Will next year be like this year? Those New Year promises you make to yourself – where will they go? In the trash with the rest of the ones you’ve made? You want 2012 to be different, so how is that going to happen? Will it be you saying it will be different? Or [...]
There is a lot of talk about how purpose is key for men. Without it we are rudderless. Well, here is a TED video of Jacqueline Novogratz, the founder and CEO of the Acumen Fund, speaking on the power of men immersing themselves in their purpose. From the TED site – We each want to [...]
What do you want to change? What keeps tripping you up? After 35 years of study, changing myself and teaching it to others, I have come to learn a few things about change – don’t be impressed. I had a lot to accept and change. First the obvious, change doesn’t stop. But you knew that. [...]
In her New York Times article “The Declining Demand for Men”, Nancy Folbre says there is something that makes this recession unique for men: The Great Recession has sometimes been dubbed the Mancession because it drove unemployment among men higher than unemployment among women. Because men tend to work in more cyclical industries than women, [...]
Sociology professor Michael Kimmel speaks about being a man on Dad’s Unplugged. His solution is that we need a strong dose of being an entrepreneur, his ‘self made man’. Kimmel claims our current recession is so tough because traditional male industries are leaving. He goes on to suggest that our traditional model of being a [...]
There is a website that will tell you – www.goodmenproject.com. On June 1st a group of men and women launched this site as a ‘man’s magazine’ that “takes men seriously.” A Boston Globe article explains how The Good Men Project came into existence. The article mentions how other men’s magazines are struggling, and yet the [...]
Image via Wikipedia Are you changing? I contend you are. Either you are driving it, or it is driving you. What are you changing? Is it some personal trait? Or are you just learning something new? Chances are that you are doing that on your own. No one taught you about change and it is [...]
Evolutionary Change™ is the instinctual process of deep change. It is how humans have transformed themselves for thousands of years. It is what Joseph Campbell called the Hero’s Journey. It is represented as the five stages on the top of each page: Imagine, Commit, Catalyze, Integrate and Share. What is unique about this change process? [...]
