“Everybody needs money. That’s why they call it money.” –Heist

Money is a necessity. Everyone knows that. Having money beats the shit out of not having money. Not worrying about the price of gas, the price of dinner, the rent payment, or the cost of the plane ticket is a much better feeling than worrying about the price of everything. There is a huge difference between A) Living Like a Spartan and not wanting to pay hefty prices and B) Being poor and not being able to afford hefty prices.

Making money is just a game. On one hand you’ve got the all-star quarterbacks drawing in millions per year and on the other hand you’ve got linemen who make only a fraction of that and no one remembers their names. They’re playing the same game but they aren’t playing by the same rules. The quarterback accepts no rules or limitations, the linemen live by rules.

The CEO and the desk jockey are playing the same game but the CEO makes his own rules and the desk jockey follows the CEO’s rules. Then the employee gives the CEO most of his money – just for the privilege of following his rules. The CEO decides when to pay you, how much to pay you and when to stop paying you. And when he decides to stop paying you (downsizing, outsourcing) and it’s money making time again what do you decide? Some Wolves realize that the game is rigged in favor of the CEO’s and that if they want to make any real money they got to do it on their own terms. Some lambs bend over and say “thank you sir, may I have another?” and go look for another Daddy to give them allowance.

Said the CEO to the employee: Hurry up and get yourself on the fire, I’m hungry and I like my lamb chops cooked rare.

Said the employee to the CEO: Yes, sir!

Wake up friends. The money is out there, just waiting for you to take it. Employees are begging you to take the money they made for you. The employees are stuck on Chance while the CEO’s are passing GO and collecting $200 over and over and over.

Last night I played some poker with a group of friends and some friends of friends.

One gentleman showed up to the game unshaved (for several days), longish unkempt hair, and wearing ill-fitting clothing.

Towards the end of the game it came out that he was unemployed and he truly needed the money he was winning. He came out on top about $20, but this $20 was highly important to him.

“I’m jobless right now. Every time I win I think ‘That’s a fountain drink. That’s a value meal’”.

Naturally, when this bit of information came out I thought to myself “You look like a dirty bum, you have no money, and your priorities are soda’s and value meals“.

This, friends, is the definition of a loser. One who is so desperately poor that $20 makes a big difference but with that $20 he will waste it on junk food.

This guy could have spent his money on some rice, beans and chicken that would feed him for a week and give him a good amount of protein. He could have spent his time BUILDING something that will pay him handsomely.

But he is not a builder, he is a waiter.

He waits and waits and waits and waits for something to come his way. Like a random poker game.

Friends, a winner waits for nothing. A winner takes action and makes plans and follows through.

If I were broke as a joke this is what I would do:

I would make money online.

I would not leave my house except to go to the gym or the grocery store.

I would focus 500% on building an income. Morning until night.

When offers from friends and family come in to a) go to dinner b) go for drinks c) see a movie my answer will always be the same: No. I’m busy.

At the poker game I lost $50. That $50 doesn’t matter at all to me. I will never miss it and I will never notice it is gone. That $50 was not 50 soda pops I could have purchased.

That is the difference between being unemployed and being broke as a fucking joke.

Friends, it is up to you to make your life happen. Self-reliability is the only type of reliability that is certain.

Poker bum made the decision to be a bum. I have made the decision to be a Wolf.

What is your decision?

 recently ran across this article entitled 21 Ways Rich People Think Differently Than Average People based on a book called How Rich People Think. I was immediately struck by the similarities between the writing on Bold and Determined and the thoughts of the rich elite. The 21 rules of the rich are in bold and my thoughts are underneath.

1) Average people think MONEY is the root of all evil. Rich people believe POVERTY is the root of all evil.

Average fellas are SCARED of money. You read that correctly. FEAR of money. You’ll hear average fellas say things like “I would never try and make money from this. I would never do this just for money” etc. Like money is AIDS and they would never try and get it. Everyone needs money because money is freedom.

This fear of money is a one-way ticket to average town. Everyone needs money, there is no damn reason to make excuses or justify it or be afraid of it. I want money. This is how I make my money. Deal with it. Don’t be ashamed of your need or want for money. Get out there and take it and leave the excuses for average Joe.

2) Average people think selfishness is a vice. Rich people think selfishness is a virtue.

Everyone is selfish, but there are two types of selfishness: overt selfishness and covert selfishness. You want to be OVERTLY selfish. Covert selfishness is for chicken shits. When you come right out and say “I want it my way and I’ll have it my way” you will get what you want. When you play the covertly selfish guy, also known as nice guy syndrome, you are only going to get shit on.

Nice guys aren’t nice guys, they’re chicken shits. They want the same thing overtly selfish guys want, money and women, but they’re too scared to come right out and demand it so they play nice and hope they’ll be able to manipulate that outcome. But it won’t happen, it’ll never happen. You want it? Take it. You want to eat shit? Play the nice guy game.

3) Average people have a lottery mentality. Rich people have an action mentality.

I hear these losers all the time, “if I could just win the lottery. If I could just get a chance. If my big break would come in” and blah blah blah. I don’t expect anything to be given to me. If I want it you can be damn sure I’ll go and get it. Play your stupid lottery, sit on your stupid couch in front of your stupid TV, and make your stupid excuses. Someone else is out there kicking ass and taking what is rightfully his.

4) Average people think the road to riches is paved with formal education. Rich people believe in acquiring specific knowledge.

Universities are leftist indoctrination facilities. And they are full of deluded morons. You must educate yourself. Any damn thing you want to learn about you can learn about. You don’t need to spend time in women’s studies to learn it. Every damn thing is on the internet, for free. If you want to learn about it the only thing stopping you is you. I will say it again and again: Everything you learn in college is useless if you want to be an entrepreneur and it’s up to YOU to learn your craft.

5) Average people long for the good old days. Rich people dream of the future.

Some people call it planning for the future, I like to call it visualization. Visualize the future and how you will be. Actually see yourself as you wish to be. The things we think tend to become reality (assuming you aren’t a delusional narcissist).

“Things used to be so great, but nowadays….” Forget that nonsense and mold your future the way you want it.

6) Average people see money through the eyes of emotion. Rich people think about money logically.

Money is like an extra emotion to poor people. They always have “money problems” and they’re always whining about it. For some damn reason they can’t ever have enough to pay rent and the car payment and the damn electric bill. I have been poor many times but I’ve never been so poor I couldn’t pay my bills and I’ve never been so poor I cried about it.

Forget about money as emotion, it’s just a damn game making money. Think about it like you think about your next 15 chess moves. Don’t be like these idiots living paycheck to paycheck and never having enough. Here’s a simple solution: If you’re poor…..DOWNSIZE!

…and then get to work, plan ahead, and quit spending your money on nonsense.

7) Average people earn money doing things they don’t love. Rich people follow their passion.

I don’t like the word passion, that’s a word for women’s romance novels, the correct word is obsession. Rich people follow their obsessions to the edge of the earth and beyond. Average people can’t understand this because their obsession stops at their favorite sports team or TV show or smoking pot or some other nonsense.

4 Hour Work Week is a cool little motivational book but you can’t take the title literally. If you’re going to find success in your field you are going to spend every waking minute thinking about it, you will have to be obsessed. Forget relaxing, forget taking a break, just give in to the obsession. 

8) Average people set low expectations so they’re never disappointed. Rich people are up for the challenge.

“Hey man, don’t worry about it. It’s no big deal. You expect too much. Let’s just watch the game!“

I have no time for this type of person. How any man could live his life so pathetically free of any and all challenge is beyond me. You get the same types in the gym. Type A is afraid to exert any real energy and Type B will go all the way. Type B will have the physique to show for it.

9) Average people believe you have to DO something to get rich. Rich people believe you have to BE something to get rich.

“What do I have to do to get rich?“

“Be the type of motherfucker that gets rich“.

Be a damn killer and go get it.

10) Average people believe you need money to make money. Rich people use other people’s money.

I’ll tell you boys, I made my first money using NONE of my own money. Not a penny. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. If you want it bad enough, as in you are obsessed with it, you will get it. Even if you only have $12 to your name, makes no difference. 

“I can’t make money because I don’t have any money“. Sounds pretty stupid doesn’t it?

“I have to make money because I don’t have any money” sounds much better.

11) Average people believe the markets are driven by logic and strategy. Rich people know they’re driven by emotion and greed.

I have no time for these people who constantly talk about logic and strategy. “I like logic. I deal with things logically.” Logic is only one part of the picture. If you look at everything logically you aren’t looking at the big picture and I’ll tell you why. Most people in the world do not think logically, they think emotionally. When you speak to them logically you are not getting through to them.

Most people in the world are dummies and they don’t think logically, they can’t think logically. But these “I’m so logical” types always assume that everyone else also thinks “logically”. If you think they think logically you are thinking like a dummy.  Not everyone thinks like you, in fact most people don’t even think. They just react. They’re idiots and shouldn’t be treated like they are masterful logicians, and they shouldn’t even be assumed to understand logic. Logical thinking is only half the puzzle.

12) Average people live beyond their means. Rich people live below theirs.

Again, these people can’t pay their phone bills at the end of the month. Live like a Spartan. Have money leftover. Hell, I live like a king and I barely spend any money. I’m able to live very well because of a little word called Geo-Arbitrage. Make money in dollars, spend in baht and I want for nothing.

My monthly expenses are bare minimum. Few bucks in rent for my high rise condo with pool view, few bucks for water and electric, few bucks for internet, few bucks for gym membership, few bucks for my maid, and a few bucks to run my websites. Easy, spartan, simple and clean. If need be, all those expenses can be reduced even further. I spend less money to live on now than I used to spend on just my mortgage.

13) Average people teach their children how to survive. Rich people teach their kids to get rich.

I had average parents who taught me how to be average. They didn’t know anything about making money but they sure were adamant that college and a full time job and saving for retirement was the answer. I wasted years following that stupidity. For most of my life I’ve been a fool, and a lot of you probably have too. But it’s not too late to wake up and start kicking ass instead of licking ass.

14) Average people let money stress them out. Rich people find peace of mind in wealth.

Money is freedom, baby. I can’t say this enough. Money buys you freedom. If you have money you don’t have to take orders. When you have money you have the pleasure of saying my favorite word, “no”. I do anything I want any time I want. I don’t ask permission.

15) Average people would rather be entertained than educated. Rich people would rather be educated than entertained.

Television, magazines, celebrity websites, sports – the mark of the average. If you can’t learn or earn from it, burn it. 

16) Average people think rich people are snobs. Rich people just want to surround themselves with like-minded people.

Rich people are different. After you’ve made it why would you ever want to go and hang out with losers who are jealous of you? Average people cannot hide their envy and jealousy. I have seen this look in their eyes, up close and personal, it is the most pathetic look I have ever seen and the most hateful look I have ever seen.

They made the poor decision to go and waste their life at a job and now you’re a demon because you are free and have money. You took the time to educate yourself, you took the time to make your own money, you took the chance, you did all the work and they look at you like you got lucky and they have the gall to get enviously angry at you. It has often been noted that you end up exactly like the people you hang out with, so say goodbye to the losers, be elitist and hang out with the winners.

17) Average people focus on saving. Rich people focus on earning.

How many people have told you of the wonderful benefits of saving for retirement and how you can finally live like a king when you’re 65? None of those people seemed to be living large, though. Weird, huh? Can it be that they have no clue what they’re yammering about?

I choose to live like a king right now, I’m too selfish and impatient to wait. To afford my lifestyle I had to quit my damn job and focus on earning on my own. And it was the best decision I ever made.

18) Average people play it safe with money. Rich people know when to take risks.

What I have found is that when I take big risks, the kind of risks that give me nausea, diarrhea and anxiety for days, they tend to payoff for me. For some damn reason I have been able to risk my money many times and have always made it back plus some extra. It has always been when I didn’t take a risk, when I chose to hang on to the money I had, that I burned through it and was left broke. You can never, ever make it without risking something. 

19)  People love to be comfortable. Rich people find comfort in uncertainty.

Average people don’t want to do any damn thing except eat snacks and watch TV. Wasting your days at a 9-5 and wasting your nights in front of the TV on a La-z-boy recliner with a bag of chips is comfortable for some, I guess, but it always made me miserable. Personally, I hate relaxing. It’s such a damn waste of time. 

20) Average people never make the connection between money and health. Rich people know money can save your life.

“Well, at least I have my health“.

This saying always makes me laugh a little. What they are really saying is “my life is terrible….but at least I’m alive“. I’d rather be dead than be 65 years old and living on social security and medicare. I’d rather be dead than be old and living on a fixed income and relying on the government to give me my “pills”.

Not only does money give you peace of mind, which can save your damn life from high blood pressure and stress, but it also buys the best medical care and the best drugs.

21) Average people believe they must choose between a great family and being rich. Rich people know you can have it all.

Average people are excuse-makers. “I chose to have a family instead of going into business“. Bullshit, you chose mediocrity because you’re mediocre. Lie to yourself all you want, but I can see through those lies a mile away. If you were driven and not a liar you would let your family motivate you to give them a better life. A family isn’t a burden or an obstacle in making money, it’s an excuse to be lazy and coast at a job.

Rich people demand more out of life, and they get it. Demand more, especially from yourself, and your quality of life will go up. Demand more from your personal relationships and you will get more. Demand more from your business partners and you will get more. If they don’t want to play ball then fuck ’em, find others who want to play. It’s a big world out there and there is plenty for your taking. Be a man and take it.

Bonus #22 – Rich people all have self discipline.

The end.

There’s a nasty little disease going around called being Broke as a Joke. It affects millions of men every year.

One unfortunate side effect of this disease is that it causes men to whine like little babies instead of taking action.

We will correct that and it will be quite harsh.

Broke as a jokesters need a real kick in the ass, they don’t need any coddling.

If you want to stop being broke as a joke you’ve got to do the following:

You should be spending all your free time either A) Learning or B) Making shit happen. The third option, C, is being broke as a joke.

Start Learning:

To learn your industry you should read every book you can get your hands on, every blog you can find, every forum on the subject, every success story you can find, and talk with as many experts as you can.

You should be reading and learning about your industry night and day. First thing in the morning and last thing before bed. If you have a regular job you should be learning about your industry when your boss isn’t looking.

Start Making Shit Happen:

To make shit happen all you’ve got to do is start and not give up. You don’t need to learn your industry for longer than two months before you dive in head first. Some broke as a jokesters will say things like “I’ve been learning for two years so it’s time I get the ball rolling” or “I’ve been learning for two years and I just can’t seem to make anything happen“.

If you want to get in shape you can’t read a bunch of goddamn books on physical fitness and expect to get into shape, you gotta get your flabby butt in the gym and work. Same with business. You gotta learn all you can, cram it into a month or two, and then get that motherfucking ball rolling.

Take the first step, and then take more steps every single solitary day.

Start Spending Money to Make Money:

If you have ever said this statement “I’m not going to spend any money to learn this. It should be free. I refuse to spend any money to learn my industry” then you should slap yourself in the face because that’s the mentality of a loser.

If you aren’t willing to spend a dime in your industry you will never, ever make a dime in your industry. Forget the loser mentality of never spending any money and hoping to somehow make money.

You will have to spend money so just accept it. At first you may want to just buy books and other information but as time goes on you will need to spend more and more money.

Chronic Broke as a Jokesters will always say the same two things – “I have not made much money” and “I don’t have any money to purchase any information or services which will help me“.

On the opposite end of this spectrum are the people who will spend countless thousands of dollars in their desired industry and never take action. These people are the information junkies, the seminar junkies who will wait in anticipation for a new product they can buy instead of taking any action.

They’ll do this for years and years, just buy products and wonder when it’s going to be “their time” to get started. There are people who wish to be in the Real Estate industry who go to 18 paid seminars over a 3 year period and haven’t ever bought a house.

Tips:

Cut down on your expenses so you can spend on what is important. What is important? Buying information or services which will help your business.

Get off of Facebook, Twitter and all the other social media sites, get off the porn sites, cut out the TV watching. You’re just wasting your time when you could be doing something much more valuable. Your time should be spent either eating, shitting, lifting, learning or doing.

Stop waking up so damn late. Some of you broke as a jokesters wake up at 11am and then wonder to yourself when you’re “going to catch a break”. You aren’t gonna catch shit, you gotta make it happen.

START no longer than two months after making the decision about your industry. Spend one to two months learning only and then make the first step. You are going to learn infinitely more by doing than you will by reading.

You will need the knowledge base that reading gives you but you must get your boots on the ground and actually do. You can read all the books you want about how to milk a Cow but unless you’ve ever had your hands on a Cows teat you don’t know shit about milking cows.

Download 30 Days of Discipline and develop some winning habits.

If you’re broke as a joke don’t leave a comment. Get to work. Come back when you have made a few bucks and then you can comment.

“The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.”
-Nelson Rockefeller

“I wrote down your license plate number, you’ll be hearing from my lawyer!”
-Average Crybaby

If you are concerned about privacy, and you should be, it should be of interest to you to learn how to own your house and car anonymously.

The rich hide their wealth, their ownership, their business and anything else they can hide and they hide it all for good reason. You should make it very hard for anyone to find out what you own.

There are a million ways for you to lose everything you have. You can be sued for anything. Junkyard attorneys are looking for anyone and everyone they can get a little piece from. Any scumbag can sue you at any time and for any reason. Maybe they won’t win, but they often do. Even if they do not win a settlement, you have already paid thousands to an attorney to defend yourself.

You are a walking target if you have means. You are a walking target if you own a house or a car outright. You are a walking target if you have plenty of equity in your home. You are a target if anyone can see what you own. The more successful you are, the bigger the bullseye on your back is.

However, if you don’t have means or, even better, if you appear to not have means then your would-be benefactors will go after an easier target. If a junkyard attorney does a little digging on you and it appears that you own nothing of value then he isn’t going to waste his time with you.

Who do you think is more likely to get sued:

• A) A man who owns a home worth 350k and has equity or
• B) A man who leases a home valued at 350k and clearly has no equity?

Clearly the gentleman in section A is the appropriate target for a frivolous lawsuit because he clearly (and publicly) has means which he can access by selling his home or taking a home equity loan. The gentleman in section B does not make a rich target for a Shark attorney. An attorney isn’t going after someone who rents or leases a home, there is no money to be made there.

You may be thinking to yourself that surely no one is ever going to sue you over trivial matters. That’s a mistake on your part. This line of faulty thinking is based on the assumption that other people think just like you do, and since you would never file a frivolous lawsuit then certainly no one else will file one against you, right?

Dead wrong. If everyone thought that way then the phrase “Frivolous Lawsuit” wouldn’t exist. Not everyone thinks like you and not everyone has integrity. That is a fact you must get used to.

But surely common sense will prevail and I won’t get sued for something that isn’t my fault, right?

Look around you, common sense ain’t so common. Common sense is a gift bestowed only upon the intelligent (and intelligence doesn’t cancel out greed or desperation). Scumbags sue the better off every single day of the year. They sue because they don’t care about you, they don’t care about what’s right or wrong, and they don’t care who they ruin. They want, want, want and they aren’t willing to work for that want and they want you to give and give and give.

There is one thing in common with all frivolous lawsuits: MONEY

Specifically, poor or desperate scumbag losers sue rich companies or rich people in hopes of getting a nice, big fat payday.

Well, friends, maybe you aren’t rich but are you richer than a ghetto piece of welfare trash? I’m guessing that you are.

Maybe you aren’t cash rich, but do you have equity in your home? Do you have assets (car, boat, motorcycle etc..) that you can sell? Do you have something to lose? The junkyard dogs will salivate at the thought.

And that’s why you need to protect yourself and your assets from the prying eyes of the frivolous.

And the #1 way you protect what is yours is you HIDE IT.

The two things that are of the greatest value, that most people have, are a car and a house.

There are a million reasons you can be sued or otherwise targeted and, if you own everything under your own name, there are a million ways to find out what you own and how much can be taken from you. Something as simple as your license plate number can give incredible personal details about you. That is if, of course, you have your car registered under your own name.

What happens if someone is intent on getting something from you and all they have is your license plate number but, wait a second, they cannot get any information about you personally? Nothing. That’s exactly what happens. They’ll move on to the next target who has naively put everything he owns under his own name.

What to do if you own a house:

Well, to start if you buy a house you should buy with cash. You should not get a mortgage. It isn’t home “ownership” if you have a mortgage. You simply rent from the bank instead of renting from a landlord and, oh yeah, you get to be responsible for all repairs. When you rent your landlord is responsible for all repairs.

You’ve heard of the “Rent-to-Own” programs for people with bad credit. They can “buy” a house on a rent-to-own plan and one day they can, maybe, own the house. You have probably laughed at these types of commercials and the people that do this and then, after you get done laughing, you write out your very own rent-to-own mortgage check to the bank for the house you don’t own. Those rent-to-own people just weren’t smart enough to actually “buy” the house and get a mortgage, unlike you.

What to do if you own a car:

The same goes for car ownership. When you go to purchase a car you should actually purchase the car and not rent to own from the bank. If you can’t pay cash you should not buy the car. You could get a 20k loan and “buy” a brand new car or you could save up 10k and purchase a model that’s a few years old and now you own it outright.

What if I need a brand new car to look successful but I can’t pay cash?

Well then, if you want to look successful you should probably actually become successful enough to buy a car. Nothing looks more successful than success.

How to hide ownership of your house and car:

Ok, now that you have purchased your home and your vehicle with cash and you own them outright you are an attractive target to unscrupulous attorneys and lesser’s. How do you own your house and car anonymously so that you aren’t a target and no one knows what you own?

I’m glad you asked. Here is the answer…

You assign ownership of your house and your car to an LLC.

Specifically….

You open a New Mexico LLC and you assign the ownership of the house and the car to the New Mexico LLC.

Now the New Mexico LLC (limited liability company) owns the house and the car. In the eyes of the average lawyer or private investigator looking into your assets you don’t own anything. But wait a second, obviously you own the LLC so they could just easily trace the ownership back to you and prove that you own it, right?

Wrong.

New Mexico State LLC’s offer the greatest privacy for any American company.

An LLC is a very common business structure. LLC stands for Limited Liability Company and anyone can open an LLC. The owner of an LLC is public record in nearly every state and anyone who wants to find the owner of an LLC can easily do so.

But….

The great state of New Mexico DOES NOT PUBLISH THE OWNER(S) OF THEIR STATE LLC’s. In fact, New Mexico doesn’t even know who the owner(s) of a specific LLC is!

The New Mexico LLC is often called the Invisible New Mexico LLC or the Anonymous LLC and it is one of the ultimate strategies of privacy and wealth management.

There are only 3 things required for a New Mexico LLC articles of incorporation:

1. The name of the company and the address of the principal office (an address of your choice)
2. The name and address of the Registered Agent (which must be in New Mexico, details below), and
3. The duration of the LLC, which can be limited or perpetual (often 100 years)

The state of New Mexico does not require the names of the owner(s). The only place where your name goes is on the PRIVATE operating agreement, which is a document that ONLY YOU control. Literally only you will ever know who the owner of your New Mexico LLC is. The only way for anyone else to know is if you tell them.

The mailing address for the principle office can be anywhere in the world and you do not need to reside in or do business in New Mexico. There are no annual fees or reports for a New Mexico LLC, and even changes of ownership are completely private and confidential. Not only is the New Mexico LLC the best in privacy protection, it is the cheapest privacy strategy and holding company in existence (New Mexico only charges $50 for filing an Articles of Organization).

Now, you do have to have a registered agent, whom New Mexico can contact, and they must be addressed in New Mexico. There are plenty of companies you can hire to be your registered agent and they will charge around $100-$150 per year. The registered agent will receive official communications from the state and forward them to you accordingly and they will keep your name private.

The only way that New Mexico or your registered agent can demand the name of the owner(s) of an LLC is by court order.

New Mexico LLC’s are most commonly used as a holding tool, rather than an active business, for houses, vehicles, boats etc… You do not want to do business from any New Mexico LLC in which you own and hold property and you do not want to get an EIN (employer identification number) for your New Mexico LLC. Your New Mexico LLC will simply be a holding company to keep your property ownership anonymous and out of the view of prying eyes.

What about taxes?

If you don’t derive an income from your New Mexico LLC you don’t need to pay any taxes.

What about non-American foreigners, can we open a New Mexico LLC?

Yes, foreigners can open a New Mexico LLC.

HOW TO OPEN A NEW MEXICO LLC

You have two ways to open a New Mexico LLC.

1. You can go through the state of New Mexico and open an LLC yourself or
2. You can hire a company to take care of all that stuff for you.

LLC’s are formed by filing an Articles of Organization with the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission Corporations Bureau.

You can file the Articles of Organization for a mere $50 (for foreigners, the price is $100).

• New Mexico Articles of Organization
• New Mexico Articles of Organization for Foreigners

If you open the New Mexico LLC yourself you will still need to use a New Mexico Registered Agent service, so you will come out of pocket around $200 or less. There are no yearly fees to the state of New Mexico, but you will have to pay for registered agent service yearly (or several years in advance).

If you wish to use a company to set up your LLC for you, you have a couple of options. You can either choose a name for your company or you can purchase a “shelf company”. A shelf company in an already-formed LLC that has never been used and is ready to go.

The cost to open a New Mexico LLC with a company (that includes registered agent service) is typically $325-$425. If you look around, sometimes you can get a good deal that includes 2 or 3 years of registered agent service included in that price.

When you put your property into a New Mexico LLC the junkyard dogs can sniff around all they want, but they will never be able to find what property you own or who the owner of an LLC is without a court order.

If you happen to get into a fender bender with a crazy person who jots down your license plate number in hopes of getting your address all they will find is a dead end.

If you wish to keep the equity in your house hidden you have a very easy solution, you assign the title of the house to your LLC and then you file a “friendly” mortgage with the LLC and you rent your own house from the LLC. If you own a 300k house, you file a 275k, or so, mortgage with the LLC.

If the junkyard dogs miraculously DO happen to get a court order exposing the ownership of the LLC, they will see that you have no equity in the home and it will be a waste of their time to proceed. Note: You do not have to make monthly payments to your LLC if you assign a mortgage to your house. You set the terms of the agreement (you don’t ever actually have to pay anything, to yourself).

Okey doke, friends. I hope you have seen the need and the value in protecting yourself and your assets. What’s mine is mine and I do what I can to keep it that way, and you should too.

If you’re a man of means you need to protect those means.

And if you aren’t a man of means, what are you waiting for?

-Victor Pride

PS – There are a million more reasons you need to keep your assets private, reasons that I did not discuss in this article; frivolous lawsuits are just one of many reasons. Even if you aren’t worried about frivolous lawsuits, it should not be anyone’s business but yours what you own. Why make it so that anyone can find out what you own?

I recently ran across this article entitled 21 Ways Rich People Think Differently Than Average People based on a book called How Rich People Think. I was immediately struck by the similarities between the writing on Bold and Determined and the thoughts of the rich elite. The 21 rules of the rich are in bold and my thoughts are underneath.

1) Average people think MONEY is the root of all evil. Rich people believe POVERTY is the root of all evil.

Average fellas are SCARED of money. You read that correctly. FEAR of money. You’ll hear average fellas say things like “I would never try and make money from this. I would never do this just for money” etc. Like money is AIDS and they would never try and get it. Everyone needs money because money is freedom.

This fear of money is a one-way ticket to average town. Everyone needs money, there is no damn reason to make excuses or justify it or be afraid of it. I want money. This is how I make my money. Deal with it. Don’t be ashamed of your need or want for money. Get out there and take it and leave the excuses for average Joe.

2) Average people think selfishness is a vice. Rich people think selfishness is a virtue.

Everyone is selfish, but there are two types of selfishness: overt selfishness and covert selfishness. You want to be OVERTLY selfish. Covert selfishness is for chicken shits. When you come right out and say “I want it my way and I’ll have it my way” you will get what you want. When you play the covertly selfish guy, also known as nice guy syndrome, you are only going to get shit on.

Nice guys aren’t nice guys, they’re chicken shits. They want the same thing overtly selfish guys want, money and women, but they’re too scared to come right out and demand it so they play nice and hope they’ll be able to manipulate that outcome. But it won’t happen, it’ll never happen. You want it? Take it. You want to eat shit? Play the nice guy game.

3) Average people have a lottery mentality. Rich people have an action mentality.

I hear these losers all the time, “if I could just win the lottery. If I could just get a chance. If my big break would come in” and blah blah blah. I don’t expect anything to be given to me. If I want it you can be damn sure I’ll go and get it. Play your stupid lottery, sit on your stupid couch in front of your stupid TV, and make your stupid excuses. Someone else is out there kicking ass and taking what is rightfully his.

4) Average people think the road to riches is paved with formal education. Rich people believe in acquiring specific knowledge.

Universities are leftist indoctrination facilities. And they are full of deluded morons. You must educate yourself. Any damn thing you want to learn about you can learn about. You don’t need to spend time in women’s studies to learn it. Every damn thing is on the internet, for free. If you want to learn about it the only thing stopping you is you. I will say it again and again: Everything you learn in college is useless if you want to be an entrepreneur and it’s up to YOU to learn your craft.

5) Average people long for the good old days. Rich people dream of the future.

Some people call it planning for the future, I like to call it visualization. Visualize the future and how you will be. Actually see yourself as you wish to be. The things we think tend to become reality (assuming you aren’t a delusional narcissist).

“Things used to be so great, but nowadays….” Forget that nonsense and mold your future the way you want it.

6) Average people see money through the eyes of emotion. Rich people think about money logically.

Money is like an extra emotion to poor people. They always have “money problems” and they’re always whining about it. For some damn reason they can’t ever have enough to pay rent and the car payment and the damn electric bill. I have been poor many times but I’ve never been so poor I couldn’t pay my bills and I’ve never been so poor I cried about it.

Forget about money as emotion, it’s just a damn game making money. Think about it like you think about your next 15 chess moves. Don’t be like these idiots living paycheck to paycheck and never having enough. Here’s a simple solution: If you’re poor…..DOWNSIZE!

…and then get to work, plan ahead, and quit spending your money on nonsense.

7) Average people earn money doing things they don’t love. Rich people follow their passion.

I don’t like the word passion, that’s a word for women’s romance novels, the correct word is obsession. Rich people follow their obsessions to the edge of the earth and beyond. Average people can’t understand this because their obsession stops at their favorite sports team or TV show or smoking pot or some other nonsense.

4 Hour Work Week is a cool little motivational book but you can’t take the title literally. If you’re going to find success in your field you are going to spend every waking minute thinking about it, you will have to be obsessed. Forget relaxing, forget taking a break, just give in to the obsession. 

8) Average people set low expectations so they’re never disappointed. Rich people are up for the challenge.

“Hey man, don’t worry about it. It’s no big deal. You expect too much. Let’s just watch the game!“

I have no time for this type of person. How any man could live his life so pathetically free of any and all challenge is beyond me. You get the same types in the gym. Type A is afraid to exert any real energy and Type B will go all the way. Type B will have the physique to show for it.

9) Average people believe you have to DO something to get rich. Rich people believe you have to BE something to get rich.

“What do I have to do to get rich?“

“Be the type of motherfucker that gets rich“.

Be a damn killer and go get it.

10) Average people believe you need money to make money. Rich people use other people’s money.

I’ll tell you boys, I made my first money using NONE of my own money. Not a penny. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. If you want it bad enough, as in you are obsessed with it, you will get it. Even if you only have $12 to your name, makes no difference. 

“I can’t make money because I don’t have any money“. Sounds pretty stupid doesn’t it?

“I have to make money because I don’t have any money” sounds much better.

11) Average people believe the markets are driven by logic and strategy. Rich people know they’re driven by emotion and greed.

I have no time for these people who constantly talk about logic and strategy. “I like logic. I deal with things logically.” Logic is only one part of the picture. If you look at everything logically you aren’t looking at the big picture and I’ll tell you why. Most people in the world do not think logically, they think emotionally. When you speak to them logically you are not getting through to them.

Most people in the world are dummies and they don’t think logically, they can’t think logically. But these “I’m so logical” types always assume that everyone else also thinks “logically”. If you think they think logically you are thinking like a dummy.  Not everyone thinks like you, in fact most people don’t even think. They just react. They’re idiots and shouldn’t be treated like they are masterful logicians, and they shouldn’t even be assumed to understand logic. Logical thinking is only half the puzzle.

12) Average people live beyond their means. Rich people live below theirs.

Again, these people can’t pay their phone bills at the end of the month. Live like a Spartan. Have money leftover. Hell, I live like a king and I barely spend any money. I’m able to live very well because of a little word called Geo-Arbitrage. Make money in dollars, spend in baht and I want for nothing.

My monthly expenses are bare minimum. Few bucks in rent for my high rise condo with pool view, few bucks for water and electric, few bucks for internet, few bucks for gym membership, few bucks for my maid, and a few bucks to run my websites. Easy, spartan, simple and clean. If need be, all those expenses can be reduced even further. I spend less money to live on now than I used to spend on just my mortgage.

13) Average people teach their children how to survive. Rich people teach their kids to get rich.

I had average parents who taught me how to be average. They didn’t know anything about making money but they sure were adamant that college and a full time job and saving for retirement was the answer. I wasted years following that stupidity. For most of my life I’ve been a fool, and a lot of you probably have too. But it’s not too late to wake up and start kicking ass instead of licking ass.

14) Average people let money stress them out. Rich people find peace of mind in wealth.

Money is freedom, baby. I can’t say this enough. Money buys you freedom. If you have money you don’t have to take orders. When you have money you have the pleasure of saying my favorite word, “no”. I do anything I want any time I want. I don’t ask permission.

15) Average people would rather be entertained than educated. Rich people would rather be educated than entertained.

Television, magazines, celebrity websites, sports – the mark of the average. If you can’t learn or earn from it, burn it. 

16) Average people think rich people are snobs. Rich people just want to surround themselves with like-minded people.

Rich people are different. After you’ve made it why would you ever want to go and hang out with losers who are jealous of you? Average people cannot hide their envy and jealousy. I have seen this look in their eyes, up close and personal, it is the most pathetic look I have ever seen and the most hateful look I have ever seen.

They made the poor decision to go and waste their life at a job and now you’re a demon because you are free and have money. You took the time to educate yourself, you took the time to make your own money, you took the chance, you did all the work and they look at you like you got lucky and they have the gall to get enviously angry at you. It has often been noted that you end up exactly like the people you hang out with, so say goodbye to the losers, be elitist and hang out with the winners.

17) Average people focus on saving. Rich people focus on earning.

How many people have told you of the wonderful benefits of saving for retirement and how you can finally live like a king when you’re 65? None of those people seemed to be living large, though. Weird, huh? Can it be that they have no clue what they’re yammering about?

I choose to live like a king right now, I’m too selfish and impatient to wait. To afford my lifestyle I had to quit my damn job and focus on earning on my own. And it was the best decision I ever made.

18) Average people play it safe with money. Rich people know when to take risks.

What I have found is that when I take big risks, the kind of risks that give me nausea, diarrhea and anxiety for days, they tend to payoff for me. For some damn reason I have been able to risk my money many times and have always made it back plus some extra. It has always been when I didn’t take a risk, when I chose to hang on to the money I had, that I burned through it and was left broke. You can never, ever make it without risking something. 

19)  People love to be comfortable. Rich people find comfort in uncertainty.

Average people don’t want to do any damn thing except eat snacks and watch TV. Wasting your days at a 9-5 and wasting your nights in front of the TV on a La-z-boy recliner with a bag of chips is comfortable for some, I guess, but it always made me miserable. Personally, I hate relaxing. It’s such a damn waste of time. 

20) Average people never make the connection between money and health. Rich people know money can save your life.

“Well, at least I have my health“.

This saying always makes me laugh a little. What they are really saying is “my life is terrible….but at least I’m alive“. I’d rather be dead than be 65 years old and living on social security and medicare. I’d rather be dead than be old and living on a fixed income and relying on the government to give me my “pills”.

Not only does money give you peace of mind, which can save your damn life from high blood pressure and stress, but it also buys the best medical care and the best drugs.

21) Average people believe they must choose between a great family and being rich. Rich people know you can have it all.

Average people are excuse-makers. “I chose to have a family instead of going into business“. Bullshit, you chose mediocrity because you’re mediocre. Lie to yourself all you want, but I can see through those lies a mile away. If you were driven and not a liar you would let your family motivate you to give them a better life. A family isn’t a burden or an obstacle in making money, it’s an excuse to be lazy and coast at a job.

Rich people demand more out of life, and they get it. Demand more, especially from yourself, and your quality of life will go up. Demand more from your personal relationships and you will get more. Demand more from your business partners and you will get more. If they don’t want to play ball then fuck ’em, find others who want to play. It’s a big world out there and there is plenty for your taking. Be a man and take it.

Bonus #22 – Rich people all have self discipline.

The end.

Friends of Bold and Determined, you may have noticed a dearth of posts in the last 6 months. I took a detour into bodybuilding, with all that entails, and as I have said many times multi-tasking is for girls. You do one thing until you have it complete and then you move on. My build is now how I wish it to be, more or less, and during that time my business grew and supported me with no hiccups. All is well. Now…….

This month I have had to make the decision many times to either renew some domains I purchased one year ago or to drop them. I ended up dropping a ton of domains, because they were quite stupid, but it reminded me of how motivated I was one year ago. One year ago I was beyond determined to make my money 100% online and to make Bold and Determined my lifeblood money maker. And I succeeded. I have been able to do minimal work for 6 months and not only make a livable income but my business actually grew during that time. I can quite literally do nothing for a month and have money coming in.

Not working is fine and dandy if you have other endeavors you are working on, say taking your bodybuilding to the next level, but one has to realize that having a great build is not the most important thing in life. The most important thing in life is having an ever-increasing stream of money, security and freedom and having a reason to require money, security and freedom. The future is coming for all of us and each of us should be prepared. And as far as I am concerned men should be constantly building, and for the future an empire should be built. To me, building an empire is the only worthwhile life goal. Follow the lead of the great Arnold Schwarzenegger. He built the world’s best body, but he was not satisfied with merely being a body, he went on to create an empire and no matter how much of a liar he is, no matter how much of a sociopath he is, no matter how out of his mind on steroids he is, no matter how many maids he fucked he is still an admirable man worthy of study and emulation.

It has recently come to the forefront of my mind that my mood is directly influenced by money. How much I have right now, how much I have coming to me, how much I plan to make, how much I need to spend, how I will acquire it etc. After having this revelation it has occurred to me that the only thing I care about is this: Seeing dollar signs in my email when I wake up in the morning.

More important than how great my abs look, more important than how full my upper arms are, more important than how good my girlfriend sucked my dick, more important than good news from friends and family, more important than anything, for my mood, is how much money is coming to me and the process and building up that money. If I don’t make as much money as I want then I am in a dark mood and the remedy for that dark mood is $$$$$, just as the remedy for hunger is a plate full of chicken and rice.

Many will say silly things like “Well, you should just be a man and get your emotions in order and never show anger“. My emotions are in order, when I don’t have the money I require I get angry and volatile, I don’t fix that by shrugging my shoulders and saying “Que sera, sera“, I fix it by making some money. If you do not have what you require you should be mad as hell until you fix it.

If I don’t wake up in the morning to an email full of orders I am not going to be in the best mood possible and just as when my belly is hungry I can be volatile. When I am well fed then I am calm, cool, pleasant and happy. The obvious solution to always be in a great mood is to constantly be improving the money situation.

Money buys freedom. Freedom from calling another man boss, freedom of location, freedom of time, freedom to say “no”, and freedom of anxiety from not having any money.

“You have just received a payment” is music to my ears. And if that email says something else, well, I just don’t care.

There is a lot of this “Stay hungry. Always be hungry” type of mindset which I do not necessarily agree with. It is impossible to be well fed and hungry. If you’re hungry, you eat until you are full. Being hungry sucks. I say Always Be Building. You don’t have to be hungry to be a builder, you just need a goal, a commitment, time and a reason. Take as many detours as you like, but keep that end goal firmly in your mind. Right now I make 3.5 grand per month doing nothing because of what I built  2 years ago, 1 year ago, 6 months ago, and even the work I did these past 6 months. Now I expect to make 8+ grand per month doing a lot more work. For the fellas interested in how I do it I basically spelled out my entire game plan in the So You Want to Be a Professional Blogger series. What I did was not hard, I don’t like hard work. I like simple and I kept it simple and maybe more importantly I enjoyed what I was doing so much that I would even forget to eat. The most simple thing in the world is to do your duty day in and day out, time after time, day after day until it is where you want it to be. That’s all I did, I kept at it for 2 years until I had it where I wanted it, and right at the end of those two years I kicked it into overdrive. Routine, overdrive, routine, overdrive, relax, overdrive, routine. This is how you build something special.

-Victor Pride

PS – Make one dollar this week doing something new. Make two dollars next week. If you can make one, you can make two, if you can make two you can make four. If you can make four, well, you can make anything. I’d say good luck but it would be a lie, luck is made by you and you only. All that luck shit is in your head, consider yourself lucky and you will be. I’m the luckiest man in the world and I mean it.

Everybody says they want freedom.

At least that’s what they tell me.

They always say “I want freedom!”

But they always follow it up with… “I just don’t want to do the hard work required to attain it.”

I always want to say to them:

You already work hard. Right now you have nothing to show for it and you’re always tried and frazzled at the end of the work day.

If you simply shifted focus onto achieving your freedom you’ll still have to work hard but at the end of the day you will have something to show for it – freedom and success.

So rather than ending your days frazzled and tired, you could end your days wired and inspired, just like me.

And actually, achieving financial freedom so much easier than you think it is.

If you knew the 6 secrets to achieving freedom you wouldn’t even think it was hard work, just plain old common sense.”

However…

They don’t listen so I don’t bother talking to them.

You, on the other hand, have a yearning for freedom and a thirst for the knowledge of how to obtain it.

You wouldn’t be here if you didn’t want to know the secrets of freedom.

So for you, friend, here they are…

The 6 Secrets of Financial Freedom

Here are the 6 absolute ways you remain free.

Follow these rules and flourish, disregard these rules and fail.

The choice is yours, but never say you have not been educated in the ways of the free man.

1) Never go into debt for any reason

Listen to me clearly…

Debt is slavery.

• You will be enslaved if you take loans at interest.
• You will be a slave if you use credit cards.
• You will be a slave if you get a mortgage for your house.
• You will be a slave if you get a loan for your automobile.

Can you remember what I said?

Debt is slavery.

Eliminate all debt from your life immediately and forever.

If you remember only one thing in this life it it this: NEVER GO INTO DEBT FOR ANY REASON.

Never take loans for any reason unless these loans are at 0% interest.

Usury is slavery. You will not be free if you owe interest.

Don’t get credit card for any reason. A credit card is a cleverly named debt card.

2) Never buy anything unless you have enough cash to buy 10 of them

It is important to pay cash for everything you purchase, but it is also important to have ENOUGH cash to pay for everything you need.

If you have 10k in the bank you should never pay 10k for an automobile.

If you have 10k in the bank you should purchase an automobile for 1k.

NEVER exhaust your money supply by buying something too expensive.

You should have at minimum 10X the amount of cash as the cost of whatever you want to purchase.

Never buy luxury until the luxury seems cheap.

Be happy with less because the reality is this: The more you have the less happy you are.

3) Pay cash for your house and automobile

I say: “Pay cash for everything you purchase!”

They hear: “Pay cash for everything you purchase except for your house and car, it’s ok to get a loan for those.”

No, no, no, goddamn no!

Pay cash for your house! Do not get a mortgage, ever. Never!

Pay cash for your automobile. Do not get an auto loan, ever. Never!

You will never be free with a mortgage or an auto loan. it is only when you are free and clear of any and all debt that you are actually free.

The most enslaving device in this world is a mortgage, the 2nd most enslaving device is an auto loan.

Do not purchase ANYTHING unless you have cash money to purchase it.

If you don’t have the cash to purchase a house, rent instead.

Or be a nomad like your ancestors were.

4) Don’t work at a job, build a business

You already know this well: jobs are for slaves.

You give away the product of your labor to your boss (imagine grown men calling another man “boss”).

When you build your business you do exactly the same amount of work you do by working a job.

But!

When you build a business you get to KEEP the product of your labor.

Building a business is the gift that keeps on giving.

Imagine this…

You get paid for doing your work but you also get paid in the future for the work you did in the past.

When you work a job you only get paid for what you do right now.

If the work you do right now makes the company 10 million dollars in the future you get to keep exactly zero of that extra future income.

However when you own and build your own business, you keep all of the future profits instead of giving away the product of your hard labor.

Building a business is win-win. Pick something your enjoy doing and do it every day.

5) Don’t keep up with the neighbors

Keeping up with the neighbors habit of “buying” toys is a race to see who can be a bigger slave.

“Honey, the neighbors bought a new 100k boat with a loan. We should buy a 200k boat with a loan to show them who is more successful!”

The most successful is the one who has these 2 things:

1. No debt
2. Cash ready to spend.

Your neighbors are grown-up children, they see toys and they have to have them, no matter what the cost is.

In the end these toys cost you your soul, so don’t keep up with the neighbors. Let them drown in their own greed and stupidity.

6) Never be greedy

It is your own greed that enslaves you.

To understand how greed enslaves you, you must understand our money system…

Money is just a means to an end. Money is not inherently valuable.

Our money is not backed by gold. Our money is created out of thin air by the central bank.

They give this money created out of thin air to you as a loan They ask that you pay interest on this money that was created out of thin air.

They want you to pay back more money than exists in the world.

The secret of loans is that they can never be fully repaid.

There is not enough printed money in the world to pay back all of the loans in the world. The money supply is not big enough to pay back loans.

What does this mean?

If you do not have the backbone to say no to buying stuff you will be in constant debt to the money lenders.

Forever.

Until you get out of the usury business you are always a slave. To get out of the usury system it is only necessary to give up greed.

ALWAYS BE VIGILANT.

Understand that debt is not necessary for you to live. It is a tool of slavery.

If you want to be free, you have to understand this money system exists only to enslave you and this system exploits your need and greed for new toys.

All you have to do, friend, is say no.

Make your money the old-fashioned way, by doing some type of work or service.

When you have enough of these dollars in your pocket you can buy a house, a car, a whatever.

But never buy this stuff before you have the money. Never let greed takeover your life because it is your simple-minded greed that allows you to be enslaved.

Don’t be greedy and don’t be stupid anymore. You are now armed with the knowledge of how to obtain freedom for yourself and for your family.

What did we learn about freedom?

1. Never go into debt for any reason – Debt = Slavery, this is not hyperbole it is reality.
2. Never buy anything unless you have enough cash to buy 10 of them – Spending cash haphazardly will force you to do stupid things to obtain more money.
3. Pay cash for your house and automobile – Home and auto loans are the biggest hurdle to achieving freedom.
4. Don’t work at a job, build a business – A business of your own is how you obtain future wealth rather than being paid a day wage for your precious time.
5. Don’t keep up with the neighbors – Being envious of the neighbors toys and gadgets will take you right to the bottom.
6. Never be greedy – In the end, you will understand that is was your own greed and naivety that enslaved you.

These 6 simple steps show you how to stay free my friendly friends.

The rest is up to you…

Will you achieve freedom?

Or are you perfectly happy in slavery?

Who knows, friend.

They all say they want freedom but when it comes right down to it, I’m not so sure…

Until next time.

Your man,

-Victor Pride

1) Physically build something – Nothing says girly man like an inability to build even the most simplest of objects. If you can’t build a bookshelf or a nightstand its high-time you get to building. I tell you, one of the only physical things I truly value is a high-end bookshelf my father made for me many years ago. Since that time I have moved probably a dozen times and I’ve even sold 100% of my furniture, but I still have the bookshelf. It’s the things we build with our own hands, with our own sweat, that are worth something in this life. You can give me an entire Ikea store or keep my bookshelf and I will keep my bookshelf.

2) Build a business – Working for someone else is a soul-killer. Taking orders is for order-takers. Building a business will teach you more about life than all your schooling and work experience combined. There is nothing more satisfying than seeing a big-fat check with your name on it as a result of all your sweat equity. Building your own business(s) will develop unwavering confidence in your abilities. Leave the modesty for the modest. You can’t be modest and be a big-dog.

3) Take privacy seriously – It’s a new world, boys. All that seemingly harmless information you give to the internet can and may come back to haunt you. Your name here, your address there, your date of birth here, your social security number there and pretty soon a social engineer has all your information and will take you to the cleaners. It will be a very nasty process trying to get all your dough back after a clever hack robbed you blind because you GAVE AWAY all of your information.

4) Own his online name – See above. Every man should own HisOwnName.com. Whether you want to use it or not. Your name is your identity, it’s your reputation, and you should own it. One day in the future you may want to sell your consulting services online and you want the instant credibility of a dot com behind your name, but if you wait you will not get it. Domains are only going to become harder and harder to come by. If you have a common name like John Smith you will never get your own dot com with your name (unless you use initials like JRSmith.com or something similar) but if you have an uncommon name you should grab your name dot com domain RIGHT NOW. Someday in the future you may have enemies who wish to harm you, they could grab yourname.com and do some real reputation damage. Go to badnet.com and get yourname.com immediately. Domains run less than $10 per year and now you have peace of mind knowing you own your name and insurance against anyone else owning it.

5) Lift weights – Every reader of BOLD & DETERMINED knows this. Weights are for men. Little baby boys have Olive Oyl arms and fat bellies. Get in the gym and kill it. Lifting weights will teach you how to push yourself to the limit. It will teach you about setting and reaching goals. It will give you confidence in yourself and your abilities. And it will make you STRONG.

6) Eat meat – Meat is what produces testosterone, testosterone is what makes men. All those vegetarian dweebs you see are effeminate for a reason.

7) Dress for success – You can tell everything about a person by the way they dress. Filthy, dirty hippies dress like filthy, dirty hippies and you can tell instantly that they a) have no work ethic, b) want to steal from you and yours, c) hate everything good, wholesome and strong, d) deserve a punch in the face.

Clean and Sharp is the rule. You don’t need to wear a three piece double breasted suit everyday but you do need to be clean and sharp and ready for business.

8) Wet Shave – Shaving with a disposable razor is like shaving with a toy. When you grow up, you’re supposed to stop playing with toys. Men should shave with real razors like their grandfathers did before them. Wet shaving isn’t just shaving and grooming, it’s a ritual.

You get out your razor, and shaving cream, and badgers hair brush.

You wet the badgers hair brush and take the brush across your whiskers to wet them.

You mix up the water and your shaving cream in a coffee mug.

You lather up your face, you really work in the cream in between all the whiskers.

You get out your dual sided safety razor and you start shaving, being careful not to cut yourself because it’s extremely sharp. By the time you are done there is not a single whisker to be found. Your face is as smooth as a baby’s.

9) Shake hands – The hand shake is how men greet and address each other. The ‘fist bump’ and other assorted bullshit is how lower forms of life greet each other. A firm handshake is an indicator of strength and respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others. The fist bump shows a clear lack of respect for tradition, strength and pride. Fist bumpers deserve a fist bump to the face.

10) Follow the 30 Days of Discipline bootcamp for winners – Discipline is the mark of a man. A man can control himself. A man sets goals and follows through. A man does what he aims to do. A man does not let baloney get in his way of achievement.

11) Keep a Positive Mental Attitude – Read motivating works and listen to motivating music. Despair art and sad music can easily put us into a depressed mood. Uplifting art can uplift you and put you in a positive state of mind. Just say no to despair blogs, sad music and whiny bullshit. Say yes to high energy art.

12) Own your car outright – Debt is slavery. If you have to make payments on your car you can’t afford it. Buy a cheaper one and pay ALL CASH. 48 months of payments is a long time to pay to get from point A to point B. If you have the dough, go ahead and splurge on a luxury car. If you don’t have the dough, work and build until you do have the dough. Until then, drive something cheaper. Remember, if you can’t afford it in cash you don’t deserve it. LIVE LIKE A SPARTAN.

13) Be loyal to blood – The thing about lowlife liberals is that they hate everything about their race and culture and wish to destroy it. They hate the strength and pride of tradition. Nonsense, embrace the traditional and embrace your blood. When push comes to shove all you have is your blood. No one else will ever do for you in times of need. Blood first, everything else a very, very distant second.

14) Stop watching porn – Heavy porn watchers are always Low-T having, light avoiding, pussy repellent boys. It’s embarrassing to be a masturbator and it is shameful. No matter what the degenerate liars on tv say, it is nothing to be proud of. If someone walked in on you masturbating you would feel righteous shame. When you give up the porn you have time for more important things, like building a business, having more energy, attracting women, and being a damn man.

15) Never supplicate to women – Men are the rightful leaders. When you give your power over to a woman you are truly a vile little specimen. Women don’t deserve undo praise and they certainly do not deserve everything men deserve. You’ve got to be the leader of your woman. If you aren’t the leader of your women you are her follower. A follower is also known as a chump or a cuckold. Don’t be a chump, be a champ!

16) Just say no – Forget the excuses after you say “no”.

Punk version:

Someone: Do you want to help me take care of my sick grandma?

Punk: Oh, well, I would but you know, I have this and that to do and I just don’t have the time…

Man version:

Someone: Do you want to help me take care of my sick grandma?

Man: No.

17) Seek out adventure – What is life if without adventure? BORING. Jump off some cliffs. Run a Spartan death race. Go to Mexico and avoid being kidnapped. Jump from an airplane. Life is for the living, baby. Have fun with it.

18) Take cold showers – Cold showers will turn a sissy into a man. Cold showers are the best. Cold showers refresh you. They make you feel alive. Cold showers get your blood pumping and your lungs working. Cold showers are how a man should start his day.

19) Don’t talk too much – Talking too much about your future plans fools your mind into thinking you’ve already accomplished it. The more you talk about your goals, the LESS LIKELY you are to accomplish them. The rule is don’t say nothing until you’ve accomplished. Before you accomplish you’re just a talker, after you accomplish you’re a walker.

20) Know how to throw a punch – You’ll probably never have to fight anyone in your life. Doesn’t mean you don’t need to know how to throw a punch. Knowing how to throw a punch will give you the confidence you need if ever confronted. There is no reason to go through life not knowing how to do something as simple as throwing a punch.

Besides, punching a heavy bag is a lot of fucking fun.

21) Stay out of debt – Debt is prison. As long as you are in debt you will always be a prisoner. CASH IS KING. If you have the cash, pay for it. If you don’t have the cash, SAVE UP! It is one thing to use credit cards to take advantage of frequent flier miles and other points, it’s another to use credit cards because you can’t afford to buy your girlfriend Christmas gifts. STAY OUT OF DEBT AT ALL COSTS.

22) Subscribe to the BOLD & DETERMINED email updates – Come on. It’s free and it isn’t spammy. It’s full of kick-ass shit you don’t get anywhere else on the internet. [Note: We used to have two different mail services, now we have one. If you aren’t getting email updates and you want them you will need to sign up again.]

23) Never rely on anyone else for your income – It’s a changing world, baby. Jobs are going everywhere except right here. Wherever it’s cheaper, that’s where the jobs go. You cannot rely on a job to provide for you. You got to be a motivator and make your own living. It’s all up to you, a job can be taken away at any moment.

24) Be proud – Pride is a sin? It’s a sin to be a little bitch.

25) Be fit – We already said a man must lift weights, but lifting isn’t enough to give you a hardbody. You’ve got to take control of your diet and supplement regimen. If you’re a fatso you may have to do some cardio as well. Have you ever had someone touch your arms and her eyes go wide? It’s a great feeling. Have you ever heard someone say “Whoa!” when you took your shirt off? My program Body of a Spartan is the best program on the internet for natural, drug free trainers.

26) Never argue with idiots – Arguing is a waste of time. In any argument one person is right and one person is wrong. Why would the person who is right waste time with the person who is wrong? A stupid person will never be able to understand that they are stupid and wrong, but you make a fool of yourself when you treat stupid people as if they were smart and capable of understanding the truth. If they were smart and capable of understanding the truth then you wouldn’t be arguing in the first place. Arguing is for children. It is unbecoming of a man to be caught acting like a child.

27) Not spend all day on social networking sites – These sites are for girls. Liberated women who are so independent that they have all the time in the world to whine about how there are no real men. Stay the fuck off of these places, there are better uses of your time. (Don’t forget to like this post so your facebook friends can show up and get the kick in the ass they need).

28) Hold yourself accountable – It’s all up to you. If you want it to happen and you put in the work and sweat equity it’s all your fault if it succeeds or fails. Blaming others is the cowards way out.

29) Give 110% at all times – Winning isn’t everything, if you’re a loser. It’s one thing to give it your all and come out 2nd or 3rd best. It’s another to put in only half effort. Half effort motherfuckers are dead to me. You’re either full on 100% or you’re a ghost.

30) Live Like a Spartan – Don’t spend your money frivolously and haphazardly. Keep your body lean, keep your mind mean and keep your credit clean. Simplify your life. It makes things so much easier.

31) Like, retweet, or share this post!

32) BE BOLD.

“Fortune Favors the Bold”

-Old Latin Proverb

It has been my experience that 98 out of every 100 men are like weeds in the wind.

They bend this way and they bend that way, whichever way the wind is blowing that day.

It has further been my experience that 2 men out of every 100 men stand firm regardless of which way the wind is blowing.

Now I know the title of this article is “How to be a man” but that is not entirely true. The subject of this article is “How to be a great man.”

Notice the word great. Anyone can be a man, it takes something more to become a great man. I aim to show you the way to be superior to the the average man.

I don’t care to show you how to shave, or pee standing up, or to show you which deodorant is the manliest, I care only to show you the way to become great.

If you want to be a real man, go fart in a beer can and laugh about it with all the other morons sitting on the bar-stools next to you.

If you want to be a great man, put away the distractions and read this list with undivided attention…

HOW TO BE A GREAT MAN

1) Open your eyes to reality

It is the #1 duty of a leader to make sure his eyes are open. It sounds obvious but it isn’t. When I speak simple truths to people they look at me like I’m an alien. As if to say “b-b-b-but you cannot say that! Truth should be ignored!”

So many people are oblivious to reality. They would rather believe in a fairy tale of a third eye rather than open their two regular eyes to see the world as it is.

Here is an example, I found this comment on a random YouTube video:

“Majority of the population has there eyes sewed shut with there heads in the sand .. Its time to wake up open your third eyes’ and see everything and anything you want..”

Wouldn’t it make more sense to simply open your eyes and remove your head from the sand? Actually, that is too obvious and 98% of people cannot see the obvious. This is their grave misfortune and your great fortune.

Their blind attitude is an invitation to bad luck and bad luck is not fit for a man of fortune. A man of fortune has to see the opportunity to take advantage of it.

2) Develop a lucky attitude

Luck comes to men who have a good luck mindset. Bad luck comes to the men who always say this: “I have the worst luck!”

Listen here and listen well: Words are magic spells. That is why we spell words.

Every word you say becomes true so never say negative things in relation to yourself. Every bad word you use is black magic and every positive word you use is white magic.

Do not be foolish and cast a bad luck spell on yourself. Use positive words like this:

• I am so lucky
• I have the best luck
• I have great fortune
• I am the luckiest man alive
• Good fortune comes to me like birds come to trees

Becoming lucky is very easy to do. When you’re lucky, people will start paying attention to you.

3) Make people pay attention to you

Gene Simmons from KISS tells a great story to illustrate my point…

When I was a little kid, up in the hills of Israel, my friend Shlomo and I — he was a Moroccan Jew — went up the hills of Mount Carmel. People used to come home from work, and the very last stop on the bus stop was the beginning of Mount Carmel, the village.

I remember — Shlomo and I went to the top of the hill and picked cactus fruit. I remember when I first was sitting there as the first bus rolled in, we didn’t make a lot of noise. I must have been about six, and Shlomo must have been seven or eight.

I didn’t say anything — I was waiting for them to come over, because I’ve got cold cactus fruit. Nobody came over. Then I went, ‘Hey!’, and more people came over.

The bigger of a nuisance and the bigger a spectacle that I made of myself, the more we sold.

That’s the first lesson of mother nature and in show business — when the mother bird brings back a juicy worm, who do you think’s going to get the worm: the biggest bird, the healthiest bird, or the sickliest little putz that squeaks the loudest?

You have to grab life by the scruff of the neck and demand to pay you some attention.

You will only get the respect you demand. You have to puff out your chest, and if you don’t have it, fake it.” 

Like Gene said, do what you have to do to get what you want.

4) Say no to zen

Zen is self-help for people who don’t actually want to do anything to help themselves. Here is a perfect example zen nonsense advice:

“Being in the here and now and being at one with yourself is the ultimate cure. In other words, not letting your mind wander into the past / future. Stop identifying with your thoughts, live in the here and now, and everything else happens easily and organically.”

Let’s quickly break this advice down so you may understand why it is nonsense.

• “Being in the here and now and being at one with yourself is the ultimate cure” = Zen mumbo jumbo that means absolutely nothing and gives you no concrete next step.
• “Not letting your mind wander into the past / future” = Don’t learn from the past and don’t plan for the future, which is a great way to get nowhere.
• “Stop identifying with your thoughts” = Schizophrenia

What these zen people are telling you is that thoughts without action will get you results and that you can ignore your body and still get results. Don’t make me laugh.

THE BODY IS THE MIND.

Your body is the physical projection of your mind. If you keep your body supremely healthy your mind will be supremely healthy.

Don’t you think there is a reason that Superman looks like Superman and not like the Penguin? If Superman looked like the Penguin do you really think he would be the same man with the same mindset? Get real.

If your body looked like Superman your mind would be like Superman because the mind is the body (and both need to be kept healthy).

5) Don’t use drugs and don’t drink alcohol regularly

To be a great man of business you must always be of a calm, clear mind.

There is no other way to say it but to say it plainly: drugs and alcohol will ruin you if you make a habit of using them regularly.

This is one area where I really do recommend moderation or total abstinence. A glass of wine with dinner is fine. A beer or two is fine. Making a habit of getting and being intoxicated is not.

PT Barnum said it well:

As no man can succeed in business unless he has a brain to enable him to lay his plans, and reason to guide him in their execution, so, no matter how bountifully a man may be blessed with intelligence, if the brain is muddled, and his judgment warped by intoxicating drinks, it is impossible for him to carry on business successfully.”

Nearly all mentally ill and depressed people have a problem with drugs and alcohol. Here are a few people who loved drugs and alcohol (notice how they ended up):

• Kurt Cobain
• Jimi Hendrix
• Chester Bennington
• Chris Cornell
• Layne Staley
• Heath Ledger

Everybody who stays in the party scene can expect a) their minds to turn to mush and b) to one day wake up in jail, the nuthouse, the intensive care unit, or the morgue where they won’t wake up at all.

Jail is the best you ca hope for when you play around with the hard stuff and that is why so many jailbirds say “I go to jail to clean up.”

Spending your life wasted is just wasting your life.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking I am speaking of performance enhancing drugs, I am speaking only of performance decreasing drugs. Performance enhancing drugs are almost a necessity in this world.

6) Maintain high testosterone and low estrogen levels

Pictured: High testosterone man brushing his teeth

Hormones are everything. To be a true man you have to have high testosterone and low estrogen. Ladyboys like Crazy Uncle Caitlyn have wacky hormones.

Update your testosterone before you become gay.

To be a 100% man it is necessary to control your hormones to the best of your ability using any methods that actually work.

Which leads my to the next rule, which is very mild and easy to follow…

7) Don’t get butt-fuckedred

Recently I stayed in a hotel that had the restrooms outside, separated from the neighbor’s restroom by only a small brick wall so I could hear the neighbors. One day I heard 2 German fellows showering together, laughing about dropping the soap and playing grab-ass. They were laughing and just having a really great time and right then I thought to myself: “Good lord that’s gay.”

Now I’m no member of the moral police and I really don’t care if someone is gay, but nobody is going to confuse a fruity fellow with a great man.

“But Victor, it’s totally normal for 2 guys to butt-fuck each other lol!”

Yeah right. Nobody is going to high-five you for butt-fucking another man. A great man is only born from a father and a mother, so…

8) Pick the right wife

I don’t recommend getting married, the cons outweigh the benefits. But if you do get married you must pick the right wife. Here’s how…

Your wife is your business partner not your one true love. A marriage will be the greatest business partnership you ever form and you must choose wisely.

If you marry someone for love you are making a foolish decision. Love and looks will fade in time, you will be left only with attitude. Your wife has to have a positive mental attitude jut like you. Together, with a shared common goal, you will be able to do many great things that are impossible to do if you were alone.

Speaking of love, it isn’t really real. “Love” is an infatuation that happens when

• a) someone cares less about you than you care about them or
• b) a lovely looking lady has bewitched you with her looks.

We all know men who become stupid when they meet a pretty girl. This is because they have been bewitched. Bewitching happens when pretty girls use charm and sex to put a hex on you. This is why it is very important to choose a wife for more than just looks.

“I don’t believe in love at first sight. I think it’s a grave mistake. You’re attracted by physical characteristics and you will regret it.” -Lee Kuan Yew

In the quest for great success, her helpful attitude is much more important than her looks and glamour. Chasing her looks will end up with her in complete control of you. Chasing glamour can cause otherwise capable men to lose everything.

Remember this, she is your BUSINESS PARTNER. Make sure your business partner has the same positive mental attitude and the same goal as you. Your partnership can produce grand things or it can produce total ruin.

Choose the right wife by her attitude and willingness to go with you on your journey to greatness. Don’t ever “do the right thing” and get married to try and be a good guy because being too nice will be your ruin.

9) Don’t be too nice

Do you remember the story I told you about the invisible little girl in the supermarket?

“I was shopping at the local supermarket the other day and in front of me in line was a little girl.

She looked like she was waiting to pay for something, but she didn’t say anything so no one paid any attention to her.

She was at the front of the checkout line. There were about 3 people in front of me. They all purchased their food and left, the little girl just silently stood there.

When I got to the front of the line, I looked at the little girl and I looked at the cashier. I said “what does this little girl want?”

Finally the cashier looked at the little girl and asked her what she wanted. The little girl said she wanted to buy some candy.

She was too nice to say anything so she just waited until somebody acknowledged her before she could buy her candy.

Finally after she was asked what she wanted, she was able to buy her candy and leave.”

Do you know what I realized after seeing the invisible little girl? Being too nice can make you invisible in this world.

It’s ok to be nice as a kiddo, but when you grow up it’s time to grow some balls because nice guys are treated worse than invisible.

Nobody respects nice guys because nice guys don’t demand respect or command fear. In other words, they have the characteristics of what is scientifically called a “pussy”.

Being nice can become your demise, you gotta be a little mean to get the green.

10) Make a lot of money

Friend, let’s face reality. You’re not really much of a man if you’re broke, are you? That is because money is a manifestation of your mentality as a man.

When I started making big money people started treating me with big respect. Not because I flash money, but because my mentality matured and I silently started to command respect. When you can command money, you can command the world.

Making big money has nothing to do with luck, it has everything to do with your ability as a man of will (not skill). Men of will have money.

“Rich people are creators of circumstance.” -Jordan Belfort

“But Victor, you can’t take money with you when you die!!!!!” -Loser Guy

When you die you cannot take potato chips, snack cakes and soda pop with you either but it doesn’t stop you from consuming them every day in front of your internet porno screen.

“…touché.” -Loser Guy

11) Stop using internet porn

Internet porn saps your precious vital energy and darkens your eyes and your soul. Be a real life sex god, don’t be a dark bedroom computer weirdo.

Sex in real life GIVES YOU VITAL ENERGY. Internet porn takes it away.

Also, do not be addicted to social media. It is unbecoming of a man to gossip on social media all day long.

Being a great man requires you to live in the real world and do real things that benefit real people. When you spend all of your time watching internet porn or watching social media all you do is waste away.

If you love to stare at words so much why waste your eyes reading social media when you could be reading true knowledge?

12) Be well read

In my large home in Los Angeles I started with a small library in the corner. The library eventually grew to any overtake any open spot in the home. At first I had a small library in my home then I had a small home in my library.

I eventually sold, gave away or trashed all of my possessions except for my books which are in safe storage until my return. Knowledge is too valuable to just give away to the uninitiated and unconcerned.

All great men of knowledge gained their knowledge the exact same way: By being voracious book readers AND applying that knowledge to real life situations.

All of the knowledge in the known world is inside of books, the more books you read the more knowledge you gain.

Be sure to put the knowledge to use because knowledge unused is worthless.

Nobody appreciates a book-worm nerd who never accomplished anything. Everybody respects well-read men who put their knowledge to use.

Put the best books for men on your bookshelf and earn the knowledge of the ages. These great authors of the ages will teach you very valuable life lessons.

13) Always wear a mask of success

Success requires you wear a mask of success. You must never be “caught with your pants down”. Wearing a mask is not about hiding, it is about showing only the best aspects of your personality.

Always be “on” by wearing a proverbial mask and never let anyone catch you slipping. Relax in private, never relax in public. In public, you show your best self.

For example, just because you woke up in a bad mood one day does not mean you need to show it to other people. You’ve got to always put your best foot forward.

14) Develop a personal uniform

I recently grew my hair long and grew a hippie beard and I noticed one thing: people treated me like a disgusting hippie bum. They would hassle me at airline customs for no reason (other than the obvious). When I shaved the beard and got a terrific haircut, people again started treating me like royalty.

People treat you better when you are dressed well. This is just a fact of life.

Friend, it is all in the presentation. If you present the best version of yourself people will treat you like the best version of yourself. This is why it is important to dress well every day.

To dress well every single day without fail you should do what Nate recommends and develop a personal uniform. All of the greats from Jobs to Lincoln had a very distinct look.

15) Work every day

Working every day is the magic that makes great things happen and saves a man’s soul. You want to live in heaven? Heaven is found in the discipline of daily work. Want to live in hell? Don’t do any work.

There is a big reason why welfare bums are miserable (they don’t work). When you don’t work every day you have no desire for life. Without a reason to work every day there is no reason to live life.

Work is desire. Work is freedom. A day off is a day of slavery to boredom and longing and sloth.

“I hated days off!” -Jerry Rice

Don’t you see it is the discipline of developing and keeping a work schedule that keeps you free?

Take advantage of nature’s remedy and develop a rock solid work ethic. It is easy to have an indestructible work ethic when you work for something bigger than yourself.

16) Have a muse that makes you work for more

Muse = a person or personified force who is the source of inspiration for a creative artist.

It is only when you work for something bigger than yourself that you begin to accomplish great things. Nobody cares about themselves in the way that they care about the object of their desire.

When you have a muse you work towards something bigger than yourself and you will accomplish something bigger than yourself.

(Of course, accomplishing something big requires you to go out on your own…)

17) Be a high energy entrepreneur

Sorry, but you cannot be a great man if you call another man, or woman, “boss”. Responsibility is always the very first step to freedom. To be a great man is to accept great responsibility.

Letting somebody else be your boss, and letting them be responsible for you, costs you the opportunity to be a great man.

To be a great man is to walk out into the unknown, on your own. It takes balls of steel to become an entrepreneur because entrepreneurs have no safety net. It is do or die.

All great men of the world have gone into the unknown and come back with their treasure.

Treasure is only for leaders so learn how to be a leader and get your treasure.

18) Don’t ask for respect, take it

I never asked anybody in my life for respect. The respect given to me has nothing to do with my desire for it because I don’t care for it and I don’t yearn for it.

I respect myself and have for all of my life. Down to my bones I know one thing for certain: I am correct. What another person thinks is not significant to me.

Do you know the funny thing that happens when you respect yourself and don’t yearn for approval? You are granted respect by all people. It happens naturally.

If you want to get respect you have to respect yourself first. If you do not respect yourself nobody will respect you.

Respect yourself and never worry about what other people think. Worrying about what other people think is feminine and will cause people to not respect you.

Learn how to stop worrying and start winning.

19) Never apologize

Have you ever read survival stories from people who were attacked by sharks or bears and got away? How did they get away? They got away by fighting.

If you want to get away from a shark, punch it in the mouth and it will let you go. You have to fight back or be eaten alive.

In our world we have to fight crybabies who demand apologies. To fight them off, instead of throwing a punch, what you do is stand firm and NEVER APOLOGIZE.

Never showing remorse or apologies is the same as throwing a punch. Being defiant and never apologizing is the only way you live in peace.

If you apologize one time they will not stop tearing you to pieces until there is nothing left to tear.

“Apology is weakness, show no weakness.”

When you apologize you do not appease the crowd, you further enrage them and they will descend upon you like a thousand vultures in hell.

20) Learn how to defend yourself

If you don’t learn to defend yourself who will defend you? Mom and dad cannot be there at all times. The only person who is with you at all times is yourself.

You can only depend only on yourself to defend yourself.

In this world people will prey on you if you allow them. It is imperative to learn to defend yourself so that you do not become a victim.

Learn to be cold when it is time to be cold.

21) Be independent

All great men of character are lone wolves by nature. That is because there is only one person who you can always depend on: yourself.

Learn from the best but always remember: There are no role-models for being an individual.

Nobody can teach you to be the best version of yourself. It is entirely your job to learn and earn your independence.

Nietzche said that an independent man proves that he is not only strong, but also daring beyond measure. To be daring beyond measure requires you to have a clear vision of the future and work towards it.

22) Live in the future

I once heard a great con man say: “Life can only be understood looking backwards; unfortunately, it must be lived forwards.”

To be a great man is to be able to disregard immediate results and work towards future goals.

Never follow this “live in the now” zen silliness. Living in the now is what dogs do. Never thinking about the future and never learning from the past, just barely getting by begging for scraps of food.

As a man it is very important to be future oriented and plant seeds for the future.

In this world it is imperative that you learn from past mistakes and that you plan for the future and stick to the plan.

23) Exercise every day

Exercise is not just for physical development, it is for mental and physical health. You have to exercise to be healthy, in both mind and body.

Exercise just has to be a part of your daily routine just like shitting, showering, and shaving.

Exercise is also the way you develop energy. Like Ralph Waldo Emerson said, the world belongs to the energetic.

24) Develop the body of a spartan

I can promise you one thing: People treat you well when you look like a Greek God.

In my life I have been skinny and I have been heavily muscled. Here’s what I learned…

When you’re skinny you’re just a regular person, when you’re muscled up you become something more and people treat you as something more. People will come to you out of the blue just to touch your arms and say “WOW!”

To be the best you can be requires you to develop your body to the best of its ability.

Remember, physical development aka bodybuilding is not the same thing as exercising. Exercise is what you do for your heart and your mind, bodybuilding is what you do to make your body look like Zeus and you cannot die without looking like Zeus at least once.

You gotta develop a 6 pack at least once in your life.

A great body will make you stand tall above all.

25) Learn from the best (ignore the rest)

People always ask me if I read XYZ person or if I follow XYZ person’s philosophy and here is the answer: Hell no I don’t. I live life my way. I find only tidbits from other people and I put them together into my own Full Color philosophy of life.

To be the best you’ve got to learn from the best and ignore the rest. I did mention it is important to learn from books, but you have to learn from the right books.

It has again been my experience that 98 out of every 100 books are not written by masters but by students rehashing the teachings of a master.

To learn from the best, you have to find the 2% of books that were actually written by the masters of their fields. (Even then you can only take bits and pieces from them to form your own philosophy.)

These books are easy to know because they will jump out at you as if they were alive. The words will seem to be speaking directly to you. These books are the wows-makers that make you open your eyes and mouth to say “WOW!”

26) Don’t compare yourself to them

Comparing yourself to others is futile because the only competition is yourself. You are you, he is him, she is her, they are them.

Do not worry about them, only worry about what you can control and the only thing you can control is yourself.

THERE IS NO COMPETITION.

There is no competition to be you because there is only one you and there will only ever be one of you. Be you and be your best.

Who gives a damn what Teddy and Freddy are doing? That is their business. Let them be involved in their business and you stick to yours.

27) Think twice before saying nothing

They say that a great diplomat is a man who thinks twice before saying nothing. Heed this great advice and don’t be too chatty.

When you speak too much you give away everything. You give away your plans, your strategy, your capabilities and your fears.

“You never open your mouth ’til you know what the shot is.” -Al Pacino, Glengarry Glen Ross

Many great men of history have said that it is a far greater accomplishment to listen well than it is to speak well.

The 4 rules of speaking:

1. Never interrupt people when they are speaking. I constantly see the 98% of the failures interrupting people, unable to hold in their words for a few more moments.
2. When it comes to business, always be the last to speak. Let everyone else reveal their thoughts, consider all of the information, then open your mouth and let your voice be heard. You will always be the wisest man in the room if you are the last man in the room to open his mouth.
3. Always speak with finality and exude complete authority. Never speak too much, always leave something left unsaid.
4. When you do speak, make sure you have something real to say. Never, ever speak just to complain.

28) Never complain

Complaints are feminine. Feminine types complain because they believe that they do not have the ability to change circumstance, which is incorrect.Women can change their circumstance as easily as men.

Change is nothing but an attitude of the mind. Complaining keeps you from evolving to a higher form. As a true man of virtue there is no acceptable reason to complain.

“A warrior cannot complain or regret anything.” -Carlos Castañeda

29) Harness your sexual energy

Every great man is highly sexed. It is this vital sexual energy that is the engine of all greatness. To be a great man you can use your sex energy and transmute it to business.

So many people overcomplicate transmutation of sexual energy. They think their is some witchcraft voodoo process when it is actually very simple:

Be highly sexed and transfer that sexual energy to business or art.

What is the most creative act on earth? Sex. Sex creates a living being. It is the utmost in creativity. Use this sexual energy in your business or your art to get the most creativity out of yourself.

30) Strive to be brave

A great man is a brave man.

To become a great man you must learn to be brave by doing something brave like killing a tiger with your bare hands or going into business for yourself.

Entrepreneurship is brave because when you start no one will believe in you, no one will trust you, no one will help you, and everyone will doubt you. Therefore, success rests solely on your shoulders. You make it happen or you quit.

The whole world respects a man who makes it happens and the whole world secretly disdains a quitter. They’ll tell you soothing words like “you made the right choice” but they tell you these words because they know you are weak and they secretly rejoice in your failure.

31) Increase your ego, don’t kill your ego

Ego death is complete death of the spirit and soul. Look at the great company the word ego is in.

Ego is another way to say: soul, spirit, mind, individuality, vital force, breath of life.

They say you should kill your ego but let’s replace ego with similar words. You tell me if this is a good idea:

“Kill your spirit, kill your individuality, kill your intelligence, kill your spiritual being, kill your ardor, kill your breath of life, kill your courage.”

Sound good? Heck no it doesn’t!

Killing your ego is a bad idea. To become immortal you need a very big ego…

32) Make yourself immortal by leaving work that will live on after you’re gone

What do we know of the past? Whatever words in books tell us of the past. We only know of people who were written about.

Professional writers are the creators and preservers of history.

Writers hold all of the power and you can write your own history in real time.

It is not necessary to wait until you die to write your story, you can create yourself exactly as you wish to be and you can start right now.

Create your own power, create your own prestige, create your own history by writing it yourself.

You can go from nobody to somebody, from fiction to reality, in the blink of an eye.

Just follow the strategy…

33) Always be Bold and Determined

The entire strategy of success, from nothing to something, nobody to somebody, is laid out for you in the archives of Bold & Determined.

The best of those archives are found in these 3 volumes.

To make the greatest version of yourself become a reality, follow the plan laid out carefully for you in Bold & Determined Volumes 1-3.

If you do not follow the plan then, so sorry, it was not your fate to be great.

“In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great” -Nietzche

But don’t forget what I said…

“Great things are there for you to take.” -Victor Pride

Until next time.

Your man,