The Success Hack No One Talks About

I’m just back at the office, which is currently my kitchen table, after spending the morning out running errands.

I popped into a cell phone provider for an issue with my iPhone, then stepped into a the natural food store for a speciality item my lady friend really likes.

It’s hard to find in this area, I got it as a small surprise for her.

For these errands, I threw on a well worn pair of Vans sneakers, comfortable jeans, and a favorite soft t-shirt.

Even in these worn clothes, I get treated with the greatest respect everywhere I go.

Clerks and cashiers (almost always women, or gay men) greet with me beaming smiles. People everywhere go out of their way to help me.

Why can I wear work clothes and get treated like a Wall Street executive?

First, let me say that I ENJOY dressing fashionably.

I always look great when I go out with friends, or on dates. I get a lot of compliments on my style, and I always have.

The point I want to make is that a good body, and the confidence that comes from being lean and muscular radiates off my body like electric light.

People respect a man who looks like he respects himself.

My lean abdomen, and athletic frame communicate:

discipline,

consistency,

and high standards.

I LOOK like I deserve preferential treatment, because I put in the work.

Even in work pants and skate shoes, I look successful.

Since people are apt to believe their own eyes, they reason that I must be as successful and important as I carry myself to be.

The Fitness Journey

I have learned a ton about myself, and about human nature on my fitness journey. One important lesson is why “Fitness Journey” is an appropriate title for such an experience.

One of the most important lessons that, despite the best efforts of the “body positive”, “fat acceptance” and “Short Hair Matters” movements, human beings judge each other MERCILESSLY on how they look.

If I was 300 pounds overweight, and wore these same work clothes and old shoes, the same woman that flirt with me now would barely make eye contact. A fat guy in a three piece tuxedo will get disgusted looks, and at best ignored, unless people somehow know for a fact that he is rich and important.

My casual/ work clothes look better and fit better across my broadening shoulders and fit chest.

I have a long way to go to my ultimate body goals, but even being on this path I’m already in the upper echelon of fitness for adult men in the United States.

The confidence I’ve gained from diligently working on my body causes me to stand up straight. I make self-assured eye contact, and meet other men with a firm, masculine handshake.

This is even before I get to the way women treat me better because they think I’m “hot”.

My advice to fellow Sigma Men, which you’ve heard many times before on this blog, is

Look Better.

Being physically attractive, and the well of inner confidence that follows looking good, is the greatest success hack available to you.

Lose Body Fat.

Gain Muscle Mass.

Know that you are a strong, capable motherfucker and vibrate that energy from the core of your being.

The treatment you deserve from other men, women, children, and even friendly dogs is on the other end of you taking better care of yourself.

Look Good and prosper.

-Solitary Beast