Daily Motivations - Why 2% Succeed and 98% Don't

Episode Date: March 17, 2025

Speaker: Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Mr. Olympia, Conan, Terminator, and Governor of California, delivers one of the best motivational speeches you will ever hear. Arnold Schwarzenegger Schwarzenegger is known all over the globe for his many accomplishments: world champion bodybuilder, Hollywood action hero, successful businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, best-selling author, and California's 38th Governor. If you know someone who could use this episode, share it with them! Instagram - @daily_motivationsorg Facebook- @daily_motivationsorg Please Kindly support this show  Support Us

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please contact Connex Ontario at 1-866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. But MGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. I'm here to talk about success. 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 don't have a goal where you go, you drift around and you never end up anywhere.

I mean, as you know, I was born in 1947 in Austria after the Second World War. So I was very fortunate that I stumbled on my vision. And I didn't really like Austria when I grew up. I couldn't wait to get out of there. I couldn't see myself becoming a farmer or a worker in a factory or anything like that. Even though my parents wanted me to stay there and have a normal life. But that was their vision, not mine.

My vision was totally different. I felt that I was born for something special, for something unique, for something big. Then one day I went to school, I remember I was 11 years old, and they showed a documentary about America. There they showed this documentary, the huge skyscrapers, the high rises, the huge bridges, the six lane freeways, and all of this stuff in the same way, I said, that's where I want to be. I don't want to be around here with these little farm houses and these little buildings. I want to be in America.

One day after school I walked by a store in Graz. So I went inside and I looked around and then I saw a magazine. I saw a bodybuilding magazine that had Reg Park on the cover. Reg Park was then a three-time Mr. Universe. And I saw him on the big screen as Hercules. I read that and I said to myself,

wow, this is the blueprint for my life. This is exactly what I want to do. I want to become a bodybuilding champion, just like Rich Park. I want to get into movies, just like Rich Park. And I want to make millions of dollars and be rich and famous, just like Rich Park. You know how great it felt that I knew where I was going?

Imagine the majority of people don't know where they're going. I knew where I was going, that I'm going to become this bodybuilding champion just like him. So, it was just a question of how do you do it? I was so relieved because when you have a goal, when you have a vision, everything becomes easy. So people always ask me when they saw me in the gym in the pumping iron days, they said, 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. And they told people all the time I said because to me I'm shooting for a goal in front of me is the Mr. Universe title so every rep that I do gets me closer to accomplishing that 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 step closer to turn this goal into reality. So I couldn't wait to do another 500 pound squat. I couldn't wait to do another 500 pound bench press. I couldn't wait to do another 2000 reps of sit ups. I couldn't wait for the next exercise. 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. 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. in life, you've got to have a purpose. 74% hate their job in America. Now, this is not much different when you come to Europe. The majority of people don't like what they're doing because they're really not doing it because they didn't have a goal

and they followed this goal. They just aimlessly drift around and then all of a sudden there's a job opening so they get that 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. That is unbelievable if you think about it. So I felt so blessed that I knew what I was doing. It's like a medical student that studies and knows he wants to become a doctor. You know where to go.

And the same thing is also in politics. I remember that in politics I had a very clear vision that I will be the leader of California. This is as far as I could go because I was not born in America so I could not run for president so being the governor of the fifth largest state of I should say the largest state the fifth largest economy in the world was for me really the ultimate title, the ultimate accomplishment in politics. So even though people came up to me and said, why don't you go and run for something smaller, you're never going to make it.

I ran for governor and then two months later I became governor of the state of California. Again because I had a very clear vision what I'm going to do with California. So that's rule number one, have a vision. Rule number two is don't listen to the naysayers. Don't listen to the naysayers. years. Everything I ever did, the thing that I heard out of people's mouth was, that's impossible. That can't be done. Or no. That is exactly what I heard and of course I proved to the people that it can't be done. So whenever someone said to me, can't be done I heard it can be done. When they said no I heard yes and when they said it's impossible I heard it is

possible. I'm a strong believer what Nelson Mandela said that everything is always impossible until someone does it. Well, I'm going to be the one that said to myself, I'm going to do it and I'm going to show it to them. Maybe it has never been done before. That's perfectly fine with me. But I'm going to do it. And I did not listen to the naysayers.

It's all about the hard work that you put in. I said to myself, in bodybuilding I worked out five, six hours a day, I'm going to do the same thing now for acting. And of course I went to college to study English, I studied the accent removal, acting classes, and all of this stuff all day long I worked and I worked and I worked and within a short period of time I made one movie called Hercules in New York which of course went right into the toilet but it didn't discourage me I still had the same vision and then all of a sudden I did Streets of San Francisco, I did Stay Hungry and Pumping Iron and The Villain

and then all of a sudden I was asked by Dino De Laurentiis and the Universal Studio to star in Conan the Barbarian. And after I did Conan the Barbarian, the director at the press conference said to the press, the director was John Milius, he said to the press, if we wouldn't have had Arnold, we would have had to build one. So think about that. The very body that they said can never be sold because the time is wrong. A few years later, I'm doing Conan the Barbarian and it was the number one hit at the box office when he came out in the summer of 82. Think about that and the director says if we wouldn't have had his body, we would have

had to build one. So all of a sudden my body became an asset not a liability. And the same thing was with Terminator after we were finished filming Terminator Jim Cameron said to the press if Arnold wouldn't have had that accent and talked like a machine I think the movie wouldn't have worked. So think about that. The body and the accent that they attacked was an asset. But I didn't listen to those losers. I didn't listen to them at all. It's just the reality of it is that you cannot listen to the naysayers. So it is a very important lesson for all of you. So when someone says, no, this is a stupid idea,

you in your mind, you don't have to say it, but in your mind just say this is a view, you asshole. What do you know? Thank you.