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Can Heartbreak Be Healthy?
Endings expert Matt Shumate believes multiple breakups are the best thing that ever happened to him. ___ Breakups suck. No matter who called it off, or what the circumstances, it’s going to hurt. Life...
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How to Make a Fresh Start After a Bad Breakup
Breakup expert Matt Shumate has 4 awesome tips for moving on after you’ve split up. ___ When getting over your ex, any small trigger the reminds you of them can send you down a path of extreme sadness...
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The Beauty in Being Alone
There is a beauty in solitude. Sometimes we just have to remember to disconnect. ___ There is a beauty in eating alone. I advise everyone to do it regularly, and with gusto. This thought strikes me...
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Finding Stillness in a Life in Motion
Louise Thayer reflects on how we move through the difficult process of self-discovery. ___ I have lived in 23 different places (on two separate continents) in 37 years, and only three of them were...
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4 Qualities Of Leadership That Begin At A Young Age
Embed from Getty Images Christopher Spurvey sees leadership qualities in his son that translate into real world success. — For the second week in a row, I am up at the crack of dawn celebrating and...
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Incredible Things That Happen Once You Learn to Love Being Alone
Emotional Intelligence expert Dr. Travis Bradberry lays out the huge benefits of solitude. ___ We live in a world of constant contact—a place that’s losing sight of the importance of being alone....
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Why a Man Needs One-on-One Time With Himself
Embed from Getty Images You can’t improve yourself if you don’t know yourself. — Self work is largely about spending quality time with yourself, including all the different layers and parts of you....
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3 Powerful Benefits of Being in Solitude for 10 Days
Embed from Getty Images Our biggest mistake is the way we view solitude. ___ Solitude. Many of us are familiar with it. I think many people understand the meaning, but they do not go far enough....
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The Solitude That Follows
Embed from Getty Images — Cousins. Aunts. Uncles. Grandparents. Friends. Friends of the Family. Dad. Wife. I’ve known loss. If you are reading this, chances are you have too. For all the many, many...
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Francis Ford Coppola on Solitude and Appreciation for Life and Family
Embed from Getty Images — “Death is on the back of everyone’s minds whether they want to admit it or not” – Francis Ford Coppola on July 28, 1996 — Get the best stories from The Good Men Project...
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More Americans Are Choosing Spirituality Over Religion
Only 54% of U.S. adults think of themselves as religious – down 11 points since 2012 – while far more (75%) say they are spiritual, a figure that has remained relatively steady in recent years. This is...
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Why We Want to Be Alone
In the movie Grand Hotel, Greta Garbo uttered the famous line, “I want to be alone; I just want to be alone.” I don’t think there is a mother on the planet who cannot relate to this, especially when we...
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The Things We Don’t Tell People…
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” – George Orwell Apologies to people arriving here in the hope of some dirt, some unadulterated drunken admissions that upon waking,...
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The Need for Solitude
— “Do not concern yourself with the non-responsiveness of others to your presence. They are responding, with their seeming indifference, to your higher needs, expressed vibrationally, for solitude.” ~...
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How to Be a Quiet Warrior in a Deafening and Turbulent World
At some point during your journey through life, you start to become quieter inside. For me, coming in contact with this inner stillness and embracing it was the moment that changed everything. Up until...
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Why We Struggle to Make Time for Solitude
— How often do you take time to go out for an hourlong walk? To just sit out in nature doing nothing but contemplating and enjoying the silence? I’m sure there are a few of you who indulge in this...
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Free Mind
The East Side of Providence in the 1980s was a pretty quiet place, especially after midnight. Driving home from a party or a friend’s house, I’d find myself idling alone at a red light at the corner of...
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Hoedown at McDonald’s
The McDonald’s was filled with Southerners. I tapped my foot to the sound of banjos and an elderly woman shuffled out onto the floor to square-dance. Her shoulders bobbed. She sidestepped and twirled....
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The Discipline of Mastering Mental States
— I’m far from mastering this skill, but one thing I’ve been playing around with is how important mental states are to our productivity, happiness, focus, health habits and more. For example, if you’re...
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Sweet Solitude
If women were convinced that a day off or an hour of solitude was a reasonable ambition, they would find a way of attaining it. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea And that goes for men, too....
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