Arnold Schwarzenegger hits the nail on the head - “so many of us are lost.” Unhealthy, unhappy, and feeling utterly useless.
As he puts it, in his book “Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life” Schwarzenegger says that 70% of people hate their jobs. Their relationships are unrewarding. They don't laugh or have any energy.
Why? Because we lack a clear vision for our lives. We've just taken whatever we could get or thought we deserved.
That's not because we have no choice. He says we always have a choice. The problem is, we lack that guiding picture of what we want our lives to be.
That's the secret to the "happiest and most successful people." They focus relentlessly on decisions that bring clarity and move them closer to their goals.
Whether you start broad and zoom in, or build outward from something small, the key is creating that compelling vision. Something to measure every choice against.
It's not easy. Our backgrounds and past struggles can make it feel like life just "happened" to us. But Schwarzenegger reminds us - we always have agency.
The choice to make our vision a reality? That's ours and ours alone.
He writes that “The only difference between them and us, between me and you, between any two people, is the clarity of the picture we have for our future, the strength of our plan to get there.”
I’m working on mine. How about you? What's your vision? And are you making choices to make it happen?
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On that note, I'm James Brown, and as always, be well.
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