I’ve been having the dickens of a headache all day.

I wondered all day why, I’ve worked out, I haven’t fasted (though I never had headaches when I fast, longer I go without, the better I fuckin feel), I have not worked out too much, I stretched – I even took two gentle walks and stood in the setting evening sun, I did all I normally I do, worked a full day and night and continue to, I slept till noon yes, thats not “too much” given I was working till 5 AM and thus forth …

Couldnt figure out why – the answer hit me after a dang shower.

Before that, I took a quick look at the cookie I filled, and instantly raided the other night, hot damn, that shit smelt good, I was tempted – even yours truly – I will freely fuckin admit it.

Yet, the aftermath

I put back the jar – for another night.

My stomach wasn’t near as tore up as I expected it to be after gorging on that many, but it wasn’t in the best of shape either, and it wasn’t the pickles or heapings of fruits and veggies I ate either.

It was the processed junk that tasted so good – still does.

Which is why I so dont want my daughter eating it.

The honey I gulped tonight, not completely natural, but a far cry from the processe cookies etc – that damn flour, preservatives and crap caused it.

A shower normally cures it, it has not this time, and it aint that i’m hungry. Sometimes a hot shower does it to me – I rarely take hot showers ,but I took a cold one tonight…

I got it though, drying myself off.

It hit me, thats why I opened the cookie jar out of the blue!

Man, if there’s one thing I stress and tell everyone to avoid – its that damn it sugar.

In all its forms, its the worst thing you can put into your body unless it’s like natural, like raw sugarcane juice and such.

You might as well be putting coke in your body – either the drink or the drug. And the drink has been, the diet version of it, proven to corrode insides of car engines when poured down it – think of what it does and the long term havoc it wreaks upon human beings in general physically and mentally.

I’ve never had these sort of headaches even after quitting smoking that I wrote to you earlier about today.

Maybe a little the day after, maybe a longing to smoke, but and damn, I smoked two packs a day, that was it, in a couple of days it went away.

But this, I haven’t done this for years, then one time I do it – haha – if you needed more proof – there it is for you.

And day after the sugar was another fast, get this – to get the crap out of my system. This is THREE Days later..

I’m well aware most reading this email will nod and go on stuffing sugary crap down their throats anyway and get fatter and more slovenly, internally more miserable than before while Tom Tomming their so called delicious birthday cakes or what not on Shitter – Twitter.

And thats your choice, not my business to say otherwise.

I’ve said what I have to.

More in the Simple and effective Diet. 

I haven’t yet started the book on fasting, but I will if there is enough demand, so write back – and let me know. Dont be a bump on a log, many of you are – oh, and … crowning glory of all glories –

To “Tobias” from somewhere in SA he requested to keep private, so I wont reveal the exact precise city – who wrote back with an unsubscribe request saying “I sent 20 emails the other day, and that he might have “considered” buying but its “getting to be too much” – it seems he’s suffering from overdose or withdrawal or both – not me.

Hey, riddiance and good luck friend, and I mean that. The list is for hard core doers, not lookie lous or fence sitters, those that want to help me out by asking to be removed, thank you very much. It’ll be done – and has been done in your case T. The link was right there if you wanted to quietly click it, so clearly you didnt really want to go, you wanted to whine and have your voice heard, I’ve granted that request too. Thank you again for the applause brah. I’m glad I’m doing so superlatively well in turning the non doers OFF, and the doers ON. Thats my intention! Always has been, except I’ve upped it (the ante) and taken things to unseen levels as of late, and it’s only just starting. You ain’t seen nothing as yet pal. 20 emails is the start. I’ve sent over 40 once when I had a sale!

I dont want if then’s, has been’s, maybe’s, the real maybe’s remain silent and talk after doing, or dont whine at all on the list – bottom line.

And thats just how it is.

Back soon!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

And I mean raw honey.

I was going to tell the daughter that, but she hates all healthy food -despite the sweet tooth for all the crap.

I told her anyway – but she wasn’t having none of it. Hehe.

That tiny bottle of honey you saw the other day is gone.

I love honey – REAL maple syrup too, the kind you find in Vermont.

And, obviously Canada.

I was asking her to try some peas I cooked first, and she tried ’em, first reaction – she loved ’em.

I asked her if she wanted more, all the while she was nervously looking towards the bathroom because Mama apparently on the quiet told her “not to help Dad when cooking” (true story – because I once asked her to Google something – what a fruitloop my ex is and remains) …

… and, because she can’t say she likes anythin I cooks or else there’s a huge hullabaloo.

Then they complain and whine about “he does nothing for his daughter”. Cant win for losing, hehe.

Anyway, I told her to be honest, she did tell me it was too spicy … which I Get. My daughter isn’t yet huge on spice.

But the way she’s scared of my ex, man …I hate that shit, but say nothing about it – NOW.

I dont need to, actually, even my mom openly says “shes petrified of her”.

And she is, except Mom forgets to note she’s even more petrified of Granny’s non stop lecturing than Mama’s yellin …

Honey, you ask?

As I drank it out of the bottle and sat there savoring it today, two things came to mind …

One, my buddy Vincent telling me (not the same Vincent – not the Marine) about how “Ive done that MANY a times myself” when I told him about how I was too drunk to either cook or order out last night, and passed out.

He had passed out of colleg though I believe by the time I once ordered pizza, I was drunk as a skunk and fast fuckin asleep by the time the damn thing arrived, guy rang the bell, I got several messages on the phone (answering machine – mine used to say “you need me, I need you, so spit it out” – no kidding even) , and long story short, they did all they could to get in touch with me, couldn’t, refunded the next day. Hehe.

I’m not EVEN gonna get into the tale of Vincent and how I once called – though drunkenly 911 on his ass… luckily they did not come. Hehe. And luckily I Wasnt arrested for “prank” calling!

Anyway …

The things we’ve all done. Eh?

Tonight I decided to let me food cook a lot longer than I normally would, wife turned it off.

Now thats good intentioned despite what it might sound like, she didnt want the food to burn although she said “I dont want you blaming me” .

Which is ludicrious, I’m cooking, why would I blame her if I forgot, which she doesnt know I didnt…

Sure, she turned on the damn oven,  but she was using it before that, so I left my ingredients in it, I would have turned it on, but she did it anyway …

Anyway, I then had the honey – I dont want to gorge on cookies again, though I might yet, we’ll see. Probably NOT though. Damn!

And the peas, I’m trying to make a quick roasted snack though it takes forever to make, and I’m almost there. Damn that shit tasted good tonight.

Anyway ….

You aint lived till you drank honey out of a bottle, during my lean days, I’ve done everything I needed to survive with one immediate goal in mind – hang in there, better days are there.

And they always were.

Most people aint got that gumption.

They give up long before…

Gumption Galore! is meant for a very select bunch of doers truly interested in improving their life. Though this list contains doers, and after all the culling I do, and will continue to very fuckin ruthlessly – doers only, even all of you reading this wont and have not, and some still will not buy the product and thats fine. Not everyone is interested in reaching rarefied levels of success, and most people including those on the list who never get the “life” products thinking “I know it all already” (no you dont pal) (you dont until you’ve LIVED it) simply wont make it big. 

Again, thats fine. To each his or her own, but to end this email a few other things that came to mind that jive with the general tole – and title of this email…

Tole?

LOL

Imma leave that one be!

Anyway, four more things off the bat

One, people dont like the truth (fat boys reading this that are in complete denial, bozos that claim to do things they haven’t in their wildest dreams, scammer, copy artists and such – and all their ilk- listen up).

They like it even fuckin less when it’s pointed out BRUTALLY via writing and verbally, as a friend once said ‘its not what he says so much as HOW he says it’.

Truth, friend.

And I make SURE, doubly triply sure to make my stuff hits home – hurts when warranted, and bad – because a true doer will recognize it for what it is, a kick up the ass for him or her to improve their shit – or two, PRAISE in heaping measures when warranted, no and never any in betweens there.

It’ll always be that way – on this list, my business, my products, if someone reading this doesnt like it, they’re free to jump off a cliff for all I care. Thats me, thats always gonna be me …

Vince McMahon said as much during a very controversial podcast, but then again he ultimately made millions doing just that.

You get deep into the pysche of people and you be HONEST OVER ALL.

And no matter how much people deny the truth it’s staring them right in the mirror, or BANK ACCOUNT for some people – and that truth doesnt go away, friend.

And they know it.

My honest writings are the #1 reason why scores of people hate me, troll me, and will do anything to see me completely fail.

They’ve failed thus far, they will continue to. And I’ll welcome their trolling!

It’s also why folks love me, no-one gives it to you fuckin straight like I do. It wasn’t for nothing my friend told me it wouldn’t be foregone conclusion in terms of whose more brutally honest – me, or Donald Trump.

Second, jacks of all trades aren’t necessarily the losers in life. True , specialized knowledge works wonders, you need it, but you need brain and street smarts over all, especially the latter, to succeed and go where no-one has gone before you. Someone like Sly Stallone is a great example, not a boxer, not a wrestler, not any of what he potrays in his movies, yet he, like Mc Mahon, can connect with the common man – “Americana” and globally – and therefore, his success.

Third, listen to your audience, and not critics.

Critics have panned movies that turned out to be complete hits. Sleeper hits at that. Books etc.

They aren’t always wrong but you gotta take what they say with several pinches of salt.

Fourth, and I’ll end this one here – when I get on calls with folks and ask me about “how to really commit myself” and then tell me “I’ve done that already” when I tell ’em some ways how – I ask them this.

How many times you have failed, failed big (sometimes after succeeding, lost it all), and then come back again grander and better than before?

It’s a question everyone needs to ponder, life wise, fitness wise, business wise.

Until you’ve failed, been damned proud of it, and failed fuckin big, you aint lived or tried, and thats the bottom line I’ll end this one on!

Fitness wise, hard hitting advice that truly works in all my books and products. 

Start with the 0 Excuses Fitness System. 

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

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.