Fear is the biggest dream killer.
Not time. Nor money or energy.
Not resources, not circumstances or genetics.
Fear.
My early years were so rough. I didn't fear death, man, pain.
There weren't things I feared like everyone else.
What I thought had broken me, made me different. Was the very thing that made me stand out. Not always in a good way.
The last time I will probably live in Australia, I did very well. As I usually do. Because I don't fear things. My gym business, social status and life was where most peoples is in one year vs their ten.
I even started ticking boxes I hadn't accomplished yet. Such as working on reforming prisoners, coaching kids that if they didn't have some guidance. Would no doubt eventually end there.
Someone who "discovered me" and my unusual back story. Who I still respect. That is well and truly part of the broken machine.
She took me out for lunch for a job well done. As when you are not focused on fear or judgement. You generally do a good job.
She said to me as we ate.
"Do you not see how people look at you?"
I said
"No. I don't pay attention to what other people are doing."
She said women look like they are in love, and men look like your very presence just upsets them and they almost want to fight you for some reason.
I looked over at the table near us, and their was a couple giving me a look I would probably describe that way.
She said you probably have "a super ego".
I said "not really".
Truth be told, up until my thirties, my self esteem, my self worth was incredibly low. It probably still is vs where it should be.
But that is not the point of this post.
Last year I was shackled by fear. Both hands. On one hand I was afraid to lose someone I thought I loved more than anyone before.
And the other, I had to take responsibility for something I didn't even believe was my fault, let alone my responsibility.
The way you do one thing, is the way you do everything.
As we say in the DFP. For possibly the first time in my life I felt mortal. I lived like every other man. Afraid to take a step forward.
Yet afraid to stay where I was.
Afraid of judgement, by quite literally a judge.
And afraid of someone made of flesh and blood,
the person I loved the most.
Like you, living day to day, just doing time.
Knowing that any moment something will and most definitely will go wrong. Doing what is easy vs doing what is right.
You don't need to overcome fear to do what is easy.
You can imagine what is easy for someone that has no fear of just about anything.
It was worse then anything you could imagine.
Believe me.
Why am I telling you this?
Two reasons.
Fear leads to hate and anger, hate and anger will destroy everything that you love. Regardless of how tough or strong you think you are.
The second. I needed to say this to make this next few words have more power and conviction so you don't just cruise past them as you mindlessly scroll through social media.
What I was afraid of was in my own mind. Granted like most things I do in life compared to most people, the stakes of failure were much higher. But so where the wins. Had I focused on them.
What you focus on. You bring into reality. My body, my life, my mind. The good and the bad are manifestations of my own thought. Yes, you need to back it up with relentless action.
But if your minds eye, you, your soul, is shackled by fear. Of all the would-ofs, could-ofs, should-ofs and the infinite things that could go wrong. You start living from desperation and not inspiration.
And when you start living like that. You would be surprised how quickly you start doing the devils work. When I say every level there is another devil. That is what I am talking about.
And when I step out of the insane challenges I experience from living life at full tilt. And we look at yours.
Having much needed conversation with your wife to save your marriage.
Spending 49.99 a week on a course and studying at night so you can live the life you want outside of your job you can't stand.
Accepting the truth your kids probably hate you because you are a bit of a dick, just like your Dad was, but you can change that.
Asking out that pretty girl at the cafe you have been dreaming about for weeks, before she starts dating the local gigachad because you were too much of a pussy.
When I lay those out. What exactly are you afraid of?
Destroying everything you love or could probably experience in life?
Or just taking action everyday.
We learn more from failure then we do from winning.
But most men have racked up the many L's.
All they know is operating from desperation.
Writing this came from a place of inspiration.
Because I refuse to be shackled by my own fear and my own choices ever again.
What do you choose?
Fear is the biggest dream killer.
Not time. Nor money or energy.
Not resources, not circumstances or genetics.
Fear.
My early years were so rough. I didn't fear death, man, pain.
There weren't things I feared like everyone else.
What I thought had broken me, made me different. Was the very thing that made me stand out. Not always in a good way.
The last time I will probably live in Australia, I did very well. As I usually do. Because I don't fear things. My gym business, social status and life was where most peoples is in one year vs their ten.
I even started ticking boxes I hadn't accomplished yet. Such as working on reforming prisoners, coaching kids that if they didn't have some guidance. Would no doubt eventually end there.
Someone who "discovered me" and my unusual back story. Who I still respect. That is well and truly part of the broken machine.
She took me out for lunch for a job well done. As when you are not focused on fear or judgement. You generally do a good job.
She said to me as we ate.
"Do you not see how people look at you?"
I said
"No. I don't pay attention to what other people are doing."
She said women look like they are in love, and men look like your very presence just upsets them and they almost want to fight you for some reason.
I looked over at the table near us, and their was a couple giving me a look I would probably describe that way.
She said you probably have "a super ego".
I said "not really".
Truth be told, up until my thirties, my self esteem, my self worth was incredibly low. It probably still is vs where it should be.
But that is not the point of this post.
Last year I was shackled by fear. Both hands. On one hand I was afraid to lose someone I thought I loved more than anyone before.
And the other, I had to take responsibility for something I didn't even believe was my fault, let alone my responsibility.
The way you do one thing, is the way you do everything.
As we say in the DFP. For possibly the first time in my life I felt mortal. I lived like every other man. Afraid to take a step forward.
Yet afraid to stay where I was.
Afraid of judgement, by quite literally a judge.
And afraid of someone made of flesh and blood,
the person I loved the most.
Like you, living day to day, just doing time.
Knowing that any moment something will and most definitely will go wrong. Doing what is easy vs doing what is right.
You don't need to overcome fear to do what is easy.
You can imagine what is easy for someone that has no fear of just about anything.
It was worse then anything you could imagine.
Believe me.
Why am I telling you this?
Two reasons.
Fear leads to hate and anger, hate and anger will destroy everything that you love. Regardless of how tough or strong you think you are.
The second. I needed to say this to make this next few words have more power and conviction so you don't just cruise past them as you mindlessly scroll through social media.
What I was afraid of was in my own mind. Granted like most things I do in life compared to most people, the stakes of failure were much higher. But so where the wins. Had I focused on them.
What you focus on. You bring into reality. My body, my life, my mind. The good and the bad are manifestations of my own thought. Yes, you need to back it up with relentless action.
But if your minds eye, you, your soul, is shackled by fear. Of all the would-ofs, could-ofs, should-ofs and the infinite things that could go wrong. You start living from desperation and not inspiration.
And when you start living like that. You would be surprised how quickly you start doing the devils work. When I say every level there is another devil. That is what I am talking about.
And when I step out of the insane challenges I experience from living life at full tilt. And we look at yours.
Having much needed conversation with your wife to save your marriage.
Spending 49.99 a week on a course and studying at night so you can live the life you want outside of your job you can't stand.
Accepting the truth your kids probably hate you because you are a bit of a dick, just like your Dad was, but you can change that.
Asking out that pretty girl at the cafe you have been dreaming about for weeks, before she starts dating the local gigachad because you were too much of a pussy.
When I lay those out. What exactly are you afraid of?
Destroying everything you love or could probably experience in life?
Or just taking action everyday.
We learn more from failure then we do from winning.
But most men have racked up the many L's.
All they know is operating from desperation.
Writing this came from a place of inspiration.
Because I refuse to be shackled by my own fear and my own choices ever again.
What do you choose?