In ancient cultures, they used to have what were called “rites of passage” for young men and young women. The adults of the tribe would organize the rites of passage, so a child could take their proper rite of passage from children to adults. The adult women of the tribe would organize the rites of passage for girls, at around 12 years of age. For boys, the rites of passage were arranged at approximately 14 years of age. It wasn’t just for fun or something to be placed on the calendar, it was essential for the survival of the tribe.

As children we are conditioned to take our orders from our parents and authority figures. Our direction in life is based on external guidance, commands and orders. This helps us survive the earlier years, as we’re conditioned to always reach out for advice or guidance with everything we do. If this conditioning doesn’t occur, we don’t survive very long without someone else looking after us and organizing every minute of our day, simply because our youthful lack of experience can expose us to extreme danger in our early years. In short, our initial conditioning revolves around someone else giving us orders. Ancient tribes knew that this pattern of survival (adopted before the ages of 12 and 14) had to be BROKEN and a new pattern of behavior had to be conditioned into the children.. The new pattern had to be…. “giving orders to ourselves”. A society of adults who think, talk and behave like children not only would never survive. A society of adults who walked around demanding someone else tell them what to do…had never survived anywhere, ever, throughout all of recorded history and beyond.

14 year old boys in ancient Sparta for example were exiled outside the city walls and had to survive in the wild for 7 days independently. A baptism by fire occurred where the child had to move very quickly from being given orders by parents and authority figures, to the boy giving themselves orders about every important facet of survival. The woods outside the city walls in Sparta were extremely dangerous, full of grey wolves, so if the 14 year old boy didn’t become a governing force to himself and develop intellectual personal sovereignty (outside parental or authority based control) the boy would perish……and that was the price the Spartans were willing to pay in order that their culture be populated by real men and women, not adult men and women who behaved and thought like children.

Today we protect our children from ever maturing into real adults and this is done purposely by the forces who manipulate us in government and media. Real adults easily avoid herd based pressures and develop deep thinking patterns, necessary for personal survival and leadership……which in turn translates into deep thinking patterns for survival and leadership that would benefit the entire tribe long term. There’s a time in life to be driven by group pressure, to take command and to conform. That time is in childhood, not adulthood. Today our media and government openly do the opposite, teaching our children to blame others for their own short comings and to complain that someone else fix their problems. Media and government have organized a victim-hood/snow flake rite of passage….to trap adults in a permanent childhood. At that point, taking over the society is simply like taking candy from a baby…literally. Adults today demand they sit and be hand fed their survival, as they do nothing personally to contribute to the tribe. This is how corrupt forces in our society are gaining more and more control over the entire tribe, in our modern time.

Most adults today are thinking, acting and talking like children……insisting that someone else tell them exactly what to do, what to think and what to say…..long into their adult years. The TV said this. My doctor said that. The government said this. Science said that. The average person today has outsourced their thinking to external sources, where they beg other people all day long for their employment, their thoughts, their behaviors, their beliefs and their ideas. Most have lost the ability to guide themselves. Personal sovereignty and leadership have been cleverly replaced by child based group think and obedience to third party command. There is no independent thought, research or direction for most folks today And because of this we can easily see what the Spartans were concerned about. A society not versed in independent thought, rational analysis or logical “cause and effect” observations of reality…..can easily be taken over and destroyed as a society.

People who can’t give orders to themselves, as a conditioned habit in their own life, will never be able to stop engaging in negative behaviors based on painful feedback alone. They would need to be told what to do by authority for them to act. An adult who is 250 lbs can’t often stop eating poorly or stop living an unhealthy lifestyle because they’ve never learned to look in the mirror and give themselves that order. It always has to be the doctor, the TV, the parent, the specialist, the blood test, big brother, someone else, something else……because they’ve never taken their proper rite of passage from child to adult. They’ve never changed from “taking orders from others” to “giving orders to themselves.”

So when are you going to start giving orders to yourself like “stop drinking coffee”, “stop drinking alcohol”, “start your own business as a side hustle”, “stop wasting your life watching a light box on the wall that lies to you all day about everything”, “start researching what the government tells you”, “start self educating”, “stop self gratifying”, “stop scrolling your phone as your culture burns to the ground behind you”, “start exercising”, ‘start leading by example”, “go to bed on time” and “stop doing exactly what you’re told by a corrupt system, just because you’re not brave enough to lead your own life outside the pressure of group compliance.” When are you going to make a move from “begging someone else to tell you what to say, think and do” to “telling yourself what to say, think and do?” When? When you decide that you want to reprogram your behavior for success and take your proper rite of passage, email me at [email protected]. Title your email, “It’s time. I’m ready.”