Are you all in or faded in your freedom

Branden MacKenzie
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Finding powerful presence - questioning why - honoring freedom - what do you want - why are you here. Taking real success and failure sharing the asset of life with you. I am a father, a husband, a son, a brother and proud member of Warrior.

  1. 05/11/2021

    Stop chasing balance - grow your capacity instead and own the moments of here and now!

    Growing capacity has the greatest power to empower within our journey. A desire for balance is a destination that is forever moving. Body being balance and business - growing capacity = doing what the f%^k works - WTFW. This is growing capacity - if I am doing the wrong s*&t I am not growing my capacity to experience life I am growing my ability to live life on the wrong path. Growing capacity is embracing the journey. Empowered by the unknown as I am always in a state of becoming. My father - the power of associations Right people - right associations are empowering assets. Wrong people, wrong associations create demand for force. The only way to live life consistently growing capacity is embracing evolving CORE 4 followed by clarity within daily actions defined in the door / todo list. The hits, targets, todos must have body, being, balance and business. I must have absolute commitment to the voice, my voice, my mission, my vision, my purpose. Living life - 
A. Empowered VS Forced Empowered = Body, being, balance and business fuel my soul purpose. Forced = success within business untrue to my soul purpose and I create a sense of unworthiness. A reflection of the right people, clients, employees, leaders within an organization. Right associations are empowering assets - universal truth - 1 - win/win. 
- purpose driven authenticity. Wrong associations demand reactive force win / lose 
- Blinding - I will never see on this path.
- forced state of status
- While body, being and balance are buried alive. My questions for you - Where are you growing your capacity and where are you forcing life? Who are your right associations and who are your wrong associations? Branden Proud Member of Warrior US Army Infantry Vet 2001 - 2006 A father, husband, brother, a son, a friend fighting to become the best I can be! Oh by the way.... do you want more clarity, more certainty, more ability to be present with presence? I am recently completed this powerful program. I have learned a great deal in life from my success and or more from my failures. This challenge has giving me the ability to pivot, to learn, grow - gain clarity I could only earn within this process. I believe its not the destination - its about the journey and the man we are becoming on a day to day bases. Becoming a better man, husband, father - a fighter so that I can continue to stand for what matters in life. I don’t want you to join the challenge! I don’t need you to join the challenge! I just believe you will rise within the challenge for you, your family - your journey. My responsibility is to lead you to the door as someone did for me. Step with courage! https://wakeupwarrior.com/creators/?ref=brandenmackenzie

    Stop chasing balance - grow your capacity instead and own the moments of here and now!

  2. 05/03/2021

    It’s not the flu, it’s not covid, it’s me. I am the problem, I am the solution - lesson learned.

    Felt off - questioned covid - got real and realized... I am the problem - I am the solution. Tired Wore out Head banging Taste and smell was off Chills Went back and forth for a week feeling better then worse. Today I feel normal - what the hell caused this. My mind jumps the gun thinking the flu / covid / life... So I took a little ownership of my mind instead of renting our my own truth to the stories of the masses. I am the problem I am the solution - how about you? Do you point the finger - ok ok maybe you now someone who is pointing the finger instead of asking the question what got me here. I made a list of all the shit I have done wrong VS the flu or covid or..... Here’s what I came up with For the last two weeks I have not drank as much water I backed off Vitamin C I backed off multivitamins’ I backed off amino acids I had 4 different times in the last 2 weeks family came into town and I ate like I was on vacation. I have slept like shit cause my baby girl keeps getting up at 1 am. There is a solution. I backed off walking in the AM as much. I backed off deep meditation settling for breathing meditation I shifted from a proactive state to a reactive state I shifted from moving within my day with power to forcing life as it was forcing me. What the hells the solution? What’s the path? What’s possibility? #1 Stop lying - this is on me. #2 Stop reacting - get back to moving from a place of earned power. How Own the morning Stop doing the shit that takes from my own ability to have a body on fire. My question for you? Where are you pointing the finger at a society accepted excuse? Where do you need to look in the mirror - take account of your actions? Where do you need to stop being reacting and starting owning your day being proactive with the things that make you - unchained from excuses and whatever life throws at you? Branden Proud Member of Warrior US Army Infantry Vet 2001 - 2006 A father, husband, brother, a son, a friend fighting to become the best I can be! Oh by the way.... do you want more clarity, more certainty, more ability to be present with presence? I am recently completed this powerful program. I have learned a great deal in life from my success and or more from my failures. This challenge has giving me the ability to pivot, to learn, grow - gain clarity I could only earn within this process. I believe its not the destination - its about the journey and the man we are becoming on a day to day bases. Becoming a better man, husband, father - a fighter so that I can continue to stand for what matters in life. I don’t want you to join the challenge! I don’t need you to join the challenge! I just believe you will rise within the challenge for you, your family - your journey. My responsibility is to lead you to the door as someone did for me. Step with courage! https://wakeupwarrior.com/creators/?ref=brandenmackenzie

  3. 04/29/2021

    Will I fail my son - YES. Lesson learned leading by example. Learn to learn. Don’t be ignorant.

    Will I fail as a father - yes! Will my son fail - yes! Will my babygirl fail - yes! Will they be able to navigate this life? Will they live a purpose driven life? Isn’t it crazy our kids can say - you have no idea what it’s like to be a kid these days and they would be right! 2021..... this isn’t 1980 and they ain’t playing Atari...this is real There is no room for ignorance... only purpose driven authenticity. I know great men, great parents, successful and full of love and courage... yet their kids are walking the line between life and death. What do we do..... lead by example like the gift of today is always on the line. How - live the Warrior. I start my day with the power of Warrior CORE 4 - my son sees it - my son does it - my son is empowered by it.... and he’s 7 years old. So damn proud of my boy. My son - he earns the power of presence every morning. Crazy thing is - last night I picked him up from his friends after crossfit. He told me - guess what dad... I talked to my friend about Warrior CORE 4 and he said he was going to do it in the morning. Can’t make this up - just a powerful reflection of purpose driven action. If you want to know more about Warrior, CORE 4 send me a message, give me a call, text. My son ... he will succeed, he will fail and living the Warrior way he will learn to learn through it all. He will step from the peaks and valleys a greater young man. He will always be in a state of becoming just as I am. How about you? Branden MacKenzie Proud Member of Warrior US Army Infantry Vet 2001 - 2006 A father, husband, brother, a son, a friend fighting to become the best I can be! Oh by the way.... do you want more clarity, more certainty, more ability to be present with presence? I am recently completed this powerful program. I have learned a great deal in life from my success and or more from my failures. This challenge has giving me the ability to pivot, to learn, grow - gain clarity I could only earn within this process. I believe its not the destination - its about the journey and the man we are becoming on a day to day bases. Becoming a better man, husband, father - a fighter so that I can continue to stand for what matters in life. I don’t want you to join the challenge! I don’t need you to join the challenge! I just believe you will rise within the challenge for you, your family - your journey. My responsibility is to lead you to the door as someone did for me. Step with courage! https://wakeupwarrior.com/creators/?ref=brandenmackenzie here is a link to the Tedtalks video https://youtu.be/UUnRKf2CemA

  4. 04/27/2021

    Don’t give up the thing that drives you to be better. Three key principles -selfish VS Self interest

    Powerful lesson learned from a Ted talk I listened to while walking in the morning. Practice rigorous authenticity - surrender the outcome - do the work. I reflected on Warrior and the mindset of be real, raw, relevant so that our results reflect our true desires. Maybe these words spoken by this gentlemen on Ted talks rang true as I linked them to what I have learned living the warrior way. Maybe my own recent shortcomings made the words he said sting a little more than usual. I am either authentic or I am a liar. Its that simple. The tricky part is when I hold back from being authentic and ... the only one who knows is me. This guy who at one point used a rope as a belt was speaking from a place of power. He wore no mask - he was honest - he owned the fact at one point he was an addict. The truth of his pain set him free as he stood face to face with reality. Empowering to see, hear, watch others as they live life unchained. It was a powerful reminder I am on the right path no matter how bumpy shit gets at times. Freedom is not covering up all my failures - it’s embracing the power... the fact I have lived. I have lived in the dirt of Iraq, I have fought and failed as a man, I have crossed lines, I have made grave mistakes and yet all of it was the darkness of my life that lead to the light of here and now. I live less in regret everyday as I live the Warrior way. I am more interested if not curious how I can continue to bring this all together in way that serves me and those I associate with. Share the lessons - surrender the outcome. The only thing greater than reflections of the past and or dreams of the future is the undeniable empowering moments of here and now. Live it, share it - embrace the greatest gift - this moment. Branden MacKenzie Proud Member of Warrior US Army Infantry Vet 2001 - 2006 A father, husband, brother, a son, a friend fighting to become the best I can be! Oh by the way.... do you want more clarity, more certainty, more ability to be present with presence? I am recently completed this powerful program. I have learned a great deal in life from my success and or more from my failures. This challenge has giving me the ability to pivot, to learn, grow - gain clarity I could only earn within this process. I believe its not the destination - its about the journey and the man we are becoming on a day to day bases. Becoming a better man, husband, father - a fighter so that I can continue to stand for what matters in life. I don’t want you to join the challenge! I don’t need you to join the challenge! I just believe you will rise within the challenge for you, your family - your journey. My responsibility is to lead you to the door as someone did for me. Step with courage! https://wakeupwarrior.com/creators/?ref=brandenmackenzie here is a link to the Tedtalks video https://youtu.be/UUnRKf2CemA

  5. 04/05/2021

    My son raising his voice - says you made me this way. Lesson learned as painful as it is... I own it

    Father son lesson learned - raising his voice ... told me - you made me this way... That voice within was quick to say - own it, learn .. share it. Do you own the moments of life that are both good and bad? My 7 year old son Derek was raising his voice talking back to my queen... told him to calm down... don't do that .... he then comes over sits by me and says..... You made me this way... Painful and yet living the Warrior way I was quick to own it.... he was right. I get it man - I get life - peaks and valleys moments its all incredible and then the painful reality delivered compliments of a son who speaks pure fire, truth unfiltered. Never the less - I want to own the lesson. I want to pivot from it and move better as a man, as a father, as a leader. Own my frames! The days I run, the days I am stepping, owning, becoming, learning, growing, pivoting - those days I step with power. When my actions are out of line - I reflect the man I do not wish to be and its undeniable cause I am off. What you see is what you get and if I am not getting mine, if I am reacting to life instead of taking action in life - it is what it is. Forget the stories - forget the excuses - no one cares. LESSON: Step with earned power or live life forcing the world around us to change because we are willing to change. When I step with earned power daily - he steps with a father living life owning the frames. When I am forcing life - sedating - slipping - he sees an example - he has a window - he has an excuse... He has the opportunity to say ....thats what my dad does... May the peaks and valleys be leveraged so that we can embrace the journey of today. Branden MacKenzie Proud Member of Warrior US Army Infantry Vet 2001 - 2006 A father, husband, brother, a son, a friend fighting to become the best I can be! Oh by the way.... do you want more clarity, more certainty, more ability to be present with presence? I am recently completed this powerful program. I have learned a great deal in life from my success and or more from my failures. This challenge has giving me the ability to pivot, to learn, grow - gain clarity I could only earn within this process. I believe its not the destination - its about the journey and the man we are becoming on a day to day bases. Becoming a better man, husband, father - a fighter so that I can continue to stand for what matters in life. I don’t want you to join the challenge! I don’t need you to join the challenge! I just believe you will rise within the challenge for you, your family - your journey. My responsibility is to lead you to the door as someone did for me. Step with courage! https://wakeupwarrior.com/creators/?ref=brandenmackenzie

  6. 04/01/2021

    Why do we lie to ourselves? The power to pivot lies at the crossroads of our lies.

    Why do we lie to ourselves? Maybe you are a saint.... I got some work to do! I am thinking what powerful wisdom to tell you when the reality is... I can’t tell you how to figure this out. Only you can find your own truth. What I can tell you is a story that may empower you to step with courage learning and leading from your lessons in life. May the peaks and valleys be leveraged so that we can embrace the journey of today. Branden MacKenzie Proud Member of Warrior US Army Infantry Vet 2001 - 2006 A father, husband, brother, a son, a friend fighting to become the best I can be! Oh by the way.... do you want more clarity, more certainty, more ability to be present with presence? I am recently completed this powerful program. I have learned a great deal in life from my success and or more from my failures. This challenge has giving me the ability to pivot, to learn, grow - gain clarity I could only earn within this process. I believe its not the destination - its about the journey and the man we are becoming on a day to day bases. Becoming a better man, husband, father - a fighter so that I can continue to stand for what matters in life. I don’t want you to join the challenge! I don’t need you to join the challenge! I just believe you will rise within the challenge for you, your family - your journey. My responsibility is to lead you to the door as someone did for me. Step with courage! https://wakeupwarrior.com/creators/?ref=brandenmackenzie

  7. 03/30/2021

    My son didn’t get a medal and I am glad. He got some

    My son didn’t get a medal and I am glad - he got something better! He felt the pain, considered his options and took action. He asked the question - what do I need to do to earn a medal? So damn proud of my son. He earned a little courage and with that he has a lesson that will serve him for the rest of his life. How about you? What questions are you meant to ask today - courageously. Isn‘t it crazy - be it 7 years old or 43 years old like me there is an undeniable power to be earned when we are courageous enough to ask the questions meant to be asked. What questions come to mind you now... if you had the courage to ask everything could change. In your body? In your spiritual world? With your family? In your business? Make today count, be like my son, ask the question and set your sails based on what matters to you. Your destination and most importantly your journey depends on it. Branden MacKenzie Proud Member of Warrior US Army Infantry Vet 2001 - 2006 A father, husband, brother, a son, a friend fighting to become the best I can be! Oh by the way.... do you want more clarity, more certainty, more ability to be present with presence? I am recently completed this powerful program. I have learned a great deal in life from my success and or more from my failures. This challenge has giving me the ability to pivot, to learn, grow - gain clarity I could only earn within this process. I believe its not the destination - its about the journey and the man we are becoming on a day to day bases. Becoming a better man, husband, father - a fighter so that I can continue to stand for what matters in life. I don’t want you to join the challenge! I don’t need you to join the challenge! I just believe you will rise within the challenge for you, your family - your journey. My responsibility is to lead you to the door as someone did for me. Step with courage! https://wakeupwarrior.com/creators/?ref=brandenmackenzie

  8. 03/17/2021

    Live life no strings attached! Embrace the journey of the life you are meant to live. B Mackenzie

    Monday, March 15th 2021 Surprises are a beautiful thing. Decided to head north for one day to see my pops for his birthday. It was a good drive, Derek was amazing helping with Genevieve and while she only broke down once seems lunchables was the solution. Soon after arriving pops looked at me and said - thank you. I did not do it for that - it was not about hearing the words - it was the look in his eyes. It was .... I was just so happy to see him happy. To see him happy knowing for his birthday we would be together. Surprises are a beautiful thing. As I dig through this considering ... what is the revelation I realize something. Along the journeys of life we live ... ...it is when we get lost in it all that the gift of being here now comes into focus. There is another feeling that is close to that which is when someone does something for another that is a surprise with no strings attached. Its as if along the path of their lives something happens - a little break from it all that generates a reflection - a smile. Understand this - God has given me a gift of a good man who has lived within my life as a great father. As we consider our opportunities to step into anothers world and do something nice make sure you are doing this for the right person. This is tricky because there are times we can do things for others no strings attached and it may be someone we do not know. I get that. For this particular reflection it was about my pops - a man I think the world of. REVELATION: 2 things! 1 - live life getting lost within the good and bad - choose the frames that matter and be all in so that the start nor finish line can not hold a candle to the light found within the journey. 2 - Give in life so that as others are within their journeys - what we do is a blessing to them. What we do can at times take them from their beginning and ends... from their missions and desires for destinations pulling them into a moment if not second where they say thank you and ... its so damn good a look is more than enough to know - we made the right decision to at that point in time step into their world. CONSIDER WHO, WHAT AND WHEN? Who do you love? What can you do ( no strings attached ) for them? When will you do it? Branden MacKenzie Proud Member of Warrior US Army Infantry Vet 2001 - 2006 A father, husband, brother, a son, a friend fighting to become the best I can be! Oh by the way.... do you want more clarity, more certainty, more ability to be present with presence? Join the Wake Up Warrior Challenge - 30 days of power presence earned in the work you will do! By the way I am recently completed this powerful program. I have learned a great deal in life from my success and or more from my failures. This challenge has giving me the ability to pivot, to learn, grow - gain clarity I could only earn within this process. I believe its not the destination - its about the journey and the man we are becoming on a day to day bases. Becoming a better man, husband, father - a fighter so that I can continue to stand for what matters in life. I don’t want you to join the challenge! I don’t need you to join the challenge! I just believe you will rise within the challenge for you, your family - your journey. My responsibility is to lead you to the door as someone did for me. Step with courage brother! https://wakeupwarrior.com/creators/?ref=brandenmackenzie

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Finding powerful presence - questioning why - honoring freedom - what do you want - why are you here. Taking real success and failure sharing the asset of life with you. I am a father, a husband, a son, a brother and proud member of Warrior.

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