The IronWill Project: Year 3 of MAC DADDY: Realising My Greatness [90 Day Sprint: 3/90]

[MakingAComeback]

Well....I was able to make it out my bed today, and out of my place.

Went to the pharmacy to pick up a covid test.

Tested positive.

Now I will just recover from this. I will do a little biz work, but I am obv a bit screwed up. I will take a small level of action on my accountability biz, and also copywriting.

Will message my current matches, which is like 2 people, and then just leave the apps alone for a while.

What I will do is work on my mindset.

I am going to fast for a few days.

I'll drink lots of water, and also have tea with honey and colustrum.

Supplements as follows:

NAC
Colostrum
Quercetin
Zinc
Vit C
Vit D
Curcumin

Fasting. Lots of water w/ lemon.

And rest.

Mostly the next 5 days will be me in my room, doing some small amount of work on biz and copy, and using most of my day to do mindset work:

Exercises / Releaes
Visualisations
Reading

Exactly how it went for @Holden , I went through some deep turmoil and a crisis, and it manifested in the Universe taking me out of comission for a while to do deeper inner work.

I knew it was going to happen one day.

MAC

[MakingAComeback]

I did some work on my accountability biz idea today:

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One step at a time.

Need to test it with some folks for free for a while, learn, and then start blasting some marketing, brand building, and so on.

I will now work on copywriting for the rest of the eve.

When I get the next 2 lays, all I am going to do is: (a) make money, (b) work hardcore on my body, style, and product. Just 2hrs a day will be approaching and hustling on the apps, studying game.

Gotta become a high value man.

Need to make money, and a lot of it.

I have no income since I left my job. Going off savings. Hence, this idea allows me to use skills I've sharpened for 7 years and am elite at.

Copywriting will take me a bit longer to monetise. I'm going through the "shameless whore phase" as John Carlton called it, working for free in exchange for testimonials.

But it will come together.

I will do a 3 day water fast from tomorrow. I didnt fast properly today. Covid is a bitch.

MAC

[AskTheDom]

you will get there my man,i know it

[MakingAComeback]

SUP BROS

Well. I haven’t posted in 6 days. That’s unlike me, right?

What happened?

Went to Krakow. Really, really push my game. This was one of the best experiences for learning success and success with women I’ve had. I cannot explain it to you, because you won’t be able to discern the depth, the sheer excruciating depth of what we did.

Only the strong can survive these types of experiences. They open you up, carve you up man, and everywhere you are weak, everywhere you are scared and insecure, gets exposed to the light.

I had one MASSIVE breakthrough. I learn the sticking point at the absolute core of the current version of me: vibe.

Krakow, in general, hard work but an environment of greatness. I am grateful to be around other savages and also ENJOY our lives together. Socialise, laugh, have a good time.

With the ladies, it was hard work. But a great education. And a great motivator.

More gym, more archetype tweaks. I will gain some solid ass mucle, put an inch or two on my arms, chest, back. Get a large piece of tattoo work done on my upper arm. And my hair transplant will look banging in 6-8 month. By the time I am 32, in July 2023, I will have added maybe as much as half a point to my level of attractiveness. Going from 6 to 6.5 will be life-changing.

So, time to just stay focused, be grateful for what I have achieved, and keep moving towards success.

COVID & MINDSET CRISIS: CLEANSING THE PSYCHE?

I came back to London, and after an initial high for an hour or two, my mind and body just shut down. Sat down on my bed, and was just gone. Passed out.

Woke up incredibly sick. I’m in bed unable to move AT ALL for 3 days. I get a Covid test. Yep. I came down with Covid-19.

In bed for 6 days, processing so much, unable to even move, I had one of the toughest weeks of my journey.

My mind was ablaze with so much fear, limiting beliefs. My insecurities, my failures, they compounded and my mind was a cauldron of suffering the entire time. For the duration of the week, I did mindset work, which I think really opened up the dungeon. And out came the blackest and most gruesome thought and memory imaginable.

It was the heart of darkness, man. It was so tough.

A sense of bleakness, of sheer suffering, of the difficulties of the path. So many of my own failings came to the fore. The endless rejections, ghosting, the lack of investment from women. Having such a tough time finding someone worthwhile.

NONE of this is productive. This is the anti-thesis of what Andy has taught me about mindset.
I was kinda unable to hold back the stream, man. I think in Krakow we really uncorked something that had been laying dormant. And it finally came spilling out.

As I lay there doing mindset work for hours each day, my brain became a battleground.

The chaos that abound was brutal. And all the while, this really acute sense of loneliness, isolation, and a sense of time slipping away and getting away from me.

Much of this was my system just being so destroyed. There’s little sleep going on during this time and my heart is racing for days on end.

Fears of aging. Fears of this not working out. This feeling weighing upon me, this sense that something is missing. It’s a horrible feeling.

It goes on like this for 6 fucking days. I can’t even move and I can’t stop the flow of this insane bullshit.

I am just sat there with a journal, a notepad, breaking down all these thoughts and following them to the core. It’s all in childhood. The first times I experienced these things and the walls I put up, the boundaries and barriers I erected, and the things I told myself about myself.

I persist with my mindset work, visualisations, reprogramming the subconscious and having deeper and deeper realisations.

At the root, much of what hits me is the importance of being happy. This shit is meant to make your life better!

If you’re feeling raw, you have work to do on your head man.

SUNDAY: TIDE BEGINS TO TURN

And then I wake up, and I’m feeling a little better. And my mind is clearer and happier. I’m laughing again.

After doing fuck all for so long, I fell out of momentum and now have to build it back.

The hustle, the grind, the bitter push CAN be useful and important.

But when we become miserable, something has to change. It’s what is going on in my mind. Internally, I have huge limiting beliefs, low self esteem, and struggle to see how any chick would want to be with me.

WHY?

This is so fucking retarded. So many dudes wanna be friends with me, like hanging out with me, this has always been my experience in life. People fuck with me and I am a good dude. That’s great.

Does it make sense that if someone is female, they just won’t see anything positive in me / wanna know me?

Nah, it ISN’T true man. With me being a work in progress and all, I still smashed 8 chicks this year LOL.

From NOTHING!

That is bad ass dude. I am still living a good ass life and my potential is damn near limitless.

I just need to value myself way higher as a man, and know that there definitely are chicks who will like me. I just have to find ‘em.

STIFLEDNESS / CLOSED OFF VIBE

There’s blocks when it comes to expressing myself authentically and especially around chicks. I second guess myself a lot and don’t flow like I need to, and as such, don’t often enjoy dates and don’t allow positive emotions to arise like they should.

This, externally, manifests in the scarcity and also behaviours and energy which are not conducive with success.

I should be stoked about life. I should be blasting it in the gym, doing body progress shots every month, and be genuinely excited about building a slayer bod.

I should be stoked about the prospect of building a great bod, letting my newly implanted hair grow out, and getting a killer piece of tattoo work done.

All the while, man, I can work on being happier, more and more socially free, and reprogramming my brain and value system.

Time to ENJOY the process of doing the work and letting what comes, come.

Seeing myself as the best person I can be and being genuinely happy about that process is where this psyche needs to be. Not fretting about the following:

-Why am I getting so few leads?
-Why do I get very little returns in day game?
-Why do I practically always get ghosted from dates?
-Why have I only had 2 2nd dates?
-Why do so many of my dates suck and feature little attraction?
-What if I can’t actually physically make myself meet the looks threshold, then wtf am I gonna do, just cope?

Blah blah blah

Worrying about this shit does 0. You still have to show up and do the work regardless.

And more than not help, it makes your vibe and results worse!

So, fuck it, man.

So much of the mindset work I did during my week of sickness was about resolving internal barriers and allowing myself to be a happier human being.

It’s going to matter a lot, man.

If I was a happier human being, my vibe would be a lot better and I’d do better with women.

I could keep improving myself, train hard in the gym, let me hair grow out, get a tattoo, do some new pictures, make a lot of money and just be easy and peaceful inside.

HAPPINESS will come from abundance in: health, money, joyful experiences, and connection with the right sort of women who value me (and I value them).

I struggle to see how I COULDN’T find a gal if I was able to be attractive and come across really well. Why wouldn’t that happen? If I am killing it in life and internally, all is well, why would I be such a bad fit that the current bullshit of my dating and sex life would just continue?

Pain is often the best teacher.

I must heal, and increase my value, man. This is going to be a major piece of this transformation.

I will have to really get bodied up. Me with my current looks aint cutting it. I’ll need the boost a great body can give, and the boost a happy, peaceful mind adds to someone.

But before any of that, I just need to enjoy my life and take the pressure off. Learn a new way of seeing and being and allow myself to heal internally.

ONWARDS

I am way better, now. I am able to work more, go to the gym, and function more like normal. It’s going to be a while before I’m back to normal. Weights in the gym were WAY down, for example. But I trained hard.

POSITIVE SELF TALK,
MAC

[MakingAComeback]

you will get there my man,i know it

IRON WILL ;-)

This journey is only just beginning man.

I am excited. I will win, and so will you.

Ravi

[MakingAComeback]

BACK LIKE COOKED CRACK

Work resumes and we enjoy this shit man.

WEEK 45 THE PHOENIX PROJECT

ACTIONS
(1) Dating: Online Hustle – 15 mins swiping Tinder & Bumble / 500 Profiles liked Hinge
(2) Body: Core, Stretch, Run (45m), Posture, Fasting
(3) Biz/Finance: Work on my accountability offer and talk to V, Copywriting 3hrs, jump on a call with The Dom.
Others: Mindset & Vis, Dentist, Andy coaching call

Notes:

Mindset work done from 6-7am. Core work done. Went for a run and did my glute activation work beforehand. Came back and recalibrated. I am taking action with the dating apps, it’s SLOW, I’ll like 500 hinge profiles each day and I may get one or two girls who match with me. Tinder is kinda meh rn. Bumble legit died a death. Nothing happening there right now.

Here’s my hinge profile rn. Any thoughts:

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POSITIVE SELF TALK,
MAC

[AskTheDom]

Pain is often the best teacher.

There are so many things I wanted to add in this post, like also for my mindset there was a huge battle: You know the guy called V once told me "you have a war inside, when it finish and you win, you'll be unstoppable"

But I wanted to underline that. Pain is an honest friend.

If something makes you feel pain or any branch of it
If someone says or writes you something that makes you feel it.

It only means Pain is showing you the way

[Manly Cockfellow]

when we become miserable, something has to change. It’s what is going on in my mind. Internally, I have huge limiting beliefs, low self esteem, and struggle to see how any chick would want to be with me.

WHY?

This is so fucking retarded. So many dudes wanna be friends with me, like hanging out with me, this has always been my experience in life. People fuck with me and I am a good dude. That’s great.

Does it make sense that if someone is female, they just won’t see anything positive in me / wanna know me?

Nah, it ISN’T true man. With me being a work in progress and all, I still smashed 8 chicks this year LOL.

From NOTHING!

That is bad ass dude. I am still living a good ass life and my potential is damn near limitless.

I just need to value myself way higher as a man, and know that there definitely are chicks who will like me. I just have to find ‘em.

MAC, this is such a 180° from how you used to talk about yourself that I actually choked up while reading it.

Feels like you've finally turned a corner and started to believe what the rest of us already do: that you are an attractive, intelligent, unstoppable man with enormous potential who is on the cusp of the dating and sex life you dream of.

And just to add some context to your impressive progress, the majority of men (60%) in human history did not reproduce, let alone have sex with 8 women in one year. This makes you elite.

Now that we've established you are one of the elites, let's see how high you can climb!

[Manly Cockfellow]

Here’s my hinge profile rn. Any thoughts:

Positives:

- Great posture, smile and outfit in stairs pic
- Great outfit, expression and pose in the camera pic
- Love your expression and pose and the dog's expression and crazy tongue in the dog pic
- Love your outfit and expression in the ladies pic
- Love your outfit and the background in the guitar pic
- Background and outfit in the guy pic are really good
- I like the open and adventurous girls line
- I love the shoulder to rest your legs on line


Potential improvements
- I know it might seem insignificant, but in the stair pic the stairs leading down, the sign saying lower, and that big arrow pointing down all bug me, because somehow they imply low status and going down instead of high status and still rising like you actually are

- camera pic could be even better with a more interesting but blurred background like a city street with people walking by (would show you're socially confident and care more about chasing your dreams than what people think)

- Guy pic would be massively improved without the sunglasses and the smoking (I know for myself and for most women, smoking is a deal breaker, so only keep it if smoking is a core part of your life and you really want girls who are ok with it)

- dog pic could be slightly improved with a lighter color outfit (the black kinda clashes with the dogs happy expression and the bright colors in the background)

- under the looking for prompt you talk about yourself, so an "about me" prompt would probably be less confusing, and since hinge includes a section for your actual height I would just say very tall (and put I'd put "very tall" at the end of that section so it doesn't seem like it's your only positive trait)

- for the "this year, I really want to" prompt I would be more specific: examples could be your goals of getting jacked in the gym; becoming an elite copywriter; travel plans; building your accountability business

- along the same lines I'd drop entrepreneur from your job title and use something more specific, because so many guys claim to be entrepreneurs when they are really just bums that girls will assume you're a bum too unless you put something more specific like accountability coach or copywriter


Overall
- you have a good profile that can become a great one once you make it less generic and more polarizing, especially by including more specific details about your life
(as an example, I started getting a lot more numbers and having WAAAAY more interesting dates after I added "open-relationship", BDSM (I imply it by saying "Big Dominant Strong Man", and to my profile, because it super screens for casual, very sexual, open-minded women who are either experienced with BDSM, weed and psychedelics or curious about them)

[MakingAComeback]

Pain is often the best teacher.

There are so many things I wanted to add in this post, like also for my mindset there was a huge battle: You know the guy called V once told me "you have a war inside, when it finish and you win, you'll be unstoppable"

But I wanted to underline that. Pain is an honest friend.

If something makes you feel pain or any branch of it
If someone says or writes you something that makes you feel it.

It only means Pain is showing you the way

Agreed - the underlying triggers associated with feelings of mental/emotional pain are often sources of adverse experience, times we conditioned ourselves into limiting belief, and the like. Doing work on these areas, unlearning and unwiring, and finding healing can only be good things.

If one feels pain, they will take action to create a situation where they can avoid further pain. This for self improvement is good and productive.

If we feel very little at all, and are in something of an apathetic and comatose state, that's where there's even bigger problems imo.

I'd rather feel the pain and do something about it so I can heal it at it's core, than carry on blissfully ignorant.

This is one where I'll also have to 'work smart' in as much as, there will be work on mindset and beliefs to be done here.

Appreciate the useful thoughts as ever bro.

when we become miserable, something has to change. It’s what is going on in my mind. Internally, I have huge limiting beliefs, low self esteem, and struggle to see how any chick would want to be with me.

WHY?

This is so fucking retarded. So many dudes wanna be friends with me, like hanging out with me, this has always been my experience in life. People fuck with me and I am a good dude. That’s great.

Does it make sense that if someone is female, they just won’t see anything positive in me / wanna know me?

Nah, it ISN’T true man. With me being a work in progress and all, I still smashed 8 chicks this year LOL.

From NOTHING!

That is bad ass dude. I am still living a good ass life and my potential is damn near limitless.

I just need to value myself way higher as a man, and know that there definitely are chicks who will like me. I just have to find ‘em.

MAC, this is such a 180° from how you used to talk about yourself that I actually choked up while reading it.

Feels like you've finally turned a corner and started to believe what the rest of us already do: that you are an attractive, intelligent, unstoppable man with enormous potential who is on the cusp of the dating and sex life you dream of.

And just to add some context to your impressive progress, the majority of men (60%) in human history did not reproduce, let alone have sex with 8 women in one year. This makes you elite.

Now that we've established you are one of the elites, let's see how high you can climb!

Ahh Manly, thank you for this man.

It is definitely possible, why would it not be? I see that now. It will just take a bit more time, work in the gym, and on my happiness / mindset.

I am definitely feeling better since starting the inner work. It has allowed me to also see how far I have come. It's great that I have achieved a sex life of sorts from a situation which was looking so unfavourable. I should give myself more credit on that one. It will also get better for me, I am sure of it.

Here’s my hinge profile rn. Any thoughts:

Positives:

- Great posture, smile and outfit in stairs pic
- Great outfit, expression and pose in the camera pic
- Love your expression and pose and the dog's expression and crazy tongue in the dog pic
- Love your outfit and expression in the ladies pic
- Love your outfit and the background in the guitar pic
- Background and outfit in the guy pic are really good
- I like the open and adventurous girls line
- I love the shoulder to rest your legs on line


Potential improvements
- I know it might seem insignificant, but in the stair pic the stairs leading down, the sign saying lower, and that big arrow pointing down all bug me, because somehow they imply low status and going down instead of high status and still rising like you actually are

- camera pic could be even better with a more interesting but blurred background like a city street with people walking by (would show you're socially confident and care more about chasing your dreams than what people think)

- Guy pic would be massively improved without the sunglasses and the smoking (I know for myself and for most women, smoking is a deal breaker, so only keep it if smoking is a core part of your life and you really want girls who are ok with it)

- dog pic could be slightly improved with a lighter color outfit (the black kinda clashes with the dogs happy expression and the bright colors in the background)

- under the looking for prompt you talk about yourself, so an "about me" prompt would probably be less confusing, and since hinge includes a section for your actual height I would just say very tall (and put I'd put "very tall" at the end of that section so it doesn't seem like it's your only positive trait)

- for the "this year, I really want to" prompt I would be more specific: examples could be your goals of getting jacked in the gym; becoming an elite copywriter; travel plans; building your accountability business

- along the same lines I'd drop entrepreneur from your job title and use something more specific, because so many guys claim to be entrepreneurs when they are really just bums that girls will assume you're a bum too unless you put something more specific like accountability coach or copywriter


Overall
- you have a good profile that can become a great one once you make it less generic and more polarizing, especially by including more specific details about your life
(as an example, I started getting a lot more numbers and having WAAAAY more interesting dates after I added "open-relationship", BDSM (I imply it by saying "Big Dominant Strong Man", and to my profile, because it super screens for casual, very sexual, open-minded women who are either experienced with weed and psychedelics or curious about them)

Great feedback here Manly and I do appreciate it.

I think my Hinge was guilty of being a bit too generic. I've went ahead and revised some of the prompts. I think this is a positive move for my profile generally, even if it can be improved further. I've screenshotted the tweaks. Let me know if I got it right. Thanks!

UPDATED PROFILE:

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[MakingAComeback]

Started this one for the bros:

AskTheDom: AMA - Game, Self Improvement, BDSM, Sex Positive/Kink, Masculinity (PRINCIPLES FOR SUCCESS W/ WOMEN & LIFE))

viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1691

Many have been curious, lets level ourselves all the way up.

Take your questions for The Dom to the thread and let us all gain benefit.

MAC

[MakingAComeback]

(1) Dating: Online Hustle – 15 mins swiping Tinder & Bumble / 500 Profiles liked Hinge (DONE)
(2) Body: Core, Stretch, Run (45m), Posture, Fasting (DONE)
(3) Biz/Finance: Work on my accountability offer and talk to V, Copywriting 3hrs, jump on a call with The Dom. (FAIL, did some tasks, but overall, scattered)
Others: Mindset & Vis, Dentist, Andy coaching call

Notes:

Did some good stuff, dentist took ages and messed with my flow.

Back tomorrow & will be better.

Still did a fast, run, core, stretching, posture work. Did the dental app where I had a new ALF fitted.

Even did some work on the accountability offer, including work with the guys who I've onboarded.

Listened to Andy's biz feedback audio which was great!

Gonna wind it down now. May be defeated by the lateness of the call. Still recovering from Covid, may prioritise sleep.

MAC

[MakingAComeback]

THE PHOENIX PROJECT WEEK 45

WED 12/10/2022

Late check-in, the following has been done:
Sunrise (DONE)
Mindset work (DONE)
Breakfast & Supplements (DONE)
Earthing (DONE)
Gym: Pull (DONE)

ACTIONS
(1) Dating: Online Dating Hustle
(2) Body: Gym / Core / Zero / Posture
(3) Biz/Finance: 4hrs Biz work / 4hrz Copywriting work
Others: Covid test again, Cold Thermogenesis, Light therapy.

Notes:

It’s work time. I am feeling better every day, thank God. I am back in the gym, back taking care of myself, and back engaging in the actions I need to take to be better and to be where I want to be.

Biz actions: More planning, think about my offer, think about how I can get paid clients. Some marketing thinking, too.

Copywriting: Read, Course, Practice. Repeat every day.

I will work solidly today. It may go on until late, I have to get these things off the ground. Just where I’m at.

With online dating, the profile tweaks I made to my hinge and bumble seem to have been positive. We shall see!

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MAC

[Manly Cockfellow]

I think my Hinge was guilty of being a bit too generic. I've went ahead and revised some of the prompts. I think this is a positive move for my profile generally, even if it can be improved further. I've screenshotted the tweaks. Let me know if I got it right. Thanks!

Nice work, it's looking better already.


Two minor suggestions:

1) maybe try cropping the stair pic a little closer so you only see the word "courtyard" and it cuts out the " lower" and what looks like some clutter in the room at the bottom

2) instead of saying open and adventurous for both prompts maybe say something even more specific for the "we'll get along" prompt like "you're open-minded, a little kinky (or adventurous if that's what you really meant) and don't mind standing on your tippy toes/having to jump to give me a kiss" and then for the weirdly attracted to prompt you can say another specific thing you like such as honesty (which is a perfect segue into you saying you're actually 30) or kindness

[MakingAComeback]

I think my Hinge was guilty of being a bit too generic. I've went ahead and revised some of the prompts. I think this is a positive move for my profile generally, even if it can be improved further. I've screenshotted the tweaks. Let me know if I got it right. Thanks!

Nice work, it's looking better already.


Two minor suggestions:

1) maybe try cropping the stair pic a little closer so you only see the word "courtyard" and it cuts out the " lower" and what looks like some clutter in the room at the bottom

2) instead of saying open and adventurous for both prompts maybe say something even more specific for the "we'll get along" prompt like "you're open-minded, a little kinky (or adventurous if that's what you really meant) and don't mind standing on your tippy toes/having to jump to give me a kiss" and then for the weirdly attracted to prompt you can say another specific thing you like such as honesty (which is a perfect segue into you saying you're actually 30) or kindness

Thanks for this, Manly, I applied your advice and it has been very positive! My Hinge has been going well. As a matter of fact, I made tweaks to my Bumble and Tinder and they seem to be performing better also.

This is encouraging, as my apps had been DEAD for a few weeks!

Appreciate your help and support as ever bro. I am trying my best. I am sure I will make it.

MAC