(aka: how to stop being a drained/low energy cuck and start acting like a man who’s here to win again)

Feeling drained, unmotivated, or like your edge has dulled?

You’re not broken. You’re just disconnected from your fire.

The kind of fire that makes you wake up dangerous again—focused, grounded, and locked into your purpose like your life depends on it (because it does).

This isn’t about motivation hacks or “morning routine” fluff.

It’s about reactivating your masculine life force and reclaiming the energy you’ve been leaking to distractions, burnout, weak habits, and people who don’t deserve your time.

Below is the Masculine Fire Reset Protocol—a tactical, no-bullshit system to get your edge back, lead with power, and stop living like you’re waiting for permission.

1. Daily Confrontation with Resistance (Mental or Physical)

Every single day, you need to face off with something that makes you want to quit—and win.

It can be:

  • Cold shower, no music, no distractions. Just you vs. the water.
  • 50 burpees for time. No breaks. No whining.
  • Write and post something brutally honest that you’ve been scared to say publicly.
  • Ask someone for something you want (connection, opportunity, help). No ego games. No avoidance.

Men are forged through friction. Your nervous system is bored and anxious because it hasn’t had to dominate anything lately—it’s been dodging.

2. Earned Solitude (Not Isolation)

Go somewhere alone on purpose for one reason: clarity through silence.

Walk, drive, sit in nature—no content, no music, no texting, no journaling.

Just sit and listen to the internal chaos until the signal cuts through the noise.

Ask yourself one question and let it punch you in the face:

“What part of me have I been avoiding?”

Masculine clarity doesn’t come from retreat—it comes from stillness earned after effort.

3. Purposeful Masculine Output

Stop creating a lifestyle for yourself that someone else told you that you need to build in order for you to feel good about yourself.

Start creating like a BUILDER OF YOUR OWN EMPIRE.

Your job now is to infuse dominance, protection, and direction into your lifestyle:

  • Tell the truth no one wants to say.
  • Break down hard ideas into clear, useful weapons for your people.
  • Create from the stance of “here’s where we’re going, come with me or get left behind.”

Leadership is inherently masculine. You’re not just checking life off on a to-do list. You’re creating a vision designed for YOU.

4. Rite of Recommitment

Every man needs a hard reset ritual—the moment where you draw a line and say â€œI’m no longer fucking around.”

You choose the method:

  • Go to a gym and put your body through a two-hour war.
  • Lock yourself in a room for four hours with only a notebook and a single prompt:“What am I no longer tolerating from myself?”
  • Fast for 24 hours, then break it with a meal while re-declaring your non-negotiables out loud like a goddamn warlord.

Whatever it is, mark the shift. Your nervous system needs ceremony.

5. Controlled Aggression / Intentional Edge

You don’t need “healing energy.” You need to feel like a man again.

  • Get into a fight sport: boxing, jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai, wrestling. Something with structure, discipline, and pain.
  • Lift heavy with intention. Low reps. Rest. Come out of the gym hunting for challenges.
  • Get up and do something you have been avoiding because it feels like a pain in the ass.

This isn’t about becoming some stoic robot or emotionless “alpha.”


This is about becoming a man who knows how to carry pressure without leaking energy like a broken hydrant.

You are not here to feel “better.”


You’re here to feel aligned with fire.

That fire comes from:

  • Protecting your time
  • Channeling your energy
  • Moving with purpose
  • And earning your own self-respect through action

You can read lists like this all day. You can nod along, save it, even feel fired up for an hour or two. But if you don’t act, nothing changes.

The same fatigue, the same stuckness, the same quiet voice inside asking, â€œIs this all there is?”—it’ll still be there tomorrow.

Much love,

Shawn “Sheshn” Heshmatpour

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