For years I’ve focused on efficiency, when I should have been focusing on effectiveness. Efficiency is essentially doing things the right way, while effectiveness is doing the right things. It’s a wonderful thing to be doing things the right way, not wasting any time, getting a lot of work done in less time, but what […]
About Chad Howse
Why You Should Never Ask for Advice Again
More often than not, advice is useless. There’s no skin in the game from the advice-giver, thus, no consequences felt if the advice is wrong. From the seeker, advice acts as a scapegoat, a thing to blame if they take the action and it proves to be wrong. Advice is a hedge, but not in […]
How to Gain Confidence
A lot of what we do re: self-improvement is done so we can have more confidence. Sure, it’s done so we can actually achieve more, but that achievement is often something we think will deliver a feeling… A feeling of pride, power, peace, happiness, confidence, or all of the above. Confidence is a must. You need […]
How to Use Belief to Win
The choices we have in this life are endless. We can choose what to think, how we see ourselves, what to believe, what gets our attention, even where we want to point our lives. We can believe we’re victims or victors, cowards or courageous. Most often, it seems, we believe in limitations. I think it’s […]
How to Live a Great Life One Day at a Time
If it’s not contributing to your happiness, your goals, or your bank account, you don’t have time for it. ~ Tim Grover We all need to rethink time. It’s not even about performing well – though that’s the results – but a matter of living well. A buddy just sent me a quote from a […]
Don’t Let the Old Man In
I play a couple songs on repeat when I work/write/read out on the porch… The repetition makes you forget about the words so you can just dive into the task at hand. They’re usually country or some slower rock, something by Willie or Waylon or Cash or Billy Joe, that calms me along with the […]
The Feminine Endeavour of Lifting for Looks
Think about why we started to ‘train’… Men fought battles. We built homes and towns and eventually cities and city-states. No matter our social standing we initially had to be good at fighting. The king’s would fight at the front, not dictate who fought and where they fought at the back of the pack. As […]
Quotes on Freedom for Men To Live By
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power tochoose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”– Vicktor Emil Frankl Most allow the event, the stimulus, to dictate their response. They allow loss to make them sad, lazy, and useless. They allow failure to ‘force’ them […]
Are You Truly a Free Man?
A question: Are you truly free? We don’t think about this much in today’s society because we think we are. (grow a better beard) Throughout our history this is essentially what brave men fought for. We fought to be free from the tyranny of another nation or king, from the unsafety of dangerous wild animals […]
A Man’s Diet (how to eat like a man)
The Man Diet is a book I wrote for men, for a few reasons. For one, walk into any book store, head to the diet and health section, and you’ll find a litany of books focused on women, and how to help women eat right. The problem is that men don’t eat like women, and there […]
THE WORLD DOESN’T CARE ABOUT YOUR LUCK( HOW TO DETACH AND USE IT TO WIN)
Some things, for good or bad, happen for no reason, out of pure chance, and it’s up to you to GIVE a reason to their existence. You either brush them off as curses, as bad luck, as horrible fortune, or you see them as a challenge. What’s true for either approach, is that the world […]
THE PERFECT JOURNAL FOR THE AMBITIOUS
Every year you set out to achieve something big, massive, ambitious and audacious, but every year you fall short. I’m with you. I’ve never actually accomplished a New Year’s Resolution. Recently, however, I’ve been performing at a much higher quality. I’m actually getting the things done that I’ve wanted to get done for a couple […]
STRONG BOYS DON’T BULLY
The Strong Never Bully The strong are protectors. A man cannot be truly strong if he’s only strong physically, he must also be strong morally. That’s masculine strength. Complete masculine strength. When you’re missing the moral toughness, the virtues of manliness that real men, great men, honorable men possess, you’re going to be devious, ineffective, […]
FIGHTING ON THE FRONT LINE: 6 THINGS WAR TAUGHT ME ABOUT HABITS, HEALTH & DISCIPLINE
My body had been pushed past its limits. The only energy I could muster was to put one foot in front of the other, keep my weapon on my shoulder, and lift my feet over any ground that looked disturbed to avoid dragging my feet over a pressure plate. I was in the green zone […]
THE AESTHETIC ALPHA MALE
As men, we’ve been told and taught our entire lives that one of the truest tests of manhood and masculinity is brute strength. We will go out of way at any given opportunity to display that we are stronger than another man. It’s a way for us to feel superior, and alpha. Like pounding on […]