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 […]
No, Back Squats Aren’t The Only Leg Exercise You Need.
If you’re a guy who is getting after it in the gym, you care about having a great physique as much as you want to do impressive stuff in the gym. Maybe even more so. But the guys in history who have had the most impressive physiques also have tree trunk legs. They knew that […]
3 Ways to Banish the Keyboard Warrior and Unleash your TRUE warrior.
If there is one thing that’s detrimental about modern society for man, it’s that we’ve switched out our spears and horses for keyboards and soft ergonomic chairs. (read: how to reverse bad posture) We’ve become weaker, and our posture is terrible as well. (read: how to create your own strength program) Not only is our […]
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 […]
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 […]
HOW TO OVERCOME FEAR: 5 LESSONS FROM BLACK BELTS
Fear is a natural response that we have all experienced at some point or another. Don’t get clouded by cockiness; even the toughest of us encounter some sort of anxiety or uneasiness when faced with a stressful situation. However innate it is, we can still discover ways to overcome it. Some of the greatest lessons […]
MANHOOD MUST BE FORGED AND JUDGED
Just as a strong river current will push objects downstream unless they actively swim against it, societal currents will do the same. As a result, part of cultivating manhood in our day is understanding where society pushes against and undermines masculine virtues, and then actively swimming against those currents. Some of the push against masculinity […]
The Man’s Man
One of my favorite terms is “the man’s man”. When we say, he’s a man’s man, the old school kind, everyone seems to know exactly the kind of man being spoken of. It’s this same guy that would think that this article is silly. Who would need to be taught how to be a man? It […]
We Don’t Need to Reinvent Manliness
We don’t need to reinvent manliness. We only need to will ourselves to wake up from the bad dream of the last few generations and reclaim it, in order to extend and enrich that tradition under the formidable demands of the present. –Waller R. Newell Manliness has taken a sharp turn within the last few […]
Appreciate The Harshness of Life
Travel not to relax in ease but to understand the harsh brutality that exists in far more places than the cushy safety of many western cultures. ~Chad Howse Life is brutal. When you get a semblance of this understanding, you understand the value of a dollar, you understand the necessity of life and death and […]