The #1 Reason Why You Won’t Reach Your Goals This Year
Setting goals for the new year is a fun and lovely and often inspiring activity that ignites a fire under our arses for a good week or even a month before we waddle back to our old ways and the luster...
View ArticleMan Up Mondays: If You Half-Ass Your Work You Will Live a Half-Assed Life
Every morning you rise to an opportunity. That opportunity is simple, you either do your work and make something of the day or you complain and avoid those things you have to do to make your life as...
View ArticleThe 12 Characteristics of Real Men
In 2011, I wrote an article with a similar title. The focus; to define characteristics that true men possess so as to have something to work toward in my own life, and by putting it on the interwebz,...
View ArticleHow to Change the Story of Your Life
You’re an author. Essentially that’s what each of us are, and the novel we’re working on daily is the story of our lives. Most of us, however, don’t see ourselves as writers or authors of a grand epic,...
View ArticleMan Up Monday: Know Your Power
Most of us live our lives as if our fate, our destiny, the journey our lives take, are the result of circumstance. The reality is that it is we who control our own fate, and we who decide our reactions...
View ArticleYour Idea of Equality Really Isn’t Very Fair
Fairness is an important topic in our society. We want equal opportunity, equal pay, and equality for all. We call it fairness, but is that what we really want? (Read this: 3 Unfair Facts of Life)...
View ArticleMan Up Monday: Always Be Improving
Enjoy your victories, but never be satisfied or content with who you’ve become, what you know, or what you’ve accomplished. Always be improving. Who you were last year can’t be who you are this year...
View ArticleHow to Be Old School in 10 Simple Steps
Those of us who praise a previous generation don’t necessarily do it out of an ignorant fondness for what was, but because of a relationship with someone from a time that reflects the values that made...
View ArticleMan Up Monday: Let Go Of Your Excuses And You’ll Find Opportunity
I had a guy email me the other day complaining that he didn’t know the right people in his industry to really see the success he wanted to see. It’s a common myth that who we know is yet another thing...
View ArticleMan Up Monday: To Reach Your Potential Is an Expectation, Not An Anomaly
You’re on this earth for a very brief moment and you’re tasked with one thing: To squeeze the most out of your gifts and talents that you possibly can while you’re here. To fall short of this task is...
View Article5 Life Lessons Every Human Needs to Learn The Hard Way
The two weeks previous to this lovely day were long; wake up at 4:30 am and work until 8:00 pm, then off to bed and do the same the next day. They were days filled with excitement. I was finishing up a...
View ArticleAmerican Sniper vs 50 Shades of Grey: opposing views of manliness
I can’t remember a time when two books turned movies have led in the box office back-to-back with such opposing values and views of what it means to be a man. One hits the nail on the head, the other...
View ArticleMan Up Monday: You’ve Got to Stand For Something
As the Aaron Tippin song goes, You’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything. A man must stand for something in his life, even in the run of a day, and that something has to guide him...
View ArticleThe System Is Set Up For You To Succeed If You Choose To See It That Way
The problem that many people face in their lives that keeps them from improving and growing is that there’s a disconnect between the truth, and their perception of the truth. Never before in our...
View ArticleThe Two Ways to Get Rich
There are two ways to get rich. One way, and this is what most people focus on, is to make a lot of money so you can buy the things you want. The second way is to want less and make enough money to pay...
View ArticleMan Up Monday: Forget About the Dream and Focus on the Path.
Value and success and happiness aren’t found in ease. They aren’t created in rest. We can only live the life we want to live through hard work and action and persistence. You’re far more powerful than...
View ArticleThe Event Doesn’t Matter. Your Reaction to it Does.
We are all given a hand in life, a set of cards that we have to play. Some hands are perceived to be better than others while others seem nearly impossible to rise from. The reality is that the hand...
View ArticleMan Up Monday: Control Your Self, Control Your Life
Real power doesn’t come from controlling our surroundings or our environment or others, it lies solely in self control, the ability to control our thoughts and our actions. If you can ward off...
View ArticleManliness Was Once Our Greatest Virtue
There are three books next to me on my desk and all three are written by or about great, wise men. Reading through each, I notice a consistent referral to a virtue that’s no longer spoken of in our...
View ArticleMan Up Monday: Life Has No Summit, Just a Climb
There is no end to your work here. No day to rest, no finally to your struggle nor summit to your climb. Life is motion, it’s work, it’s a constant and daily hustle that will never end, and you have to...
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