From The Desk of Maverick Brenton.
Subject: My Favourite Time of Year.
Christmas has been my favourite time of the year since I was a young boy, and there has not been a single one that I haven’t spent at home with my family.
Each year I come home to feast and be at ease.
Christmas should be a time of rest and reflection for every man.
A time for him to sit back with his feet up and review the year that has almost come to an end.
Lads, I don’t know about you - but I’m starting to get a little concerned about the SPEED at which time is passing by each year.
Feels like only five minutes ago I was sitting exactly where I am, mapping out my aims for 2021.
All of which I completely DOMINATED within the first six months of the year.
Now I’m back here again, sitting at the exact same desk of the spare room in the house I grew up, struggling to comprehend how 12 months has passed already.
There is only ONE true precious resource on planet earth, and that is our time.
Our Life Energy.
It is a non renewable and scarce resource that can never be regained once lost, never be renewed once wasted, never be gotten back once gone.
The older I get the more I come to understand this, and the more the fire burns within as I realise I am slowly dying.
In six months I will be 25 years old, which means I’ve been alive a quarter of a century.
Only a moment ago I was 18 years old - dumb as dogshit and hungry as hell to become a man of value in the world.
To be somebody who people admired.
To be a man that I could be proud of.
You should aspire for the same thing my friend, you should be spending your time productively pursuing a better version of your current self.
Nothing good comes from stagnation and comfort, only the slow rot of a man’s soul as he loses his most precious and youthful years to laziness, bad habits and devastating mistakes.
The years between age 20 and age 30 are very important for young men.
They should not be wasted on bullshit, low quality women, empty pleasures, and dead end pursuits that lead to nothing.
These years should be invested in increasing your value, gaining wisdom through experience, building your body, and developing your character so that you may acquire the STRENGTH to go forth and build a place for yourself in this world.
Why?
Because the world isn’t fond of weak men, and dreamers who live inside their imagination.
This world rewards those who are deserving of being rewarded, those who have PUT IN the work required.
In the words of Charlie Munger:
“To get what you want, you have to DESERVE what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of undeserving people”
Despite this, most young men completely waste their time.
They lose their best years to things that only make them worse off, and reduce their power as sovereign men.
Knocking up bad women. Being surrounded by low quality friends. Wasting money on shit. Living through the lives of other people on social media.
Men who do the above are lost, and unfamiliar with who they really are as men.
Without strong principles, values and the balls to help them face life head on - they cower and take the easy way out, resulting in life situations that are empty of all meaning and passion.
I grew up with young men who displayed great potential and dominated school.
Young men whom you would expect to perform well in life.
But upon returning home I see them as lost souls, working shit jobs and eternally stuck in some kind of empty trance.
This makes me wonder why some people get ahead in life, while others do not.
The answer?
No idea.
Too many variables to give ONE answer, there are probably multiple answers, but I feel that a lack of strong and successful older men has a lot to do with this.
Young men with strong men guiding them tend to do a lot better in life.
Young men without strong men guiding them often succumb to bad habits, bad decisions, laziness and weakness, which leads them down a path that compounds the negative outcomes of being a useless piece of shit.
As I look back over the past 5 years of my own life, I am pissed off.
Mistakes were made. Time was wasted. Opportunities were lost.
The first half of my 20’s has been spent on a reckless and wild goose chase where I did many things but accomplished little, due to scattered focus and poor decision making.
It was filled with girls, dramas, ups, downs and some truly wild adventures.
But those years taught me many things and bestowed valuable life experience on me, which helps me make better decisions NOW.
It is those lessons and experiences that I now reflect on, as I sit at home waiting for Santa Claus.
Many people tell themselves that they’re gonna change in the new year.
They get all these ideas in their head about the things that they are gonna do to make their life better, and most of them don’t do a fucking thing when the time comes.
That’s the 80%.
But you’re the 20% - are you not?
I sure hope so because my website ain’t no place for shit talking sissies who don’t do what they say they’re gonna do.
This is a place for men of action who are dedicated to becoming better.
I did EVERY SINGLE THING that I said I would do this year.
One year ago I made a list.
One year later everything on that list is now my life - plus, plus, plus.
That’s what happens when you have a vision and you ignore everyone who tells you why it won’t work.
You succeed.
You also learn things about yourself through succeeding.
Success DOES breed success.
Because it teaches you how to succeed, and it also builds your self belief.
If I can do this, I can do that.
Momentum is a magic ingredient of success, you need momentum to reach higher levels in life.
But you can ONLY gain momentum by putting one foot in front of the other, and moving one step at a time.
No matter what you want, you must start somewhere.
The path reveals itself as you move.
The answers come when you are deserving of them.
The journey of a thousand miles starts with you doing what is right in front of you.
It is common sense, don’t complicate the uncomplicated.
Be Above The Bullshit.
Most people LOVE drama.
They feed off it like pathetic parasites and they contribute to it with their own worthless input.
Drama is rife in the modern world, it’s almost impossible to escape from it.
Turn on the television and you’re bombarded with propaganda about Covid, or feminism, or gender equality, or one of the many fucked up ideals that our backwards society is trying to push on everyone.
The west is waging war on the manhood of its manly men, and it is winning that war dangerously fast.
I see more and more men who look and act like women.
I see more and more women who act like men.
What none of these morons understand is that they’re destroying society in the process, by chewing away at the core values and principles that built what we currently have.
It’s extremely easy to get sucked into all this strife, and lose sight of what is important in your own life.
Especially so if you are not a STRONG MINDED individual who can shut out all those voices and focus solely on the vision you have for your life.
If you’re anything like me, then hearing and seeing all this bullshit can get to you a little bit.
People constantly come at you with their own insecurities and fears, trying to vent out all their personal concerns for the world onto you.
Some of them will do their best to drag you down with all their negative shit.
Covid. Politics. War. Ideology.
All of this can really make a man worried, about things over which he has zero power to change.
Ignore all of it and don’t listen to any of these cunts.
There is not a single thing you can do to change what isn’t directly before your OWN hands.
Do you understand?
I’ve been battling for my own sanity in this world all god damn year, and I’m sure a lot of you have also.
That battle is made much harder when you’re standing around talking about Covid, or how we’ve been enslaved and had our freedom destroyed.
While such things are true, there is no point crying about them.
You can’t change the fucking world and bitching about it will only waste the time you could be using to improve your position in life.
Energy, time and attention are resources with a limited supply - so when you decide to spend them on horseshit, you are foregoing the opportunity to spend them on productive means.
The solution is to be ABOVE the bullshit.
Just rise above it by refusing to listen to it.
Ignore the media, ignore your stupid friends, ignore anyone who comes at you with bullshit that you can do nothing about.
Find yourself a bunch of bad motherfuckers who talk about winning at life.
This is precisely what I did.
You MUST be deaf to the average talk of average people.
They have limiting beliefs and insecurities that will infect your mind and cause your testicles to shrivel up like sun-dried apricots.
If they truly understood life and the power of their thoughts - these people would not waste a second bitching about the state of the world or what’s happening in the media.
But they don’t, which is exactly why they are average joes.
Where you direct your energy on a daily basis determines the direction of your life over the course of time.
So you must KNOW very clearly what is within your control, and what is outside your control.
Then focus exclusively on those things that you can control.
Do what you can with what you have.
Even if you think you have nothing, being alive is something.
I do not see this world getting better anytime soon, so moving forward it is important that both you and I learn to become very close minded.
If it does not serve our interests and help us become better, then we must disregard it.
Ignore it. Pay zero attention. BE DEAF TO IT.
There is way too much information in the modern world and a plethora of fact filled motherfuckers ready to educate you on everything.
But you don’t need to know any of it.
Facts are useless. Statistics are for faggots. Forget about all that rubbish.
You just need to lift weights, make more money and get pussy.
These pursuits are exceptional for a man’s mental health and you’ll never go wrong with any of them.
Simplicity is king.
Be like a monk in his temple eating white rice while sitting around and meditating in his gown, not giving a shit about anything outside his temple.
Lift those weights, make that money, and spread your seed like Ghenghis Khan.
Maybe the world will crumble while you’re busy being a gangster.
But it most likely won’t.
People will just continue to talk shit and waste time, while you continue to kick your life’s ass.
Don’t be a gutless sack of dried dogshit who has accomplished nothing in his worthless life.
Get UP and DO something.
Refuse to get involved with silly drama that you can’t change.
That’s my advice.
Merry Christmas!
With all that said.
Merry Christmas to anyone and everyone who reads these words.
I hope you are blessed with the ability to spend Christmas alongside those you love - to feast on good food, drink too much rum, and ponder what things you intend to accomplish in the new year.
We live in a world of unlimited opportunity.
There’s 18 year olds earning six figures a month because their girlfriend plays with her pussy on OnlyFans.
There’s Mexican cartels doing cartel shit.
There’s access to anything and everything you could possibly want to know at your fingertips.
You can literally do anything, within relative reason.
With so much opportunity and potential sitting right in front of us, it would be a great waste to do nothing because you’re too caught up in the fast paced, information rich modern world.
So take this time to slow down, to rest both your body and your mind - it’s the time of the year for it.
Empty your mind of all thoughts.
Find some stillness and make time to be alone with yourself.
Turn off your silly phone and get away from all the silly nonsense.
If you’re unhappy with yourself, then use this time to figure out why.
Spend the mornings and evenings with a pen and paper, writing down everything inside your mind so that it makes more sense.
Writing is a great way to find some clarity, but ACTION is always the best way.
No matter what you do, remember this:
Every year is going to be the exact same as the last, until you change your mind through changing how you look at the world.
There are different levels to this game.
Some people live life on the peak of the mountain, others live on ledges halfway up, but most just sit around the bottom getting hit on the head by falling stones.
Don’t be at the bottom.
Climb and climb as hard as you can.
Even if you don’t make it to the top, it’s far better than eating shit at the bottom.
~ Maverick Brenton.
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