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Dec 16, 2019

We live in a world caught between two extremes. In one breath, we eschew and vilify masculinity and traditionally “manly” virtues, labeling them as “toxic” and detrimental to society. Yet in another, we revel in them. Subconsciously pining for a resurgence in traditional masculinity.

We are enamored with the classically masculine archetypes that proliferate our favorite movies, books, and TV shows (think Jon Snow, Don Draper, Hank Moody, and Captain America).

The blood in our veins rips at the sight of a vicious knockout in the UFC and, as we watch the victor leap to the top of the cage with his arms held high in the air, we can’t help but imagine ourselves standing in his place…the taste of blood on our lips, the deafening roar of the crowd filling our ears, and the inner confidence of knowing that we are capable of handling ourselves in conflict.

Yet all of our imagining does little to change the way we feel and show up in life.

Despite our desire to “be the man”, to feel strong, accomplished, and powerful…our desires are left unmet. We are not the hero of our lives so we allay our growing sense of emasculation by watching other hero’s through a steady stream of action movies, video games, and extreme sports. 

The reason is simple…

Men today are lost. In the famous words of Bob Dylan, “The times, they are a-changing.” And modern men have failed to evolve with the changing times.

As feminism has given rise to unprecedented equality men are faced with a growing and inescapable sense of obsolescence.

Men aren’t needed in the way that we once were and, our seeming lack of utility has left men wondering, “What the hell am I supposed to do now?” We no longer have clear roles in society and men all over the world want to know how to be more masculine and even if it’s okay.

And today, I'm going to give you the answers you've been looking for. 

Oct 14, 2019

Want to learn how to be an alpha male? How to be more masculine? How to be the man you’ve always wanted to be?

Then you’re in the right place.

In this episode, I’m going to unveil the 15 habits of alpha males that you must develop to unlock your full potential as a man and live the life you’ve always wanted to live.

But let me be clear…

This article is not about becoming ‘better’ than other men, developing an ego complex, or learning how to be the alpha of a specific clique or social circle.

It’s about learning how to be an alpha male in your life. Taking full responsibility for your life, and living every day fully alive, present, and excited for the future that you are creating.

By the time you’re done, you’ll have a step-by-step guide to becoming the man you always knew you could be.

It won’t be easy. But I promise you, it will be worth it.

Oct 9, 2019

What does it mean to be an alpha male? What are the alpha male traits that separate them from the beta males? How can you develop your alpha personality and eradicate the toxic beta male traits from your life?

In this episode, I’m going to set the record straight and break the false narratives of what an alpha male really is.

I’m going to teach you exactly what it means to be an alpha male by dissecting the 9 alpha male traits required to become the strongest version of yourself and live your best life.

By the time you’re done, you’ll understand the difference between alpha vs beta males and have a clear, path to becoming the alpha of your own life.

Let’s get started…

Jan 16, 2019

In 2006, Aaron Marino started a men’s image consulting firm, alpha m. Image Consulting, to help average men with simple common sense advice; aimed to enhance their image, style, grooming, fashion and most importantly their confidence. Aaron Marino has been featured in countless publications, as well as guest appearances on various television and radio programs, both locally, as well as nationally.

Throughout the past 7 years, Aaron Marino has worked with thousands of men from around the world, helping them with their personal style, grooming, fashion, image, wardrobe and even dating. Through his weekly YouTube posts, Aaron Marino covers a host of topics in the area of men’s style, fashion, grooming and even personal responsibility.

Aaron Marino has not only expanded his reach with his viral videos but also with a variety of products such as the stylesystem that was featured on the ABC’s Shark Tank.

Favorite Success Quote

“Success does not always look like what you hope it will “~Anonymous

Key Points

1. Focus on Fit 

No matter what your clothing budget is, always focus on fit first. A $20 shirt from Old Navy can look better than a $300 Tommy Bahama shirt if it the fit is better.

Be sure to try on different sizes of clothing for different brands and styles as a medium in one brand name may be too small in another. Realize that a tighter budget is not an excuse for bad style. Look for those few key wardrobe items and buy a quality article of clothing that fits like a glove.

2. The Goal of Style is to Increase Confidence

The ultimate goal of improving your style and your grooming is to increase your confidence. When your body looks great and your clothes look great, you are going to feel great.

When you put your best foot forward, you will have increased confidence and self esteem, and this will lead to an increase in opportunities and relationship successes.

3. Learn to Differentiate Between Constructive and Deconstructive Criticism 

Any entrepreneur, businessman, or public figure is going to attract a far amount of controversy, and with this controversy always comes criticism. This criticism typically comes in one of two forms either constructive or deconstructive.

Constructive criticism, although uncomfortable, will help you to grow and improve yourself as a man and a leader. Deconstructive criticism on the other hand will do nothing but toxifiy your life and lower your self esteem.

Seek constructive criticism and cut out as many sources of deconstructive criticism as you can.

Jan 7, 2019

Jack Myers is a media ecologist and chairman of Media Advisory Group, which provides economic counsel to more than 250 media, advertising, marketing, entertainment and financial services companies who subscribe to the weekly Jack Myers Media Business Report.

Jack speaks internationally on the impact of emerging media technologies on society, culture and business. He is an award-winning documentary film producer, author of four books and founder of the Women in Media Mentoring Initiative and Syracuse University Newhouse Network.

Favorite Success Quote

“When you have made up your mind, there’s no use lagging behind, go ahead and no relenting, let your youth have free reign, go ahead and no repenting”~Anonymous

Key Points

1. Be Sensitive to the Changing World of Men 

Many of us men are desperately clinging to the old days and ways of masculinity. However, the fact is, for better or for worse, the role of men in society is changing.

Roles are no longer as black and white, and the expectations of men in society are no longer as set in stone. It is imperative to your success as a man in this new world that you are willing to evolve and adapt with the times.

Understand that women are wanting men to express more sensitivity and vulnerability, and this should no longer be seen as weak. Understand that being a man in the 21st century is a balancing act, and you will have to learn quickly or fall behind.

2. Society Has Not Taught You to Succeed

The media portrays men as morons and buffoons or dishonest polygamists. Characters like Homer Simpson and Peter Griffith are the mainstream expectation for men to live up to.

Unfortunately, the media has not helped men to figure out who they are supposed to be or how to balance classic masculinity and the more modern need for vulnerability.

To find role models and examples of the kind of man you should be, you have to look past the poor media portrayals and sitcom expectations of manliness to find out how to properly acclimate to the ever changing climate of manhood.

3.  Learn to Communicate and be Honest

At the heart of the problem men are facing is our inability to effectively communicate. Read: Men suck at sharing.

The thing is, there is good reason for this. Men who wear their heart on their sleeves and are overly emotional are seen as weak and effeminate. Once again, this becomes a balancing act.

The key is to learn to open up to those who have earned your trust, and when you open up, be completely honest, don’t lie or hide things for fear of their repercussions.

4. Get out of Your Social Comfort Zone

One of the best ways to improve yourself as a man is to step out of your social comfort zone. If you are an A type personality athlete, then spend some time hanging out with the geeks and musicians.

If you are a straight guy, try making a couple of gay friends. If you are a more emotional and “metro” type guy, start hanging out with some of the MMA and UFC crowds.

Long story short, broaden your horizons, hang out with people who are nothing like you and see what you can learn.

Nov 30, 2018

Stephen Alter was born and raised in the Himalayas, where he and his wife, Ameeta, continue to make their home. He is the author of more than fifteen books of fiction and non-fiction, including Sacred Waters: A Pilgrimage to the Many Sources of the Ganga.  For ten years, he was a writer-in-residence at MIT and before that, director of the writing program at the American University in Cairo.

His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Research Grant and an honorary degree from Wesleyan University, where he studied as an undergraduate. He is founding director of the Mussoorie Writers’ Mountain Festival, which brings together writers, mountaineers, filmmakers, artists and musicians from around the world to celebrate the heritage of the Himalayas.

Favorite Success Quote

“If you want to travel on the path, you must become the path itself.”~ Stephen Alter

Key Points

1. Live to Fight Another Day

Throughout your life and your own personal journey you will face a number of incredible challenges where you will be faced with two choices: 1) Stand and fight or 2) Live to fight another day.

As masculine and macho as perseverance and facing down impossible odds may sound, it is often wiser to know when to fold. This does not mean quitting. It means pausing, reassessing the situation, and deciding where to move from a place of greater clarity and knowledge

When faced with a huge obstacle in business or finances, you can continue banging your head against a wall that won’t budge. Or you can do the wiser thing. You can momentarily retreat, lick your wounds and come back later with a greater sense of purpose.

2. Understand That You Are a Small Part of a Whole

One of the many benefits of being out in nature, is that you begin to realize just how small you are. The world is full of 7 billion people and trillions of other organisms all fighting to survive. You realize that you are not important.

As depressing as this may sound. It is actually a cause for excitement because it means that you have free reign to dare boldly. No one cares enough about you for failure to be final. People are so caught up in their own concerns that they have very little time to worry about you as well.

This means you are free from the worry of judgement of others. Live life the way you want and don’t worry about what people think. You are a tiny part of a giant universe and at the end of the day it is better to dare boldly, and fail greatly than never to try at all.

3. Use Your Pain as Fuel for Your Story

Everyone suffers some kind of pain in this life. A break up or divorce, loss of a loved one, business failure, personal or moral failure; everyone has something in their life that causes great pain.

Instead of dwelling on this pain and wallowing in self pity, use it. Use your pain as fuel to create the greatest life possible and to share your story so others can avoid your misfortune.

The greatest way to cope with pain is to turn it into a triumph, if you can use it as a way to help others and better the world, not only will you relieve the pain you have felt, but you will save others from ever experiencing it as well.

4. Get in Nature

Spending time out in nature is one of the quickest ways to reconnect you with the earth and with yourself. There is a sense of peace that comes from sitting and meditating beside a quiet stream that is difficult to duplicate.

Some of you may live in a big city with very little immediate access to mountains or the ocean, but even getting outside for 30 minutes a day and walking in the park can be an extremely therapeutic and rejuvenating experience.

5. Seize the Moment

Too often, we focus on seizing the day, the week, the year with little to no thought about the present moment. Be present, intentionally set moments to memory. Live in the present and stay out of your head. Let tomorrow worry about itself.

Oct 29, 2018

Dr. Joe Martin is an award-winning speaker, author, professor, and retention expert. He’s authored or co-authored seven books, including the top-selling Good Teachers Never Quit and Tricks of the Grade.

In spite of being reared in one of the toughest inner-city ghettos in Miami, Florida, Joe started his first business at the age of 22 and his second at the age of 26. Professor Martin became the youngest, tenured-earning faculty member ever hired to teach at a state University in Florida at the age of 24.

He’s now regarded as “The Educator’s Educator” and the country’s leading expert on new teacher retention and student motivation issues. Joe is a visiting professor and educational consultant and he lectures on more than 60 college campuses a year.

Favorite Success Quote:

“Watch what most people would do in a given situation and do the total opposite” ~ Dr. Joe Martin

Key Points

1. Do Not Follow the Crowd

If you want to achieve a life that is different from the crowd, if you want to break away from the flock, and live life on your terms, then you cannot take the same action that the flock takes. You must ensure that every decision you make is as far removed from what the average and mediocre would do as possible. Seek out mentors, find role models living the life that you desire, and model your actions after them.

Do not follow what uninspired and small minds are doing. Ignore their criticism and focus on becoming great.

2. External Trappings Do Not Make You a Man

You can achieve every goal you have set in life. The beautiful wife, the big house, sports car and million dollar business, but none of it makes you a man. The measure of a man is not in the size of his wallet, or number of women he’s slept with; the measure of a man is his character and his impact. It does not matter how much money you are making if you are not making it in an honorable manner.

It does not matter how beautiful your wife is if you are not treating her with respect and dignity. It does not what you have achieved if you are not living your life for a purpose bigger than yourself! To be a true man, you must have unwavering values, you must focus on helping others more than yourself, and you must make sure that your existence means something to this world.

3. A Real Man Has Integrity

One of the most essential traits of a real man is integrity. Doing what you say you will do and doing what you know and believe is right…PERIOD. If you set a standard for yourself or commit an action to someone else, it does not matter how you feel in the moment, it does not matter that you are tired or weak or busy.

Do what is right, and do what you say you will do. NO trait is more important than this.

4. Your Purpose is Above Everything

Your purpose in this life is unique. In a world of 7 billion people, no one else has your exact calling, no one has your exact talents, mindset and goals. You must put this calling, this purpose above everything else. You must put it above your relationships, above your bank account and above your momentary desires.

Your purpose is what guides you through everything so you must not forgo it for anything.

5. A Real Man Teaches Others to Be Real Men 

An essential transition in every man’s journey is when he realizes that he has the obligation to teach and mentor others. Regardless of your status in life or your development as a man, you still have something valuable to offer the world and other men. Do not do yourself or the world the disservice of letting that gift go un-given.

Teach others what you know, help those struggling in trials through which you have already passed and be generous with your time and gifts. Because at the end of the day, the money, cars, and one night stands will amount to nothing and all that will remain is the legacy you leave and the lives you impact

6. You Must Have a Mentor

As men, we are often hesitant to admit our need for help to ourselves, let alone others. However, we must realize that a true man knows his weaknesses and brings other men into his life to help him work through the challenges. Life is confusing, it’s scary and it’s uncertain, but it doesn’t need to be lonely. Open up, be vulnerable, be authentic; find a man that you can trust and ask him to help you, to hold you accountable, to mentor you. Your life will never be the same once you do.

Oct 15, 2018

Mark Belden is a personal growth fanatic, having devoted the last 10 years of his life to growing himself into the man he wants to be. He is the founder of the self help and dating blog thenewmanwithin.com and is currently working on turning his blog into his full time career.

Favorite Success Quote

“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.” ~ Eric Thomas

Key Points

1. Improve Your Environment, Improve Your Life

One of the quickest ways to improve your life is to improve your environment. Surround yourself with inspiring and ambitious people, spend more time at seminars and live events than bars and clubs, read more books and watch less TV.

When you change what you surround yourself with, you will begin to change who you are, you must realize the power of your environment to shape your destiny.

2. Approach Life and Dating From an Abundance Mentality

We often see the opportunities and circumstances presented to us as once in a lifetime. We are approached about a business idea or meet a new girl and think “Oh my God! If I miss out on this, nothing like it will ever come my way again.” But we fail to realize that life is full of abundance.

There are thousands of opportunities everyday for a budding entrepreneur and countless single, high quality women. We must remember that life is full of opportunities if we will seek them out and take them, do not become too attached to one idea, girl or business. There will always be other opportunities.

3. Learn to be Authentic with Others

One of the biggest struggles for the modern man is authenticity. From a young age we have been told to “toughen up” and “get over it,” and even though strength and toughness is necessary to be a thriving man, we often miss another piece of the puzzle. Vulnerability.

Learn to express your thoughts and feelings honestly, do not be caught up in having the perfect thing to say or the manliest pickup line. Be who you are and say what you want without fear of the outcome. “Be you, because everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde.

4. Cultivate Emotional Intelligence

As men, we focus on developing many skills and traits. We focus on physical strength, intellectual prowess business savvy, but we often overlook one of the most essential traits of a complete man: Emotional intelligence. To operate on the highest levels, you must learn to be in touch with your own emotions in every moment.

Learn to accept how you feel in  and learn from it, do not hide away, accept it and use it to create the life you want.

5. Listen

You were given two ears and one mouth for a reason, use them in that proportion…you might be surprised where it gets you.

Oct 10, 2018

Alistair Overeem is a Dutch mixed martial artist and professional fighter. He is one of the only fighters who holds a belt in different combat sports and the only mixed martial artists to win the K-1 Grad Prix Title. Alistair is currently training for his next fight against Roy Nelson on March 14th in Dallas, Texas.

Favorite Success Quote:

“Stay positive”

Key Points:

1. Be Positive

Fighting professionally for nearly two decades, Alistair has experienced his fair share of wins and losses. However, unlike many fighters, he has never allowed defeat to crush his will to continue fighting. He has always stayed positive, knowing that tomorrow was a new day and a new fight.

If you want to succeed in anything in life; physically, financially, or socially, you must develop a positive mindset.  Do not allow setbacks or “failure” to cloud your judgement or prevent you from achieving on the level which you desire. Know that if you put in the work and are willing to do what others won’t, chances are, at the end of the day you will achieve what you desire.

2. Improve Every Day

No matter how good you think you are, or how successful you feel, you must always keep improving. If you are not improving you are dying. Do not allow success to go to your head and cause your growth to stagnate. Use your wins as a springboard to succeed on a higher level in the next fight.

3. Keep Going

A quitter never wins. You must realize that no matter what your goals in life, they cannot be achieved through quitting. If you fail at something, no matter how monumental the failure, you still succeeded more than you would have without trying. You will fail on the road to achieving your goals, but you cannot allow these failures to define you, pick yourself up, get back on the horse, and kick ass.

4. Your Environment is Your Foundation

What you surround yourself with is what you become. If you are around uninspired, unmotivated individuals, you will slowly adopt their ways. But, if you surround your self with ambitious, high achieving people who empower you to succeed, every facet of your life will improve 100 fold. Realize that environment is stronger than willpower and work to ensure that your environment is optimized for success.

Jul 25, 2018

New Zealand born author, personal trainer, and life coach Mike Campbell is the author of Unleash Your Alpha: Eat like a man, Train like a Beast, Operate like a Gentleman and Become a Legend. Mike is currently living in Australia where he works coaching men on how to become the best men they can be, a real alpha. Which is, as Mike puts it, a man with equal parts heart and backbone.

Favorite Success Quote

“I build the road and the road builds me” – African Proverb

Early Challenge

During the early stages of writing his book, Mike struggled to find time for all of his activities. Writing a book, coaching clients, running his company and finding time for himself and his loved ones put a large amount of strain and stress on Mike’s life.

Key Points

 1. Public accountability is key to success.

Mike realized early on in his writing journey that he couldn’t do it all alone. He used accountability relationships (posting about his book on Facebook, having writing challenges with friends etc) to ensure that he made progress during trying times.

2. You need to delve into your core values to find who you are.

Most men don’t know who the hell they are. They walk around like sheep, simply following whatever is trending and fashionable. A real man, an alpha man, knows who he is and what he stands for. He does this by analyzing his values and determining what is important to him and then reverse engineering everything is his life to meet those standrards.

3. You must set behavioral goals over outcome goals.

To achieve anything of real significance in your life, you must have goals, more importantly you must have the right kind of goals. Setting behavioral goals instead of outcome goals allows you to focus on the daily journey and doing the necessary tasks moment to moment to achieve your dreams.

4. Being an alpha is about becoming the best man you can be .

Being an alpha is NOT about being the biggest, baddest, most macho guy in the room. Being alpha is about mastering your own life, it’s about competing with yourself and growing every day and it’s about doing your best to make the most of the short time you have on this planet.

Jun 20, 2018

Michaela Boehm is among the most gifted counselors and teachers to be found globally today.

Born and raised in Austria, Michaela received degrees in Psychology from the University of Vienna and received further extensive training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Hypnosis, NLP, and Yoga.

Upon moving to the United States in 1994, Michaela quickly became counselor to the stars in Hollywood, California, working with the world’s best-known celebrities, including actors, producers, writers, musicians, and international business founders.

Michaela began studying with David Deida in 1997 and in 2007 began co-teaching with him, focusing on women’s empowerment in the 21st Century.

Michaela is currently the only counselor in the world personally trained and authorized by David Deida

Favorite Success Quote

“Set your life on fire, seek those who fan the flames.” – Rumi

Key Points

1. Quit Chasing Comfort 

Comfort is the greatest killer of dreams and ambitions.

When you are constantly pursuing comfort you are not willing to take the risks and the chances that you need to achieve your goals.

You need to learn to embrace uncertainty, accept the struggle, and internalize the fact that life happens outside of your comfort zone.

The greatest experiences that you will ever have, the most awe-inspiring moments of enlightenment, and the most humbling lessons that you will learn all happen when you are uncomfortable.

So stop chasing comfort, forget about safety, and dive into life.

2. Eliminate Resistance in your Life

The more resistance that you face each and every day, the less energy you will have the and less you will be able to contribute to the world.

As such, you must master the art of eliminating resistance.

Eliminating resistance starts by automating your habits and rituals.

If you have a specific set of activities that you must complete each day, then automate the way that you do them.

Sit in the same place, have the same routine before you sit down, build rituals into your life that make productivity automatic.

Because when resistance is eliminated and productivity is automatic, success is inevitable.

3. Learn to Give Better Feedback 

One of the best ways that you can immediately improve the quality of your relationships and your team’s performance is to become a master at giving feedback.

Learn to take time to figure out what the problem really is, come up with several solutions, and tell them precisely what is going on and how they can improve.

When you are giving feedback in your romantic relationships, how you give feedback is just as important as what feedback you are giving.

Reassure your partner of your love and commitment to them and make it clear that the feedback you are offering is not being given to change them, but to accelerate and elevate your relationship.

If you can master this one simple skill, your entire world will shift and you will unlock unprecedented power with your team, your friends, and your lover.

4. Offer What You Can While You Can 

Life is short.

Tomorrow is not guaranteed.

And as such, we must learn to offer what we can while we can.

There are no promises beyond the present moment, yet we waste so much of our time, depriving the world of our gifts, talents, and abilities because we are scared.

Scared of the future, scared of failure, scared of what other people will think.

To be blunt… who cares?

Who cares if you fail? Who cares what other people think? Who cares if things don’t go your way?

We are all going to die anyways, so we might as well die giving our all and living life fully.

5. If You Want to Be Trusted then Don’t Compromise 

If you want to be a trustworthy man, a man who women can feel safe with and other men can rely on, then you must know who you are, know what you want, and be unwilling to compromise.

The second that you compromise your vision and your character for the approval of anyone else is the second that you lose all trustworthiness in your woman’s eyes, your friend’s eyes, and the world’s eyes.

If you cannot stand strong and hold to your own self-proclaimed values, then how in the world can other people rely on you to help and serve them and their values?

Understand the power of integrity and never compromise your values and beliefs, no matter what the potential reward or what the cost.

Jun 13, 2018

Chris Hogan stirs audiences to action wherever he speaks. Whether delivering a keynote on personal money management, teaching an all-day leadership training for business owners and professionals, or hosting the EntreLeadership Podcast, iTunes’ number-one podcast on leadership, Chris keeps his audience entertained and challenged.

Chris Hogan is a sought-after, diverse speaker who loves to challenge, motivate and encourage business leaders, real estate professionals, military personnel and students to be their very best—no matter what!

Favorite Success Quote

“If it is to be, it’s up to me.” – Chris Hogan’s mother

Key Points

1. If Results Are Something You Desire Then Effort is Something You Must Put Forth 

Plain and simple, if you want the results, then you have got to put in the effort.

There is no way around it.

You cannot hack your way to massive achievment.

You cannot become great on a “4 Hour work week.”

The only way to achieve real and lasting success is to put forth the effort, fail, learn, and keep pushing through.

2. You Must Follow Before You Can Lead 

The first step to becoming a great leader is to become a great follower.

Until you understand what it is to follow, what it feels like to be under the command of someone else, you cannot properly exercise command yourself.

So if you want to become a great leader, then learn to follow.

Become an excellent servant to other people.

Be humble and willing to learn.

Analyze the people who are leading you and figure out what it is that makes them great or terrible.

Emulate their good qualities and eliminate the bad.

Once you know what it is to follow, then you are ready to lead.

3. Business is a Team Sport 

There are a lot of people in the modern business world who believe that business is an individual sport.

They think that they can make it as a “solopreneur”.

And if your only goal is to make a few thousand dollars a month, then yes, you can operate this way.

However, if you want to be great, if you want to build a business that will have a lasting impact, and if you want to create a legacy that will be remembered for generations, then you must build and train a highly skilled team.

You cannot do it by yourself.

If you really want to succeed in the game of business, then you need to find players for your team who are strong where you are weak.

Find players who can see your blind spots and cover your back.

The only way to experience high levels of success in business is to surround yourself with a great team.

4. Don’t Try and Please Everyone 

You cannot please everyone.

You just can’t do it.

And if you try, you will be burnt out, angry, and miserable.

And here’s the thing.

Some people aren’t worth pleasing!

So quit trying to make everyone else happy and focus on making yourself and the people who are important to you happy.

Who cares what the haters think? What the competition thinks? What your college buddies think?

Build a life and a business that you can be proud of and that you want to share with the most important people in your life.

Forget everyone else.

5. Enjoy Where You Are

It never gets easier, the challenges only get bigger.

This is one of the hard truths about life.

You are never going to arrive, you are never going to reach “success”, you are never going to be finished until you die.

So you might as well enjoy where you are right now.

Enjoy the journey.

Enjoy the pain, the struggle, the hardships, and the lessons.

Because where you are right now is all that you have.

Yesterday no longer exists and tomorrow is not guaranteed.

So enjoy the moment and keep on hustling.

May 30, 2018

For more than fifteen years, Owen Marcus has worked with men’s groups to develop programs that give them the tools and teach them the skills to be successful men, to celebrate their strengths, and to live their lives fully and with joy.

Owen Marcus overcame challenges such as Asperger’s Syndrome and Dyslexia to pursue his passion of helping others to find their out of the box solutions. However, it wasn’t until much later that he understood that in being free to be his own man, he was able to create and fulfill a life he designed.

His book Grow Up is not a “self-help book”; it’s a playbook on how to live your own life. Imagine a life where you can dream, love, create and live in the moment with an ease you never thought possible.

Favorite Success Quote

“The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher.” – Joseph Campbell

Key Points

1. Embrace the Power of Connecting with Other Men 

If you are feeling lost, unsure of yourself, with nowhere to go and no-one to turn too, then you need to surround yourself with other men.

You need to find and dive into a community of high level men who are living their lives at a higher level.

Men who can help you through your problems, call you on your b.s., and support you in your goals.

When you connect with other men, you become more empowered.

You share your burdens and your problems and open yourself up to the advice, criticism, and love of people who have your best interest at heart.

Drop your ego and find your tribe.

It will change your life in ways that you cannot imagine.

2. State Your Emotions Directly 

Many people will tell you that you need to be “Vulnerable”.

And while there is merit to this claim, it sounds weak and feminine.

Instead, focus on being direct.

Tell people what you are feeling, be honest about your emotions, and open up about your problems.

When you are direct with people, you remove all pretenses and all facades.

You give yourself total freedom because you are willing to take 100% responsibility for who you are, what you want, and how you feel.

State your emotions directly.

Be honest and assertive and your entire world will change.

3. Most Women Are “Bitchy” Because Men Aren’t Assertive

If you are in a relationship and your woman is a “Bitch”, chances are strong that the reason for her behavior is your weakness.

I know that it might be uncomfortable to take responsibility for your relationship and your woman, but when you dive into the nitty gritty, you will realize that I am right.

Women want to fall into their feminine selves and feel safe and secure in the arms of their man.

But they can only do this whenever you are willing to fall into your masculine.

They can only be feminine when you are willing to take charge, be assertive, and do the work that is necessary.

So stop blaming your woman and start looking in the mirror.

You will often find that the fault lies in your own actions and not hers.

4. Do You Habits Give or Steal Energy?

Take time to examine your life.

Look at every habit that you currently have and ask yourself one simple quetsion “Does this thing give me energy or take away from my energy?”

If it gives you energy, then do more of it.

If it takes away from your energy, then cut it out of your life.

End of story.

5. Make a Connection with the Divine 

One of the most uncomfortable topics for most men is the concept of the divine.

We hesitate to give the idea creedence and accept the possibility that we are not the greatest force in the universe.

But if you want to truly grow up and embrace your masculine, then you must develop a connection with the divine.

I don’t mean this in a religious sense.

I mean that you must cultivate an attitude of gratitude, must bend your knee to the will of the universe, and commit yourself to a higher purpose.

When you are willing to do these things, you will find an overwhelming sense of peace and serenity sweeping over your life.

Whatever you view the divine to be, I challenge you to get connected with it in your own way, now. 

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