When we set goals or expectations we start with the what, but rarely do we consider the who. We identify what it is we want to accomplish or gain or acquire, but forget to determine who the man is that we want to become. We leave our most important and precious goal, blank. And few […]
Stop Fucking Around: A Serious Look At How You Use Time
This morning I woke up at 5am, showered, then walked downstairs to make a cup of coffee and get my morning reading and journaling done. I sat. I read. Then I dicked around for a half hour after I’d read, yielding nothing of value. (Read This: Morning Routine: Improve Focus and Productivity) I wasted the […]
4 Lessons Learned In My First 30 Years
Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. ~ TR As a wee one I dreamt about playing hockey professionally. Come high school that dream changed to basketball. Come college that dream changed to boxing. After boxing that dream changed to writing and business. At 30, I’m seeing the dream change […]
Man Up Monday: Fear Monotony
Monotony scares the shit out of me. To wade into my days knowing exactly what’s going to happen with no prospect of growth or personal evolution is death. I need to extend who I am, to go where I’ve never been, to take on more than I can handle and to reach further than I […]
Man Up Monday: Pain is Your Friend and Ally
The most necessary thing in life, is pain. Without pain we cannot develop toughness or grit. Without pain we cannot improve, learn, and grow. Pain is our greatest ally in our quest to become something more than what we currently are. So seek it out. Go beyond what you can currently do and who you […]
5 Ways You’re Being Willingly Emasculated
The other day I was at the gym and there was a fella bulling up as if he’d stuffed two bread loaves under his arm pits. The term to diagnose this kind of behavior is “imaginary lat syndrome”, or ILS. It’s bad enough on its own to walk around as if your lats prevent you […]
Man Up Monday: Be the Warrior Not the Worrier
We have far more choice in this life than we realize. We can choose the effort we put in, the attitude we have, our outlook on our misfortunes. We can choose to live a productive and happy life, or a sad and cynical one. Being aware of said choices and the self-talk going on in […]
The Value in Being Uncomfortable
A handful of years ago – excuse the lack of preciseness, dates aren’t my strong suit – I hopped on a plane on down to Key West, Florida, to partake in a mastermind group with guys who were thriving in the business world. I’d been invited by a good friend who knew I was flirting […]
4 Modern Mantras I Have a Big Problem With
We tend to look at our predecessors and ancestors as ignorant or less fortunate and archaic because of what they didn’t have access to back then. We see the settlers of our nations not as above us, people to aspire toward, but men who laid the foundation so that we could be so evolved. Many […]
Man Up Monday: We’re Getting Soft
I went over this in a previous article, but manliness was once a virtue. Actually, it was only 30 or 40 years ago that quotes from great men on manliness started to cease. And, as this virtue is being shoved under the rug by a growing sensitivity in society, we need it more than ever. […]
A No B.S. Guide to Developing Real Confidence
I remember my last fight vividly. I was at ease. I’d taken the fight on short notice with a kid that had come up from Oregon or somewhere along the coastal U.S. of A., and even though I found out he was a southpaw only minutes before the fight, I was at ease. There was […]
Man Up Monday: Work Hard, and Do It Every Day
Self-improvement isn’t something found in a single book or a section in the book store. It’s simply a daily, arduous climb. That’s it. The mere act of working hard or acquiring more discipline or pushing through pain makes you tougher, it improves the Self. Life isn’t a sprint, but a marathon. More than that though, […]
5 Models of Manliness: How to Acquire the Virtues of Manliness
Hopefully we’ve all seen the Denzel flick, American Gangster. It’s a good film. One line in it, though, has stuck with me more than any other. In an attempt to spread some wisdom to his nephew who’s hanging around with the wrong guys and focusing on the wrong things, Denzel’s character brilliantly says, The loudest […]
Man Up Monday: Take Responsibility!
Taking responsibility is essentially what it means to man up! The cowards blame everyone else in the world but themselves for their problems. They refuse to take control of their thoughts, actions, and lives, and expect the rest of the world to pay for them. To man up is to do the opposite. It’s to […]
Man Cave Monday: Prints, Pups, and Pride
I started this series a couple weeks ago in lieu of the purchase of a new home and, owning next to nothing, the need to get things to go into the home. It’s called Man Cave Monday, but the reality is that the entire house shall be a man cave, so anything awesome that can […]
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