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Live Limitless: Skills, Living, Mailing Mistake and Arnold Schwarzenegger!
read on LIFELETTER.RAAMANAND.COM | APRIL 9, 2022
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3 Big Ideas, Tips or Strategies for this week
1. Skills – There are so many skills you learnt that you are now extremely comfortable for you to do (driving, swimming, etc.). Once in a while, you need to assess all your skills, congratulate yourself on becoming comfortable in them, and then, most importantly, start acquiring new skills that you are NOT comfortable yet.
2. Thinking – “When making plans, think big. When making progress, think small.”.
Source: Atomic Habits
3. Living – Staying alive is just breathing or even hibernating. But living, is bringing all the colours, forces, and emotions together and creating meaning every day. Breathe to stay alive and LIVE to become limitless.
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2 Stories, Quotes, or Case-Studies for this week
1. If you can see it, you can be it.
In the ‘70s, Arnold Schwarzenegger had reached the peak of his bodybuilding career and then decided to retire. Back then he was not as famous as now.
In 1976, a journalist asked him: “Now that you have retired from the bodybuilding scene, what do you plan to do next?” Schwarzenegger smiled at him and calmly replied: “I’m going to be a movie star in Hollywood.”
The report was surprised and rather amused by Schwarzenegger’s plans. He couldn’t imagine how this huge body builder with his poor English and his Austrian accent could hope to a Hollywood movie star. “And how do you plan to make this dream come true”? the reporter asked. “The same way I became the most famous body builder in the world. I will create a vision of who I want to be, and then I will start living like that person in my mind as if it were already true.”
Sounds simplistic and childish, right? Well, it worked for Arnold!
At first all of the agencies rejected him because of his over-sized body and his accent. Let alone, that his surname was impossible for an American to pronounce. But in the end, Schwarzenegger reached his goal and became one of the most famous and highest paid movie stars in Hollywood! And after that, his next goal, a political career, was also accomplished when he was elected Governor of California.
Just to know, Arnold’s family wasn’t supportive at first. They wanted him to be a police officer like his father, or play a “normal” sport like soccer instead of pursuing a bodybuilding career. Arnold had to go against what others wanted for him so that he could discover his own path of success. Remember: “If you can see it, you can be it.”
2. A fortunate mailing mistake!
A company hired a marketing consultant to help with a small postal mailing to the purchasing departments of hundreds of big corporations.
The consultant drafted the letter and sourced the list in a spreadsheet. Thereafter, the marketing department of the company carried on the project.
One month later, the marketing consultant found out that a trainee working in the company’s marketing department had changed the order of the rows in the spreadsheet, by sorting only the company name column and not all the columns together.
As a result, every letter (about 500) was sent to the wrong address, at the headquarters of another corporation. Interestingly, the marketing department reported a particularly high response.
They investigated the matter and found out that this mailing mistake was the cause.
An unusually high percentage of the sales letters were opened and read, apparently due to the irresistible temptation of reading another company’s mail!
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1 Critical Question to Ask Yourself
“How long will you put off what you are capable of doing just to continue what you are comfortable doing?”
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Raam Anand
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