A number of years ago in an interview, Arnold Schwarzenegger was asked about the secret to his success in bodybuilding - how could he win so many Mr. Olympia contests in a row? Now, before you say it was steroids, yes it's true, he admitted taking steroids. But so did the guys competing against him. So that wasn't the difference.
Anyone can take cheat to try to get an edge.
But regardless of the shortcuts you attempt, you would still not be a champion without Arnold's success secret.
The secret?
You must be willing to go beyond your pain. You have to keep going when your body and your mind tells you to quit.
You can call it pain. You can call it being uncomfortable. You can call it fear. It could be embarrassment.
It could be missing an event that your friends are going to. A movie, a dance, a night out. Your pain could be tuition. The pain could be one less hour of sleep. It could be practicing one more hour, traveling somewhere, shutting off the TV.
Stop.
I'm not talking about your neighbor or your kids or your co-workers.
I'm talking to you.
What is it in your life that you want to change?
Money. Relationships. Health. Geography. Career.
Whatever it is, if you are not where you want to be...
And you are not getting closer to where you want to be...
Then you gotta stop and think for more than 3 seconds.
You gotta take stock.
What pain or discomfort are you avoiding?
What is it that makes you quake and then quit?
At what point exactly are you getting stopped?
That is where Arnold said most people quit...
The ninth rep. Tenth. Eleventh. Twelfth. Go there and you will grow and succeed. Betcha. Go there and you will become more. In fact, you will become who YOU want to become.
This is where opportunities and rewards suddenly start popping up.
Do what is uncomfortable and out of the ordinary and you'll be facing in the right direction.
And if and when you get to that stopping point, and you recognize it, and you STILL can't get yourself to do what you know you should...
Write down on a piece of paper immediately 20 statements that slam you square in the face and keep that paper with you always. Read them while you watch TV. Recite them while you shave. Keep a copy at work and in your car. Learn them backwards and forwards so you can repeat them in your sleep.
They will cause tremors in you.
Make these beliefs that we found in the greatest champions in every area of life - those people who go over, under, around and through whatever threatens to keep them from getting what they want - yours. Do this and you will become like the people that you admire the most.
Use these statements for unstoppable motivation now to command you to get back up no matter what knocked you down.
Use them to command you to block out all distractions, to pay attention to your dreams and wishes, to visualize succeeding at every single thing you do - in advance. Use them to force you to pay attention to what you will LOSE if you quit, where now you probably do everything you can to AVOID thinking about all the things you will lose.
Use them to force you to keep your current and future rewards in the front of your mind with every decision you make.
Yes, seminars are great, but the glow wears off. Repetition, repetition, repetition.
Boring? No. Exciting as hell.
I have a question. Do you play an instrument REALLY well? Did you read the music book once? Twice? Did you practice for a month to get so good?
Nope. If you can REALLY play, you played daily for years.
So why would being motivated or confident be any different?
It's not, right?
Why would being a great salesperson or a financial genius or a non-smoker be different?
It's not, is it?
Do what you know is right.
Listen to yourself. Write, Read and Meditate on your Release Statements REPEATEDLY. Again and again. It will pay huge dividends.
And it's a lot easier than working out with Arnold.
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