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 […]
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 […]
Man Up Monday: How to Win at Life
The weak think that life is a series of events that happen to them. The strong understand that life, success, happiness, and everything else we want in our lives and of life are things we have to earn, win, and warrant. Winning at life is a choice you make that then must be backed up […]
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 […]
Man Up Monday: Do What Must Be Done
Part of being a man and being a leader is doing what must be done, not what you’d like to do or what the populace wants you to do. Sometimes you need to be violent to protect the innocent. Sometimes you need to work long, arduous hours to provide for your family. You may not […]
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 […]
Man Up Monday: Until Lambs Become Lions
You’re average. I’m average. This isn’t in comparison to others, but simply in comparison to whom we have the potential to become. On the scale of what we can be, we’re falling short. To ‘Man Up!’ is to stop making excuses and start taking action, no matter how difficult this action may be, a man […]
Why You Don’t Need a Mentor
I get a fair number of emails asking amount finding the right mentor; fellas asking if I can tell them how to get a mentor or if I can in some way mentor them, it’s after reading the question that I break the news that I’ve never really had a real, solid mentor before, just […]
Man Up Monday: Never Give An Excuse
An excuse is a release. It’s a release from responsibility, something that so few want and so many need in today’s world. A man never bucks his responsibilities, it isn’t in the nature of a real man. Thus, a man cannot also give an excuse because to do so is to relinquish the responsibility he […]
Do Not Give, Teach.
When I was in high school I did a couple stints at the local Catholic food bank where we’d serve lunch for the poor and the homeless. It was an eye-opening experience, of course. No one should be ignorant to the hardships of their neighbors, and in a global economy we are all, essentially, neighbors […]
Man Up Monday: Do What No One Else Is Willing To Do
There are so few warriors because there are so few of us who are willing to do what’s necessary to win in life or to protect those who need protecting. There are so few successful men because those who are willing to work and suffer and persist are in the minority. To man up is […]
Are You The Strong Man or The Critic?
In Theodore Roosevelt’s “The Man in the Arena” speech, he talks about “the critic”, the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, but is he addressing the critic or the strong man, the “doer of deeds”, or is it both? Many a year ago now while I was in high school, admittedly only […]
Man Up Monday: The Mind, The Spirit, and the Body
To be at your best you cannot simply be physically great or mentally impressive or spiritually strong, you need all three areas to see your potential. Fortunately, by strengthening one, if you’re aware enough, you strengthen the other areas. Take the gym, for example. When you’re training your body in the gym you’re also training […]
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