As I said before, Arnold is a perfect example of how to become a super achiever in real life.
Let me repeat it so that it sinks in:
He is always a planner. He plans constantly. He writes down his plans fully.
There is a tremendous lesson for you, as you will see later. And here is another tremendous lesson from a master achiever:
He plans his plans.
He puts them on a timeline.
And he examines them every week.
And that's not the most important lesson for you.
Here it is.
He puts in place plans for all areas of his life. His business, personal enjoyment and family life. You may think this is a bit extreme so let me explain it a bit. When Terry O'Neill was over there, Arnold had two phones. At 5p.m one phone was turned off. VERY few people had the other phone number number. This number was reserved totally for friends, family and fun. It was forbidden on this line to mention work, finance or business.
What a way to plan your life and balance everything out.
Because of the effort and thought that he put into doing this, sometimes a project in part of his plans reaches achievement quicker than expected.
He doesn't pat himself on the back and sit down,
he sits down and puts a new plan in place.
A bolder, bigger, more testing plan if he can.
While he was passing through all the above stages of his life he was making a great impression on the people all around him. He is unfailingly friendly, happy and inspirational to everybody he meets.
He was a big hitter with the big hitters that he was now mixing with.
High level people of power noticed this and persuaded him to have get involved in politics.
A new arena, a fresh challenge to struggle with,a new test for him. Arnold has always been a player, he loved to test himself himself and now he was going to play the biggest game in the world. Politics.
He entered the battle for the Governorship of California.
He approached this new challenge with all of his powerful motivation, his tremendous personal skills and his ability to plan in perfect detail.
He put all his bounding energy, his unfailing good humour and his ability to meet all the twisting challenges hurled at him by his rivals into the contest.
And he won.
When he first challenged them, they thought it was a joke. But he wasn't joking.
And he won.
He beat highlyskilled opponents. They had more experience, more knowledge and, it must be said, more slyness. He had more energy, more openness and more class.
And he won.
He won by boundless energy, unfailing good spirits and a refusal to accept any negative thoughts.
Every move was planned. Every plan was changed to meet the constantly changing battle. Every thought, attitude and act was a positive one.
He became Governor of California.
He had been a boy from a very humble background. One of the highlights he remembers as a child was when the family saved up enough money to buy a fridge! He now had one of the biggest jobs in America.
If California was a separate country, it would be the 8th
richest in the world!
King of the Bodybuilders!
King of the Action Movies!
King of California!
There are said to be a large body of important people who would like to change the American law so that he can run for the Presidency. He can't at present because he was born in Austria. But, as I said, very important people want to change this law.
Now my friend, what should all this mean for you?
Well let me explain.
Soon LOL
Tom
:-)
Tuesday 29 September 2009
Monday 28 September 2009
Part 3: Arnold Schwarzenegger's Real Life Lesson
Here is another event that Terry witnessed on a movie set while working with Arnold.
As usual Arnold was making sure that his friends shared his good luck. He had got as many as possible work on his current movie.
One of these friends was causing trouble and had started a feud with one of the film studio's camera crew. This friend was a massive, internationally known bodybuilder and was bullying the worker. Because of the massively muscled bulk of this six foot six bodybuilder, the cameraman was terrified. He told his boss that he was walking out on his job. His boss told Arnold.
Now the bodybuilder was a very close friend of Arnold, they had shared many good times over many years and
Arnold was now looking after him by getting him top paid work on all his movies.
This was a bit of bother that Arnold did not need in the delicate business of making a movie. But because of their close, personal, long time friendship Arnold just told him to stop messing about. But the bodybuilder again gave the man a hard time. Arnold gave him a strict telling off, that he was supposed to be Arnold's friend but here he was causing him problems and that a silly personal dislike was interferring with business. Because Arnold had got him the job, it looked bad on him and he told him that there would be trouble if there was any more of it.
But the bodybuilder, obviously relying on his and Arnold's close friendship, carried on the bullying.
Arnold called him in and said that he had caused too much trouble and that he was fired off that movie and that he would never work on one of Arnold's movies again. But, because there had been no personal problem between them, he still considered him a friend and would continue to get him work in other peoples' films. This was a promise that Arnold kept. His friend got bigger and better parts in films. But not Arnold's. There are several lessons here.
You must not allow people to stop you or cause you problems when you are working on your plan, your vision or your dream.
This situation WILL arise. Believe me. To EVERY one of you. I will write about this soon. It is very important.
Arnold did not get angry although his friend did. He just did what was necessary and kept his promise to his friend to get him work.
More soon.
Tom
:-)
As usual Arnold was making sure that his friends shared his good luck. He had got as many as possible work on his current movie.
One of these friends was causing trouble and had started a feud with one of the film studio's camera crew. This friend was a massive, internationally known bodybuilder and was bullying the worker. Because of the massively muscled bulk of this six foot six bodybuilder, the cameraman was terrified. He told his boss that he was walking out on his job. His boss told Arnold.
Now the bodybuilder was a very close friend of Arnold, they had shared many good times over many years and
Arnold was now looking after him by getting him top paid work on all his movies.
This was a bit of bother that Arnold did not need in the delicate business of making a movie. But because of their close, personal, long time friendship Arnold just told him to stop messing about. But the bodybuilder again gave the man a hard time. Arnold gave him a strict telling off, that he was supposed to be Arnold's friend but here he was causing him problems and that a silly personal dislike was interferring with business. Because Arnold had got him the job, it looked bad on him and he told him that there would be trouble if there was any more of it.
But the bodybuilder, obviously relying on his and Arnold's close friendship, carried on the bullying.
Arnold called him in and said that he had caused too much trouble and that he was fired off that movie and that he would never work on one of Arnold's movies again. But, because there had been no personal problem between them, he still considered him a friend and would continue to get him work in other peoples' films. This was a promise that Arnold kept. His friend got bigger and better parts in films. But not Arnold's. There are several lessons here.
You must not allow people to stop you or cause you problems when you are working on your plan, your vision or your dream.
This situation WILL arise. Believe me. To EVERY one of you. I will write about this soon. It is very important.
Arnold did not get angry although his friend did. He just did what was necessary and kept his promise to his friend to get him work.
More soon.
Tom
:-)
Sunday 27 September 2009
Part 2: Arnold Schwarzenegger's Real Life Lesson
Big Arnie has the most famous face in the world. He is recognised by all who know him as being totally happy, a firm friend and a superb achiever. His reputation in these areas give great interest and many lessons for all of us here. His photo is recognised by everybody in any country.
He was voted many times the man with the most muscles in the world.
He was the youngest ever Mr. Universe winner at 22 years of age. He won this title an unheard of 7 times.
He was and still is one of the most popular bodybuilding superstars ever. He followed this up by writing some all time best selling books in this field.
From an early age he had talked about winning body building fame, going to America and becoming a famous film star. He had achieved the first stage of his vision. He had beaten everybody there was to beat in bodybuilding.
Having conquered this sub-culture so completely that he was known as the King of Bodybuilders. Arnie looked around for fresh fields to tackle.
The second stage of his dream was to become a famous film star. He had already made some movies and documentaries. He now moved into making movies full time.
He worked his way up into bigger and better movies with bigger and better budgets. He hit the heights with his part in Terminator 2. This movie, at that time, and for a long time after was the highest earning movie of all time. His pay rose in line with this and he was the highest paid actor per performance in Hollywood during this period.
He cashed in on his success by directing several movies.
This rounded out his childhood dreams nicely.
You must remember that Arnie had voiced these plans in his early teens. And now he had fulfilled them.
Now another aspect of Arnie's personal powers showed itself. He is always a planner. He plans constantly. He writes down his plans fully.
There is a tremendous lesson for you, as you will see later. And here is another tremendous lesson from a master achiever:
He plans his plans.
He puts them on a timeline.
And he examines them every week.
And that's not the most important lesson for you.
Here it is.
He puts in place plans for all areas of his life. Even his personal, enjoyment and family life. You may think this is a bit extreme so let me explain it a bit. When Terry O'Neill was over there, Arnold had two phones. At 5p.m one phone was turned off. VERY few people had the other phone number number. This number was reserved totally for friends, family and fun. It was forbidden to mention work, finance or business.
What a way to plan your life.
When the mobile phones became popular, Terry put this plan in place by buying two phones. Before this I had been with Terry when his phone would ring every three minutes. He now had the perfect solution.
Back to Arnie. Sometimes a project in part of his plan would be reaching achievement quicker than expected.
He doesn't pat himself on the back and sit down,
he sits down and puts a new plan in place.
Let me flesh that out a bit. Amongst his many interest,
Arnie is a property multi-millionaire. Let's suppose he has a property purchase project in place which he hopes to have finalised in 6 months. It looks that it will be finalised in four months.
He will start looking for another property to purchase.
Or another project to concentrate on. Or a fun event to get involved in.
There are many hidden lessons from the above for all of us and we will be exploring them at a later time.
Don't miss part 3.
lol
Tom
He was voted many times the man with the most muscles in the world.
He was the youngest ever Mr. Universe winner at 22 years of age. He won this title an unheard of 7 times.
He was and still is one of the most popular bodybuilding superstars ever. He followed this up by writing some all time best selling books in this field.
From an early age he had talked about winning body building fame, going to America and becoming a famous film star. He had achieved the first stage of his vision. He had beaten everybody there was to beat in bodybuilding.
Having conquered this sub-culture so completely that he was known as the King of Bodybuilders. Arnie looked around for fresh fields to tackle.
The second stage of his dream was to become a famous film star. He had already made some movies and documentaries. He now moved into making movies full time.
He worked his way up into bigger and better movies with bigger and better budgets. He hit the heights with his part in Terminator 2. This movie, at that time, and for a long time after was the highest earning movie of all time. His pay rose in line with this and he was the highest paid actor per performance in Hollywood during this period.
He cashed in on his success by directing several movies.
This rounded out his childhood dreams nicely.
You must remember that Arnie had voiced these plans in his early teens. And now he had fulfilled them.
Now another aspect of Arnie's personal powers showed itself. He is always a planner. He plans constantly. He writes down his plans fully.
There is a tremendous lesson for you, as you will see later. And here is another tremendous lesson from a master achiever:
He plans his plans.
He puts them on a timeline.
And he examines them every week.
And that's not the most important lesson for you.
Here it is.
He puts in place plans for all areas of his life. Even his personal, enjoyment and family life. You may think this is a bit extreme so let me explain it a bit. When Terry O'Neill was over there, Arnold had two phones. At 5p.m one phone was turned off. VERY few people had the other phone number number. This number was reserved totally for friends, family and fun. It was forbidden to mention work, finance or business.
What a way to plan your life.
When the mobile phones became popular, Terry put this plan in place by buying two phones. Before this I had been with Terry when his phone would ring every three minutes. He now had the perfect solution.
Back to Arnie. Sometimes a project in part of his plan would be reaching achievement quicker than expected.
He doesn't pat himself on the back and sit down,
he sits down and puts a new plan in place.
Let me flesh that out a bit. Amongst his many interest,
Arnie is a property multi-millionaire. Let's suppose he has a property purchase project in place which he hopes to have finalised in 6 months. It looks that it will be finalised in four months.
He will start looking for another property to purchase.
Or another project to concentrate on. Or a fun event to get involved in.
There are many hidden lessons from the above for all of us and we will be exploring them at a later time.
Don't miss part 3.
lol
Tom
Friday 25 September 2009
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Real Life Lesson
Do you feel like your having lots of fun?
Or are you feeling fed up?
I find it funny that when you see a friend and you ask them how thing are, they often answer that things are not too bad. But as the conversation continues you quickly discover that things are far from fine. Because they then start to tell you about their problems. Plenty of problems. Big ones and petty ones.
People are always talking about what went wrong. How many bad things have happened to them. How close to the edge of disaster they are. The next thing is that you are joining in the spirit of the thing. You start trying to outdo them with the number the size and severity of your problems.
Now you may have been having a great day (and I am going to tell about how to have a great day, every day). But now your mind is full of negativity, you have lost that great feeling.
I'll come back to that in bit but before I do let me tell you an interesting story.
Terry O'Neill is a Karate champion who is a lifelong friend of mine. He knew Arnold Scwarzenneger when Big Arnie, as he was known, was the greatest body-builder in the world.
When Big Arnie got in to movies, he got Terry work as an actor and martial arts technical adviser in some of his films.
Terry, Dennis Martin and myself are three lifelong mates. We are gym rats, movie fanatics and keen students of the human condition. And for years we used to meet up three times a week in the Cavern Club coffee shop in Liverpool.
As I said, we are gym rats and movie fanatics, Dennis and I couldn't wait for Terry to get back from each trip to tell us tales about working on the movies and working out in the gym with Big Arnie.
Here is one of them.
On a film set they start work very early for variety of reasons. It wouldn't matter how early. And I'm talking about 4 a.m starts! Big Arnie would get get up two hours before work AND before BREAKFAST and go through a gruelling weightlifting work-out. This was like water to a duck to Terry. One of his bigger buzzes back in Liverpool was to borrow the keys from the gym owner, get me out of bed and go for a flat out work out. On Christmas morning!
Anyhow, back to Hollywood! (If only. lol)
Terry immediately fell into Arnold's training plan. He said that Arnold was perfect model for how to get the most out of life. He would push himself and everybody else to the limit in the training but, at the same time, he would be cracking jokes, playing pranks and having fun every minute, all the time, non-stop.
After the gym session, Arnold would have breakfast but only with a gang of specially invited friends. No hangers-on, opportunists or favour seekers.
If the film set was in a Hollywood the meal would be in a certain cafe and nobody would be allowed to join the group without Arnold's permission.
One thing that Terry had observed was that Arnold had no time for negative talk or negative people.
Here is the point of this post.
One morning, in the cafe, after the work-out, one of Arnold's friend started going on about some on-going problem he was having.
Arnold interrupted him and said:
"This is the second time that I've told you about moaning and complaining. If I have to tell you again, you won't be training with us or eating with us."
This had a tremendous effect on Terry (and me and Dennis when he told us). Terry would often repeat the story. And Dennis would. And myself. (I've just repeated it again lol)
This is a lesson about negativity, negative situations and negative people. You must learn how to avoid them.
Anywhere!
Everywhere!
At all times!
Another, stronger real life lesson from Big Arnie and
more from Terry and Dennis later.
:-)
Or are you feeling fed up?
I find it funny that when you see a friend and you ask them how thing are, they often answer that things are not too bad. But as the conversation continues you quickly discover that things are far from fine. Because they then start to tell you about their problems. Plenty of problems. Big ones and petty ones.
People are always talking about what went wrong. How many bad things have happened to them. How close to the edge of disaster they are. The next thing is that you are joining in the spirit of the thing. You start trying to outdo them with the number the size and severity of your problems.
Now you may have been having a great day (and I am going to tell about how to have a great day, every day). But now your mind is full of negativity, you have lost that great feeling.
I'll come back to that in bit but before I do let me tell you an interesting story.
Terry O'Neill is a Karate champion who is a lifelong friend of mine. He knew Arnold Scwarzenneger when Big Arnie, as he was known, was the greatest body-builder in the world.
When Big Arnie got in to movies, he got Terry work as an actor and martial arts technical adviser in some of his films.
Terry, Dennis Martin and myself are three lifelong mates. We are gym rats, movie fanatics and keen students of the human condition. And for years we used to meet up three times a week in the Cavern Club coffee shop in Liverpool.
As I said, we are gym rats and movie fanatics, Dennis and I couldn't wait for Terry to get back from each trip to tell us tales about working on the movies and working out in the gym with Big Arnie.
Here is one of them.
On a film set they start work very early for variety of reasons. It wouldn't matter how early. And I'm talking about 4 a.m starts! Big Arnie would get get up two hours before work AND before BREAKFAST and go through a gruelling weightlifting work-out. This was like water to a duck to Terry. One of his bigger buzzes back in Liverpool was to borrow the keys from the gym owner, get me out of bed and go for a flat out work out. On Christmas morning!
Anyhow, back to Hollywood! (If only. lol)
Terry immediately fell into Arnold's training plan. He said that Arnold was perfect model for how to get the most out of life. He would push himself and everybody else to the limit in the training but, at the same time, he would be cracking jokes, playing pranks and having fun every minute, all the time, non-stop.
After the gym session, Arnold would have breakfast but only with a gang of specially invited friends. No hangers-on, opportunists or favour seekers.
If the film set was in a Hollywood the meal would be in a certain cafe and nobody would be allowed to join the group without Arnold's permission.
One thing that Terry had observed was that Arnold had no time for negative talk or negative people.
Here is the point of this post.
One morning, in the cafe, after the work-out, one of Arnold's friend started going on about some on-going problem he was having.
Arnold interrupted him and said:
"This is the second time that I've told you about moaning and complaining. If I have to tell you again, you won't be training with us or eating with us."
This had a tremendous effect on Terry (and me and Dennis when he told us). Terry would often repeat the story. And Dennis would. And myself. (I've just repeated it again lol)
This is a lesson about negativity, negative situations and negative people. You must learn how to avoid them.
Anywhere!
Everywhere!
At all times!
Another, stronger real life lesson from Big Arnie and
more from Terry and Dennis later.
:-)
Sunday 20 September 2009
The Science of Happiness2
There used to be no Science of Happiness. Everybody believed that you had no control over it. You couldn't control when it came, you couldn't control how long it stayed and you couldn't control how strong it was when it was here.
They were all wrong. You can control it. You can control it in all of those areas. How often it comes, how long it stays here and how to supersize it. But, before going into how, let me share with you the new 'Science of Happiness'.
Neuroscientists, psychologists and researchers all over the world are establishing what makes people happy, happier and happiest in all areas of their life. The problem is that these investigators are not doing this to make you and me happier. They don't do it in order to make themselves happier. They do it to let their bosses and their fellow scientists know how CLEVER they are.
And being clever is not being happy.
Being recognised as being clever will bring a temporary buzz of happiness. We all know this. We have all had this. But it will fade. Let me share this with you.
You do something clever. People say thing like:
"I like that"
"That's clever"
"You're pretty smart"
You immediately feel a warm glow of recognition. That is a happy feeling. We've all had it.
But it is, in my opinion, not a good base for the happiness lifestyle that I want to share with people.
Why not?
Because it follows all the rules of the OLD ideas about happiness.
First of all your happiness has to come from other people. And they may not give it.
They may not mention how clever you are.
They may only mention it briefly.
They may never mention it again.
So you see, you have no control over when it comes, how long it lasts or how powerful it is.
You must learn that control over your happiness lifestyle must not rely on the behaviour of other people.
You must learn how to generate your own happiness.
You must learn to control your life for yourself, for your benefit, for your happiness.
:-)
They were all wrong. You can control it. You can control it in all of those areas. How often it comes, how long it stays here and how to supersize it. But, before going into how, let me share with you the new 'Science of Happiness'.
Neuroscientists, psychologists and researchers all over the world are establishing what makes people happy, happier and happiest in all areas of their life. The problem is that these investigators are not doing this to make you and me happier. They don't do it in order to make themselves happier. They do it to let their bosses and their fellow scientists know how CLEVER they are.
And being clever is not being happy.
Being recognised as being clever will bring a temporary buzz of happiness. We all know this. We have all had this. But it will fade. Let me share this with you.
You do something clever. People say thing like:
"I like that"
"That's clever"
"You're pretty smart"
You immediately feel a warm glow of recognition. That is a happy feeling. We've all had it.
But it is, in my opinion, not a good base for the happiness lifestyle that I want to share with people.
Why not?
Because it follows all the rules of the OLD ideas about happiness.
First of all your happiness has to come from other people. And they may not give it.
They may not mention how clever you are.
They may only mention it briefly.
They may never mention it again.
So you see, you have no control over when it comes, how long it lasts or how powerful it is.
You must learn that control over your happiness lifestyle must not rely on the behaviour of other people.
You must learn how to generate your own happiness.
You must learn to control your life for yourself, for your benefit, for your happiness.
:-)
Saturday 19 September 2009
This is YOUR life NOW
This is your life . YOUR life. It doesn't belong to anybody else. Nobody can tell you what to do.
You don't have to do anything that you don't have to do and that means that you can do anything that you wish with your life.
Play the guitar, paint paintings, dance. Do what makes you happy.
Start doing it now. Do it with style, do it with enthusiasm, do it with joy.
Do things that you want to do and stop doing what you don't want to do. Why be lonely? why be unfulfilled? why be unhappy?
YOU are in control.
So take control.
NOW!
:-)
You don't have to do anything that you don't have to do and that means that you can do anything that you wish with your life.
Play the guitar, paint paintings, dance. Do what makes you happy.
Start doing it now. Do it with style, do it with enthusiasm, do it with joy.
Do things that you want to do and stop doing what you don't want to do. Why be lonely? why be unfulfilled? why be unhappy?
YOU are in control.
So take control.
NOW!
:-)
Monday 14 September 2009
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