The Core (WARNING! Reading this may make you feel unshakable!)

The Core Listen. Nod along. You can quit porn. You can chase women. You can lift weights. You can get the money, the body, the car, the compliments. But if you don’t build your core, none of that will hold. You’ll be just another guy with a good haircut and no personality. SIMPLY. JUST. WEAK. At some point you have to stop chasing every fix and ask: What the hell do I stand on? What is unshakable in me? Because the world will test you. Women will test you. Your own mind will test you. And if you don’t have something deeper than the urges, you always writing here about, than validation you always seek, than feelings, that always get hurt … You’ll fold. Every time. That “core” I’m talking about? It’s not made in comfort. It’s not made in seconds. It’s made in silence. In pure harmony with your body, your spirit, yourself. You always achieve your experience in the weightroom. In heartbreak. In cold mornings. In hard decisions. In holding your damn ground when everything in you wants to run. That core is your position. The core is the most sexiest thing you’ll have. It’s not about acting like a man—it’s about being one. You’ll feel it. Other people will feel it too. Pure joy, happiness, power is what you are going to feel. Not because someone’s watching. Not for claps or credit. But because that’s just who the hell you are. You know when you see a man who’s got it? The posture. The silence. The command. That’s the result of thousands of choices made when no one else was there to witness it. You don’t get that presence by accident. You earn it. So stop chasing the next dopamine drip. Stop begging the world or another people to give you meaning. Start building your foundation. And once you do — everything else will orbit around it. Women, success, peace — they don’t make the man. They respond to him. Feel your lines.