Category: Spades

• 6 Jan 2017

  Walker’s Personal Inventory Challenge

  

  I’ve been on a well-deserved break for the holidays, but for the past week or two, I’ve been struggling to find a strong topic to start the year with…something more powerful than the typical article about goal setting or New Year’s resolutions.   So when I woke this morning, the first thing I saw was […]
• 20 Aug 2016

  Grow Balls Without Being a Dick

  

  Many people think that confidence can be built by just psyching themselves up.  That’s not confidence…that’s called courage.  Confidence is something different. Courage has to do with inner strength, feeling the fear of taking action, but still taking action anyway. Men definitely need courage. But men also need confidence which is less about action in the […]
• 11 Jul 2016

  Become a Man Who Reads

  

  Reading is one of the least expensive and most accessible forms of entertainment, so why don’t many men read these days?  One reason is because books are now competing against other forms of cheap and accessible entertainment.  Books compete against music, YouTube videos, movies, TV shows, and other online distractions. And men, especially, tend to […]
• 20 Jun 2016

  The Four Monks

  

  My brother Divonte is in the Air Force.  About seven years ago, I wanted to keep in touch with him by sending him emails with brain teasers and koans.  A koan is a riddle or story that Zen masters would tell to their students to help promote Zen principles.  I recently went through some of […]