Location: Jungle Villa.
Subject: The Annual Christmas Letter for 2022.
Merry Christmas.
I hope you have all had a brilliant year filled with success, achievement and victory. More money in the bank. More weight on the barbell. More knowledge in the mind. More connections in the network. More competence as a man. More of everything that means something, and less of all the bullshit that doesn’t.
Right now as I type these words I am smoking a cigar at my jungle Villa in Indonesia. Rain is pouring down, everything is bright green, and my heart is full of fire. In my bank account is more money than I need, in my mind is the knowledge of how to replace it if it disappeared tomorrow, and in my heart is the feeling of living what has been only a dream for almost a decade. The spoils of war have been abundant this year, and it is only just the beginning.
I want all of you to know that whatever vision you hold in your mind, and whatever dream sits at the bottom of your heart - you can do it. ALL of it is just one decision away; the decision to go after what you _really_ want in life, what you’ve always dreamed about, all the things that mean the most to you, and the things you think about during the day while you live your life.
Despite what you may believe, getting what you really want is much simpler than you may think it is. One foot forward each day, staying focused, being accountable, sticking to the fundamentals and doing them well, having the balls to make hard choices full of uncertainty where the outcome isn’t known. Then all of a sudden you look up to see the sun setting in paradise and you are where you always imagined you would be. It happens like that, but you gotta pay the price first.
For the last 12 months I slept on a floor and worked an average of 10 hours a day on basic shit that got me paid. I lived and breathed what I knew would bring me freedom. I made a DECISION one year ago that I was going to do something, and as I type these words it has been done. I willed into existence the desires of my heart through hard work, persistence, focus and brutal determination. Now the fruits of that labour are ripe. I have reached another level in life, and attained a height not previously experienced.
2022 has been the most successful year of my life and it came just beyond my darkest moment. A point where I felt like it was game over for me. But a whisper from within said “keep going” and I decided to listen. That decision changed everything. It’s always just a decision. Life is like that. You build your world through choices each day, and if you want a better world then you need to make better choices.
One step at a time I built the reality I now live and it took a lot of time, pain, and endurance of shit I did NOT want to be doing. Cold calling for hours every day. Sitting alone in a room fighting doubt. It wasn’t pretty, but it fucking worked and ANY one of you can completely change the direction of your life by doing the same thing I did. I am living proof that what I talk about works.
12 months of focused effort onto ONE skill and I guarantee that you will come out the other side a new man with high prospects. You will feel completely different about yourself, you will not see the world the same, and life will be 1000% better if you can just focus for a long period of time on one skill. Because when you do that, you get money, you get competence, you get POWER - and these are all essential ingredients in taking control of your life.
Honestly ask yourself how many people you know that could focus on one thing for 12 months straight. Very few. I know only a small handful of men who have done this, and all of them have achieved success at what they are doing. How could you not win? The entire world is already distracted all of the time. Being crystal clear and having single minded determination will enable you to literally crush everyone except those rare, ultra competitive individuals who will put up a real fight against you when the time comes.
If you are not ultra focused on what you are doing, somebody else will be, and at the end of the day when the war is over they will beat you every-single-time. Absolute focus enables absolute victory, and absolute victory demands absolute focus. The mind attracts what it needs to win when it’s only goal is to win. The ocean parts for you and mountains will move, the universe bends and Magic happens. But distraction dulls mind power and renders it only half potent. Nothing good will come from a weak and scattered mind, nothing except the same results that normal people get. Abonormal outcomes require abnormal efforts.
I know that life can be hard. Especially as a young and ambitious man in the modern world. It is very confusing and it is very conflicting. Everything you are told by normal people is the opposite of what you see with your own eyes, the opposite of the actual truth of life. Women now act like men, and men now act like women. They tell you to buy a house, but you can’t afford it unless you’re rich. They tell you to be grateful, but you want more than the nothing you have. They tell you guys can be girls, and girls can be guys.
They only tell you lies and you will believe them as truth unless you learn to trust your own eyes.
I want you to know that you’re not wrong. There is nothing wrong with what you want as a young man; freedom, options, adventure. You’re just raised in a system that cares about nothing except bashing these instincts out of you while replacing them with blind compliance to authority and dependence on mindless dogshit that keeps you distracted.
The Matrix is very real whether you believe me or not. You live inside a curated play that has been designed by people you have never met, within a system that’s only purpose is to enslave your mind and suck everything original and unique out of you. The money in your bank account is nothing but numbers created by someone pressing a button, the cash in your wallet is nothing but paper printed by a machine with fancy symbols on it. The beliefs in your mind and how you view the world are not yours, they were put there by someone else - if they were truly yours then you would have everything you want because your mind is your core operating system in life, the source of all you experience.
Don’t believe me? That’s fine. Keep working your job and giving half of your money away to a Government who doesn’t even need it but takes it anyway to make you think they need it, so you don’t question where it actually comes from. Keep paying all of your bills and struggling to survive. Keep investing your savings like the gurus tell you so you can finally achieve freedom in 40 years when the inflation from using a fake money supply has halved what your money is worth right now and ruined the point of saving completely. Keep listening to everything they tell you on the TV. Keep going to sleep at night thinking one day you’ll wake up and everything will suddenly be different. Keep ignoring that feeling gnawing at the back of your mind that something just isn’t right.
I’ll keep smoking cigars in my jungle villa, training martial arts and lifting weights, making more money than a doctor through my computer and writing these articles to share who I am with those who are cut from the same clothe. The rest of them? Fuck em. I am an elitist, I have no desire to save anyone who isn’t serious about winning. I write because I always have, because it’s what I do, because it’s who I am. You can listen or you can cry yourself to sleep because you’re offended. My life stays the same.
To begin to see the truth you must first be like a child, intimately curious and objective - no ego or preconceptions. Look at the world exactly as it is and not as you have been told it is, because everything you have been told is a lie. Only then when you learn to trust yourself will you begin to believe in yourself, and only then will you find the courage to step into the unknown and do the things you’ve always wanted to do. But it will take a lot, it may take more than you have, and only then you will learn who is truly in the mirror.
Modern life for young men is not as easy as it used to be. Some people might disagree with that and say that life is easier than it has ever been, and I would agree with that. But just because daily life has become easier, does not mean life itself has become easier, in fact it is harder than ever in many ways for a young man.
Assets are more expensive than ever, girls have higher standards than ever, average men have more competition than ever because of social media, and having a successful life isn’t as simple as getting a trade and buying a house anymore because you will STILL be broke if you do that. The dynamics have changed completely, yet you’re still told to do what made your parents successful when the reality is that applied 50 years ago and it does not apply now in a world where making a LOT of money is the only way to live well.
$100k a year is chump change now. The bare minimum needed to stand on your own feet, but even that is not enough to be well off. Multi-six-figure incomes are what you now need to live as an independent man unless you’re in poor countries, and achieving these top tier incomes requires brain power and focused effort on the RIGHT avenues, but just any bullshit idea. Go where the cash is flowing, learn to see it moving.
This is what I want to show you moving forward on this blog; how to thrive in the new world financially, physically and spiritually. Because being successful at one of those is not enough, you need the WHOLE package to be a complete man. Money without health is worthless, and health without money sucks just as much. A true killer is well rounded and the world is at his feet.
I believe the best path for a young man in the modern world is now;
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Learning location independent skills and making money online
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Travelling to new cultures and better places to expand the mind
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Getting in the gym and building a strong body that is dangerous
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Building a network of guys you can count on who are on the same page about life
The game has changed and so you must change with it unless you want to get shit on by life and by a society that is absolutely hostile towards the true nature of men. Western culture is now a sick, backwards and quickly decaying dystopia where all traditional values have been brainwashed out of the population and replaced with literal insanity.
Don’t feel guilty about what you want and who you are as a man. Guilt and tolerance of bullshit is how they turn you on yourself and put out the fire of masculine power. Take a deep breath and accept who you are and what you want instead. We were once killers, outlaws, hunters, warriors, kings - and now we sit in offices listening to lectures on how there are 48 different genders and how weighing 400lbs is acceptable. There’s a reason you don’t feel good, and that reason is you are not supposed to be doing what is expected from you by society; slave away, pay taxes, shut up or else and then die having done nothing you genuinely care about.
When you look back on 2022 how do you feel?
Can you look back on this year with a smile on your face, satisfied that you gave it your damn best regardless of circumstances or events? Can you go to sleep tonight knowing you are living the life YOU want? Can you wake up tomorrow morning with fire in your eyes, ready to work on something you genuinely give a fuck about?
Or..
Has reading this piece exposed flaws in how you are living your life? Is it too hard to sit down alone and be with yourself, accepting the position you are in and who you have become? Can you honestly tell yourself that you are doing everything you can to become who you want to be, or not?
People are usually delusional and refuse to face the truth about who they really are. They live in a made up reality inside their head. Nice clothes, nice lifestyle, nice car, nice everything - but it’s all worth nothing because they don’t like who they see in the mirror, and they have to smile when they’d rather say Fuck You.
They don’t know who they are, and they don’t have the balls to admit what they want which is why they will never get it. It takes a heart of courage to stand up and admit to the world what YOU want, when that world is telling you it is not something you can have. Not many people can do it, so not many people get to live it.
2022 is now behind us. For me it was the greatest year of my life because I did what I preach on this blog. The outcome was more success than I ever thought possible, and it happened without any resistance because once you accept destiny she submits to you and gives you what you want.
Whether you had a good year or bad year, it doesn’t matter now. Past time has no mercy, it is gone. So either look back and learn, or turn around and march forward. All that matters is what will you do in 2023 to make a serious difference one year from reading this words?
Nothing will change if you change nothing. Life is cause and effect, actions and reactions. You do X and you’ll get Y. You have a lot more power than you may realise but you’ve been trained to suppress it, and unleashing it is as simple as recognising you can make better choices that lead to better outcomes.
~ Maverick Brenton.
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