With my mission of dedicating a huge part of my overall life towards maximizing the positive impact I can have on humanity, I have to seriously ask myself questions such as “Should I actively pursue becoming the President of the United States of America in my lifetime?” If I didn’t consider and strategize for possibilities or probabilities such as these, then I would likely not come close to maximizing my contribution to humanity.

On the evening of July 23rd, 2009, I concluded that I do not want to become the President of the United States or any other current nation-state. Previously, for several years now, I have been considering whether I should pursue becoming President or not. It always looked potentially like a good option for having a greater impact on humanity. And it still could be, however, with my present mindset, it is off the table for me.

Many kids say and hear the phrase that they may one day grow up to be President and it is branded as an amazingly good thing. There are certainly many great things about it and it certainly is possible to leverage being the President into having a greatly positive impact on humanity, like I wanted to. However, any professional achiever knows that there are always two sides to human achievement, which are both ceasing opportunity & mitigating risk. What pushed me over the edge to conclude that I did not want to be President was the perspective of risk mitigation. I realized that, even with all the great positive potential of being President, there is just too much risk of being a target of evil, especially with the major advancements I would want to accomplish in the world as President. My mission involves taking on evil forces in the world anyway in order to positively impact humanity on a massive level, however, it doesn’t make sense to risk that entire goal on the sizable personal vulnerabilities of being a great President, not to mention the potential major negative blow to my own personal happiness in life.

So I don’t want to be President, but there is a BIG upside to this on the flipside of this decision that I am EXTREMELY excited about and would like to share with you here!

You see, while hashing out this decision for several years with myself, since defining my Ultimate Goals in the summer of 2004, I’ve always functioned with the idea of maintaining a public personal brand that would fit with becoming President of the United States. This meant being more presidential & mainstream. I’ve never truly been either of those because I’ve always refused to be someone I’m not. However, I’ve always been conscious of conforming to a standard of mainstream acceptability while simultaneously being my edgy self. It was like walking a tightrope. However, with my recent decision of no longer wanting to pursue becoming President, this standard of maintaining mainstream acceptability goes out the window along with it. Now, yes, there are other major goals of mine that could benefit from having a mainstream acceptable personal brand. However, the costs of doing so for these goals are just simply not worth it to me. I can always add value back into the equation through other avenues.

This is huge! This means, for the first time after going public to the world, I can allow myself to be very raw & polarizing. I’m naturally a very edgy person, in a positive way. However, I can be pretty hard core with my outlook & attitude towards life, which sometimes makes others feel challenged, insecure, or angry. That is all fine with me, because I’m a strong proponent for people living out the core of who they are & the brutally honest truth what they believe, as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone, despite critical reactions from others. Being able to be extra edgy will allow me to polarize people much more, create buzz, build brand equity, and be much more entertaining to the world at large.

I’ve always had a lot of internal self-confidence and certainty in my own unique identity, but I have to admit that I’m a little bit scared about publicly removing the filter from myself. It is just that natural social nervousness that everyone has though and publicly removing the filter is the right choice. From the moment I made this decision, I could feel the excitement bursting up inside of me. Many of the amazing events, interactions, connections, opportunities, and magic moments that I wasn’t likely to experience before are now available due to being much rawer in presenting myself. I’ve always been VERY transparent, but this potentially allows me to take it to a level that even many exhibitionists would never go to (not talking about having sex on camera, although that might be fun).

Although, you will probably see some of my writings get rawer & edgier, I’m gearing up to do a lot of audio & video content soon, and that is where people will likely start to really feel the polarizing effects of my edgy personal brand.

I feel a big added sense of personal freedom from this decision and am very excited to see how its effects will play out in my life and in the lives of others.

I’m fucking pumped about not becoming the President of the United States!