With self-discipline anything is possible. – Theodore Roosevelt

You do not need “more” potential. Within you, as the man you are right now, is the capacity for something far greater than who you are living as. I’m sure you feel that truth. It’s probably why you’re reading this article. You feel as though you’re meant for something greater than who and what you’re living as now, what you’re doing now, the goals you’re setting now and the path you’re on now.

And you’re right.

You are destined for more. You also have to understand why you don’t have it.

… YOU.

You haven’t done the work to warrant what you’re capable of. You haven’t taken the risk nor lived with the discipline that your destiny requires. This is the mindset of a  man who controls his fate.

The man who has no control over his fate blames the world he was born into or the system or his parents or his neighbourhood or government or “big bad corporations” for keeping him small and insignificant. When you blame others for your lack of success in life, you give them control over your life. You move from being a man to being a victim. That may be your mindset right now, and that is going to have to change if you’re going to heed the call to man the fuck up. If you remain with the victim mindset – something I will root out – your life will be a series of things that happen to you, not things that you bring to fruition.

You do not need more strength; it is within you. You do not need more courage; it’s already there. You do not need a nicer car or fancier clothes; what you have now is fine. What you need is better habits. What you do need is better training. What you long for is a call to action that will bring about the man within, the warrior waiting for a challenge, and Man the Fuck Up! will do just that. Don’t think you aren’t worthy of something greater. You are worthy of it, you just haven’t earned it yet.