I went and worked out five hours a day, and I was working on construction

We have 24 hours a day, organize your day, work hard

I'm here to talk about success

I went to college

I went and worked out five hours a day and I was working on construction

Because in those days in bodybuilding, there was no money

I didn't have the money for food supplements or anything. So I had to go to work. So I worked in construction

I went to college I worked out in the gym and at night from 8 o'clock at night to 12 midnight

I went to acting class

four times a week

I did all that

There was not one single minute that I wasted

And this is why I'm standing here today

At the age of 20 I went to London and I won the Mr Universe contest as the youngest Mr Universe ever

and it was because I had a goal

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

74% of the people hate their job in America

The majority of people don't like what they're doing

Because they are really not doing it because they didn't have a goal and followed this goal

They're just aimlessly drift around and then there's a job opening so they get their job because you have to work

But then when you work it's a chore

It's work

It's not fun

So if you think about only a quarter of the people really enjoy what they're doing in life

So people always ask me

When they saw me in the gym in the pumping iron days, they say why is it that you're working out so hard?

Five hours a day six hours a day and you have always a smile on your face

The others are working out just as hard as you do and they look sour in the face

Why is that?

And I told people all the time because to me I am shooting for a goal

In front of me is the Mr Universe title

So every rep that I do gets me closer to accomplishing the goal to make this goal, this vision turn into reality

Every single set that I do

Every repetition every weight that i lift will get me a step closer to turning this goal into reality

So I couldn't wait to do another 500 pound squat. I couldn't wait to do another 500 pound benchpress

I couldn't wait to do another 2,000 reps of sit-ups. I couldn't wait for the next exercise

So let me tell you something visualizing your goal and going after it makes it fun

You got to have a purpose no matter what you do in life. You got to have the purpose

Mohammed Ali

Worked his butt off

And I saw it firsthand

Now remember that there was a sports writer

That was there in the gym, and he was working out he was doing situps

And asked him how many sit-ups do you do?

And he said I don't start counting until it hurts

Now think about that, he doesn't start counting his situps and he feels pain

That's when he starts counting

That is working hard

And so you can't get around the hard work, it doesn't matter who it is

Work your ass off. There is no magic pill

There is no magic out there

You cannot get around you have to work and work and work

You have this make sure of that in order stuff. So it's work

And it drives me crazy when people say that I don't have enough time

To go to the gym

For 45 minutes a day and work out

Or to do something for 45 minutes to an hour a day to improve if it is physically improve or if it is mentally to improve

Imagine you read one hour a day

About history

How much you will learn after 365 hours... in one year

Think about if you study about the history of musicians of composers how much you would know?

Imagine if you would work on the business and some business that you want to develop every day for an hour

imagine how further along you will go and get

So it drives me nuts because when people say they don't have the time. We have 24 hours a day

We sleep six hours a day. So that gives you still 18 hours

There's someone shaking the head out here in front to say probably I don't sleep 6 hours. I sleep eight hours, right?

Or just sleep faster. So we have 18 hours a day. The average person works around 8 to 10 hours

So, let's assume it's 10 hours so we have 8 hours left then you travel around an hour a day

Maybe two hours a day. So now you have still six hours left. So what are you doing with this six hours?

Maybe eat a little bit. Maybe schmooze a little bit

Talk a little bit to people and all that stuff, but you can see how much time is available if you organize your day

So you got the work hard

I hate Plan B

I tell you why

Because we have so many doubters as I've said earlier the no sayers

We have so many of those people who say no, you can't do it, that's impossible

That is okay because we just turn off as I said earlier and bees

Listen and be hear that no being a yes. You can't do it do it. You can do it and all that

So that that is possible to do that

amongst all the negative people around you but when you start doubting yourself

That's very dangerous because now what you're basically saying is is that if my plan doesn't work

I have a fallback plan. I have a plan B

And that means that you start thinking about Plan B and every thought that you put into Plan B

you're taking away now that thought and that energy from plan a

And it's very important

To understand that we function better

If there is no safety net because Plan B becomes a safety net. It says that if I fail

Then a fall and I get picked up and I have something else there that means they will protect me

And that's not good because people perform better when there's no safety net

People perform better in sports and everything else if you don't have a plan B

I'm telling you I've never ever

had a plan B I

I made a full commitment that I'm gonna be a bodybuilding champion. I made a full commitment that I'm gonna be in America

I made a full commitment that I'm gonna get in the show business

And I'm going to be a leading man. No matter what it takes. I will do the work.

I will do the work over and over and over, until I get it

The same as in politics and everything like that. So to me, it is very dangerous

to have a plan B because you're cutting yourself off from

the chance of really succeeding and the reason one of the main reasons why people want to have a plan B is

Because they are worried about failing

What is if I fail then I don't have anything else

Well, let me tell you something. Don't be afraid of failing

Because there's nothing wrong with failing

You have to fail in order to climb that ladder

There's no one that doesn't fail Michael Jordan said in one of his interviews

When they said "you're unbelievable the greatest basketball player of all times"

I mean tell me about that. And then he said "Well, you just mentioned the successes"

But he says "for me to become the greatest basketball player I missed"

"nine thousand shots"

"When I was playing basketball in the NBA games"

So during this games that he was so successful he missed nine thousand shots

Does it make him a failure? No, he is one of the greatest basketball players are four times, but he failed

9,000 times. Do you get it?

We all fail. It's okay.

What is not ok is when you fail you stay down

Whoever stays down is a loser

And winners will fail and get up fail and get up, fail and get up, you always get up that is

a winner

That is a winner

I failed in bodybuilding. I lost bodybuilding competitions

I lost powerlifting competitions and lost weightlifting competitions

I had movies that went in the toilet that were terrible. It got the worst reviews

And in politics, I remember I had many of the initiatives and the ballot

And we lost

My approval rating in California went down to 28% and

Then it went back up again and I won again the governorship

Hey, we all lose

If you all have lost as this is okay, and this is why I say don't

Be worried about losing because when you're afraid of losing then you get frozen

You get stiff you're not relaxed. You got to be in order to perform

Well in anything if it's in boxing or if it is on your job or with your thinking

Is only happening when you relax

So relax, it's okay to fail

Let's just go all out and give it everything that you got. That's what it is all about. So don't be afraid to fail