START SEEING THE WORLD THROUGH THE EYES AND MIND OF AN ALPHA MALE
DISCOVER ANCIENT STRATEGIES THAT CONQUERORS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND EMPERORS USED TO LIVE POWERFUL LIVES.
We spend our childhood and adult lives being taught to suppress the desires to want to rule and conquer and kicks some ass in life. You're not here to be timid. You're here to live a powerful life.
Hey it's Chad here...
... A quick background about where I've come from that pertains to what you want to accomplish and the man you want to become...
In high school I played basketball.
On a skill level I was good. I’d take 1,000 shots a day, arrive to school early to practice and stay late after our team practice was done to practice some more.
The security guards for the school knew me by name and when they saw me coming at 530 in the morning – 3 hours before school started – they’d smile, and open the gym for me. It was a father-son pair of guards from Eastern Europe that loved the game, but loved seeing kids work hard even more.
On a skill level I was good.
I had a good handle, a solid shot, I was quick and athletic and the hours of practice showed. On a confidence level, however, I wasn’t. My skill level didn’t dictate how well I did in games.
I had this problem when I played hockey as well. I could have been a lot better than I actually played in games.
Hard work wasn’t my problem, mindset was.
Even though I didn’t play as well as I should have – not even close – I still played basketball in college for a year before injuring my knee and having to take an entire year off sports. After that year, and with another year of maturity, I decided to not return to basketball and instead take up boxing.
I saw boxing as something I wanted to excel at, for sure, I’ve loved the sport since my old man bought me a Muhammad Ali Sports Illustrated Special when I was 4 years old. Rocky Marciano was my favourite fighter, and then Arturo Gatti. It wasn’t, however, ‘my everything’ like basketball was.
I still trained harder than anyone in my gym. I’d stay late and arrive early and spar as often as I could. When it came to fight time, however, I finally just let loose and had fun and it showed in how I performed.
We talk so much about hard work and its necessity to your success in life, no matter how you define success. If, however, you don’t have a killer’s mindset, an alpha’s brain, a warriors heart, and the confidence to both back it up and attack whatever you’re doing like a man who knows he’s worthy of winning, then you’re not going to get the life you want to lead, nor are you going get the meaning and happiness you crave from said life either.
Where most guys need help is in the mindset category.
We can all turn the switch and work hard and not be lazy and even set higher goals, but having the mindset necessary for true victory isn’t easy to create and actually have.
Boxing taught me a lot about how to think like a warrior and a leader.
It completely flipped my idea of combat. No longer was fighting about emotion or anger, it was simply a chess match, and every street fight I got into after I began boxing was a math equation.
This was done, so this response was warranted.
No anger. No rage. No tantrum.
That’s an important aspect of what an alpha mindset entails, but there’s much more…
You have to change your expectations of what you can get, achieve, win in life.
Forget about modest goals, think bigger and expect greater returns in life. Live as the man who expects great things to happen, who has the energy and the power to shape his reality.
We rise everyday expecting something. Most people expect the same routine day in and day out. They fall into the trap of mediocre expectations and thus take mediocre action.
Dramatically alter your expectations and your actions will rise to the occasion.
You have to change your opinion of yourself.
When I was playing basketball, my opinion of myself didn’t align with what I could actually do.
Odds are, right now, you’re opinion of who you are isn’t in line with what you can actually accomplish, be, or do. You can’t wish to change your mindset, nor can you think differently. You have to go deeper.
BE, DON’T THINK.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ~ Aristotle
We do not become something better because we think differently or because we wish things are different, we become the alpha male, the leader, the billionaire CEO because we act as him.
THE ALPHA MALE MINDSET
The Ancient Roman’s saw manliness as virtus – it’s the root word for our ‘virtue’. Their idea of manliness was to achieve excellence in every aspect of life.
This is the definition we need to return to, not the ‘evolved’, soft, weak form of manliness we’ve been pushing on our boys for decades. It’s from this ancient view of masculinity that you can find the essence of the mindset you’ll need to have to be at your best.
That’s the focus of the Alpha Male Mindset.
There is no ‘evolved’ version of manliness. Manliness is what it is and it’s always been what it is. The only evolution society wants to see in the definition of manliness is more weakness, a softness that doesn’t align with what an ideal man should be.
We’re going to go back to this excellence in all things, using that as our foundation.
DON’T FALL FOR SOCIETY’S WEAK, SOFT VERSION OF THE MAN THEY WANT YOU TO BECOME.
BE THE WINNER THAT YOU WERE BORN TO BE AND EVERYONE AROUND YOU WILL BENEFIT.
The man you need to become to live the life you want to live is dependent on you making a simple change in how you think.
The Alpha Male Mindset is step one in this quest. By changing both who you are and how you act and moving them toward who you can be, you're going to live as that guy.
