Monk mode has the potential to transform you into a beast, when done correctly.

How?

Well, you could build a side business that generates $3k passive income per month, and allows you to ultimately build towards financial independence. Or you could build your physique and become the next big fitness model. Both are ambitious goals that require a lot of focused time and energy. Time that you will not have if you’re chasing women 24/7.

Monk Mode: How I Have Done It

The past year or so, I’ve been fortunate enough to have a substantial home gym, and an online business already making money.

Naturally, monk mode came easier to me as I already had the basic infrastructure set up. A badass garage gym, a nice private office space with a view, and lots of energy. Having said this, you do not need this to succeed, this is just an ideal scenario.

Building The Physicality

For the first time in many years, I ‘lean-bulked’ for many months. I was following a program called Shortcut To Size by Jim Stoppani (great program!) and managed to pack on a whopping 20 pounds of muscle, which I was very proud of. If you’ve read any of my blog posts in the past, you’ll know that I’ve been lifting for a long time already, so that’s a pretty major accomplishment.

I actually returned to my local gym recently, and noticed how much bigger I was compared to everyone else – most men unsurprisingly lost muscle due to COVID. It was a pretty good feeling.

Towards the end of this Monk Mode period, I also invested some extra cash into improving my style. This means nice shirts, some nice boots, and some other trainers. All these shoes have a good heel on them, meaning an extra couple of inches in height (a useful tip for improving your looks).

Building The Business

Again, I was in a very fortunate position whereby COVID didn’t affect my business too much (it did a little), and this meant that I could just spend lots of time in my home office focusing on business projects without a huge amount of pressure.

As the year progressed, I gained several high ticket clients, started to gain a lot more traffic from SEO, and I now have a second Twitter account (Testosterone Tips) that’s bringing in a little more diversification in terms of income streams.

Monk Mode Requirements

Let’s talk about the basics first.

The Monk Mode Mindset

The most important thing, is that you get the right mindset down. You can’t be like the typical dude who chases the ‘instant gratification’ lifestyle. That’s all short-term, no long-term benefits. Monk Mode is almost the opposite of this.

Instant gratification can be useful when it serves as a reward for hard work and success, but when it’s an actual lifestyle? It leads to nothing but regret, unhappiness, and eventual depression.

One of the biggest ways to avoid this, is to do semen retention (or something similar) while going Monk Mode. The reality with retaining your powerful sexual energy is that not only do you become more productive and effective, but that the entire Monk Mode period is more enjoyable.

You actually gain pleasure from working, training, and learning.

It’s the only guaranteed path to getting the right mindset for Monk Mode that I’m aware of. The only other ones would be cutting back on alcohol/weed if you currently do loads of them, or getting your testosterone fixed if you’re really low (get a blood test!)

Physical Exercise

This is non-negotiable.

It’s a well-known fact that the majority of high-powered CEO’s like to do daily exercise, with the vast majority of them choosing to do this in the morning. Why?

Increased blood flow to the brain, consistent daily energy levels, and better clarity of thinking. Exercise is a brain hack, and literally makes you smarter.

Having Written Goals

My advice is not to focus on these goals every single day and put loads of pressure on yourself. I disagree with Grant Cardone’s advice of 10xing your goals, because that can quickly get discouraging when you realise you’re not going to become a multi-quadzillionaire with 4.3% body fat year round.

But I do think you should have these written down somewhere that you can see every day (in your working environment) so that you always have them as a ‘guidance tool’ if you get lost or lose focus.

Your goals serve as your life path, and prevent you from steering off course.

A High Energy Diet

What this really means, is a lack of digestive issues. Your stomach truly is your second brain, and if you’re constantly filling it with gluten, dairy, high glycemic index carbs or anything else that may cause problems, you’re just going to have brain fog.

You want the opposite of this. If you can combine morning cardio with the ideal diet for you, your brain is going to be on fire every day. This is what you need to get the most out of Monk Mode.

Monk Mode Rewards

You don’t want to go overboard with Monk Mode, and literally never relax.

I think the ideal balance for most people would be to either enjoy some nice wine or food in the evenings (I’d still avoid intolerances though as it can affect your sleep), or perhaps watch a couple of episodes of your favourite series.

I believe these can be enjoyable, without destroying your energy levels, testosterone, or your drive for success. Whereas things like porn, masturbation, or chasing women 24/7 will absolutely tank your inner life force.

Monk Mode Is Temporary

I don’t suggest doing this forever, like a lot of MGTOW guys would. I believe men and women are made for eachother, and are better together than apart.

But I also acknowledge that for many reasons, things are a lot harder for modern day men than they used to be. Economically, socially, sexually, everything. So spending periods of time in Monk Mode makes a lot of sense.

For me personally, I did about 9 months. But it could work really well just focusing for 2-3 months, before getting back to degenerate (and fun) activities like chasing tail, or travelling around Europe, partying etc.

The best lifestyle in my opinion, would be to alternate the two. Almost like how Tim Ferriss describes in the 4 Hour Work Week, with mini-retirements for several months at a time.

Anyway, let’s get into the 6 ways Monk Mode can massively impact your life.

6 Ways Monk Mode Will Transform Your Life

1. You Take Back Control Over Your Time

Time is your most important asset. It’s the only asset that is 100% finite.

With energy, you can always sleep, eat good food, or do semen retention. These will regenerate energy within you. With money, you can always make more.

With time? You can only spend it.

Which is why it’s so important that you don’t just spend your entire time on this earth chasing 6/10’s and getting a 95% rejection rate for these lower quality women. You need purpose. You need a mission. And in pursuing these things, a nice side benefit is that you get to build yourself in value so that you get 7’s and 8’s chasing you.

Think of the hours wasted in the clubs and the bars. Or approaching girls during the day. What does it add up to, 10 hours per week? Then add all the Tinder swiping on top. It’s almost like a part-time job! And this is completely ignoring the hundreds of dollars you spend in the process.

You need to take the control back and put yourself in the driving seat.

You can use this extra 15-20 hours per week in any way you like. It could be for your mission. But it could also be for a variety of hobbies, or learning a new skill. It could be to simply sleep and recover more, which would absolutely help with any bodybuilding or training goals you have.

2. Monk Mode Is A Chance To Reconnect With Your Mission

Having a purpose is at the core of being a man. It’s the same reason that it’s always men who are:

• Inventing stuff.
• Curious about space.
• Looking to conquer new territories.
• Build empires that last the test of time.

Women don’t have this ‘purpose gene’ built into them, but you do, and you need it in order to be happy. Your mission guarantees happiness, whereas women need to be ‘the cherry on top of the cake’.

Your mission provides the foundation to your life, women add the finishing touches.

3. You Can Become A Beast Physically

As a fitness model, I can tell you for a fact that you’re not going to achieve a high level of physicality by going out and getting drunk twice per week, staying up until late, or being hungover the next day.

Whether your ideal physicality is to be a fitness model, a pro fighter, or an NFL star. Doesn’t matter. The body requires a few physical baselines if you want to join the elite:

• You need a calorie deficit in order to be lean
• Sobriety is required in order to train at a high level
• Building muscle mass requires time and momentum

The ‘chasing tail’ lifestyle at the weekends flies in the face of all of that. You won’t be able to burn fat and hit 10% body fat, you won’t gain muscle (without steroids), and you won’t be able to train and recover properly.

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So all in all, Monk Mode provides you with that focused time to go out and pack on a load of muscle, burn some body fat, and do so with 100% efficiency.

Most men have no idea what they’re capable of achieving, simply because they never truly tried in the first place (without allowing distractions to screw up their plans).

4. You Can Become A Beast Financially

This is actually the most commonly sought after benefit from going Monk Mode.

Most guys use this time to build a business, or grow a current income stream they’re excited about. A passion project, if you will. Or it could just be time to learn more about various investments. Crypto, Gold, Real Estate, Silver, Foreign Currencies etc.

Whatever it is, you now have the time to do it – see how everything links back to #1?

Another major benefit is that you could learn a new transferable skill, in case you’re worried about job security and don’t want to go down the entrepreneur path. Maybe pick up some freelancer work on the side?

There’s tons of options here, and I can tell you with 100% conviction, that you’re not going to be able to do all this on top of a 40 hr/week job, if you’re chasing tail every week. Go Monk Mode, and you suddenly have the time to build ‘back up buckets’ in your financial life.

5. Monk Mode Is A Good Time To Free Yourself From Your Vices

For a lot of guys, it’s not just women who are holding them back. It could be video games or alcohol or weed etc.

For my personal Monk Mode journey, I wish I drank less alcohol, because I think my muscle gains would have been even more insane if I had. I also would have stayed leaner. Maybe got even more work done (although I can’t say that for certain).

I’d like to blame the British winter, but I could just as easily had some kind of alcohol replacement which made me feel like I was drinking. Who knows.

But if you do have some kind of addiction, going Monk Mode for a few months could provide you with a real opportunity to regain control over that thing.

6. Enjoying Your Hobbies

Finally, you’re going to have more time for your hobbies. Ideally, these should be away from women so that you can really enjoy them in the moment, without being distracted.

Whether that’s working on cars, or playing golf, or MMA etc. Personally, I’d love to get back into MMA as I really enjoyed it when I was in Bulgaria for a few months. I think it’s a critical foundation for a man, as it teaches combat-readiness, and also male comradery, but that is just my opinion.

Hobbies often allow you to regain perspective on life, and allow you to really enjoy the moment and gain clarity on everything. Hiking is a great one that can get you outdoors, burning calories, and in nature. Just be wary of the animals in certain parts of the US and Canada, and don’t go anywhere unarmed and alone!

Monk Mode Suggestions

Some baseline suggestions I would offer to you if you’re going to embark on a Monk Mode journey:

• Have a strong emphasis on exercise AND cardio specifically
• Set some real financial goals, including investing and saving (this allows you to really build for the future, which is something that women have a habit of getting in the way of)
• Do semen retention and take it seriously (it’s the only way I’m aware of that will make you LOVE to work, and be simultaneously more productive)
• Continue to socialise with those who are within your ‘inner circle’ – you don’t want to completely isolate yourself obviously, so spend quality time with your close friends and family – this will make Monk Mode more enjoyable

How Long Should You Go Monk Mode?

The honest answer, is “as long as you need to”.

If your finances are in dire straights, this may be 6-18 months. If you’re obese, ditto.

Whereas if your life is more or less in order, but you really just want to take it to that next level, you could get away with less than three months if you wanted to.

But the truth is that it’s 100% up to you.

I would also look at this as something that you can return to whenever you like. I personally like to go through phases. A few months in Monk Mode, and a few months in party/travel/fun/crazy mode. Each time you do it, you learn new tricks and hacks that will allow you to get the most out of each phase, for the least time and money spend.

Most of all, have fun with the process! You only get one life.

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I’ll talk more about them in just a minute.

But first, let’s get some definitions:

What Is Semen Retention?

Semen retention is the practice of witholding your semen, and allowing your masculine energy to build up over time.

This occurs in many cultures across the globe, and across history with many famous individuals who have taken advantage of it with enormous success. Including:

• Steve Jobs
• Mike Tyson
• Muhammed Ali
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Nikola Tesla
• Dalai Lama

These guys became unstoppable, by maximising their masculine energy through semen retention.

Semen Retention Benefits Vs Nofap

These two often get confused with one another, but they’re not the same thing.

Under the nofap model, the focus in on quitting porn and masturbation. Whereas with semen retention, it goes a step further in harnessing your masculine, with no ejaculation (even during sex).

As you can imagine, it’s a challenge, but well worth it.

It’s far easier to live a life of freedom, focus, and motivation, once your energy is back within your control, and you’re harnessing it correctly.

Think of the things you can achieve when your energy is at 100% every day. You’ll become unstoppable like the guys listed above. Whether you want to be an athlete, entrepreneur, real estate investor, or philosopher, semen retention will help you to get there.

Let’s look at what the majority of guys are currently doing in 2021…

Semen Retention And Monk Mode

One thing I would suggest “stacking” semen retention with, is monk mode.

The two really go hand in hand. Semen retention is what builds up your energy and masculinity, monk mode is the lifestyle and is the vehicle through which you apply that new energy.

Semen retention is fantastic. But you don’t want to be pairing it with an unsuitable lifestyle, like going out and getting drunk twice per week. Or being distracted by girls left right and centre.

If you combine it with monk mode however, you’re going to get an intense combination that really allows you to transform into a beast, physically, financially, emotionally etc.

Let’s now get into the nitty gritty of semen retention, and why it’s so important.

The Problems With Ejaculating Too Often

On a basic, biological level, you’re convincing yourself that your ‘reproductive mission’ is now complete. This means that you’re free to kick back, relax, and become a beta male.

It’s a BIG problem.

If you want to make more money, get more jacked, or have more real life sex, then you want your motiation for all these things to be sky-high, not rock bottom.

Ejaculating all the time leads to the latter.

It Leads To Lower Testosterone

‘Wasting’ your semen will absolutely tank your testosterone over the mid-to-long-term for all the reasons I’m about to list.

We’re not just talking about the immediate after effect – we’re talking about everything else that it leads to over the weeks, months and years.

So yes, over time, ejaculating too often will make you less of a man on a very physical level. And in contrast to this, semen retention will indeed boost testosterone.

And if you’re looking to really boost your testosterone results, check out Testogen. Testogen is definitely something I recommend stacking semen retention with.

Quite a few guys have seen increases of up to 44% in their total T levels, in a very short time span too. It combines all of the best supplements into one, leading to a powerful effect on your hormonal environment. Meaning; more muscle, more recovery, better sleep, and a greater overall quality of life.

It Leads To Depression

This is closely linked to the unbelievable dopamine response you get, especially if you watch porn on a regular basis.

The more dopamine you blast your brain with, the higher the future threshold becomes in order for you to be happy. Thus, you get addicted to that new ‘dopamine high’ and exacerbate the vicious cycle.

Depression lurks just around the corner.

It Leads To Social Anxiety

Social anxiety just means lower social confidence in certain situations. A lot of people say ‘it’s not real’, but just like depression, there’s very real chemical manifestations that are a result of modern-day realities.

Ejaculating all the time can lead to feelings of guilt, erectile dysfunction, poorer eye contact and worsened social skills.

It’s almost like your subconscious KNOWS that you’ve not really EARNED all this ejaculation, and that it’s fake.

Powerful Semen Retention Benefits

Alright, time to get to the good stuff. These semen retention benefits may just save your life (no exaggeration), especially if you’re depressed, your testosterone is >500, or you have no drive to chase your dreams.

This stuff is critical, especially if you learn how to transmute your sexual energy, and have non-ejaculatory sex.

You Boost Testosterone

I’m not just talking about the semen retention science here. Meaning this study showing testosterone peaking after 7 days of nofap, or this study showing an increase in testosterone after 3 weeks of semen retention).

No I’m talking about the long-term magic.

The real testosterone benefits come when you have more energy for the gym and start gaining more muscle mass (while avoiding the foods that kill testosterone).

Or when you start building your financial empire and live the life of your dreams.

And when you completely reset your dopamine levels and in the process, free yourself from depression. Speaking of which…

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It’s An Anti-Depressant

This is very closely linked to low testosterone, and unfortunately is one of the most common mental illnesses of the modern era.

The good news though, is things like semen retention and a bunch of other supplements like fish oil and vitamin D, are incredibly powerful for boosting your mood. You DO NOT need drugs.

All you need is to start covering your health basics, getting more sunlight, and avoiding losing semen for ~ 3 weeks, and you’ll start to notice a massive difference in your well-being.

You’ll Become More Attractive To Women

Because you’re no longer wasting your precious masculine energy, you’ll have a more masculine vibe, higher levels of confidence, and higher testosterone.

We’re talking behavioural attraction, or that ‘Alpha vibe’. It helps a lot when dealing with an Alpha Widow girlfriend, and preventing hypergamy from destroying your life.

If you apply all this masculine energy correctly, and direct it towards lifting weights and getting to 10% body fat, you will serious improve your looks within a matter of months.

Semen retention allows for looksmaxing on steroids, due to all this newfound energy. All you need to do is channel it into the right activities, and the good news, is that you’ll naturally have more motivation for productive activities. Mainly due to the resenstisation to dopamine.

When your brain is so used to being overloaded with dopamine every day by Instagram, or Pornhub, it’s difficult to get motivated to get to work or lift weights. But once these things have been removed, your motivation levels simply skyrocket.

Improved Sleep Quality

This one again is closely linked to testosterone.

It’s also a bit of a chicken-and-egg scenario. Low testosterone leads to poorer sleep quality. And then sleeping less that 6 hours per night leads to a further decrease in testosterone, and sky-high cortisol levels.

A lot of guys who are addicted to porn have sleep issues, and semen retention will solve that.

You’ll find yourself sleeping deeper, and for longer, which also leads to immune system benefits…

It Boosts Your Immune System

Things like viruses, infections and illnesses are less common due to semen retention.

THIS is how powerful your masculine energy is when it’s retained.

It’s your life energy, and contains essential vitamins and nutrients.

You Will Become More Socially Dominant

Semen retention leads to improved social confidence, better interactions, and a more masculine energy from you.

You can see other guys talking about it right here.

As you can imagine, this can lead to a lot of other opportunities, assuming you capitalise on them and put yourself out there.

Opportunities, including:

• Dating opportunities – women love dominant men
• Career opportunities – people will gravitate toward you in interviews and at work in general
• Financial opportunities – you’ll make better decisions with money due to self-control

The list really is endless when it comes to interactions with others.

Sky-High Focus

In a world of never-ending distractions and competing for attention online, staying focused and steering clear from negative distractions, is a top-tier skill in itself. I mean that with 100% seriousness.

Semen retention makes this easier. MUCH easier.

This laser-focus and drive can be applied to anything. Perhaps it’s a side hustle. Maybe it’s a new project at work. Often it’s a new hobby.

Whatever it is, your mind is 100% under your control.

Back in the 1950s your grandpa and grandma didn’t have to worry about this. They went to work, they got on with it, and the newspaper & sex was their entertainment. None of it was a huge dopamine distraction.

But in the modern world, you need to learn how to avoid the pitfalls of the modern man, and ‘focus destroyers’ are one of the biggest ones. Semen Retention is your powerful weapon against these.

Are These Semen Retention Benefits Sustainable?

The semen retention benefits are completely sustainable, but quite a lot of guys worry about flatlining, or not ejaculating frequently enough.

These are very valid concerns, but I tend to divide them into the short-term and the long-term. Flatlining is a short-term phenomenon that a lot of guys go through, that just fixes itself naturally.

But the low ejaculation frequency is more of a long-term concern that I think requires a real solution – a more balanced one that people don’t talk about enough on online forums, or in YouTube videos. I’m going to outline the solution to a low ejaculation frequency just below, and it’s something you may want to think about over the long-haul once you’re having some success with this stuff.

Here’s some common fears guys have, and problems they need to work through.

Flatlining

A lot of guys talk about ‘flatlining’ after beginning semen retention, usually a few weeks after.

Flatlining comes in two flavours. A sexual flatline, and then an emotional flatline.

The sexual flatline is simply when your body is getting accustomed to no longer being completely overloaded with dopamine. It realises the sexual activity has gone down, and essentially turns on the ‘Reboot Button’.

During this brief phase, guys often experience zero sex drive, zero interest in women, their d*ck doesn’t work, etc. It usually only lasts a few days though.

An emotional flatline is a little different. This is where their d*ck DOES work, but their emotions just go completely flat. They’re not happy or excited about things that usually excite them. They’re pretty numb about most things.

This is most likely because the body is going through a dopamine ‘overhaul’, leading to most things not seeming very exciting, due to the relative lack of dopamine compared to watching porn and/or masturbating.

Not Ejaculating Enough

This is one that’s a little more valid from a long-term standpoint.

There is a balance to be had as far as semen retention is concerned, and I believe that you should ejaculate every so often, rather than completely suppress your sex drive.

When doing semen retention, you will accumulate a ton of internal energy, and this is powerful in many ways (as explained above). It will help you financially, with lifting weights, with martial arts, and with your social relationships.

But you can potentially run into problems with unhealthy release of this sexual energy in anti-social ways, or during times when you’re least expecting it. You don’t want this energy to magnify negative emotions, for instance. Remember that every time you ejaculate, you release some of this energy, which can actually be healthy over the long-term in moderation.

So a better method than completely repressing yourself forever, may well be to ejaculate once per 3-4 weeks, in addition to a very active lifestyle, once you have successfully removed porn addiction from your life.

That last part is key.

You must remove any addictions first. The once you’re FREE, you can release that sexual energy only as often as you truly need to, before you encounter problems. Balance out the increased energy with some ‘down time’ too. I believe the balance will vary from one man to the next.

Another point is that you’ll eventually start getting more women interested in you, and a very healthy way to release this sexual energy is with them (as opposed to porn, or social media).

How To Get Started With These Semen Retention Benefits

The best thing to do, is to follow this list so that you can maximise your odds of success:

1. Download the ‘Habit Tracker’ app so that you stay accountable and can track your ‘best streak’
2. Set yourself a challenge of 100% semen retention for 21 days
3. Eliminate all environmental triggers (Instagram, porn sites, subscriptions, images etc.)
4. Get more physical exercise
5. Get more sunlight/get outdoors more
6. Try Intermittent Fasting, the OMAD diet, or even a 72 hour fast

IN THAT ORDER, and you will have as good a chance as anyone, of experiencing the semen retention benefits listed above.

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