Gentlemen, I have found a lot of success in the practice of meditation. What this discipline has taught me is to be able to observe my thoughts and emotions as a spectator, and not be affected by them. It has laid the ground work for what is taught in MOA. We have the saying to ‘Suspend Disbelief.’ When you understand that disbelief is a thought you can choose to follow or ignore, this gives you the ability to break past limiting beliefs. Which is why we are all here, am I right? Where this has had direct life application for me, is in my career. I am a Realtor in the Tampa Bay Area, and the advice of the successful, is to make an egregious amount of cold calls to acquire business. This has been my biggest hurdle so far, because I hate coming across as “sales-y” and am a recovering people-pleaser. However, I have been able to identify, that the thing holding me back is my ego, whose goal is to keep me safe and comfortable in what is familiar. Unfortunately, what’s familiar and comfortable, isn’t successful. Maybe you can relate … It’s the classic saying of, ‘get out of your own way.’ Therefore, my new mantra for work is, Suspend Ego. Choose to identify what thoughts are holding you back and elect to suspend them. They do not control you. You decide what thoughts will be given your attention. Ask yourself, is this thought worth following? Does it get you to where you want to go? Does it align with your dreams and goals? Do not give yourself over to worthless thoughts, friends. Much love ✊🏼

Something happened to me yesterday that I want to share, both for me to process to people who understand AND testify that this program fucking works! About a year ago, there was this woman that worked in my office with my real estate team. I rank her at a 9, this woman is beautiful and very much my type. However, because I was the pre-MOA man that I was, came across as uncalibrated and created no attraction on her end. After a few months she left the team and the only thing that still connected us was Instagram … 😏 Fast forward to now, I am about to graduate next week from MOA. I’ve fixed my fucking IG, therefore am showing status and preselection on my grid. Understand, this woman does not interact with my content, she doesn’t watch my stories, like my posts, etc. She is on my list to send invites to, but otherwise (in my mind), since we haven’t interacted in a year, I still believe I have low-status in her mind. I walk into the liquor store last night, and guess who’s checking out? This woman acts so excited and flustered to see me. I give her a hug and we catch up. She’s talkative and smiley. Tells me I’ve been crushing it in real estate (in the last 3 months, I’ve only posted status and pre-selection). I’ll be honest, I was thrown off by seeing her and was not on my game, my voice tone was high, I didn’t implement breaks of rapport or humor, and was more animated than ideal. I still let her do most of the talking and ended the interaction when she was laughing (feeling positive). As we ended the conversation she made sure I knew she lived close by and was following me on social media. It’s crazy fellas, I thought this woman put me in a very low-status bucket. Goes to show you, the evolutionary psychology principles taught in MOA work! Thank you @Michael Sartain, @Miguel Colon, and Grant (which Grant was referenced all the time?) for creating this program and community!

As a man, people only care about the value you bring. I like that we teach this principle here. The concept of value was foreign to me, up until a few years ago, when I started sales. Everyone should have a sales job at one point in their life. You have the opportunity to learn a tremendous amount about yourself, human psychology, and relationships. But more than that, and why I believe everyone should work sales at one point, is because everything in life is sales. The construction manager leading a crew, has to sell his team on what they will accomplish that day, and how to get it done. Now, if you’re anything like me, you hate salesmen, but if we’re being honest, what we hate is the salesman who’s only interested in his own gain. We are taught in MOA to look for the win/win situation, how to elevate our lives AND those around us. Life is all about being a man of value, and learning how to give that value away. A stockpile of value does no good, unless it’s given away. I think we all would agree, the salesman who makes your win their priority, is the one you want to do business with … over and over. Maybe you aren’t in sales, but you are a man, and the world only cares about the value you bring to the table. In whatever profession you find yourself, learn to provide the most amount of value you can. Like Michael says, the level of compensation you receive will be proportional to the problem that you solve … aka value you bring! Step #1 Suspend Ego Step #2 Provide Value

Having only been in the program 2 months, I’ve identified that most of us all have the same struggle. We are over-thinkers, egregiously. And because of our habit of staying in our own heads, we have many of the same issues, one of which is being socially uncalibrated. For those of you who haven’t taken action in the program yet, I implore you, #1 Suspend your disbelief (shut off the over-thinking part of your brain). #2 Implement action (speed of implementation). We are prone to NEEDING to know all the information and answers BEFORE taking any action, but that’s not how men learn best. We learn best by doing. It’s in the pursuit of implementation that you will acquire calibration. I could be off, but I believe one of the biggest reasons we over-think and NEED all the information/answers, is because we all fear failure. Somewhere early in life, we developed the core belief that failure defines us. Out of that core belief we pulled all the stops to ensure we never experience failure. Have you heard the saying, that which you most need is often that which you most avoid? My life started to turn around when I stopped avoiding failure, and instead saw it as an opportunity to learn. If you’re struggling in an area, it might just be that what you need is less orchestrating the PERFECT plan in your head, and more action/experience in that area. Less thinking. More action.

Gentlemen, I’d appreciate feedback on these photos I took with @Minh Trinh in Orlando recently. Specifically, any editing tips, camera angle, pose, etc. Are these all grid worthy?