The DECIDE NOW!!! SYSTEM.
Another one of my INSANE SYSTEMS. USE IT AND WIN LIFE.
The Exact wheels I had that forced my hand.
This system was very likely born in me by the insanity and chaos of my upbringing.
Despite my seeming craziness… I love structure.
It goes hand in hand with my ONE CRAZIER SYSTEM.
Early 90s….I was PUSHING, DRIVING and SMASHING to SURVIVE in life.
You can read about my desperate effort to escape the dark cold rainy Island of Poverty that was my NZ home in many of my writings…
The DECIDE NOW system is what made me who I am and got me where I am now.
Which is:
Winning in Florida on my Organic Farm surrounded by my Guns and Gold bars.
Despite the side effects of shock and misery is has caused some this is a great system.
It was forged one day at the Skate Ramp in my home town in rural NZ.
I was 15. I had been training in Martial arts for two years three times a week, but nobody know this. I was still a skinny glasses wearing crazy kid. But under my baggy Vision Street Wear Jacket I was ripped.
I was bullied and would just take it… up until this moment.
One day one of the older bigger tougher kids kids decided to grab my skateboard and using a sharp stone scratch the absolute shit out of the awesome graphics of my brand new skateboard SANTA CRUZ SPEED WHEELS. I had saved up for months for these wheels and they were my pride and joy. For the first few weeks I even WASHED them when I got home each night.
The thing to do in rural NZ is destroy others kids nice things. If you had nice things it was wise to hide them.
As I limply watched him destroy one of my prized possessions the voice of my Sensei echoed in my Head.
The ancient Samurai would alway choose death before dishonor.
I realized that I needed to DECIDE NOW, If I was going to be a Samurai or a fucking maggot.
The technique I chose was the Shuto-Uchi Knife hand strike to the neck.
A knifehand strike is a strike using the part of the hand opposite the thumb (from the little finger to the wrist), familiar to many people as a karate chop (in Japanese, shutō-uchi). Suitable targets for the knifehand strike include the artely at the base of the neck. (which can cause unconsciousness ), mastoid muscles of the neck, the jugular, the throat, the collar bones, ribs, sides of the head, temple, jaw, the third vertebra (key stone of the spinal column), the upper arm, the wrist (knifehand block), the elbow (outside knifehand block), and the knee cap (leg throw).
He got the knife hand to the base of the neck with everything I had.
He screamed and half fell down, grabbing his neck. I wasn’t strong enough to put him down, but It had caused some kind of nerve damage, to the point where all it took was me advancing on him to cause him to jog off , panicked. I heard he was telling people is left arm didn’t work right for weeks, and his heart felt fucked for ages after the strike.
Those Japs know a thing or two about fucking up their enemies, I tell ya.
The news spread through my school that I had taken him down with one Karate Chop to the neck, but now he had recovered and was going to bash me.
I informed all that I don’t take shit anymore and if he wants a go, I will be fighting to the death. I literally said “I will die on the battlefield before I take any more shit.”
This bonkers statement, coupled with my years of erratic behaviour precipitated the complete end of me ever being hassled at school and my status of even more of a maniac secured.
SO…. This was my system.
I hated not knowing things, I hated people not being able to decide.
When faced with threat, confusion, doubt, insecurity, maybees or multiple choices I would DECIDE NOW! LIVE OR DIE! YES OR NO.
Many Many Many times I used this in life to impinge my will on others and myself.
I became more certain, and that reputation has helped stabilize those in my environment.
It also fucked them up. I would calmly discuss the options on the table and then YELL!!! “DECIDE NOW!!”
And any excuse they said was met with “I DON’T CARE!!! - DECIDE NOW!”
Here are some uses.
Relationships. In a number of relationships some ditz would say “I’m just not sure…”
I would tell them to “DECIDE NOW. IN OR OUT.” We are together and it’s awesome or I fucking roll and call your friend Cindy who’s a badass and wants me cause I make decisions and pay for the nice dinners.
I never ever in my life have sat about in a state of indecision about relationships with women. Just awesome times or calm endings.
Friendships: A friend starts acting up. Starts deciding they want to start stealing, doing drugs, cheating on his wife with hookers, or being a victim or a cunt to people. I tell them to DECIDE NOW. The behavior stops or they exit my circle. No waiting around to see if they get better. They rarely do.
Running businesses: A staff member acts up. Starts moving away from being an part of my rocking tribe of awesomeness. I pull them into the office and ask
”Do you want to be here? DECIDE NOW”. We dont keep them on.I pride myself in knowing that the employee wants to quit a month before they do. Just as productivity starts to falter.
Bosses: “I think we will have a talk about this later”.
NO. NOW. NOPE… NOW!“Im quitting at the end of your sentence unless we talk about this now and handle this NOW.” You sure cut through a lot of worry about whether you're getting canned or not this way.
People being rude or misbehaving at Family events: “Apologise or be thrown out by the head. DECIDE NOW.” Works in tandem with the ONE CRAZIER SYSTEM. No waiting about to endure more bullshit while everyone gets more uncomfortable and your family gatherings disintegrate.
Stepson starting to act up as a young man: DECIDE NOW. You have until I book you a flight to go and live with your dad in his trailer and suck down weed smoke while living on ramen, to DECIDE if you want a good productive live with me and your mother. He made the right choice as soon I opened the flight website.
This is harsh. But It’s how I run my life because I’m a DRIVEN MF and my life is awesome.
I have worked for 20 years and Drug and Criminal Reform.DECIDE LATER OR NEVER doesn’t work.
Below: me in Manhattan working with the NYPD and NYFD. Back in 07.
2007 NY CITY BABY! Williamsburg actually…
In my 30s I was a big deal. I had the experiences for YOU dear reader… ahah.
When you put things off, like the intervention or the arrest or the deserved beating or the dishes or the leaky roof, or the good diet, or the shit worker, or the exit from the toxic relationship, all you do is waste your time and prevent them from learning lessons that life will teach them one day anyhow.
The person who sucks that you keep on in your business just gets more and more non productive and hateful until they are taking 4 one hour fake shits a day while playing Clash of Clans in the dunny.
That shit friend just sucks more of your time that you could be spending with awesome friends.
People don’t pull the trigger because its painful and they fear conflict.
Well my other motto “MOVE IN THE DIRECTION OF THE BEATINGS.”
You can front load the pain that’s going to happen anyway by DECIDING NOW and CHOOSING AWESOMENESS.
THE “DECIDE NOW!” SYSTEM Is the first part.
The “FUCK YA THEN!” SYSTEM is the second part.
You will get your life back.
Simple and nuts. But there it is.
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Shit dude I was in nyc then!
Another banger. I always feel comfort and familiarity (amongst the laughs and fuck yeahs) when I read your stories and the penny just dropped, you remind me a lot of one of my most prized humans who is now gone. He would absolutely froth on ya wild tales.