As a young man you have the whole world and an entire lifetime in front of you. Now is the time to take advantage. Of all the regrets you may have later in life, wasted time will be the most heartbreaking of them all.

Do not follow the path that has been laid out for you, do not do as everyone else you know. Unless you are average.

During your schooling you have been led to believe that you must follow this order: go to college, get a job to pay back your student loans, get married, consume as much as possible, save for retirement at which point you can live life, and then die having accomplished nothing other than being a good boy and doing what you were told.

Everything you have been sold in high school is a complete lie. If you find this unbelievable just ask anyone in their late twenties to mid-thirties who followed this path and see how happy they truly are. They may lie with their words but their soulless eyes cannot tell a lie.

Looking back on how I used to live my life I see a lot of wasted time that could have been used to build something magnificent. I didn’t wake up until after my mid-twenties. If I could go back and slap some sense into my 15 year old self this is what I would advise:

1) Lift Weights

I definitely would have convinced my teenaged self to start hitting the weights with a fury. I look back on all those wasted years and think of how I could be so much stronger if I had started hitting the weights at around 14 or 15 years old.

Lifting gives you a sense of pride and accomplishment that a skinny person or a fat person will never know or understand. As a teen you are in the primetime for developing some serious strength and a great physique. You have all that natural testosterone pulsing through your bodies. The ladies melt for a guy with a great physique too.

2) Play a sport, especially wrestling

I used to laugh at all the “dumb preppy jocks” in my school. What I didn’t know is how competitive sports like wrestling or MMA developed strength, courage, discipline, and pride – things that I very sorely lacked until much later and things that are lacking in all the youngsters I see who don’t compete, spending all their time on the computer or other useless time-wasters.

3) Don’t bother going to college

This may be the hardest pill to swallow but college is a colossal waste of time and money. I could have saved myself endless boredom had I chosen a different path. As it was, I didn’t even know other paths existed. I learned absolutely nothing useful in college and what I did learn was downright detrimental and that is because nothing is actually taught in college. You don’t go there to learn, you go there to further your indoctrination and emasculate you even more.

Anyone and everyone go to college now and because of this colleges and universities are filled with monumentally stupid people who have no earthly business at an institute of higher learning. As you will learn later a college degree means absolutely nothing when you go your own way and do not follow the path that everyone else will follow. A college degree does not guarantee a “good” job. A “good” job does not guarantee safety. The only safety guaranteed is what you do for yourself. There is no safety relying on other people.

If you must go to college you should go later in life. I hear people say “Oh, I’ll travel in a few years when I have time. Oh, I’ll start my business in a few years when I have time”. If you must go to college, go after a few years of real education in the real world. If you go, you had better get a technical degree (engineering etc..), something you can’t learn on your own. Arts, psychology or anything ending in “studies” degrees are completely useless in the job market. Not that you should want to get a job.

FYI – You do not have to go to college to get drunk, party and hook up. That can be done anywhere at any time.

4) Travel often

I would have told myself to skip college and instead immediately start traveling abroad, backpacking Asia, or Europe, or South America. Get a part time job while in High School and save your money. When you graduate high school you should head abroad for an eye-opening experience you will never forget or regret.

I would have learned more in a year of traveling than I learned in 7 years of college (or 4, or however long it was). Hell, I lived in Texas for 10 years and I never even went to Mexico. I would have slapped that little bastard (me) in the mouth and told him to travel often and everywhere.

5) Turn off the TV

You can’t pick a bigger waste of time than TV watching. Same for video games and other mindless internet usage.

6) Don’t work full time

I used to manage a Blockbuster video while going to school full time. What a waste of a young man’s life. I would have convinced myself to not work at all and work instead on an entrepreneurial venture. I always had the desire but I never had the courage to just dive right in until several years later. You should be of the mindset of never having a real job or wanting a real job.

The only way you will ever get rich is to build a business yourself. The only way you will have security is to build a business yourself. The only way you will have freedom is to build a business yourself. Do you really want to go 50 years asking permission from a lowly middle management executive for a one week vacation per year?

The only job you should ever have is one that provides you only with the bare necessities and leaves you hungry for more, one that gives you time to pursue other ventures. When you have a full time job that pays you enough to buy all the stupid worthless shit you see on TV you will get lazy and you will NEVER DO ANYTHING WORTHWHILE  UNTIL YOU QUIT. Don’t fall into that trap. Live as cheaply as you possibly can.

• 5 Ways to Set Yourself Up For Success in Your 30s

7) Do not go into debt for any reason

Do not acquire school loans, do not use credit cards, do not get auto loans. That’s how they entrap young people into debt slavery. “Oh, I can’t go travel I’m in school debt up to my eyeballs“. You go into debt for your “education” and then you pay for it the rest of your life. This is a waste of your prime years. If you can’t pay cash for it, don’t buy it. Debt is slavery.

8) Don’t listen to anybody

Advice given to you will be, without question, terrible. It will be the same thing over and over “Go to school, get a good job. You can do all that other stuff later.” You can respond “Oh, really? Is that what you did? Went to school, got a job and then fulfilled your dreams later?” and see the look of regret in their eyes.

People who fell for the joke want you to fall for the same joke, it’s a part of human nature for people not to want others to succeed where they failed. Conventional advice is to be ignored, always. You are better off doing the opposite.

As a young man you think you have all the time in the world. You don’t. You have only a brief time on this Earth. Use that to your advantage. Never for one second think “I can do all that fun stuff later” because you can’t and you won’t.

Now is the time. You are in your prime and if you don’t take advantage you will waste away like all the people you see who are dead inside. The same people who are waiting for retirement, pretending they are going to go and do the things you will do right now.

Go forth young man and live your life.

Real education is not in a classroom.

It’s in the world around you.

There are two attitudes that matter:

Time to Kill

&

Time to Play

Anything in between is filler.

Have you ever noticed the people who make fun of cliches like “Go hard or go home!” and “Lead, follow or get out of the way!” are the pudgy or skinny people who never accomplish anything?

The kind of people who work in offices or call centers and go home to eat pizza and wonder why their girlfriends are so distant lately. Middle of the road kind of people. People afraid to take a hard stand one way or the other.

Have you ever noticed that the Men who live by these cliches are usually in top notch physical condition with a thirst for adventure and success?

It is not their willingness to embrace these cliches that drive them to the top. It is their willingness to go the extreme that propels them. Extremity is for winners.

When it’s time to kill, a winner will kill with all his heart.

When it’s time to play, a winner will play like the world is ending tomorrow.

Going out on a Friday night for some beers: time to play

Hitting the gym first thing Monday morning: time to kill

Taking your wife out on a date: time to play

Running your business and making money: time to kill

Enjoying a BBQ with friends and family: time to play

Tirelessly pursuing your goals: time to kill

Keeping and utilizing the right attitude at the right time is the ultimate mark of a winner. A winner will never go to the gym and say to himself “Oh, I’ll just sit on a few machines and do whatever”.

That’s what an average person will do. To a winner there is nothing worse in the entire world than being average.

I would rather be dead than average. Make your choice.

Born to kill.

Imagine…

You have just been given the news. You will die in two years. It is unavoidable.

You now have to choose what you will do with your remaining time on Earth.

What will you do……..

Will you finish your degree and put yourself into massive debt?

Will you continue working your job as a wage slave and keep paying off your debt?

Will you live for the weekends only?

Will you go home every night, order a pizza and a 2 liter of Coke, turn on the boob tube and drown out your sorrows?

Will you go shopping for the latest gadgets that “make your life easier”?

Will you sell everything you own and take a trip around the world?

Will you go sky-diving?

Will you visit the Great Wall of China?

Will you go hike in the mountains at sunrise every morning?

Will you go to Starbucks and order a non-fat vanilla chocolate mocha Frappuccino every morning on your way to work?

Will you be scared to approach all the beautiful women you see every day?

Will you keep playing World of Warcraft 19 hours a day?

Will you update your Facebook first thing?

Will you ever even turn on your computer again?

Will you buy a golf-cart to use as your daily driver?

Will you go to Australia and motorcycle across the continent?

Will you walk through the Sahara desert?

Will you live on a beach in the Philippines?

Will you take out a 2nd mortgage on your house and lease a new car to keep up with the Jones’s?

What if you knew you were going to die in 20 years? 40 years? Would you do what you are doing right now?

It’s all a blink of an eye.

Entrepreneurship, running your own business, is not working. Punching a time card for someone else is working.

If you don’t:

• have a family
• love your job
• have a definite goal you are working towards (i.e. retirement at 35)

Then why are you working?

I know why I used to work in soul-less jobs. I had rent to pay, I had a car loan to pay, I had student loans to pay – basically, I was stupid. If I had been smarter I would have avoided all them loans and debts and I would have immediately set out to make my fortune and have adventure. I would have traveled around the world from a young age. Well, it wasn’t too late for me and it isn’t too late for you.

Back to my question, if the answer is not above, why are you working?

Used to be young men would go to work because they had a family to support, they had a young wife and young kids. The game has changed, most young men are smart and aren’t getting married. The game is in favor of the women. If you, as a man, get divorced it’s over for you. Your money is going to her. Your kids are going with her. Now you will be forced to work just to pay her alimony and child support.

For you men without families what are you working for? Why are you toiling away when you don’t have to? You know you could work 6 months out of the year and travel 6 months out of the year. You could work a month here and a month there and have enough to live very well. You could make some money online and live off of that. You could have a part-time job and live just as well. You have infinite possibilities that don’t include sitting in a cubicle getting fat and having your soul erased.

I know that feeling of emptiness when Monday morning rolls around. I know what it’s like to hate going to some office to do some BS work to make someone smarter than me richer. I know what it’s like to be laid off. I know what it’s like to spend Mon-Fri with people who I wouldn’t spend a second with if I didn’t have to. Friends, I ain’t ever going back to that life. There’s no reason. I have never met a worker-bee that I envied. All the smart ones, all the Bold and Determined motherfuckers, aren’t punching a time clock for someone else. Them guys punching a time clock are playing by the rules for a game that was discontinued.

You can literally do anything you want and go anywhere you want. The choice is yours – you can make anything happen.

You want to be an actor in New York? You can make it happen.

You want to be a famous chef in France? You can make it happen.

You want to be a fitness model in Los Angeles? You can make it happen.

You want to be a travel bum and travel the world? You can make it happen.

You want to be a rich businessman in Hong Kong? You can make it happen.

You want to be a model photographer in Brazil? You can make it happen.

You want to be a rubber farmer in Cambodia? You can make it happen.

You want to be an outback tour guide in Australia? You can make it happen.

You want to be a surfer in Java? You can make it happen.

You want to be Joe Cool in Chicago? You can make it happen.

So what the heck are you waiting for?

You: “Victor, man, I’m not happy.”

Me: “What are you building?”

You: “Nothing.”

Me: “There’s your problem. Get to building.”

As Men we build shit. We’re builders. We’ve got to be doing something. If you aren’t doing as you were intended what do you think is going to happen to you? What’s going to happen to your soul? It’s going to blacken and rot as you blacken and rot from the inside out.

You’ve got to have goals and ambitions that you are actively working towards. If you don’t spend your days actively busy, actively building something, then you ain’t gonna find happiness.

Idle hands are the devils plaything. It’s no wonder so many guys are so depressed and down in the dumps – they aren’t building anything.

What do you spend your days doing?

• Working some job you hate?
• Chatting on Facebook?
• Trying to get some little slut to send you pics of her tits?
• Browsing internet forums for stuff unrelated to your industry?
• Reading blogs that do you no good?
• Playing with your dick in the dark in front of the internet?
• Smoking dope and getting high?

Well if you feel like poo-poo stop doing the things that make you feel like poo-poo. Build something. Building something doesn’t just mean building a bookshelf. You can build a business.

You can build your body. But you need something to do and something to work towards and for. Your days need to be spent building something and fulfilling your natural urge as a man to build and create (and get paid for it).

If you’re good with your hands then build something with your hands. I couldn’t build a fucking wooden box so I build other things. Getting a contract signed is my goal. I build deals. I build to get you to sign your name on the line which is dotted. When you see the fruits of your labor it’s impossible to be depressed and sad.

When I get that contract signed I drive home doing 90 mph with Motley Crue blaring “Live Wire”. I can’t help it. That adrenaline is just pumping in my veins. It’s Cocaine without sniffing. When you are handed money for that which you have built and created is the ultimate.

“Cuz I’m alive! A live wire!”

I’m fucking alive man. What about you?

And man, if you ain’t alive then you got to get to building something. That’s how you turn from the walking dead into a walking Man.

My personal recommendation for happiness and contentment:

1) Spend your days building.

If you’re good with your hands you can build a blue-collar business but I don’t necessarily mean building anything physical. I mean building your business. I mean actively working, pursuing, acting and doing.

• Building your foundation
• Advertising
• Phone calls, e-mails, and faxes
• Paperwork
• Business lunches
• Seminars
• Research and development
• Meetings and Interviews
• Execution of ideas
• Get them to sign the line which is dotted

All that little stuff adds up to a big fat check with your name on it. Sometimes it’s as simple as hitting the “enter” key or picking up the phone and making the call. But it always starts with building something.

2) Spend your nights relaxing.

I don’t mean going out and chasing pussy every night. That ain’t no path to salvation or redemption. That’s a lonely life that will turn your red heart black.

I mean have yourself a nice big dinner. Get yourself a good girl for a girlfriend and let her take care of you. Have a nice cleansing shower. Relax and unwind.

Hit the gym if you don’t go during the day. Get in bed and check your favorite blog (BOLD & DETERMINED). Fall sound asleep after a day of building. If you ain’t tired at night that means you didn’t do enough building that day. That can easily be remedied.

“But I have no direction.”

Yes you do my friend. That direction is forward.

Be busy during the day building, and spend your nights doing all the bullshit you want to do.

After you get your building done it doesn’t matter how you spend your time. 

On occasion I have been accused of having high standards.

I confess, to you here and now, that, yes, I do have high standards.

But let me point out one teensy weensy little itty bitty tiny detail…

Our culture, western culture and in particular American culture, has been so degraded that the simple act of having standards can be interpreted as having high standards.

For example, on my simple list of what you should look for in a future bride are traits that my Grandfathers generation simply took as normal. If a woman did not possess these traits she was not marriage worthy. These traits are still considered normal in most parts of the world.

Today in our world, however, even the simple thought that you could possibly marry a woman like this, a virtuous woman rather than a used up cum dump, is blasphemy.

If you would like to run a little test you can do this: explain to someone that you would only consider for marriage a woman who has not had her femininity and grace pumped out of her. The person you will have explained this to will react like you just explained that you admire Hitler. Unimaginable for most people today.

This is because our generation is so completely void of standards and afraid of, heaven forbid, judging someone (unless that someone is a white male who projects strength rather than weakness and vulnerability). The thought that women should abstain from things like eating too much food and being a slut are just beyond the realm of thought for a decaying society full of lost and confused souls.

Friends, just because the world is burning does not mean you have to lower yourself to the level of the animals and go on a looting spree.

Just as you would hold others to higher standards you should hold yourself to the highest standard.

Like they say: BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE.

Having high standards is the mark of a man who is not swayed by the lies of the television, the lies of the government, the lies of the deluded and drugged masses of the soul-less.

High standards are the mark of a man who is, indeed, above. Holding high standards is an easy accomplishment when others have standards only slightly above complete degradation.

The world can burn all it wants, but I am not going to lower myself to the level of an animal. I hope some of you will do the same.

-Victor Pride

Back-up plans are an excuse to fail.

Say you want to be a movie actor. With all your heart you want to be an actor, it’s all you’ve wanted to do.

What would you do? Would you move to Hollywood as soon as you can, take acting classes and start auditioning right away?

Or would you go to school for a degree in whatever just so if you fail at acting you can fall back on something?

Conventional wisdom says you should have a backup plan, just ‘in case’. That you need insurance against a lifetime of failure.

Conventional wisdom is for conventional people. They accept their choice of backup plan because they know they are going to fail and apparently they are ok with that.

The reality is that if you accept your backup plan and live that life you are a monstrous failure. You are a failure because you gave up on yourself, because you didn’t believe in yourself, because you refused to let yourself succeed.

When you have a burning desire and you put all of your energies into making it a reality the truth is that you cannot fail. Failure is impossible, beyond impossible. It isn’t even a thought.

Ah, but when you have that back-up plan still lingering in your mind you aren’t truly giving 110% to achieve your goals. Maybe you’re giving 75%, even 95% but that isn’t good enough. It takes 100% minimum.

Kill your back-up plan and put all your energy into becoming what you truly want to become. If your burning desire is to be a Doctor, great, go for it.

If your burning desire is to be a traveling fashion photographer, great, go for it. Is your burning desire to be a salesman or an office drone or a substitute teacher? Probably not.

Burn your bridges. Pass the point of no return. Give in to your desire with all your heart. You cannot fail. It’s impossible.

From the desk of Victor Pride
Subj: An effeminate fat kid turned himself into the most feared fighter who ever lived
————–

I’ve been reading Mike Tyson’s biography Undisputed Truth. It’s an extremely interesting book, one of the most interesting I’ve ever read.

Most people know that Mike Tyson was a typical ghetto kid. He was in and out of juvenile detention, had no father, no money, his mother was on drugs. His life was stealing and robbing. 

What maybe you don’t know is that Mike was a very shy, effeminate, scared kid. He would rob people’s houses then neighborhood bullies would beat him up and steal his plunder. Mike was always too scared to fight back.

He used to watch one of the neighborhood kids shadowbox. The kid would try and get Mike to shadowbox with him but Mike was too shy to join, so he’d just watch.

Eventually Mike found himself in his first fight ever. He had to fight because a neighborhood kid hurt one of Mike’s pigeons. Not knowing how to fight, Mike just mimicked the guy he had watched shadowbox and he knocked his opponent out cold.

Not knowing what else to do, and knowing the shadow boxer would skip during his workouts, Mike started skipping after he knocked the kid out. I read this on a quiet airplane and started laughing out loud.

Mike found himself in juvenile detention at 10 or 12 years old. It was there that he met a former pro-boxer who taught Mike a few things about boxing. The former pro took Mike to see legendary boxing trainer Cus D’amato.

Pictured: Mike Tyson hugging Cus D’Amato in the Catskills.

Cus saw something in the young kid and knew he was going to be champion of the world one day. Cus started training Mike, both mentally and physically, in the ways of the warrior. Mike eventually moved in with Cus and his family in Catskill, New York.

In a television interview Cus confessed that the only reason he was alive was because he found Mike Tyson. If he hadn’t found Tyson, Cus said, he would have died a long time ago. The only reason he was staying alive was to see Tyson become heavyweight champion of the world.

It was this part of the book, the time Tyson spent with Cus, which I found the most enjoyable. The time just before his avalanche of success. The time he spent preparing for his opportunity. The time before he became the youngest heavyweight boxing champion of the world.

The time right before the avalanche of success is much more interesting to me than what someone does with 100 million dollars. It’s more important to find out what champions did to become champions, not what they do once they get the top.

Below are the top 5 Mike Tyson quotes from Undisputed Truth

…and all 5 quotes are from the time Mike spent training as a gladiator with Cus D’amato.

Mike’s quotes are in bold and the Bold and Determined commentary is below the quotes.

#1 “My life depended on succeeding. If I didn’t, I would just be a useless piece of shit”.

Success is the purpose of life. Success in your chosen field.

The opposite of success is what? Failure. What’s the opposite of a winner? A loser. What’s another name for an average guy? Nobody.

You have one life to live, so if you don’t make that one life a success what is it? A waste. A useless piece of shit.

#2 “The way I looked at it, I was born in hell and every time I won a fight, that was one step out of it”.

Emasculated males tell you it’s wrong to be angry, to feel angry. Don’t take advice from the eunuchs.

Anger is the most powerful tool in the toolbelt.

Take that anger you have and channel it.

Put it to use and fight like your life depends on it.

#3 “When all the other fighters would leave the gym and go out with their girlfriends, Cus and I went back to the house and devised our scheme…Cus would say, ‘No’ will be like a foreign language to you. You won’t understand the concept of ‘no’”.

Preparation is key. Morons talk about “luck” like luck means anything.

The successful become successful because they did something to become successful.

The successful:

• Work towards success.
• Become obsessed with achievement.
• Ignore outside distractions.
• “Sacrifice” all the bullshit that isn’t important.
• Focus totally on one goal.

#4 “Cus was all about manipulation, psychological warfare. He believed that 90 percent of boxing was psychological and not physical. Will, not skill”.

The mindset is the key.

All the skill in the world means nothing without the mindset of a winner.

Skilled men fail everyday because they don’t have the eye of the tiger or the mindset of a winner.

#5 “Cus was a strong believer that in your mind you had to be the entity you wanted to be. If you wanted to be heavyweight champion of the world, you had to start living the life of a heavyweight champion…

Always training, thinking like a Roman gladiator, being in a perpetual state of war in your mind, yet on the outside seeming calm and relaxed. He was practicing and teaching me the law of attraction without even knowing it”.

There’s a saying called “fake it ’til you make it’. But here’s the reality, a winner knows, a winner is certain of victory. A winner’s mind is unbreakable.

So it isn’t faking, it’s simply taking the initiative and knowing beyond doubt what your future will hold.

Mike Tyson knew it, Cus D’amato knew it, and every other winner on earth knew they were winners before they had proof.

Fake it ’til you make it? More like do everything in your power to make it, don’t accept “no”, don’t accept failure and don’t let fear drive you away from success.

Forget the “fake it” part and just make it.

Until next time.

Your man,

-Victor Pride

PS – We all start somewhere. Here’s Mike Tyson with Cus Da’amato, before Tyson was even Tyson.

Pictured: A VERY young Mike Tyson

1) GOMAD – Gallon of milk a day. This is exactly what it sounds like. You drink one whole gallon of milk every single day for a specified period of time. Why would anyone do such foolishness? To put on weight, of course.

Does it work?

Yes and no.

Let’s start at the beginning. When I decided to embark on this experiment I was pretty dang lean. I had just dieted down and I wanted to pack on some mass. I had been reading about G.O.M.A.D. for a number of years, had always had an interest in it but I do not drink pasteurized milk so I never tried it. As luck would have it I found a local farm that sold fresh, raw unpasteurized milk (at only $8 per gallon) so I was in business.

Every single day for 6 weeks I forced a gallon of raw milk down my throat. No matter what. When I went to underground poker games I brought a gallon of milk and a glass with me. If I still had a half gallon of milk left and it was time for bed I would stay awake and finish it all. There was not one single day in this 6 week period that I did not drink an entire gallon of raw milk.

What happened?

One thing that happened is that my strength shot through the roof. It really did. I got stronger than I ever was before (but keep in mind I was also training for strength for the first time).

I did put on weight, about 25 lbs to be exact. At the end of my experiment I was lifting at the gym and a guy came up to me and said “Don’t you workout with that Asian dude? Man you got HUGE! You were always big but you got way bigger. How much do you weigh?” etc.

Sounds great! What are the downsides?

The downside is that I got pretty dang fat. Not fat compared to an average person but pretty fat, too fat. I definitely put on muscle, but once the shirt came off you couldn’t see it.

I also had to wake up roughly 6 times per night to urinate. Every single night. For 6 weeks.

I also spent $8 per day on milk in addition to the food I still ate. That’s $400 for 6 weeks. That’s as expensive as a steroid cycle and about 1/10 as effective.

What’s the verdict?

GOMAD is not worth it – UNLESS you are extremely underweight and are lifting like a maniac 6 days per week. Anyone else shouldn’t be doing this. If you don’t have access to RAW milk I cannot recommend it to anyone. Pasteurized milk will get you fat (and probably sick) pretty dang fast.

2) Eating Raw Paleo – The paleo diet is a new fad diet in which you eat the way your ancestors supposedly ate. Lots of meat, vegetables, fruits and nuts. Not a bad idea. Of course I like it extreme so I took it one step further and did RAW paleo. I did this for three months but stopped when I wanted to put on some extra weight.

What is Raw Paleo?

Raw Paleo is when you eat a Paleo diet (Meat, Veggies, Fruits and Nuts) but you do not cook anything. You eat everything completely raw.

Surely you didn’t eat raw meat?

I sure did. Every single day I ate raw beef, and sometimes raw Lamb or raw Buffalo meat in addition to the many raw vegetables and raw fruits I was consuming. Mostly I ate tomatoes, apples, oranges, some “raw” cashews (they use heat to open the cashew shell, not exactly raw). That’s pretty much what I ate, with some raw Liver thrown in once in a while.

How does raw meat taste? and doesn’t it make you sick?

Raw Beef tastes pretty dang good. It’s a weird feeling at first, but after you get used to it you like it very much. Raw Steak fat is especially delicious. I never once had a problem eating raw beef but raw buffalo did give me diarrhea once. When you cook meat you denature the proteins with too much heat. If the meat isn’t heated it isn’t denatured. So A) You don’t need to eat as much and B) Your body utilizes much of what you eat. You’ll notice that bowel movements are just a shell of their former size when you utilize everything you eat.

What happened?

When I was eating nothing but raw I felt like superman. I felt invincible. I felt so great I stopped wearing a seatbelt, I thought nothing could hurt me. My bodyfat was just coming off like nothing and I was barely working out at the time. I got in the best shape I had been in at that time and I was lifting maybe 3 days per week with not much intensity.

What’s the verdict?

Give it a try – if you’ve got the stomach for it!

3) Celibacy – No sex for 8 (eight!) months. My least favorite experiment. I had been reading about guys like Nikola Tesla who were celibate geniuses and I already knew about the power of Transmutation of Sexual Energy so I bit the bullet and decided to give it a try.

What happened?

Nothing good came of it. I could literally feel my testosterone sapping away. During this time I wasn’t especially productive or happy. Probably because I didn’t outlaw masturbation, only sex – big mistake. I felt like those guys that have never had a girlfriend and spend all their time playing world of warcraft. I was just in a bad mood all the time.

What’s the verdict?

Not worth it! In fact, to get great results you should reverse this experiment – no masturbation but plenty of sex!

4) Keto dieting combined with Intermittent Fasting – A keto diet is one where you eat nothing but protein and fat – no carbohydrates – in an effort to lose bodyfat. Intermittent Fasting is where you eat for part of the day and fast (don’t eat) for most of the day. In this case you eat for 8 hours per day and fast for 16 hours per day. There are plenty of health benefits and reasons to eat and not eat, feast and fast, detailed here. I did this diet to burn off all the extra bodyfat I put on drinking a gallon of raw milk per day.

What was your diet?

For lunch I had steak and eggs cooked in butter. For dinner I had bacon and eggs. That’s it. I did this Monday through Friday. Saturday was my cheat day and I could eat anything I wanted, usually I ate a whole blueberry pie with french vanilla ice cream. On Sunday I ate moderately. I did this diet for 4 weeks, every single Monday-Friday was nothing but Steak, eggs, butter and bacon.

What happened?

I burned off a whole bunch of that bodyfat that I put on while doing GOMAD. But I had some other, even better side effects – constant energy levels. I never had a dip in energy, I never had to take a nap, I didn’t even feel the need to eat – that’s because I didn’t eat any carbohydrates and I never had an insulin spike. On my Saturday cheat day I would ALWAYS have to take a nap and I wouldn’t feel too great on top of that. During the week I felt like a million bucks, never bloated, never hungry, no ups and downs in energy levels – just calm, cool, steady and collected. It was a great feeling.

What’s the verdict?

Definitely worth doing! Lose some bodyfat and keep energy levels steady – it’s win-win!

From the desk of Victor Pride

Date: Monday morning, July 1st time to get busy, time to get smart

Subj: Working hard vs. working smart

—————————

Hard work is for suckers.

I said it and you read it.

I don’t work hard, I work smart and I work only for benefit.

Listen here, I’ve structured my life in such a way that I never spend time with people I don’t like. One of the many benefits of economic and geographical freedom.

But…

I do my work on the internet, which means I am forced to deal with some of the world’s dumbest people who don’t have a filter on their keyboard fingers.

One thing that really gets my goat is these silly motivational sayings, like “Do things because they’re hard” or smug shit talk like “What’s the matter, too hard for you?”.

Working hard doesn’t irk me, but this type of silliness is always vomited from the mouths of bullshitters. No-getters pretending to be go-getters. Losers talking down to other people and pretending they “work hard”.

Let me tell ya something, fellas, I don’t do anything just because it’s hard. “Hard work” is what people without a brain do or, usually, what lazy people say on the internet to feel big.

I did hard work one summer roofing houses and making minimum wage. That was hard and I won’t be doing that ever again. A year ago I ran a 12 mile Tough Mudder mud race in the middle of a Texas summer. That was hard and looking back there wasn’t a single benefit to doing it.

Now there is only one reason I do anything: Because there is a benefit. If it’s hard and there is no benefit I won’t do it. If it’s hard but the benefit is great I will do it.

Hard or easy makes no difference. What makes a difference is BENEFIT, but the reality is that most of the best things I’ve accomplished were actually quite easy.

Some of the greatest things I’ve done were just easy, peasy. I’ve made $45,000 dollars in a single day before. You know how hard I worked for it? I made a few phone calls, that’s it.

I had systems in place, you can bet I wasn’t sitting around foolin’ with video games and smoking dope, but I wasn’t doing anything hard. I had my systems in place and when opportunity came knocking I opened the door and let her in.

After getting your business set up it’s easy. It might seem hard at first, while you learn, but it quickly becomes easy. Things are only hard when you don’t know how to do them. Then they become easy.

But never confuse laziness with easiness. Laziness means doing nothing. Doing something that is easy and has a big benefit is what action takers do. I used to work a lot harder than I work now and I used to make about 1/4 of what I make now. I used to hate my job, that’s what made it hard and that’s why I didn’t make any money.

So if you’re like me you branch out, go your own way, give up the stupid “hard work” game and get to working smart. After you’ve put your plan into action, after you’ve put your business on auto-pilot easy things just happen to you.

So many times when my bank account was running low a deal would just fall into my lap. Again, I wasn’t foolin’ around with video games or watching TV, I was working, but I wasn’t doing anything hard.

I am telling you without a hint of pretending that money falls into your lap after you have put your systems in place, and it isn’t hard. I work from my home office. How hard is it sitting at my desk with my air conditioner going full blast while I look out over the pool? It isn’t hard at all.

Compared to the way most people live, my life is like a vacation. It does take time and effort to accomplish my goals but time and effort does not equal hard.

Here’s the silly thing, a lot of people are so stupid that they will choose to do nothing instead of doing something easy. They won’t make a change even though the change makes life easier.

Those Mexicans standing out in front of Home Depot at 5am hoping to be picked for day labor to make $15 bucks, that’s hard. Going to your shit job day in and day out to cover the bills is hard, putting up with your nagging wife and your spoiled kids is hard.

Living the life of a free man who makes his own money and rules is easy.

So I take the easy way out and I work smart.

Know what else I do?

I take shortcuts.

You know who doesn’t take shortcuts?

Dummies. “Stuck in a rutters”.

Years ago I would drive home from work at 5:30 in Dallas traffic. If you’ve ever been on I35 in Dallas at 5:30pm on a Monday evening you know it’s no place you want to be. Bumper to bumper to bumper traffic.

After sitting in this traffic enough times I decided to stop being stupid and I got out a map and planned a shortcut going through this street and that street all the way home. I took my drive home from an hour down to a half hour.

I see dummies on the internet saying shortcuts are bad, that’s why those dummies don’t have a pot to piss in. They prefer to “work for what they have”, which is nothing. They’ll talk about the virtues of hard work in the same sentence talking about how hard it is to pay bills “these days”.

How many times have you read in the news “He worked so hard all his life and died with nothing“? I’ve read that a million times.

Listen carefully, there is working hard and there is working smart. Working hard is for the everyday Joe. Working smart is for the man who takes the time to look at all options and pick the best option that provides the most benefit. Easy? Hard? Who gives a shit. The benefit is what matters.

Follow the rules, or follow the benefits. One or the other.

I have chosen to follow the benefits. I don’t give two cents if something is hard or easy, if it’s beneficial I’ll do it and if it’s easy that’s all the better.

I used to follow the rules and work hard (for someone else’s benefit), it never worked out too well for me. I used to have bills up to my eyeballs, I used to have the body of a slob, I used to go through a new girl every week and each of them were alcoholic party girl slobs who couldn’t cook a piece of toast and cried about having to clean the kitchen once every three weeks.

Now I’ve got money in the bank, freedom of location, the body of a greek god and a little 20 year old shy girl who loves to cook and clean, follows my every command like it was gospel and does it all with the world’s biggest smile.

It takes time, it takes effort, what it doesn’t take is “hard work”. Doing hard work is the same thing as doing something you don’t like to do.

Hell, “hard work” can be replaced with one single word to be more accurate. That word is tedious. You’ve got to do a lot of tedious things to become successful. And that’s a lot easier than roofing houses.

Mindset of a winner or mindset of a worker bee. Every single day I see people working their fingers to the bone doing hard work, that isn’t anything I’d wish for the readers of Bold and Determined, the Website for Winners ™.

You’ve got to stay busy, you’ve got to be building, but that just isn’t hard. A lot of things seem hard when you start. That’s called learning.

After you’ve learned how to do math it stops being hard, doesn’t it? You’ll say “That’s all you have to do? Wow. That’s really easy“. And it is easy.

But hey, what do I know? Anonymous commenters on the internet with a hundred bucks in their bank account and a hundred extra lbs on their body think telling you to work hard will help you get it all.

Yeah, OK. Good luck.

Those boys can work hard. I’ll be busy working smart.

See you next time,

-Victor Pride