Gentlemen’ s Guide to Excellence

Today we have another great episode for you on the subject of power.  Gaining power in life, and exercising restraint.  Just because you have power, it doesn’t mean you have to use, or abuse it.  Don’t be a bully.  Don’t act like a tyrant.  Use restraint.  Be respectful.

Transparency.  How much should you share with the various people in your life about what you are thinking, planning, and doing?  How do you strike the best balance between not being overly secretive, and risk having trust issues with the women and other people in your life, and being foolishly too open and possibly revealing too much? 

Good energy isn’t good enough.  Tepid and timid energy isn’t good enough.  You need great, top tier, tool shelf, unrivaled energy -- like you mean it and love life.

What opinion does your wife or girlfriend hold about you?  What about your family, how do they perceive you?  What is your standing among your friends?  What about your neighbors and your community, how do they see you?  Do these people respect you, do they hold you in high regard?  Does it matter?  In this episode, I want to talk about how I think about the importance of your personal reputation.

Knock Knock!  Your dreams are achievable.  Knock Knock!  You can have that family you envision for yourself.  Knock Knock!  You can become the man you want to be.  Knock Knock!  You can be that leader, that ROCK, that your family and friends know they can rely on.  Knock Knock!  It does take a lot of work, there’s no magic shortcut here  But, we have a process that gets you there.  We have a process that helps you achieve that natural confidence that will draw women to you, and that EVERYONE will see in you, and admire about you, without you having to say a word.  Knock Knock!  Opportunity is calling, will you answer?

We all have to go through the pain and suffering that life throws at us.  It is inevitable, something is going to go wrong from time to time, and you need to be able to navigate through those issues and come out on top.  Maybe some of you are in a serious amount of pain now due to something that is going on?  Whatever your situation, I’d like to talk about the mindset that we use in the book and how it might help, because I think it might be helpful for everyone.

Is there something holding you back from being the man that you want to be?  Do you feel there is something stopping you from meeting and connecting with a great lady?  Do you feel there is something preventing you from starting the family that you envision having?  In this episode, we will talk about self-perception.

In a couple prior episodes, I mentioned that I wanted you to conduct yourself in a way in this pandemic that when you look back, you will be proud of everything you did over the whole duration of it.  You’ll be proud of how you conducted yourself at every step.  I still mean every word of that suggestion, but I feel like I need to expand on how I think about having a sense of pride more broadly.

Independent thinking.   What are you?  Are you a democrat, republican, progressive, conservative, liberal, socialist, communist, right, left, or evangelical?  Is that all that there is?  Do you have to fit within these labels?  Is there another way?  What are you?  Who are you?  Please be careful about letting other people’s labels define you.  I feel quite the opposite about the whole subject.  In this week’s episode, I make the case for and, extol the virtues of, independent thinking.

I recently was reading about how winter is when depression hits the largest number of people, and this is the first time in most of our lifetimes that we have been dealing with something like the pandemic over that normally gloomy winter period.  So, some people out there are hurting more than normal due to everything that is going on out there, and some of those folks might be you, or someone you care about.  So today I want to talk about this issue from a slightly different viewpoint.  I want to talk about the idea of quitting under adversity.