22 Steps to Greatness
From the desk of Victor Pride, LLC
Subj: How to stop being a dipshit and start being a do shit
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Don’t you know what Freddie Mercury said? He said: “We’re the princes of the universe, fighting for survival. Fighting to survive in a war with the darkest powers”
Recently, I have shown great kindness by leading the way out of the darkness and into the light via the Full Color Godcast.
My kindness has not been fully appreciated and there are many dipshits who mistake my immense kindness for weakness.
Many of these dipshits blame California for me being “delusional” (aka successful).
Dipshits say things like “California is the land of the delusional” and I agree. When I walk out to my parking garage I see nothing but Beamers, Benzes and Bentleys.
It’s beyond delusional for dipshit bums with bus passes to ever dream of achieving money, success and greatness so they call it delusional.
Maybe it’s shocking, but I agree with them. The dipshit bums will never achieve what I’ve achieved, even when I lay out the blueprint for them – which I thoughtfully lay out below.
HOW TO BECOME A GREAT BOSS.
This blueprint of success is for winners who were born to win and take action to make things happen.
If you often use the word delusional to describe famous and successful people, and if you pride yourself on being “rational” (aka stuck to the ground), then I am afraid these 22 steps to greatness may not be for you.
Those people can skip this list, just in time to catch the last bus back to loser-town so they can drown their sorrows with a beer and a frown.
For the rest of you, the winners, killers, and real-dealers, go check a mirror after reading this article because you’re going to be grinning from ear to ear.
1. You can be born to win or born to lose, the choice is yours.
There are people who were born to be kings like me, and there were people who were born to be dipshits. But then again, there is a little thing called knowledge, and a little knowledge can turn a loser into a winner.
A little bit of knowledge can give you this one little tiny detail: Everything in life is a choice – including happiness, sadness, success and failure.
Even if you were born into a family of shit, you can crawl out like Andy Dufresne and you can achieve greatness.
Why? Greatness is inherent, but it is also a choice. You have to make the choice to apply this knowledge and you have to take the steps to learn how to earn.
If someone else can, why can’t you? Even a retard can succeed. See the Notorious B.I.G. for proof. Simply follow the steps of greatness that every great man followed.
Winners love to win and grin, and losers love to be let down with a frown. Like the girls in Thailand always said to me, “up to you.”
2. Escape mental jail like El Chapo escapes real jail.
The only person holding anybody back is the person looking in the mirror. Solution? Choose to break out of the hell of mental jail.
Greatness is a choice just like everything else. To be great, you have to saw your way out of mental jail and break free, like Freddie Mercury.
You can choose to stay in the black and white mental prison or you can simply choose to break out of the mental prison that holds you back and you can choose to chase and achieve greatness.
3. Stop waiting for miracles and start creating miracles.
Many people sit around contemplating ideas. In fact, they spend so much time contemplating ideas they never get around to executing any of those big ideas.
It’s like they’re waiting for some miracle to come from above and complete the work for them.
But it’s a lot like Musashi said, “always respect Buddha and the other gods but do not rely on them for help.”
4. Be your own biggest fan.
A picture of my biggest fan (myself)
The easiest path to greatness is to simply create art that you love. If you’re your own biggest fan, you will always have motivation to create because you are creating content for yourself… and you’ll always be hungry for more great content.
Here’s a piece of information that many people simply ignore: if you like it, other people will like it.
If you’re passionate about something, other people will be passionate about it too. No one is a unique snowflake, we are all human and we all experience the same feelings.
People always think “I thought I was the only one” but everyone is thinking that. So, to create great art that stands the test of time and moves people, simply create the art that you want.
Create the art that you would consume. When you do that you do two things: you fill a void in the market and you make passionate art instead of corporate art.
5. Always wake up early so you can start the day the right way.
Waking up early is the only way you get work done. The only way. Wake up early and get work done, or wake up late and don’t be great. It’s that simple.
People who wake up late don’t get things done. People who wake up early get things done.
Are you good at math? Check my math and see if it adds up…
The more hours you have in the day = the more hours you have to get work done.
The less amount of hours you have in a day = the less work you get done.
6. Be the bad guy.
You can’t be great if you’re shackled by politeness. Niceness and politeness are nice and polite, but to transcend you have to let go of limitations.
To be a good boss you’ve got to learn how to be the bad guy.
Ever meet a really nice guy who was also a genius millionaire? Didn’t think so.
A good guy is nice, humble and down to earth (aka, a dipshit). Good guys don’t get nothing but shit.
Bad guys get everything they want because bad guys don’t ask permission. Bad guys go out and take what they want.
Be like Dusty Rhodes… “Brother, I’m bad and they know I’m bad!”
7. Develop a case of Kanye West Syndrome aka Success Syndrome.
Kanye West Syndrome aka Success Syndrome
For many years dipshits have been comparing me to Kanye West, as if it were an insult.
Don’t make me laugh with that bus pass in your pocket.
Kanye is a great man, much like myself, and is one of the most famous men in the world.
Always go big like Kanye or always get the fuck out of the way like every other dipshit.
8. Listen to your guts (and your nuts).
Gut instinct, aka nut instinct, is usually the correct course of action. Of course you have to plan and strategize, but deep down in the guts and the nuts, we all know exactly what we want from life.
Take your own advice before other people’s advice. Unless advice comes from someone who has done it, always follow your own advice. Nobody else can see what you see.
Your friends and family only see the ordinary while you may see the extraordinary. It’s your mission to paint the picture for them, it isn’t your mission to convince them of what you might do in the future.
9. Have tunnel vision for the mission and be blind to distraction.
Successful men see life through a tunnel. We see only the light at the end of the tunnel and we walk that way. When you lose focus, you lose momentum.
Alternately, success in life is like driving down the highway towards a distant and far-off destination. If you pay too much attention to what’s on the left or the right, you will crash and burn.
You have to be fully focused on the drive ahead and only see distractions peripherally. You’ll find that success comes while you’re doing other things, and at a certain point you will have driven past your original destination because you were too focused on moving forward.
If you pay too much attention to the distractions, you will pull the car over before you get to your destination. This is called settling for less than what you aimed for and it’s what dipshits do.
10. Demand excellence, especially from yourself.
Great men and women hold other people to high standards. But, and there is a but, they hold themselves to the highest standard. Always depend on yourself first.
In the world of the great, only bold competence will do. Make sure you are boldly competent, and then make damn sure the people around you a) are boldly competent and b) make damn sure they understand that only bold competence will do.
Make incompetence hit the road, Jack.
11. Transform your sexual energy into fuel for greatness.
I’m very sorry boy, but you can’t be out banging broads every night and build big business at the same time. Focus must be on one or the other, it simply is not possible to focus on two things at the same time.
We all love pussy, but did you ever wonder what pussy loves? Pussy loves money and power.
So what you do? You use your inherent sexual energy to build bigger business. When you build the bank account, you always seem to have a steady stream of pussy chasing you.
Instead of going out every night, chasing pussy like a dipshit, be a DO SHIT and chase greatness. A funny thing will happen when you do – pussy will start to chase you.
12. Take inspiration from everywhere, everyone and everything.
The way you stay average is by taking inspiration from only one form of art. To transcend average you have to take inspiration from everything and everyone.
Every person can give you something to learn from, every animal can teach you something, and every form of art can give you inspiration.
The “trick” is to take all of the inspiration from all of the different styles and mold them into your own distinct style. Only dipshits would try to make music using music as inspiration. I see articles as songs. Kayne sees music as colors.
What do you see?
13. Speak your thoughts into a reality.
Creative people speak their way to the answer. That is what creativity is, it is simply speaking your way to the answer.
If you keep it all in your head, the answer will never reveal itself to you. If you don’t speak your way to the answer your head will stay murky. By speaking out loud your thoughts and dreams become instantly clear.
“But Victor, didn’t you just say stay quiet? Isn’t that, like, a contradiction?”
Success is a contradiction which is why dipshits who are grounded in “reality” can never soar high in the sky like an eagle.
You have to write and/or speak your plans to make them clear!
If you don’t speak your plans clearly they will never become clear AND no one wants to hear about your plans if you haven’t done anything yet. The solution is simple. Do one of these two things:
- Write your plans in a journal or blog. This way, your plans become clear to you, but you do not have to speak them to others.
- Speak your plans to others and understand that no one will believe you and everyone will think you are a dipshit… until you prove them wrong.
Speak the words and live the life. Speak your dream life and then live your words which in turn brings your “dreams” to reality.
To write your plans, you can start your blog with Badnet for free (you just pay hosting). You will own the blog 100%, you will own the domain name and you will have a central place to write down your plans and make them clear.
14. Speak loud and proud, use bold words like Ali, always walk the walk.
When you speak, make sure you are heard by speaking loud, clear and proud. You cannot speak like a mouse and be heard.
Great men speak from a place of power. Muhammad Ali was the greatest boxer of his day and he made damn sure everybody knew it, precisely because they can back up their bold claims.
If you’re gonna talk the talk you gotta do one more thing, you gotta walk the walk. Ali was great and he let everyone know it. But Ali had one thing that dipshits who run their mouth don’t have – proof of his greatness.
Talkers who talk greatness but don’t back it up with proof are dipshits.
I always say no one will believe you until you show them proof, and it’s true. Neither mommy, daddy, or uncle Freddy will believe your wild claims of greatness, and I won’t either – not until you have proof to back up your words.
Talk the talk like Floyd, but make damn sure you walk the walk like Tyson. Passion without action is for daydreaming retards.
Ideas are nothing. Ideas are shit. Without execution or a body of work to back it up, you are nothing. If you don’t have a body of work you are not an ideas man, you are a nobody. Always back up the talk with proof.
16. Don’t take days off, always be on like Donkey Kong.
True greats don’t have an off switch because true greats know of the incredible power of momentum. Days off break the rhythm and the momentum and it is always harder to re-start than it is to just keep going. That’s why shogun always keep going.
Work always comes first and true shogun do not have down time or free time. Greatness takes all of your time and the “price you pay” for greatness is exactly that – all of your time.
Greatness does not have an off switch, off switches are for the mediocre.
17. Dress great to be great.
If you want to earn a million bucks, start by looking like a million bucks. When you look great, you feel great and when you feel great you become great. To build your own personal style, check out Iron & Tweed.
Clothes make the man and muscles make the clothes. So spend time in the gym to sculpt the physique and spend money on the clothes that build the confidence.
Make damn sure you spend time building your body. If you don’t, no clothes will look good.
Check out 2 resources to build your body: John Doe Bodybuilding and Red Supplements.
B&D girls of the world who want success too, pay attention to the power of attraction. Below is a great quote from a book I picked up called The Shakti Coloring Book: Goddesses, Mandalas, and the Power of Sacred Geometry.
“On a personal level, an ability to attract was understood as power on par with brute strength. Beauty was considered the physical manifestation of fecundity, authority and power … Adoring oneself and one’s environment was fundamental to one’s dignity, self-possession and propriety … One’s posture and confident gait give spiritual protection. To venture outdoors unornamented was to invite misfortune.”
18. Network with other killers.
A great boss is a delegator and a deal maker. Therefore it is a vital key of boss mentality to connect with, network with, meet with and form friendships with other go-getters.
For any great bosses in training, it is vital to your mission to connect with other up and coming bosses for the following reasons:
- To form friendships with others on the same journey as you.
- To help you find potential future business partners.
- To have a network of fellow go-getters to plot and plan with and help you break through obstacles and barriers.
- Groups are more powerful than lone wolves. One man has his own energy but a group of men working towards the same goal form a more powerful energy. Working as a group rather than as a lone wolf can help speed the momentum of the lone wolf’s business interests.
- Mutual support helps you through times you feel distracted, less than motivated, or discouraged. When you do feel discouraged, the network is there to help you find courage again.
How can you find other bosses, ronin-in-training, NWR, and Shogun? Join the hidden network of the NWR.
19. Always practice the Victory pose like Victor Pride.
The Victory pose prepares you for success and abundance, which is why I practice it every single day.
The Victory pose is exactly what it sounds like: stand tall, with your arms outstretched to the sky in the shape of a V (for Victory) and allow abundance and victory to come to you.
20. Keep it simple, Spartan, and always focus on the fundamentals.
Masters are masters of simplicity. While dipshits are busy trying to learn advanced technique and skipping the fundamentals, masters master the fundamentals and nothing more.
True creativity comes from having a defined set of rules in which you must get creative. When you have complete, total creative freedom to do anything you end up creating nothing of lasting value.
The fundamentals are fundamentals for a reason and they must never be skipped.
21. Always pay attention.
If you pay attention you will notice that no one pays attention.
— VICTOR PRIDE (@VICTOR_PRIDE) December 20, 2016
If you pay attention you will notice one thing, no one ever pays attention. Dipshits go about their daily lives without ever noticing that they could make themselves better in the snap of a finger.
You will also notice, if you pay attention, that you can create success out of thin air because no one is around to notice or care. They’re too busy being distracted to pay attention.
If you pay attention you may even notice that all of the most successful people in the world are called delusional. To a broke bum on a bus, the thought of making a mill is delusional.
Thankfully there is a way to solve this seeming riddle…
22. Study books written by great men and take extensive notes.
Why is it important to take notes? Because when you take notes you develop a true understanding of the material because you are physically writing the words, but you are putting them into your own words – words you understand.
Start by studying my masterpiece New World Ronin. In that book I give you the true path to success – which is be so delusional like Kanye that failure does not even register as a possibility.
“Failure? I do not understand that word.”
If you do understand ‘failure’, don’t look at me in my eyes when I pass your bus in my BMW with a big-titty blonde named Becky in the passenger seat. Mutual eye contact is a sign of respect, which is why broke bums feel so awkward when in the presence of greatness.
Until next time.
Your man,
-Victor Pride
PS – I recently announced the death of Victor Pride, but I left out the 2nd part of that announcement. Victor Pride is the most important author of this generation and he isn’t going anywhere except straight to the top.
Victor Pride is the greatest blog artist who ever lived. Much like Jesus, he was always destined to return, we just had to wait for some paperwork to come in. The paperwork is in and the king is back.
Acknowledge the King and kiss the ring, or pay the price of disloyalty. Like everything in life, the choice is yours. What do the girls in Thailand always say? Up to you.
Speaking of the King, New World Ronin is the book that forces you to change, like a near-death experience. It is available in the following 3 formats (paperback is the best because you can feel it in your hands and take notes directly on the pages):
Below is the New World Ronin video/audio teaser-trailer.