Are you all in or faded in your freedom

Growing capacity has the greatest power to empower within our journey. A desire for balance is a destination that is forever moving.

Body being balance and business - growing capacity = doing what the f%^k works - WTFW. This is growing capacity - if I am doing the wrong s*&t I am not growing my capacity to experience life I am growing my ability to live life on the wrong path.

Growing capacity is embracing the journey. Empowered by the unknown as I am always in a state of becoming.

My father - the power of associations

Right people - right associations are empowering assets.

Wrong people, wrong associations create demand for force.

The only way to live life consistently growing capacity is embracing evolving CORE 4 followed by clarity within daily actions defined in the door / todo list. The hits, targets, todos must have body, being, balance and business.

I must have absolute commitment to the voice, my voice, my mission, my vision, my purpose.

Living life -


A. Empowered VS Forced

Empowered = Body, being, balance and business fuel my soul purpose.

Forced = success within business untrue to my soul purpose and I create a sense of unworthiness.

A reflection of the right people, clients, employees, leaders within an organization.

Right associations are empowering assets - universal truth - 1 - win/win.


- purpose driven authenticity.

Wrong associations demand reactive force win / lose


- Blinding - I will never see on this path.
- forced state of status
- While body, being and balance are buried alive.

My questions for you -

Where are you growing your capacity and where are you forcing life?

Who are your right associations and who are your wrong associations?

Branden

Proud Member of Warrior

US Army Infantry Vet 2001 - 2006

A father, husband, brother, a son, a friend fighting to become the best I can be!

Oh by the way.... do you want more clarity, more certainty, more ability to be present with presence?

I am recently completed this powerful program.

I have learned a great deal in life from my success and or more from my failures.

This challenge has giving me the ability to pivot, to learn, grow - gain clarity I could only earn within this process.

I believe its not the destination - its about the journey and the man we are becoming on a day to day bases.

Becoming a better man, husband, father - a fighter so that I can continue to stand for what matters in life.

I don’t want you to join the challenge!

I don’t need you to join the challenge!

I just believe you will rise within the challenge for you, your family - your journey.

My responsibility is to lead you to the door as someone did for me.

Step with courage!

https://wakeupwarrior.com/creators/?ref=brandenmackenzie

Felt off - questioned covid - got real and realized... I am the problem - I am the solution.

Tired

Wore out

Head banging

Taste and smell was off

Chills

Went back and forth for a week feeling better then worse.

Today I feel normal - what the hell caused this.

My mind jumps the gun thinking the flu / covid / life...

So I took a little ownership of my mind instead of renting our my own truth to the stories of the masses.

I am the problem I am the solution - how about you?

Do you point the finger - ok ok maybe you now someone who is pointing the finger instead of asking the question what got me here.

I made a list of all the shit I have done wrong VS the flu or covid or.....

Here’s what I came up with

For the last two weeks

I have not drank as much water

I backed off Vitamin C

I backed off multivitamins’

I backed off amino acids

I had 4 different times in the last 2 weeks family came into town and I ate like I was on vacation.

I have slept like shit cause my baby girl keeps getting up at 1 am. There is a solution.

I backed off walking in the AM as much.

I backed off deep meditation settling for breathing meditation

I shifted from a proactive state to a reactive state

I shifted from moving within my day with power to forcing life as it was forcing me.

What the hells the solution?

What’s the path?

What’s possibility?

#1 Stop lying - this is on me.

#2 Stop reacting - get back to moving from a place of earned power.

How

Own the morning

Stop doing the shit that takes from my own ability to have a body on fire.

My question for you?

Where are you pointing the finger at a society accepted excuse?

Where do you need to look in the mirror - take account of your actions?

Where do you need to stop being reacting and starting owning your day being proactive with the things that make you - unchained from excuses and whatever life throws at you?

Branden

Proud Member of Warrior

US Army Infantry Vet 2001 - 2006

A father, husband, brother, a son, a friend fighting to become the best I can be!

Oh by the way.... do you want more clarity, more certainty, more ability to be present with presence?

I am recently completed this powerful program.

I have learned a great deal in life from my success and or more from my failures.

This challenge has giving me the ability to pivot, to learn, grow - gain clarity I could only earn within this process.

I believe its not the destination - its about the journey and the man we are becoming on a day to day bases.

Becoming a better man, husband, father - a fighter so that I can continue to stand for what matters in life.

I don’t want you to join the challenge!

I don’t need you to join the challenge!

I just believe you will rise within the challenge for you, your family - your journey.

My responsibility is to lead you to the door as someone did for me.

Step with courage!

https://wakeupwarrior.com/creators/?ref=brandenmackenzie

Will I fail as a father - yes!

Will my son fail - yes!

Will my babygirl fail - yes!

Will they be able to navigate this life?

Will they live a purpose driven life?

Isn’t it crazy our kids can say - you have no idea what it’s like to be a kid these days and they would be right! 2021..... this isn’t 1980 and they ain’t playing Atari...this is real

There is no room for ignorance... only purpose driven authenticity.

I know great men, great parents, successful and full of love and courage... yet their kids are walking the line between life and death.

What do we do..... lead by example like the gift of today is always on the line.

How - live the Warrior.

I start my day with the power of Warrior CORE 4 - my son sees it - my son does it - my son is empowered by it.... and he’s 7 years old.

So damn proud of my boy. My son - he earns the power of presence every morning.

Crazy thing is - last night I picked him up from his friends after crossfit.

He told me - guess what dad... I talked to my friend about Warrior CORE 4 and he said he was going to do it in the morning.

Can’t make this up - just a powerful reflection of purpose driven action.

If you want to know more about Warrior, CORE 4 send me a message, give me a call, text.

My son ... he will succeed, he will fail and living the Warrior way he will learn to learn through it all.

He will step from the peaks and valleys a greater young man.

He will always be in a state of becoming just as I am.

How about you? Branden MacKenzie

Proud Member of Warrior

US Army Infantry Vet 2001 - 2006

A father, husband, brother, a son, a friend fighting to become the best I can be!

Oh by the way.... do you want more clarity, more certainty, more ability to be present with presence?

I am recently completed this powerful program.

I have learned a great deal in life from my success and or more from my failures.

This challenge has giving me the ability to pivot, to learn, grow - gain clarity I could only earn within this process.

I believe its not the destination - its about the journey and the man we are becoming on a day to day bases.

Becoming a better man, husband, father - a fighter so that I can continue to stand for what matters in life.

I don’t want you to join the challenge!

I don’t need you to join the challenge!

I just believe you will rise within the challenge for you, your family - your journey.

My responsibility is to lead you to the door as someone did for me.

Step with courage!

https://wakeupwarrior.com/creators/?ref=brandenmackenzie here is a link to the Tedtalks video https://youtu.be/UUnRKf2CemA

Powerful lesson learned from a Ted talk I listened to while walking in the morning. Practice rigorous authenticity - surrender the outcome - do the work. I reflected on Warrior and the mindset of be real, raw, relevant so that our results reflect our true desires.

Maybe these words spoken by this gentlemen on Ted talks rang true as I linked them to what I have learned living the warrior way.

Maybe my own recent shortcomings made the words he said sting a little more than usual.

I am either authentic or I am a liar. Its that simple.

The tricky part is when I hold back from being authentic and ... the only one who knows is me.

This guy who at one point used a rope as a belt was speaking from a place of power. He wore no mask - he was honest - he owned the fact at one point he was an addict.

The truth of his pain set him free as he stood face to face with reality.

Empowering to see, hear, watch others as they live life unchained. It was a powerful reminder I am on the right path no matter how bumpy shit gets at times.

Freedom is not covering up all my failures - it’s embracing the power... the fact I have lived.

I have lived in the dirt of Iraq, I have fought and failed as a man, I have crossed lines, I have made grave mistakes and yet all of it was the darkness of my life that lead to the light of here and now.

I live less in regret everyday as I live the Warrior way. I am more interested if not curious how I can continue to bring this all together in way that serves me and those I associate with.

Share the lessons - surrender the outcome.

The only thing greater than reflections of the past and or dreams of the future is the undeniable empowering moments of here and now. Live it, share it - embrace the greatest gift - this moment. Branden MacKenzie

Proud Member of Warrior

US Army Infantry Vet 2001 - 2006

A father, husband, brother, a son, a friend fighting to become the best I can be!

Oh by the way.... do you want more clarity, more certainty, more ability to be present with presence?

I am recently completed this powerful program.

I have learned a great deal in life from my success and or more from my failures.

This challenge has giving me the ability to pivot, to learn, grow - gain clarity I could only earn within this process.

I believe its not the destination - its about the journey and the man we are becoming on a day to day bases.

Becoming a better man, husband, father - a fighter so that I can continue to stand for what matters in life.

I don’t want you to join the challenge!

I don’t need you to join the challenge!

I just believe you will rise within the challenge for you, your family - your journey.

My responsibility is to lead you to the door as someone did for me.

Step with courage!

https://wakeupwarrior.com/creators/?ref=brandenmackenzie here is a link to the Tedtalks video https://youtu.be/UUnRKf2CemA

Father son lesson learned - raising his voice ... told me - you made me this way... That voice within was quick to say - own it, learn .. share it.

Do you own the moments of life that are both good and bad?

My 7 year old son Derek was raising his voice talking back to my queen... told him to calm down... don't do that .... he then comes over sits by me and says.....

You made me this way... Painful and yet living the Warrior way I was quick to own it.... he was right.

I get it man - I get life - peaks and valleys moments its all incredible and then the painful reality delivered compliments of a son who speaks pure fire, truth unfiltered.

Never the less -

I want to own the lesson. I want to pivot from it and move better as a man, as a father, as a leader.

Own my frames!

The days I run, the days I am stepping, owning, becoming, learning, growing, pivoting - those days I step with power.

When my actions are out of line - I reflect the man I do not wish to be and its undeniable cause I am off.

What you see is what you get and if I am not getting mine, if I am reacting to life instead of taking action in life - it is what it is.

Forget the stories - forget the excuses - no one cares.

LESSON:

Step with earned power or live life forcing the world around us to change because we are willing to change.

When I step with earned power daily - he steps with a father living life owning the frames.

When I am forcing life - sedating - slipping - he sees an example - he has a window - he has an excuse...

He has the opportunity to say ....thats what my dad does...

May the peaks and valleys be leveraged so that we can embrace the journey of today.

Branden MacKenzie

Proud Member of Warrior

US Army Infantry Vet 2001 - 2006

A father, husband, brother, a son, a friend fighting to become the best I can be!

Oh by the way.... do you want more clarity, more certainty, more ability to be present with presence?

I am recently completed this powerful program.

I have learned a great deal in life from my success and or more from my failures.

This challenge has giving me the ability to pivot, to learn, grow - gain clarity I could only earn within this process.

I believe its not the destination - its about the journey and the man we are becoming on a day to day bases.

Becoming a better man, husband, father - a fighter so that I can continue to stand for what matters in life.

I don’t want you to join the challenge!

I don’t need you to join the challenge!

I just believe you will rise within the challenge for you, your family - your journey.

My responsibility is to lead you to the door as someone did for me.

Step with courage!

https://wakeupwarrior.com/creators/?ref=brandenmackenzie

Why do we lie to ourselves?

Maybe you are a saint.... I got some work to do!

I am thinking what powerful wisdom to tell you when the reality is...

I can’t tell you how to figure this out. Only you can find your own truth.

What I can tell you is a story that may empower you to step with courage learning and leading from your lessons in life.

May the peaks and valleys be leveraged so that we can embrace the journey of today.

Branden MacKenzie

Proud Member of Warrior

US Army Infantry Vet 2001 - 2006

A father, husband, brother, a son, a friend fighting to become the best I can be!

Oh by the way.... do you want more clarity, more certainty, more ability to be present with presence?

I am recently completed this powerful program.

I have learned a great deal in life from my success and or more from my failures.

This challenge has giving me the ability to pivot, to learn, grow - gain clarity I could only earn within this process.

I believe its not the destination - its about the journey and the man we are becoming on a day to day bases.

Becoming a better man, husband, father - a fighter so that I can continue to stand for what matters in life.

I don’t want you to join the challenge!

I don’t need you to join the challenge!

I just believe you will rise within the challenge for you, your family - your journey.

My responsibility is to lead you to the door as someone did for me.

Step with courage!

https://wakeupwarrior.com/creators/?ref=brandenmackenzie

My son didn’t get a medal and I am glad - he got something better!

He felt the pain, considered his options and took action.

He asked the question - what do I need to do to earn a medal?

So damn proud of my son.

He earned a little courage and with that he has a lesson that will serve him for the rest of his life.

How about you?

What questions are you meant to ask today - courageously.

Isn‘t it crazy - be it 7 years old or 43 years old like me there is an undeniable power to be earned when we are courageous enough to ask the questions meant to be asked.

What questions come to mind you now... if you had the courage to ask everything could change.

In your body?

In your spiritual world?

With your family?

In your business?

Make today count, be like my son, ask the question and set your sails based on what matters to you.

Your destination and most importantly your journey depends on it.

Branden MacKenzie

Proud Member of Warrior

US Army Infantry Vet 2001 - 2006

A father, husband, brother, a son, a friend fighting to become the best I can be!

Oh by the way.... do you want more clarity, more certainty, more ability to be present with presence?

I am recently completed this powerful program.

I have learned a great deal in life from my success and or more from my failures.

This challenge has giving me the ability to pivot, to learn, grow - gain clarity I could only earn within this process.

I believe its not the destination - its about the journey and the man we are becoming on a day to day bases.

Becoming a better man, husband, father - a fighter so that I can continue to stand for what matters in life.

I don’t want you to join the challenge!

I don’t need you to join the challenge!

I just believe you will rise within the challenge for you, your family - your journey.

My responsibility is to lead you to the door as someone did for me.

Step with courage!

https://wakeupwarrior.com/creators/?ref=brandenmackenzie

Monday, March 15th 2021

Surprises are a beautiful thing.

Decided to head north for one day to see my pops for his birthday. It was a good drive, Derek was amazing helping with Genevieve and while she only broke down once seems lunchables was the solution. Soon after arriving pops looked at me and said - thank you. I did not do it for that - it was not about hearing the words - it was the look in his eyes. It was .... I was just so happy to see him happy. To see him happy knowing for his birthday we would be together.

Surprises are a beautiful thing.

As I dig through this considering ... what is the revelation I realize something.

Along the journeys of life we live ...

...it is when we get lost in it all that the gift of being here now comes into focus.

There is another feeling that is close to that which is when someone does something for another that is a surprise with no strings attached.

Its as if along the path of their lives something happens - a little break from it all that generates a reflection - a smile.

Understand this -

God has given me a gift of a good man who has lived within my life as a great father.

As we consider our opportunities to step into anothers world and do something nice make sure you are doing this for the right person.

This is tricky because there are times we can do things for others no strings attached and it may be someone we do not know. I get that. For this particular reflection it was about my pops - a man I think the world of.

REVELATION:

2 things!

1 - live life getting lost within the good and bad - choose the frames that matter and be all in so that the start nor finish line can not hold a candle to the light found within the journey.

2 - Give in life so that as others are within their journeys - what we do is a blessing to them. What we do can at times take them from their beginning and ends... from their missions and desires for destinations pulling them into a moment if not second where they say thank you and ... its so damn good a look is more than enough to know - we made the right decision to at that point in time step into their world. CONSIDER WHO, WHAT AND WHEN?

Who do you love?

What can you do ( no strings attached ) for them?

When will you do it?

Branden MacKenzie

Proud Member of Warrior

US Army Infantry Vet 2001 - 2006

A father, husband, brother, a son, a friend fighting to become the best I can be!

Oh by the way.... do you want more clarity, more certainty, more ability to be present with presence?

Join the Wake Up Warrior Challenge - 30 days of power presence earned in the work you will do! By the way I am recently completed this powerful program.

I have learned a great deal in life from my success and or more from my failures.

This challenge has giving me the ability to pivot, to learn, grow - gain clarity I could only earn within this process.

I believe its not the destination - its about the journey and the man we are becoming on a day to day bases.

Becoming a better man, husband, father - a fighter so that I can continue to stand for what matters in life.

I don’t want you to join the challenge!

I don’t need you to join the challenge!

I just believe you will rise within the challenge for you, your family - your journey.

My responsibility is to lead you to the door as someone did for me.

Step with courage brother!

https://wakeupwarrior.com/creators/?ref=brandenmackenzie

If you bury your feelings and emotions you will not succeed.

I am talking true success - real joy, real happiness, real peace ....

How many times?

How many times have you buried your feelings and emotions in life.....

Sit with this because if you don’t get this right - if we don’t get this right we will lose the gift of today.

THE STORY: Was walking in the AM early listening to the Warrior Audio App - powerful tool I leverage daily.

My mission is to move my body and my mind. By listening learning I am earning a bit of clarity, certainty, faith as I step into this crazy thing called life.

On this particular day Coach Garrett discussed how decades ago - feelings plus emotions equals death when it came to the young men sent off to War.

On the battle field it was about survival - get to the end. That mindset was brought home and I believe has influenced us ever since.

5 years military Infantry deployed coming home on leave numb thinking ... don’t get comfortable because its not over .... I gotta go back.

Stay faded, stay sedated and just get through it. Don’t show emotions, bury those feelings and drive on.

13 years as a business owner - one that I enjoyed and embraced and yet over time that business owned me.

I became faded, sedated and like the military began to bury my emotions. 2 years living the Warrior way and I see the truth with a fight to own that truth — to own today.

How crazy is it that the key to our success right now is raw feeling, raw emotions....

What separates us is not our ability to be like a certain group, to act in a certain way..... forget that false lift shine...

So many are faded in the false lift of looking good within a frame of life they dont even belong... I know because it was me.

THE QUESTIONS - IF YOU HAVE THE COURAGE TO OWN THE MIRROR

Where in your life within your body, spiritual world, family, business - where have you buried your feelings and emotions that you know - they were not meant to be buried.

WHY IS THIS RELEVANT:

Never been a harder time in the history of mankind to be - who we were always meant to be.

Not because there is a lack of opportunity.

Not because we don’t have the means.

It has never been harder because the world we live in is so sedated within reflections that are the furthest thing from real.

I know I have lived and continue to battle. My own struggle to just be me.

It’s the flipside of sedation ( bury those raw feelings and emotions ) that inspires me though

When I listen to coach Garrett or a brother embracing a struggle, a victory I know I am amongst something more....

It’s a breath of fresh air.

To cross paths with a man or woman becoming.

Being true with feeling emotions - all that shit we have buried brought to life within moments of not seconds.

That’s the good stuff!!!

LESSON:

Raw feelings and emotions leveraged within Warrior stacks turned into light brought to life within the actions taken - I will consistently earn my faith, my presence, my courage, my becoming.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?

How will you leverage the raw emotions and feelings within today?

I have one recommendation - join the Wake Up Warrior Challenge!

Branden MacKenzie

Proud Member of Warrior

US Army Infantry Vet 2001 - 2006

A father, husband, brother, a son, a friend fighting to become the best I can be! This challenge has giving me the ability to pivot, to learn, grow - gain clarity I could only earn within this process. I believe its not the destination - its about the journey and the man we are becoming on a day to day bases.

Becoming a better man, husband, father - a fighter so that I can continue to stand for what matters in life.

I don’t want you to join the challenge!

I don’t need you to join the challenge!

I just believe you will rise within the challenge for you, your family - your journey.

My responsibility is to lead you to the door as someone did for me.

Step with courage brother!

https://wakeupwarrior.com/creators/?ref=brandenmackenzie

TITLE:

Don’t let Wednesdays Suck - usually by mid week I am wrecked but that has changed!

THE STORY:

Usually by Wednesday or Thursday my body and mind is wrecked. The combination of walking in the morning and hardcore crossfit at night, kids, work, life.... for a number of weeks I have been frustrated that mid week I felt like shit.

I dont believe it has to be that way. The story I ran was this is normal.. three days of pushing... I am going to feel rough.

But rough did not translate to earned powerful presence for me.

It reflected a necessity to sedate in stories for how I felt

Be tough, suck it up, don’t bitch .... being a man is about feeling beat up and pushing through....

Now two weeks into a training program I am creating I feel powerful - I have a sense of earned presence.

It is the first time in a long time I felt good regardless of what day it was be it Wednesday, Friday, Monday..

CONSIDER THIS:

What if everyday you could wake up -

Clear headed!

Focused!

Motivated!

Driven!

The opposite of what so many define as hump day...

Why live for Friday when you can live for today???????

MY QUESTION FOR YOU IS THIS:

What can you change today so that tomorrow you wake up a little brighter, a little lighter with a few less stories and excuses needed to be all you are meant to be?

How you sleep?

How you eat?

How you hydrate?

How you prepare for the next day before calling it a day?

How you start your day?

It’s on you to own up and embrace each day! Branden MacKenzie

Proud Member of Warrior

US Army Infantry Vet 2001 - 2006

A father, husband, brother, a son, a friend fighting to become the best I can be!

Oh by the way.... do you want more clarity, more certainty, more ability to be present with presence?

Join the Wake Up Warrior Challenge - 30 days of power presence earned in the work you will do! By the way I am recently completed this powerful program.

I have learned a great deal in life from my success and or more from my failures.

This challenge has giving me the ability to pivot, to learn, grow - gain clarity I could only earn within this process.

I believe its not the destination - its about the journey and the man we are becoming on a day to day bases.

Becoming a better man, husband, father - a fighter so that I can continue to stand for what matters in life.

I don’t want you to join the challenge!

I don’t need you to join the challenge!

I just believe you will rise within the challenge for you, your family - your journey.

My responsibility is to lead you to the door as someone did for me.

Step with courage brother!

https://wakeupwarrior.com/creators/?ref=brandenmackenzie