​Ready for some real talk? Let me lace you with this…
 
I was once told a story by one of my bosses, the General Manager of my workplace. Our relationship was fairly casual so I don’t think she had any reason to lie to me. And knowing The Game even as little as I did back then, I’m quite sure she wasn’t lying.
 
She told me that the wife our 1 of our company’s owners was a little upset with how she was treating the employees. The owner’s wife thought the General Manager was too lenient, too caring and overall too “soft”. So in an effort to teach her something about how employees should be treated, the owner’s wife told the General Manager this, “Your employees are like a lemon. You have to squeeze them until all the juice runs out.”
 
I’ll let you put that together for yourself.
 
Whether you want to hear the reality about this or not (and I assume you do or you wouldn’t be on my blog), you need to understand the mentality against you. I make no claims that everyone with a degree of power thinks like this, but it’s something to consider. How else does a person have power over others unless those people give it to them?
 
Reading about how a “worker” should be lemon-squeezed until they’re dried up and no longer good would upset the average person. But it’s no shock to a Player. A Player understands The Game and a Player plays it accordingly. They move and shake with the same knowledge, wisdom and understanding of their opponent. And their opponent is usually a person who has a degree of worldly power.
 
What’s a Game if 1 person knows how to play against a person who doesn’t? That’s not really playing a Game, that’s just wielding power over the weak.
 
If you’ve been following along with my blog for a while then you already know the essence of The Game is self-empowerment. I repeat this over and over again because if you choose to begin to play The Game, you have to know this – through and through with every fiber of your being.
 
If I place a stick in the ground, that stick represents no real strength. You can easily kick it over, knock it over, even a strong gust of wind can uproot it. But you can’t do that with any well-rooted tree. What makes a well-rooted tree so strong? It’s the roots, correct? The bigger and deeper they are, the more difficult it is to uproot it. Simple enough. But now let’s take this and apply it to yourself.
 
How much inner strength do you have? Are you easily “uprooted” by day-to-day events and drama? How often does something happening outside of you that makes you react inside? How often do you let something happening outside of you irritate you? How easy is it for something happening outside of you to upset you? How did you feel when you read about employee "lemon-squeezing"? Did it piss you off a little or make you say to yourself, “That’s so messed up! How could someone think like that?”
 
And the reality is, none of these things should affect your inner emotional state. When you allow yourself to be emotionally moved, you’re on the road to loss. A Player must develop an almost unbreakable sense of mental and emotional fortitude that the average person just doesn’t have. Which is one reason I encourage you to think above average. A Player can’t be average – in thought, speech, action or reaction.

​The greatest Game that you must learn to play and win is inside of yourself first. Your inner Game. The way you talk to yourself in your mind and how you Perceive things both inside and outside of yourself. This is you becoming that tree with deep thick roots.
 
The average person is very reactionary. They let things outside of them make them upset, make them feel bad, make them feel as though they’re not good enough, make them feel like they’re missing something, make them feel like they’re weak, defenseless, and at the mercy of someone (or something) else.
 
The weak and average suffer because they allow others to treat them as weak and average. And they allow it because of their Perspectives – they have allowed themselves to think less of themselves. And this honestly is a shame.
 
The person that thinks above average will eventually break this conditioning. An above average mind can’t tolerate this type of conditioning because they think bigger and grander. They see themselves as competent and capable of greater things.
 
For the students of The Game out there, please soak this up.
 
Before you go on to try to conquer your life (outer world), you have to first conquer the world inside of you. You have to become pro-active instead of reactive. You set the tone, you set the pace and you play your hand when it’s necessary – otherwise, you hold your cards. This is grace and finesse with The Game; the careful plotting of strategy and tactics to position yourself where you want – not just accepting what someone else hands you.
 
The average person has a difficult time wrapping their head around this kind of thinking. And this is a major frame of mind that keeps them average. Haven’t we all heard that, what you think creates your reality? If that’s true then average thinking breeds an average life. There’s no other way that can work.
 
What is a Player up against? Others in the world who know what you don’t and use it against you. There’s no sense in feeling angry about that because all it takes is to learn The Game and become a Player instead of accepting being played. Why be another pawn on someone else’s chessboard, when you can be the King or Queen on your own chessboard? Become the empowered.

The person who rides the fence will eventually fall off. Sooner or later you're going to have to choose. And the power to choose is a power that we all have at our disposal. Become empowered or stay dis-empowered. What's it going to be for your future? Maybe you're your worst enemy? And the greatest opponent is yourself...
 
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I was once asked a question about the Game and the “Art of Deception”. The individual asking the question seemed to be under the impression that the Game was nothing but psychological tricks and methods of deception.

Now I couldn’t get upset about their interpretation because normally when you hear anything about the Game it’s usually spoken about in relation to the underworld – street Hustling, street Macking and Pimping. These are all considered immoral and manipulative “professions” to some degree.

What’s interesting about the Game is that it’s just a vault full of knowledge and information that can be used however a person chooses to use it.

If you ever watched the television series, Breaking Bad, you know that the main character, Walter White, was a master chemist. He could have used that knowledge for anything he wanted, but he chose to use it to build a meth drug empire. The knowledge of chemistry isn’t good or bad within itself. But how that knowledge is used can make it good or bad.

Same thing with the knowledge of the Game.
The underworld is a world that exists just below yours. It’s a world where people play by different rules. And the people who operate in this world both live and are judged by these rules.

In the “normal” world, you go to work, take care of your family, try to abide by the law, etc. In the underworld, they do the same thing but their mentality of how and why it’s done is much different.

In the "normal" world it’s generally accepted that you should go to school, get a good job and spend a large portion of your life climbing up the company ladder. This allows you to make more money and eventually you’re supposed to retire and live the rest of your life fairly comfortable. As many of you are aware, this dream died out many decades ago but it’s still taught to the American masses.

We’re taught to sacrifice a large part of our early years to eventually be able to live the life we want in our later years.

In the underworld the general consensus is, why wait until you’re too old to really enjoy life to the fullest?  I can’t think of a better quote that one of Jay-Z’s old lyrics from the song, Can I live?, where he says, “I’d rather die enormous than live dormant.”

Do you see the difference in the mentality? In the “normal” world you wait and play by the rules; in the underworld you create and play by a different set of rules. Rules that many of you have never been taught.

The reality is, a lot of these rules are still used today. They are disguised as legitimate businesses to “fleece” (pull the wool over the eyes) the general public. In other words, these underworld “rackets” were made illegal, but because the business model behind them is solid, they were dressed-up in nicer outfits and made legal. The names changed, but the Games remain the same.

I’ll give you two simple examples that you should already be familiar with. For students of the Game, I urge you to take your time and do some research on these for yourself so you can peep the Game in them:

• The State Lottery
• Car Title Pawns
  

These are hustles, plain and simple. They promise possible immediate gains, but the price you pay is often much bigger than you’re led to initially believe. I’m quite sure you can think of other so-called legitimate businesses that actually trap the consumer. The people running these types of businesses win more often than they lose. If you're playing a game you want to win, right?

Why do these businesses work? Because they’re playing a game based on rules that many people have no knowledge of. This would be the art of deception in play. When you know something that someone else doesn’t, that gives you a degree of power in that area.

I will never make the claim that deception doesn’t work. But I will make the claim that with the Game itself, deception isn’t necessary. But like I said earlier, it all depends on how the knowledge is used.

So what’s the point behind all of this? Simply, much of what you’ve been taught about the underworld is false. It’s not a place of heartless thugs, and violent criminals. Many of the rules and methods that have been in play for hundreds of years are still used today. They’re right in your face, but because you haven’t been taught about the Game, you’re at risk to becoming a victim of it.

I’ve always told you that at the highest levels of the Game you don’t see “street thugs”, you see Gentleman and Ladies. They're intelligent, dress well; they’re articulate and will greet you with a smile. You can’t peep their Game because by the time you discover it, it’s too late. You usually never see them coming unless you have Game. Which leads to the old adage, "Game recognize Game."

The underworld runs parallel to your normal world at all times. You just can’t see it because you have been taught to look for a world full of petty ignorant criminals. An old stage magician's trick called, misdirection.

Once again, a lot of this is there in your face almost every single day. That’s why it’s called the underworld, because it operates directly under your "normal" world – not hidden away someplace else where nobody can find it.

While you work and wait for a better tomorrow, the Players work and create for a better today.

So back to the question I mentioned at the beginning. Is the Game a bunch of psychological tricks and carefully plotted deceptions? It can be and it’s still used that way today. But it can also be used to shut down all these deceptions and tricks because that is what it was originally designed to do.

For those that know, you’ve just been laced on why you should be constantly stepping your Game up. Until next time…

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OK, OK... I'm a day late with this one, but I’m on vacation! It felt great out there in the Bahamas. Truth be told though, I'm glad to be off the cruise and away from all that water.

As usual though, I couldn’t leave you all hanging so I thought I would leave something to challenge your mind and your Perspectives.

In the Game we talk a lot about knowledge, wisdom and understanding. It’s a 3-fold process:

(1) First you learn about something to gain knowledge about it.
(2) You then experiment with that knowledge so you can learn how and when to use it.
(3) Finally you begin to fully understand what you’ve learned.

So my question to you is. What do you really know? Who told you that the color yellow is supposed to be called, "yellow"? Who told you that the herb echinacea actually has medicinal properties? Who told you that you only have 5 senses?

Yeah I know, all this sounds petty and mundane but let me ask you a question...

Do you know your alphabet – your A, B, Cs? Most of you would say, “Yes,” correct? So if you really know your alphabet then say it backwards.

Most of you, myself included, can’t do it. So we really don’t know the alphabet, we only know the pattern of how we learned to remember them.

Being taught about something is not really knowing about it. You gain knowledge, but if you can’t apply that knowledge then you don’t really know it.

For all my Players out there, in whatever Game you’re in, always remember – your Game is only limited by what you really know. Not by what you learned, but by what you really know. What you know how and when to use based off your Perspectives and experiences.

Keep it moving, always! The blog will be back in full swing next week...

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