1 – Make No Excuses

A lot of great people didn’t come from money, or status. Quite a few were born as common people. With no money, no connections, and had just sheer grit. Don’t waste time blaming your circumstances. No matter how unfair things are your consistency will speak louder than your background ever will.

2 – Climb The Ranks

Never wait around for handouts. Climb the ranks by putting in the work, and always out working everybody else around you. Hard work will always trump lazy talent. Today, we are stuck in a system that hands more power to rich old men and rewards mediocrity; however, your job will be to break through. If you want something, earn it. Put in the work every single day. 99% of anything is simply showing up when no one else will or has. Results come from discipline, not luck, so learn to depend on internal validation not external rewards.

Always ask remember two things:

• Keep the relentless mindset. Do, or die. Never surrender.
• Keep the desire burning to climb ahead. Will to power.

3 – Adapt, or Get Left Behind

Always be like water. Water adapts and takes the shape of anything it’s poured into. But given enough time and force it can destroy even mountains.

The world is never static, and the game is constantly changing. Homeostasis is not the norm it’s the exception in this world.

Don’t play by the rules, but always keep things stable in your life.

Our politicians are stuck in old-school thinking. The world changes, but some refuse to adapt. If you don’t innovate, you’ll get crushed. Reinvent yourself, or stay irrelevant.

Look at athletes or MMA fighters switching up training camps, politicians changing their platforms, or bodybuilders constantly evolving their routines. They know that if you stand still, you get left behind. The same goes for you. If you are unwilling to adapt, then prepare to be just spinning your wheels. Keep your car in park and the world will leave you in the dust zooming by in a suped up sportscar.

4 – Leadership Is Never About Power

No leader who has been admired through history built an empire solely by flexing power. Leadership isn’t about being flashy, but about structure and stability for the common man following you. If you want to lead, then leave your ego at the door. Show up every day and deliver, lead by example.

True leadership is not about making a spectacle of yourself or exerting power for the sake of control. You can rule by fear, or rule by love. It is always about building trust, creating stability, and leading by example. That will make people love you, and you don’t need to inspire fear or make displays of ego.

Great leaders throughout history, whether they were military figures, political leaders, or entrepreneurs earned respect and love by being consistent, reliable, and focused on the needs of the people they led. They understood that the foundation of any empire, organization, or movement was grounded in structure, responsibility, and the everyday actions that maintained it.

Leaving ego at the door is key here. It’s about serving those you’re leading, not elevating yourself above them. The best leaders make others feel like they matter and provide a clear path forward, not through grand gestures, but through discipline, consistency, and vision.

5 – True Strength is in Detachment

What is the greatest power move you can make? Walking away from power when you don’t need it anymore. True power isn’t addicted to more power for its own sake. Know when to step back, enjoy, and let go. Not many people have forever held on to status, fame, wealth, and power. Besides all those things are temporary and peripheral.

True strength is knowing when to let go. Take control of your own life, and never get trapped by ego. Never get stuck in the past or obsessed with fame or status. Let go when it’s time, and make room for growth.

6 – The Real Fight Is Internal

If you want to make it to the top, then your greatest opponent, or challenger will be yourself. The only competition you have in life is the man, or woman staring back at you in the mirror. Whatever you are setting your sights on in life, the battle is always about pushing past (and breaking) limits and getting used to being very uncomfortable. Every time you feel like quitting, or giving up that’s when you have to go even further and work even harder and dig even deeper. Pain is weakness leaving the body. Your worst enemy in life is always yourself.

This isn’t about some wake up call. Life is tough. The world is a clown show circus right now. You’ve got the power, skills, knowledge, and wisdom needed to be somebody better than that. Don’t wait for tomorrow, but get after it today.

7 – Make Your Own Opportunities

Quit waiting for someone to hand you something like you deserve it, and are entitled to it. Did I wake up in shape by random chance one morning? Obviously not.

Today is the day that you’re going to stop waiting for someone to give you a job, some girl to give you a shot, and to join the gym. You need to create your own opportunities. You can’t be the guy waiting for that phone call or knock to happen. You have to be the guy making the calls and doing the knocking. With opportunity, you have to build things, grind for things and take them on the chin when they come or capture them don’t let them slip you by.

The system is rigged and life isn’t fair, but complaining about it never fixed anything. Neither did self destructive behaviors out of seeking pity or attention. Create your own path in life, and take whatever you can get that comes your way. And turn all the bad events into opportunities to create good events.

Tough Love & Final Thoughts

Let’s get real. Life isn’t going to hand you anything for free. Whatever you earn in life is earned through blood and tears and sweat. Not through handouts. Maybe some people get to have a weak and soft easy life but those people aren’t as fortunate. They don’t get to turn themselves into gold from lead. We do. Stay hungry. Stay relentless.

Discipline, Not Genetics