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Visualize Success

  
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“I made a picture in my mind of who I wanted to be, and then I lived into that picture.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

Every person who has tried or read about body building, has probably already heard that quote. Some of the most successful people in the world became that way because they were able to visualize their success and were not afraid of doing hard work to get there. They knew that they could achieve their goals if they set their mind to it.

Unfortunately, investors tend to be the self-defeating type – they search for easy answers, easy stock picks, and they don’t visualize success in a way that makes their trading and investing truly rewarding. They are also quick to blame others or search for the easy road. That’s why you have hundreds of very expensive investment newsletters and advisories, thousands of mutual funds, and trading systems that are sold to investors even though over the long term none of them manage to beat the major market averages.

The lesson that Arnold offers is an important one – you have to visualize success and do the hard work it takes to get there. There are no compromises or short-cuts to that destination. This is especially true when investing as well as anything you try to achieve in life.

You Never Know When You Will Drop Dead

  
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Arnold Schwarzenegger used to always say — Schwarzenegger, love him, hate him, I don’t necessarily have a feeling one way or the other, but he used to always say that a good pump in his weight-lifting world was as good as sex. I’d say hitting a home run is right there. The point is, getting to the point where you have got it on the line, you’re making something happen, you don’t give a shit what your neighbors think of you. You don’t give a shit what your family thinks of you. You’re just gonna take on the world. That’s it. That’s the goal. You live one time, one time and it’s over. If you go through life scared, if you go through life following the plan that your father told you to do, that your mother told you to do, or some other nonsense society told you to do: you need to get a steady job, you need a college degree, then you get a steady job, yada, yada, yada. Guess what, you’ll be 60, by the time you know it you’ll be 70, maybe you’ll be dead soon.

Stop waiting for the perfect opportunity to start living the way you want to live. 

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