Curious about Why you are Here? Special Q&A Call!
Special Q&A Call Tonight & Important Announcement We’ve received a lot of great questions over the last week around the topic of purpose and wanting to know more about our upcoming course — Man On Purpose: The Essential 7-Week Online Course for Men which starts on April 17th. As I mentioned in my last post, George Daranyi and I will be hosting a special interactive Q&A call tonight – Tuesday April 15th. We will...
Wake up call
by Gonzalo Salinas Every morning after my run on the beach and my morning rituals, as I drive to work, I see the kids from the South Beach Elementary crossing the street, I see the cuban windows full of people buying their morning cafe cubano, I see the many yoga fans carrying their mat to their morning practice and I see the magic atmosphere of the beach waking up and starting the day. I cross the MacArthur causeway admiring the...
Lighting the Darkness – Lumos
Guest Post New Warrior Brother Michael Marlin from Hawaii will enlighten audiences with his stage production of LUMA: Art in Darkness during a ten-city tour at performing art centers across the country beginning March 28th. A top comedy juggler who played Las Vegas and opened for the likes of Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, George Carlin, and REM, Marlin walked away from his successful solo career in 1986. He sold his house in Redondo...
Video: “The Revolution is Love” with Charles Eisenstein
shared by Chris Kyle This powerful 4-minute video features Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics, from a documentary about the Occupy Movement. Charles will be a featured speaker at the ManKind Project USA’s upcoming Power of Purpose Online Summit in March 2014 (more details are coming soon). I love Charles’ last line of this video clip: “…Everybody has a unique calling and it’s really time to...
My Elder Soul ~ a poem
by Reuel Czach Elders, we are losing our Soul. We are so caught up individually in petty offenses and bickering and wounded-ness, that we are letting our civilization and our planet die. But most importantly, we are letting our souls die. When I chose to be wounded, and walk through life withdrawn in my cave, or I choose to be over-armored, to the point of being weighed down, with such heavy baggage, nothing else matters, …..my...
My Purpose Over My Relationship?
by Chris Kyle I came across this quote from David Deida (author of Way of the Superior Man) a couple of days ago: “Admit to yourself that if you had to choose one or the other, the perfect intimate relationship or achieving your highest purpose in life, you would choose to succeed at your purpose. Just this self-knowledge often relieves much pressure a man feels to prioritize his relationship when, in fact, it is not his highest...
The World Needs More Elders
By Donald Clerc What’s the difference between being an Elder and being elderly? I never really thought about that question until joining the ManKind Project two years ago. I’m 57, have three grown children, one young grandchild, and own my own business. So I’ve “been around the block” a few times and have learned a thing or two along the way. But no one had challenged me on what I can do with that experience and wisdom in this...
How we feel emotions in our Body
by Boysen Hodgson Research done by a group of scientists, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals some interesting facts about how human beings experience emotions in their bodies. For men involved in the ManKind Project, it was a nice affirmation of what we’ve been teaching and practicing for nearly 30 years. In the ManKind Project, we see and hear men struggle to describe or name what...
20 Diagnostic Signs That You’re Suffering From “Soul Loss” . Article by Lissa Rankin
by Gonzalo Salinas I’m extremely grateful to Dr. Lissa Rankin. I think she saved me by helping me understand what was happening in my life. I was training for a triathlon, and I wasn’t feeling good. My body couldn’t take it anymore and when I went to three different doctors, they each ran some tests, and the result was the same: Everything was all right. But I wasn’t feeling good. One night as I was leaving...
McDonald’s Drive-Thru, 8:23am
by Wentworth Miller McDonald’s Williams, California December 23, 2013 8:32 AM (approx.) I pull into the drive-thru, empty except for the giant white Suburban ahead of me, coming abreast of the callbox, like a yacht docking. When the window rolls down I can see the driver in his side mirror. Male, bald, mid 30s. The intercom crackles as a McDonald’s employee pitches whatever it is he/she’s been ordered to pitch at the...
Embrace Bad Experiences Like a Warrior
by Shawn Rhodes What I remember most about the first time someone tried to take my life was how good the water tasted. It was spring of 2004, and I was in a cargo vehicle full of infantry Marines. We headed out to protect an overpass used as a supply route to Baghdad. It was being shelled regularly by the local Jihad constabulary. The big, clunky vehicle pulled under the bridge and we waited for further orders. Apparently, it’s a bad...
Resolutions? Changes? A New Endeavor? Remember this…
guest post: by Patricia Clason Thinking about “growing” some goals, making some changes, starting something new? Whether you are making changes for growing your business or a having a more satisfying personal life, you may want to remember this story. Wanting to fill his yard with the smell of lilacs, the man planted several bushes in his garden. After a few weeks, he was frustrated because they hadn’t blossomed and he pulled them up...
Emotionally Closed Off: Healing Pain and Learning to Love
By Gonzalo Salinas On the Tiny Buddha site, I found an amazing article by Joanna Warwick, a writer and a therapist who writes about Love, Emotions and Relationships. The article talks about the brave action of opening your heart, even when life has taught you to close it. Great reading! Letting go came with what seemed like an ocean of tears and unchartered anger, which I shouted, screamed, swore, prayed, talked, and physically used...
‘Man Up’ and Beyond … Malik Washington
by Boysen Hodgson When Malik Washington joined the “Man Up” program at Howard University as a freshmen, it was because he wanted to make sure he had what he needed to succeed. “Man Up” was a space where Malik, and many other young men like him, could get things off their chests that might distract them from being successful in their studies. For many men, this makes a big difference. When Malik started at...
Mission is not “mine” – releasing the power of mission
By Stephen Simmer You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to you. Come, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run. –Augustine Too late I came to love you, both so ancient and so new! Too late I came to love you – and you were with me all the time . . . –Augustine The spirit is so near that you can’t see it! But reach for it. ....
Message from your Inner Warrior
by Gonzalo Salinas Dear Warrior: You don’t work on your mission to get things. You don’t work on your mission to get a desired outcome: Not fame or fortune, not a brand new car, nor the girl. You don’t condition your mission to an outcome. What if you work in your mission to get things and when you finish, you don’t get the thing? Or even worse, you achieve the goal, you get the thing but you don’t get the fulfillment? … You...
Mensaje de tu Guerrero Interior
por Gonzalo Salinas Querido Guerrero: Tú no trabajas en tu misión para obtener cosas. Tú no trabajas en tu misión para obtener ningún resultado. No por fama o fortuna, ni por un carro nuevo ni para conseguir una mujer. Tú no condicionas tu misión a un resultado. ¿Qué pasaría si trabajas en tu misión y al final no obtienes el resultado que esperas? O peor aún, ¿Qué pasaría si luego de trabajar en tu misión, obtienes la cosa y ello no...
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