Pain is temporary Legacies are lasting
On Donald Trump's show Apprentice tonight, Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger talked about the principles underlying how he overcame obstacles to get to become the Governor from a mere immigrant to the US. He started with his dream of becoming movie star.
Limiting Belief: Yet people said "you CAN'T do that", "look at your accent, you would never make it", "your name, how can some Schnitzel be an actor's name". The criticisms from outside and for some of us, the criticisms from within (which I called "limiting beliefs within and without) had held most of people prisoner including some of us who are reading this right now. But those who ended successfully invariably perserve ("persist until you succeed") and overcome them. Nobel Physicist Richard Feynman even wrote a book called "what do you care what other people think" to encourage us not be "ensnared" by other's limiting belief. Breaking limiting beliefs would be a repeating theme here because that's also what my life is about.
Burning Desire: Arnold also talked about being "hungry" as being a critical factor - just like Napolean talking about the "burning desire" in "Think and Grow Rich". Else where my audiences will find I often talk about the importance of finding who we are, our purpose in life, and our calling. This is important for many reasons but in Arnold's context particularly so because inevitably there problems will surface that needs to be resolved especially when you came from nothing to something, from being limited to being free, from being a nobody to somebody, and being unknown to be a success. He had to endured the rejection, the ridiculed, and perhaps, countless incidents of living poorly and working odd jobs, facing failures, etc.
Pain: Often then pains became unavoidable process of the journey to success. However, many people feared pains so much, they avoided choosing to became the possibilities they could instead they hide inside their comfort zone - never amounting to who they were designed for in life. Still other people did think big and did take a chance, but at the first sign or first occurrence of pain, they gave up too easily and too soon. Being hungry, what Arnold was implying was that this was one way that would have no choice but to go ahead between a pain and worst pain. That surely can work. In fact, in "Art of War", the ancient philosopher and strategist Sun Tzu mentioned the strategy of burning the boat letting the soldiers know there's no return and to motivate the army to be hungry and fight through the pain of fear of death because going forward would be the only way to survive. Are you hungry?
Sidebar: Choice vs. Programming. Tony Robbin said elsewhere humans were driven by "Pain and Pleasure" - specifically, we attempt to Avoid Pain and Seek Pleasure. There's certainly truth to that yet we were also given free will and have choices. Otherwise, we are no different than Pavlov's dog.
Thus, to me what was more inspiring was the title of this post. He gave an example of experiencing sharp pain while filming "Conan the Barbarian" but instead of asking to postpone or giving up and accepting a mediocre shot, he decided to endure the pain and get another take so they had the shot they want. Here is the gist of his philosophy: "pain is temporary; however, the film is permanent". By enduring one moment of pain, he created a lasting impact. A-ha!
So how is this relevant to us? Is there one phone call or conversation with someone we should be making that would cause us a pain but could create a long lasting impact in you or some one's life? Is there an apology we should make but it would be painful to your pride? Is there a voice that needs to be heard and spoken, that the pain of embarrassment has prevented that being spoken out about. Let's make it happen with positive attitude and armor of this view to protect us from the arrows we will be shot. Would you take this thought as an armor so we can walk in victory when faced with fear of pain?
"Pain is temporary. Legacies are lasting."
Limiting Belief: Yet people said "you CAN'T do that", "look at your accent, you would never make it", "your name, how can some Schnitzel be an actor's name". The criticisms from outside and for some of us, the criticisms from within (which I called "limiting beliefs within and without) had held most of people prisoner including some of us who are reading this right now. But those who ended successfully invariably perserve ("persist until you succeed") and overcome them. Nobel Physicist Richard Feynman even wrote a book called "what do you care what other people think" to encourage us not be "ensnared" by other's limiting belief. Breaking limiting beliefs would be a repeating theme here because that's also what my life is about.
Burning Desire: Arnold also talked about being "hungry" as being a critical factor - just like Napolean talking about the "burning desire" in "Think and Grow Rich". Else where my audiences will find I often talk about the importance of finding who we are, our purpose in life, and our calling. This is important for many reasons but in Arnold's context particularly so because inevitably there problems will surface that needs to be resolved especially when you came from nothing to something, from being limited to being free, from being a nobody to somebody, and being unknown to be a success. He had to endured the rejection, the ridiculed, and perhaps, countless incidents of living poorly and working odd jobs, facing failures, etc.
Pain: Often then pains became unavoidable process of the journey to success. However, many people feared pains so much, they avoided choosing to became the possibilities they could instead they hide inside their comfort zone - never amounting to who they were designed for in life. Still other people did think big and did take a chance, but at the first sign or first occurrence of pain, they gave up too easily and too soon. Being hungry, what Arnold was implying was that this was one way that would have no choice but to go ahead between a pain and worst pain. That surely can work. In fact, in "Art of War", the ancient philosopher and strategist Sun Tzu mentioned the strategy of burning the boat letting the soldiers know there's no return and to motivate the army to be hungry and fight through the pain of fear of death because going forward would be the only way to survive. Are you hungry?
Sidebar: Choice vs. Programming. Tony Robbin said elsewhere humans were driven by "Pain and Pleasure" - specifically, we attempt to Avoid Pain and Seek Pleasure. There's certainly truth to that yet we were also given free will and have choices. Otherwise, we are no different than Pavlov's dog.
Thus, to me what was more inspiring was the title of this post. He gave an example of experiencing sharp pain while filming "Conan the Barbarian" but instead of asking to postpone or giving up and accepting a mediocre shot, he decided to endure the pain and get another take so they had the shot they want. Here is the gist of his philosophy: "pain is temporary; however, the film is permanent". By enduring one moment of pain, he created a lasting impact. A-ha!
So how is this relevant to us? Is there one phone call or conversation with someone we should be making that would cause us a pain but could create a long lasting impact in you or some one's life? Is there an apology we should make but it would be painful to your pride? Is there a voice that needs to be heard and spoken, that the pain of embarrassment has prevented that being spoken out about. Let's make it happen with positive attitude and armor of this view to protect us from the arrows we will be shot. Would you take this thought as an armor so we can walk in victory when faced with fear of pain?
"Pain is temporary. Legacies are lasting."
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