At some point all we really need is guidance. We need mentorship, we need for someone to simply point us in the right direction, tell us where to start and then what to do next. We need clarity so we can do what we do best, work. Motivation is something that will come and go, […]
Archives for September 2014
The Truth About Success & Confidence That You Don’t Want to Hear
Napoleon Bonaparte spent almost every waking hour learning. A boy born into a family that lacked any semblance of status in a country that had recently lost its sovereignty, being conquered by the French, Napoleon despised the elite, those who were given a rank in the army or a place in society not because of […]
10 Brutally Honest Facts of Life You Need to Be Reminded Of
As we grow and experience, and live and fail and rise from the depths, we’re blessed with the incurrence of some of life’s undeniable truths. I know them. You know them. We’ve been exposed to them in some form or another when we’ve acted with courage or taken risks or helped others. We don’t, however, […]
How to Conquer Loneliness
How can a man feel alone when he’s in a city of millions? As our cities grow our meaningful connections lose their meaning and their purpose. We have friends, but they aren’t the same as the companions we once fought with side-by-side defending our cities and towns and tribes from other men who wished to […]
The Truth About Happiness & Who Controls Your Fate
“There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…” ~ John Lennon Where you are right now is exactly where you’re meant to be at this point in time. But what of your future? If this moment is the starting point to your future, who really controls where you end up? Forget about my […]
7 Steps to Freedom
Having spent only a couple weeks in Rome, I was already getting antsy. I couldn’t put my finger on it, this feeling of being trapped when I could walk where I wanted to walk, work from wherever I wanted to work from – in front of the Pantheon and the Colosseum and the Forum included […]
11 Ways to Be a Better Dad
The goal of this article isn’t to confine what it means to be a father to his family life, as many would. We’re going to take a different line of thinking, come at this whole “being a great dad thing” from the angle that being a great man, the best man you can be, a […]
3 Books Every Guy Should Read
There is no friend as loyal as a book. ~ Ernest Hemingway Earlier this year I wrote an article citing 30 Books a Man Should Read Before The Age of 30. ‘Twas a long list filled with wonderful books that will help you through hardship and suffering, improving your toughness and your grit, aiding you in […]