Jerry Aust

[Electra @Electrarythm]

You will never outperform your self-image, this is one of the most important things ever said about human behavior and almost nobody understands what it really means, your self-image is the picture you carry inside your head of who you are, what you're capable of, what you deserve, and what's possible for you, and your entire life is just your nervous system executing the orders of that picture, you don't behave according to what you want, you don't behave according to what you say, you don't behave according to your goals, you behave according to who you secretly believe you are, and the gap between where you are and where you want to be is almost always the exact gap between your real self-image and the one you keep trying to talk yourself into.

The plastic surgeon Maxwell Maltz figured this out in the 1950s when he noticed that some patients, even after he fixed their face perfectly, still walked out of his office feeling ugly, and others with minor cosmetic changes walked out feeling brand new, the surgery didn't matter, what mattered was whether the internal picture had changed, and he wrote a book called Psycho-Cybernetics in 1960 that became the foundation of basically every self-development book that came after it, his point was simple, the brain operates like a guided missile that locks onto whatever self-image you've installed, and it will steer you, sabotage you, and bring you home to that image no matter how hard your conscious mind fights, you can win the lottery and end up broke again in two years if your self-image is "poor person," you can lose 50 pounds and gain it back if your self-image is "fat person," you can land your dream job and quietly destroy it if your self-image is "not good enough," because the brain experiences any mismatch between reality and self-image as a problem to be corrected, and it always corrects toward the image.

This is why goal-setting, willpower, motivation, and discipline almost always fail in the long run, they're all happening at the level of behavior while the self-image underneath stays exactly the same, you can't out-discipline a self-image, you can't motivate yourself past it for more than a few weeks before it pulls you back, the only real way to change your life is to change the picture first, and the picture changes through repeated vivid imagination, especially in the relaxed state right before sleep and right after waking, when the critical part of your mind goes quiet and the subconscious actually listens, you spend ten or fifteen minutes a day living inside the version of you you want to become, with full sensory detail, with the feeling of it already being true, you do that consistently for a few months and the internal picture genuinely shifts, and once the picture shifts the behavior follows by itself, no daily battle required, because now your subconscious is steering you toward a different home.

[TOP G @menscoach1]

Underrated life hacks:

-pray first thing every morning, last thing every night
-always keep an open notebook & pen on your desk
-recognize no one is stopping you more than yourself
-never stop learning, ever, no matter what
-extend your vision out by 5-10 years, then reverse engineer to present
-halve the amount time you allot yourself to read books & do your work

Simple habits compound into extraordinary liv

[Path of Men @PathOfMen_]

Negativity doesn't just slow you down. It rewires you.

Every complaint you make, you're training your brain to find more things to complain about. Every time you gossip, you're spending mental real estate on someone else's life instead of building your own.

Meanwhile the clock is running.

You have one shot at today. Not tomorrow, not a do-over. TODAY.

Be the most alive person now. It's a simple choice.

[BOSS @thebeautyofsaas]

lost in life destroyer

>pen and paper
>reflect on the past 2 years (think about the things, events, people), positive ones ONLY
>look at what they all share (an activity, a feeling...)
>figure out the pattern and what they all share
>ask yourself why you are not doing more of it

[AvantPrince_ @AvantPrince_]

I think most people severely underestimate just how deeply focused and deeply in the game of life you're going to need to be as a man to actualise extreme levels of success and competence in many areas simultaneously.

Not everyone wants that and that's more than fine but if you are truly that guy who is willing to incur the fire for your desires then get ready to become a completely new person for multiple months in a row for years, the work often works on us more than we work on the work, a funny and true transformational conundrum of reality

CONSTANT plotting, angling, scheming, seducing, thinking, iterating, building systems around the things you know to make your life more effiicent

WORK NEVER ENDS

There's always more to do there's always other tasks to take on there's always more people to call, pieces of writing to produce, workouts to be done, due diligence to complete and the highest level operators who have the best lives yet most organised psyches, that's how they do it

Rest/break/time off

Words deleted from their mind

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

1 Bank Account = NO Plan
3 Bank Accounts = FINANCIAL Plan
Each account has only ONE job.
Here's the deal:

[blue @bluewmist]

Uncommon advice: If you don't know what to pursue in life right now. Pursue yourself. Pursue becoming the healthiest, happiest, most healed, most present, most confident version of yourself. Then the right path will reveal itself.

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫 @ThePreserverofU]

HOW TO LOOK EXPENSIVE

1. Always maintain perfect posture.
2. Invest in fewer clothes but ensure they are high quality.
3. Keep your hair, beard, nails, and skin well-groomed at all times.
4. Wear neutral and timeless colors instead of loud or cheap-looking ones.
5. Take care of your shoes; clean, polished shoes make a massive difference.
6. Speak less, slower, and with full confidence.
7. Develop calm and composed body language in every situation.
8. Build strong self-respect and never appear desperate or needy.
9. Carry yourself with purpose and quiet self-assurance.
10. Practice gratitude and inner confidence.

[Jason Helmes @anymanfitness]

When you're in good shape, a $10 t-shirt and a pair of blue jeans is all you need to look incredible.

For this to happen you need to get into proper shape.

It's amazing what a bit of muscle and a bit less fat will do for you.

Get healthy, save money, look sexy.

[BONESAW 🕊️ @BonesawMD]

Easy life hack is to decide on one thing to do in which if literally nothing else is done, it is still a good day. then do it as soon as possible every single day. rest of life feels like an extravagant bonus. life is so pleasant you end up doing more in the victory lap anyway.

[Agarthan Vril Master @Lethal_Vitality]

How life begins to look when you treat every workout, every party, every adventure, every romance with a hero's perception of quest and achievement, quests that could be mythologized into lore one day like the great men of antiquity.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

Spoiler alert: it all worked out. You purchased the home, found your person, secured your finances, and broke generational cycles.

Go make it happen.

[David @yourealazyfvck]

If you're working, WORK.

When you work you should be in a constant race against time to get as much done in those 24 hours as possible.

If you're not working, don't work. Enjoy every second and experience to the fullest.

No sense to be in the middle.

[Silentum 🦁 @xKhalifan]

BE DELUSIONALLY OPTIMISTIC

Wake up excited. Believe that everything will work out for you. Pursue your dreams as if they are inevitable. Come back stronger. More confident. More capable. Inspire others. Affirmations. Manifest what you want. Feel as if you already have it. Imagination is your power.

The sun rises even after the darkest nights. Be like the sun.

Stand up no matter what.

Never lose hope. It will all work out.

[Grant Lannin @retirementkeys]

Take the hit

Dust yourself off

Smile

Be grateful for another shot on goal

Take a sip of coffee

BREATHE

Gameplan

Put up another shot

[The Tate Motive @thetatemotive]

🚨JUST IN: Andrew Tate gets asked what gives him UNLIMITED motivation and his answer will change how you think forever. 😳

"Throw motivation away entirely. Decide who you are."

"Are you a f*cking loser? Or are you a winner?

Because that's the only question that matters." 🔥

[Axel (fastr) @fastrlife]

Lot of guys need to hear this:

There’s nothing wrong with you.

You don’t have to become something different in order to succeed…

Everything you need to achieve your goals already exists inside of you…

It’s likely that your environment is the only thing holding you back…

[Grant Lannin @retirementkeys]

Just like a heavier amount of weight on the bar, your body will adapt to your new standard of behavior once you impose it onto yourself

It's not "i must wait for the energy, and when I have it, i go". It is "i must go, and when what I need is required, is when it will be given to me"

In this sense, resistance is signal. The stretch you feel is the self-imposed adaptation actively taking place. You can FEEL the process of molding yourself into the person that your mission requires of you

God is waiting to imbue you with all that you need. The infinite surplus is on hold awaiting your command.

Your requests are heard in the form of actions. You ASK, and it will be given. But your ASK must be in the form of ASKTIONS, and when you go with what you have NOW, what you require will be waiting for you, as you go

It is not "i'll do it when i have the energy" or "i'll do it when i'm ready". It's "i'll begin now, and the energy will be given to me, when I need it"

[AvantPrince_ @AvantPrince_]

Organising your life deeply will pay phenomenal rewards

Make sure you see everything and have dedicated ample time to tying up loose ends and having a sight on everything you are doing

Produce order and cleanliness everywhere

Your soul will thank you 10x

[Crafty @CraftOfMastery]

Samurai were obsessed with aesthetics.

The perfect tea ceremony, the well arranged room, the precise brushstroke were all mental training.

Mastery of small, deliberate acts built the same neurological pathways as sword mastery:

- Efficient execution
- No wasted movement
- Intentional effort in every action

Beauty was a dojo.