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 […]
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 […]
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 […]