What is The Spartan Race
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Spartan Race™, the global leader in Obstacle Racing since 2005, was designed by seven insane ultra athletes and a Royal Marine. If you have tried trail races, mud runs, tough mudder runs, or a warrior dash, it’s time to step up to a brutal Spartan Race obstacle course. You can tackle a Spartan Spring, a Super Spartan, maybe even attempt a brutal Spartan Beast, but only a few of you will have the heart to graduate up to our Death Race; the world championship of obstacle racing, and an endurance race like NO other. Are you unbreakable?
Why Spartan? Because the Spartans were tough as nails. Why race our obstacle course races? Because we all thrive under pressure, survival of the fittest. Our goal is simple… to get you off your couch, throw you in the mud & trails, and feed you one tough endurance event day that will be the adrenalin rush of your life.
An obstacle course race is designed to test your resilience, strength, stamina, quick decision making skills, and ability to laugh in the face of adversity. We want to own obstacle racing and our unique obstacle course trail races will demand every ounce of your strength, ingenuity, and animal instinct.
You will understand at the finish line… but don’t wait to sign up as our races do sell out!
Sounds like some fucking fun.
Check out the official Spartan Race website here to see the official video and to find an event near you.
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If you can’t make it to a Spartan Death Race you can check out Tough Mudder:
What is Tough Mudder?
Tough Mudder events are hardcore 10-12 mile obstacle courses designed by British Special Forces to test your all around strength, stamina, mental grit, and camaraderie. With the most innovative courses, half a million inspiring participants, and more than $2 million dollars raised for the Wounded Warrior Project, Tough Mudder is the premier adventure challenge series in the world.
Find an upcoming Tough Mudder Event near you.
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I will personally be kicking ass in one of the above races in the next few weeks. I will be training every day until the event. All the climbing, crawling, jumping, swimming, and lifting will be no problem but the running will pose a huge problem. I hate running, I hate jogging and I never do it because it’s stupid.
Training:
I am following the steps outlined in 30 Days of Discipline. Every day I’m up at 5 and raring to go. In the gym I’m concentrating on getting my heart pumping and getting a massive sweat going. I’m even doing some dreaded cardio to get my lungs into proper shape.
Mentally, I’m ready to kill it. I wish the event was tomorrow. Physically, my running is most definitely not up to far. I’m still gonna finish the motherfucker no matter how much it hurts.
SEMPER FI, DO OR DIE. OORAH.
How many of you guys are ready to push yourself to the limit?
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The ability to make money for yourself is not just a fun daydream. It is a necessity. Your job could be taken away in an instant. If you do not have the ability to go out and make money for yourself you can find yourself in disastrous circumstances if you are unable to get another job.
The game has changed. The players have changed. Used to be a man could work with the same company his whole life, make a good enough salary to support his family, and he did not have to worry much about his job going to China, or India coming to him and taking his job, or having to work underneath incompetent affirmative action hires, or being discriminated against in favor of equal opportunity hires. Today, you can lose your job at the drop of a hat with no guarantee of getting another any time soon, or with quality pay and benefits.
The good news is that there is an entire world of possibilities available to everyone. Every single person has something they are good at. It is your duty to yourself, as a man, to exploit your qualities and cultivate the ability to make money on your own without an HR representative deciding whether or not you are worthy of employment.
What about my degree? Doesn’t that guarantee me a good job?
Unless you studied medicine, engineering, law, computer science or something similar you probably have a useless degree. Don’t feel too bad, there are millions just like you. Think of it as a very expensive lesson: You can rely on yourself and only on yourself. A degree is a guarantee of nothing.
7 Reasons to Start Your Own Business
1) Your job isn’t safe and in your control unless you are the HMFIC (Head Mother-fucker in charge).
2) Hard work doesn’t pay off unless the results of your hard work and dedication go directly into your pocket. In the corporate world the only thing that pays off is your ability to play the game and woo the psychopaths in charge.
3) Even if you continue to work a job you will have multiple streams of income, one of the most important aspects of wealth building.
4) When you are working for yourself you are freer than working for a company. Take vacation time or sick time whenever you please with no consideration for the amount of sick days or vacation days HR has graciously given to you.
5) Working forty hours a week, 5 days a week (before over-time) in a drab office is overkill. It’s too much. One could work 20 hours per week, 2-3 days per week in the office and produce the same results and enjoy a better quality of life. Working for yourself allows you to pick and choose your hours and modify as necessary.
6) Your job is no guarantee of a future. The economy has no guarantee of recovery. There is no guarantee that 3rd world immigrants are ever going to stop entering your country to work for less than you. There is no guarantee that there will be more jobs created. The only guarantee you have is the skill-set you possess and your determination.
7) Working in a corporate office is soul-killing. It’s dull, drab and boring. There is no better cure for the blues than to stare at a check with your name on it and a whole bunch of zeroes.
The Four Ways to Make Money On Your Own
Selling Goods - Can you make something that will sell? This can include art, furniture, mechanical devices, computer programs or anything you can build.
Selling Services - Not everyone has the ability to make money using their mind. If you are good with your hands and have a skill-set (plumbing, carpentry, auto-mechanic) you will always have the ability to make money because people will always need work done.
Selling Information - This can range from becoming a consultant to selling information via books, seminars or selling information online. In what area do you possess knowledge? That knowledge can be sold.
Side note: I met a woman in the Seattle airport who was a Corporate Change Consultant. If she can make a good living doing something so ridiculous then anyone can make money by providing value or the illusion of value.
Be a Middle Man - Buy from person A at $10 apiece, sell to person B for $11 apiece. This can include importing and exporting goods, buying and selling cars, houses, guns, jewelry or baseball cards. Anything there is a market for can be exploited by a smart and savvy person.
You may have noticed it’s all about SALESMANSHIP. To venture out on your own you are required to sell yourself and to sell yourself well. You must have the confidence of a salesman. You must present yourself as an expert in your field. You will have to ask, or market, for business. You will have to negotiate payment and ask (or demand) payment. If you don’t have the cojones to do this then you will not make it far on your own. More than any skill, it takes gumption to go out on your own. If you can’t make a phonecall to a stranger and speak of your business then you can’t make money on your own.
What’s the rule? BE BOLD. It takes brass balls.
How to Get Started
The way to get started is to concentrate on making your first bit of money. Putting all your extra time and energy into your side business with the intent of making it BIG. Even if you have no plans of ever leaving your job you will still have the extra income stream and the ability to make money on your own if the time should come.
If it is your goal to leave your 9-5 job forever then another step you must take is reducing your expenses. You will likely have a tough go of it at first and not have much extra money. It is imperative that you have only necessary and not frivolous expenses and bills.
Visualize your success. If you constantly think “this isn’t going to work. I’m never going to make any money” then you are right. You must think You must know it is going to work beyond a shadow of any doubt.
Make it your HABIT to work on your business every single day. If you cannot develop and maintain consistent winning habits then a business venture will never, ever work for you. Grab 30 Days of Discipline and follow those steps.
You’ve got to be an actor. Even if you are just starting out in your new venture you must never come across as inept and clueless. You will learn as you go, but at first, depending on what field it is, you must fake it until you are comfortable.
You’ve got to be an economic survivalist, you have to prepare for the future. Anything can happen at any time. A man relies only on himself.
Preparation, Visualization, Execution.
“They’re sitting out there waiting to give you their money. Are you gonna take it? Are you man enough to take it?”
-Glengarry Glen Ross
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We have an advantage being born in and of the west. We don’t have an advantage because of “white privilege” or “male privilege”. We have an advantage because we are smart and capable. A smart and capable man can do anything. A smart and capable man surrounded by other smart and capable men is untouchable.
But some of us are lacking. Some of us are empty. Some of us don’t know who we are or what we stand for. Some of us believe we don’t deserve our God given strengths. That we must squander it, that we must live a life of decadence and depravity and hedonism. Some of us believe that we have undo privilege just because of our sheer ability. Not all of us have it. The world needs the order takers every bit as much as it needs the order givers. But as a man of wits and capability you must never defer to the lessers. You must never believe that because others have a disability, a psychological disorder, an inborn stupidity, or an undeserved sense of entitlement that you, the smart and capable, must defer to the masses of the ignorant, lacking, lazy, and entitled. You, as a man, take what is yours. You are given nothing and you accept no charity or handouts.
Some say a man must give to the lessers. That it is your job to take care of the world and all its inhabitants. This is not true. It is your job as a man to take care of the defenseless. The women, the children and the animals. You never provide for the defensive who do not share your abilities and wish to take what you have through overt or non-overt violent action.
You take care of your defenseless, but you never give the defenseless undeserved power. You maximize the strengths of the powerless and minimize it’s weakness. You encourage women to give credence to their God given strength of empathy, tenderness and care-giving and you minimize their weakness of solipsism, greed, jealousy, and vindictiveness. You never give encouragement for the un-natural qualities or terrible qualities that the weak possess.
You do not treat dogs as men. You do not empower the animals that give us sustenance, nor do you treat them viciously. You treat them with humanity and compassion but you never forget what they are there for and you do the job you must. You remember, always, that those who slaughter animals with cruelty and torture are not of you and your world. You remember that those who enslave, torture, maim and kill of their own are not of your world. They exist but they must be kept under a watchful eye for they are never to be trusted to be as empathetic as you or to have the same values as you. In some men empathy is as natural as walking, but in some men it is not. You can never assume that those who are not like you will ever share your values. When you assume this you pay the consequences of your actions in blood.
Always remember that you feed your family first before you feed the family next door. The blood in your veins, the blood that you share, is the most important thing in this world. You provide for your blood. You do this first and with all the strength and pride of your character, and then you provide for the family next door. But you never, ever provide for the family next door the same as you provide for your blood and, above all else, you never provide for the family next door before you provide for your blood. The wealth that you accrue is for you and your blood.
Not all creatures on this planet deserve what you have. Let them take that deserve straight to the hell that they have created, maintained and spread. What is yours is for you and your blood. And you will have it through the power of wit and action that defines you and your people. As builders, as winners, as men of honor - Do not forget your blood.
Our leaders and fathers have forgotten their blood. They have traded their blood for their God. They have left you to rebuild. As a man, building is in your nature and accomplishment is your drive.
Friends, young men, fathers and providers: It’s time to do a little building.
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Every man should have a creed that he lives his life by. Whether you be a military man, a business man, an athlete, a blue collar man, an office man, or an entrepreneur you can and must have standards that you hold yourself to. Laziness, sloppiness, carelessness, and sloth are the mark of weak men. Broken men. Leave that to them and hold yourself to a higher power and a higher standard. Just as you hold yourself to a higher standard hold others in your life to a higher standard. But not to the high standard you hold yourself to. You must be the top of the top.
The US ARMY Ranger Creed
Recognizing that I volunteered as a Ranger, fully knowing the hazards of my chosen profession, I will always endeavor to uphold the prestige, honor, and high espirit de corps of the Rangers.
Acknowledging the fact that a Ranger is a more elite soldier who arrives at the cutting edge of battle by land, sea, or air, I accept the fact that as a Ranger my country expects me to move further, faster, and fight harder than any other soldier.
Never shall I fail my comrades I will always keep myself mentally alert, physically strong, and morally straight and I will shoulder more than my share of the task whatever it may be, one hundred percent and then some.
Gallantly will I show the world that I am a specially selected and well trained soldier. My courtesy to superior officers, neatness of dress, and care of equipment shall set the example for others to follow.
Energetically will I meet the enemies of my country. I shall defeat them on the field of battle for I am better trained and will fight with all my might. Surrender is not a Ranger word. I will never leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy and under no circumstances will I ever embarrass my country.
Readily will I display the intestinal fortitude required to fight on to the Ranger objective and complete the mission, though I be the lone survivor.
What is my creed? BE BOLD.
Standing Orders Rogers Rangers
- Don’t forget nothing.
- Have your musket clean as a whistle, hatchet scoured, sixty rounds powder and ball, and be ready to march at a minute’s warning.
- When you’re on the march, act the way you would if you was sneaking upon a deer. See the enemy first.
- Tell the truth about what you see and what you do. There is an army depending on us for correct information. You can lie all you please when you tell other folks about the Rangers, but don’t never lie to a Ranger or officer.
- Don’t never take a chance you don’t have to.
- When we’re on the march we march single file, far enough apart so one shot can’t go through two men.
- If we strike swamps, or soft ground, we spread out abreast, so it’s hard to track us.
- When we march, we keep moving till dark, so as to give the enemy the least possible chance at us.
- When we camp, half the party stays awake while the other half sleeps.
- If we take prisoners, we keep’em separate till we have had time to examine them, so they can’t cook up a story between’em.
- Don’t ever march home the same way. Take a different route so you won’t be ambushed.
- No matter whether we travel in big parties or little ones, each party has to keep a scout 20 yards ahead, 20 yards on each flank, and 20 yards in the rear so the main body can’t be surprised and wiped out.
- Every night you’ll be told where to meet if surrounded by a superior force.
- Don’t sit down to eat without posting sentries.
- Don’t sleep beyond dawn. Dawn’s when the French and Indians attack.
- Don’t cross a river by a regular ford.
- If somebody’s trailing you, make a circle, come back onto your own tracks,and ambush the folks that aim to ambush you.
- Don’t stand up when the enemy’s coming against you. Kneel down, lie down, hide behind a tree.
- Let the enemy come till he’s almost close enough to touch, then let him have it and jump out and finish him up with your hatchet.
You will hear “You have such high standards!“. You’re absolutely damn right. You can be the best at nothing with low standards.
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Source for Ranger Creed and Standing Orders Rogers Rangers found
here. Highly recommended reading.
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You’re too proud. Just give it up already. We’re all the same on the inside. You don’t have anything to be proud of.
The only thing that makes you different from other people is you were born with privilege and they weren’t. Your IQ, your work ethic, your self-discipline, your drive and your passion have nothing to do with it. You were just born privileged and should have nothing to be proud of, like the rest of the all the sad sacks you see everyday.
Just because you drive a nice car that you paid for, just because you have an above average IQ, just because you have more than two weeks pay in the bank, just because you dress well, just because you don’t waste your money on dope, just because you don’t waste your money on lottery tickets, just because you don’t blame others for your station in life, just because you don’t expect handouts, just because you would never take government welfare, just because you don’t spend time with lesser human beings, just because everything you have you (and your family) worked for, just because you have ideals, just because you aren’t covered in tattoos and piercings, just because you make plans for the future and follow through with them, just because you have high standards for people, just because you pay your taxes, just because you aren’t a fat slob, just because you don’t have bastard children, just because you don’t have unkempt hair and facial hair, just because you aren’t a minority who deserves success more than you, just because you hold a steady job or self-employed position, just because you accomplish whatever you put your mind to, just because you don’t tolerate bullshit, just because you’re a winner DOES NOT MAKE YOU BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE! So get over yourself already and come and spend time with us normal people. Those of us that aren’t so high and mighty and don’t want to work for what we have.
Just give it up already.
Give up that foolish pride and come and live like us animals.
It is better to live without pride, like us degenerate filth who respect everybody equally. Don’t you see how wrong your pride is?
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It’s that day of the week again. Leg day. You go in, you do your 3-5 sets of squats, you do your 3-5 sets of leg press, you do your 3-5 sets of leg extensions and then you do your 3-5 sets of hamstring curls. You finish up, you go home. For the next week you can barely walk. Your legs are so sore that you look like you have crapped your pants every time you walk. So you just stop doing legs. It isn’t worth the soreness that follows.
Unless you have aspirations of being a bodybuilder, you do not need to build up huge musculature of your legs. You do not need to do a “leg day”. You do not need to be sore for several days afterwards. You should work your legs, you should make them strong, but unless you are a bodybuilder (i.e. using bodybuilding drugs) you do not need to work your legs like a bodybuilder does.
Training like an olympic lifter trains is a better option for a natural. Olympic lifters squat frequently for low repetitions, usually between 1-3.
So how do your train legs without becoming too sore?
Train your legs more often with lower reps.
This is a routine I grabbed from Chaos and Pain (one of the top 3 lifting blogs on the net, NSFW). I’ve been doing this for most of the year and it’s kickass.
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In part 1 of this series I talked about how I am eating like a fat slob. Anything and everything that I want to eat I am scarfing down. To combat the fat gain I bookended my week long eating fest with a 24 hour fast. I had one 24 hour fast about 5 days ago and I am at the tail-end of my second 24 hour fast as I type this.
I have definitely gained at least a little bit of fat, but that was to be expected. I went from eating quality foods twice per day to mixing Dr. Pepper and ice cream as a mid-morning snack. I’m positive if I hadn’t fasted at all I would have gained more fat.
The fasting itself was quite easy. I actually found it harder to eat so frequently. I don’t know how some of these people eat so much nasty food. I felt like shit most days with a belly full of food. That fullness just slows you down. Yesterday I was full all day and it was like being some sort of fat, waddling Penguin.
As of tomorrow I will be going back to skipping breakfast and just having a small cup of black coffee in the morning. I will likely still be eating some fattening foods, but only two meals per day.
For all the fatso’s who want to believe “it’s what’s on the inside that counts” I have some terrible news for you. Your outsides are a reflection of your insides. To be a fatass is to show the entire world that you have no respect for yourself, you have no discipline, you have no pride, and you have no willpower. It’s like you’re wearing a sign that signs “I don’t respect myself so you shouldn’t respect me either“. For any fatso’s reading this: Get it under control. It’ll be the best thing you ever did.
For you guys that like to eat all day and have some fat you need to get under control I would suggest fasting for 24 hours once or twice a week. Something I do, even when eating only twice per day, is that if I notice too much fat gain I will eat only one giant meal on Saturday and Sundays rather than eat my two customary meals. When Monday rolls around I’m always lean again.
On a side note, it’s easy as can be to get fat eating the standard American diet. Just remember this rule: If it can be eaten right out of the box it isn’t food, it’s fatness added to your belly. And if you want to eat that baloney, like I do, then take some preventative measures and throw in a quick fast here and there.
Why should you fast?
Because the human body was made to feast and famine. When you feast your body adds a layer of fat to take care of the times when you are in famine. When you don’t eat for a period (fast) your body burns up some of that excess body fat. Yin and yang. When you eat all the time you are out of balance and unless you are taking the right hormones it’s going to be extremely hard to burn off body fat eating all the time. Fasting is natures way of getting rid of some nasty body fat.
If some of you muscle-heads are interested in doing a fast but are freaked out about losing muscle mass you can do a modified fast. Instead of eating nothing you can take in a protein shake or two. That should ease your mind a bit and give you some of the benefits of fasting.
And everybody’s happy.
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I got the idea for the 24 hour fasts from Eat Stop Eat, you can check it out here.
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“In thinking about the process I came to the conclusion that intermittent fasting was probably the way Paleolithic man ate. We modern humans have become acculturated to the three-square meals per day regimen. Animals in the wild, particularly carnivorous animals, don’t eat thrice per day. They eat when they make a kill. I would imagine that Paleolithic man did the same.” Dr. Michael Eades
I’m back in the greatest country on earth, The United States of America. And I’m livin’ the dream, baby. I’m eating like a King. A big, fat gluttonous king. I’ve been planning this for months, all the food I’ll be eating and enjoying. All this delicious food we have I’ve been dreaming about and salivating over for months. I knew I’d be feasting. I knew I’d be gluttonous. I knew I’d definitely gain some fat. What I didn’t know was how I would keep the fat gain to a bare minimum.
My normal eating plan is Intermittent Fasting. That is, I fast for part (most) of the day and eat for the rest of the day. Typically I eat 2 meals per day, spread out over 8 hours, and I fast for the remaining 16 hours per day. This keeps me a lean, mean killin’ machine.
But….
With all this food in a gigantic refrigerator, all these fast food joints within a stones throw, all these mega super markets stocked with the most delicious and fattening food on earth there’s no way I’ll be following my standard approach (which is really just skipping breakfast). Because I am not following my tried and true method to keeping my 6 pack abs I need a new method to keep those suckers popping.
Enter Eat Stop Eat….
Eat Stop Eat is a very famous and successful e-book by Brad Pillon which praises fasting as the best way to keep fat to a minimum. It isn’t quite the same as the intermittent fasting diet I follow because with Eat Stop Eat the goal is to fast for 24 hours once or twice every week. That’s it. You don’t change up your eating habits or routines at all. You just fast once or twice a week.
I read Eat Stop Eat a while ago, I enjoyed it very much, but I had a successful routine going so I never did the full 24 hour fast. Until yesterday. See, I have been home for a little less than a week but I have eaten about 3 weeks worth of food.
We’re talking:
- Dr. Pepper
- Whataburger (famous Texas fast food)
- Chipotle gigantic burritos
- Blue Bell Natural Vanilla Bean ice cream
- Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal
- Honey Comb cereal
- Jimmy Johns sandwiches
- Waffles smothered in syrup and butter with a side of 6 scrambled eggs and cheese
- The Biggest damn steaks I could find
- Racks of Pork ribs
- Red Velvet cake
So with all that junk food weighing heavily in my belly I decided it was time to get the situation under control.
Enter a 24 hour fast…
A 24 hour fast is exactly what it sounds like - 24 hours with no food or caloried drinks. In fact, all I had was one cup of black coffee and a bit of water. I stopped eating at 7pm Tuesday night and resumed eating at 7:30 Wednesday night at a Chinese buffet.
Was it hard?
Actually, no. Not eating is incredibly easy once you make the decision to not eat. It may have been easier for me because I have fasted for 20 hours countless times. However, it is plainly obvious that people eat out of boredom. If I had been busier it would have been a snap, I wouldn’t have even noticed not eating. I wasn’t terribly busy and there was a gigantic fridge and cupboards full of food just waiting for me. Most of the foods I listed above are “boredom” foods. Foods that have no real value except to fill up a hole on your soul. And for the time being I am ok with that. They taste too damn good.
How do you fast for 24 hours?
It’s quite simple. Rather than wake up, not eat anything, and then go to bed on an empty stomach you will stop eating at, say, 6pm on Monday and resume eating on Tuesday at 6pm. You never actually go an entire day without food, you simply go 24 hours without food. In that 24 hours you get the same benefits as you would get on a strict, decreased calorie diet and you get the benefits without watching what you eat or limiting your calories.
What are the benefits of fasting?
- Decreased body fat & body weight
- Maintenance of skeletal muscle mass
- Decreased blood glucose levels
- Decreased insulin levels & increased insulin sensitivity
- Increased lipolysis & fat oxidation
- Increased Uncoupling Protein 3 mRNA
- Increased norepinephrine & epinephrine levels
- Increased Glucagon levels
- Increased growth hormone levels.
Basically, fasting makes you feel like a lean, mean, alert killin’ machine. Having a belly full of food from sunup ’til sundown makes you feel fat and sluggish. It’s quite a disgusting feeling to go from being lean and tight to full and distended. I have been intermittent fasting for a year, I have no plans to return to a fatso type diet of eating all the time, but when in Rome I will do as the Romans do and eat my face off.
Since I have no plans of ever becoming a fatso I will continue with my 24 hour fasts once or twice a week to ward off the fat gain while I eat my face off with these good but nutritionally void foods. I may even make the 24 hour fasts part of my normal habit. Time will tell.
Check out Eat Stop Eat here.
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It suddenly struck me that reading blogs is a big old waste of time. It struck me even further that having access to all my favorite blogs via an RSS feed is an even bigger waste of time.
In a matter of 10 seconds I went from perusing my feed reader, to completely disgusted with how useless blogs are, to total annihilation of all blogs in my feed reader.
Good goddamn riddance.
I didn’t count but I’ll bet it was in the neighborhood of 50 blogs.
For the unaware, a feed reader (or RSS Feed) is a way to get keep track of all your favorite blogs and to read those blog posts in one spot rather than visiting the blog.
It sounds great, being able to read all your favorite blogs in one spot. Well, it is great if your mission is to be lazy and read blogs. If your mission is to kick some ass then a feed reader is just another obstacle getting in your way. Light that bitch on fire and burn it up.
Now, a feed reader is an excellent way to keep track of relevant data. I did leave a few blogs in my RSS Feed that are industry specific and useful. I killed all the other blogs. Most blogs are not really useful in any way.
I used to be a very big proponent of RSS feeds. I thought they were great. I have realized they are just one more way to be lazy. If a blog is good enough I will not need a reminder to go and check it every once in a while. Heck, having all your blogs in an RSS feed takes all the excitement out of it. Sure, you know the exact moment a new blog post is made. Big fucking deal. I’d rather go check it out on my time.
Another downfall of keeping an RSS feed active is that you will add substandard blogs to it. Blogs you would never go visit again will somehow end up on your feed reader and you’ll get all the new posts that you really don’t care about. If a blog isn’t good enough for you to remember it, and not need reminder via RSS, then maybe it isn’t good enough to be on your RSS feed. And if it is good enough to remember and to be on your RSS feed then it is good enough to visit the actual site to read it the way the author intended it to be read.
One big secret about blogs:
You will never learn anything on 99.99% of blogs. The authors who have something of value to teach are smart enough to sell it to you and not give it to you for free. I am in no way condemning this method, I am simply stating that learning via blogs is less than ideal.
Of course, there are some blogs who bypass this and give you phenomenal information for free. These types of blogs I will never need to add to my RSS feed in case I forget, I will always remember to check these blogs.
But, frankly, there aren’t enough ass-kicking blogs around to need to keep track of them all via RSS feeds. All the good blogs I know the name of and if I want to check for new material I’ll type that sucker up into the address box and go have a visit.
If you really want to learn something via the internet then you have two ideal avenues to do so:
1) Read books - This can and does include E-books that bloggers and other internet types write. If information is good enough to be sought after it is good enough to be sold.
2) Read relevant forums - A very excellent place to start learning an industry or trade. But remember, all the best information is sold so internet forums will never be 100% complete.
Extra method #3) Read blogs - There are some blogs that are packed full of information and kick-assness. There are a whole bunch more blogs that are pretty goddamn useless in the grand scheme. Remember the rule : Learn, Earn, or Burn.
If it doesn’t have a purpose light it on fire and burn it up. Don’t let it burn you up.
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You: “Victor, man, I’m not happy.”
Me: “What are you building?”
You: “Nothing.”
Me: “There’s your problem. Get to to building.”
As Men we build shit. We’re builders. We’ve got to be doing something. If you aren’t doing as you were intended what do you think is going to happen to you? What’s going to happen to your soul? It’s going to blacken and rot as you blacken and rot from the inside out. You’ve got to have goals and ambitions that you are actively working towards. If you don’t spend your days actively busy, actively building something, then you ain’t gonna find happiness. Idle hands are the devils plaything. It’s no wonder so many guys are so depressed and down in the dumps - they aren’t building anything.
What do you spend your days doing?
- Working some job you hate?
- Chatting on facebook?
- Trying to get some little slut to send you pics of her tits?
- Browsing internet forums for stuff unrelated to your industry?
- Reading blogs that do you no good?
- Playing with your dick in the dark in front of the internet?
- Smoking dope and getting high?
Well if you feel like poo-poo stop doing the things that make you feel like poo-poo. Build something. Building something doesn’t just mean building a bookshelf. You can build a business. You can build your body. But you need something to do and something to work towards and for. Your days need to be spent building something and fulfilling your natural urge as a man to build and create (and get paid for it).
If you’re good with your hands then build something with your hands. I couldn’t build a fucking wooden box so I build other things. Getting a contract signed is my goal. I build deals. I build to get you to sign your name on the line which is dotted. When you see the fruits of your labor it’s impossible to be depressed and sad. When I get that contract signed I drive home doing 90 mph with Motley Crue blaring “Live Wire”. I can’t help it. That adrenaline is just pumping in my veins. It’s Cocaine without sniffing. When you are handed money for that which you have built and created is the ultimate.
“Cuz I’m alive! A live wire!”
I’m fucking alive man. What about you?
And man, if you ain’t alive then you got to get to building something. That’s how you turn from the walking dead into a walking Man.
My personal recommendation for happiness and contentment:
1) Spend your days building.
If you’re good with your hands you can build a blue-collar business but I don’t necessarily mean building anything physical. I mean building your business. I mean actively working, pursuing, acting and doing.
- Building your foundation
- Advertising
- Phone calls, e-mails, and faxes
- Paperwork
- Business lunches
- Seminars
- Research and development
- Meetings and Interviews
- Execution of ideas
- Get them to sign the line which is dotted
All that little stuff adds up to a big fat check with your name on it. Sometimes it’s as simple as hitting the “enter” key or picking up the phone and making the call. But it always starts with building something.
2) Spend your nights relaxing.
I don’t mean going out and chasing pussy every night. That ain’t no path to salvation or redemption. That’s a lonely life that will turn your red heart black.
I mean have yourself a nice big dinner. Get yourself a good girl for a girlfriend and let her take care of you. Have a nice cleansing shower. Relax and unwind. Hit the gym if you don’t go during the day. Get in bed and check your favorite blog (BOLD & DETERMINED). Fall sound asleep after a day of building. If you ain’t tired at night that means you didn’t do enough building that day. That can easily be remedied.
“But I have no direction.”
Yes you do my friend. That direction is forward.
Be busy during the day building, and spend your nights doing all the bullshit you want to do. After you get your building done it doesn’t matter how you spend your time. Get your building done and enjoy your life.
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