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You’re leading an army off to war, your scouts have just reported back, the first engagement is sooner than you thought it would be and you have to shift tactics. You want advice from your (hopefully) qualifies advisors.

You are competing for a woman’s affection, and it is an uphill battle and there are other potentially better qualified suitors but if you could just do one thing to put her over the edge and squarely in your camp, you just might be able to seal the deal. This wouldn’t be the worst time to get some pretty decent advice from a good mate.

You want to lose weight. You want to put on muscle. You want to teach yourself to draw. At this point you don’t need advice. All the information you could possibly need is not only out there, but very easy to find. What you need is to take action, and do the thing you claim you want to do. You’ll find that in most respects, you are already eminently qualified to figure out which actions you need to take and in what order. There has never been a better time to be alive than now for finding out the very basics in a readable format for whatever it is you want to accomplish.

Some things really are as simple as do or don’t do. That’s not to say everything is, but most things in life are just not very complex once the matter of first principles are essentially solved.





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