![]() ![]() They will tell you that failure isn’t the end. Everyone who has accomplished something they’re proud of, who we admire as a society, will tell you that they learned more from their failures than from their successes. ![]() But all positive talk about failure has become a cliché at this point, because we all know it’s the truth. And this is for anyone out there who has ever experienced failure, which is every single one of us: failure is not fatal. ![]() He stayed with me for a month, we worked out at Gold’s together every day, he showed me the exercises he did to get completely shredded, and then he never beat me again. To his credit, he accepted my invitation. So once I got settled in my new apartment in Santa Monica, I invited Frank to come stay with me so we could train together and he could show me a thing or two. If I wanted to be the best, I had to figure out what that was and start doing it myself. I was bigger than them, and I had better symmetry, but they were doing something I wasn’t doing that was allowing them to get very cut. This was true not just in comparison to Frank, but in comparison to almost all the American guys I was working out with. It was only after working out with the guys at Gold’s over the next few weeks that I was finally able to see the difference between Frank and me, and to admit that he’d won fair and square. The next morning at breakfast, Joe Weider invited me to come out to Los Angeles. ![]() The loss was too painful for me to look in the mirror and admit that maybe I hadn’t done enough to win, that it was my fault. Traveling from London and eating crappy food in the airport days before had affected my body and training negatively. The judges were biased toward Frank, who was an American. I blamed everyone and everything else for my loss. And for what? For second place to a guy who was smaller than me? I was away from my parents, I was away from my friends, I didn’t speak the language, I didn’t know anyone in Miami. I questioned what I was even doing coming to America. It felt like the world had come crashing down on me. I cried in my hotel room all night afterward. When I lost to Frank Zane in 1968, I was despondent and inconsolable. I don’t say this with any judgment I’ve been there. But then there are the others, who want to complain that life is unfair because this thing they wanted so badly didn’t happen exactly when they wanted it to, and it hurts too much to think about the possibility that maybe they didn’t do enough of the work to achieve their desired outcome. They’re just a little scared, or maybe a little desperate, and they need some encouragement to get back on track. Often, that’s all the advice people need. My answer to them is simple: Learn from your mistakes and then say, “I’ll be back.” + Larger Sizes – Clear poly bag, Styrofoam protected corners and boxed.PEOPLE COME UP to me all the time and say, “Arnold, I didn’t hit the goal I set for myself, what should I do?” Or they say, “Arnold, I asked out my crush and they said no.” Or “I failed this week to get the promotion I wanted, what do I do now?” + Smaller Sizes – Clear poly bag, thin corrugated cardboard to protect corners and boxed. Materials: Artist-grade poly-cotton blend canvasĬare: UV coating is scratch-resistant. Materials: Versatile and affordable poster delivers sharp, clean images with stunning color and vibrancy. Custom Canvas Personalized Prints, Canvas Wall Art, Wall Decor. Canvas and Posters are much suitable for those who like to decorate their homes or to collect. Canvas and Posters have many different sizes. Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Meaning Of Life Is Not Simply To Exist, To Survive But To Move Ahead To Go Up To Achieve To Conquer This Canvas is for lovers like Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Meaning Of Life, Is Not Simply To Exist, To Survive, But To Move Ahead, To Go Up, To Achieve, To Conquer. ![]()
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