The Breakdown

The short version of the pillars — for the "too long, didn't read" crowd. Read further in the wiki for depth.

Health

Whatever route you choose — whatever diet, whatever workout program — commit to it for 90 days. This proves to yourself that you can set a goal and accomplish it. Too many people read about CrossFit, P90X or special diets and never actually start. So: pick something and just do it for 90 days.

It might work great, or you might want different results — but either way you committed and proved you can follow through. Now you can tweak what needs tweaking and keep improving.

Lifting weights is a must for men. I love running and cardio and did it for years, but every routine needs weight training. Lifting raises testosterone — the molecule for men.

Wealth

Financial control, career, education, and a real plan for the future. (More coming here — for now, see the Financial section of the wiki.)

Relationships — the schools of Game

Here's how I see the major approaches, and how they tend to play out short-term versus long-term:

Pickup systems (Mystery Method / Love Systems / RSD)

Speed Seduction / NLP

The self-improvement approach — my recommendation

Self-Love

Self-development is huge. You should constantly be setting goals and hitting them. If you aren't working toward a goal every day, you aren't living the life you're capable of. Things that hold you back:

Higher Purpose

When you picture yourself, always picture the goal already achieved. If you want a better body, visualize yourself with it. Fears work the same way in reverse — stand on a rooftop imagining yourself falling, and you'll fear the height. Build better images and you start to think differently and improve every day.

Every experience — good or bad — serves two purposes:

  1. The superficial one: the tangible result, the goal you can point to and say "I attained that."
  2. The deeper one: who you become through the experience.

Take a self-made millionaire. Strip away his money and connections and drop him in a foreign country — within a year he's wealthy again. Not because of the money, but because he became the kind of person who creates it. To become that person you have to go through the pain, struggle and risk. That applies to any goal, dream or passion: you have to fall down and get hurt so you learn how to get back up.

It's not the million dollars that matters — it's becoming a million-dollar person.