Model Success - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Good morning, Believe Nation! If you feel like the environment that you have, the friends and the family and the people in your life are not helping you get to where you need to be, I'm going to share a great clip with you from Arnold Schwarzenegger that I think will help.

In Austria, kids were conditioned to follow the parents' path, but unlike other kids around me, I was very determined that I have to get out of there. And then one day, I saw the COVID of a magazine of Reg Park, and it says, "How Mr. Universe became Hercules." I opened up this magazine and I read through it, and there was the whole plan laid out. I asked myself, Arnold, what is it about you that is so different? Why are you the only one that sees it so clearly, this goal? Going to America and winning the Mr. Universe contest and getting into movies and making millions of dollars. No one else talks about this around here. Is it real? Is it just a crazy fantasy? But wait a minute, Reg Park did it. Then it's possible. Arnold, focus. The key thing is to be focused. Visualize your goal. I saw myself standing up there on the stage just like Reg Park. And it became more and more clear. Arnold, you got to go.

This is such an important clip for me because you are going to be a product of your environment. You are a product of your habits. You're a product of the people in your life, your friends and your family and their values and opinions and the media and the books and the music and everything that you consume. All of those things hold you where you are. And if you want to break free, then you need to change that structure, change that routine, and change your habits. You are likely to be as successful as your parents are. You are likely to be as successful as your friends are. That's your path. And if you want to change it, then you have to change the people and the resources that you start to surround yourself with. If you want to achieve greatness, if you have these big dreams of grandeur that nobody around you has ever accomplished before, if you want to go go out and achieve that, then you have to start surrounding yourself with greatness. You see, here's what happens to most people. You have this big idea, this bold idea, this desire to, "I'm gonna put my mark on this world. I'm gonna stamp it. You know, I have these inspirational moments where I'm gonna go out and do something big." And then your life gets back in the way, and your routines and your structure and your friends and the family and all the things that hold you where you are come back. And you still have these moments of boldness boldness, right? These one morning you wake up like, "Ah, today I'm going to do it," or, "I watched this video, like, this is the day." And then because the rest of your environment sucks and holds you where you are, you fall back. You fall back to average, you fall back to normal, and there's nothing necessarily wrong with that. It's just not conducive to you building something amazing and great. And the challenge is most people, they don't create an environment with intention. They are born into an environment. They keep that environment, they've fallen into it, and it just continues on instead of people purposely deciding what gets into their environment, their habits, and their structure, and what doesn't. I know for me early in my career, what really helped me was modeling Bill Gates. And I didn't have huge successful entrepreneurs in my family, and when I started my business, I failed, right? I was struggling to survive. I wanted to quit. I wanted to give up because I didn't know what to do. And it wasn't until I changed my environment and surroundings and started to model people like Bill Gates. I've never met Bill Gates. I've never interviewed him. I've never asked him a question. I don't know him. If he saw my name, he probably wouldn't recognize it. But I surrounded myself with Bill Gates and other successful software entrepreneurs. I read their stories. I watched their biographies. I looked at their interviews. Any clips or quotes that came out, I was consuming them. I surrounded myself with them and I started to think like them. I started to think bigger. Because I was surrounded by greatness, I started to be more great myself. Arnold did the same thing. His friends thought he was stupid. His family thought he was crazy. Everybody in his community thought this was a stupid thing to do. The army thought it was ridiculous for him to go off and do this. The only thing that kept him going was surrounding himself in his mind, in his mental space, with the idea of becoming like Reg Park. He surrounded himself with Reg Park, and that allowed him to create an environment of greatness and break free from the chains of mediocrity that were holding him down because of his current environment. You need to do the same thing too. If you are struggling to get to where you wanna go and you look at the people around you and you see none of these guys have done anything great too, you will never achieve anything great until you adapt your mindset and start to create a great environment that is conducive to you achieving amazing things. So maybe that's watching videos like this, maybe that's reading biographies, maybe that's watching other YouTube channels, maybe that's on a daily, regular, habitual basis consuming information that builds you up and makes you believe that you can go out and accomplish something amazing. And this is a daily habit. It's daily because you could be on fire for a week and then the next day you wake up and you're starting from scratch. Every single day you need to inject greatness into your life. That's why I wanted to start this morning series, to inject greatness into my life and into your life every single morning, to motivate you to go out and change your environment. I'm hoping I'm a part of your environment to build you up and accomplish something amazing. Believe. Thank you guys so much for watching. My question of the day for you is, I want to know who's holding holding you back. I want to know who in your life is holding you back or what in your environment right now is holding you back from accomplishing your dreams. And it doesn't have to be somebody's name specifically, but the types of people or a habit that you have. I just want to know what's holding you back. Leave it in the comments below. I'm really curious and I'm going to join in the discussion with you. And of course, if you like this video and you want to see more, don't forget to subscribe to the newsletter and to the YouTube channel. Thank you so much for watching. I hope to see you again tomorrow morning, 7 o'clock Eastern Standard Time, for another motivational video to help you start your day on the right foot. Belief.