I love watching documentaries and will almost watch anything about someone who is the very best at what they do.

Yesterday I rewatched “Pumping Iron” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and put down my glass of wine, got out my journal and wrote down this quote from the movie:

“If you want to be a champion, you cannot have any kind of an outside negative force coming in and affect you. Let’s say before a contest, if l get emotionally involved with a girl…that can have a negative effect on my mind…and therefore destroy my workout. So l have to cut my emotions off…and be kind of cold, in a way, before a competition. That’s what you do with the rest of the things. lf somebody steals my car outside of my door right now…l don’t care. l can’t be bothered with that. l would only have my secretary call the insurance agency and laugh about it. Because l cannot be bothered with it. l trained myself for that.”

How friggin’ true is that?

How many people actually have a mission or a goal so powerful that they can do that or are willing to do that?

On the day when I have to do I do a big presentation, I leave my phone in my hotel room. I can’t afford to get a negative text or hear or get a call from home about a problem. Hey, there’s nothing I can do about it at that moment, anyway. I need to have razor sharp focus.

Hearing Arnold’s sage advice reminded me that I need to get even better at it and work on it.

How about you, kemosabe?

Kick butt, make mucho DEEnero!

Dave “Pump You Up” Dee

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