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Motivation Requires Fire

We know when someone like an artist talks about inner fire, but have we ever felt something so intense?
My own life changed when I discovered that I could light a fire like that inside me.
The funniest thing is that fire requires fire to light.
This book has had great success since its first printing in 1996.

It is an exercise that consists of imagining yourself on your deathbed and expressing out loud conversations with people who come to visit you.
It can be a very emotional experience.
Afterwards, you have more clarity about the things that really matter to you.
After the experience, I decided not to leave things undone or words unsaid.
- I was able to say thank you to my mother. I was able to write letters and poems to my father.
Pretending there is no ending doesn't help. It's like pretending a game won't end. It is assuming that it will end that helps us do our best.

I was commissioned to spend a day with Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1976, when after his successful career as a bodybuilder he began to act in Hollywood.
During the meal, he calmly answered me that his plan was to become the number-one box-office star in all of Hollywood.
It didn't seem to me that he had the conditions for it and I asked him how he would do it.
He answered me that in the same way that he had succeeded as a bodybuilder: "What you do is create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true." I thought it was important to write it down.

"What you do is create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true."

Years later, I remember the moment when I heard that his second Terminator made him the highest-grossing star in Hollywood.
See how staying hungry to live your vision keeps you motivated.