Lesson: Learn To Say No

Alright, so I just got home from the gym.

It wasn't fun, as a matter of fact it sucked.

Now let me go into more detail before I blow my top. It's the beginning of the week, and for me, the day in which I will begin to reach my goals. The main goal on my list is the weight gain(see last post).

So I am late, speeding like a maniac so I can get to math on time, usual Monday. I pass by world health club and I make a mental note to stop by after school to see if maybe a membership there would be a better choice instead of the weight room at school.

Fast forward 7 hours later, I am being sat down at a desk in front of some woman. Seemed cool at first, I was interested in trying out the gym.

Fast forward ten minutes later, I'm signing a contract committing myself to $59.99 a month for membership but hey I was saving $200 by not paying a registration fee!

I suck at resisting sales associates. They force a piece of paper in my hands and I have to sign it. Then I try and worm my way out of it:

"Hmm, you know what I think I better wait and think about this"

She plows

Why? Don't you want to accomplish your goals?"

For some reasons sales associates break me down, I abandon the "I am always right" rule:

I think "Maybe she's right, what am I waiting for?"

She goes kino, grabbing my arm:

"Come on let's go and take a look around the gym!"

I go get changed, work out. I call Futureshop and find out that I start Sunday I begin to think that maybe I can afford this. I was backwards rationalizing now.

She was gaming me, and she was fucking mPUA

Fast forward one more time, this time two hours later. I decide this is bullshit. My goals are about the pursuit of happiness, this did NOT make me happy. I did NOT want to pay $720 a year so I could simply push some weights around. This was about doing what I wanted.

I found the loophole in my contract, for once being 17 helped me. I call, I cancel, and I am happy.

I learned, this time just to say fucking no! I can't let down my guard because someone is trying to sell me something. I am putting them on a pedestal when I am the buyer, they are the seller and besides, I just kick ass.

I AM THE PRIZE

I will still accomplish my goal, but I will make sure I am happy doing so.

So here is to learning a lesson:

Fuck You World Health Club

Peace,
Burgundy

Goals for the New Year, it's Coming Early!

When I started out I was being mentored by in my opinion the most brilliant PUA I've ever communicated with. His name was TJ. In my first post I had to include an idea of what I wanted from my journey:

1. Be more social, make more friends, go out often.

2. Work out regularly

3. Get quality women

4. Be more Fashionable

Now I have achieved these slowly and am still achieving as I speak today. However these are not QUANTIFIABLE goals or in other words I can not measure them. The reason being is they are more suited to LIFE goals as opposed to scalar short term goals. I have lost a bit of focus in my journey so I am pulling a couple tricks out of the hat:

My new years resolution is a coming early! I got a list of goals that MUST BE COMPLETED BY FEBRUARY 15TH.

I. Learn how to spell February. DONE

II. Save up $2000 for school.

III. Gain 10 pounds by working out.

IV. Get accepted at PixelBlueFX.

Things look good guys, I just googled February, got a new high paying job and am going out with Poodlez to learn the ropes of the gym. 10 pounds might be hard to hit but I was talking to 4real and I am taking his advice as a challenge.

I invite you all to join me in setting some short term goals and I hope we can all help each other with them.

Wish me luck boys

Goals for the Road

I was just about to type in once again: Life is awesome right now.

It's amazing how much my life has changed, all because of a single skill set. I am in for the tech job at future shop, I am going to my college tomorrow to check it out and "ensure" my acceptance and I just got back from one of the coolest weekends ever.

We had planned to go down to Calgary a couple times this month, once to go see Flogging Molly (which we missed) and once for the Zan Perrion seminar(which technically, we also missed). After not going down for the concert we were for sure going to Zan.

So it's midnight Wednesday, I know I'm going tomorrow and I'm not ready. I'm not packed, haven't talked to Joogathore and don't even know how to get there and on top of that I had my interview for the tech job scheduled before we would leave for the trip. This is how we tend to do things, just wing it.

The next day I wake up, and I say to myself: "Shit, I can't go to school for the morning at all..." I make some maps, get dressed, throw my laptop and toothbrush in the bag and take off. I nail the interview, get the job and fly over to Jooga's place to get on the road.

Things are going all well, we actually got out of the city on the right track, and then BAM. A loud bang, my car is rattling like crazy, bumping up and down I can barely steer. I find a way to pull over and check out what the hell just happened to my car.

I walk around to the other side and my tire is completley destroyed. I didn't even know a tire could be fucked up to this extent, it looked like it was attacked by a pack of angry beavers, I wasn't going no where on this. Me and Jooga start freaking out, we have no idea what to do. I check to see if I have my spare(remember, winging it) and it's the tiniest tire I have ever seen! It looked like a damn doughnut! On top of that, I have no jack and no tire iron. Our last resort is waving and shouting at people as they drive by, trying to get them to stop and help us out.

I have never been more pissed off at the society we live in until this moment.

Most people just changed lanes and drove right by, some even gave us the finger...fuckers. Jooga is waving the huge spare panel cover, which he wrote help on with a piece of our tire and these bastards doing nothing but stare or avoid eye contact.

Two guys actually do stop eventually, but don't have anything to help us out with. Finally a man stops by with a huge ass toolbox in the box and gets us on our way. Thanks to you buddy!

A minor setback this was, but I sure as hell wasn't letting that stop us getting to Calgary. We roll on the doughnut to Leduc, were we get the back tires changed after going to about three different tire shops.

At last we are rollin' on to Calgary. Speeding our asses off trying to get there for the seminar. Eventually we know we are going to miss it, but I didn't give a shit. Calgary was my destination, my goal. It had now become a mission. We roll in to Calgary around 8:30, the seminar ends at nine. This is when shit got crazy. Calgary is the HARDEST place to get around I have ever been in. We must have asked about 4 different place for directions, and none of them spoke fucking English!

However, we arrive at our goal. The Zan Perrion Seminar and it's 9:00 and it's over...too bad but it was still fucking awesome that we made it to Cow Town and Zan said he would stick around for a while to chat.

In all honesty, I didn't take to him that much. He seemed too much of a nice guy, which is cool for his style, but I still easily relate to a more asshole-ish guru like Orleans. I didn't get to see his seminar which may be why my view is altered but just from chilling there talking to him that's how I felt.

After the seminar, our luck seemed to change. I think it was karma. Everything just seemed to fall in place. We found a place to sarge perfectly, even got into a couple clubs without the bouncers bothering us. It didn't matter that we didn't go see some guru, we made it to Calgary. We accomplished our goal.

That night we stayed at the CC house with The Saint and Elektro, really cool guys to chill with. They live up in a 30 story high apartment with a wicked view of the city. Another ten floors up and we would he as high as the tower. That morning we went on there and threw paper airplanes, trying to get them into the middle of circular parkades.

Next day we went and hit up the mall there for some day game, I noticed a lot of differences in the people there. They seem really dead set in there track as opposed to the huge mall back at home. Maybe I was just having an off day but I was having a real hard stopping girls, I figured that WEM is just more of a chill place as opposed to this mall. Fun as hell seeing the guys run up to chicks looking for high fives, waaay different styles than Jooga and I but we still had a great time.

Soon it was time to hit the road though. We had already made plans back in Edmonton for that night. The trip was fun as hell, totally worth the three hundred dollars and nine hours to get there.

All because we accomplished a goal.

All because of one community I decided to devote myself too.

A lot of people one day are going to be pissed off when I am successful, they worked their ass off so hard to get good grades in school and never get into trouble and they still are going to end up lower on the food chain.

Interesting how this stuff works, I expect to see you all up there with me. We work hard, but on the things that really make the difference.

See you there,
Burgundy.

Peace

It's a bit weird saying this as it's only my second post on this blog. But I finally got life to slow down a bit and it feels great. A lot of stuff going on now:

I. Yesterday ASN was born and it has increased my drive for success in this field. Not only does it have it's own domain but it is completley in our control to pimp out! Swing by the Alberta Social Network here:

www.albertsocial.net

II. A field report of Saturday, October 18 is in the process of being written, members can check it out on the ASN journal here

III. My future is real high rollin, the tech job looks lined up, my grades are kick ass and I just sweet talked the SHIT out of the counselor of the college I'm interested in. Amazing how much these skills will help you outside of just getting with women.

IV. The trip to Calgary is in two days and I am stoked! The seminar is awesome and day game is lined up for the following day. They will be nights to remember.

Now that this blog is pretty much complete setup wise, expect a lot more posts!

Peace,
Burgundy

The Newsroom

Monday, October 6 2008. The day that the public blog of Ron Burgundy has been called into existence.

The Channel 4 News Room will be the place to follow my thoughts and delve into the journey that is my path to mastery of my social life. I have come a long way already, and I am very proud of it. I still however, have a long way to go down the long dark trail that is the path I'm carving out.

I hold many journals, some will share the posts with this one and this one may have excerpts from my personal archives or even a few other insightful fellows I've met along the way.

But for now, let's call into order the reason why I am taking the red pill and falling further and further down the rabbit hole. I have thought of my goals over and over in my head but I eventually came up with this:

I want to be at the epitome of my functional level in my existence

This may seem confusing at first. What it means is that I want to live life to the fullest, at the largest capacity that I can. I am not into this to bang hot chicks. As much as that is a really cool side effect and was probably the lure that brought me into it in the first place(that's a story for another day) I have learned that it is so much more than that.

I want to succeed to my full potential. Perhaps this is a better explanation. I will use these arts to improve my social interactions with men, women, leaders, followers and anyone else that I can draw into the life I have come to love.

This is a drive beyond comprehension, it must be felt. Chances are if you are reading this, you have felt it as well.

Lastly, I want to give back. I want to teach and show people that a huge transformation in a short time is not only possible, but inevitable.

One day I will go more into all of this, but for now, I'm Ron Burgundy.

You stay classy world.