Health
Whatever route you choose — whatever diet, whatever workout program — commit to it for 90 days. This proves to yourself that you can set a goal and accomplish it. Too many people read about CrossFit, P90X or special diets and never actually start. So: pick something and just do it for 90 days.
It might work great, or you might want different results — but either way you committed and proved you can follow through. Now you can tweak what needs tweaking and keep improving.
Lifting weights is a must for men. I love running and cardio and did it for years, but every routine needs weight training. Lifting raises testosterone — the molecule for men.
Wealth
Financial control, career, education, and a real plan for the future. (More coming here — for now, see the Financial section of the wiki.)
Relationships — the schools of Game
Here's how I see the major approaches, and how they tend to play out short-term versus long-term:
Pickup systems (Mystery Method / Love Systems / RSD)
- Short term: Good success meeting women in clubs and bars.
- Long term: Few real relationships. One-size-fits-all tactics ignore demographics, and framing every interaction as "high vs. low value" gets exhausting. You should just be you.
Speed Seduction / NLP
- Short term: Can build attraction, but weak on approaching and relies on canned patterns instead of being yourself.
- Long term: You do develop real language and persuasion skills you can make your own — but it still ignores demographics.
The self-improvement approach — my recommendation
- Short term: Improve every area of life (fitness, wealth, purpose) and build hobbies where you meet women naturally — not just bars and clubs. The catch: you can't be lazy.
- Long term: Accounts for demographics, points you toward women who actually fit you, makes a genuinely healthy relationship possible — and there's nothing to memorize. You're just being the best possible you.
Self-Love
Self-development is huge. You should constantly be setting goals and hitting them. If you aren't working toward a goal every day, you aren't living the life you're capable of. Things that hold you back:
- Television — going passive and letting media shape how you think and behave.
- Video games — leveling up in a game instead of leveling up in real life by learning a skill or training.
- Porn — can kill the drive to go out and meet people, and desensitize you.
Higher Purpose
When you picture yourself, always picture the goal already achieved. If you want a better body, visualize yourself with it. Fears work the same way in reverse — stand on a rooftop imagining yourself falling, and you'll fear the height. Build better images and you start to think differently and improve every day.
Every experience — good or bad — serves two purposes:
- The superficial one: the tangible result, the goal you can point to and say "I attained that."
- The deeper one: who you become through the experience.
Take a self-made millionaire. Strip away his money and connections and drop him in a foreign country — within a year he's wealthy again. Not because of the money, but because he became the kind of person who creates it. To become that person you have to go through the pain, struggle and risk. That applies to any goal, dream or passion: you have to fall down and get hurt so you learn how to get back up.
It's not the million dollars that matters — it's becoming a million-dollar person.