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Building Your Personal 360° Team

A major part of reducing stress and supporting yourself is coming up with a “resource team” of people that you can rely on to support you in all aspects of your life. Think of it like your 360° team....

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Lacking The Initiative in Your Relationship? 6 Ways to Change

One of the most common complaints from women that I hear is that their guy doesn’t take enough initiative in their relationship or marriage. These women feel frustrated and burdened because they feel...

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The Failure of Men’s “Lone Wolf” Thinking

“I can do it by myself.” I’m sure every guy has thought this about a variety of tasks and challenges in their life. Men want to feel successful in all aspects, and the thought of not doing it the right...

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Learning to Parent Yourself

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. – Anne Frank We don’t know what we don’t know. When it comes to...

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Stuffing Your Emotions

“I come from a family of stuffers,” I had someone tell me recently. “We all stuff our emotions.” This statement didn’t surprise me, because I hear this a lot as a men’s counselor, but it made me think...

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6 Positive Ways to Relate With Your Wife’s Parents

Family can support your marriage, and they can sometimes undermine it. The trick is to know how to act, and when, when the latter happens, or to prevent incidents from occurring before they start. I’ve...

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Tips for a Better Brain and Better Mood

The relationship between food and mood has always been so central to my life, and I’ve struggled for years trying to get the best diet for myself so that I feel the best and most energetic I can. I’ve...

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About a Boy

Wandering through the National Mall in Washington D.C. last month, I was struck by how many adult men were wearing Captain America t-shirts. I counted five or six in at least a day and a half, and it...

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2014 End-of-the-Year Self-Assessment

It’s become a bit of a annual ritual here, but I like to take some time out at the end of the year and look backwards (before I look forward) to a new year and assess my previous year.  It’s what I...

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Taking Responsibility For Your Own Life

We’re the authors of our own lives, and we’re the only ones who truly control them. Yes, there are things that happen to us that we can’t control, or situations that we’re brought up in that we...

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Creating and Keeping Male Friendships

Do you have solid male friendships in your life right now? Do you have other guys in your life you can call and hang out with, and enjoy being together with? Are you one of those guys who’s had a hard...

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Taking The Initiative

There may be areas of your life that might benefit from you giving more of yourself: relationships with kids, your wife or girlfriend, your work, your personal life. They all have one thing in common:...

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10 Mental Barriers to Exercise

I’m not a sports psychologist – or even a therapist focusing on sports or exercise issues. But I am an exerciser, and have fallen victim to quite a few excuses or reasons to not do it, in spite of...

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Going Childfree

The decision to have a child, or multiple children, and to establish a family is no easy task. Assuming that you found a mate who wants the same things in life as you do, it can still be very tricky...

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When Home or Work Environments Cause Stress and Depression

Our work and home environments can affect our mental well-being and stress levels more than we might think. I’m going to talk about this, and things that you could be aware of to change your...

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