A huge part of your success, in becoming a future
millionaire will be your ability to Separate the Real World from Arnold’s
World.
HOW I CAME ACROSS ARNOLD’S WORLD
Arnold’s World is a place that I have just recently
entered. A reader of this blog Deuce
Carter has a Tumbler site with some interesting motivational pictures.
One of them is the Screen saver below of Arnold
Schwarzenegger. Despite his recent
issues – here is a man that has conquered everything he’s ever tried. Physically, mentally and politically. A man who barely spoke English ended up being
the Governor of this country’s largest State.
In Arnold’s World physical & mental perfection along with financial
freedom were mandatory. Once I removed
my computer background and replaced it with Arnold – I conceptually entered
Arnold’s World.
In order to stay motivated, you must separate Arnold’s World
from the Real World.
Living in – Arnold’s
World
If you are doing what it takes to push yourself to the next
level, you should feel special, but unfortunately that “specialness” won’t
translate to the real world until you have reached real world success. Confused?
In the Arnold World people are rated on a different
scale. People are rated on their ability
to push themselves to the limit in all aspects of their lives. In Arnold’s World, when a person gets home
from their 9 to 5, they are expected to further their education, take care of
themselves physically and strive for financial Freedom. Those are the expectations. In fact, that should be the criteria for
reading this blog.
Let’s list those again shall we: AWE (Arnold’s World
Expectations)
1.
Further their education
By no means does this mean grad
school, college etc. This could mean
learning about your business, reading forums, magazines, anything that will
make you better at whatever you will end up doing for your financial
freedom. Learning about your craft.
2.
Take Care of yourself physically
This doesn’t mean hitting the gym
every day, but it does mean doing some physical activity a few times a week,
and eating healthy. A healthy body goes
hand in hand with a healthy mind.
3.
The Strive for financial freedom.
Basically working to be a future
millionaire. That’s why we are here
right? Google the term “Future
Millionaire”? Guess who comes up in the number two spot in the search
results???
If you are here, you are at the right place because
there is no place on the internet where the struggle is understood better then
here. Period.
You can remember the three expectations by simply keeping in
mind: Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
HOW DOES ARNOLD’S WORLD COMPARE TO THE REAL WORLD?
To be great in the Arnold World you are doing items 1 thru 3 to the best of your ability, until you reach success. Constant effort over time! Now let’s compare yourself to your fat, out of shape co worker. You and him are in the little kitchenette area at work – you know that annoying little place with the microwave and toaster oven, and over packed refrigerator with everyone’s labeled lunch bags. You are there heating up vegetables and chicken and your co-worker is heating up a left over cheesesteak and fries.
When he went home last night, he
watched 4 hours of TV, ordered 2 cheesesteaks from the delivery joint down the
street, talked on the phone to his buddy about the weekend for an hour and then
played Star Wars Old Republic for 3 hours and then crashed for the night.
When you got home last night, you
hit the gym, showered, cooked dinner for yourself and made lunch for
today. Then you started working on your
main project until about 10:00. Then you
attended a Webinar for an hour, and then Skyped with your programmers in India
until 2:00 AM.
In Arnold’s World – you are like the Mayor! You are revered because you are able to stay
focused, eat right, hit the gym and survive on almost no sleep. Your co-worker is seen as a lazy piece of
crap. He’s the equivalent to someone who
is unemployed, on welfare and refuses to even look for a job, because welfare
is covering his bills. He’s everything
that you Arnold’s World hates!
If you translate that into the real world – You and your
co-worker are even. Huh? Doesn’t sound fair does it. Although you accomplished a lot last night,
you are not earning money with your projects.
In fact you are losing money because you are investing in time and
resources. Your co-worker is shoving
money without thinking in his 401 K. He
drives a better car then you, and hangs
out after work with the rest of your co-workers so in fact, his status is
higher than yours.
That is your challenge.
Day in and day out, you have to accept that in society, until your bank
account has grown to the KMAM (Kiss My ASS Mark), you are on par or less than
that of the guy who does the same job as you do at work. It’s a hard pill to swallow, but it’s also
why you know that you need to be doing
more. Let that thought fuel you to
push yourself to succeed. If you quit it will all be for nothing, You
won’t fail unless you quit.
DANGER ZONE
Being able to separate the worlds are key. You are no better of a person because you are
in Arnold’s World. Everyone doesn’t want
the same things as you do. It doesn’t
make you better than them, and they don’t deserve less respect. It’s a choice. Because your mom doesn’t go to the gym,
doesn’t mean you don’t respect her less.
We live in the Real World and everyone deserves respect until they
un-earn it. (But in Arnold’s world, YOU
ARE BETTER THEN THEM).
If you are reading this and don’t have a “project” – GET
ONE!
Like the great Jim Rohn says,
If you don't design your own life plan,
chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have
planned for you? Not much
