Personal Monastery
Personal Monastery
Stormin’
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Iron Monastery Notes:
- If you cannot scour the floor, you cannot scour the mind.
- You cannot build a high-value life on a foundation of trash.
- Your room or apartment is your dojo.
- Purge the Clutter.
- A monk only owns what is necessary.
- Clutter creates mental noise.
- Make your bed the second your feet hit the floor.
- During the day, open the window to let stale air out and fresh air in.
- A warrior presents himself with dignity, even if he is facing a firing squad.
- Consider taking a cold shower.
- Floss twice a day.
- Wear simple clothes.
- Put on your uniform for the day.
- Deep clean your room with nothing on the floor.
- Shower immediately upon breaking.
- Dressing clean clothes even if you were staying home.
- It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable
- Food is fuel
- Cut out all this sugar and processed foods
- Eat like a predator.
- Drink water
- Lift heavy weights.
- Focus on squats, deadlifts, bench press, overhead press, and pull-ups.
- Cardio builds the engine.
- A strong body is a signal that you have control over yourself.
- Throw out all of your junk food.
- The greatest enemy you face is the voice inside your own head.
- Monkey mind.
- Differentiate between what you can control and what you cannot.
- You cannot control your genetics, your height, the economy, or what others think about you
- You can control your physique, your grooming, your skills, your bank account, and your reaction to rejection.
- Eliminate digital poison.
- You are not your thoughts
- If you want to feel better mentally, you must do things
- You are biologically incapable of making a smart decision when you are emotional.
- Use a 5-second rule before reacting.
- Money is ammunition
- Audit your supply line.
- Have the stockpile of cash.
- Define how you want your life to work and then work backwards.
- To become a master of any art, it involves the entire Soul and Spirit of the individual.
- You can only fight the way you practice
- Chop wood, carry water.
- Labor is holy.
- Work is how you interact with reality.
- The currency of men is competence.
- Get good at something.
- Approach every task with Total Focus.
- Be the artisan.
- When you are working, work
- Trade each task no matter how small as a craft to be perfected.
- If you are sweeping the floor, sweep it so well that a person coming in after you stops to admire it.
- Suffering is the price of Entry.
- Secure a foothold and stop bleeding money.
- Use your free time to learn new skills.
- Pick one skill that you are bad at and spend 30 minutes a day learning it.
- The boy consumes, but a man creates.
- Am I making something or just watching?
- A high Value Hobby is difficult, tangible, and shareable.
- High Focus Hobbies force you to be in the now.
- Men Bond shoulder to shoulder.
- Identify your biggest Time Bandit and cut the time you spend on it by half
- Choose one real world skill you’ve always wanted to try.
- Commit to being bad at it.
- A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, is a miserable creature.
- The Way of the Samurai is found in death.
- You need to write your own Bushido.
- These are the non-negotiable rules of your life.
- Memento Mori
- Meditate on death every morning.
- And 100 years, nobody will remember any of us.
- Fear is a waste of your Limited time.
- The warrior monk Returns To Nature to reset his spirit.
- What can I give?
- Write down five rules that you will live by until the day you die.
- Do a cemetery walk.
- Pick a day to go without screens
- You must now re-enter the world not as a beggar but as a king.
- Operate out of outcome Independence.
- Be a protector.
- This is a lifestyle, not a quick fix
- When you feel sad, lift heavy iron
- When you feel anxious, clean your room
- When you feel lonely, serve someone else.
- I am the architect of my future.
