As many of you have noticed, there’s a Danger & Play Forum set up. I haven’t approved any usernames yet because I’ve had to decide what to do with the forum.

99% of Internet forums (or fora, for the pretentious among you) exist for one of two reasons:

1. A large forum allows the forum owner to sell advertising to third parties. This is self-evident. If you can get a lot of guys on a forum you can sell those guys’ eye balls to advertisers.

2. A large forum allows the forum owner to sell his own product. Most bodybuilding forums, for example, are owned by steroid dealers (they all sell bunk, by the way) and supplement company owners.

Forums are awesome tools for SEO. A single person can only create a limited amount of content. With a forum, you have dozens or hundreds or even thousands of guys creating content.

This content gets indexed into Google. This allows the forum owner to passively attract new forum members and readers.

For example, let’s say I post a thread entitled, “How to Improve Your Credit Score After Bankruptcy.” When some guy Googles those terms, he finds the forum. Boom. The forum owner has more eye balls to sell ads or his own product to.

This is why almost no Internet forum is private or members only. The forum owner doesn’t want to lose out on the amazing amount of Google juice he gets from user-generated content.

That said, being a forum owner is a major pain in the ass. There is no such thing as a free lunch or a free Internet forum. Being a forum owner requires you to basically behave like an HR office. You have to moderate disputes and screen out offensive content. You must be a skilled administrator. It’s a time suck.

Guys have “beef” with each other. Guys will write to mods about unfair treatment. Men will report posts that make themselves butt hurt.

Since I am not selling anything or taking on advertisers, what’s the point of my having a forum? I sure as hell have no interest in reading an email from an adult man telling me he’s butt hurt over something another person wrote on the Internet. A forum sounds like too much of a hassle.

Running a forum is exactly not what I am skilled at. I am an executive not an administrator. I have boldness and vision. Others are better at carrying out my ideas. I will never be a manager of any kind.

Then again, I can think of a few reasons to have my own forum. First is that I will learn something. Second is that I will meet guys who turn out to be legit in real life, which will lead to legit business deals and other personal relationships. Third is that I can write content that I wouldn’t want out there in the bigger world.

A forum would have to charge a membership fee. This is to pay for hosting (which isn’t that much, to be totally forthright) and to keep out haters.

If you don’t find value in information or having a place free of losers, morons, and haters, then you’re not the right guy for the forum.

A forum would have to be members only and private to Google. Since I don’t need the Google juice, a private forum would be ideal. Although guys should always remain anonymous, since a membership fee would discourage haters and spies, controversial and unconventional subject matters could be discussed.

A forum would have to be free of losers, haters, and morons. I can deal with assholes who drop legit knowledge. In fact, most of my friends can be major dick heads. Oh well. I am not a woman and don’t cry over things men say.

You speak truth in a mean way? Great. You’re a nice guy who writes stupidity and can only share conventional wisdom. You’re not a good fit.

Bottom line: There is a forum. It will become activated when I figure out the right approach.

If you have any suggestions, feel free to let loose in the comments.

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Dante Trudell has put more muscle on guys through his revolutionary DoggCrapp training than probably any other bodybuilding visionary since Arnold. Most don’t know about Dante or DC Training because DC Training is too demanding for most trainees.

Dante issued a warning that I took to heart many years ago. It’s a warning most will ignore until it’s too late. What did Dante say?

So what will all this hard work for the past 15 years allow me to do? I’m in my mid 30′s now so for the rest of my 30′s and thru my 40′ and 50′s i can pretty much walk around at 250lbs hard as a rock at a very low bodyfat percentage. Ive set myself up so that will be very very easy. I actually have to do much less than everything I do now (except cardio) to be there. Ill use guys in this forum for examples, Inhuman and massive G are both around 5’9″, 5’10″ and are offseason 280 to 300. They have spent the time and food consumption and paid their dues to get there. Massive G I believe is mid 30′s and Inhuman is early 40′s I believe. Both these guys will be able to crank this down and enjoy walking around with full abs, hard as granite with veins everywhere at 240-260lbs.

They have set themselves up and paid their dues in their 20′s and 30′s to do that. You guys that are 35-45 years old who want this but weigh 175-210lbs are playing catchup and are so behind the race its sad.

My point of this post is to get guys in their early 20′s to think, to get guys who just blew 10 years of training who are in their 30′s to think, and to get guys who just blew 10-15 years of training who are in their 40′s to think….

You have to set yourself up early so you can be right where you want to be late.

Your mid-30s are physilogically far different from your late-20s and even your early 30s. The difference between 31 and 35 is only four years. But brother, those are a major 4 years. Use whatever energy you have now to create something worthwhile to sustain yourself into your 30s, 40s, and beyond.

I have about one more good year to put on muscle and am going to make the most of that year. #Project2013

See also, “Don’t Waste Your Twenties.”

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How would your game change if you never felt feelings of rejection? What if rejection had no more power over you than a still breeze? Would your game change if you could control how you responded to women?

One NLP exercise that no one does (event though it’s fundamental and even though you cannot “do” NLP unless you’ve performed this basic exercise) is to create a state of emotion or consciousness that you can always return to. The exercise, described in NLP: The New Technology, requires you to go into a room alone. In this room you need to stand up and focus on an event that has brought you a great feeling of accomplishment. You then imagine a spherical light around your body.

This forms the basis for your “state.” Whenever you are feeling weak, powerless, or embittered, you return to this state.

A person’s default state is a private one and it differs from person to person. My default state when dealing with a woman is a rock. A woman’s emotions, rejoinders, or outbursts flow harmlessly around and past me. I do not move.

To recognize the power of finding – and returning – to your state, observe this Tony Robbins video:

 

What would you be able to accomplish if you operated from feelings of empowerment? Imagine how much better your day would be if you were able to return to state. Can you see how women respond when they subconsciously detect the power overflowing from you?

Read more: NLP: The New Technology.

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