Tips And Other Good Advice For Guys

Tips And Other Good Advice For Guys

1)      From this day forward for the rest of your life, focus on building and strengthening your personal character.  Your personal character is the foundation upon which all other life successes are built.  Just as a home needs a strong foundation, so does your entire life.  Start by reading the thirteen virtues of Benjamin Franklin.

2)      Get an education.  I have some pretty strong and unorthodox views about education in America.  There are a million reasons to get a college education.  You probably know them all already.  It is never too late to educate yourself.   Even if you’re an old geezer, you can benefit from educating yourself.  The one thing that people really overlook in this area is the value in getting an education outside of a normal public college or university.   If you apply yourself, you can learn the equivalent of a college bachelor’s degree in one year or less by ruthlessly studying the subject at hand on your own time.  If you want to learn about something bad enough, you can learn it very quickly.

3)      Marry the right woman.   The woman you choose to spend the rest of your life will have the single most influence on your level of happiness throughout life.  Find a woman with a strong moral foundation that matches your own.  Give your heart to her.  Then live the rest of your life as a team.  Treat her as a man should.  Respect her and love her.

4)      Get organized.  I know plenty of guys who have all the potential in the world, yet can’t seem to get on track.   One thing that is always lacking is their organizational skills.  Get your ass organized.   Get your home organized.  Make it neat, clean and tidy.  Get your financial affairs organized.  Do you have a real retirement plan?  Do you really?  How many more years are you going to be doing what you are doing right now as your primary source of income?  You’ve hear the phrase before.  Nobody plans to fail.  They just fail to plan.

5)      Discipline yourself.  If you can force yourself to get up early every single day and go workout, then you already have one of the essential tools of success in life.  You have discipline.  If you can walk away from closing a deal on your new car because the salesman won’t drop the price another $200, then you have discipline.  You need discipline in every area in life.  If you have enough self discipline, you are essentially gauranteed success in any area of life.

6)      Find a way to profit from doing something that you would willingly do for free.  Then build yourself a little business around it.  Haven’t you always wanted to be in business for yourself?  See where it goes.  There are few things as rewarding as making money doing something that is so enjoyable that you would do it for free.  In my case it is writing.  I enjoy writing so much that I would do it even if no one ever read it and I never made a dime from it.  Fortunately, I found a way to write and actually make a little money from it.

7)      Seek your own spirituality.   I don’t care what religion you decide to prescribe yourself to.   There is an inherent need in every man to find his soul.  Don’t overlook this one.  I don’t care if you choose to be an atheist.  I can guarantee you that if you start asking yourself some deep questions; ultimately you will discover that you do in fact have a soul.  It is impossible to miss once you begin looking for it.  No man can call himself an atheist who has seriously considered these questions.   There is plenty of room for both science and religion.  If you don’t think so, it is because you haven’t done enough of your own independent research.

8)      Start getting healthy today regardless of your age or condition.  Getting healthy will pay you dividends for the rest of your life.  Cut down on the booze a little bit.  Clean the crap out of your kitchen cupboards.  Give up the god damn cigarettes.  Who the hell can afford to smoke the things anyway?  Start taking some supplements, eating your vegetables and getting a little exercise.

9)      Explore some of the finer things in life.  Learn to appreciate art.  Learn to appreciate the brilliance of the great composers like Bach and Mozart.  Learn to open up your heart to absorb all of the messages that artists are trying to convey through these alternative channels of communication.  Listen to some other types of music that you would normally turn off immediately.  Give them a chance.  You might discover something about yourself.




10)   Volunteer for some non-profit organization.  You will get an unbelievable feeling of satisfaction by working with other people to achieve a goal of helping out some less fortunate person.   You don’t need to make money every second of the day.  It really feels good to give back a little bit for no reason other than to help your fellow man.

11)   Take a more proactive role in managing your own personal finances.  It is fine to work with a professional financial advisor.  However, you must ask yourself if you truly understand the plans.  Who made these plans?  Why are you doing what you are doing?  There are very few things that will be as personally and financially rewarding as taking an active role in building your own wealth.  You should be at the helm of that ship.  Chances are, right now you are really relying on someone else to see that you reach your financial goals.  It’s time you took charge.  Remember, it is your money, they work for you.   Learn how compound interest can make you rich.

12)   Quit your friggen' whining.  Is there something you’ve been whining about lately at home or at work?  Quit your friggen' whining and do something about the problem.  Whining and complaining is such a waste of time.  Why waste the energy by magnifying the problem?  Instead you should be saying “Okay, It is what it is. Now what am I going to do about it?”

13)   Study history.  I hope you don’t find learning about history to be boring.  There are so many lessons and so much wisdom you can gain from studying history.  People who don’t study history are easily fooled by modern politicians.  These politicians can sway you to believe something that simply isn’t true.  They prey on your lack of history knowledge and try to use seemingly logical explanations to get you to support a bullshit idea.  Don’t fall for it.




14)   Take a more active role in how your government is being run.   You should be paying attention on a local level as well as a national level.   So few people vote that when you cast your vote it actually counts for many people.  Educated, intelligent voters like you and I are far more likely to make better decisions than the “sheeple” out there.  Whether or not you agree with my political views is immaterial.   Try to ignore party lines for a minute and just decide which politician appears to be lying the least.  Whose lies are bigger?  What long term implications will this decision have for us all?

15)   Make yourself a good role model for children.   If you feel like you have your shit together, then you owe it to the next generation to help educate and guide them.  Help steer them away from doing some of the more stupid things you did growing up.  If they hear the right advice from enough of the right people, some of it is bound to sink in.  If you’ve got tattoos on your face, then stay the hell away from any kids you stupid bastard.

16)   Build friendships with people who make you a better person.  Hang out with people that bring out your best.  You don’t need to abandon your old friends like everyone else tells you to.  Just realize that maybe you need to alter those relationships a little bit in order to make room for people that are bringing out the best in you.  If you’re lucky, your old friends are already doing that.