Ask yourself, what do you want to improve in your life?

Your self-defense skills?

Your skill in a foreign language?

Do you want to make more money?

More women and better sex?

Survival skills?

Something else?

Why not all of the above?

Lifestyle balance and improvement in all facets of life are what Western Mastery is all about. Being a complete man requires achieving your own self-fulfillment through beneficial relationships, masculine hobbies, and by achieving your goals.

This is completely counter to what you mostly see around you in America. While most of America is going backward, you must go forward. Life is too easy in modern America, and as a result society as a whole has become much weaker. Combine this with our nation’s Cultural Marxism and the elite’s war against men, and the formula is brewed for most men to take the wrong path in their lives.

Therefore you want to be the opposite of those men. Becoming a complete man, a man who is skilled at many disciplines, is certainly a worthy goal. Becoming an expert, or even a true master in a field is extremely time-consuming and requires much more thought to what you want to put your time into.

With all that said, let’s talk about the most necessary steps towards becoming a complete man.

1) Cut Out the Bullshit Around You

Turn off the popular radio stations. Turn off the television and video games. Are you a sports fan? Minimize it to your favorite team, only watch at social events, or just cut it out entirely. I believe watching top level competition is very beneficial, but I don’t believe in worshiping a sports team at the expense of better things in your life.

The overweight middle-aged guy who can’t play real football and doesn’t work out, but plays fantasy football and collects all of the bobbleheads and jerseys is far too common in our society. Ask them about the latest game, and they will attempt to display their “masculine” dominance through their sports knowledge. They know a lot about their respective sport, but they don’t know how to actually perform those skills themselves.

Their knowledge can come in handy if they apply it correctly to their lives, but that knowledge alone will never make anyone a real, complete man.

I recommend subscribing to your favorite Youtube channels that set a positive message and will help you improve your skills. Keep all media productive. I am a big fan of Chromecast because you can use Youtube from your phone to easily project it to the TV. From your TV you can watch all of the productive Youtube channels that you subscribe to. This is infinitely more productive than watching regular television.

All of these strategies can help you reduce the amount of bullshit media that you consume. The media is literally out there to poison your mind. The best strategy is to ignore it.

2) Exercise Properly and Often

Proper exercise is essential to being a complete man. Being in great shape should be a primary goal in your life. If you’re in good shape already, good; but get into great shape. If you’re out of shape, you need to start exercising immediately.

Get a gym membership at a gym that allows you to do free weight deadlifts, and has a free squat rack and a free bench – as long as it isn’t Planet Fitness. Pick up a book such as Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe, one of the true authority figures in the field. Or follow a program such as this one that can be found for free online. One of my favorite resources for new routines is listed at Powerlifting to Win. Many of those programs are for after you’ve at least run a few cycles of the aforementioned routines.

I do power-lifting style routines because they emphasize full body, compound lifts. Compound lifts with a solid amount of volume (the total amount of weight times reps times sets performed) are essential. They will maximize the amount of muscle you can put on with the least amount of total exercises performed, and the strength that you will gain will be full body strength that you can apply to virtually everything.

There are many excellent resources on Youtube and on sites such as EliteFTS that will teach you proper form. You must follow these guides thoroughly. I also strongly recommend that you get someone to video record you while exercising so you can review how your form is.

Weight lifting is not a particularly complicated discipline, but it does take the ability to filter out the bro-science, evaluate your form and routine, and be physically and mentally tough through your hour or so at the gym. That said, it is extremely rewarding and will benefit your life in many ways.

If your body fat is higher than 15%, then you need to cut down. Looking good makes you feel better and makes almost everything in your life easier. The key to dieting is always calories in versus out, you must burn more calories than you take in. Clean carbohydrates are important for sustaining energy levels, especially when you taking in fewer calories. Also, weight lifting should be continued in approximately the same manner as if you were bulking; don’t drastically change your routine.

For dietary advice, I recommend Leangains and Kinobody. Both are based on intermittent fasting, which I personally find to be the easiest way to diet. Kinobody is less strict than Leangains because he promotes dietary adherence. Both men have incredible bodies; true masters of their craft.

3) Maximize Your Time to Maximize Your Life

A proper balance of your free time is necessary to become as adept at as many of your interests as possible. Productivity is essential and the key is to find out what type of productivity routine works for you.

I find myself less able to concentrate at home during the day, so I have a difficult time writing my blog unless I am at a coffee shop or bookstore. However, once the sun goes down I can usually focus like a laser on my writing. I never watch TV and rarely listen to the radio or play video games anymore. I am listening to Audiobooks most of the time when I am driving.

Focusing on productivity also forced me to reevaluate my diet. Years ago, I was very strict with my diet as I dieted to below 10% bodyfat.

Over a few years, especially as I was bulking and putting on muscle mass, I got lax for too long and I ended up eating too many high glycemic carbohydrates. The problem (aside from an increase in body fat) was that I would spike my blood sugar too high, then crash after an hour or two.

This had a negative effect on my productivity because after my blood sugar crashed I was much less productive. I eventually decided upon a staple carbohydrate, generally sweet potatoes or brown rice with butter, that would be a huge percentage of my carbohydrates for the day. This gives me a lot of stable energy throughout the day to do what I set out to accomplish. The difference in energy and mood is astounding.

As for your routine, I recommend that you evaluate your own life, develop a general routine and experiment to see what works for you. What do you do in your free time that you can consider productive towards achieving your goals? Think about how you can do better with both the things that you do and don’t do well. Do you notice any time of day you are productive doing one thing, but not another?

Many find it important to exercise in the morning to get their day going. This is entirely up to you, but note that exercise improves your mood and your ability to learn.

4) Build Quality Relationships and Don’t Waste Your Time With Negative Ones

It is essential to be a great judge of character. You must spend your time around people of quality. Be very selective, and if you can’t find the right people right away, then be patient. Only cultivate relationships that will benefit you personally. Ditch anyone in your life who drags you down. This doesn’t mean that you need to be totally dismissive of ordinary people, but learn to value your time and don’t make them more of a part of your life than they need to.

You ideally want to spend your time with people who are as complete as possible. Some people have great jobs, but their motivation fails beyond that. They may be out of shape, don’t want to learn new languages, or they generally don’t work hard beyond their job. Their career advice may be useful, but their usefulness to you may falter beyond that.

Therefore you want to find people who have character and share your interests and can augment your knowledge. Never be the smartest person in the room. If you find that this happens to you too much, then you need to find better company.

As far as women go, this is not a pickup blog, and there are many quality sites out there that you can read for pickup advice. That said, sexual health must be mentioned if you want to be a complete man. Having regular sex is very healthy, but it should not be your first goal in life. Having relationships with cute, feminine women can be very rewarding, but make sure that your life and your mission comes first.

If you’re relationship minded (there are sadly few women in America I recommend having a relationship with, but they’re out there), make sure your woman is supportive of your goals. If you’re just in the game for sex, don’t waste more time than you need to get her home and fuck her properly.

If you’re new to the game then you should spend some time really working on this, to the point where you are eventually able to go out to an environment full of cute girls and find a girl to have sex with without too much effort. That way you can minimize the time that you spend doing it to get laid so you can focus on bigger goals.

While I state again that this is not a pickup blog, following the advice in this blog will make you a more complete man by your very nature, which makes picking up women much more effortless. They will smell your passion for life and they will find that very sexy. When women are just a side goal, you will often find them chasing you as opposed to vice versa.

5) Seek Out the Experts in Your Subjects of Interest

Ideally, you want to meet experts in their respective fields in person so that you can engage with them and ask them questions.

True experts will almost always charge for their time. They understand that they can typically make a lot of money via their expertise in their respective fields, and therefore it can be hard to get a lot of their time without paying. Of course, if you befriend them, you will often be able to get some of their time for free.

If you have the chance to meet an expert in their field in person, pick their brain. Ask them for their advice and make sure you add value to the conversation. Simply by being a complete man you can add value to people’s daily lives with your own wisdom and skills.

There will always be those with valuable experience who won’t charge anything for their time. For instance, when I first started learning how to shoot a gun, the gun shop owners were very friendly and taught me a lot about gun safety and general shooting skills. Of course, I was paying money at the shop, but they went way out of their way to help me learn what I needed to learn because I was friendly to them and genuinely wanted to learn.

When I learned Brazilian jiu-jitsu in college, I befriended many of the students who had the most passion for it, and they made me a lot better than I would have been otherwise. I could have spent even more time with them than I did, but when we sparred it was extremely competitive. Our collective value brought each other’s skills up. The monetary cost to me was about $45 a semester, and $0 for their friendship.

Even if you can’t find the proper expert in person, keep in mind that there are books out there for everything. $10-20 is always worth it to listen to a true master of their field spill out their knowledge. Always.

Fin

These are the actions you can take now to truly begin to make you a more balanced and complete man. If any of these actions sound insurmountable, then just pick one thing and get started. Half of the battle is just getting started!

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