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Got the book and read it in 2 days! Thanks so much, it's an excellent guide!

Do it! It's so great for your mind and body. I can tell by your posts, blog (I bookmarked) and art that you've got a sharp sense of design and are extremely creative. Exercise and nutrition will take those awesome powers you already possess and make them BIGGER and BETTER. I want to see you become the person you know you were meant to be inside and share whatever messages you want to share with the world with the world through your art. I think you'd enjoy and be motivated by this book (I was). The author is intelligent and delivers a very serious message in a humorous, light hearted tone (like you). Time for me to do some P90X at 9,000ft, then read, then sleep, then wake up at 5:30AM and run 11 Miles at 6,000ft. Then go to work from 9-5PM. Then get some more rest for 32 miles on Saturday morning. Then get some more rest for 6 miles running in the forest on Sunday. None of it is easy for me at all. The moment I feel like I can handle it, I make it harder. Dismiss comfort and reject limits and you will grow FAST.

Yes this, what's next.

Amazing! That is wild!

GRATS! You will appreciate video.

This. I quit smoking on 03/04/12 after I read this book. Give it a shot, it's cheaper than a pack of cigarettes in NYC.

This and CONGRATS You are what you think.

You just reminded me that I need to order a foam roller! Congrats on the muscle!

I like where your head is at! Thank you for sharing, believe it or not your story inspires me because we are both on the same journey: Standing up to something that's greater than us (for now) and saying I'm not afraid of you. Everyday that you are out there training just remember that at that very moment I'm probably training as well, feeling the same pain and pushing just as hard. Please keep me updated with your progress! This is for

No drinking for me. I cut out drinking because it messes with my sleep, moods, liver and brain. I was able to quit when I discovered that being high off of exercise, fruits, vegetables and positive energy is way more awesome than getting drunk. Trust me on that one, I used to drink, smoke and get high ALL the time. Read this article: Your friends are (other than your family) the most influential people in your life. They will change you in more ways than you know. You spend hours upon hours with these people and after a while you start to mimic their behavior. They have the power to stretch your vision or destroy your dreams. They hold the ability to influence both the consciousness level you operate in and the subject matter you engage in. The opinions they hold, the products they buy, the political positions they support, the activities they participate in, the technologies they use and many other things will slowly and steadily rub off on you. Information cascades occur in situations where seeing many people make the same choice provides evidence that outweighs one's own judgment. If you go off to a mountain retreat and live with monks and yogis you will find that your behavior and outlook will naturally start to become very peaceful. If you go to Wall Street and hang out with cocaine sniffing wealthy executives you will find that you naturally become more greedy and competitive. You will surely begin to emulate them in one way or another. Media influences us by just reporting what’s happening around us. Imagine what impact people with whom we interact all the time with have. Oddly, we may not even recognize how powerful this influence really is because it can be very subtle. Still, we know that even imperceptible prompts applied over an extended period of time can exert tremendous persuasive power. The direction of our personal development is directly impacted by our daily habits and rituals. We tend to pick up the habits of the people we spend time with. By choosing to spend time with like-minded people we reinforce and strengthen our own focus and resolve. If you want to become better at something, spend time in the company of those who are already good at it and you will improve. Peer pressure can be a powerful motivator for positive personal development if we make wise choices about who we allow to influence us. Everyone has goals that they want to achieve. Some people want to buy a nice big house, other people want to travel. Some of us are focused on advancing our career, some of us run marathons. Whatever your goal in life is it should be supported by your friends. They should help you get closer and closer to this goal. The way I see it, you have two groups of people: sleepwalker and motivators. Sleepwalkers Sleepwalkers generally lack a core focus in their lives. Their lives revolve around working, eating, sleeping, partying, random entertainment and generally getting by. When you are with them, you find it very difficult to branch the discussion beyond lower level, fear/ego-based topics such as gossip, complaining, unhappiness or dissatisfaction and day-to-day weary, to more higher-level, love-based topics such purpose, self improvement, and so on. Motivators Motivators are of much higher consciousness than sleepwalkers. They are very talented individuals who are the cream of the crop from wherever they came from; they were very solution-driven, positive and driven. They are extremely invigorating and uplifting to be around; the positive energy they radiate just builds on itself infectiously. There are two variables that interplay in determining how much of your thoughts and actions are influenced by people around you. The first is your consciousness and resilience as an individual. The second is the collective sum of the consciousness of the people you are with. These combine to give you a weighted impact on who you become. You may be the most conscious and smartest individual around, but if you are constantly surrounded by negative, fear-based people in your life, it will have an impact on who you eventually become and your progression in life. If you are heavily rooted in yourself, there might be a limited downside that negative friends can bring you. However, you are also getting a limited upside because you are spending time with people who are holding you back vs people who can be elevating you. If you hang out with a group of successful, positive-minded individuals who believe in taking responsibility for their lives, you will move to become a proactive individual who shapes his/her future. If you hang out with a bunch of pessimists who believe the world is out to get them and there is nothing worthwhile, you will start descending into the negative whirlpool at some point, even if you are initially a positive individual. This is especially important in goal achievement, because the consciousness you vibrate at affects the kind of thoughts and actions you undertake. If you want to lose 20lbs of weight, you need to think as your end persona; the person who is clean cut in making diet decisions. However, if you are constantly surrounding yourself with people who eat a lot, you make it harder to restrict yourself. At this point, your ability to stay on track in your goal will boil down to how grounded and resilient you are. Think of how much easier the task becomes if you were hanging out with like-minded people with similar visions, or even people who have already been there before. Of course, this does not mean you should sever relationships or cut away every single person who does not contribute to your goals. It just means you should reduce the amount of contact you are having with people who do not enable you to become a better person. Only in the event that the person is seriously dragging you down should you resort to cutting him/her completely away. Remember, if you are entrenching yourself in relationships which are not elevating you or bringing yourself forward, you are not really helping yourself nor anybody else since you are not being the best you can be and subsequently, not being the best you can be to them. So, take a good, hard look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself what it is that you want. Then take an even harder look at each one of your friends. It may be difficult to go against the grain, but as long as you have people around you labeling what is cool, what is right, what is wrong, etc., then you’ll always be persuaded by their views. By choosing who you spend time with, you are literally shaping your own future.

Make sleep an extreme sport that you take seriously. Here is an excellent sleep resource that I still use. And watch video. As far as winning the morning goes, I make sure the coffee pot is all ready to go before I sleep and I wrap a piece of paper around my alarm clock that says: START THE COFFEE, BRUSH TEETH, DRINK COFFEE. Help your future self out by giving yourself instructions! It really works and you will be grateful in the morning, TRY IT!

Thanks! Even if I can inspire just one of you it's worth me coming back and updating. There is a superhero ALREADY in ALL of you, you just need to activate it. This site contains EXCELLENT information. NEVER GIVE UP AND BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. I can't stress that enough, NEVER GIVE UP.

March 2013 I apologize for taking so long guys, I've been in samurai mode the past month training, organizing and getting my life as efficient as possible to make time for all the training and sleeping that I've set in motion. I wanted to feel more pressure to see how far I can push myself so I registered for a 50 Mile Trail Race (In the forest with some inclines and varied terrain) on May 26th 2013! Now it's really on! Anything is possible guys, ANYTHING. 180 Days The Bane Mask at the end is a High Altitude Training Mask. I do all my training with it on: P90X, Insanity and running. I can handle up to +9,000 FT now (Range is +3,000-18,000ft). It's like having asthma and being able to breathe through only 1 nostril at the same time. I do not recommend it unless you are insane. I only take it off when I fight evil (My Saturday Long Run, which is now at 30 miles and climbing). My body get's so used to functioning with such little air that when I run without it it's like I'm breathing in concentrated oxygen and I get super human powers (literally) for 2-3 hours. I truly become a superhero in my mind.

Just ordered. Sorry it took me so long to respond. I've been running and sleeping lol.

(How do I delete this post? I forgot to multi quote you guys and did so below)