Are ALL of your showers perfectly warm or exhaustingly hot?

If this is the case then you’re missing out on a few opportunities.

  • this Post from TRP discusses contrast showers and the benefit of taking them and how it relates to building frame.

Basically, if you can mentally gut through the convulsions and ‘shock’ then your mind will establish a new baseline of what it can and cannot handle

  • While I’m not the biggest promotor of the website, ‘The Art of Manliness’ I did find this article to be something that helped me transition from lava showers to contrast showers. Now I turn down the heat as the shower goes on and end the last minute scrubbing off the soap & conditioner in some pretty fucking cold water. But, now I step out refreshed as shit and ready to take on the day.

Carpe Diem

Can you remember the last book you actually read?

  • If you have time to watch GoT, Bob’s Burgers, Family Guy, Insert whatever the fuck show then you have time to read. Not only that, but read without distraction.

I have a 5 yr old and 2 yr old and they are fucking awesome and fucking crazy. Sometimes, they’ll run around while I lay in the hammock or sit on the stairs and read. I’m aware of what’s around me, but I’m not distracted.

Being able to focus has become a lost art, mainly due to the insane level of instant gratification people experience. You have your phone, computer, tablet, TV, and everything else trying to get your attention with status updates, ads, promotions, etc.

Don’t let any of that creep into your mind while you read. A lot of guys on her mention that they’ve started the sidebar or Just got into NMMNG/MMSLP/WISNIFG/Etc.. Why not just dedicate the time and discipline yourself enough to actually finish those books?

Have you ACTUALLY been hungry recently

  • In our modern society we can tap our phone in a certain order and a fucking buffet will appear at our door, it’s crazy. With that said, we have reached a point where missing a meal is unheard of.

To actually feel hunger and the physiological response of your body when you eat is some Masculine shit. I experienced this deeply 3 times in my life; my two deployments and when I hiked a 40 mile section of the Appalachian Trail. It isn’t until you’re operating without food that you realize how necessary proper nutrition is as well as appreciating how badass your body is.

Try fasting; try going 18 hours without eating anything and only drinking coffee or water. This site LeanGains is where I’ve gotten most of my info (along with the LeanGains Subreddit) and I’ve experienced some solid results.

One thing I find myself repeating to my son is that It is OK to be hungry. Absolutely listen to your body, but sometimes you need to step out of the comfort zone and actually feel hunger. If you do, you’ll also, in the literal sense, feel the energy the food provides your body.

Eat to live don’t live to eat.

Are you in the routine of Wake, Work, Eat, Sleep with (maybe) some lifting and Gaming of the wife???

You need to break routine. There was a post yesterday that got deleted where it seemed like the OP was simply expecting his wife to get the tingles from a guy who was stagnant.

Sure, you may not be fat or getting worse, but that’s not the game MRP plays. Here it is continuous improvement in every facet of your life or GTFO because it doesn't work any other way, the whole pill or nothing.

You need to make time for the Iron, You need to fuck with your wife daily, like, all the time and you need to break routine.

A few things I do to ensure there is no stagnation is that I’ll plan at least 1 thing a week that nobody knows about, this week I’m bringing the family to the state park and telling my wife to get in a dress with nothing underneath.

She’ll comply, the kids will have fun, and I have the route, food, and times already figured out. She has no idea and I subtly get info as to whether anything is going on that day.

This could be anything for your situation. Maybe you have a date night on a week day, maybe you go to a comedy show or the casino (I hate concerts, they stress me out) or maybe you could bring home a fucking slip and slide and just wipeout all day.

It doesn’t matter what you're doing, what matters is that you ARE doing Acta, Non Verba.

Honestly, all it comes down to is that she didn’t see it coming, you’re fucking leading the clan, and everyone is together and doing things that are ‘out of the norm’.

Life is short and we need to enjoy as much of it as we can. Hopefully this post leads to some self-reflection and introspection where you can find other areas in your life where you may have become *too comfortable**