“Why 2% Succeed And 98% Don’t”
By: Rohan Abeysinghe
Tags: Lessons Learned, Life Lessons, Motivation, Motivational, Life

“Why 2% Succeed And 98% Don’t”

The Success Story of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s

The Success Story of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s | Image Edited By Author

“If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger is a household name these days. He’s well known worldwide for the countless achievements he’s made over the years, with just a few of them being world champion bodybuilder, Hollywood superstar, successful entrepreneur, philanthropist, California’s 38th Governor best-selling author. To be sure, the man is a titan and knows a thing or two about high achievement and success.

We’ll listen and learn from His words,

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 anywhere.

That means, as you know, Arnold was born in 1947 in Austria and after the second world war. so he was very fortunate that he stumbled under his vision and he didn’t really like Austria when he grew up. He couldn’t wait to get out of there. He couldn’t see himself becoming a farmer or a worker in a factory or anything like that.

Even though his parents wanted him to stay there and have a normal life, but that was their vision, not him. His vision was totally different. He felt that he was born for something special for something unique, for something big. Then one day, he went to school, as he thinks that was at age 11. The school showed them a documentary about America.

They showed this documentary the huge skyscrapers, the high rises, the huge bridges, the six-lane freeways and all of this stuff in this emissive suddenly he thought that’s where he wants to be. “I don’t want to be around here with these little farmhouses and these little buildings. I want to be in America.”

One day After school, he walked by a store in Graz. So he went inside, and he looked around and then he saw a magazine. There’s a bodybuilding magazine that had Reg Park on the cover. Reg Park was then a three-time Mr.Universe, and he saw him on the big screen as Hercules. He read that, and he said to himself, WOW. That was the blueprint for his life. That was exactly what he wants to do. He wants to become a bodybuilding champion, just like Reg Park. He wants to get into movies just like Reg Park, and He wants to make millions of dollars and be rich and famous, just like Reg Park.

Do you know how great it felt that he knew where he was going? Imagine the majority of people don’t know where they’re going? He knew where he was going that he is going to become this bodybuilding champion, just like Reg Park. So it was just a question of how he did it?

He was so relieved because when we have a goal, everything becomes easy when we have a vision. So people always ask him when they saw him in the gym on the pumping iron days. Peoples say, why is it that you’re working out so hard. five hours a day, six hours a day and he had always had a smile on his face, and he told people all the time he said, “Because to me I’m shooting for gold.” in front of he had to achieve the Mr.Universe title.

Bill Pearl and Arnold Schwarzenegger at the NABBA Mr. Universe in 1967 | References biographics.org

Every rep that he does gets me closer to accomplishing that goal, to make this goal, this vision turns into reality. Every single set that he does. Every repetition of every weight that he lifts will get him a step closer to turn the score into reality. So he couldn’t wait to do another 500-pound squat. He couldn’t wait to do another 500-pound bench press. He couldn’t wait to do another 2 000 reps of sit-ups. He couldn’t wait for the next exercise. At the age of 20, he went to London, and he won the Mr.Universe contest as the youngest Mr.Universe ever, and it was because he had a goal. So let me tell you something visualizing your goal and going after it makes it fun. You’ve got to have a purpose, no matter what you do in life. YOU’VE GOT TO HAVE A PURPOSE.