At least not with those of us that have some, you know, BRAINS (which are admittedly very rare these days). 

Received the following in my inbox today - 

Ive always thought plan B's, C's and the rest are overrated - in many ways. 

Dont get me wrong, I'm not underestimating the value of plans. 

But plans, when communicated via the subconscious are often different - and ALWAYS more meaningful and results producing in the long term than plans thought out "logically". 

Even during my darkest, deepest moments of "being in the hole - or trough - or valleys" - whatever you call it, if you asked me? 

I NEVER had a plan B. 

From when my Uncle (one of them, curiously enough not the one who earned a lot more) - asked me about plan B's and C's in the year ... 2001, I think? 

I never had one. 

I never have one. 

It's something that has perplexed, VEXED, agitated, irritated beyond belief people around me - yet, I refuse to change. 

Because to me, it's always been about this - or nothing. 

Double or nothing - or more. 

It's been about what Napoleon Hill wrote about in Think and Grow Rich i.e. to succeed, you MUST burn all bridges behind you, period. 

You must not leave yourself with any chance of doing something else. 

You either win, or perish. 

And no, for those thinking, it don't mean I fly by the seat of my pants, although it might seem that way many times - the two are different. 

I was watching an interview with ole Arnie the other day, I love the guy. Hehe. 

Given his background, coming from Austria, a young boy that wanted nothing more than to go to America - hell, I understand, and empthasize! 

I used to be the same, I still am, I love America!

But anyway ... 

Arnie was talking about the value of NOT having plan B - and I agree. 

Basically, he said the same thing as I keep saying ... 

If you have plan B, you're telling your mind there is a "fallback option" - an easy way out. 

Arnie put it as "you're taking energy and intentions away from plan A". 

Which is so true. 

To succeed at anything, friend, you must not just fail multiple times and rebuild from scratch, but you do so via the subconscious mind and with the knowledge you either win - or perish.

It's that simple, no middle ground!

You PERSIST. 

You struggle. 

You do what you have to. 

As Arnie said, people perform best without a safety net. And again, him being from Austria, he knows a thing or two about this. 

Now, does this means fitness wise you choose ONE way - and dont try others? 

Not at all. 

What I am saying - and what Arnie is saying - and what anyone with half a brain will say - keep your goal in mind - but if you have to take multiple winding routes to get there, by all means do so.

Your GOAL should never change is the point, provided it's a goal you deeply care about and really WANT with every fiber of your being. 

You'll find if this is the case, eventually, with persistence, miracles happen down the road - no matter where you're at now. 

Even fitness wise. 

And again, Rahul Mookerjee should know. 

From 120 kgs and someone "you! You can never do anyting in life!" that has been told the quoted part all his life, and still is, hehe... 

To someone that has done more in his own life by the age of 41 than most will do in three lives - or more - and someone that lives by the "Im just getting started" philosophy. Hehe. 

That, my friends, is the message for the day - take it or leave it. 

I'm out. 

Back soon!

Best, 

Rahul Mookerjee

PS - Invest in the 0 Excuses Fitness System if you have not already, it will truly turn you into a super human. 

This might sound contradictory, especially with all I've said about putting in the hard yards, and believe me, all of that is true. 

But I was thinking about this as I was listening to a Ben Settle youtube video, and he mentioned something about martial arts (which of course you guys know I've been into at a young age - I still practice my kicks and stuff!) being similar to business in that you ideally want to get to the point where you do LESS - and MAKE MORE. 

Now this is something of course I've spoken about for years 

And it's true. 

When you see those "small" martial artists generate more force with their punches and kicks than you'd ever think possible for someone their size (I wouldn't think that way - steel and whalebone is immensely STRONG!) - you might wonder where all the "strength" is coming from. 

The right term to use there is energy - and DIRECTING that energy - and "flow". 

All concepts I talk about all the time. 

Generating force though the energy in your own body - properly harnessed and directed - is an art that can literally take years upon years to just get to "basic level" at - let alone any sort of mastey. 

Same thing with business, writing emails, and so forth. 

But to get to the point where you can bang out one email and have it make a ton of money - and repeat that daily - and work for like "one email a day" (however long that takes) - now you have to put in the hard yards to GET to that level. 

That said, once you get to that level - and everyone should aspire to get there if you're into business - you do less - make more. 

And more. 

Thats like a slap to the face to those people who believe everything should be all about "grinding through the dust on your elbows through broken glass" to cash that check or whatever. 

But it's true. 

Think about all the rich people you see - they dont work harder. They work SMARTER. 

Their money works for them. 

They did, of course, put in the hard yards and go through many a heartbreak to GET to where they are (lots wont talk about it). 

I talk about some of it on the Gumption Galore sales page, truth be told, that doesn't even start to scratch the surface of it - but for most people, that alone is way too much to handle (for those that have been there, done it, they will nod and say "amen" - and add on their own stories too). 

Its about working to get to a point where you are positioned so you deliver "max blow" with "min "work"". 

Now, fitness wise how does this apply?

Well, it's what I keep telling people all along. 

If your time is limited, indeed, even if its not, if you're starting out - hell, even if you're experienced - nothing ever beats focusing on the BASICS. 

That, for fitness is squats - and pushups - and pull-ups (those that can do 'em). 

These truly, along with bridging are the big dog(s) of the fitness world. 

Especially LEG work. 

I can think of nothing that gets you more out of breath than squats - or climbing stairs and steep hills for one. 

Or, running sprints. 

Want bigger biceps? SQUAT!

Want a huge chest? Squat!

And so forth. 

Same thing for handstand pushups, another "max bang" for your buck exercise. 

If you want to fry the upper body within a few minutes flat, and get a workout that most of your contemporaries couldn't get in the gym for an hour - if they can even do it? 

What I mention in Battletank Shoulders is the ticket. 

None of this takes away the need for hard work. 

ANd learning your trade. 

And the exercises I teach you. 

But train SMART should be the mantra, not necessarily "grind more". (except when it's required). 

And those my friend(s) are my thoughts for now. 

Back soon!

Best

Rahul mookerjee

Everyone has a weak spot. 

Find his!

This, my friend is something I have always known. 

It is also the reason - one of them - behind my grip - my "extreme fitness" that leaves NO stone uncovered or unturned, no part of the body untouched ... 

Turns you into "rock solid" from head to toe as it were. 

And those dialogs above, well, I learned it from "Lockup" or whatever the Sly Stallone movie was in the 90's where he's locked up - this is Sly in a beefy avatar, not the "Cobra" lean and mean look - for a crime he never committed. 

Prior to that he was in minimum security because some idiot liberal judge put him in jail for defending an old man at a garage where he worked, then of course, it becomes "fomulaic". 

He mysteriously in the middle of the night gets transferred to max security, which as the warden puts it "six months here is like a lifetime", and "welcome to hell" - and compared with the "country paradise" he was in - it IS HELL!

Truly max security (although how he was transferred like that defies all logic). 

But anyway, Leone (sly in the movie) has six months left. 

The original sentence got extended because he apparently "broke out for the old guy's funeral", but the liberal judges in that case oddly enough just tacked on an extra few months to his sentence. 

Six, or something like that. 

And Sly's determined not to let the six months get to him. 

Warden, who was apparently the warden of where Sly originally broke out from was pilloried and lost his job or what not, and was transferred to hell where he swore revenge on LEone, and as you see Leone Entering (not sunny, hehe) - the words ring out i.e. he'll "never leave". 

Sly does it all by the book. Scruplously so. 

"I just got six months", he says to anyone trying to even remotely push him in the direction of trouble. 

Plenty try to, including a hardened group of convicts led by "beefcake Bozo" (I called him that) ... and they almost succeed, but each time, Leone controls himself and doesn't go over the top. .. 

Except when ... 

Ah, but thats the movie for you - I'll let you watch it if you so desire. 

But the goons, frustrated with Leone's "no reaction" style - complain to head Warden. 

And Warden tells them what I wrote in the first two sentences of thi semail. 

I've learnt in life, marketing, anything - you have to make people STOP AND THINK. 

Or react, or whatever it is. 

If you're boring and humdrum, regardless of the economy or not, people will do nothing (and pass you by). 

It's the nail that sticks out that gets hammered first. 

BUt it's also the one that gets max eyeballs attention and such ... 

Fitness wise, how does this apply you might ask? 

Well, two ways. 

One, the "acupuncture" (in layman terms's Chinese foot massages) I keep talking so much about. 

Let alone the girls, the pressure points on your body and such - it isn't just ancient Tantra mantra. Those points WORK - and those ancient acupuncture charts originally came from India, and are a part of that (even more ancient) culture too. 

Indo-China was once "one" if you can believe it, and it all came from India, I ain't even braggin there, but it's nigh true. Fact. 

And second ... in even more layman's terms. 

If fitness wise, what youre doing, and you might be doing a lot of GOOD things ain't working? 

YOU aint pushing in the right spots, period. 

Sometimes, you do the opposite of what you might think is required. 

To shift that stubborn "bit of fat" or last bit of fat around your waist, for one - or the lower chest (for men). 

All the cardio and pushups in the world won't do the trick on occasion - because you're not pushing in the right spots i.e. you're not really KICKING into high gear.

Same thing for bench pressing, and still not having strength to get into a handstand, let alone a handstand pushup. 

You have to approach it differently . . . 

That, my friend is as simple as that. 

And it's the lesson for this one. 

Back soon!

Best, 

Rahul Mookerjee

PS - As ole Freddie once told me when the other managers were not getting back on an important email - 

"Keep pushing!" 

I did. 

Month later, same thing. 

Freddie said nothing, but sent an email ripping not them - but me "a new one". 

Oddly enough, I felt anything but insulted, I knew what ole Freddie was up to. 

Canny cat, and as he said to me later. 

"Rahul, if I don't say it, no-one will DO anything!" 

Freddie was indeed the best, hehe. Great guy!

And to build the strength you need for pushing, well, this course does it. 

Rather goddamn well if I might add. . . 

I dont know if I should mention his name. 

Maybe I'll let y'all guess, it's an African silverback Gorilla, not from Africa, with arms as big as fire hydrants the last time I saw him, and much like Pompeo (I'm sure) - he cooks up a great, great pizza!

Champ boxer too, I've never shied away from saying that, because he is, but he has - or at least HAD back when I knew him - a lot to improve on condioning and core fitness wise. 

But anyway ... 

If there is one defining comment he made that stands out to me - it is this. 

"You're the person thats changed how I view Indians!" 

Now, he didnt view Indians as anything bad or nothing like that, trust me. 

But you know, the "pre concieved" notions, the accent, the mannerisms (ever notice the "head bob"?) - and well, you know ... 

When you think India, its usually SOME good - and a lot of negative that comes into your mind, eh. 

Lets face it, we all think that ... 

Yours truly though took all that, and just threw it out the window - and I didnt even try. 

I was just being myself. 

And knowing my background, knowing how I didnt come from anywhere near a priveleged background, and allt the other stuff. 

He made that comment several times, and I dont know if I ever told him, but it's a greater honor than the "Indian porn star" he once called me, hehe. 

Marc, THAT is the comment that stuck because it's true, and such an honor!

I get the same feeling from some of you on this list too - so thank YOU!

And for me, fitness wise - or should I say MARKETING wise, Matt Furey and Brooks Kubik, all these guys back in the day were who planted that seed. 

Of course, I was focused on everything but business back then. Hehe. 

Gotta sow those wild oats, I still do!

Somewhere along the line the horse matured a little bit though, but he's stil got some "chainsaw" elements to him, and is a huge, huge supporter of the NRA, Amendement numero two, and so forth! 

He loves him some great barbie too... I'll let ya'll figure it out. 

Hehe. 

And if there is one thing YOU guys have told me, that is the greatest honor for me, it is that. 

That my stuff is far tougher and more advanced than anyone else's out there, including the GREATS - who are far greater than I ever could be. 

Remember Mark Taylor, the great Aussie captain who wouldn't surpass Don Bradman's 334 in Karachi despite being able to ? 

Thats the respect!

But RESULTS wise, I've gone one step better ... and so it should be for you too!

Anyway ... 

Off my chest now. 

Back soon!

Best, 

Rahul Mookerjee

PS - Eat More Weigh less will WORK, period, even if you're "El Glutton" like yours truly is. 

I've been getting some very unique and interesting responses as of late. 

One person, the same one whining about "I'm not interested" also complained about the emojis that I sometimes use (emoticons, you know, the little smileys and such showing up in your email reader or browser or dumbphone screen or what not). 

Those same emojis you use without thinking about 'em. Like :( for instance, even without the visual impact. 

EVERYONE uses them, friend, much like everyone watches videos, whether they're dumb or not (most aren't just dumb, they make YOU dumber x 100 - unless its the ones I've put out). 

(no that last bit ain't marketing either, it's the flat out, very unvarnished solid TRUTH). 

Just check out what people are saying for one! 

But anyway ... I didnt reply to him - maybe he's the overly serious sort, or perhaps a Martian - for whom these things make no impact, maybe he is, that sort does exist, but it's rare. 

Maybe he is, so whatever - plus rare or not, I dont particularly CARE . . . 

Nothing if not a budding poet I BE. 

But anyway again ... 

Back in the day, in 2004, I once purchased a brand of SUPER STRONG beer - something you could not, I repeat, COULD NOT - never - PAY me to do. 

I'm a light beer fan, my friend, I dont know why. 

OK, Guiness ain't light, neither is Stella, but thats different. 

For me, I'd rather sip on light beer all day - Budlight, maybe, but I'd prefer Corona as I've said many times before. 

You COULD pay me to do that, and I'd do it - even if you didnt pay me to do it! 

All day. 

Hehe. 

And lose weight while doing it ... remember THAT? 

But anyway, Thunderbolt in India was, and probably is one of the nastier strong beers - much like the awful Colt 45 and MAGNUM's in the US. 

Yet, incredibly, I drank bottles of the last, bottles and bottles, Ricky used to keep sending them to me, I kept drinking them!

"Black dudes drink it up all day!" Ricky would tell me 

Well ... 

NONE of those beers tasted good. 

They ALL had the kick of a mule, and they all hit you like a thunderbolt WHILE drinking, and the day after. 

Or, the butt of a Colt 45 smashed up against the back of your noggin the next day it felt like!

literally. 

Point being, though ... 

Kingfisher is a far better known brand. 

Great light beer, but equally terrible strong beer, and In India for some reason, at least back then, I suspect even now - India is a more a nation of hard liqor drinkers, not so much beer, so perhaps that explains it, and why I hardly live there, hehe - people drink a lot of that too. 

I didnt. 

I still remember the HORSE on the bottle of Thunderbolt, Mom saying "Akta Ghoda Laygayiye Dieche!" 

Pardon my shitty Bengali, Mom. 

I know, you tried your best. Hehe. 

It translates to "look, that thunderbolt, even the picture of a HORSE!" 

Said satirically, mockingly - I wonder where I got 'em skills from, hehe - but she said it. 

Colt 45 and Magnum to me, my skinny ass at the time would often remember what Jay, my friend told me. 

"Youre starting to look like them black guys now!" 

(he was referring to my swimming , pushups, rapidly bulking up CHEST) ... 

You kno wwhat I mean. 

Arms like gorillas, traps till the sky, and of course that big glass bottle or tin. Hehe. 

Just conjured up real manliness to my 19 year old self... 

I wouldn't drink any of them today if you paid me to. 

But, the point is this - and what the guy above told me. 

There is a reason PICTURES speak directly to you, your subconscious, they speak a thousand words, often times better than even my written words which are often called BETTER than pictures because of what and how they DRAW and imprint on YOUR MIND .. are used by all successful marketers, even people in general. 

Ever see how the pic apps are the most popular ones? 

It might seem dumb. 

For the most part it is. 

But the subconscious functions on that level, and its anything but dumb... 

So THAT is what it's about, friend. 

And if you reading this are feeling a billion bucks after your workout, and can see yourself - I KNOW you can - in a 0 Excuses Fitness hoodie or something, then take advantage of the special ⚡THUNDERBOLT⚡ offer we have going on on that. 

Basically, boils down to this - - put $1000 in your site wallet, and get $300 off - no questions asked - off the apparel purchase. 

More details here, will be updated on the rewards page shortly too. 

Enjoy! 

(And, youll see a special email on this too coming up soon). 

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Truly PARTY TIME, folks. 

Best, 

Rahul Mookerjee

PS - I love that wife beater beer, hehe, and the T shirts too. Have not quite been there and done that, but HEY!

Beta fag, by the way, by Glyn's own persistent admission - every time someone calls him a bozo, he responds back with "Beta Fag Glyn" so forcefully that you gotta wonder, I mean yes, he's that, but it actually turms him to be called that. 

No accounting for taste, even if it's the Bozo we're talking about. 

Anyway, in response to THIS email of mine, I got the following pseudo-faggoty response - 

U have good info but u shld remember, not All uR customer are so RICH AS u!

apparently this was typed out on a mobile phone, or perhaps it was a drunk Bozo doing it, I guess. Idont know (Bozo himself, his typing is even worse, so who knows!) - and apparently not being content to start off with this, his email was a long rambling one about "why I didnt support the trans movement" more and other nonsense. 

He also apparently wants to know Glyn's address to invite him on some "pride march" or some rot. 

Ugh. 

If theres one thing both faggotty Glyn and decidely NOT so myself are very happy that we DONT know? 

It's Bozo's actual address. Me, because I've got better things to fill up my "always lit up with ideas" brain and "perenially lit up" Glyn Bozo because well if I did, I'd have handed him the ass whooping of his life one more time by now. Hehe. 

Anyway, why I dont like selling to this sort? 

Before I get into that, and again, let me tell you one damn thing - I ain't got nothing, not one single damn thing against gay people - or bisexuals - or people with any sort of sexual fetish so long as its SSC i.e. safe, SANE and consensual and carried out between consenting adults. 

I could give a damn less what you do in your bedroom, and quite frankly, it aint none of my business. 

What a lot of these faggoty sorts do though is try and "force" the other person to "convert" to their way or the highway. 

And I aint gonna stand for that. 

Its THAT sort I'll go to the ends of teh earth to call out, not people who are normal, but have "different" preferences in bed. 

It's the Bozos, idiots, morons, harassers, pyschos, racist jerks, and ... asses (Glyn, I mean the braying sort) in general I dont like one damn bit, and rightfully so, and never will. 

Live and let live. Bozos dont get that, which is my prime grade A beef with them. 

Anyway, the other thing and why I dont like selling to this sort?

It's always about price when it comes to something useful. 

Always a rant about money. Which like Glyn, they NEVER ever have enough of, or at all. 

Like Chuck rightly said about Glyn, dont ever go out with him! You'll ALWAYS end up paying, because Glyn never ever does. 

And judging by what he did the night we met i.e. "the ATM was never there for Glyn" - Chuck was spot on. 

Thats OK, I dont mind .. its his other rot I dont like (Glyns). 

And honestly. Glyn, even when he got paid, he was usually broke the day after because he'd go berserk chasing over the hill hookers to "put his nose in their backsides (God knows what it is with Bozo and Chinese rectums, both male and female) .... and there went his dough right there. 

So pathetic, like Glyn, be a man for once in your life... but anyway, back to money. 

I mean, they never have enough of it do they - but talk about going bottoms up with the nearest cruddy hoooker on the street corner or the nearest seedy X rated bar, and they always have tons of it. 

Misplaced priorities, and I dont like selling to this sort, then dealing wth the price whinging. 

I mean, look. 

I've spent year and years in the trenches here putting together info you cannot find anywhere else, training info that is so valuable I'd equate it with GOLD in terms of your health and fitness - truly coming "from the Master", and I dont use those terms lightly, and given what you pay in gym fees, doctor and chiro visits, meds, and the whole shebang, my prices are a DOWNRIGHT STEAL. 

Trust me on this one (or calculate it yourself). 

Even if they weren't the info costs what it does, friend. 

If thats too much, too bad. 

Pay peanuts, get monkeys. 

You want "Michelin":, then you gotta PAY the tab as well. 

And it's explaining all this to the Bozos that never get it, and the vibes etc - I just dont want to deal with it. 

And therefore, I do all I can to REPEL this sort from myself and my businesses. 

He also sent this (another one off the top of my head)

"We r working class men here!"

Oh, God. 

Class, no class, like I've always considered myself "classless" - i.e. without any of this BS. (not "not classy")

Upper class, lower class, working class, pseudo class, ranting class, Burgoeise, Turqiose, Burgundy, did I leave any out? 

Put me in a room with any of them, I'll talk to them in MY language - THEIR language, which will both be the same. 

Identifying with people and getting on the same page with them regardless of anything else is what true sales, and anything in life, really is about. 

You nail that, you can do damn near anything. 

The only class I did attend, of course, the class of WHOOP ass, and I'm always ready to open a can or two of them!

All for now!

As far as Glyn, his latest is "I want to lick Dejon's ass". 

Apparently "strongman Dejon" was doing squats, and that was all it took for the Bozo, of course, nothing doing in terms of derreries and Bozo went back chastened (and wrote me a nasty email about "pubes in the gym showers" - I mean this guy, just UGH!) ...and then went on another bender. 

Happened last week, not sure if he's off it now. 

But anyway, thats why I stay away from these beta fags... 

Just not worth it, my friend. 

I suggest you do too. 

And I also highly suggest and recommend picking up the 0 Excuses Fitness System (those of you that have not already), truly the best fitness related investment you'll ever make.

back soon!

Best, 

Rahul Mookerjee 

I was recently chatting with a girl Lucy - who I blocked earlier this afternoon. 

Its the usual BS with her of not replying to anything (except what suits her), it's the usual nonsense about "I am tooooooooooooooooooo busy all the time", the usual crap about "there's always a reason I dont reply directly to questions you pose" - and so forth. 

I got sick of it eventually, and blocked her - not so much in a pique, but AFTER explaining all this to her, much like I did with Dani the other day (to her credit, Dani responded as I expected her to, in a sane and calm manner, of course, she's someone with brains, not some Bozo like this Lucy whose apparently into "sleeping around" or some nonsense - nah, I'd rather stay away!) ... 

A few hours later, I unblocked her. 

Blocking people is something I rarely do, as oppposed to the majority of people out there who will simply up and block people, and wont give them a chance to reply. 

Like people saying something, then just "blocking" so you canot reply. 

It's JUVENILE, my friend - childish to the extreme, and usually happens when the other person is in the wrong, which she was here (to me, I can tolerate everything and any preference, but rudeness and disrespect - someone trying to curtail my freedom of speech (like former friend Charles) - dishonesty - backstabbin (Bozo, all of the above)) - that is a RED LINE FOR ME. 

But I unblocked her, just to give her a chance to reply, though I knew it would be some BS. 

Sure enough, I got a "smile" - followed by a "recall" message i.e. a feature WeChat has where you can send the other person a message, then they can "take it back". 

Another one of those chilidsh, idiotic features, in her case, it was to see if I unblocked her. 

Which I had, of course, she wouldn't answer anything I had addressed before that. 

So I let it rip, let her have it, and of course, she bailed . Hehe. 

Which is fine ............. 

I dont know what has happened to people in general, especially over the past few years - just STRANGE is the way people are acting. 

Including other agents etc who apparently are always too busy making excuses about being busy to DO any real work ... 

Anyway, I've been known for removing people from my life - and WITHOUT EXCEPTION, once the stale energy goes, better comes. 

So like I've been sayng, I've been doing a cull on this list. 

I've been paring down the over 13K (at this point) list to something far more "niche and manageable", and MORE curated than it already was... 

Because if I'm sending you all this, if there is NO action from your end on anything then really, and I have said this before, it is pointless for you to be on the list. (free reading can be done via the website, but people just dont do the right thing and unsubscribe themselves if they have NO intentions of ever "taking action" and doing something i.e. buying anything). 

So I took matters into my own hands, and sure enough, the complaints started. 

Look, if I've removed you from the list there has to be a damn good reason I DID it in the first place. 

And if I've blocked you from signing up - that reason multiplies by 10. 

Sure, you can still EMAIL me - thats fine. 

But the list - no - it's a highly curated list, and I'm getting tired of certain people on it that DO NOTHING - just ... I dont know, are little more or less than "bumps on a log". 

Same thing with my life. 

And it's pretty much what I'd encourage YOU to do too, my friend ... 

OK, enough of this. 

But if you're getting a "not allowed to sign up" message, now you know why. 

Back soon!

Best, 

Rahul Mookerjee

PS - The 0 Excuses Fitness System is right HERE. 

The chant just gets louder, doesnt it? 

Me, me, me ... 

It's always all about the person saying it. 

Never about what anyone else might think - or not - or never about how the person himself or herself treats other people, and always about "this is ME! He (or she) better put up with it - or else!"

As of late, this line seems to have become even popular than the line above - 

"I dont run after people!" 

"Whoever comes into my life comes, whoever goes, goes. It's up to them, never ME!" 

Which is fine until a point, but people have been taking it to giddy limits over the past few years, and it's only increasing NOW (when it should be the opposite). 

Look, it's fine to put yourself first. You SHOULD. 

Yet, there is a line, often a fine line between narcissism which can spiral into an extreme version before you know it - and putting yourself first. 

There is an even finer liner beyond NOT letting other people be a drain on your time and energy - and not letting yourself be controlled or taken advantage of - and doing the same thing to others, or worse. 

There is a fine line again, between wanting RESPECT - for you - but being disrespectful to others. 

A pet peeve of mine is when people dont get back to me. 

It's only gotten WORSE over the years, and it aint just me either. 

You send someone a message - they dont reply. 

You send them emails - repeated emaijls - they dont reply. 

When they finally find time in their so called busy schedules (busy watching inane soap operas all day or the male equivalent) - they'll reply with annoyance at your asking mildy "well, why didnt you get back to me". 

Apparently getting back is about "me" and "when I feel like it!" and "I'll get back when I can!" and "if you dont like it, get out of my  life!" 

Sad it's come to this. 

Whatever happened to basic human decency? 

This afternoon, I was wondering what happened to a person whose always been fairly good about getting to me via email. 

She's disappointed me - as I eventually figured she would - i.e. the same "no response", and no, in case you're thinking, ain't nothing romantic or near about involved here. 

If I ask her, I'm sure she'll get back with "I'm sorry". Or, "I need time off from the world!" 

OR, her latest and most inane excuse "I blocked my email accidentally!" 

When the truth is, she's frustrated about something, and just doesnt want to reply - but Jay Roy, a guy I once worked with (a conman who was from Cameroon and pretended to be from the US, though anyone with half a brain could see right thru it, but then again, not many people at that workplace had anything resembling a brain to begin with so they thought anyone who wore their hat backwards and used the term "whatsup boy" in a made up voice was a rap star or some rubbish) had the following to say about this. 

Send them a red packet, see how quickly they reply!

I.e. send them China's version of digital money. Hehe. 

But really, it's pathetic. 

Like I said, one thing to stand up for yourself, be yourself, and NOT letting others dictate to you how to live life. 

Quite another to lose all sense and sight and even smell, if there is a such thing of human DECENCY .. 

Rise up, folks, rise up, I grow weary of saying it. 

ah, I get it. 

No-one cares anymore, right ? 

Well, you SHOULD care. 

Anyway, thats that from me. 

Remember, folks, the BEST damn fitness system is waiting for you - a system that alongwith the stellar and ONE OF ITS KIND videos (nothign like this out there) will get you in the best shape of your life - in your living room. 

No, it aint just pushups and squats, no, you cannot Google it and find it, no I dont provide "teasers" except on You Tube (i can just see people typing it in Google for "freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" hehe) and so forth. 

Did I answer all your objections as yet? 

Good. 

I thought so. 

If not, let me know what I missed, and it shall be covered. 

And, that said, now the "call to action" for YOU - right HERE. 

Best, 

Rahul Mookerjee

PS - Another pet peeve of mine is idiots trying to constantly draw me into conversation with the "how are things" line - when they have no real intention of asking me how things are - its always to talk about them. 

I've lost track of the number of people who equate friendship with "shoulder to cry upon", but "never reciprocate". 

Sad it has come to this, aint it.

I knew there was a reason behind the ravens crowing, the birds chirping ... all of what I sent you earlier today. 

But let me give you yet another real life example of NEVER quitting, my friend. 

It may or may not seem significant, but it's TRUE. 

"As long as you keep fighting, never give up, the resources you need will be MADE available to you". 

This line keeps playing out in my head -has over the years, and only intensfies as I grow older!

And its always worked out that way. 

Houdini with nine lives didnt become houdini because he wanted to. He became because he trusted, and then DID. 

And told the world LATER. 

This here email is being written BEFORE the fact happens. And it will be sent out "later" ... 

a while back, my bank - one of the accounts I have, this bank headquartered in India, debited my account for a large amount - for no apparent reason. 

I checked, and the huge amount they took out was apparently for "ATM declined transactions". 

Now, admittedly, I had used my card (the debit card the bank gave me) on Amazon for certain declined transactions, admittedly they tried to charge my card quite a few times, like 20 or so - and there were fees associated (until I noticed my error, and changed it to the credit card which then got charged fine) ... but nowhere near the amount they actually debited, for about 10 x times that. 

Card issues are nothing new for me, hehe. My customers are aware of this too! Hehe. 

All works normally, but as always, I have backup upon backupon upon backup ... "just in case". 

So I complained to the bank. 

Their customer service - you got it - useless. 

I complained for three weeks or so, and simultaneously sent angry emails (though very logical) to their country head, regiional head, and their CEO too. 

Nothing happened, so it seemed. 

I went to the Reserve Bank of India - regulatory body over them. 

My complaint got turned down twice for some wierd reason. 

"You didnt give them enough time to reply". 

I replied back that I did with proof, but for some reason, nothing doing (which is strange - the RBI is pretty good about resolving this sort of thing if you explain what happened to them PROPERLY). 

Then, I went to consumer court - or the "online equivalent". 

I raised a complaint there, and some other places, nothing really happened. 

I complained again. 

Nothing. 

After a month and a half, I "cut my losses", and forgot about the whole mess. 

But, things were happening behind the scenes, much like many things happen before that seed SPROUTS into a PLANT - and then a tree! 

That thought kept coming to my mind for some odd reason over the past couple of months. 

A couple of days ago, I checked that account which I pretty much stopped using since that happened, and there was a credit - a tiny one. 

I asked them what it was. 

IT was related to the issue above. 

OK, great. 

I forgot about it after that. 

Then out of the blue, FINALLY - two plus months later - a RESPONSE - from a real person came!

And they sent me a list of transactions for which charges were being applied, which I had been asking for for ages. 

Of course, it was just those 20 declined transactions. 

So, I told them that i.e. just  20, fine, charge for those, but not the amount you debited! 

No reply. 

Followed up. 

Nothing. 

This morning, I got an odd - or maybe not - answer after doing handstand pushups. 

"

Dear Sir,

We are arranging the approval for whole amount reversal as a service gesture."

Along with that, another email showed up from support (tech support) on another organization as I wrote this (unrelated to this, but I didnt think they would be replying anytime soon either). 

Now, this isnt' about money. 

It isn't about what yours truly got - or will get - or whatever. 

IT's about the value of persistence. 

And never giving up, and never telling the world before it's DONE - when you have PROOF, as opposed to crowing about it BEFORE (it usually never happens then!) - and most of all ... 

Knowing it's NEVER over till it IS. 

And that, friend, is that!

Back soon!

Best, 

Rahul Mookerjee

PS - This email will be sent once I receive the final credit BACK to my account. Tell the world what you're going to do, but show it first!

PS #2 - If you love this sort of motivational stuff, then Gumption Galore! - and Zero to Hero! will be RIGHT up your alley. 

Further Volumes outcoming soon too. (oh, and 16 Inspirational Fitness Recollections as well).