Without hard work you’re not going to do much of anything in this world. Laziness is inherently evil because it wastes the talents and potential and the capacity for goodness and greatness that you have. It’s this notion of “wasting” potential by not applying ourselves that we must also apply to our training. Assuming you […]
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Man Up Monday: Find an Excuse
Find an excuse. Every day, find an excuse to work harder. Find an excuse to be better. Be creative. You don’t always need a grand quest or a great mission, sometimes you just need a reason to last 5 more minutes, to focus just a little bit longer for today. Tomorrow is irrelevant. Find an […]
10 Lessons Every Father Should Teach His Son
I was 4 years old, and I was getting picked on by a kid who was 6 years old. The kid would act as if he were my friend but push me around from time to time. I told my old man about it and, being a dad he gave me the advice I needed […]
11 Things That Don’t Matter in Your Life (if you want to succeed)
I’ve been using the statement, “it’s irrelevant”, a fair bit as of late and I hadn’t really noticed its constant use until today. It’s incredible the amount of things we give our time and energy to that are not only completely non-essential to our lives and our own personal evolution, but irrelevant, be it in […]
Man Up Monday: There Is No Tomorrow
The Stoics practiced death. They’d train themselves to be in that moment when their lives end. They’d practice sorrow and pain and prepare for those things that will one day inevitably be so their lives won’t be crushed by the emotions we so often give to tragedies. The lesson, essentially, is that there is no […]
No, You Are Not Perfect Just the Way You Are
No, you are not perfect just the way you are, nor are you special, though you are unique. To be perfect how we are would nullify the need for improvement, and improvement is necessary. To be special would be to place ourselves above the masses, when it’s humility that will allow you to learn. What […]
Man Up Monday: Where Life Is Won
Life isn’t won in the easy chair. It’s not won in bed, nor by winning the lottery. Life is won where all battles are won, in the trenches, it’s fought for and taken, it isn’t handed over or bestowed upon. To Man Up is to understand that life is a struggle, it just is, there […]
13 Rules for Living a Flourishing Life
If there was a rule I made it my mission to break it. I always saw rules as confining, oppressive, as things that were trying to hold me back from having fun. In my youth I was fighting fights simply to fight fights, never stopping to think if my battles were good or destructive. After […]
Dump and Chase: How to Face Your Greatest Fears and Win
I’m Canadian, so we may as well start one article off by talking about hockey. In hockey the goal is obviously to score, but this is typically done when you dominate puck possession in the opponent’s zone. The tough part, often times, is gaining the zone and keeping the puck there. One of the ways to […]
Well, We’ve Killed Reflection
I’ve taken up the habit of walking to the gym rather than driving. Sure it takes more time, time that could be spent working, but without this 15-minute walk I would have no silence in my day, no time to reflect and work out in my mind what’s going on with my work or life […]
Man Up Monday: The Choice That Controls Your Fate
It’s becoming more and more apparent that each man has the same amount of control over his life; be it his present or his destiny. This control comes in the form of a decision: how we react to the events, good and bad, that occur in our lives. Strong men choose to see hardship not […]
If You Want to Be Successful, Never Look Forward
I light my cigar, one of the few remaining from the batch I brought back from a recent trip to Argentina, and take a sip of cognac. It’s been a long week in hours worked but it seemed like it lasted only a few days. I had my head down all week, working, writing, and […]
Man Up Monday: Practicing Toughness
We’d like to think that after a long day that our work is done, but we know that can never be true because that’s not what life is about. It’s not a race to a finish line, a hike up a mountain, it’s a long, never-ending race, and our success here on this earth is […]
The Event Doesn’t Matter. Your Reaction to it Does.
We are all given a hand in life, a set of cards that we have to play. Some hands are perceived to be better than others while others seem nearly impossible to rise from. The reality is that the hand you’re given matters little, your reaction to it is everything. Your reaction to failure can […]
Man Up Monday: Forget About the Dream and Focus on the Path.
Value and success and happiness aren’t found in ease. They aren’t created in rest. We can only live the life we want to live through hard work and action and persistence. You’re far more powerful than you realize simply because you control your thoughts and your response to your emotions. You control how much you […]
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