Archive | April, 2010
To Step Aside or Step Up

To Step Aside or Step Up

by on 30. Apr, 2010 in Interviews, The 21 Convention, Wealth

A few weeks ago I came to a crossroad in my life. I haven’t mentioned it anywhere online before, nor have I discussed it with more than a handful of individuals that I have been close with for many years.

That crossroad was a simple, yet extremity difficult decision to make: do I step aside, or step up?

Do I rise above and meet a challenge head on with everything I have, and more? Or do I fall below and succumb to self doubt, fear, and the individual weight of the world that is resting on my shoulders.

I struggled for days with the challenge and difficult decision that lay before me. There really was no easy answer. Each side of the coin had it’s own pro and cons, benefits and consequences, so on and so forth.

…

And then something snapped. I’m not sure at what point it happened, but somewhere along the decision making…

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The Community Tapes [Volume 1]: Dj Fuji

The Community Tapes [Volume 1]: Dj Fuji

by on 25. Apr, 2010 in Independent Thinking, Interviews, Lifestyle Design, The 21 Convention

Dj Fuji … life coach, ex-marine, rising star of The 21 Convention, and former chief instructor for Mehow Inc. – was interviewed for The Community Tapes during the Fall of 2009 in Orlando Florida. Move past the fame and inside the mind of one of the greatest dating and lifestyle coaches of our time, Dj Fuji, with the ground breaking new lens that is Episode 1, Volume 1 of The Community Tapes.

See Dj Fuji’s outrageously popular speech at T21C 2009 by clicking here.

Visit his blog at TaoofDjFuji.com and see him this July at T21C 2010 (USA).

My comments: Dj Fuji is an awesome guy – seriously. I got a great first impression when I met him in July of 2009 at T21C, and my respect only grew after he gave his ~2 hour presentation (that inevitably blew up online). All that was further compounded (and amplified) during this interview, that really helped me get to know the man behind the name. I believe it will help others in the same regard. Enjoy guys, and stay tuned next Sunday afternoon for Episode 2 of…

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The Next “Big Thing” Goes Live April 25th

by on 20. Apr, 2010 in Independent Thinking, Interviews, The 21 Convention

That’s right, it’s finally here, the independently produced documentary series for men, we’ve all been waiting for.

What will begin releasing this Sunday evening (5pm EST) is singlehandedly the most professional series of videos that I or The 21 Convention has ever played a hand in.

If you think the 2009 trailer or past event footage is impressive … you’re in for quite a surprise. What began as a collective documentary has transformed into what we are now calling “The Community Tapes: Volume 1”.

Volume 1 of this documentary series contains the cumulative effort of over half a dozen people during the course of the past ~7 months, represents hundreds of hours of work planning/filming/editing, and quite literally: multiple thousands of dollars of investment.

How does it differ from event footage?

Event footage is more … “educational” shall we say? This documentary series is just that – a documentary series of episodes, much like a TV show you would see a new episode of every week.

The difference there being,…

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Central Florida Exercise & Nutrition Seminar Featuring: Bill De Simone, Drew Baye, Doug McGuff MD, & Mark Sisson

by on 15. Apr, 2010 in Exercise, Meeting Cool People, Nutrition, The 21 Convention

Man I’ve been so busy with the convention lately it’s absurd … but in a good way. Anyway, I wanted to take the time to announce the “Central Florida Exercise & Nutrition Seminar”, which is more or less a sub set of The 21 Convention 2010 being held in Orlando Florida July 22nd-25th that I’ve set up for locals*.

*I say ‘locals’ because as awesome as the line up is for this limited access ticket, I don’t expect anyone to fly across the country for four speeches. People are more than welcome to of course, but I find that a bit unrealistic – hence the ‘local’ aspect of the ticket.

So, what is it exactly?

Four of the (in my opinion, and probably the opinions of most readers) top authorities in their respective fields, speaking at a 4 day convention in Orlando,FL – all content pertaining to exercise, nutrition, fitness, health, lifestyle, and any related synonyms one could come up with =).

The 21 Convention, as most of you know, is…

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Ron Paul on Collapse

Ron Paul on Collapse

by on 12. Apr, 2010 in Independent Thinking, Wealth

I’ve seen a good deal of Ron Paul videos, but this one eluded me until this evening. Now, it’s relatively short, but I can’t help but feel this video is so good, that it’s eerie.

Perhaps it’s the slightly blurred nature of the video, but I have to wonder how many other people would feel the same way watching this video, had they recently watched the video I posted by Dmitry Orolov on Social Collapse or read his book Reinventing Collapse.

Going further, I wonder if the 2008 presidential election was the swan song of this country. Obviously Ron’s message was heard, but not by nearly enough, when the timing was critical.

In essence, what I’m saying is I wonder if him being elected in 08 was the last chance this country had at avoiding economic, social, and political collapse.

While some may be too stuck in their ways or scared of actual change (that FUBARs the status quo), to believe Ron could win the 2012 election, I wonder further if he would be able to do anything…

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Dmitry Orlov: Social Collapse

by on 05. Apr, 2010 in Independent Thinking, Wealth

I normally just Tweet/Facebook videos like this, but dang, this is an excellent and meaty video. In it, as far as I can tell (I’m not even finished watching it yet) Dmitry more or less gives an oral presentation of the ideas in his book Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects.

He’s not the most exciting speaker, but his sense of humor makes this somewhat depressing topic far more than ‘digestible’. Sit down and take time to watch this – you don’t want to miss it.

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Hot Damn!

by on 03. Apr, 2010 in The 21 Convention

I need to do a full write up on The21Convention.com for these and the coming release, but hot damn!

I am beyond impressed with what the graphic artist of these was able to do for event DVD covers.

Am I delusional or do these look incredible? (probably a bit of both)

Apologies if these took forever to load but I wanted to include the full size images (click to view), and special thanks to Sean Martin of Fabulist Media for the outstanding work.

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The Dream Book Collection

by on 01. Apr, 2010 in Lifestyle Design, Miscellaneous, Reviews

Someone tweeted at me the other day stating interest in what was on my bookshelf (reader Ben of this blog I believe). I thought about it and decided it would make for an interesting post.

What you see above is my personal and current book collection* . I’ve owned and read many more in my life time of course, but I frequently sell books that I won’t read twice, and would be better off in the hands of someone else (hence you don’t see The Primal Blueprint hard cover in here, for one example).

*With a shameless self promotional piece in the back ground of master copy event DVD’s to be delivered this week to the production/distribution company I have chosen. Check out one of the full DVD covers here (it’s pretty slick).

Below I’ll briefly discuss each book, and provide a link to purchase it. Most will be to Amazon, in which case I get a small commission (usually…

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