A man cannot be politically correct. -Chad Howse Political correctness is a funny one. It’s designed to take the feelings of others into account, but when someone’s politically correct all they end up doing is thinking about the differences we all have and how to go about navigating them. (Read This: The 12 Characteristics of […]
Embrace Your Fears
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.” Epictetus Fear isn’t a thing. It isn’t an external force that makes us feel fear. Nothing can make a man feel fear unless he allows it to. (Read This: To Own Your Fear You Have To Face It Often) You […]
The Death of Freedom
Our obsession with safety will be the death of freedom. -Chad Howse Rules and regulations are brought about in response to fear. Nothing else. They are enacted to take away responsibility from the individual and place it in the hands of an all-knowing entity that makes decisions, both big and small, for us, no matter […]
Conquer Your Morning. Win Your Life.
Wake up early not because you’ll get more work done, but because you don’t want to. -Chad Howse Reading about great men you typically find the constant that each of them rise early. They do so, primarily, to gain more working hours to a day. Thus, they accomplish more, earlier. It’s the feeling of working […]
Find Happiness In Work. Not Work In Happiness.
When you learn to love the process of living, control over your life becomes personal. – Chad Howse Work is something that everyone should respect and love. It’s the process of the work, of doing work around your house or on a project you’re passionate about that will bring you happiness. (Read This: If You […]
3 Hacks That Help You Thrive
Imagine if you could use every waking hour for good, for improvement, to help you become a better, stronger, more learned man? (Read This: Can Men Still Become Great?) That would be awesome. Most of us, however, get caught up catching up on our favourite TV show, or just stuck on our asses watching TV […]
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 […]
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 […]
Follow Your Passion If You Want to Be Broke and Useless
For the most part, the college commencement speech has become a joke, a pile of fluffy nonsense written to inspire without providing value, to feed the ego rather than providing the students with a much needed dose of humility, reality, and applicable advice that will actually help. The speaker, typically someone famous who got famous […]
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 […]
2 Things Guaranteed in Life: You Will Fail and You Will Die
You will falter. You will fail. But will you rise, and rise again? Life has certain guarantees. Many of these set-in-stone realities hold us back from experiencing life and all of its wonders, both good and bad, in its truest sense. Death is a guarantee. You will die. I will die. In fact, with each […]
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 […]
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