DrunkJohn Full throttle

There is no greater thrill than succeeding at something you thought impossible. It's a rush. It's empowering.

Remember when you first drove by yourself? Remember when you got your first award?

Accomplish the almost impossible, and suddenly everything seems possible.

Pretty awesome, right?

And right after your victory, just as you're basking in the glory of winning, you have a choice:

1. Revel in that victory, no matter how large or small, and plateau...coasting on your success and seeing how far one thing can take you.

OR

2. Carpe vagina and attack the next challenge.

We all know guys who have done, and still do #1. They develop something, they get one success with one woman one night, and suddenly they're the next big expert. As if all their dues are paid in one woman. These are the same guys who talk about the past with great reverence, who enjoy starting conversations with, "Remember that time...."

These guys might be your friends. You might be related to one. You might even be one yourself.

And I have one challenging word for you: Coward.

Talk about the glory days? Live in the past? You're afraid. You're scared. So to protect yourself, to preserve that ego and put it high on a throne, you're not trying again.

You want to see how far you can ride that one wave.

That's cool if that's your plan. That's great if you just want to be an inventor and not an innovator, if you just want to have one flash in the pan rather than a lifetime of sustained success.

History remembers one-hit wonders too....just not as fondly as the career men.

Now you could do that, and live afraid and hold onto that ego and your accomplishments as if they elevate to some invisible status that only you're privy to.

Or you could sack the fuck up, punch your ego in the mouth and be like #2.
Don't rest on one night. Don't rest on a single accomplishment, no matter how big it is. Sure curing cancer would be a monumental big event, but what if you were the guy who cured cancer, AIDS and herpes?

Edison, Franklin and Jefferson didn't just invent one thing.

Alexander and Caesar didn't just fight one campaign.

In the second World War, we didn't mop the floor with only the Nazis. (And to you foreign people, Charlemagne didn't just take over a single country)

Oh no, they didn't. They had one success, and tried again. Sure, they knew they might fail. Sure they knew they could have sat back and admired one victory for a little while longer.

But why settle for just one? You're not defined by just one activity, one goal or one task, right?

You succeed once, you go take that momentum and go again. Go bigger. Go harder. Go stronger. Go more. Do more. Be more. Be more again.

And that, gentlemen, is the idea of full throttle, no brakes.

It's how you face life. It's how you handle challenges. It's what you say when people ask you how you roll. Say it with me now:

"Full throttle, no brakes"

You succeed and then you succeed again. You don't pussy out, you don't do anything weakly or half-assed.

Don't live afraid of your shadow. Don't live content with one success. What the fuck are you scared of? You want to be a big man, and get some praise, that's awesome. Rock on brother. But what's next?

Be a man, and live your life now. In the moment. Yes, the past was good. Yes you get a cookie. But the past is done. You're still a man. You're still living. Still plenty of things you can do.

Do it. Stop being a coward. If I was being a coward, I trust that you'd be the one to tell me to sack the fuck up, right?

So what do you do?

When you speak your mind, you speak it fully. Vocal projection, confidence and most importantly INFORMED. Don't dance around a subject. If you don't know something, say so, and then if necessary educate yourself. Don't spew bullshit just "to be the man". Men don't bullshit or gossip. Seriously.

When your ego bubbles up and you start feeling all potent and top-of-the-world, don't sit there and coddle it. Smack it the fuck down. Perspective, get some and enforce it. Don't kinda sort do anything.

Full throttle, no brakes.

When you go out, you're out. Forget "alpha" forget all those terms. Be you. BE YOU. Be not only a man, BE THE MAN. Confident, potent, strong, attractive, centered. Be the way you were always meant to be.

Full throttle, no brakes.

Your game is a 10.
You don't give a fuck what other people think about you.
Unstifle.

How do you do these things?

Full throttle, no brakes.