Toughness isn’t a characteristic that’s all that common with today’s modern, emasculated male. You’re different, though, and that’s an important thing to identify, realize, and take pride in. While the rest of the world seeks ease, you want to make life tougher on yourself. While other men buck responsibilities, you acquire more. (Listen to This: […]
Man Up Monday: Get Your Priorities Straight
Don’t lose meaning in your life in the pursuit of things that really don’t matter much in the end. We hunt down our goals and our ideal car or house or job, and we neglect the things that will bring us true happiness and value. We neglect our family, we put them on the back-burner, […]
Man Up Monday: What Will You Win Today?
Aim every day to improve. Improvement shows itself in accomplishment, in the habits you form and those you get rid of. Aim every day to do more, accomplish more, tackle greater tasks and bowl through grander obstacles. Set out each to accomplish something, anything, then look back on your life and the work you’ve done […]
Man Up Monday: A Man Can’t Have a Bleeding Heart
Where hearts bleed brains cannot function. When you feel instead of think, you remove yourself from being able to find a good solution, and yet so many of our big decisions are made with our hearts instead of our minds. A man can’t live like this. He can’t thrive like this. Evil exists. You can’t […]
Man Up Monday: Free Yourself
Success and freedom and happiness and meaning, they all require of us persistence. They each take time. They each ask of us that we improve and work a little harder and take many, many steps toward our goal. Most people stop, they feel that they can’t go on any longer when they easily and clearly […]
Man Up Monday: Fear Monotony
Monotony scares the shit out of me. To wade into my days knowing exactly what’s going to happen with no prospect of growth or personal evolution is death. I need to extend who I am, to go where I’ve never been, to take on more than I can handle and to reach further than I […]
Man Up Monday: Pain is Your Friend and Ally
The most necessary thing in life, is pain. Without pain we cannot develop toughness or grit. Without pain we cannot improve, learn, and grow. Pain is our greatest ally in our quest to become something more than what we currently are. So seek it out. Go beyond what you can currently do and who you […]
Man Up Monday: Be the Warrior Not the Worrier
We have far more choice in this life than we realize. We can choose the effort we put in, the attitude we have, our outlook on our misfortunes. We can choose to live a productive and happy life, or a sad and cynical one. Being aware of said choices and the self-talk going on in […]
Man Up Monday: We’re Getting Soft
I went over this in a previous article, but manliness was once a virtue. Actually, it was only 30 or 40 years ago that quotes from great men on manliness started to cease. And, as this virtue is being shoved under the rug by a growing sensitivity in society, we need it more than ever. […]
Man Up Monday: Work Hard, and Do It Every Day
Self-improvement isn’t something found in a single book or a section in the book store. It’s simply a daily, arduous climb. That’s it. The mere act of working hard or acquiring more discipline or pushing through pain makes you tougher, it improves the Self. Life isn’t a sprint, but a marathon. More than that though, […]
Man Up Monday: Take Responsibility!
Taking responsibility is essentially what it means to man up! The cowards blame everyone else in the world but themselves for their problems. They refuse to take control of their thoughts, actions, and lives, and expect the rest of the world to pay for them. To man up is to do the opposite. It’s to […]
Man Up Monday: Start Acting On Those Dreams
Dreams turned into wishes are wasted opportunities. When we’re kids we play pretend, we act on the dreams we have though we’re not old enough to actually make them a reality. Yet, when we are old enough to follow those things we most want in life, we deem them as unrealistic, even a waste of […]
Man Up Monday: The Art Of Developing Brass Balls
When someone does something audacious or courageous, he’s said to have a set of brass balls. It’s this audacity that is innately masculine and it’s something that many of us must return to. This isn’t to say you should be foolish, although it’s better to be a fool than a man who lacks all action. […]
Man Up Monday: Find an Excuse
Find an excuse. Every day, find an excuse to work harder. Find an excuse to be better. Be creative. You don’t always need a grand quest or a great mission, sometimes you just need a reason to last 5 more minutes, to focus just a little bit longer for today. Tomorrow is irrelevant. Find an […]
Man Up Monday: There Is No Tomorrow
The Stoics practiced death. They’d train themselves to be in that moment when their lives end. They’d practice sorrow and pain and prepare for those things that will one day inevitably be so their lives won’t be crushed by the emotions we so often give to tragedies. The lesson, essentially, is that there is no […]