Exercise vs. Prozac – A Battle for Survival

by Drawk Kwast – July 30th, 2010

A guy who is 100 pounds overweight, with no friends, girlfriend, or job, who sits at home playing video games is supposed to be depressed. That’s the way nature has evolved us. In the game of survival of the fittest, it feels good to be the alpha male and it feels bad not to be. If it wasn’t that way, what reason would a guy have to go out and succeed? Failure is supposed to hurt, so we avoid it. Success is supposed to feel good, so we seek it. If a person can sit at home, loaded on Prozac, completely happy with their worthless life, what reason do they have to better themselves? None. This is a huge problem, not only for them, but for the society they should be contributing to.

Consider this. One hundred years ago, antidepressants didn’t exist, and natural selection was still functioning relatively well. Girls who were extremely emotionally unbalanced had a difficult time finding a man willing to marry them and have kids. In other words, through natural selection, the girls with the most problems had the least kids. This is a good thing because our species got stronger as the weakness was bred out. In the 1950’s when the first antidepressant Iproniazid hit the public, everything changed. It didn’t take long before every housewife in America was loaded on happy pills. Shortly following the women, guys started taking them also. Today we are literally breeding weakness into our species by sweeping it under the rug with drugs. The emotionally unfit can simply cover up the symptoms, mate just as easily as the fit, and have lots of children. The result is a greater percentage of the population with the very same problem these drugs were created to combat, and it will get worse generation after generation.

Am I saying that depressed people need to be weeded out of society? Not exactly. What I’m saying is that antidepressants need to be prescribed only when every other option has been exhausted. Rather than allowing pharmaceutical companies to spend billions of dollars on advertisements asking the public if they ever feel “down” (which is everyone) and paying doctors every time they give out Prozac like it’s candy, we need to prescribe exercise.

A study conducted at Duke University in the late 1990’s divided depressed patients into three treatment groups. The first group was treated with exercise only. The second group was treated with exercise and antidepressant medication. The third group was treated with antidepressant medication only. At six weeks the drug only group was doing only slightly better than the other two groups. After 10 months however, the exercise only group was doing the best. Yes, even better than the exercise and drug group. Like I said, for the vast majority of people suffering from depression, antidepressant drugs hurt them.

The bottom line is that studies show 30 minutes of high intensity aerobic exercise 3 to 5 times a week will cut depressive symptoms by over 50%. That is very impressive when you consider that exercise is free and has a plethora of other health benefits. This is why in some countries like the UK, antidepressants are not used as the first line of therapy for mild to moderate depression. Doctors there write out a prescription to see an exercise counselor instead.

Besides regulating the happy chemicals in your brain, serotonin and norepinephrine, after about two weeks exercise turns on genes that increase galanin, a neurotransmitter that lowers your body’s stress response. Testosterone also increases naturally, and the more of that a guy has in his system, the less of a chance you will find him in the corner of a dark room crying like a little girl. And let’s not forget those endorphins. I love endorphins, they are the number one reason I go to the gym. I do between one and two hours of weights, followed by one hour of cardio that holds my heart rate at 80% to 90% of my maximum heart rate. By the time I leave the gym, I’m feeling nothing short of euphoria.

We live in a world where everyone wants a pill to make them look good and feel good. The truth is our bodies evolved over thousands of years to do one hour of strenuous exercise a day which gives you all that. Healthy, happy, and sane is paid for in the gym with sweat, end of story.

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Cocaine Psychology

by Drawk Kwast – May 28th, 2010

AUDIO INTERVIEW – Drawk Kwast and Shelton Keith Hill talk about Cocaine Psychology. This is their name for the common method of therapy and self-help used these days in which people are made to temporarily feel good about there problems, without actually doing anything to fix the core issues. The result is a hangover state in which the client feels even worse and then seeks out yet another hit of Cocaine Psychology. This call is available as a free instant download at the below link:

Drawk Kwast and Shelton Keith Hill – Cocaine Psychology
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Shelton Keith Hill is a relationship coach, college professor who is certified in NLP and Hypnotherapy, and a PhD candidate in psychology.

Drawk Kwast is a life coach. His methods are unconventional, and he makes no apologies as he tells you how to dominate the competition at work, attract the most desirable women on the planet, and ultimately achieve a fulfilling life. More information on Drawk can be found at www.drawkkwast.com.

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How To Get Clients – The Value Secret

by Drawk Kwast – May 17th, 2010

AUDIO INTERVIEW – Drawk Kwast talks with Dave Peyton about his discovery of “The Value Secret” and how he’s using it to easily find new clients. This call is available as a free instant download at the below link:


Drawk Kwast and Dave Peyton – How To Get Clients – The Value Secret

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Dave Peyton is a graduate of Total Experience Immersion, holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College, and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has more than 10 years of experience as a Technical Writer and 6 years as an Electrical Engineer. His company, Technical Documents on Demand, is a full-service technical writing company located in Silicon Valley. More information can be found at: www.technicaldocumentsondemand.com

Drawk Kwast is a life coach. His methods are unconventional, and he makes no apologies as he tells you how to dominate the competition at work, attract the most desirable women on the planet, and ultimately achieve a fulfilling life. More information on Drawk can be found at www.drawkkwast.com.

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We Would Fail Kindergarten

by Drawk Kwast – May 11th, 2010

AUDIO INTERVIEW – Drawk Kwast and Mike Murray talk about living as an entrepreneur, fun with strangers, and why they would both fail another year of kindergarten. This call is available as a free instant download at the below link:

Drawk Kwast and Mike Murray – We Would Fail Kindergarten
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Mike Murray is a serial entrepreneur who has spent more than a decade helping companies and individuals understand how they can be exploited by those with nefarious influence skills. From his work in the late 90’s as a penetration tester and vulnerability researcher to leadership positions at nCircle, Neohapsis and Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, his focus has always been on using vulnerability assessment through penetration testing and social engineering to proactively defend organizations. Mike co-founded MAD Security, where he leads engagements to help corporate and government customers understand and protect their security organization . He is also in charge of the advanced curriculum of The Hacker Academy, an advanced online training environment focused on the newest methods of computer penetration testing and social engineering. Mike has a variety of other diverse interests, from his work on human systems and influence to his work work with many people on their careers both within the security industry (through InfoSec Leaders with Lee Kushner) and outside of security (through the Connected Career). Mike’s thoughts on security can be found on his blog at Episteme.ca, and his work on helping build careers can be found at InfoSecLeaders.com and ConnectedCareer.com.

Drawk Kwast is a life coach. His methods are unconventional, and he makes no apologies as he tells you how to dominate the competition at work, attract the most desirable women on the planet, and ultimately achieve a fulfilling life. More information on Drawk can be found at www.drawkkwast.com.

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Codependency Flip

by Drawk Kwast – April 17th, 2010

I found myself on Wikipedia, researching the patterns for codependency, when I made a most interesting discovery. As an Alpha Male Life Coach, I basically teach the opposite of codependency. I teach inner-dependency (better known as independence). Here’s where I took an interesting leap in logic. If a codependent person meets everyone else’s needs at the exclusion of their own, wouldn’t the opposite of this be a person who meets their needs to the exclusion of everyone else’s? I had a huge problem with that conclusion because I don’t consider being independent to go hand in hand with being a narcissist, a sociopath, or simply just not caring about others.

So let’s start at the beginning. If I read the patterns for codependency, as listed in Wikipedia, and reverse them to reflect what I teach, I come up with the following list:

I easily identify how I am feeling and have no issue letting others know exactly how I feel.

I do not think it is selfish to take care of my needs. I know that my basic needs must be met before I will have the resources to help others.

I make quick decisions based on the best information I have available to me in that moment. I live without regret, because I know I made the best decision I could have at the time, even though new information after the fact may show my errors. I accept and value my failures as learning experiences.

I have no problem accepting praise for a job well done, but I don’t let my ego distract me from getting back to work and making future advances.

I have no problem asking others for help. Only an idiot would drown rather than admit he doesn’t know how to swim by asking for a life raft.

I have a list of people whose opinions I value based on past experience with them. I welcome their advice and criticism as a path to better my work and myself. The opinions of those whom I have not preselected are irrelevant and do not affect my mood or decisions. The things the average person will say about me reflect more on them than on me.

I am worthy of love, friendship, and enjoyable social interaction. My true value is in my ability to manage my emotional state and positively affect the emotional states of others.

I am open to explore the possibility that I may be wrong. I have no problem quickly letting go of incorrect concepts that I had previously been using to guide my actions. At the same time, I never compromise my integrity. I believe that those who don’t have the balls to be hated don’t deserve to be loved.

I place everything second to my life mission. A person aimlessly wandering around is not attractive to women or worthy of high-value male friends.

I know when to hold on to value that others don’t see and when to let go of something that isn’t enjoyable or moving me towards my goal. I am very loyal, but only to those who have shown themselves to deserve it.

I believe that no one cares about my goals as much as I do, nor should they, but I know when to call a specialist who will do a better job than I can.

It is easier to find people I resonate with rather than trying to convince others to see things my way. I understand the huge difference between letting go and giving up.

The best relationships are when neither person needs the other for anything. They are both completely independent. This leaves both people sure that the other person is with them just because they enjoy spending time together. The perfect romantic relationship is defined as two people accomplishing separate goals, together.

This list is interesting to me, because I have never categorized the results of what I teach in this way before. As I go though this little exercise, I am reminded what I think about the question if the human population is inherently good or inherently evil. I think that answer changes based on whether a person’s self-perceived needs are being met or not. This is the outdated “moral” question of, “Is it ok for a man to steal bread to feed his family?” I remember back in my psychology 101 class answering that question with another question, “Is his family fat?”

I think that in general the human population will help its fellow man in a time of need. I think in times of crisis, we see those with resources helping those who truly need it. Hearing these stories makes us feel good to be part of the human race. I also think that if a man has to choose between letting his family suffer or hurting someone else to alleviate the suffering of his family, you will be amazed at what he will do. Nietzsche once said that the character of a man is not built out of the experiences he has had, but rather because of the experiences he has not had. He may be completely correct.

I think what it comes down to is simply this. When I travel by airplane, they always tell me to “secure my oxygen mask before helping secure the oxygen masks of others.” I have never bothered to ask them why they say this. As an alpha male, I understand that if I pass out from lack of oxygen, I’m not going to be able to help very many people.

I’m honest with myself. I know that self preservation will always be top of the list. After that, though, life is a party, and a party without any guests is very boring. Treat your guests the same way you would want to be treated if you were at their party. True happiness is nothing more than your happiness reflected back to you through others.

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It’s Complicated

by Drawk Kwast – April 15th, 2010

Norman is having drinks with Jessica. Jessica’s phone rings and she answers with, “Hello Steve.” After a quick one minute phone call, Norman asks Jessica who Steve is and Jessica’s answer is, “It’s complicated.” The truth is, it’s not complicated at all. Whenever a woman answers a question by telling you, “It’s complicated,” it’s actually very, very simple. Are you ready to decode this girl talk and learn what “It’s complicated” really means?

Whenever a woman tells you, “It’s complicated,” you can be 100% sure that two things are going on. First, that there is another guy somehow involved in her life, and second, if you and this other guy knew the all the details of the two relationships, both of you would be upset. When a woman answers a direct question with, “It’s complicated,” she is saying that if she told you, you would be upset, and she hopes that by saying, “It’s complicated,” that you will not press her for answers. This works because women have conditioned us to not want to listen to their long-winded, illogical, “complicated” answers. Here are three examples of how this scenario works.

Example one. A guy knocks on your girlfriend’s door while you are over watching a movie. He is returning a measuring cup. You ask your girl who that was and she tells you, “It’s complicated.” If it’s just the guy next door returning a measuring cup he borrowed, how is this at all complicated? He is just returning a measuring cup. Enough said: it’s very simple. “It’s complicated” can only mean one of two things. The first option is that the guy likes her, and she knows it. She isn’t interested in him, but she is smart enough to string him along just in case her toilet ever needs unclogging. The second option is that she likes him, more than she likes you. As soon as she can get her hooks into this guy, you’re done. Again, if it was just the guy next door returning a measuring cup, and that’s all there was to this story, there is nothing complicated about it.

Example two. You’re on a first date with a girl in college. Some dorky guy comes up to you and says hello to your date. After he leaves, you ask who he was, and she tells you, “It’s complicated.” There is nothing complicated about replying with, “He is just some guy in one of my classes.” What is really going on, if it’s complicated, is that she knows he likes her. She is stringing this guy along because she doesn’t want to “hurt him” by being honest and telling him he doesn’t have a chance. She is also keeping him in reserve for favors in class like help with homework. Again, it’s all very simple.

Example three. You have just ordered an expensive bottle of champagne at a nice restaurant with your date, when some douche-bag with a perfect tan and a plastic smile walks over to your table. He completely ignores you, and your date giggles like an amused 9-year-old as she says hello. After he leaves, you ask who he was. She tells you, “It’s complicated.” Are you starting to catch on here? He is the guy she will be having sex with, after she has drained your wallet only to give you a good night hug followed by telling you how good of a friend you are. A girl will never directly tell you, “I’m not attracted to you. You have zero chance getting me into bed. I am, however, willing to let you think otherwise while you pay for dinner.”

So the next time a woman tells you, “It’s complicated,” just know there is another guy involved and one, if not both, of you are being used like a tool. So what do you do when you can finally see reality for what it is? Do you confront her on it? No. It does you zero good to “talk about it,” and in most cases you will be digging a grave for yourself. Only a beta male cries to a girl about how he is being hurt. If you’re not having sex with this girl, it’s time to start having sex with her right now or stop answering her phone calls. Make your move, and be bold. When she calls asking you to come over and move her couch, tell her you will be over in 5 minutes to lick chocolate sauce off of her naked body. Then get in the car and drive over because you are a man of action, not words. When she sees you at her door 5 minutes later with a bottle of chocolate sauce in hand, well, just trust me on this, the look on her face will be priceless. Make your move!

As a man, you let her know that your relationship has nothing to do with moving couches by simply never moving a couch for her. If you are having sex with her, why should you care if there are other guys? She has other guys in her life, like any other attractive woman, and you have other girls in your life, because you’re not some desperate idiot who enters into exclusive, committed relationships at the drop of a hat. Got it? Good. At some point, if you are doing your job correctly, she will not want to have sex with any other guy but you. After that happens and she decides to keep a few “we are just friends” guys in her life, you’re a happy man because they can do her favors while she is doing you.

If you want to have some real fun with, “It’s complicated,” during the first few months of dating a new girl, flip the script. The next time a girl asks you a question, answer with, “It’s complicated,” followed by changing the subject. The more she likes you, the more of a reaction you will get. The best part is that she will tell you she is angry because you aren’t being open and honest with her, and that it’s probably very simple. You see, she knows the game all too well.

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Understanding Women: Logical Checkpoints vs. Emotional Zones

by Drawk Kwast – April 13th, 2010

Have you ever wondered if women are completely crazy or if you just don’t understand them? Women may not make logical sense, but it is still possible for us to understand the emotional system they run on. The trick is to find a way to relate to this foreign system from reference points that we already understand. As men, we have to evolve past the “all women are just crazy” theory that we like to fall back on every time we don’t understand their actions.

So let’s start from a reference point that we already understand as men. Men work in terms of logical checkpoints. As an example, we’ll look at how men decide to loan money to friends.

Steve loans Bill $50.00 and Bill pays the money back, on time, with zero hassle. A month later, Bill asks Steve if he can borrow $80.00 and Steve has plenty of cash to easily accommodate him. Every guy reading this knows that Steve loans Bill the money. It’s just logical. If Steve can loan Bill $50.00 with no hassle, he has passed that logical checkpoint in their relationship, and he is cleared for more credit. This logical checkpoint can be defined simply as, “If I loan you money, and you pay it back, I can loan you more money.”

Women operate under a completely different set of rules. Women work in terms of emotional zones. They float in and out of these zones quickly and easily, and they do it in a non-logical, non-linear way. If you know which emotion zone a woman is in, you know how she will respond. This system when simplified is, “I did it because I felt that way at the time and I’ll do it again when I feel that way again.” Here is the process when a woman loans someone money.

Sally is in a good mood and loans Becky $50.00 because Becky is a friend that she has a strong connection with. Becky never pays the money back. After two weeks, Sally calls up Becky. What Becky doesn’t know is that Sally is now in a bad mood because she just broke up with her boyfriend. Therefore, Sally starts yelling at Becky about the money she hasn’t paid back. In reality, Sally is just yelling at Becky as an emotional outlet to help her deal with the negative emotions of her recent breakup. If during this call Becky asks for more money, the answer will be no. Two days later, Becky calls Sally because she just found out that Sally had broken up with her boyfriend. Girls like to talk on the phone to explore and share in the emotions of each other’s life drama. After Sally cries her guts out, she tells Becky how lucky she is to have a good friend like her. At the end of that call, Becky, who still owes Sally $50.00, asks to borrow another $80.00 and Sally agrees. This action makes zero logical sense to a guy and is a bad decision, but because women “do what they feel in the moment,” we can at least understand how the female system gave this result.

A guy looks at previous history from a logical point of view and tends to make a logical choice. He operates in a world of logical checkpoints. A woman tends to ignore previous logical history and goes with how she feels in the moment. She operates in a world of emotional zones. For example, a woman going into a good mood will be agreeable and accommodating. A woman going into a bad mood will be disagreeable and combative. In either case, her choices have nothing to do with logic. If you ask an upset woman during an argument if she wants $100.00, she will tell you to go get bent rather than giving the logical answer of yes. Now let’s look at how the two systems can conflict, using a second date as an example.

Steve and Sally are about to go on their second date. We ask each of them separately what they think the chances are of having sex at the end of the date. Both of them give us the same answer. They both tell us they had a great first date, and it’s very likely. What 99.99% of men fail to see, however, is that even though they gave the same answer, they arrived at that answer in two totally different ways.

Steve came to this conclusion using logical checkpoints. At the end of their last date, Steve made it to third base. Logically, if she went that far last time, when she sees him again, sex is the next thing to happen. It’s a logical progression, just like when Bill borrowed $50.00 from him.

Sally came to this conclusion because of the emotional zone she was in when we asked the question. It was as simple as feeling positive emotions for Steve, and wanting more. Just like with Becky, if she feels that way again, she will act that way again and tend to take it a bit further to intensify that feeling.

For most guys, this second date would be a crap-shoot. Most guys, based off of their logic, would make the move for sex and it would either happen or not. If they score, the guy thinks he was correct and his logic was sound. If he doesn’t score, he still sees his logic as sound and just labels the girl as crazy, or having issues. He never truly understands what’s going on.

Steve is not most guys. He is in the one percent of the one percent who actually knows what’s going on. Steve is a true alpha male. He uses his default mode of logical checkpoints with his friends and at work, but he understands the emotional zones women operate under and, because of this, knows that he must completely throw logic out the window on his date. He knows that Sally will sleep with him if and when she feels like sleeping with him. Most guys have heard the saying, “You have to get the woman into the mood.” Steve is one of the few guys who actually understands what this really means. It’s not what she thinks she wants to do, it’s what she feels like she wants to do, and Steve is very good at getting girls to feel like doing it.

Steve is a master seducer who plays the game using only two rules. The first is that women ignore logic because they make decisions based off of whatever emotional zone they find themselves in at that moment. The second is that women can be moved in and out of different emotional zones fairly easily. Thus, to get a girl to respond a certain way, you must make her feel a certain way.

When things go less than perfectly, he never takes personal responsibility for the bad mood of the girl he just stared talking to. He knows that if a girl is bitchy, she will be ready to be guided into a new mood soon enough. He just keeps smiling, unaffected by her temporary state, waiting for her to fall into his happy mood. His power is in being able hold his good mood long enough that it becomes contagious to her. Not only is this amazing, but it happens like clockwork. It’s like he’s bulletproof.

You may think this kind of success would leave Steve with a huge ego, but you would be wrong. Compliment him on how he picked up a girl, and you will always get the same response. He will tell you that he didn’t do anything special. It’s just that she was in a good mood and almost anything would have worked. Like I said, Steve truly understands the game.

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Antilibrary

by Drawk Kwast – April 11th, 2010

I am the proud owner of an antilibrary. I don’t own any books that I have read. That’s not to say that I haven’t read any books. Quite to the contrary, I have read a mountain of them, but as soon as I get to the end of the last page, I either mail them to friends or simply throw them out. I believe that only unread books have value.

Look at the book shelves of most any person and you will see all the books they have read. People buy a book, read it, and put it on the shelf like an ornament. People keep their books because it makes them feel intelligent to look at everything they have read. It’s as if they believe that for every 10 books they finish and put on the shelf, they gain one I.Q. point.

This approach never made any sense to me. Once I read a book, I’m done with it. What am I going to do, read the same book twice? Logically, I know that I get much more value out of reading two different books than out of reading one book twice. If I happen to read something that really hits me, I take notes by putting it into an electronic knowledge depository on my computer. Once it’s there, keeping track of these gems of insight becomes much easier than looking for highlighted pages inside of a physical book. Now you may think that the process of taking notes requires a lot of time, but you would be wrong. The average book I read has no more than three things that make it into my electronic knowledge depository. The most influential book I read last year resulted in less than one page of notes.

If you read one book on a subject you know nothing about, such as the mating habits of the endangered African penguins, every page of that one book will contain new information for you. Take notes, and you’ll end up rewriting most of the book. An interesting thing happens, however, if you read 20 books on that subject. By the time you read number 20, you have actually encountered the same information over and over again. At this point, repetition has burned the relevant information into your memory, but the other reason you remember the information so well is that different authors have presented the information in different ways, from different perspectives.

If you learn Kung Fu from one master, you have learned some of what that one master knows about Kung Fu. If in that process you take notes at nauseam, you will retain a greater percentage of what that one teacher showed you. However, if you learn Kung Fu from three masters, Muay Thai from three different masters, and Ju Jitsu from three more different masters, the result will be a true understand of martial arts, with no notes needed.

In Bruce Lee’s Tao of Jeet Kune Do, he tells you to throw his book out as soon as you finish reading it. His intent is to open your awareness. He wants you to find things that are relevant and true for you through the process of seeing his ideas. He warns that memorizing what he says at the expense of gathering other information and inserting your own reflections will only cripple your true learning.

The first time I read the word antilibrary, I was reading about a man named Umberto Eco. He has over 30,000 books in his antilibrary. This is a man who understands that if you focus on what you have read, you will believe yourself to be knowledgeable, and be wrong. If you focus on what you have not read, you will believe yourself to be ignorant, and be wrong. Given the two options, I would like to believe myself to be ignorant.

Umberto Eco is a philosopher who has written many books of his own. Do you ever wonder how philosophers come up with so much to write about? They do lots of reading. That was the number one secret I learned as I became a writer myself. Consider this: if you read one book on a new subject and then wrote a book on that subject, your book would be very similar to the one you just read. If, however, you read 100 books on a new subject, without taking any notes, and then wrote a book of your own, you would be pleasantly surprised by the results. Not only would it be free of plagiarism, but it would also reflect your personality. This is what Bruce Lee’s advice was in the Tao of Jeet Kune Do. Take what works for you and make it yours. Focus more on what you don’t know rather than what you can’t remember.

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Self Sabotage Part II – The Rollercoaster Crashes

by Drawk Kwast – April 9th, 2010

This is the second chapter in the story of Gary and his psycho bipolar girlfriend, Melinda. You can read the first part of their story in my article titled Self Sabotage: The Emotional Rollercoaster. That article explained what motivates Gary to date an insane person, while this second article documents the disaster that became of his life because he stayed with her. So for all of you who emailed me asking what happened with Gary and Melinda, enjoy.

I remember the first time I met Melinda and realized that there was something very wrong with this girl. I remember Gary shrugging his shoulders and telling me that she was “on medication for being psychologically unstable.” I also remember the first time I told Gary that if he didn’t get rid of Melinda, only bad things could happen as a result of keeping her around.

By the time one of her mood swings resulted in the police coming, I thought to myself that surely Gary would realize that he had to get rid of her – but to my amazement they were back together later that night. After that, I took it upon myself one evening to put a beer in Gary’s hand and have a bit of a sit-down conversation with him. I told him that if he did not get rid of his girlfriend, something was going to happen that would be irreversible. I explained to him that if he did not get away now, the day would come when he would not be able to get away, and that’s where our story picks back up with these two, the point of no return…

One of the benefits of dating a crazy girl is that the crazier they are, the better they are in bed. This was something that Gary not only knew, but enjoyed quite frequently. The biggest problem with Gary’s enjoyment of this was that Gary enjoyed it without the use of a condom. Not smart. Melinda’s idea of birth control was abortion, and she had already had five of them with Gary. What had not occurred to him was: what would result if the day came that she got pregnant and decided not to have an abortion?

The day finally came when Gary decided he had had enough of Melinda. He told her they were finished, and he was serious about it. What Gary did not know however, was that by the time he told her this, she was pregnant again. So what did Melinda decide to do to keep Gary in her life? Simple answer, don’t have another abortion. Having his child would guarantee that he was in her life permanently. Gary having a child with Melinda would also guarantee that his child would turn out just as crazy as she is. The surprises that Gary had not considered just kept on getting better.

So what happened over the next nine months? Interesting things: I’ll give you the highlights. Melinda, crazy as ever, and now with the added bonus of the out of control emotions that pregnant women have, ruined a perfectly good frying pan over Gary’s head. I say ruined because afterwards, it was so dented that it was unusable. Gary got lucky with that, no permanent brain damage (although considering the decisions this guy makes in life, I question whether his brain ever did work correctly). When the police got there they arrested Melinda and took her away in handcuffs, but when it came time for Gary to testify in court, he didn’t for the sake of his unborn child.

And while all of this was happening, he was having sex with another girl, Ayesha. You’ll remember that I said Gary doesn’t like having sex with condoms. You guessed it, Ayesha gets pregnant also. Ayesha’s boyfriend was very upset when he got out of prison and found out about all this.

So this leaves Gary with a two-week-old son, another baby on the way from a different girl, and a guy who just got out of prison looking for him. My advice to Gary was to sue for custody of his son, sever ties with Melinda, and learn how to use a condom. Gary replies by telling me, “Well at least things can’t get any worse.” He was wrong about this also.

After having their son, Melinda assures Gary that she has had a birth control implant put in, and they continue to have unprotected sex. Within weeks, Melinda tells Gary that she is pregnant again. At three months pregnant Melinda and Gary go to see a doctor for prenatal care. The doctor looks up at Gary and assures him that his girlfriend is doing fine for being six weeks pregnant. Gary looks at the doctor and says, you mean three months pregnant right? The doctor assures Gary that he knows what he’s talking about, and no, in fact Melinda is six weeks pregnant.

Melinda’s story is that she had a miscarriage, didn’t even know it was a miscarriage, and must have become pregnant again six weeks ago. This is the type of insanity that you just can’t make up, or believe actually happened, either.

Now let’s discuss what this has done to Gary financially. With the new baby in the house, formula to buy, and the never ending supply of diapers needed, Gary found himself frequently short on cash. His solution was to continuously get car title loans to make ends meet. This worked for a while until the day that he could not make the high interest payments and they took his car. So how does Gary get to work every day? Melinda drives him every morning and picks him up every evening spending the whole time nagging him about how he needs to figure out how to buy a car. The irony is that Melinda isn’t working either. She is on unemployment and disability. It’s hilarious to me to know that a leech of the system like Melinda continuously nags Gary about not making enough money.

The moral to the story is to be careful who you surround yourself with, and always, always use a condom! Gary called me the other day and my advice was a murder-suicide. He wasn’t sure if I was kidding or not, and neither was I.

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Cheeseburger Model for Success

by Drawk Kwast – February 8th, 2010

Everything I ever needed to learn about how to live a successful and balanced life I learned from eating cheeseburgers. The average person needs to eat 2,000 calories a day. A Double Quarter Pounder Meal, super-sized, from McDonald’s is 1,840 calories. This is the reason why McDonald’s no longer gives you the “super-size” option, because eating that, plus anything else over the course of the day, will cause the average person to get fat. It’s not one trip to McDonald’s that makes a person fat however; it is the continued trips to McDonald’s over time that have a snowball effect. We can apply this “Cheeseburger Model” to any area of a person’s life to discover the path that will lead to ultimate success or ultimate failure.

The model is easy to understand. Imagine two people eating at McDonald’s over the next 12 months. One of them, Bob, will start tomorrow by eating lunch and dinner there. The other one, Abe, will also start tomorrow by eating lunch there. By the next day, Bob has had enough McDonald’s to last two weeks and begins eating other, healthier food. Abe loves McDonald’s, and continues to have lunch there every weekday because it is right across the street from where he works. Abe tells us that it is “just so close and convenient.” After one month, we see that Bob has eaten at McDonald’s only three times, while Abe has eaten lunch there 20 times. After one year, Bob is at 10 meals while Abe has eaten at McDonald’s 248 times. At this point, do you think Bob looks much different from how he did a year ago? No. How about Abe? Oh baby, did he get fat! The point of the Cheeseburger Model is to illustrate that success or failure in your life tends to be a snowball effect.

One day of sluffing off followed by a year of hard work will not doom your prosperity any more than one day of hard work followed by a year of sluffing off will guarantee your success. It’s a matter of consistency. Here are some practical examples of applying this model in real life.

Starting a Business. It takes a matter of only hours to start a new business. What most people don’t realize, however, is that spending a Saturday ordering business cards and setting up a website is only the first step. You will not have much of a business if you only work on it when you feel like it. There is quite a bit of trial and error when you start a new business, and you will find that it’s mostly error for the first few months, or even years, which will leave you wanting to give up. Slow and steady wins the race when it comes to start-ups. If you have an idea that you truly feel is worth it, devote one hour or more, five days a week, for one year to it.

Finding a Girlfriend. The average guy asks out fewer than three girls per month and is heartbroken when his rare attempts fail. This is the same guy who isn’t comfortable talking to women because, quite simply, he never talks to women. Finding a girlfriend isn’t about making one approach every few weeks, it’s about talking to every woman you can, every time you leave the house. You get comfortable talking with them by, quite simply, talking to lots of them. This increases your chances of getting a date by not only learning to talk with them, but also by asking more of them out. Don’t fish with a spear gun, use a net. You can always throw back the ones you don’t like.

Party Time. I grew up in an environment where I was told that listening to music with friends would inevitably turn me into a heroin addict. To this day I cringe when I hear idiots say things like, “if you never take that first drink, you cannot become an alcoholic.” It’s not the first drink; it’s the seventh before noon, every day for a month that wrecks a person. Humans are social creatures and that is why we group together to have fun. It is in our nature. It’s ok to have some fun, and the right amount of fun will actually make us more productive once it’s time to get back to work. Be an adult by knowing and respecting your limits, then enjoy life by playing like a child. Everything in moderation.

Getting in Shape. Every athletic club makes the majority of their money because of January 1. If it were not for New Year’s resolutions, most gyms would go out of business. It is the same thing every year. A tidal wave of people sign yearlong contracts in that first week of January, and by the end of the third week, half will never walk into the gym again, until next January. Now, for the people like me who actually keep going regularly, we love new sign-ups because without them we would never get new equipment to play with, but we do laugh at them. These people do not realize that one week at the gym is not going to get them into shape. This is the opposite of eating at McDonald’s. If over the next year they would come to the gym 248 times, they would have the bodies they want. If you want to look like the people who work out all of the time, you are going to need to work out all of the time.

Life is a Journey. One step in the right direction followed by a few hundred in the wrong direction will not get you to your goal, but it is fine to take a few steps on the scenic route from time to time.

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