From the Desk of Maverick Brenton.
Subject: The Process of Creating Heaven.
I haven’t published anything for a while.
Life happened.
I’ve been around the world doing things.
Dealing with situations that have tested me in ways I could have never anticipated.
For a while there I was living at maximum output. Attacking life with everything I had, throwing large sums of money at things to try and get something to work. Then it all came crashing down on top of me and mostly fell apart. It was time to reinvent and open a new chapter of life. I’d spent years in Bali living a wild life that was so far from normal I completely forgot what normal even is. It’s been a lifetime since I went into a job. It’s a foreign reality to me now.
I got a taste of freedom and it infected my blood forever. Now there is no going back. Some doors you can’t return through. You pass through once and there is never any going back, that’s how it was for me. That’s how it was for a lot of the guys I know.
Life in Bali was a good time. Making money. Hard training. Parties. Networking. I overstayed my time there though. Towards the end of it I’d truly had enough. In January of this year a lot changed for me all at once and I endured some of the most extreme stress I’ve ever been through. Money lost, big adjustments in my direction. Deep periods of reflection. I decided to pack up from the HQ and head to the mountains of Bali for two weeks of decompression after years of grinding. My mission for that chapter was complete. I had transformed myself and my life into something I’d previously thought impossible. I’d become a new man.
Many years earlier while sitting on a fishing boat at sea, just north of Antartica - I’d received an email from a guy after I contacted him about his network. Well before anyone knew who he was or cared. His response stayed with me for many years and was the spark of a fire that would drive me out of my home country, across the world and into a life that most people don’t realise is possible.
He’s one of the most hated humans on earth because he speaks the truth.
His one message sparked a change in me and a series of decisions that would ripple through the rest of my life.
One undeniable fact about him is that even with all these lawsuits and all the hate of the world - his life is still 1000x better than the average man’s.
Now if you’re smart you think about that.
Do you know how good life can truly be for a man???
Back then I did not.
All I knew was poverty and had only just got back on my feet after being homeless and on Government welfare.
Yet four years later I am international. Bank accounts around the world. Multiple incomes. Multiple businesses. Jacked. And only 28.
Now I am starting to see how good life can truly be for a man because I live it.
I created it through sheer force of will.
But what is crystal clear to me is the following,
Peace is the result of war.
I earned where I am through a very long period of suffering that was not enjoyable for the most part and involved extreme sacrifices.
When I could have went skiing in Japan - I stacked cash and grinded.
When I could have partied every weekend - I stacked cash and made moves.
When I could have done nothing and bounced around countries - I invested into where I am now.
I worked endlessly to get out of the system that was crushing me. Stealing my money. Strangling my soul.
It was Warfare.
And the result of winning that warfare is now peace.
Life is the same way in all things. It is war on every scale. You have to fight for what you want and earn it. Then you have to ensure you keep it. Because nothing ever lasts. I earned a period of rest after a long battle that wore me down to the bone. Yet it won’t last. I must continue to fight for what I want. I must keep the wolves away.
Some may argue that this is not the optimal approach to life and that you ought to live from a state of peace and positivity.
I agree.
When I say war I do not mean that you need to make yourself suffer simply because success ought to be something you suffer for. That is a generalisation. Success can be easy or hard. It depends on how smart you are.
I mean that you must be living from a position of advancement towards your objectives, not retreat or defense.
You must advance. With a positive and strong mind. Focusing on what you want. Enforcing your vision and will on the world.
In the position I started there was no option but to suffer. It was hellish. I didn’t care about thinking positively or being peaceful. All I cared about was rising up out of where I was. So I went to war with a level of savagery that produced insane results and carried me all the way from my mum’s floor in Australia to my top floor apartment in the middle of South America.
To heaven.
So the point is no matter what you want in life, you must advance.
Peace is the result of war. Peace is earned. You’re not entitled to it.
The happiest periods of my life have always been after a hard days work. After achieving something extremely difficult. After pushing through pain and growing as a man, as a result.
Nothing else does much for me.
Nothing else is lasting.
Not beautiful women.
Not nice things.
It all bores me.
Most conversations I find empty. Most entertainment I find empty. Most things do very little for me because I am wired for conquest.
Only the fulfilment of pushing against resistance and overcoming my own limitations is what fulfils me.
Only the realisation of who I have the potential to become.
The taste of the unknown, the possible.
To pursue that feeling is the purpose of a man’s life if he feels compelled for more. To try and get a glimpse of who he has the capacity to be. Of what he has the capacity to do. It is only in the pursuit of this that he will ever find a slither of peace, and if he is born for it yet refuses the calling - he will suffer quietly and forever wonder what is the source of his discontentment.
In the pursuit of your potential is the most intense fulfilment you can ever imagine.
Nothing else will even come close to it.
It will radiate through your blood and bones like an earthquake of the heart.
You will understand what it means to be alive.
As Bukowski said;
“you will ride life straight to perfect laughter.”
Done.
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