A Master Plan...

Tom Venuto is a guy who helps people acheive their goals... in his specific domain, it is weight loss. But he has realised that goals don't get realised if they are not set in the first place.

This from his latest newsletter:

BURN THE FAT - Fat Burning Tips Newsletter Brought to you by Tom Venuto and www.burnthefat.com =============================================

Fat Burning Tips "Live" Weekly e-zine
January 24th, 2008

The Master Plan and the Original Secret

"I will come to America, which is the country for me.
Once here, I will become the greatest bodybuilder in history."

"While I am doing this I will learn perfect English and educate myself - but only with those things I need to know. I will get a college degree so I can get a business degree."

"Simultaneously I will make whatever money possible from bodybuilding and invest it in real estate where I will make the big money."

"I will go into the movies as an actor, producer and eventually director. By the time I am 30 I will have starred in my first movie and I will be a millionaire."

"I will collect houses, art and automobiles. I will see the world. Along the way, I will learn to impress people and I will hone my mind to outwit all of them."

"I will marry a glamorous and intelligent wife. By 32, I will have been invited to the white house..."

If you didn't figure it out yet, this list of achievements belongs to none other than the great American Success Story - Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Here's what's striking about this, and it's the reason I'm sharing it with you today.

It looks like this is a biographical sketch of a man so famous that his first name alone, like Oprah's, is a household word.

But this is not looking back at history...

This was looking forward to the future!

This was Arnold's list of goals which he created BEFORE any of these things happened... while he was an unkown body builder in a small town in Austria.

George Butler, a writer, photographer and film maker, and long time friend of Arnold, said that this vision of the future was was not a silly dream, it was a very calculated "Master Plan."

"As I remember," recalled Butler, "It was a campy mix of Nietzschean philosophy and a Soviet Five-year plan.
But before I dismissed it as one more weird thing we heard on a California beach (in the 1960's), we scratched our heads in awe because Arnold, as we could see with our own eyes, was actually beginning to make it work."

Arnold himself said,

"I had a master plan from the moment I arrived in America, that's still in me. Every year I set a goal. Every year I make a plan. I do it. It will be done."

What a testament to the power of goals! Arnold did not succeed by accident or luck.

No one does.

Success doesn't just happen to you.

You succeed in your own mind first and then you take action to turn it into reality."


Nicely said.