From the Island of Gods.
Subject: Heaven has an Entry Fee.
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Right now I’m sitting in an airport lounge at 6am on a Sunday, drinking coffee, sparkling water and thinking about life. Nothing new. We all sit around thinking about life, but how many of us really live it?
In the last 45 days I was chased by corrupt police through a foreign city on a scooter, got a cute Russian girlfriend, lifted weights weekly and trained martial arts with savages in the jungle, ate expensive steaks and smoked cigars with my boys, forged new relationships with high performing men, closed five figures in commissions through remote sales, and overcome some major stresses to forge a new skillset that will make me cash from anywhere in the world for years to come.
In two months I have done more than the average joe will do in two years. Because I live faster and try 10 x harder than he ever will. What takes him 7 days takes me 7 minutes. I’m in the fast lane, the only rules I follow are the ones that work. Money in, weight on the bar, food on the plate - I wake up tired and hunt with weary eyes like a predator seeking it’s prey. Out of the cage and into the wild with caffeine laced blood.
Back home in the land of comfortable monotony the average joe is getting wrecked by the economy. Prices are through the roof and most people are struggling to survive. Living week to week, buried in debt, bills and expenses, depressed, anxious and uncertain about their empty future because they did what they’re supposed to do. Now they live in Disneyland where they escape reality through television shows and video games and shit food made in a factory. Trading pieces of their life for a pathetic paycheque that buys them survival and nothing else and wondering where it all went wrong.
Yet last night I spent $300 on steaks, seafood and whiskey for me and one of my mates. Slapped it one of four debit cards for four different bank accounts, take my damn money. I don’t give a shit, it’s not real, and I can make it back in 30 minutes. I don’t live in the same reality the average joe lives in, I live in my own reality and I always have. For a long time that reality sucked because I didn’t have what I want but I never quit and now I live like most people only dream about.
I was willing to be labelled a loser, a failure and a joke for years as I bounced around from gig to gig, trying to find where I could be the best and make money doing something I genuinely cared about and could do forever. I refused to settle for comfort in a career I didn’t want, I literally moved home 7 times and slept on a shitty mattress in a dusty corner of my mums house while people in my hometown snickered about the “failure” I was. But what they don’t understand is that I was trying my absolute best to be more than nothing. Getting points on the board, getting smacked around by life and becoming a man with a life worth writing about.
Now I don’t have to deal with what they deal with.
There’s a price to pay for absolute freedom and that price is everything. You can’t half play this game, you can’t just want it - you have to live it, breathe it and be willing to fucking die for it because the gods can smell a coward 40 miles off from the gates of heaven. He won’t even get within view of it. One stumble and he’s done. The warm bed takes him, comfort and security has him, the fire isn’t there.
Everyone I spend time with and speak to is the master of their destiny. In our minds there is no alternative to how we live. We would rather be dead than stuck in some 40 hour week trading our time for dried dogshit and taking orders from someone who is dumber, weaker and less competent than we are. We will work 80 hours a week for us so we don’t have to work 40 hours for them. We would rather sleep with cockroaches and freeze than be comfortable in a situation where we don’t own ourselves or our time. We will not accept less than what we want as sovereign men which is the exact reason we are sovereign men.
You know how many people will pay that price?
Very fucking few. That’s why most of them never get it, and it’s why they will forever live for the weekend and daydream their way through life hoping that one day something magical falls in their lap that suddenly changes everything. But what they don’t realise is that the lucky day never comes and you only get older, more depressed, more tired, and more weak. All of a sudden you wake up in your mid 40’s and life is over. The bank balance is multi six figures negative for shit you don’t even want. There’s a woman telling you what to do with your dick. There’s kids screaming for your attention. There’s bills that need to be paid. There’s a deep hole you’re at the bottom of and one million tonne of unwanted obligations stacked on top of you like wet dirt holding down a coffin that shouldn’t be buried.
Most people don’t choose the life they have. They just accept the life they have and do nothing to change it because they don’t believe they can. Most people refuse to pay the price of freedom and can’t handle the stress, the uncertainty and the pain required to develop the character, skills and knowledge to live the way they want. All they can do is dream about it. All they can do is drift off in their mind to that place of freedom while on the couch watching Netflix after a long week at the job they don’t want.
I talk to these people every day.
I take their money for something I believe can change their life.
I know for a fact that 80% of them will never even try hard enough to make it work but at least I give them the chance to become free.
The spoils of success are reserved for those who earn them and if you’re not willing to do what it takes then you can deal with the cost of being a fucking loser, which is not something you’re going to enjoy in the next ten years.
Over the next decade those without REAL skills, knowledge, balls and heart are going to be pushed to the very bottom of society where they escape their miserable reality through all the technology and virtual stimulation that will be available.
There is a crystal clear divide forming between the haves and have nots. It is getting wider with each day that passes, yet the majority of you still stumble around half asleep hoping for the gods to grant you freedom.
But you refuse to pay the price.
Only those like me and my brothers will be free.
Only those with the heart and balls to do what 99% of the human population would never dare do.
That is why and that it is how we get what you will forever only want.
You can have, be and do anything and everything you want in life…..but you have to make a decision first.
“I will do what it takes and die before I settle for less”
- Maverick Brenton
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