of course people ask me all the time
they say to me what is the secret to
the first rule is trust yourself
but what is most important is did you
have to dig deep down dig deep down and
ask yourselves who do you want to be not
what but who and I’m talking about not
with your parents and teachers wanted to
be but you I’m talking about figuring
out for yourselves what makes you happy
no matter how crazy it may sound to the
people so rule number one is of course
trust yourself no matter how what anyone
else thinks and of course rule number do
is break the rules we have so many rules
in life about everything I said break
the rules not the law but break the
rules it is impossible to be a maverick
or true original if you’re too well
behaved and not want to break the rules
you have to think outside the box that’s
do is be like to everyone in avoid
trouble the only way that ever got any
which of course brings me the rule
number three don’t be afraid to fail
anything I’ve ever attempted I was
you can’t always win but don’t be afraid
of making decisions you can’t be
paralyzed that vo failure or you will
never push yourself you keep pushing
because you believe in yourself and in
your vision and you know that it’s the
right thing to do and success will come
so don’t be afraid to fail which brings
me to rule number four which is don’t
listen to the naysayers I mean how many
times have you hear that you can’t do
this you can’t do that it has never been
done before
so perfect I love it when someone says
that never no one has ever done this
before because they did I do it that
means that I’m the first will understand
it so pay no attention to the people who
I always listen to myself and said yes
you can
that brings me to rule number five which
is the most important rule of world of
all work your butt off now if I always
believe leaving no stone unturned
Muhammad Ali one of my great heroes in a
great line in the 70s when he was asked
how many sit-ups do you do he said I
don’t count less either tell me start
counting when it’s that’s burning
and they feel pain that’s when I start
counting because that’s when it really
counts that’s what makes you a champion
that’s the way it is with everything no
pain no gain but let me tell you it is
important to have fun in life of course
but when you’re out there partying
horsing around someone out there the
same time is working off someone is
getting smarter and someone is winning
just remember that but if you want to
win there’s absolutely no way around
hard hard girl
none of my rules by the way of
successful work unless you do
I’ve always figured out that there’s 24
hours a day you sleep six hours they
have 18 hours left
I know the some of you out there nonces
but wait a minute I sleep eight hours of
nine hours with it just sleep faster I
would recommend just remember you can’t
climb the ladder of success in your
hands in the pocket that they
experiments which is a very important
rule it’s about giving back
whatever path did you make in your lives
must always find time to give something
back something back the community give
something back
let me tell you something reaching out
people bring you more satisfaction than
the six fools
trust yourself break some rules don’t be
afraid to feel no what do they say is
the most important thing is that you
have a vision did you ever call because
without that vision and without that
core again you’re drifting around and
people don’t become successful just by
accident you know I mean maybe the guy
that found gold in California and
started the gold rush but don’t count on
that that’s a one-in-a-lifetime kind of
a situation so you got to really have a
specific order to me to have that vision
that I want to be mr. universe they
don’t want to be the greatest
bodybuilder of all time that was a great
vision and that specifically they look
like reg Park and to be up down that
stage and to lift the trophy overhead
and to win the championship over and
over and over again so that was a great
you have to have a corner it doesn’t
have to be that specific code but it has
there some coal this is why I always
recommend to people sit down take your
time it’s said thinking about why do you
what is your call and it can’t be as
crazy as this it could be you know I
want to press gross if that’s your call
it could be that you’re emulating a
certain you know body book or self a
football player certain box or whatever
it is half those pictures but all over
the wall like I did when I was a kid I
put pictures of bridge pocket of Sonny
Liston of the boxers and of Ali and the
power lifters and weight lifters all
over my bedroom in the wall so that
every day when I go to sleep every day
when they wake up and look at those
pictures and they motivate me you need
that motivation and then therefore you
have this kind of imprint in front of
you all the time and you know exactly
what you’re chasing this is why I always
smiled when it was in the gym people
always came up to mrs. why are you
smiling you’re working at five hours a
day you’re doing the same as the other
guys but the other guys have a sour face
they’re pissed off the death to do
another rep or another set or something
I looked forward to I looked forward to
another thousand seven reps of sit-ups I
looked forward to another 500 pounds of
of leg press o squad I looked forward to
in more and more curls until my arms
fall off why because I knew that every
rep that I did and every set that I did
and more weights that are lifted I get
one step closer to turning that vision
into reality so I was turned on by that
I was excited I couldn’t wait to get to
in a one of the things of you know
creating urgency he can go in a one way
or the other because like I remember
that when I weighed 245 pounds and Bob
Rafelson the director of stay hungry
said to me that I’m interested in having
you come in for reading and Brooklyn
you’re acting in orders because I’m
interested in having you in a movie to
start with the Jeff Bridges and Batali
fields I was delighted about that that
was excited that’s at the pumping of one
wall and then he said but I don’t wanted
to weigh more than 210 pounds so I said
I was at work that’s funny you come to
me if you want me to be in a movie but
I’m going to 45 to 46 I say I just want
the Olympia I say in 1919 74 and I was
really at my biggest and but he demanded
that this says look it’s very simple and
the day we start shooting this is I’m
gonna put you on the scale and if you
don’t make the to turn you out because I
have someone else in mind
and
I’ve worked on it a set of visualizing
myself very clearly as a lean outlet
because that’s the only way I could lose
that weight in the office and get
interested in running what because up
until the point of endlich’s females
after training or before training or
whatever but now all of a sudden it was
five miles six five seven knots eight
miles and they even went mini marathons
in order to lose the way they did every
single high reps that was watching my
diet for the eighth notice kind of
things and for the day the day before I
remember we went Birmingham Alabama the
day before was at the YMCA with Barbara
facin he was swimming and I was working
out in the bus run it was a factor that
was running he says let’s step on the
scale in a step on the scale and the way
209 so it just shows here what is
possible if you visualize exactly what
you want to look like so it can go one
way which is the Vig you can lose weight
and get trim and get slim and everything
get the apps outdoors or you go the
other way and you gain weight because
you see yourself big and you see
yourself as a win over mr. Olympia or
something like that so it can go either
way but in each case it was like certain
time limits were set and I had to
perform and there was no room for any
kind of like well I can get my act
together or anything oh yes because
there’s only a certain amount of time
but the key thing again is have the
clear vision have the specific core of
what you want to accomplish because then
you never go to the gym and you say the
day I feel down a little bit I don’t
know what it is all about in my life I’m
confused
no I tell you that I was a perfect
example of someone that was not
confident at all I mean when I was a kid
that was just like any other kid that I
had hang-ups and problems and orders but
when they joined the weightlifting Club
and I won my first little trophy because
they did the best clean jerk
and then women to another me then they
want another little trophy I started
feeling like somebody so and of course
not everyone is gonna have this kind of
a situation but the bottom line is
everyone can use the same method because
I used it in politics are used it in
making money I used it in everything
that I’ve done in the movie business
when you have one little victory little
victories add up and that is what gives
you then ultimately confidence well for
me the most important thing always to
have a deadline so when I for instance
had a competition and let’s say the
competition was in the middle of
September and it was now beginning of
summer so there was no more time to
screw around so there was the time now
to get the going on a diet to get going
with the training to not slack off at
all because it was a deadline there the
day of the competition I had to be in
the best shape possible and I knew that
if I come to the competition and then
lose because I did not schedule my
training the proper way or I didn’t have
the right frame of mind or I didn’t give
everything delivery broke my butt off I
will be just so angry so I never wanted
to be in that situation so this is why
it was very important to pick that time
and to say this is when I have to be in
top shape then the work towards that but
it’s not just with the competition I
mean they’re always the same in the
movie business
I mean to me was always a big advantage
when I said okay my movie starts on
April 1 and I have now three months so I
have to get really in great shape
so he picked those times he could also
be that there’s no movie and you have no
mr. Lampe are no mr. America no mr.
universe
appointee of those things but you say to
yourself the summer starts in June I’m
gonna go to the beach in June and at
that time I want to be in great shape so
that creates an urgency that makes you
really start to training hard and taking
seriously because if you don’t have a
specific plan then you wander around
them and you can have as I’ve told you
many times the best ship or the best
plane in the world but if you don’t have
a specific goal where you want to go and
when you want to get there you just
drift around and you never get anywhere
so this is why this is important to
create that urgency there was
when you need to be in shape whoa I mean
look everyone has a problem with time
but the day is 24 hours in his sleep 6 I
know there’s some out there that say a
Volvo I need a but I say just sleep a
little faster
because the bottom line is we have six
hours of sleep 20 files are available so
if 18 hours now available to your Brooke
family your hobbies and also to learn
something new or to do something new
which could easily be that you won’t
have to learn a new language
or that you want
newest resolution after me the book
every week or will you say I’m gonna
reshape my body so we’re gonna go and
take this hour out of your schedule say
I’m gonna train an hour every day so
this is for most people a huge challenge
but it is totally doable I can tell them
because the kind of things that I did
when I came to this country I mean I
went to school almost working on
construction I was working out at five
hours a day I was taking acting classes
from 8 o’clock at night to 12 midnight I
was doing all of those things I wanted
to make sure that out of the 24 hours of
the day that I don’t waste one single
hour those hours were too precious it’s
a dare just want to tell people don’t
give me this thing I have a difficult
time at the time and I don’t have time
for this now that you have time you make
don’t be afraid to fail because if
you’re afraid to fail then you’re always
holding yourself back because you’re
afraid that did you go all out you may
fail well in weightlifting we learned it
very quickly the only way you could break a record is if you willing to fail
they say to me what is the secret to
the first rule is trust yourself
but what is most important is did you
have to dig deep down dig deep down and
ask yourselves who do you want to be not
what but who and I’m talking about not
with your parents and teachers wanted to
be but you I’m talking about figuring
out for yourselves what makes you happy
no matter how crazy it may sound to the
people so rule number one is of course
trust yourself no matter how what anyone
else thinks and of course rule number do
is break the rules we have so many rules
in life about everything I said break
the rules not the law but break the
rules it is impossible to be a maverick
or true original if you’re too well
behaved and not want to break the rules
you have to think outside the box that’s
do is be like to everyone in avoid
trouble the only way that ever got any
which of course brings me the rule
number three don’t be afraid to fail
anything I’ve ever attempted I was
you can’t always win but don’t be afraid
of making decisions you can’t be
paralyzed that vo failure or you will
never push yourself you keep pushing
because you believe in yourself and in
your vision and you know that it’s the
right thing to do and success will come
so don’t be afraid to fail which brings
me to rule number four which is don’t
listen to the naysayers I mean how many
times have you hear that you can’t do
this you can’t do that it has never been
done before
so perfect I love it when someone says
that never no one has ever done this
before because they did I do it that
means that I’m the first will understand
it so pay no attention to the people who
I always listen to myself and said yes
you can
that brings me to rule number five which
is the most important rule of world of
all work your butt off now if I always
believe leaving no stone unturned
Muhammad Ali one of my great heroes in a
great line in the 70s when he was asked
how many sit-ups do you do he said I
don’t count less either tell me start
counting when it’s that’s burning
and they feel pain that’s when I start
counting because that’s when it really
counts that’s what makes you a champion
that’s the way it is with everything no
pain no gain but let me tell you it is
important to have fun in life of course
but when you’re out there partying
horsing around someone out there the
same time is working off someone is
getting smarter and someone is winning
just remember that but if you want to
win there’s absolutely no way around
hard hard girl
none of my rules by the way of
successful work unless you do
I’ve always figured out that there’s 24
hours a day you sleep six hours they
have 18 hours left
I know the some of you out there nonces
but wait a minute I sleep eight hours of
nine hours with it just sleep faster I
would recommend just remember you can’t
climb the ladder of success in your
hands in the pocket that they
experiments which is a very important
rule it’s about giving back
whatever path did you make in your lives
must always find time to give something
back something back the community give
something back
let me tell you something reaching out
people bring you more satisfaction than
the six fools
trust yourself break some rules don’t be
afraid to feel no what do they say is
the most important thing is that you
have a vision did you ever call because
without that vision and without that
core again you’re drifting around and
people don’t become successful just by
accident you know I mean maybe the guy
that found gold in California and
started the gold rush but don’t count on
that that’s a one-in-a-lifetime kind of
a situation so you got to really have a
specific order to me to have that vision
that I want to be mr. universe they
don’t want to be the greatest
bodybuilder of all time that was a great
vision and that specifically they look
like reg Park and to be up down that
stage and to lift the trophy overhead
and to win the championship over and
over and over again so that was a great
you have to have a corner it doesn’t
have to be that specific code but it has
there some coal this is why I always
recommend to people sit down take your
time it’s said thinking about why do you
what is your call and it can’t be as
crazy as this it could be you know I
want to press gross if that’s your call
it could be that you’re emulating a
certain you know body book or self a
football player certain box or whatever
it is half those pictures but all over
the wall like I did when I was a kid I
put pictures of bridge pocket of Sonny
Liston of the boxers and of Ali and the
power lifters and weight lifters all
over my bedroom in the wall so that
every day when I go to sleep every day
when they wake up and look at those
pictures and they motivate me you need
that motivation and then therefore you
have this kind of imprint in front of
you all the time and you know exactly
what you’re chasing this is why I always
smiled when it was in the gym people
always came up to mrs. why are you
smiling you’re working at five hours a
day you’re doing the same as the other
guys but the other guys have a sour face
they’re pissed off the death to do
another rep or another set or something
I looked forward to I looked forward to
another thousand seven reps of sit-ups I
looked forward to another 500 pounds of
of leg press o squad I looked forward to
in more and more curls until my arms
fall off why because I knew that every
rep that I did and every set that I did
and more weights that are lifted I get
one step closer to turning that vision
into reality so I was turned on by that
I was excited I couldn’t wait to get to
in a one of the things of you know
creating urgency he can go in a one way
or the other because like I remember
that when I weighed 245 pounds and Bob
Rafelson the director of stay hungry
said to me that I’m interested in having
you come in for reading and Brooklyn
you’re acting in orders because I’m
interested in having you in a movie to
start with the Jeff Bridges and Batali
fields I was delighted about that that
was excited that’s at the pumping of one
wall and then he said but I don’t wanted
to weigh more than 210 pounds so I said
I was at work that’s funny you come to
me if you want me to be in a movie but
I’m going to 45 to 46 I say I just want
the Olympia I say in 1919 74 and I was
really at my biggest and but he demanded
that this says look it’s very simple and
the day we start shooting this is I’m
gonna put you on the scale and if you
don’t make the to turn you out because I
have someone else in mind
and
I’ve worked on it a set of visualizing
myself very clearly as a lean outlet
because that’s the only way I could lose
that weight in the office and get
interested in running what because up
until the point of endlich’s females
after training or before training or
whatever but now all of a sudden it was
five miles six five seven knots eight
miles and they even went mini marathons
in order to lose the way they did every
single high reps that was watching my
diet for the eighth notice kind of
things and for the day the day before I
remember we went Birmingham Alabama the
day before was at the YMCA with Barbara
facin he was swimming and I was working
out in the bus run it was a factor that
was running he says let’s step on the
scale in a step on the scale and the way
209 so it just shows here what is
possible if you visualize exactly what
you want to look like so it can go one
way which is the Vig you can lose weight
and get trim and get slim and everything
get the apps outdoors or you go the
other way and you gain weight because
you see yourself big and you see
yourself as a win over mr. Olympia or
something like that so it can go either
way but in each case it was like certain
time limits were set and I had to
perform and there was no room for any
kind of like well I can get my act
together or anything oh yes because
there’s only a certain amount of time
but the key thing again is have the
clear vision have the specific core of
what you want to accomplish because then
you never go to the gym and you say the
day I feel down a little bit I don’t
know what it is all about in my life I’m
confused
no I tell you that I was a perfect
example of someone that was not
confident at all I mean when I was a kid
that was just like any other kid that I
had hang-ups and problems and orders but
when they joined the weightlifting Club
and I won my first little trophy because
they did the best clean jerk
and then women to another me then they
want another little trophy I started
feeling like somebody so and of course
not everyone is gonna have this kind of
a situation but the bottom line is
everyone can use the same method because
I used it in politics are used it in
making money I used it in everything
that I’ve done in the movie business
when you have one little victory little
victories add up and that is what gives
you then ultimately confidence well for
me the most important thing always to
have a deadline so when I for instance
had a competition and let’s say the
competition was in the middle of
September and it was now beginning of
summer so there was no more time to
screw around so there was the time now
to get the going on a diet to get going
with the training to not slack off at
all because it was a deadline there the
day of the competition I had to be in
the best shape possible and I knew that
if I come to the competition and then
lose because I did not schedule my
training the proper way or I didn’t have
the right frame of mind or I didn’t give
everything delivery broke my butt off I
will be just so angry so I never wanted
to be in that situation so this is why
it was very important to pick that time
and to say this is when I have to be in
top shape then the work towards that but
it’s not just with the competition I
mean they’re always the same in the
movie business
I mean to me was always a big advantage
when I said okay my movie starts on
April 1 and I have now three months so I
have to get really in great shape
so he picked those times he could also
be that there’s no movie and you have no
mr. Lampe are no mr. America no mr.
universe
appointee of those things but you say to
yourself the summer starts in June I’m
gonna go to the beach in June and at
that time I want to be in great shape so
that creates an urgency that makes you
really start to training hard and taking
seriously because if you don’t have a
specific plan then you wander around
them and you can have as I’ve told you
many times the best ship or the best
plane in the world but if you don’t have
a specific goal where you want to go and
when you want to get there you just
drift around and you never get anywhere
so this is why this is important to
create that urgency there was
when you need to be in shape whoa I mean
look everyone has a problem with time
but the day is 24 hours in his sleep 6 I
know there’s some out there that say a
Volvo I need a but I say just sleep a
little faster
because the bottom line is we have six
hours of sleep 20 files are available so
if 18 hours now available to your Brooke
family your hobbies and also to learn
something new or to do something new
which could easily be that you won’t
have to learn a new language
or that you want
newest resolution after me the book
every week or will you say I’m gonna
reshape my body so we’re gonna go and
take this hour out of your schedule say
I’m gonna train an hour every day so
this is for most people a huge challenge
but it is totally doable I can tell them
because the kind of things that I did
when I came to this country I mean I
went to school almost working on
construction I was working out at five
hours a day I was taking acting classes
from 8 o’clock at night to 12 midnight I
was doing all of those things I wanted
to make sure that out of the 24 hours of
the day that I don’t waste one single
hour those hours were too precious it’s
a dare just want to tell people don’t
give me this thing I have a difficult
time at the time and I don’t have time
for this now that you have time you make
don’t be afraid to fail because if
you’re afraid to fail then you’re always
holding yourself back because you’re
afraid that did you go all out you may
fail well in weightlifting we learned it
very quickly the only way you could break a record is if you willing to fail
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