How To Structure Your Meals to Burn More Fat and Gain More Muscle
I talked about this last week in an article covering the best diet for you. Over-complication and restriction sell well, but they don’t work, not in the long term at least. To get real, long-lasting...
View ArticleIt’s Never Too Late To Chase Your Dreams
We’re oddly creative at excusing ourselves from success yet don’t bring that same creativity to creating success. We excuse ourselves from living the life we want to live because of our starting point....
View Article9 Lessons in Manhood from John Wayne
To watch a John Wayne movie is to take a course in masculinity. It’s to view the values in action that should be at the forefront of any man’s life. Values that are, by in large, fleeting in a society...
View ArticleHow to Reach The Unattainable Goal of Your True Potential
This flies in the face of all we’ve been taught about how to be a better man, an alpha, a warrior, this selfless individual who does for others before he does for himself. We’re taught that a leader...
View ArticleBringing Manliness to… Yoga?
If there’s one area that I need to most work and discipline with regards to my body, it isn’t in dieting, nor training, but stretching. I’m not stretching’s biggest fan, yet I do it because it needs to...
View ArticleThings That Weaken You vs Those That Strengthen You, Toughen You.
Life was never better, though I didn’t have time to stop and smell the roses as the savings were disappearing, the numbers counting down like New Years in New York. The work days were more of a...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleAre You Wasting Their Sacrifice?
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...
View ArticleHow To Find Yourself
Who are you? Many of us wander through life without truly taking the time to discern who we are. We don’t know our values, nor what we want in life, nor where we’re headed. We’re stuck simply being,...
View Article10 Steps to Becoming A Loser
Working isn’t always a simple as it ought to be. You’d think that if we have something to do, we’d sit right now and do it. Alas, this isn’t the way things always are. Right now, writing this little...
View Article5 Steps to Gain Real Power
The true measure of the power a man wields isn’t in what or who he controls, but how much power he has over himself. Power, in the sense of position or rank or responsibility, can be given. Power, when...
View Article3 Solutions for Skinny Legs
The other day I was taking a lady out for a drink here in Uruguay, I must have mentioned something about her looks being easy on the eyes because she responded in kind with a complement of her own, and...
View ArticleWhy I Wake Up Every Morning With a Boner, And You Should Too.
Waking up, one of the theme songs from Lone Survivor, the movie, tingles my eardrums in the wee hours of the morning as I toss and turn, struggling rise at 5am. Accompanying the song and the groggy...
View ArticleA Politically Incorrect Guide to Feeling Down: Man Up!
“I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed, I shall succeed in everything else.” James A. Garfield “The courage we desire and prize is not to die decently, but to live manfully.” Thomas Charlyle I...
View Article50 Lessons in Becoming an Alpha Male from 2014
Arriving in Italy after a 13 hour flight from Vancouver to London, then on to Rome, I hailed a cab, speaking no Italian, and tried to figure out how to get to the apartment I’d rented for a month. I...
View ArticleWhy You’re Comparing Yourself to the Wrong Person
Every week I have a call with a pal of mine. The guy has built a couple successful businesses, and is continuing to build more. We have our weekly call to set out our goals for the week and then we go...
View ArticleMan Up Monday’s: You’re Made to Be a Badass
We, men, aren’t made for mediocrity, ’tisn’t what we’re constructed for. We’re made to dare audaciously and mightily and conquer things and lands that other men have failed to conquer before us....
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