You dont.

REgardless.

You can’t take the man out of the man regardless.

Might sound like gibberish, but it’s true.

Like you can’t take red out of redneck, no, I dont consider that derogatory, but an argument made by someone on a forum, if you consider the n word derogatory why not this? He was right…

Anyway – way too many people dont acknowledge WHO they are at the core, therefore, they dont know what they WANT out of life – truly – and lives unsatisfied lives of pure, utter mediocrity. I’ve got examples right in front of me right now!

Anyway – in the 2008 hit movie Jannat, a movie I watched in the hall with my wife, a movie that shook me deeply, I loved it so much I didnt kiss her ONCE (and we were HOT then) in the damn theater – and that catapulted the actor to stardom, the villain makes a remark of “Insan ki phidrat kabhi nahi badalti”.

Which translates roughly into the title of this email.

Story of a small town boy with an uncanny sixth sense that helps him predict outcomes of cricket matches, then he starts to bet, makes huge money, gets noticed for and starts working for the mafia (justifies it by saying I dont do anything other than fix matches – which he didnt, true) … and the love of his life tries till his last breath to rid him of his gambling habit as she puts it – which brought him fame, riches, money – more than “Croseus”, so much so people were comparing it to Alladin’s lamp – but can’t.

The villian knew this, thus he kept enticing dude to come back to work even after he quit “for the girlfriend” – but wasn’t happy inside.

See story of my own father “quitting smoking for the mother” and no other reason a few emails back. HA!

Now, movie wise, it didnt end well for dude in the movie, but it made him a superstar in real life till this date. I love the guy – though my favorite movie of him is a gangster movie he made in HK – I remember the streets of HK (at the same time) so vividly every time I see that damn movie (2003 flick).

Real times, real movies, not the crap we see today. most of it is crap, anyway – though real is starting to return, way too slowly for my liking …

Anyway. McMahon in his podcast talks about how you never really change who you are when Steve asked him about their classic chemistry (if you’ve seen the Attitude Era, you kno what I mean!) – that was a head and shoulders above already solid chemistry and a massively popular show otherwise.

Even in places like India, three weeks delayed RAW on Star Sports… I remember when they came here, damn, I had to go see ’em!

Mom was complaining about “those drunk guys there” …

Luckily I managed to go. Hehe. None of the pyrotronics you see in the WWE – even in those days, but the technology simply wasnt there in Pragati Maidan then!

Anyway …

They were an attraction, broken toilet seats, gulping down bottles of Bisleri in one gulp (Big Daddy cool Diesel – hehe) and such …

But back to it, his answer to this was – despite my current money etc, I never forgot where I was from.

In a party, the bartender is the one I identify with the most.

And with self professed redneck Austin, well, Vinces brilliant mind did the rest!

And thats that my friend.

It’s a key success lesson to learn.

Hope you did!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

I dont know – after talking about that Vince MacMahon podcast, another thing that came to mind was what he said bout good ole JR (Jim Ross, good ole boy, BBQ Sauce and such – haha) leaving the company, what caused it etc, how ultimately JR left of his own volition. Classic commentary along with “The King” Jerry Lawler I must say!

Those two were together for years, they will never ever be replaced!

Classic, just classic,

Anyway, Vince talks about how JR “finally” needed a break, and he took one – permanently. Some know when thats time. For the Undertaker, Vince had to sorta tell him that 30 plus years as a legend was more than enough time, his injuries, and a lot more (look at how massive the Undertaker was back then and how though he’s still a big dude, certainly nowhere near that shape) …

Still a damn good REAL fighter though, UFC style, damn quick strikes!

Anyway, Vince spoke of letting JR go because “you have to be in it all the way or not at all. This is a 24/7 thing, not “sometimes”, or most of the time”.

You simply cannot create greatness without it, which is a fact.

A vision of greatness is what Vince had, though he’ll never admit it – after years of work, he got there and how.

Now, when I – back in the day – desperately needed money etc, family support and such, of course I never got it.

All I got?

Was “work a job”.

Which is fine, dont get me wrong, for most folks.

But for me, I could never stay long enough in a job for a reason, and thats been explained before in my emails.

And plus, to create something long term and lasting (you guys ain’t even seen the first of it here) – you gotta be in it all the way.

A job wont let you do that – period (especially these days) – and especially some of the bottom line crap my Mom recommended “so long as he works a job we can tell others about all’s well” – ugh.

Recently, while doing audiobooks on the other site which are no longer sold since the Amazon mess – pity – the ones here still are though – I remember I’d wake up in the middle of the night till May.

I was working with folks all over the world on various schedules.

Didnt matter if I got an email at 4AM.

Like Vince says about Steve Austin calling him at 2, you gotta answer the phone.

I dont have a multi million dollar biz as yet, and dont HAVE to do that – so you might say.

To me, I do HAVE to do that – and I happily do it.

And thus my strong work ethic everyone speaks of.

Alright, thats enough prattling for now.

Back soon.

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – Phock, I forgot to plug Zero to Hero! 

Ok, done that now.

Napoleon Hill is fond of saying “no-one succeeds alone. You take others with you”.

And it’s true, my friend – ask any real achiever in any field that – they will tell you.

Goddawg, as I write these damn emails, I realize I’m writing another Gumption Galore! 

Well, actually Vol #2 of Zero to Hero …

But those 51 tips are actually 101 – if you read between the lines.

THESE might be 201!

Or more…

But anyway, someone just (just now) asked me what context I was referring to in my last email in terms of Vince making the “keep something in the backpocket” statement.

Well, friend, he was referring to when he bought the companies out – which wasn’t a direct plan, it just happened – and how he said it was a question of who would burn out first – us or them.

They did.

They ran out of creatives, talent etc – Vince always kept something in the back pocket.

From someone that grew up rough in a trailor, those lessons die hard.

Lots of other useful tips he gives without meaning to in that podcast, including reinvesting everything he had in the business – I do that till this date though you dont know or notice a lot of it (very long term).

And, how when he BOUGHT out folks – before he did that, people laughed at the “kid with no money” (he had literally nothing then, those guys were multi millionaires) having the sheer audacity to even TALK about buying them out.

Thats Vince MacMahon saying that, mind you.

Look at what persistence got him.

It can get YOU places too, if you so choose.

I Can tell you personally and attest to firsthand the value and importance of persistence, and have in all my emails.

Damn.

Anyway.

Competition, eh?

Lots of folks here anxiously scan my site – even the trolls and nutters to see “what he’s been up to”.

and, his new means, ways etc.

They repeatedly sign up for my youtube after I block ’em … Hehe.

And its like clockwork, I put a video out, some idiot will put one out on JUST that topic tom tomming his ability to do it better (hint – most can’t even begin to do what they ape).

Which is fine.

You can attempt to copy Mozart all you like my friend. Its a badge of honor to be honest to have a long list of folks trolling me and copying me, I dont mind it, I make money off ALL of it, and will continue to watch movies all day and wake up until noon if I so choose, because I can. Hehe.

But bottom line, and Jeff Bezos said this too.

Its far better to focus on the CUSTOMER – in Vince’s case his audience, than the competition.

A trick most people miss, despite claiming they dont.

Know your OWN audience inside out and what THEY want.

And thats the ticket.

Politicians in their emails dont market or email lukewarm prospects.

They do to THEIR – RED HOT – base. I mean those so into them that they’d storm the Capitol if asked – literally.

There’s a lesson to be learnt there, no, not the actual storming itself.

The success of WWE, Amazon etc stands testament to this fact.

Persistence, and focusing on their customers got them to where they are today.

To the point a lot of Amazon customers, myself included for years, wouldn’t buy off other sites if paid to, despite me knowing the subconscious programming they “put on me”.

I enjoy it.

Same thing with my base here.

And my own business mentality.

Doesnt mean I Dont occasionally check out what “competition does”, but either for chuckles, or just to mentally pat ’em on the back – way to go friend.

I’m not, and never have been in the least bit worried or lose sleep over competition, including the hordes selling at way lower prices than I do.

Not in the least.

My prices are going up even now and they will continue to.

So, if you want to buy a product before the price rises again *ouch – hehe* – nows the TIME.

Last, sure, you can’t have a crap product, but I’m secure in the knowledge mine stand head and shoulders above all else in the fitness segment. IT’s neve been about what I can do better than the competition, though thats obviously part of it, but way too many idiots that dont sell less than a fraction of what I do, if even that worry about “he’s doing that, look, Mama, I did this better!”

It ain’t about that. They wouldn’t realize it though if a brick fell on their fat heads to tell ’em that (fat as in sense) – or if I wrote it out plainly as I am here.

In the other one, there’s no real competition even …

And thats that. (no I didnt buy the competition out there. I did not put them out of business. They simply aren’t doing it, I have been for years. ).

Back soon.

best

Rahul Mookerjee

In his award winning book Shantaram, the tale of an Aussie expat and his (illegal from a visa standpoint) adventures in india for like over 20 years, I think? And that was just the start for the mofo named Greg Roberts … he talks about how a street fighter always has SOMETHING he keeps in reserve.

He dont mention what that thang is.

But, beaten to a bloody pulp in a brutal Indian prison (they’re as brutal as they get till today) – starved almost half till death (literally) – he got into a fight with another inmate, and gave it his all.

He was whipped till he almost died.

True story with some embellishments as Roberts himself will tell ya.

Anyway.

When he finally got out of jail – where he was put in for NO crime, held without bail for months on end – he looked at himself, made a vow to himself “I aint never gonna let no-one do this to me again”.

Thats actually what I wanted to write about initially, hell, and this will be music to the ears to the trolls who complain my tips books are “nothing but emails I send out” (fuck – do that make the value any damn less? I no think so my friend!) (could be me speaking, emailing, so what?) (as a reviewer once rightly said, Rahul’s life travails make for a great learning experience) – anyway, maybe all this will make it to Zero to Hero – Volume Two!

But thats one thing.

I done made that vow to myself years ago, many moons ago (no I wasn’t thrown in jail or beaten to less than a pulp).

I actually took the cops to court and won.

Anyway, thats different – Vince Mc Mahon, owner of the WWE, a man I very much admire, was on the Steve Ausin podcast years back.

And I remember listening to that SOB (the podcast) (I do many times, Austin has some great shows) and how Austin was saying “you bought out all the damn entertainment, now, the talent isn’t quite what it should be, the show isn’t, yet, people have no choice”.

he was right.

But, Vince was right(er) in his two responses.

One, there will never – although folks are STARTING to get real again – be another Attitude Era anytime soon

That era, our generation brought up in the roaring, rip roaring 90’s was SPECIAL.

Right down till the movies we watched – which I watch till this day.

We had that X factor, a lot of us.

And as Vince said, a lot more ambition than folks today.

despite folks having social media etc today which can help them immensely, that generation achieved way more than millennials etc.

But anyway, company wise, he made the sage remark “we dont have competitors in sports entertainment – but we do on TV”.

He’s right again.

Think about it – till this date, they compete, and successfully so with pro football, and many other things on TV, and come out on top.

Wrestle Mania is still a thing…

Old school.

Though Vince, like any smart businessman has “adapated to the times” as it were. Different time now, as he says.

Anyway – the comment I want to talk about?

When he was asked about no entertainment SPECIFICALLY in the “wrestling” if I can call it that, niche.

He agreed.

But then he said this.

“I always kept something in the back pocket, Steve”.

I had to!

And, though the context is wider here – including how he bought the company on the dollar (the competing company) and such I remember thinking “street fighter” when I saw that.

same thing my buddy Aaron and others have said about me over the years.

And, “youre a goddamned survivor”.

Proud to be one, friend.

Remember one thing, my friend.

Life wise, fitness, ALWAYS have something in reserve – that X factor, even when all seems gone, you have SOMETHING you conjure up.

Which saves the day.

The Russians did it in WWII …

And fitness wise, when it comes to gas in the tank that never ever runs out, the 0 Excuses Fitness System will build exactly what I’m talking about above.

Become a winner in the game of life and FITNESS, and lets face it, BOTH go together TODAY, my friend.

And thats that – back soon.

BEst,

Rahul Mookerjee

Selling isn’t half as easy as most make it out to be – those that have never done the damn thing, as usual.

My father used to bitch about sales all the time “cushy job” he claimed.

HA.

If that were true, most CEO’s wouldn’t be focusing on one thing above all – sales.

Sales, my friend, is the lifeblood of anything – and we sell each other daily on things whether we know it or not – every fuckin interaction you have with someone is, guess what, a SALE in a way.

At THAT company I still remember executing botching everything I sold spectacularly well, which is a gripe I’ve had for a long time, thus I finally just quit IT “jobs” and started my own company there too – long story.

I shoudl say, my sales and biz development jobs which had many perks as well… (in IT ie web dev).

But the way most people think “put it out there and they’ll come” aint the way.

My former publishers on the other biz are probably till this date guilty on that one (hey, they are great guys tho!).

Neither is throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks – thats outlined clearly in our affiliate applications for a good reason. That pisses a lot of wanna be’s off – so be it.

I dont – we dont – want that type around here.

Selling isn’t putting something – then something else – then something else – on some site, and then claiming “you sold” when something “finally” sells.

Selling is MAKING the sale happen actively.

Want another example?

I had my products on Amazon for years before the current imbroglio with ’em, and other than paid advertising which I did like a sum total of three times, and not ONCE for the other business, my sales have been fine there – and rip roaring for the other business, without doing – get this – a shred of “direct” marketing on Amazon.

I shit you not.

Amazon’s customer base and their reputation – or should I say, customer feeling which they’ve spent over 20 or more years dinning into their most loyal customer’s subconscious is the reason those sales, or most of ’em happened.

Some of those guys wouldn’t buy any other place than Amazon if they were PAID to do so. Hard as that might sound to believe, it’s true.

Yes, my other efforts helped, but they weren’t the main driver – THERE.

Now here on MY Site, all mine yes.

Until I become as well known as Donald Trump that is. Hehe. Or, as rich as Bezos!

Until then though, all my efforts here…

And thats real sales.

Like Marc the African Silverback Gorilla once remarked about me, a guy that has built multiple brands for him from scratch, fallen, risen, rinsed, repeated (we were talking about women) …

Without sales, and learning on the trenches, or in – getting hit by plenty of “live fire” – sink or swim – I’d never have made it past first or quarter base…

This isn’t me putting operations down. You have to have a good product as well.

But SELLING it is the hard part.

And throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks isn’t the way, as those that do have no doubt learned.

I show you what to do in each of the lessons, stories, whatever in the 10 Commandments of Successful Sales, which actually contains more than 20 lessons if I were to completely flat out honest.

Have at if you so choose.

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

For five years of my life, I lived in the Deep South in one of the states that till this date gets a bad rap for racism, and never once – well, other than the time a motherfucker almost ran me over walking back home from school, but I’ve got a feeling dude was drunk, other than when a building superintendent bitched up a storm about Rueben and me swimming in the pool next to a friend’s apartment (technically he was right, but I remember Lilly fuming “he wouldna said nothing if two white boys were here” – Rueben was white btw) … and other than when some idiot stopped me, fire in his red eyes – short stocky SOB that said I was a fucking Afghan and needed to leave, and though Lilly, again present then “got the red ass”, it was all I could do to stop laughing, because he kept telling me dont stare at me, I’ll knock your damn lights out, and I kept waiting for him to do it, he never did, took off to the damn gym where a campus cop *Rueben again – good guy* gave him a dressing down later…

They said I could press charges if I wanted to. I dont know if they’d have given me all that info if it was just me.

I do remember them stopping me once late at night asking me for ID “because”.

I showed them mine, he shook my hand, I went on my damn way.

Luckily I didnt have beer in my bookbag at that time – hehe. I still remember walking across campus toting those damn beers to the dorm like my friend Aaron did …

Then the one time I was arbitrarily stopped “because some Hispanic guy had committed a crime”.

I remember all the black dudes gathering, looking at what was going AWN … Hehe.

10 minutes later, cop says “alright Sir, you’re free to go”.

OK … I could have bitched up a storm, but these coppers try and do a good job at the end of the day, things are what they are my friend.

Anyway – bitch all you like in a similar situation. Scream civil rights violating motherfuckers if you want, defund the police then watch crime fuckin spiral (loons) … your choice.

I simply remember living five plus years in the damn south, having nothing but fond memories, especially the food – not that NY was bad in that regard either. Hehe.

But Southern style soul food, there’s something to it.

Anyway, off the cuff,

I’ve never been to a country music concert. Tho I did make it to Memphis!

Or, a live rap show. Hehe.

I’ve never been to an actual rodeo, strange as dat might sound …

Or, Dolly Pardon’s amusement park…

I’ve never actually eaten chitlins, the smell frying – dang, it was enough to make me SCOOT out of the house where I was at that time …

And lets see, what else…

I wasn’t big on watermelon down south, hehe.

I am these days!

And probably a host of other damn things I ain’t done that most Southerners have, or a lot have (including kill my own meat regularly).

Or hunt game … I’ve always been kinda ambivalent about that!

I dont think it should be done away with it, yet, a balance is needed.

Anyway.

I have done a shitton of thangs you hear a lot of southerners do, including eat a lot at cracker barrel, and dem all you can eat “Barrrnnnnnnnnhill Buffets” down there…

Waffle house and such.

I didnt ever get into the habit of yee hawing either.

or saying ole “Mac” donald. Hehe.

Again.

Point?

When life throws you a curveball, most people DUCK and play dodgeball.

Thats why you hear all the bitchin everywhere these days. Folks need to get tough physically and mentally.

Me, hell, no matter what it is, my first answer always is.

“It aint my first rodeo”

Thats the confidence a sink or swim live by attitude gives you, my friend, and learning in the trenches.

And thats the spirit outlined in Zero to HERO! And Gumption Galore. 

And as I tell my little girl why I bought my damn a/C right now in the first place years back in China when I didnt even need it…

That look of joy on your face when you were 4…

And that made it all worth it, and I Remember my wife cattily saying “every time she wants something, it makes its way here right quick!”

There’s lessons to all of this. See if you can spot ’em.

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee (Edit – or driven a  damn RV … Hehe) ( I do want to someday!)

One of the things I ain’t never done – well, not fully by my “lonesome” at least?

Pluck a chicken carcass. Defeather it, debone it, and all that – I’ve done it with folks, yes – not alone.

Its however a survival skill everyone should have, along with knowing how to grow your own vegetables.

I ain’t an expert at the latter, but I get by …

Think about it, you grow your own damn food, eat healthy, live wild, isnt that ultimately what its all about?

Anyway – we rarely think about where all the meat we eat comes from, and no, before you start jumping – those that will – I ain’t sponsored by PETA or some nonsense.

I’m just saying, the first time my wife, who had never eaten meat (well, other than dates when she met me) in her life, let alone cooked it learned how to do it – before that she SAW it.

That was in India, 2008.

Butcher shop with blood spattered all over it, guts on the floor (nasty I know, but them places are like that till this date there) … China’s a lot better again – and India doesnt have Walmart etc, so …

Guy reaches in the crowded coop, grabs a damn bird by the neck or someplace, and cuts its throat, dumps it cooly in a blue “vat” or sorts, while the bird thrashes about in its last throes.

Their version of “halal” I suppose.

Which I dont quite advocate, I’m more for killing something so quickly it doesn’t feel it…

But anyway, I remember him telling us “you dont need to see this”.

So we didnt.

But the gory reality was all around the wife, to her credit, she did cook the meat later that night.

Most of that meat you eat at Wawl-mart, or Sams, or wherever – most commerically available meat, yes, even the KFC wings your kids so love are killed equally “cruelly”.

Yet, folks jump up and down about whale slaughter in the Faroe Islands done far more humanely …

Interesting, eh.

My point isn’t advocating animal farms or whale slaughter.

My point is this – twofold, actually.

One – being self sufficient in every way is whats its all about – if possible.

And two, the gory, gritty details are what count.

If you’re stuck in the wild, you kill to eat ultimately, its that simple. could be a wild hog or a snake, whatever it is, you have to do it ultimately.

It might not ever happen, I hear some saying.

Great.

But if it does, well …

I’d rather be prepared for all eventualities, practice how to do it before doing it. Learning on the fly is great – if and when you’re not in a dire emergency.

Skills every real man should have, including knowing the basics of how to take apart and handle a gun …

Anyway – thats that from here. how does this relate FITNESS wise?

Well, those gory, gritty detail matter.

And as certain Panourgias noticed, as so many people – in the videos in the 0 Excuses Fitness System I give you little details – the GORY details – that no-one else does, mostly because they dont know ’em.

Those videos are called the ICING on the cake for a reason. Yup, the cake matters, but the icing is what really makes it extra special, no?

As John Walker said about ’em, why would you go out for a hamburger when ya got STEAK sitting at home.

Amen.

Thats what differentiates me from the rest – one more thing.

That one tip was about how to recover quicker than ever before when you’re out of breath, and no, it isnt just deep inhales and exhales, it aint inhaling through the nose and thus forth, its something I learned on the hill myself in blazing heat, and its amazingly simple, it flat out works. Another is the “secret food” which a narrator once asked me about … that …

Ah, but that second one is not in the System, its one of my other books.

Gory details matter.

They’re ultimately what get the JOB done.

The devil is in the details, and you’ll see why once you get the System.

It will truly change your life forever, that I WILL tell ya now. The rest, well, up to YOU.

Best,

Rahul mookerjee

It’s interesting, the grade A hypocrisy some people live by – or are “forced” to live by.

Back in the day, I remember cooking beef patties in the damn oven, or maybe I skillet fried the steak, whatever it was, didnt have no blood coming out of it – hehe – I prefer my steak well done too – and uh, well, Rueben, buddy of mine remarked “the whole damn place smells like holy cow” in here.

I put the holy part in, or maybe he did?

Hehe.

But that was in 99, in MS down south at my pad as it were.

Been a while since I last cooked meat, Imma start soon, but again – back to it – I remember my dad in college telling me in the car on the way home “there’s to be no smoking (regular cigs) at home”.

OK, Dad, I didnt plan on it.

Ok, in grade 11 I believe he almost caught me at it, smelt the damn smoke, even said he did, but Mom wasn’t there, he said nothing and went back to bed.

But at that time, he did.

Before I even thought of or wanted to do it.

Now, my Dad’s Mom told him he could smoke at home if he wanted to.

Fact.

So it’s interesting, how it all panned out with his own son and him. Are we even son and Dad? I have my doubts, anyway, I Remember him prattling about the fact that he’s proud of till this day “your mother told me to stop smoking and I did”.

Note he didnt quit for his health.

I quit at 24 for my own damn health, no-one told me (when they did before, Dad included “if there is anything at all you want to do for me, stop smoking” is what I was once told) – when they did, I could care two figs less.

He quit when his wife told him.

A spell that hasn’t disappeared until now.

She commands, he jumps.

Ugh.

But I remember him going on and on about how the office ribbed him openly for being a wife’s boy or something “Biwi / Joru Ka Gulam” or some shit in hindi, I dont even remember the term – and him saying it like it was something to be proud of.

Look, if you do something for yourself, or someone else because you really fuckin want to, be damn proud of it, but to me, doing something because she wont like it and living your whole life that way is living like a pussy.

Excuse my French.

To each his or her own. I aint going up to him and tellin him that either, it’s his life.

But its something you shouldn’t let impact your kids, yet they did.

At 19, my uncle who famously once claimed after I left his residence at New Canaan up in CT, I believe – in the middle of the woods, lovely setting, I still remember the foxes “he’ll never come back here again!” true – I didnt – hehe – the same one who calls me a wolf till this day most likely, the only one who knows probably I got married and had a child, albeit through social media (well my maternal uncle, smoker and drinker till his last day does too) … the smoking thing?

He was fine with me smoking on his porch.

Hell, I even asked him if I should clean up the butts from the grass or what not, he pooh poohed it.

He was pretty fussy about SHOES though, and leaving them outdoors – haha.

Hey, his house, his rules, but point is this, you gotta let a man be a man.

Try telling that to my family.

Plus, a father whose own mother told him its ok to do so long as you dont hide from your parents, advice that is SOUND as heck, that old lady was smart, she helped me too – giving the exact opposite advice to his son

Phock.

My own wife has never told me directly about my drinking beer etc, she’s bitched about it though plenty of times, apparently for her beer is a luxury. Wtf? Coors light, a fuckin luxury?

I’ve no idea how she’ll react to my smoking after all these years, she’s never seen me smoke, but I’m glad to report I truly dont give a flyin fuck at this point.

I know she’ll probably never sign on the dotted divorce line, and thats fine. At the start of this month it was a done deal in my brain, and thats what counts to me.

And no, I aint gonna let the cat out of the bag yet on what sparked it “gave me the damn red ass” as it were (without eating a single spice – hehe).

Not like any broad I’m with has ever cared, or will care, or if I did…

Anyway.

All the advice I give you in Zero to hero! and Gumption Galore! is from the heart, and it just flat out works.

From in the trenches. Ain’t no BS even there.

Back to movie night…

Later y’all!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – I get not smoking at home, second hand smoke and that. What I dont get is the hypocrisy. Standing out on Dad’s balcony with a smoke and a beer wasn’t gonna harm nothing or nobody … Oh well.

Golly, gosh, Jesus, Mary and God – or Mother of God – whatever the saying is.

Or, Jesus jumpin Christ on a pogo stick (interesting they all these axoims on good ole Jesus, but not other religions, the followers of some get uber violent too when fun is made of their religion’s leading figures, albeit in a nice way – no goose and gander eh? Saying Merry Christmas is a fuckin crime, saying “Happy Diwali” isnt…) …

Anyway ..

It must be a grade B “direct to TV” movie night for me – or day. Had no inkling it would turn out that way.

Had no inkling I’d be watching a Banderas flick (I’m not a fan of Banderas overall, no real thoughts either way on him, cool dude when he had his long hair in the first movie I saw him, a Stallone movie) (and the Expendables, pretty cool too) …

… I’m definitely NOT a Bruce Willis fan.

But, he’s got some classic dialogs, like when he asks Sly and Arnie in Expendables One “you two gonna suck each other’s dicks now”?

Men, eh.

Hehe.

Anyway … (must be fuckin movie night tonight, all for a good reason tho)

This latest movie I’m watching is about him, I just started it.

Before that tho – a guy on my list here recently asked me why I dont post near as much to my other list on rahulmookerjee.com as I do this one.

The two are seperate lists, and they get some of what’s here, but not all.

Vice versa too.

So if you’re smart you’ll be on both lists, but if I post here continously for days on end, then some of these go out to people there too.

Especially the life related emails …

And so he asked

Good question.

I haven’t planned it that way.

But, that site’s been going since 2010, very slow and steady, so it kinda makes sense how it worked out, this one, fast and furious – no pun – ever since the day of its inception, I still remember booking the domain not so long ago.

Yin and yang apart, this site is much easier to login to in many ways, so the bulk of the “posting” gets done here, emailing gets done there too.

But anyway …

I remember quitting smoking – or trying to at the age of 19.

Failed three times, it was finally in China, at the age of … 24? in a land renowned for smoking that I finally quit, even when surrounded by smokers at my first job.

Everywhere I went peopel smoked.

They’d crush their cigarettes out on plates in the restaurant, I still pity the waitresses who cleaned up after them, apparently now thats “Chinese culture”.

Ok, whatever…

Much like tipping isnt part of the culture, yet the girls were more than glad when I did it. As a colleague Clement from HK wisely said, well, you’re giving them money, why wouldn’t they be happy.

‘xactly, and they’re women. Hehe.

Enough said.

But anyway …

I quit cold turkey, none of the bullshit about non nicotine cigarettes, weaning myself off and such.

And it wasn’t half as bad as I thought. Even when my colleague Clement blew smoke at me (he smoked like a damn chimney, twice of what I did) during a break and asked if I wanted a smoke… The day after I quit!

Maybe as Bruce once told me laughingly “I dont fully inhale”.

Nah, my friend.

I do. The weed, I’ve smoked it, for some reason never affected me, so I never did much of it, but the beer was and is always my thang.

But anyway – my lungs and stamina level then were proof I did inhale, I could barely climb four flights of stairs without sweating/being out of breath at 24.

Fast forward to 42, now, well … I can bound up them without a second thought.

I recently watched a Steve Austin podcast about how he quit chewing tobacco, same thang.

Saw his Dad die of cancer (his adopted father I believe) and decided he was a stupid mofo if he did not quit himself.

And he did.

Cold turkey.

There’s a lesson in that, my friend.

Sink or swim.

And its how I’ve been all my life.

It’s mentioned in Zero to Hero indirectly.

You wont hear the life gurus prattle about it, because it’s TOUGH.

Only the tough survive – survival of the fittest – law of the jungle which just flat out works.

Anyway .

REAL reason I mention this?

I’ve been wanting to smoke dem cigars with my beer for a long goddamned time now.

Maybe this will be the year I “finally” give in. Hehe.

Am I dumber than a box of rocks for doing so?

Hell, maybe.

Maybe it wont be a expensive Cuban cigar like Jim smoked, perhaps a Marlboro Light – or “Classic Mild”.

Light beer, light cigarettes, they’re all as bad. Light’s just a marketing ploy sometimes . Southpaw beer was supposed to be somewhat light (no longer around) but dangit, it wasn’t half as light as it claimed.

But there’s something to be said for two things.

One, living life on your terms, doing precisely as you please, when you want to, waking up at past noon and going to bed at 4 if you so choose with no-one (wives especially) to nag the everliving Bejesus out of ya…

And two?

Well, I know – for a fact – with proof in hand not just on this one, but everythang else I’ve done in my damn life thus far.

I could quit ANY moment I choose.

And secure in THAT knowledge, I do what the fuck I want to, my friend.

Mental strength and physical stamina – or the other way around, or both go together.

The 0 Excuses Fitness System builds the body and mind both – in equal measures, together, in heaps at that.

Click on over and have your fill Today.

I’m back to the B or maybe knowing Willis flicks, C grade flick. Hehe.

Best,

rahul Mookerjee

P S – If you’re gonna whine about fitness gurus dont smoke, spare me the crap. The day I get fat, and lousy out of shape – tell me, until then, well …

(Or, be fair and mention the tomes of them that are literally CORPULENT and claim to, and in some cases do, sell a LOT)

Guess why, folks can relate to em.

Be real above all.

And thats the bottom line.

Later.

Growing up, with the kinda shitty upbringing I had – kinda?? – I used to … uh, CRY a lot.

And in situations you wouldn’t expect, not because I was scared, or nervous, but just ANGRY as fuck – frustrated as hell – and didnt know how to let it out.

In a fight with the school bully which I Was reminded of years later when seeing another guy I went to school with in a bar (well, more a cafe sort of thing) in 2008 after taking the “then to be wife” out on her first date (I also remember her saying she’d slap a man who drank in front of her, yet, she was fine with the chicken wings she was eating the first time, and yours truly who drank 4 Fosters – hehe – women!) …

… she did slap my ass away when I groped her ass in the movie theater though- so I guess it wasn’t all false.

The things I’ve done in movie theaters, from accidentally using a women’s bathroom (ok, admittedly the signs were shit and in Chinese, but..) to … ah, but this ain’t about me.

Its about “do real men cry”

At the age of 14 I remember Dad telling me “and dont cry. You’re a man. Men dont cry”.

Fuck.

Out of all the most useless pieces of advice my father gave me, that was right up there with being the most fuckin idiotic.

Not to mention, if he’d have known his son, he was crying out of frustration he wasnt’ even allowed to let out physically, when he was, he was ridiculed, man, those thangs take a toll on kids.

Some have asked if this is my (as of late, the sort of emails going out which really hit home) “come to Jesus” moment or what – nah, it aint.

I am still very much aethist and believe in the Universe,nuttin else, but anyway – I remember my buddy from the Marines, 20 plus years of service, been there, done that, shot more motherfuckers than he cares to remember, buddies getting blown up and shit (and burnt) – and stuff, and the last time we drank beer together in 2019 …

Well, he was crying.

Going through a tough time, I was – but not in the manner you’d suspect, but I believe so was he.

And I still remember him crying, which was OK – fine. Hey, I’ve done it several times, mostly privately, but often publicly too – to be shamed.

Next day, my bud called me and apologized.

“I’m sorry. Real men dont cry like that”.

What the fuck, man, I went.

They do all the time.

I’ve done it all the fuckin time – and the last time I remember doing it with a friend Ricky (no longer a friend tho) ” thats a real man”, I remember him saying.

Not because of the tears, but the fuckin emotion, man.

Lots of folks say its women that are emotional, men are the opposite.

Thats bullshit.

I remember getting emotional and drunk (not to the point of losing all control, but pretty drunk) at an office get-together in Oman once, that was in 2012 I think? Not sure, I was crying, and the so called real men in there all got pissed, and the wife was until the next day too.

What the fuck again.

Letting emotions out honestly ain’t a bad thing.

Being ashamed of doing so is stupid.

Reality is, and you look at Mother Nature and the way animals are as well (which we are at the end of the day), the MEN have emotions, feelings.

Women merely monkey branch onto the next available cash cow – which is called hypergamy.

Nah, this ain’t a MGTOW treatise.

I’m not completely this or that, or Mgtow.

I AM an expert on combating Nazi feminism and benefitin from it, but that ain’t the POINT either.

The point is, men have emotions, plenty of ’em.

We just reserve them (real men) for the right people and right times.

I’m told I’m a selfish uncaring bastard by many.

Maybe upfront.

But while watching the movie “The Enforcer” which I picked randomly (and the rain started right after it ended, how prosaic) – an Antonio Banderas movie (I didnt even know it had him) which was entirely unexceptional and yawn for the most part – Banderas has some pretty good scenes with his estranged daughter which  more than tugged at my heartstrings.

I still remember a former friend Charles once talking about me in China, hardly ever seeing my little girl.

“I dont want you ending up like that years later, man”

Hmm, sometimes life happens, now I dont aim at that sort of thang happening for me, but who knows…

But my point again, emotion.

The Stallone movie Get Carter, I watched it for Sly, movie again was nothing special, the original Michael Caine flick was better, grittier.

But Sly’s scenes with his niece are gems – especially the one on the terrace.

I dont know – maybe I’m biased.

But I first saw that damn Sly movie when I had to leave my then girlfriend back Stateside, move to India and such (dont ask, long fuckin story again) – she’s no longer with us, in the heavenly above as it were, with her favorite “sunflowers” (no doubt, no pun) …

… and the dialog “if I’d been here, this never woulda happened”.

It hit home even then in 2002, long before I met my wife, got married, or even thought about having a daughter.

Couple of years later I’d tell my boss Jim with his family in the office … (he was saying “well, when you get married, Rahul”)

Oh, I’m NOT getting married, I said with a sense of finality to which he just shrugged and grinned, so did his wife.

My, how times change, how we change eh.

I’ve changed over the years in some regards.

For the most part I’m still the beer swilling fuck I was in college – hehe.

Some things never change.

But I learned a lot along the way, and therefore I teach it.

Fitness wise, the 0 Excuses Fitness System was built on a lot of things, but emotion is #1.

Its there in all I do …

And that’s that friend.

Enjoy!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee