Self-Improvement

The One Thing All Mentally Strong People Have in Common

January 23, 2023

Have you ever wondered what makes mentally strong people so charismatic and confident? What makes them stand up and shout when everybody else sits down and looks away? Is it something special, or simply madness?

A lot of people will tell you that it is God-given – it’s in the blood. A rare combination of genetics and upbringing that evolves into something extraordinary, the likes of which ordinary people can only stand and marvel at.

This, however, is a lie. Actually, it’s worse than that. It’s a lazy lie.

Take 100% Responsibility For The Way Your Life Is Now

January 17, 2023

Take 100% responsibility for the way your life is now. The good, the bad and the ugly. Accept that it’s all you. No one else to blame. It was your fault. And forgive yourself completely. You will see that the process of self improvement will become much easier.

Go To The Pain, Rather Than Avoid It

January 13, 2023

pain is your friend

If you don’t let up on yourself and instead become comfortable always operating with some level of pain, you will evolve at a faster pace. That’s just the way it is.

Every time you confront something painful, you are at a potentially important juncture in your life—you have the opportunity to choose healthy and painful truth or unhealthy but comfortable delusion. The irony is that if you choose the healthy route, the pain will soon turn into pleasure. The pain is the signal! Like switching from not exercising to exercising, developing the habit of embracing the pain and learning from it will “get you to the other side.” By “getting to the other side,” I mean that you will become hooked on:

Embrace The Strenuous Life

December 15, 2022

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Decades ago, Theodore Roosevelt called his fellow Americans to embrace the strenuous life. He called for them to seek struggle and to avoid ease. He saw that life, not only success, is found in a strenuous life, and that death and a life wasted is found and created in an easy life.

The World Will Never Quit Poking You

December 5, 2022

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Have you ever felt like your circumstances were trying to break you?

Just when you’ve improved your finances, your car breaks down. You wake up on the wrong side of the bed, come to work to a nagging boss and go home to an indifferent spouse. Every time you take a step forward, you take three back. Inevitably, just as you’re on the rise, something or someone tries to knock you down. If only life would give you a little bit of a break, you tell yourself, you’d have enough energy to make an effort to become successful.

10 Ways To Be A Mentally Stronger Person

November 22, 2022

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1. Stop feeling sorry for yourself

The more you feel sorry for yourself, the more it’ll become an excuse to run away from your problems. This can be elaborated better with the help of a story I got to share with you.

The Daily Man-Up

November 14, 2022

With LESS than 2 month to welcome 2023, there are two scenarios on how you can get ready for the new year:

Scenario 1: you wait until January 1st to start thinking about what you want to achieve in the next 365 days. You try to figure out your training and nutrition plans, the habits and routines you need to implement to be successful. You try to figure all out in just one day. You tell yourself “I’m starting on January 1st!”. In the meantime you have the perfect excuse to let yourself go.

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Remember To Reflect When You Experience Pain

October 18, 2022

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Remember this: The pain is all in your head. If you want to evolve, you need to go where the problems and the pain are. By confronting the pain, you will see more clearly the paradoxes and problems you face. Reﬂecting on them and resolving them will give you wisdom. The harder the pain and the challenge, the better.

Would Your Ideal Self Act This Way?

September 2, 2022

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I have found that when I want to do something I shouldn’t do I think “Do I want to be the kind of person who does this?” or if there is something that I should do but am not doing I think

“Do I want to be the kind of person that doesn’t do this?”

Which reminds me of the gap between who I am and who I want to be and helps me move towards who I want to be.

Try it next time you think you shouldn’t do something but ignore that feeling, think, “Do I want to be the kind of person that does this?”

So sometimes you aren’t being better because you feel like being better, but simply because you see yourself in the future as someone who is better

8 Awesome Yoga Benefits for Men

July 25, 2022

yoga benefits for men

Health and fitness for most men either relies on strength training and/or running. There is a good reason for this.

The benefits of lifting weights for increased self-esteem, physical and mental toughness, not to mention looking great, are well known. All men should do it, and if you aren’t why not? Get motivated and get back in the gym.

With that said, weightlifting and occasionally pounding the streets or treadmill shouldn’t be the only exercise you do. There should always be room for other things that bring something new (and awesome) to the table.