Without a vision, you will not get success - Arnold Schwarzenegger
There are some fantastic inspirational videos available on YouTube and other platforms, and recently, I was recommended the following speech by Arnold Schwarzenegger. My first suggestion is that you check it out yourself. It is way better than any article I might ever write, but if you don't want to check it out, please keep on reading!
In the video, Arnold is sharing his story. How did he become such a successful bodybuilder (a world champion at the age of 20), who later turned into a world-famous actor, and later became the governor of California in the United States! He would have gone for president as well, but since he was born in Austria, that couldn't be done.
He found someone to look up to and to follow!
Arnold saw a magazine portraying the most famous body-builder in the world when he was a kid. He got a goal, he got a vision. He wanted to become like the person. He worked out 5-6 hours a day to reach his goals... because he was shooting for a goal!
Everything he did, every exercise was a part of making his goals turn into reality. It made him happy, even when he was tired after doing 1000 sit-ups and more. At the age of 20, he won the world championship for body-builders!
Visualizing your goal makes it fun to exercise!
Your liability becomes your strength!
Can you imagine a movie star looking like a crazy body-builder? Many people said the body would stop Arnold Schwarzenegger from turning into a big and famous actor. He had roles in smaller movies, but got a giant breakthrough with his role as Conan the Barbarian. After the movie, the director said that they especially needed the body of Arnold for this to work. If he wouldn't have been there, they would have to create such a body!
Arnold even went to a school in the United States to get rid of his accent. But, do you know what? If it wasn't for his liability (his accent), he would never have turned into the Terminator that so many people love in the world today.
In other words, if you have qualities that you hate about yourself and feel as they are your weaknesses. Trust that it can be turned to good and that you will be able to use them for good!
Even if people say no, don't listen to them. Don't listen to the nay-sayers. You need to have a goal and a vision, and then work hard to get there! And even if people go against you and say that it will be impossible because of your look or your accent (like with Arnold), think about what he achieved in his movie career BECAUSE of his look and his accent!
Haven't you watched the clip yet?
It is ten minutes... go ahead and watch it. If you want to grow, you need to invest in your own life and your own growth. To grow, you need to feed whatever you want to grow. So, if you want to grow in your own life, you need to feed your soul, your spirit, your inner man! This can be done by reading books, listening to people that you look up to and that you can learn from, and by watching fantastic clips such as this one on YouTube!
I hope you have enjoyed it and that you feel encouraged. I for sure do!
This is an original article written by me for Project Hope!
Dear @unbiasedwriter
It was real pleasure to watch this video. I must admit, that initially seeing Arnold giving motivational speach didn't make me very interested. As I didn't expect to be impressed.
How much I was wrong....
I've seen number of similar videos in the past, and this one is definetly one of the best I ever came accross. It underline importance of having vision and setting up goals, which would be aligned with our vision.
Something, I believe is very important for those of us, who want to achieve some goals in our lifes.
Absolutely worth my time.Have a great weekend, post resteemed and upvoted.
Yours, Piotr
I really liked it. He is a great person and have a magnificent personality.
Really glad to read your comment, and totally agree with you, a fantastic video and really inspiration! I hope many people will be encouraged and take heed to the words of Arnold as seen in the clip!
How are you, hero?
Do you agree that we always support each other?
promise you know the system here powers only better than the weak unfortunately
???
exactly :)
what are you trying to say @lfgiaa?
I guess we all ask that question :)
This is nice publication, I get very emotional after watching, these type of videos. These types of people are real superstars, real hero. We have to choose a right path, and we have to do hard work for our goal. If we couldn't got our goal, then we have to move on.
I can clearly identify with what Arnold says, if you have a goal in your mind and your heart, you can achieve it and it is only a matter of wanting it so much that nobody will be able to stop you, the biggest obstacle is not believing in yourself, your weaknesses are your greatest strengths, just take advantage of it, you know how to use it to your advantage, but you should always keep in mind "Do well and don't look at whom"
I said that I identified with Arnold's words because many years ago I decided to be an engineer against all odds and I succeeded in a country as "particular" as Venezuela, then I wanted to be a professor at my university, many factors against but I succeeded, in Another personal area, one day I said to myself, I want to be a bodybuilder like Arnodl or JCVan Damme and I started training with love and passion also against all odds, I don't have the voluminous muscles of these guys, obviously because I'm a girl, but I got to know my own forces and limits, I understood that only I have the power to advance and stop at the point where I want
Now ask yourself, what am I doing and what is stopping me? Break it, you have the argument and the answer to everything..!
Amazing comment @tocho2
thanks for sharing your thoughts with us on this particular topic
Truly fantastic to read your story, and I wish you all luck as an engineer, body builder, and whatever else you visualize for your future! :)
ohhh friend, what a beautiful words to me, thank you..!
This is really inspiring. people like me is limited to one role and even it is small role which is "blogger". But this man is really big inspiraion for everyone. He brilliantly done works as a bodybuilder, governer and actor.
Mentorship is great in every way, it is amazing to have someone who will guide us and direct us it makes the path more easy and convenient to tread.
Thanks for sharing this video. I have gone through the whole video. Its one of the best motivational videos i have ever seen. I have seen Stev Job's speech earlier. Its of that kind by arnold.
Vision and not listening to other's negative talks are really important.
Converting weakness into strength.. Wow.
hi @engrsayful
could you share link to that speech with us?
Yours, Piotr
Why not.
I hope you will like this one
It is definitely a good way to be committed to oneself, we must believe that if we can achieve what we have set goals should not be changed, it is possible that plans are changed but never the goals.
I always say everywhere. I always say everywhere, "The world is mine," and that is because I simply decided that my world is mine.
Law of life.
That is a good saying! The world is yours, meaning that you are in control, you decide what is going to happen, and you decide the outcome! Go for it!
Hello friend @unbiasedwriter, that is very true, stories like these inspire, we always need an example to follow, a model by which we strive to achieve our dreams.
Thanks for sharing...
True stories of succes can motivate us to do something better
Extraordinary article inspired by that great character that we all know and with whom we have shared several hours of our lives with his films, is an example to follow since in many opportunities we give up very quickly, since without a vision, there will be no success as you express very well in your title.
In many cases we possess characteristics or qualities that we believe prevent us from doing some things but it is necessary to understand that we can transform them in our favor as Arnold Schwarzenegger did, as clearly expressed:
It was a pleasure to read and see this video of this great character that will surely inspire us all and understand that everything is possible if we want it and we have a vision that leads us to success.
Yeah, I really enjoyed that part of the video as well... the fact that what we believe are obstacles in our own lives that will hinder us from achieving our goals, are often those that will actually take us one step further and lead us to success. If we manage to look at our "weaknesses" in that way, I believe it can revolutionize our lives in many ways!