The Adonis Code

By Brandon Pope

Feel free to read ahead and peek at some of the self-improvement tips I’ve picked up along the way. Everything from what I’ve discovered works and what doesn’t when it comes to fitness to ground-breaking new treatment modalities that can help increase your quality of life...it’s all in here.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brandon Pope
• Release date: Dec 8, 2013
• ISBN: 9781310778650

Brandon Pope

Brandon Pope is a leading authority on unlocking personal potential. The improbable course of his life – first through his work in the legal sector, then as a composer and producer in the multimedia field, and finally, as a biotech executive – has taken him around the world ten times over. This unique experience affords him a perspective that promises to leave an indelible mark on anyone lucky enough to stumble across any of his literary or visual works.

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FOREWORD

Feel free to read ahead and peek at some of the self-improvement tips I’ve picked up along the way. Everything from what I’ve discovered works and what doesn’t when it comes to fitness to ground-breaking new treatment modalities that can help increase your quality of life…it’s all in here.

CHAPTER 1: GET YOUR HEAD RIGHT

The Prince and the Pauper

Imagine a royal court. You have the king, the dukes, the prince, the peasants and everyone in-between. Each of us has the equivalent to a royal court that resides in our heads. We populate the roles of the court with people we know and ourselves. Depending on our role and depending on the role of whomever it is we are interacting with, we act differently. Daily interactions always go through this thought process. If you’ve given yourself the role of peasant, you will always be expecting people to put you down. If, however, you’ve given yourself the role of a king, you don’t expect to ever be put down. The way one views oneself is influenced by a myriad of factors, but the most important factor happens to be determined by the outlooks of individuals in your circle. We become products of those people we are around the most.

The trick to the whole game of life is figuring out which role you’ve given yourself and deciding if that’s the role you want to have. You can choose any role you want, but whatever role you choose becomes your reality.

When someone treats you in a way that isn’t congruent with your self-assigned role, your ego get’s shaken. You can physically feel the effects when that happens. That’s called fight or flight. I’m sure you’ve heard of it. I just find it amazing that the body reacts as if it is in physical danger when the ego is rattled.

The word ego has to be the most misused word in the English language. It’s been associated with megalomania, vanity, and a bunch of other negative concepts. According to Freud, it actually just represents the conscious, instead of the unconscious, mind.i If a challenge to the conscious mind causes a physical reaction, it stands to reason that you can control the physical world through your conscious thoughts. I could take it a step further and posit that you must change your thoughts before you can change your physical reality. If we consider this as truth, then we aren’t reacting to our environments, we are creating them!

Once, I walked into a friend’s house that needed to be cleaned badly. His name is Charlie. I wouldn’t say he was up to hoarder status, but he definitely needed a hand. I realized that I could help change the situation in that house; and, without sounding condescending; I offered to hire Charlie a maid service. The thought of a maid service coming in to help clean up bothered Charlie to the point of physical agitation. Why would somebody with a dirty house be so against a paid maid service? I would have loved such a luxury.

The answer to that riddle lies in the internal role my friend has given himself…not exactly king. My offer to have a paid service come and clean things challenged his role, thereby challenging his ego, and causing him physical discomfort. Having a maid come in and clean would mean that the role he had given himself was false…that he wasn’t privileged enough to have a service like that. These are the types of