A couple weeks ago I was in Esquel, a town in the middle of the Argentinean Andes. I was there visiting family. Family I’d never met before, nor really known much about. (Check out: A Man’s Guide to Adventure) They’re my mom’s cousins. So, my Nona’s sister’s daughters. The fact that they were extended family mattered […]
A Man’s Guide to Adventure: 18 Things You Must Pack to Have a Legendary Trip
Setting down to talk with a nice lady at a bar, an Irish one – the bar, that is – in the town of Mendoza that’s nestled halfway up or down the Argentinian Andes, depending your perspective, I came to the realization that for more than 7 months of this wonderful year I will have […]
Why You Need to Be An Essentialist
Where many of us falter is not in a lack of time, but in a lack of clarity. We fail to realize just what’s essential in our lives and in our businesses. Our priorities, if we were to sit down and write them on a piece of paper, would drastically differ from what we give […]
The Missing Ingredient In Modern Men: Character
There is so much that’s out of our control in life. With what’s within our control, however, we have to make the most of or else our lives, our fate, our happiness will never be ours. I’m reading, Where Men Win Glory, the odyssey of Pat Tillman. Before that it was, Unbroken, the story of […]
How to Get Excited About Your Life
I woke up this morning a tad groggy from the vino that flowed so freely the night before, but a smile soon graced my beard-covered face. It wasn’t because I woke up in surroundings that necessarily brought me joy or in a life that made me automatically happy, though both of those things are choices […]
6 Steps to Get Out of a Funk
Across the table sits two beautiful ladies, I just downed the best steak of my life, a ribeye from a quaint little restaurant in San Carlos de Bariloche, and all of a sudden I feel queazy. The night before I’d drank my fill of whiskey shots and old fashioned’s and slid 100 Argentinian pesos (not a […]
Where Men Win Glory
I had two gauchos on the ride with me, I wasn’t alone embarking on some grand adventure, exploring on the back of a horse or defending my clan’s honor in battle as my forefathers may have many a year before I breathed my first breath. I was simply out for a ride with two fellas, […]
A Man’s Guide to Freedom: The Road of the Entrepreneur
Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. So the saying goes, that where passion exists, where a love for the work you’re doing and the mission you’re pursuing, the stress and strife and struggles of “working for the man” will not find a home. ‘Tis what I thought when I […]
The Truth About Success & Confidence That You Don’t Want to Hear
Napoleon Bonaparte spent almost every waking hour learning. A boy born into a family that lacked any semblance of status in a country that had recently lost its sovereignty, being conquered by the French, Napoleon despised the elite, those who were given a rank in the army or a place in society not because of […]
10 Brutally Honest Facts of Life You Need to Be Reminded Of
As we grow and experience, and live and fail and rise from the depths, we’re blessed with the incurrence of some of life’s undeniable truths. I know them. You know them. We’ve been exposed to them in some form or another when we’ve acted with courage or taken risks or helped others. We don’t, however, […]
How to Conquer Loneliness
How can a man feel alone when he’s in a city of millions? As our cities grow our meaningful connections lose their meaning and their purpose. We have friends, but they aren’t the same as the companions we once fought with side-by-side defending our cities and towns and tribes from other men who wished to […]
The Truth About Happiness & Who Controls Your Fate
“There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…” ~ John Lennon Where you are right now is exactly where you’re meant to be at this point in time. But what of your future? If this moment is the starting point to your future, who really controls where you end up? Forget about my […]
7 Steps to Freedom
Having spent only a couple weeks in Rome, I was already getting antsy. I couldn’t put my finger on it, this feeling of being trapped when I could walk where I wanted to walk, work from wherever I wanted to work from – in front of the Pantheon and the Colosseum and the Forum included […]
11 Ways to Be a Better Dad
The goal of this article isn’t to confine what it means to be a father to his family life, as many would. We’re going to take a different line of thinking, come at this whole “being a great dad thing” from the angle that being a great man, the best man you can be, a […]
3 Books Every Guy Should Read
There is no friend as loyal as a book. ~ Ernest Hemingway Earlier this year I wrote an article citing 30 Books a Man Should Read Before The Age of 30. ‘Twas a long list filled with wonderful books that will help you through hardship and suffering, improving your toughness and your grit, aiding you in […]
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