They key to mastering your life is not just mastering yourself, it's mastering your relationships and the types of relationships you have.

There's a popular term amongst some circles to improve a man's 'inner game'. Taken in my context, that is limited if the man is still ignorant to the relational power game and the disempowering relationships that he is currently in.

If a man wanted to skyrocket his own success with women and in life, instead of just focusing on improving himself, he should look at the types of relationships he is in and reframe his relational reality so that he has the freedom to actualize his inner game.

Wise sage's talked about improving oneself and 'knowing thyself'.

Unfortunately today there are other relational elements involved that prevent men from realizing anywhere close to their potential.

The sage's back then didn't have a social hierarchy of power that repressed the men anywhere near it has conditionally altered their behavior to today. The men were more independent and free in earlier history.

Those men didn't deal with commercial sexploitation and behavioral conditioning. They didn't deal with unnaturally behaving women either. All of these things today are getting in the way of man actualizing his own potential because he's stuck in a disempowering position throughout much of his daily life.

If men could be aware of their relationship to other sources of power and reframe their reality so that instead of being a conditioned response to a certain stimuli (such as sexploitation or 'programming') and instead took an interdependent win/win relationship with other sources of power, then everything would change.

They could fully be themselves at all times instead of being invisibly repressed. Then they could have more power, respect, success and attraction in life.

So many experts out there will focus on the man's 'inner game' and improving himself. I did that consciously for a decade and it made me a 'better man' but I was still limited in many areas because of the power that other sources had over my life in certain relationships.

Men without their own awareness, are in disempowering relationships to television, magazines, women, and in
many cases money itself.

Those are some VERY powerful sources, especially considering that men generally desire women and money the
most. If he wants to be effective in those areas, he can improve himself all he wants but if he's still ignorant to the type of relationship he has with them, he's quite limited.

Know your relationship to other powers out there that have repressed your own inner game in the first place instead of continuing to run into walls.

Positive thinking, body language techniques and 'inner game' are not enough if you're still letting someone else have relational authority over you in those relationships.

For true behavioral change, relational dynamics is the missing link.

Master your relationships and then you'll have the freedom to master yourself, because by default now, there
are others wanting to manipulate and influence you.