Arnold Schwarzenegger - VISION | The Best Motivational Video Ever!

never ever think small if you're going to accomplish anything you have to think big you have to go and shoot for the stars the biggest challenge most people have is because they think small and the reason why people think small and why did you choose small little goals is because they are afraid to fail they know that if you shoot for big goal then the chances of failing are very high and they're afraid of failing there's one of the most common things why people are frozen and by the kidman make a move in life because they're scared of failing I say to myself hey I'm not worried about failing because that's part of life you're not gonna be going win everything and how far can you fall look at this this is the ground that's as far as I can fall and you know something that the only time you really consider the failure is if you fall and you don't get up but if you get up you're never considered a failure so I never considered myself a failure I always consider myself a winner even though AFL every so often but I always got up and I always move forward this is the important thing I never had any patience of course for Smita thinking small little something then go all out and do it well and this was not just the case in bodybuilding I didn't just want to be a bodybuilding champion I wanted to be the greatest bodybuilder four times I wondered if the most muscle the the most muscle of all times the most definition I wanted to win the most trophies the most World Championship titles I just wanted to be the best and the same is also in movies I didn't you think about being in movies no I wanted to be a movie star I wanted to have a bomb I love building I wanted to become the highest paid entertainer I'd face if you wanted to be another John Wayne what's wrong with that there I go people ask me all the time what is the secret to success the thing that can give you the long version here and the long version is that I actually always had five rules and everything that I did always use those five rules and those five rules helped me to become successful in various different areas and I think I believe that those rules can be applied to almost anyone and everyone you don't need to be a bodybuilding champion you don't need to want to be a governor of California whether it be an action here or anything like that if you want to excel in whatever you do those rules are for you it's that simple I think that we all here like to be successful and we are driven so that's why those rules apply to you so my first rule is 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 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 will drift around the world and out there that sea and we'll never end up anywhere this is exactly the way it is in real life if you don't have a core if you don't have a vision you just drift around you're not gonna be happy this is why it is so important to have that vision now I created that vision in Austria because I grew up after the Second World War the problem was that everyone was so depressed because they lost the war that there was alcoholism everywhere there was of course depression there was a terrible economic situation there was famine there was starvation and all of those things and also it was kind of a little place and narrow I felt kind of I wanted to get out of there I wanted to escape and I couldn't see myself really do work there in the stadia to work in the factory of the work in the farm although even to follow my father's footsteps to become a police officer I couldn't see that either and I think that's what my parents wanted me to do but that's not what I saw this was the vision of my parents but not mine and luckily one day in school I watched a documentary about America and I found myself I knew exactly that is where I wanted to end up I wanted to be in America everything that I saw in that that commander just loved everything was so big I remember the tall skyscrapers the monstrous bridges the giant freeways filled with beautiful cars the huge jet liners movie stars Muscle Beach and all of those things I could not wait to get there the question was just how do I get there how do I get the America I mean it's just not a common thing to do way back in the 50s no one had the I need to travel or anything but one day I was fortunate enough to see a magazine and Dead magazine showed me the path to America and it was a bodybuilding magazine and on the cover bust is very muscular guy then was standing there like Hercules with the Hercules outfit his name was Reggie Park this rich Park was undercover and I remember the cover said mr. universe becomes Hercules star I read the article as fast as I could learning about how he grew up in Leeds in England poor in how he trained five hours a day every single day and trained and trained and trained and lifted weights and then he finally became mr. Great Britain and then he could became mr.

universe at any one a second mr. Universe title in the third mr. Universe title and then all of a sudden he landed in Rome in cinecittà doing Hercules movies and yeah he made millions of dollars and this this money he took he bought himself a gymnasium chain in South Africa he became a successful gymnasium owner in a syrette I became more and more certain about my own future as I read this story I was so excited so interested I knew exactly that I wanted to become another reg Park I know he laid out the blueprint for my life basically I could see myself I could visualize myself clearly to be a champion on that same stage where he wanted mr.

universe and then the move to America then get into movies and then become rich and famous I had that vision very clearly laid out I was so happy that I knew exactly where I was going from that moment on everything that I did no matter how hard I had to work or how much I had to struggle it didn't matter it was a wonderful joyride because I knew what the purpose was and I found my passion the simple truth is if you don't have a vision if you don't have a goal if you don't see your future laid out in front of you you're just floating around without a purpose and I think that the numbers speak for themselves this is why so many people around the world are unhappy with their jobs I mean in America 74 percent of the people hate their job and would like to change jobs but think about that that means that only a quarter of the Americans love the life's work I mean that is a very depressing statistic I always smile when I worked the matter how hard I work I always had a great time no matter what I did it didn't matter if I was in bodybuilding or if it was in the movies of it was as governor I remember in the pumping iron days people asked me in the gym all the time why are you smiling all the time why are you so happy you have to lift 50 tons of weights you have to Train five hours a day I mean I look at the other bodybuilders faces and lifters faces and they look kind of depressing they look sour they're miserable that they have to lift weights you don't look miserable you look happy and I'd tell them always they say I smile because I know exactly did every rep that I do there every set that I do every weight did I live to get one step closer to turning that vision of mine into reality and becoming that mr. universe I could not wait to lift another 500 pounds in the squats I could not wait to do another thousand sit-ups I could not wait to do bench press more bench press and more girls until I couldn't move my arms anymore because I knew that every rep got me closer to standing on that stage as a champion as a matter of fact when I lifted weights I didn't really feel like I was lifting weights I felt like I was lifting a trophy over my head each time I lift it and they'll have all those bodybuilders around me and thousands of people screaming and I tell you that this vision didn't just help me in bodybuilding and help living everything like I said I remember in the movie business there was many times stunts that they had to do we I got hurt that was in pain the agony had to do it over and over again I remember one incident specifically and Conan the Barbarian there there I was crawling on all four unwaxed over rocks and gravel holding my sword right in front of me and as I was crawling the camera followed me it was around thirty feet that the crawlin does rocks in his gravel and eventually after ten takes my elbows my knees started bleeding and hurting and the director came to me sheepishly and said to me sis do you mind if we do another take I need a close-up of you and I said him no I don't mind at all I said going to as many takes as you want this is none I don't want to do that because I know you're in pain you're beating I said no no I don't feel any pain I say the only thing I see is is the finished scene this is why I did not feel that pain I did not care if I was bleeding on my knees because I know that pain is temporary but the film is permanent and I explained that to the director so this is why I try to tell you always discover your vision and the rest will follow you Subtitles by the Amara.