Why You Shouldn’t Sign Phone Contracts (and What To Do Instead)
You shouldn’t sign a phone contract because signing a phone contract is the act of giving all your power away. When you sign a phone contract you become a slave to the phone company and to the monthly bill you are forced to pay every single month.
Clever phone companies will give you a “free” phone or a heavily discounted phone if you sign a one or two year contract with them. That contract means you must pay them a monthly fee the time of the contract, if you wish to cancel the contract you must pay a large fee - often as much as you still owe on the contract. You may upgrade your phone at specific intervals as long as you expand your contract another year or two. At any one time a person could owe two years on a monthly phone contract.
Why would people sign such a contract? For a discounted phone. You will sign one to two years of monthly payments for a cheaper or free phone that is locked. “Locked” means that the phone will only work with the specific phone company you have decided upon. You won’t be able to take the phone to a different service provider until you have unlocked it.
When you sign a contract with a phone company you do not have a leg to stand on. When they mess up your plan or your bill or you get poor customer service what will you do? You will do nothing because you stupidly signed a contract. They can do anything they want and they know full well you cannot go anywhere with either paying them the remainder of the contract or messing up your credit in the process.
When you do not have a contract with a phone company you may demand perks and privileges and they will likely give them to you because they do not want to lose your business. Without a contract you can cancel your service at any time when a better deal comes along. Without a contract you as the consumer have the power.
When you sign a contract you stupidly give the phone company all of your power. “Here you go sir, here’s my power! Thanks for the cheaper phone!”
What to do instead of signing a phone contract:
Step 1: Purchase your own unlocked cell phone. An unlocked cell phone is a phone that can be activated with service by any major carrier.
New cell phones sold by phone companies are priced very high as a deterrant to you purchasing one outright, they want you to sign a contract because that’s where the real money is. To get you to sign a contract they price their phones too high for the average Joe or Jane to afford.
There is a simple solution: Purchase an unlocked cell phone online at a discount. You may even purchase a used or refurbished cell phone at a hefty discount.
Step 2: Pick the best provider and set up monthly service and do not sign a contract.
When you find a better monthly contract you may switch any time you wish.
For the truly Spartan reader:
You can pick up cheap cell phones with pre-paid minutes at phone companies, gas stations or online
. You may use these cell phones as you would use any other cell phone. When the minutes run out you simply purchase more minutes. This way you never, ever pay a standard monthly fee. You only pay as you use minutes. If you don’t use the phone as frequently as the digital media obsessed phonesters you can save a lot of money this way.
Phone of choice for BOLD & DETERMINED:
For the businessman nothing beats the Blackberry.
A Blackberry is nice for a businessman, anyone who must use the phone a lot, and anyone who must use e-mail frequently. One cannot make money in this day and age without using e-mail and phone calls. The Blackberry simplifies all of that. E-mails come directly to your palm in real time and are sent back out just as fast.
The blackberry can also be used for it’s navigation, web browsing, calender, and notepad.
Most blackberry’s have a real keyboard with buttons you can actually push, which eliminates the frustration of touch screen phones.
Is a Blackberry necessary? No. Is it helpful? Absolutely.
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How to Get Over a Breakup
The period after breaking up with a girlfriend can be a lonesome time full of doubt, fear, regret and pain. In this article we will learn how to get over a breakup the easiest, most painless way possible. This article will not review how to get over a divorce, but how to get over a breakup with a girlfriend with whom you do not share children.
For purposes of this post we will assume the girl in the relationship broke up with the guy. We can assume this for two reasons: 1) Most breakups are initiated by the female and 2) A male would not be reading about how to get over a breakup if her were not the heartbroken party.
10 steps to getting over a breakup:
1) Understand that you are still in love with her simply because you can’t have her. If she all of a sudden became extremely needy she would cease to be so attractive. Men are in love with women they cannot have and women are in love with men they cannot have. If they could have them, that person would cease to be as attractive.
2) There are plenty of fish in the sea. There are over 3 billion women in the world and the median age for women world-wide is 29 years old. That means there are millions of dateable women in the world. There are literally millions of women as good, or better, than her. There are prettier women, there are sexier women, there are smarter women, there are younger women - anything you can think of there are millions more. To be obsessed with one in a sea of millions is lunacy. All her “great” qualities were something you made up in your mind. The truth is that women will change to please you in any way you desire. Women are chameleons in love and your hobbies and interests will become her hobbies and interests. A better woman can always be found.
3) She is not your soul-mate, your true love, the one or anything else. She’s just a girl you dated for a while. Soul mates and true love is an invention of the movies and sold to the gullible masses. If she was your soul-mate or your true love you would still be with her and everything would be roses. If such a thing as soul-mates existed then you would have never broken up. If true-love existed then she would still be with you. It isn’t true love you have, it’s true infatuation because she played you really well. If the girl actually was perfect for you then you would not have broken up.
4) Realize that when another girl comes along you will forget all about the old one. The way you get over your dogs death is you mourn for a while and then you go to the puppy pound and pick up a new dog. Similarly, the way you truly get over a woman is to get another one.
5) Do not watch sappy movies or listen to sad music. The media you imbibe affects your mood, positively or negatively. Rather than consume media that makes you sad, you should consume media that uplifts you and motivates you for the future. Don’t feed that heartbreak fire with heartbreak songs, movies and books.
6) Realize that you dodged a bullet by breaking up. Since it could not last, could never last, it’s best that it’s overwith now instead of in the future when much more could be at stake i.e. children, alimony, divorce, child support etc. A little heartache is a whole lot better than being bled dry from an unhappy ex-wife.
7) Realize that you will just be sad and lonesome for a little while and accept it. You wouldn’t be human if you had no emotions. So maybe you’ll spend a week listening to sad music and drinking too much whiskey. Just don’t let it become habit. Get it out, get it overwith and move on.
8) You can learn from your mistakes and be a better companion for your future women.That doesn’t mean you should pay more attention or buy more gifts, you shouldn’t. You should act in a similar aloof manner in which “the one” acted which caused you so much heartache and pain. If you want your woman to be head over heels in love with you you simply cannot be too available to her. That doesn’t mean you must be rude or mean, but it does mean you cannot be too nice or too eager to please. Never spill your guts and always let her wonder about you. Conventional wisdom says otherwise but conventional wisdom leads to divorce from “unhappy” wives who didn’t have the mystery they craved. Your woman must look up to you in some way to maintain her feelings of love for you. When you maintain that aloofness she is drawn to your power, the power she craves for you to have but will never admit.
9) Never, ever take advice from women on how to get women. They will lie unknowingly and tell you to be nice and be yourself and buy gifts, knowing full well that they despise the losers who do such things. Similarly, do not take advice from internet “pick up artists” hellbent on sexual degeneracy. The best person to take advice from is a guy who continually has pretty girlfriends who dote on him.
10) Realize that a lot of modern women will never be happy with any man as long as they live. The reality is that modern woman has been spoonfed completely unrealistic romance movies her entire life and she believes in them as much as she believes in anything. She believes she deserves everything she sees on tv. She will always think that her perfect man, her soul-mate, her white knight in shining armor is out there somewhere. Absolutely nothing a man can do will please such women forever. These women will die alone and will never, ever understand where they went wrong until it’s too late. These are the women whom you cannot please no matter what. If you’re dating such a woman you should let her go immediately and find a better companion. Don’t fall for the “saving her” baloney. She isn’t a damsel in distress and she is beyond redemption. Such cases will only end with you with your head in your hands wondering “why?”.
Getting over a breakup is easy when you think about it in a logical way and don’t let blind emotion run you over. The old adages are very true: there are plenty of fish in the sea, you are better off etc.. There is light at the end of your tunnel, whereas if you stayed on board with this woman there would only be darkness waiting for you. The right choice has been made for you, whether you want to believe it or not. Dust yourself off and find yourself a better option. There are millions to choose from.
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If you want women to become obsessed with you read this article, but heed this warning: when a women is obsessed with you you will lose your desire for her. For you to be truly attracted and want her she must make you chase her a little. She cannot be too available at first because the chase is an important part of “falling in love”.
Bonus #11) You can use the breakup as fuel for a great workout. There is no time a man will hit the weights harder than after a breakup. Especially when she starts dating again. Instead of letting that baloney eat you up let if fuel your fire.
How To Stop Being Lazy : 8 Easy Steps To Overcome Laziness
Laziness is a nasty little affliction that afflicts everyone from time to time. Everyone wonders to themselves from time to time “How can I stop being so lazy?“. Overcoming laziness, or the ability to do things that we do not want to do, is a crucial part of gaining success. Things simply have to get done and we have to do them or make sure they are done. When we come to terms with this fact, that we will have to do unpleasant tasks to become successful, it makes it a whole lot easier to just ‘buckle down’ and do the tasks we know we will have to do at some point anyway.
Success is the result of a few big tasks done and accomplished and a whole bunch of miniscule tasks done and accomplished. Today we are going to focus on how to get all those small tasks done that we just don’t have the desire to do. Lazy people let the small tasks go unfinished for far too long. Successful people make sure those small tasks get done as quick, painless and efficiently as possible. Here is successful people overcame laziness.
How to Stop Being Lazy in 8 Easy Steps
1) Get organized - The most important aspect of overcoming laziness is getting organized. So many times we want to do something productive but the clutter and the junk makes it seem impossible to get anything done and entices us to not even start our task. A nice, clean and organized work space just invites us to do some work and be productive. A cluttered and trashed work space invites us to stay on the couch. Set aside a few hours to devote to organizing work stations - everything from your desk to your computer files to your favorites links on your web browser. Make everything as easy, seamless and efficient to find as possible.
2) Make a ‘to-do’ list every evening before bed - It is imperative to write down our goals so we can visualize exactly what needs to be done. Every single night make a ‘to-do’ list on a notebook or in microsft word and add 5-10 things that must be accomplished the next day. From small tasks like going to the bank to big tasks like finishing up gigantic projects. Everything that needs to be done needs to go on the ‘to-do’ list. No task is too big or too little for the ‘to-do’ list.
3) Complete your ‘to-do’ list first thing in the morning - We all know that feeling of dread, of impending doom, when we know we have to do something but we don’t want to do it. So we put it off and put it off and it just keeps eating at us, making it harder to do the task but still eating us up inside. The only way to get rid of that feeling is to do unpleasant tasks very first thing in the morning and get them overwith. Do all tasks in the morning, starting with the hardest task and ending with the easiest task. After you have completed all your tasks for the day first thing in the morning you have your whole day free knowing you have taken care of business already.
4) Dress the part - A huge factor contributing to laziness is slothful or lazy dress. Wearing a pair of shorts and sandals does not make someone feel like working. On the other hand, wearing a nice button up shirt and a tie does make us feel productive. It makes you want to get stuff done. Every single day you should dress like you are going to an important, high dollar meeting - even if you work from home, even if your company has a casual dress policy, even if you are feeling lazy and don’t want to dress the part. You’ve got to dress for success because it gives you a successful, productive mindset. Always present the best you that is possible.
5) Be hyper-aware of the time - Starting and finishing our ‘to-do’ list at the exact same time every morning is imperative. It’s called habit and routine and it’s what separate the lazy from the productive. When you have a routine and habit it is easy to get stuff done everyday. Having no routine it makes it very hard accomplish anything. Start a routine, set specific times to start and accomplish your goals every single day and always be aware of the time. You never want your allotted end-time to come without finishing what you have started. Watching the clock forces you to work harder and faster to get everything done. We want a definite start time and a definite finish time to complete our ‘to-d0′ list every morning.
6) Keep a notebook - Keeping a notebook on you is highly beneficial. One of the reasons is that ideas often come to us when we are driving down the street, walking down the road, sitting in a train or other places where we aren’t prepared to act on the ideas. Keeping a notebook will let you jot down these ideas, upcoming ‘to-do’ tasks and we can review our notebook each evening when completing our nightly ‘to-do’ list.
7) Have a lazy Sunday - Being productive all week is a great feeling. After being productive it’s ok to take one lazy day per week, and there is no better lazy day than Sunday. The business that matter aren’t open on Sundays, most people don’t take phonecalls or respond to e-mails on Sundays, and taking a lazy Sunday will let you rest and prepare for the most important day of the week - Monday.
8) Have someone else do the unpleasant tasks - Laziness is really just not doing things you don’t want to do. Like calling customer service, or going to the post office and mailing a letter, or balancing the books, or calling back clients, or going to the bank, or calling the airline to change a departure. When we want to do something nothing can stop us, when we don’t want to do something the littlest snag can stop us. Having a personal assistant, co-worker, secretary, wife, girlfriend, or virtual assistant to do these things for us keeps us fresh for the real tasks that we need to accomplish. It’s the 80/20 rule: 20% of the things we do are the most important and matter the most and we enjoy doing them. 80% of the tasks we have to do are minutia that we don’t like doing but have to be done. If someone else can do it - let them!
How to Stop Being Lazy - Things to Remember
Organization is the very first step to overcoming laziness. When we’ve taken the time to get organized, which is usually the hard part, it’s very easy to get things done with speed and fluidity thereafter.
Do the unpleasant tasks very first thing in the morning - That includes everything from going to the gym, to logging on to all your online accounts and changing your address, to finishing up the big project.
A ‘to-do’ list is extremely important because it lets you visualize what needs to be done. Visualization is a key to success.
Dress for accomplishment because it gives you an accomplishment mindset. Wear nice clothing that A) makes you feel like being productive and B) makes other people think you are productive. You should here “Whoa, looking good Mr. Fancy Pants!” very frequently.
The current time is your friend. Always be aware of the time and what you need to be doing at that very time - even if it’s time for relaxation.
Enjoy a lazy Sunday - but don’t let the laziness carry over to Monday. Monday is business time. Monday morning you should always hit the ground running full speed - and don’t stop ’til it’s Saturday night.
10 Reasons to Study and Train Mixed Martial Arts (MMA); and How to Start Your Own Fight Club
Knowing how to fight is essential. Martial arts are sports, like any other, with rules, regulations, restraint and discipline. All Martial Arts are great to train but they do not teach you how to fight.
- Boxing teaches you how to throw a mean punch, but if the fight goes to the ground the boxer is done for.
- Thai Kickboxing shows you how to kick the hell out of someone, but if the fight goes to the ground the Thai Kickboxer is done for.
- Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu teaches you how to subdue someone on the ground with an armbar or a choke, but it doesn’t teach stand-up fighting or punching.
- Jeet Kune Do teaches you how to condition your body and mind but it doesn’t teach you how to break free of a headlock.
- Wrestling will build immense strength but has too many rules to ever win a fight.
Put all the Martial Arts training styles together and you have: MIXED MARTIAL ARTS. Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) combine all the styles of martial arts training into one package: learning how to fight.
Here are 10 Reasons to Study and Train Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
1) Training Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) will build confidence in you. When you know how to fight your mind is a little calmer, a little freer, and a little more relaxed. When you know how to throw a punch, break an arm, or choke someone unconscious there isn’t too much threat of physical confrontation. And if there is threat, it is easier to walk away.
2) Training MMA will teach you discipline. As with any sport, MMA requires discipline. It teaches discipline of the mind and body. Training MMA teaches the discipline of eating right, sleeping right, and training right.
3) Training MMA is an excellent physical workout. Sparring (Boxing practice during training) or grappling (wrestling or ground-fighting practice) for 3-5 minute rounds is absolutely brutal cardio, which is why fighters are usually in top notch physical condition. There is no treadmill or stair-master in the world that can beat the benefits of practice fighting.
4) Training MMA will teach you self-defense. If the need should ever arise you will be able to defend yourself against would be attackers. Nightclub bouncers are notorious tough-guys who love to start fights and gang up on bar patrons. MMA fighter Alistair Overeem and his brother, MMA fighter Valentine Overeem, had this to say to five bouncers:
“Alistair attended some famous dance club with his brother Valentine. Went to the toilet and did not have coins to pay the toilet woman. Alistair told her he would pay a euro when he came back, because he did not have change. Then the security guard who was near by started to get involved,” he wrote.
Brother Valentine saw the incident and also started asking what the problem was. They offered to pay, but by then 6 security guards came over surrounding them. The Overeem brothers were asked to leave, Alistair was already outside when he saw his brother Valentine fighting.
Valentine still was discussing the situation on his way outside with one of the security guards hit Valentine in the face with a flash light. Three security guards dived onto Valentine and brother Alistair wanted to go back inside to help his brother. This resulted in five security guards in the hospital.”
As funny as the above story is, it is not likely for the average person to fight five bouncers. What is more likely to happen is someone being accosted by thugs and hoodlums. Taken from this post:
From the darkness you hear “that’s a nice watch, friend-o“.
The next thing you know it’s a fight to the finish.
Your whole life was preparation for this moment, even though you didn’t know it.
Someone has come from the darkness and they have come for your life.
They want to take you out, they are determined to take you out.
Your whole life up until this moment was just a game and the stakes were meaningless. It was all pretend.
Today the game is played for keeps – winner takes all.
It’s ‘Do or Die’ in every sense of the word.
One of you will stand tall and one of you will fall.
One of your souls will be sent to Hell. It’s unavoidable.
It’s a fight for your life.
For this very moment your whole life was preparation.
At the end someone will stand with their bloody knuckles raised victoriously towards the heavens, screamings to the skies from the depths of their soul and the bottom of their heart:
“I WILL NOT FALL.”
A dramatic retelling of a very real possibility. (Author’s Note: I have a family member who was murdered in a very similar way. Beaten to death by two hoodlums). This type of violence is a very real threat for anyone who poses a target - someone who does not have the confidence, strength, size and the will to win of a fighter.
5) Training MMA is a good manly hobby. Here we talked about causes of depression in males and one of the big reasons is lack of anything physical or masculine. Fighting in a controlled environment is just a damn good hobby that promotes values like courage, strength, will and heart.
6) Training MMA fulfills mans need for physical expression aka violence. We don’t want violence in our daily lives but we still yearn for physicality. We all get pumped up seeing fights in movies or TV or when we hear about someone who was accosted by thugs and kicked the crap out of the them. Training MMA is a perfect middle ground. You can train (or fight) in controlled areas and release aggression with no threat of repercussions, jail time, murder etc..
7) Training MMA teaches competition. The 2nd best person in a fight is a big ol’ loser. “Winning isn’t everything!” It is when their are only two of you. Training MMA will bring that winning drive and spirit to the surface, which can be utilized in other aspects of daily life like business and relationships. Competition is good. A person training in MMA will not spar or grapple with too many opponents willing to roll over and lose - it’s real competition and everyone wants to win.
At an MMA gym everyone wants to be Maverick - no one wants to be Goose.
8) Training MMA is a huge stress reliever. Above, we talked about how fighting releases aggression and it’s true. After an hours session of training, when you are completely drenched in sweat, tired and sore as hell, ready for a big meal and sleep there can be no more room for stress.
9) Camaraderie. When training at an MMA gym you will meet a whole bunch of people with similar interests as you. You aren’t going to run into too many nancy-boys afraid of their own shadow. You get to hang with other big dogs while kicking ass and taking names.
10) Chicks dig fighters. Women love violence. They will say things like “I hate violence. I hate those meathead guys that fight all the time.” The women who say things like this have one thing in common: they’re lying. Women absolutely love men who handle violent confrontation and come up the winner. It’s in their nature, it’s in their DNA. Something you won’t read in a newspaper: Ghetto thugs who often beat up weak people are rewarded with sex by their ghetto mistresses. You’re smarter than fighting all the time - but simply being able to handle violent confrontation (having the Eye of the Tiger) is enough to get them wet.
Sounds great! Where do I sign up?
Go here and look for a Mixed Martial Arts gym in your area. Find one, go check it out, if it looks good sign up and get to training.
How to Start Your Own Fight Club
If there is one drawback to joining a Mixed Martial Arts gym it is that it can be very expensive. Especially if you are training under a famous, well-qualified teacher. The money is worth it, but not everyone can afford upwards of more than $1,000.00 every six months.
The beauty of the internet world is that with the internet anything is possible. All Martial Arts training information is available on the internet. All training styles and fights are available to watch on websites like youtube.com but remember you will only get snippets of information on sites like that, you won’t learn everything.
Learning from the internet isn’t the best way to learn to fight, but it’s a great way to get the basics down.
This is how you can start your own fight club and recruit members:
1) Go to meetup.com and click on the tab that says “FIND“. Search your area for “mixed martial arts”, “mma”, “boxing”, “fight club” etc. If you’re lucky then some enterprising person has already started a club and you can go ahead and join.
2) If no club exists then click on the tab that says “START” and start your own Fight Club. Set up a time for your first meet and wait for some like-minded members to join your group.
3) Training can be held in a garage, a living room, the backyard - anywhere that there is room.
4) Watch some fight videos, watch some “how to” videos, print out some notes and get to fightin’. You won’t be fighting like Fedor Emelianenko any time soon but that’s what training is for - to get good.
Be sure and have all padding and equipment necessary so no one gets hurt.
Train slow, train with patience, try to get the simple moves down - don’t try and inflict pain or win a fight. It’s simply training, it isn’t fighting.
Know the rules of fighting. Specifically if someone taps (with hands or with feet) the opponent must immediately let go.
DO NOT HURT ANYBODY. Training is only play-fighting, it isn’t real. It is preparation for the real thing.
No dirty tricks like:
- Hair pulling
- Headbutting
- Eye Gouging
- Spitting
- Biting
- Fish-hooking
- Attacking the groin
- Strikes to the back of the head and spinal area
- Strikes to, or grabs of the trachea
- Small Joint Manipulation
- Intentionally throwing your opponent out of the ring/cage
- Running out of the ring/cage
- Purposely holding the ring ropes or cage fence
- Grabbing or putting a hand inside the trunks or gloves of the opponent
- Pulling or holding onto an opponent’s gloves or trunks
Go over all rules individually and specifically with all new members. Make sure everyone is on the same page. Use your best judgement and don’t let any rogues/rebels/crazies who will not follow the rules into your fight club.
Do not really fight anyone. A Fight Club should only be practice. Fights should only take place at sanctioned events under the supervision of professionals.
5) Make sure everyone signs a disclosure agreement saying they will not sue you if they happen to get injured.
Let’s have a good, clean fight.
How to Eat Whatever You Want and Get Away With It
Friends, I have a confession to make: I eat whatever I want.
So much for discipline huh?
Of course, it just so happens that want I want to eat 90% of the time is staple foods like Steak and Eggs.
It also just so happens that I eat, at most, 8 hours out of the day and fast for 16-20 hours every single day. Intermittent Fasting is a fancy word for it but it really just means I don’t eat breakfast and sometime I don’t eat lunch.
Some days I eat only one meal, other days I go up to three meals. For simplicities sake we’ll say on any average day I eat two meals. That doesn’t mean I eat two meals and snack all throughout the day - it means I eat twice per day.
If I eat lunch I usually eat Steak and Eggs, but I have been known to eat Sushi, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and I have even been known to include beer with lunch.
Now I have eaten junk foods with lunch before and it always ends the same way - with me taking a long nap. Got to sleep off that insulin spike.
I’ve learned from my blunders and I don’t include any junk foods like ice cream with lunch. It’s usually my standby Steak and Eggs and if I want to go wild I’ll eat some sushi and drink some beer.
But dinner, that’s a whole different story.
At the end of dinner I eat whatever I want.
In a previous lifetime it was called dessert. It was when people ate their real foods throughout the day and then after dinner they gave themselves a little treat. Nowadays people give themselves a little treat all day and they may eat some real foods after their junk dinner.
So if I want to eat a pint of ice cream mixed with peanut butter I’ll do it. But I’ll make sure and eat my real food (steak and eggs) first. That way I get all my protein and saturated fat needs met, I get full enough that I’m not gonna go too crazy on junk food, and the fat that I eat will slow the release of that insulin so I don’t get crazy energy spikes. And I’ll wash it down with a beer or two. And hell, even if I do get energy spikes, it’s near bed-time anyway because I only eat that junk at night-time.
I did a two week *experiment* where I reversed that order big time. Every single day I ate Mcdonalds for lunch - that’s two double cheeseburgers, big super-size fries and a large coca-cola classic and I had a big ice cream for dessert. For dinner I ate one or two big ol’ fresh barbecued fishes and washed it down with beer. And then I drank beer all night. And I came back leaner and more muscular than before. Go figure huh?
Now I’m sure if I ate like a normal tourist, grazing all day on all those lovely snacks, I’d have come back a bit plumper.
That’s the beauty of eating like you’re supposed - feasting, not snacking - that it’s just damn hard to get fat.
For my 6 pack abs to go away I’d have to do something drastic, like eat all the time.
I’m not doing that though. I’m a goddamn animal, and I don’t mean a cow.
How to Cure Depression the Old Fashioned Way
Depression, or as my Grandfather would say “being a pussy”, is largely self-imposed and easily remedied. Depression is caused by leading a lazy, slothful, gluttonous, pointless, unnatural existence. Boredom is probably the leading cause of depression but a Doctor can’t prescribe pills for having a white water rafting adventure. “But my depression is caused by genetics, chemical imbalance or any other excuse thats takes the blame off of me!“. That’s bullshit. If you’re depressed it’s your responsibility to fix it. Shoveling pills down your throat isn’t a solution, it’s part of the problem. Our Grandparents didn’t shovel pills down their throats and they didn’t whine about being depressed either. How embarrassed would you be if your Grandfather ever whined about being depressed? I would be ashamed beyond belief. Thankfully my Grandfather didn’t have time to be depressed, he was either busy building shit with his hands, killing people in Korea, choking Rattlesnakes to death with his bare hands or drinking beer and playing poker.
Let’s take a look at what should be the obvious causes of Depression:
Lack of physical activity - If you sit in a cubicle all day never getting your blood pumping or sweating toxins out it would stand to reason that your insides are just as mucked up as your outsides. It is an obvious fact that anyone who has ever done anything physical knows: after you do some hard physical shit you feel great. You sure as hell don’t feel depressed.
Solution: Get physical. Go to the gym and lift your heart out. Go out to the garage and build something. Do some yard work. Mow the lawn. Go for a run. For god’s sake keep busy somehow, idleness is a soul-killer. No one was ever depressed after a killer lifting session. No one was ever depressed after building a house with their own hands. No farmer was ever depressed about working on his farm all day. He wouldn’t have time to cry about it.
Eating garbage - This one should be the most obvious but somehow this escapes almost everyone - if you eat garbage you feel like garbage. Do you think your Grandfather would come home from a hard day doing physical labor to a dinner of fucking macaroni and cheese made with margarine and skim milk, soy burger patties, and candy for dessert? No. He wouldn’t eat that bullshit and he’d slap you in the mouth if you tried to serve it to him. He ate meat and potatoes and washed it down with whole milk or beer because he knew what was good.
Solution: Eat meat. Lots of it. Eat plenty of saturated animal fat. Don’t eat anything made in a laboratory.
No love life - If your love life isn’t up to par it is probably because of one reason: you are acting like a pussy. Girls already have one pussy, they don’t want another one. I know you’ve been misled (we all have) that girls want a nice, sensitive, feminized man in touch with his feelings. Hey, that’s great on paper. Use your eyes to figure out that isn’t how it works in the real world. What works in the real world is respect. No one (especially women, double especially women who say they do) respects a feminized man. That horse-shit is how they test you, if you give in you fail. Would your Grandpa act like a fairy to get some chicks? Then you shouldn’t either.
Solution: Take up some manly hobby’s and quit the feminine nonsense. If you’re not a girl, don’t act like one.
Working a dull, lazy job - Clearly an unfulfilling work, a place we spend the majority of our time, can be a major cause of feeling like poop.
Solution: You already know what I’m going to say but I’ll say it anyway: QUIT. Find something fulfilling. A LIFE PURPOSE is fulfilling in ways a job can never be.
Relying on entertainment to fulfill you - The average American watches 5 hours of the boob tube every day. No joke, I would rather be dead then forced to endure 5 hours of TV every day. It’s impossible to not be depressed when constantly bombarded with advertising for stupid bullshit you don’t need. Video games are no substitute. Movies are no substitute. The internet is no substitute. I have never once seen my Grandpa: watch tv, watch a movie, dick around on the internet or play video games but somehow he found a way to pass the time. What I have seen him do: fix cars, build houses, smoke cigars, drink beer and play poker.
Solution: Find some better, more meaningful hobbies. Try woodworking, martial arts, weight-lifting, start a business, anything that gets you off the couch and actually doing something. Get rid of that TV!
No family: Probably half of them men I know of my generation came from a broken home. A man no longer has incentive to get married and have a family. In a snap of a finger all can be taken away by the courts. His children and money can be gone in an instant. With odds like that it’s no wonder men don’t want to start families. On the other hand, not having a family to care and provide for is likely the biggest cause of male depression and malaise. A man is no longer really the man in a relationship, the State is the caregiver. Our Grandparents didn’t have any of that. A man had a family to provide for, being a whiny depressed baby just didn’t put food on the table.
A man with a strong family is a man with a purpose. A man with a disintegrating family is a depressed man indeed. Take a look at some foreign families, they never cry about depression.
Solution: For a man wanting to start a family I highly suggest going abroad and finding a women who has not been indoctrinated into the hypergamous misandrous ways of American women. For a man already married but having problems I would highly suggest reading Athol Kay’s book The Married Man Sex Life Primer
which will teach you how to be the leader in your relationship. For a man going through divorce, losing his kids and money you have my deepest sympathies. You’re in a hole and you will just have to pull yourself out of it. Frankly, this is the only acceptable cause of depression. Just don’t let it last forever.
Low Testosterone: It’s hard to feel like a man when you ain’t producing your man chemical.
Solution: Get it checked. Get it fixed.
Listening to depressing music, watching depressing movies etc..: Do you listen to depressing music because you’re depressed or are you depressed because you listen to depressing music? Depressing music has a depressing effect. Stop listening to it.
Solution: Listen to music that pumps you up and makes you feel alive. Don’t watch depressing movies. Don’t read depressing websites. Cut out the bullshit, baby. It’s upbeat and positive or it doesn’t exist.
Some tips to remember:
Don’t drink too much. Drinking every now and again is fine. Having a couple with dinner is fine. Getting sloshed every day is a recipe for pussified depression. Know any happy alcoholics?
Don’t masturbate too much: It’s unfortunate that I have to say this, but I do. Internet porn is free and everywhere but masturbating constantly comes with a hefty price: depression, lack of testosterone, obvious loneliness. Work on finding a girl(s), at the very least it will get you out of the house.
Spend your days with a purpose, a mission. When you have no goals or desires all that’s left is boredom and depression.
How to Perform the Arnold Press
The Arnold Press is a shoulder exercise performed with dumbbells to build bigass cannon-ball shoulders. The shoulders (or deltoids) are a three sided muscle and will need to be worked evenly to develop big and round shoulders. The Arnold Press was developed by Arnold Schwarzenegger to simultaneaously work all three heads of the shoulder (in laymans terms the front delt, the side delt, and the rear delt) at the same time, whereas a standard dumbbell overhead press will put more emphasis on the front delts, little (if any) emphasis on the side delts, and no emphasis on the rear delts. The Arnold Press is an all-in-one exercise. However, the benefits are only seen when the Arnold Press is performed correctly, which rarely happens.
The Arnold Press is probably the most misunderstood exercise in existence. It is one of the best shoulder exercises but is continuously performed incorrectly. Today we will learn how to correctly perform the Arnold Press so we can build up some bigass cannonball shoulders.
The Arnold Press is the most common name of the exercise, but there is another name for this exercise: The Scott Press. It is also called the Scott Press because Larry Scott, the first Mr. Olympia, developed the exact same exercise to turn his small, little shoulders into show-stopping behemoths. The Arnold Press/Scott Press will put some meat on even the smallest of shoulders, if performed correctly.
The most common way to perform the Arnold Press is to start with two dumbbells in your hands and hold them in front of your chest with palms facing in, pressing the dumbbells over head while simultaneaously rotating the hands so that at the top of the movement your palms face away from your body and using a full range of motion. This method completely ignores the intricacies of the movement and doesn’t give the same results as performing it correctly does.
The correct way to perform the movement as described by both Larry Scott in the video below and by Arnold Schwarzenegger in his book The Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding
is a rather awkward movement looking much like a Chicken flapping it’s wings while pouring tea from a tea-pot. Below is the correct way to perform the Arnold Press/Scott Press as described the Larry Scott himself:
Photos: Larry Scott, Mr. Olympia 1965
Now get in the gym and build those suckers up!
How to Harness Your Sexual Energy
Sex is the driving force that makes a man do anything. All great men of genius and power used their sex drive as fuel. The process of turning sexual energy and aggression into productivity is called:
TRANSMUTATION OF SEXUAL ENERGY
And it is the most powerful tool in existence when it comes to creation, invention, accomplishment, creativity, advancement, and achievement.
Napoleon Hill talked about the Transmutation of Sexual Energy in his ground-breaking book Think and Grow Rich
. In the book, Hill noted that all men of genius used their sexual energy as fuel for their creativity. He also noted that Love must be included in the sex relationship.
“Sex, alone, is a mighty urge to action, but it’s forces are like a cyclone-they are often uncontrollable. When the emotion of love begins to mix itself with the emotion of sex, the result is calmness of purpose, poise, accuracy of judgement, and balance.” - Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
In laymans terms, the love of a good woman is absolutely essential. You’ve heard the saying “Behind every great Man is a great Woman“. It’s true. With too much un-focused sexual energy a man has no purpose or direction. Civilization itself exists solely because of monogamous marriages and the directed focus of sexual energy. Take a look at your nearest ghetto for confirmation. You will notice that they (the underclass) indiscriminately have sex with each other, pop out babies at random while not in a nuclear, monogamous relationship, have no love between the sex partners, do not control their sexual urges, live like savages because their too focused on their sex obsession to do anything productive or creative, and have to be taken care of by Big Daddy Government otherwise they starve.
There is a famous quote attributed to an Indian Chief that goes like this:
“Indian Chief, “Two Eagles,” was asked by a white government official, “You have observed the white man for 90 years. You’ve seen his wars and his technological advances. You’ve seen his progress, and the damage he’s done.”
The Chief nodded in agreement.
The official continued, “Considering all these events, in your opinion, where did the white man go wrong?”
The Chief stared at the government official for over a minute and then calmly replied. “When white man find land, Indians running it. No taxes, No debt, Plenty buffalo, Plenty beaver, Clean Water; Women did all the work, Medicine man free. Indian man spend all day hunting and fishing; All night having sex.”
Then the chief leaned back and smiled. “Only white man dumb enough to think he can improve system like that.”
What we have here is a classic case of over-indulgence in sexual energy with no focus to harness that power into advancement. The American Indians lived in this land for thousands of years with no advancement. When the White Man came (with his sexual energy focused and directed) he found the Indian still living in Teepee’s, not wearing clothing, shitting in the forest, and living like savages. A un-focused, sexually open society is a society that cannot survive the long term. If you disagree maybe you can ask an American Indian what he thinks about the assertation that sexual degeneracy will lead to extinction. What’s that, can’t find an American Indian to ask?
Every time you use an indoor toilet, get running water from your sink, cook your food on a stove, turn on the air conditioner on a hot day and get food out of your refrigerator you are enjoying the benefits of men who used their sexual energy in a productive way.
The decadent over-indulgence in sex is a one-way ticket to Failure village with a layover in Stagnation town . The smart men know this, the fools don’t and that’s why the lower classes behave like animals.
HOW TO HARNESS YOUR SEXUAL ENERGY
It is common understanding that over-indulgence in drink and drugs lead to ruin but it is uncommon for people to understand that over-indulgence in sex can lead to the same thing. Let that sexual energy build up inside you. Don’t dissipate that energy haphazardly because that energy is sensed by other people and draws them into you like a magnet. Being highly sexed (i.e. having sexual energy) but not giving in to any and all desires is the key to success.
“This orgy of indulgence may account for the shortage of great leaders. No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.” - Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
There is one thing I can guarantee - the most successful men in history have a huge sexual magnetism BUT THEY DO NOT ROUTINELY GIVE IN TO THOSE DESIRES and they never make that desire the goal. They don’t go out on Friday nights looking for some action. They don’t have to, this kind of behavior will bring women to them without any additional effort.
Let me tell you about how I started making money. For years I used to dream and devise money making plans but they failed 100% of the time. I used to think to myself (before I ever read Think and Grow Rich) that guys like Bill Gates, in order for them to make fortunes, had to give up sex and the pursuit of sex in order to make money. I instinctively knew that but I would think to myself “that’s not worth it“. And because I was unwilling to give up that all consuming desire and redirect that energy I never did anything worthwhile. Not until I had a girlfriend that I lived with and I consciously focused ALL that sexual energy into money making energy that I started to make money on my own. At the time I had a full-time professional job. I had a business plan and desire and I quit my job. 30 days later I made twice my old job’s monthly salary with my new business. And I only did it because I focused my sexual energy into something highly productive. It worked and it’s the only thing that works.
CONCLUSION
Transmutation of sexual energy is the process of turning sexual energy and aggression into fuel for something bigger. Sex is the number one reason we, as men, do anything. It’s always for sex. It is our biology, our DNA. There is nothing wrong with that. But if we want to accomplish something grand, something great, we have to transform our sexual energy into fuel for something else.
- Don’t indiscriminately have sex. That’s what savages do and that’s why they will stay savage. This doesn’t mean you can’t have sex but do not make sex your primary goal.
- Don’t masturbate or watch internet porn frequently. This drains vital energy from you. You can see vast, positive changes in mood, personality and happiness by giving this up. Keeping your seed develops an animal magnetism that draws people to you, constantly spilling that seed repulses people.
- Consciously use your sexual desire and energy and focus it into your business and life plan. Sexual energy is damn near limitless and when re-directed can turn any man into a money making machine.
- Get a good woman who will take care of all your needs (not just sexual) - this will free your mind from having to even think about these things and you can focus completely on your goal at hand. The love and support of a woman is essential for success - most successful men had a good woman behind the scenes.
Sexual energy is the best fuel that exists - use it wisely. Save it up and watch your energy explode (heh).
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10 Reasons to Stop Using Internet Porn
or: How to go from Willy Wanker to Billy Badass in 1 Easy Step
(Note: I know there are more than a few guys at work who opened this blog, saw the title of this post, got extremely embarrassed and closed the browser as soon as possible. Sorry guys, but sometimes you gotta eat a little shit. If HR comes by to have a talk with you you can look the Devil in the eye and see what you’ve sold your soul to.)
We could be PC and pretend masturbating and internet porn don’t exist, but they do. And there is a very big problem with internet porn. Internet porn is a succubus whore from Hell intent on draining you of your vital seed, your testosterone, your energy, and your desire to succeed and conquer.
Or, to put it mildly, masturbating to internet porn does not do a body good. Internet porn is like a drug addiciton. The access to endless variety of porn causes your to constantly search for the “perfect” scene. This leads to massive overstimulation of the brain, the overstimulation causes a dopamine (dope) release into the brain (your fix). After you have an orgasm it’s like coming down off a drug. After all that excitement, that endless stimuli for the brain, your body just shuts off and you turn into a lazy piece of shit. How many time have you been about to do something, decided to just have a “quick one”, and by the end 30 minutes later had no motivation to do anything? I already know the answer: a lot.
Here are 10 reasons to stop masturbating to internet porn:
1) Internet porn saps you of precious energy - When you give up the porn and the endless masturbation sessions you have a lot more energy and drive. You want to get out and take care of business. You want to make money, you want to hit the weights, and you want to go and talk to that cute little blonde in the cereal aisle - and you just may have blueballs enough to do it.
2) Internet porn can lead to erectile dysfunction - Keep at it and eventually you will only be aroused by internet porn. Right now guys in their TWENTIES and even guys in their TEENS are having trouble getting hard without porn. They have to keep finding more and more disgusting and outrageous porn scenes to satisfy their hunger. Eventually nothing will do it but seeing a naked black man buttfucking a dog. That’s serious business. Keep up with the porn and it will happen to you too.
3) Internet porn will make you will want to stop having sex - Why bother with sex when you have every fantasy in the world available at one of your hands? Japan is a notoriously porn friendly country. Japan is saturated with porn. In Japan there is an entire culture of young guys called “Herbivores”. These herbivores have no desire for sex. All this porn and now the guys don’t want girls, they want sex with their hand, or sex with robots or nothing at all. Japan now has the lowest birthrate in the world. Can you see the connection?
4) After you stop masturbating to internet porn your voice may become deeper - Straight from the horses mouth, this is what guys who have stopped masturbating are saying happens.
5) After you stop masturbating to internet porn you will have more self control and will power - I’m telling you from personal experience you just plain feel better and stronger and more masculine. It’s the opposite feeling after masturbating to internet porn.
6) After you stop masturbating to internet porn your Testosterone will rise - According to this article, Testosterone is slightly higher when abstaining from orgasm. And it does rise slightly during sexual activity—before dropping back down to normal. Having sex with a real life girl increases your testosterone while having sex with your hand and sitting in front of a computer with 5 different pages open decreases it. I don’t need a science article to tell me that, I know it to be true from experience.
7) After you stop masturbating to internet porn you will become calmer, more rational, and less anxious - Again, straight from the horses mouth. Check out the link below to see all the positive results guys are getting.
8) You will become more attractive to women - Let’s assess the situation. Who do you think women find more attractive? A) Guys who spend their time in the dark, jacking off to endless streams of porn, finish after about an hour, take a nap, finally make it out in the sunlight (or not) and can’t even look them in the eye. Or B) Guys who don’t spend their time playing with themselves for hours, are full of testosterone, not having spilled their precious seed twice that day, have a deeper voice, and have the ability to make eye contact.
Easy answer.
9) You can stop getting viruses on your computer- Viruses are a pain in the ass and can sometimes take days to deal with. Most computer viruses come from porn. Eliminate the source, eliminate the virus.
10) If you can’t believe me, then take the word of these gentlemen who beat their addiction to internet porn and reaped the benefits - There are 90 pages worth of positive results. I’ve only quoted from the first few pages:
- “I really like where I’m at now. I am so much calmer. I am losing my rage and anger which I am glad about. I have found out that the temper I had was linked to this addiction.”
- “Social anxiety was the problem I faced right from my childhood. (I was too much interested in science, unlike normal kids, so I always had a feeling that I was not ”one of them.”) I experienced huge improvement in my confidence and selfassurance since cutting out porn. I have more energy now and I am exercising daily. (I never did before.) I now perceive myself as a self-assured, successful guy, rather than some introverted jerk.”
- “Daily exercise and porn abstinence really seem to help. I am enjoying my new lifestyle now. In contrast, after I started watching porn, my social anxiety was boosted.”
- “I’ve noticed the longer I stay away from porn that it’s easier to talk to them [women], flirt and get into conversations.”
- “One week after quitting porn and masturbation I met a new girl, which even a month ago would have been unimaginable to me”.
- “Another thing is the extra attention I’m getting from the opposite sex. I’ve never really had a problem talking to girls and they’ve spoke to me in the past of course, but it’s incredible how often girls start random conversations with me now! At a recent wedding I went to, for example, there were few people on the dance floor and I decided to get up and have a dance with my aunties. Then all of a sudden I was surrounded by women who were all grabbing me and wanting to dance with me! I’ll be honest; it felt good to have that attention!”
- “It’s amazing how much of a difference there is. I’m a lot less nervous, more coherent, confident, everything. It really does feel like my real personality can come out.”
- “The effect on my social life keeps getting better. I’m finding it really easy to talk to people, especially women. Someone made a comment to me the other day at my salsa class. Something like, “You like to talk to the ladies, don’t you?” I didn’t even notice because I was having so much fun but, when I think about it, he was right.”
- “[Later] I started doing push-ups at work with some of the guys. When I started out I was at like 15 push-ups, and I was struggling. Well today is the first time I have been able to do them with these guys since I have gone 60 days with just a couple orgasm/ejaculations. They were shocked at how many push ups I could do. They all commented on not seeing anyone increase from where I was at about 2 months ago to what I am at now. Today I did 200 (not all at one time ). Maybe not superman but a big improvement in a couple months.”
- “The other is the way I carry myself. I walk with more confidence. I feel better about myself. I do not feel like isolating myself as much as I did in the past. Well actually the longer I go without porn the more the desire to be with a woman is increasing.”
- “[Later] Today is day 50 without porn. My body has healed very well. NO ED problems or weak ejaculations like I suffered from just a few months ago. So giving up porn and fantasy and going without orgasm (mostly) for just this period of time has made big steps in healing the damage I had done to myself. I also learned that I have gone far enough that I can recover my peace of mind a little more easily after an ejaculation.”
- “When I do semen retention for 2 weeks, I notice these benefits: 1) Face looks radiant and energetic (I may get occasional double glances from girls in shopping mall or street) 2) Expression looks carefree (not struggling for more energy, or not worrying about negative stuff) More natural confidence without needing to adjust thoughts. 3) Voice gets deeper and more charming (This, strangely, makes both men and women like to talk with you.) 4) More positive thoughts (The negative thoughts that used to bother seem so minor and irrelevant - I can ‘get over’ issues easier.) 5) More calm emotionally and easier to control myself 6) Exponential increase of stamina and physical energy/strength.”
Sounds like the guys quoted above had other social problems in addition to porn addiction, but even for the Average Joe quitting porn and masturbation has real benefits. Keep your precious seed for yourself. Don’t give it away every few hours while taking the drug of internet porn. Let the confidence and the testosterone build up inside of you instead of spilling it every day. And when you do give it away, give it to a girl and not a kleenex. Winners don’t spend their time jacking off. Of this I am sure. Try it for 30 days and see for yourself. You may just like the results. I know I do.
More resources: http://yourbrainonporn.com/understanding_porn_addiction
How To Go On An Urban Vision Quest
American Indians, and other indigenous peoples, would head off into the forest all by themselves where they would spend time alone, searching for a vision to help them attain a new level of understanding. Some might go on a vision quest as a right of passage, other might go on a vision quest because a change must happen and a vision quest can force that change to occur. The length of time can be anywhere from a single evening, to a week, to much longer.
In the world we inhabit, spending time alone in the forest is not an option for most. It can certainly be tried but the likely outcomes can be 1) Being arrested for vagrancy 2) Dying from ingesting poisonous berries or 3) You obtain your vision. In this post we will go over an Urban Vision Quest.
An Urban Vision Quest is a quest one takes in a city or other populated area rather than spend time alone in an unpopulated piece of nature. An urban vision quest can be had anywhere except for the city you live in. It must be an unfamiliar place where you know not a single soul. It can be the next city closest to you, it can be in the next State closest to you, it can be in the next Country closest to you. As anyone who has ever lived in a densely populated megapolis knows, walking through a crowded city can be every bit as lonesome as being in the forest. To go on an urban vision quest you only need to be alone with your thoughts, it matters not how many people are around.
The amount of time is up to you. You can choose to spend a single evening in a new city, a few days in a new city, a week, or months. The rules are simple: pack as light as possible. Only bring necessities like a few pieces of clothing, toiletries, and money. Arrive at your destination with no plans whatsoever. End up wherever you end up. Just let yourself be guided. The very likely outcome is that you have a brand new appreciation for what you have. You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone. Spending a night alone in an alien city is a surefire way to make you thankful for everything great you have in your life.
If one is only doing one-day, mini excursions then one will not be enough. Going on a mini vision quest once per month is ideal. Take the time to get away from all the nonsense of the daily grind, live life anew, if only for an evening, and return with a new sense of appreciation.
A week in a foreign place is great. Perhaps the greatest thing a one week vacation can do is help you realize you have been slaving away like a racing dog for this one week vacation per year when you could have a vacation like this all the time. Spend a week on the beach in Thailand and then go back to work Monday morning and pretend you don’t want to yell “I QUIT” at the top of your lungs. This could light a fire under your ass and motivate you to start your own gig where you are making money for yourself and, more importantly, have more of your most precious commodity - time.
The most extreme option, and, therefore, my favorite, go live in a completely foreign place for 6 months to a year. A few months of savings in a western country can equal 6 months to a year of living in a 2nd or 3rd world country. After living in a foreign country you can never be the same person you were before. Whether good or bad, a change will occur. In this authors humble opinion, everyone should spend at minimum 6 months abroad to live life in a different way and obtain your vision.
If a change is needed, an urban vision quest is the answer. Get going because time is wasting.
“I’m a thousand miles from nowhere, time don’t matter to me.
I’m a thousand miles from nowhere and there’s no place I wanna be.”
-Dwight Yoakam, A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
Nick
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