day when I go to sleep, every day when I wake up
and look at those pictures and they motivate me, you need that motivation. And then therefore
you have this kind of imprint in front of you all the time and you know exactly what you're
chasing. This is why I always smiled when I was in the gym. People always came up to me, says,
Why are you smiling? You're working at five hours a day. You're doing the same as the other guys.
But the other guys have a sour face. They're pissed off that they have to do another rep
or another set or something. I looked forward to I looked forward to another thousand
reps of sit ups. I looked forward to another five hundred pounds of of of leg press or squat. I
looked forward to doing more and more curls until my arms fall off. Why? Because I knew
that every rep that I did and every set that I did and more weights to the lift that I get one step
closer to turning that vision into reality. So I was turned onto that. I was excited. I
couldn't wait to get to the gym. But the key thing again is have the clear vision.