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A review by hollyplebeau
Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life by Arnold Schwarzenegger
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
I loved this and need a physical copy. There were so many good points I enjoyed hearing (a few are listed below). A lot of self help/motivation tend to all sound the same and yeah, are cheesy and cliche, but I felt like he really built off the cliches. I also love that he promoted vocational/trade schools and what he has done for youth fitness programs and Special Olympics.
•vision is purpose and meaning
•create small goals
•if you only shoot for the small goals, you may miss out. when you shoot big, you give yourself the opportunities for all the snall things
•have joy in what you do
•busyness is bullshit. if it matters to you, make the time
•you work a dream to come true, you don't whine it into existence
•how many hours do you think you waste every werk complaining about things that happen to you that are out of your control ? how much time do you spend worrying about things that might happen, that you couldn't possibly predict or prevent?
•give back, pay it forward
•vision is purpose and meaning
•create small goals
•if you only shoot for the small goals, you may miss out. when you shoot big, you give yourself the opportunities for all the snall things
•have joy in what you do
•busyness is bullshit. if it matters to you, make the time
•you work a dream to come true, you don't whine it into existence
•how many hours do you think you waste every werk complaining about things that happen to you that are out of your control ? how much time do you spend worrying about things that might happen, that you couldn't possibly predict or prevent?
•give back, pay it forward