Life & Times Series: Part 3
Father Time presents: “Life & Times – Fathers and Their Views about Time” Featuring a real-life dad offering his take on time ◊♦◊ Kyle H. (New Mexico) Age: 32 Occupation: Owner of NMPreps LLC,...
View Article3 Reasons Every Couple Should Have a Dog
Sharing the responsibilities of pets can strengthen your relationship. — Before I met my husband, my 24/7 companion was my sweet golden retriever mix named Angie. She went through it all with me —...
View ArticleI See Humans, But No Humanity
Embed from Getty Images How can you fight something that you don’t understand or recognize? — “What sort of mind goes “there’s the children’s play area. That’s where I’ll detonate my bomb”? Time to...
View ArticleI Saw a Fragment of My Former Self in The Music Scene
Patrick J. Dalton sought stability in a life that required pure chaos to maintain. ___ Dedicated to Jorge Orsovay Each one of us may view our lives differently in hindsight as we age. The chronology...
View ArticleWhy Men And Women Should Embrace Complicated Lives
Life is like a roller-coaster “I’d like a simple wife, a simple two storey house with one or two kids and an eight hour job from Mondays to Fridays,” says Jack Cheng to his college friend, Bryan Kent,...
View Article12 Simple Ways To Find Peace Amid A Chaotic Life
Switching of tasks, dealing with fatigue, and working hard beyond your abilities—these you deal with. However, you can get stuck in a situation where you learn how hard life can be. Soon you realize...
View ArticleComing in From the Cold into the Heart
It is time to be your own hero and be a leader, come in from the cold chambers of the mind and embrace the warmth and compassion of the heart. It is time to lead with love and learn to trust the...
View ArticleHow Do You Deal With Life Falling Apart-A Call For Submissions
Good for the Soul is an important section on GMP. It covers spirituality in general with a specific view on how a spiritual approach can support men in these difficult times. There are the obvious...
View ArticleLeaving Loneliness Behind—Resolving My Personalities
This week, during one of my yoga sessions, I realised that rather than growing into the spiritual life I have always sought, I am harbouring two different personalities within me. The conflict...
View ArticleFinding Stillness: Resting at Home in the Middle of Chaos
There’s a part of us that wants to find peace from all the chaos in our lives, all the busyness and distractions and complication and stress and overwhelmingness of it all. We want to get away from it...
View ArticleHow to Thrive in the Midst of Personal Turbulence
Two people wrote to me recently (a stranger and a good friend) who are going through some pretty turbulent times in their lives. The stranger is going through family chaos and health issues, just...
View ArticleIs it Time to Raise Your Voice?
— After the 2016 presidential election, with the country in shock and deeply divided, I remember reading articles with topics like, “Now what? What can I do?” These articles recommended volunteerism,...
View ArticleA Case Against Optimizing Your Life
Many people I know are on a quest to optimize their lives—some of my favorite people in the world will spend days trying to perfect a productivity system, get things automated, or find the perfect...
View ArticleTraveling Lightly and Being Grounded in the Middle of Chaos
— Today Eva and I decided at the last minute to move our round-the-world trip up two days early, to avoid running into a strong typhoon that was headed our way. Luckily, we travel lightly and are...
View ArticleThe Power of Deadlines
— Our mortgage lender and our real estate agent got together to throw us a housewarming party this past Saturday afternoon. They did some online promotion, sent paper invites to our neighbors, and...
View ArticleThe Myth of Deserving
Embed from Getty Images — You deserve nothing. Not that deep tissue massage after a hard week. Not that ice cream after you worked out. Not that fancy car from the money you scraped and saved. That...
View ArticleThe Craziness of Healing
— The healing journey is crazy! It’s an inner journey, a deep journey that takes you to places within yourself that on time will question everything you know, everything you think, and everything you...
View ArticleBenefits of Chaos in Business
— == “Out of clutter, find simplicity, from discord, find harmony, in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” —————— Albert Einstein == Let’s talk Chaos. Controlled chaos. Disciplined Chaos. I love...
View ArticleResponding and Reacting to Life’s Challenges
How many people can tell the story of a challenging life-event like receiving a terminal diagnosis, getting a divorce, losing a loved one to death, or being terminated from a job? Many, no doubt. These...
View ArticleThe Chaos Theory of Parenting
— A butterfly flaps its wings in New Zealand, and I end up late for work. Okay, maybe it wasn’t entirely the butterfly’s fault. It really started, one morning last week, with my eldest daughter and her...
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