I went to college, I went and worked out five hours a day.
And I was working in construction, because in those days in body-build, there was no money.
I didn't have the money for food supplements or anything.
So I had to go to work.
So I worked in construction, I went to college and worked out in a gym.
And at night from 8 o'clock at night to 12 midnight.
I went to acting class four times a week.
I did all that.
There was not one single minute that I wasted.
And this is why I standing here today.
With 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.
You see, if you don't have a vision of where you go, and you don't have a goal where you go,
you drift around and you never end up anywhere.
74% of people hate their job in America.
The majority of people don't like what they're doing,
because they're not doing it, because they didn't have a goal and then followed this goal.
They're just aimlessly drift around and there's a job opening,
so they get their job because they need to work.
But then when you work, it's a chore.
It's work.
It's not fun.
So if you think about it, only a quarter of people really enjoy what they're doing in life.
So people always ask me,
when them saw me in the gym in the pumping iron days,
they say why is it that you're working out so hard, five hours a day six hours a day,
and you also have always a smile on your face?
The others are working out just as hard as hard as you do look sour in the face, why is that?
I told people all the time, because to me, I am shooting for a goal.
In front of me is the Mr.Universe title.
So, every rep that I do gets me close to accomplishing the goal.
To make this goal this vision turning into reality.
Every single set that I do, every repetition of weight that I lift,
will get me a step close to turning this goal into a 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 sit-ups;
I couldn't wait for the next exercise.
So let me tell you something. Visualizing your goal and going after it makes it fun.
You got to have a purpose no matter what you do in life,
You got to have a purpose.
Muhammad Ali worked his butt off.
And I saw it first-hand.
I remember that there was a sports writer in the gym.
When Ali was working out doing sit-ups, he asked Ali:" How many sit-ups do you do"?
And he said:" I don't start counting until it hurts.
Now think about that he doesn't start counting his sit-ups until he feels pain.
That's when he starts counting.
That's working hard.
So you can't get around the hard work, it doesn't matter who it is.
Work your ass off.
There is no magic pill.
There is no magic out there.
You can not get around. You have to work and work to make sure this, to make sure that.
It's all hard work.
It's drives me crazy when people say they don't have enough time to go to the gym for 45 minutes
a day and workout, or to do something for 45 minutes to an hour a day to improve either physically
improve or mentally improve. Imagine you read 1 hour a day about history, How much would you learn
after 365 hours in one year.
Thinking about if you study about the history of musicians, of composers, how much you would know.
Imagine if you worked on some business you wanted to develop, every day for an hour.
Imagine how further along you'd go and get.
So it drives me nuts because the people say, "We don't have the time".
You have 24 hours a day.
We sleep 6 hours a day, so it still gives you 18 hours.
There's people shaking their heads out there in front saying probably
" I don't sleep 6 hours. I sleep 8 hours". Well, just sleep fast.
So we have 18 hours a day.
The average person works around 8 to 10 hours.
So let's assume it's 10 hours so we have 8 hours left.
Then you travel around an hour a day, maybe 2 hours a day, so now you still have 6 hours left.
So what do you do with these 6 hours?
To eat a little bit, schmooze a little bit, talk a little bit to people.
You can see how much time is available?
If you organize your day, so you got to work hard.
I hate Plan B, and I'll tell you why.