From The Desk of Maverick Brenton.
Subject: Being Careful Who You Listen To.
Last year, just before Christmas - I met with a man at a nice little café that was right next to the beach, on the Central Coast of Australia.
I arrived early, then sat reading a business book underneath a big tree.
It was a beautiful day.
The wind was cool and the sun was warm.
Down below, at the bottom of the cliff I sat next to, you could hear the waves crashing into the shore.
My friend arrived at the exact time we agreed upon - 10am.
I watched him get out of his car.
It was nothing fancy, just a clean and tidy family vehicle.
I already knew he was rich, but when he pulled up in that cheap, stock standard car - I knew he was smart
We had never met before.
And words had only been exchanged over the phone.
But I had done my homework and knew he was a very successful businessman with decades of experience in the manufacturing industry, now working as a Real Estate Agent where I was currently living.
At my table, under a big tree - I sat quietly and watched him through the tinted lens of my sunglasses.
I could tell he wasn’t a normal person, as he walked past me, towards the café.
He didn’t look normal.
And he didn’t walk normal.
He was short, heavy set, clean shaven and sharply dressed - with a walk that had power, behind it.
As he stopped in front of the cafe, he called my phone.
When I answered my phone, he spotted me - then we greeted with a firm handshake and sat down.
The conversation started with the book I was reading and it didn’t stop until almost two hours later.
During that time, we discussed business, money and living the life of a rebel.
The original purpose of our meeting was to discuss real estate and investing in real estate, as that was his current profession.
But after a few words either way - we both realised we were on the same page with many things in life.
We just clicked.
And so a deep conversation covering various topics followed, as we shared stories, memories and talked about the path of the rebel.
This man was not only full of business wisdom, but life wisdom, too.
I listened closely like a good student does, as he dropped little nuggets of insight into how he lived his life.
And he gave me the following advice:
“The most important thing in life is to never ignore your gut. You must always follow the gut and do what’s right for you - not what other people want for you. If you do that, you will be led to all the right things.”
“In this world - you can either be the queen bee or the worker bee. If you want to be the queen bee, you gotta take the risks and do the work - but the reward is ultimate freedom. If you want to be the worker bee - you can have a life without any risk or real effort, but you will have limited freedom.
“Common sense and hard work will bring you success. Most people never make it happen because they complicate everything. Always focus on the basics because it’s the basics that lead to success.”
“There is nothing wrong with quitting if you know in your gut that you’re doing the wrong thing.”
“School is designed to turn you into a tax-paying slave. If you want to live a great life, make big money and create your own rules - you have to go your own way, think for yourself and ignore the advice of normal people.”
With a big, stupid smile - I nodded in agreement to everything he said and felt nothing but excitement, on the inside.
These things he spoke of were the same things I had been told by other successful people - almost word for word.
So as I sat there, taking in everything that he was sharing with me, I wondered to myself - why is it that all the self-made winners I’ve ever met - always say the same thing?
And.
Why do all the normal people I’ve ever met, say the complete opposite?
The answer was very simple.
What the self-made winners know, do and speak about, leads to a life lived on your own terms, while what the normal people know, do and speak about - leads to the life of a slave.
And this brings me to Rule Number One:
Be Careful Who You Listen To.
Why is this **Rule Number one?
**
Well.
If you listen to the wrong people (slaves of the system), you will do things that make you a slave and you will eventually end up a slave.
If you listen to the right people (masters of their destiny), you will do things that make you a master and you will eventually become a master.
Do you understand that?
I’ll state it more simply - don’t listen to fucking slaves.
Slaves don’t have a clue about anything and all they know how to do is:
A) Be a slave.
B) Consume more than they produce (Go into debt for depreciating assets).
C) Recruit other clueless people to become slaves.
Listen to these morons and you’ll end up just like them: broke, lost and miserable - with your life on a leash held by multiple cunts.
Walking away from that conversation by the beach, I felt highly motivated and ready to kick some ass.
But.
More importantly, I had even more confidence in the way I lived my life because here was yet another man who was living proof of the following FACT:
The uncomfortable path of the rebel leads to everything you want in life, while the comfortable, normal, and well worn path, leads to everything you don’t want in life.
When you walk the path of the rebel, it can get lonely and it will get hard, but every battle you fight on this path, will be fought inside your own mind - you are both your ultimate strength and your most cunning weakness.
If you don’t have unshakeable self-belief and rock solid faith in your vision - you will start to doubt yourself and you will start listening to slaves.
The advice of slaves, is always nice and warm and comforting advice that makes you feel warm and comfortable.
But.
It’s not advice that will turn you into a master because becoming a master requires doing the unconventional, the uncomfortable and sometimes the bad.
That is exactly why surrounding yourself with masters, and people on the path to becoming masters, is a huge asset - if you can find those people.
They will show you what’s possible.
They will give you strength when you need it.
And they have the right advice.
People like this can be hard to find, especially if you are coming up from the bottom of the barrel - but you will find them if you look hard enough and you NEED to find them.
Why is that?
Well, if you are always the smartest, most successful person in the room, then you will get comfortable with your situation.
And when you get comfortable with your situation, the following things will start to happen:
A) You will stop paying attention.
B) You will become complacent.
C) You will lose momentum and you will stop moving forward.
Be proud of what you’ve built or become.
But don’t get comfortable - fuck getting comfortable.
Comfort is for slaves.
Do you know what else is for slaves?
Spending precious time with other slaves.
Read the following words carefully:
If you want to transcend average and become a master - you cannot be spending your time with losers, playing video games, smoking weed and doing stupid shit that brings you down.
You have to cut them out.
“Oh, but Maverick, I can’t just walk away from my friends to pursue my vision.”
Yes, you can.
And you need to because if you don’t, they will grab your ankles and pull you back down to their level as you try to ascend.
Don’t believe me?
Go ask any successful person if their ‘friends’ changed or turned against them when they became successful.
I bet my balls they will say yes.
As for you - right now there are people in your life, disguised as your friends, who would absolutely hate to see you win big.
I label these motherfuckers using a term that describes them perfectly: Rats.
My world used to be full of these hairy, filthy Rats.
But I crushed them all with my boot - one by one.
You might know exactly who the rats in your life are, or you may not - but they exist nonetheless, so figure out who they are and put their heads underneath your boot, too.
There’s an old cliche about the nature of people and it goes something like this:
Birds of a feather flock together.
What does this mean?
It means people with the same interests, ambitions and character tend to group together and are attracted to one another.
It means broke jokers are friends with other broke jokers and winners are friends with other winners.
And it also means you will become who you associate with.
I’ll say that again:
YOU WILL BECOME WHO YOU ASSOCIATE WITH.
That’s why it matters who you hang out with.
It’s not as simple as catching up with the ‘boys’ or ‘kicking back’, because when you spend enough time with people - you subconsciously pick up their thinking patterns, their attitude about life and their behaviour.
Successful people know this.
And that’s why they don’t waste their time with fucking losers.
They have transcended to a new level of existence and they no longer exist in the same dimension as Average Allen - their perception is now the perception of a winner and a grinner, not a broke joker.
Guess what that means?
It means if you find winners, befriend winners and spend enough time with winners - how they think, how they act and how they live life, will begin to rub off on you, and you will begin to transcend just like they did.
You will start thinking like a winner.
When you start thinking like a winner - you will start acting like a winner.
And when you start acting like a winner - you will start living like a winner.
Be. Do. Have.
See how it works?
It’s cause and effect, friendo.
If you want something - become the type of person who get’s that something and the best way to do that, is find someone who has become what you wish to become.
All the battles fought on the warpath to becoming a massive success, are nothing more than duels with phantoms inside your mind.
Success is an inside job: it’s about putting yourself together, honing your strengths and using those strengths to slaughter all opposition.
Having a group of like-minded friends will help you do that and NOTHING will motivate you more than seeing somebody no smarter than you - making big dough and living the life of a rebel.
If you’re a born winner, sinner and grinner - seeing that will make two very powerful words pop up your mind:
“It’s Possible.”
But if you’re a fucking loser - seeing that will just make you angry and jealous.
Pick your pill.
And pick it wisely.
As you will learn, if you’re serious about achieving the freedom to live on your own terms - one of the hardest things required of you, is destroying all your toxic relationships.
Your relationships have a serious fucking influence on the quality of your life and your experience of life.
When your relationships are weak and toxic - your life suffers.
Let me state this more clearly:
Assuming YOU are not the one who is fucked up - do yourself a favour and get the fucked up people out of your life, because the #1 thing that holds people down in life, is the people in their life who hold them down.
If Billy The Boss wants to become rich in Real Estate - it’s not Billy The Boss who holds Billy The Boss down.
He does not wake up, look in the mirror and say:
“You can’t do it, Billy - it’s simply too hard. Just get a job and be content with the scraps instead.”
It’s the voices of other people in his head, and all the losers in his life that make this happen.
And it happens because he LISTENS to and BELIEVES what the voices in his head, and the losers in his life - tell him.
If he was surrounded by winners this would not happen because winners would push him to make it happen and they would punish him if he didn’t make it happen.
When an old friend of mine was starting out in business, he would cut off anyone who didn’t make his life better and he would only associate with winners - now his business has an annual revenue of 7 figures and he’s not even 30.
This shit works.
So, aspiring masters - here’s your new rule for life:
If they clap when you win - they’re in.
If they don’t clap when you win - put em in the bin.
Until next time.
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