Character Development

10 Ways For Men To Sharpen Their Sword
If you want to become a more effective and powerful man, it will require methodical training and conquering challenges.
Now, if you’ve been reading my other writing on integrating your masculinity and becoming a stronger person, you’ll find that I might often stress the inner work, or, more specifically,...
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Suicidal To Successful To Self-Loving: The First 33 Years Of My Life
The following is a summary of the first 33 years of my life. Kind of like a thus-far-autobiography.
It should be noted that I am an unreliable narrator... as all narrators are. Because my perspectives are only my own. I'm sure some facts are muddied by my highly fallible human memory, especially...
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3 Ways To Reparent Your Inner Child
It is an unequivocal fact that your childhood shaped who you are today.
And no matter how self-aware, loving, and supportive your parents were, it’s also a fact that they passed on their unprocessed emotions and unexamined habits on to you.
So, as you’ve grown from being a child to being an adult,...
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3 Ways That Men And Women Are Conditioned Differently
No one escapes childhood without passing through a gauntlet of messages about what is expected from them.
And while no one gets through unscathed, the messages that men and women receive tend to differ in some fairly consistent ways.
Today, I’m going to dig into three of the most common differences.
Why?...
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How To Get Your Social Needs Met While Social Distancing
SO! There’s a worldwide pandemic and your local government has told you to engage in social distancing for an unknown amount of time and you want to NOT go crazy?
I’ve got you covered.
We humans are a social species. In other words, we need each other in order to thrive.
And not knowing how long we’ll...
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How To Heal Your Father Wound
There’s a lot of talk about how modern men are in crisis.
Statistics say they’re lagging socially, academically, and romantically. They’re drastically leading the numbers in suicide and violent crime. It also seems they’re getting a bad reputation among women in the dating world, stereotyped as acting...
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Own The Part Of You That Wants To Remain A Child Forever
There is a part in all of us that wants to remain a child forever.
Chopping the food and tending the fire brings its own satisfaction... but a part of us just wants the resulting warmth, without all of the effort.
Wouldn't it be nice to have your dream relationship run on autopilot... without having...
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The One Thing A Man Needs In Order To Commit To A Relationship
How do you get a strong, high quality man to want to commit to you?
Not many guys are able to put this into words themselves. But they intuitively know there’s one thing they need, above all else, in order to feel deeply, fully committed to a relationship.
It goes far beyond anything...
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6 Ways To Build Emotional Resilience (And Become Unfuckwithable)
To be alive is to be at constant risk of facing intense pain. Hard things will happen to all of us. Buddha’s first noble truth said it well:
“Life is suffering.”
Unforeseen tragedy will strike. The people you love will eventually pass away, or become sick. Some things you’ve worked on for years will...
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Why Entrepreneurs Burn Out And Kill Themselves
Three years ago, I received news that an entrepreneur friend of mine had taken his own life.
As it is with most suicides, the initial response was shock… It just didn’t add up.
From the outside, things seemed to be going fairly well. He always looked sharp and broadcasted a general energy of optimism. ...
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