Is this the kind of man you want to be?

About half of us said, “I keep doing less important things instead of the most important things in my life.” Good to know I’m not alone in recognizing this and working to change. I’d be easy to stop choosing less important things over more critical things if there...

From the Department of Cleaning Up Messes

I have long understood that one of my unique gifts, one of my superpowers if you will, is to clean up messes. For most of my life, I saw this gift as a weakness: as a sign of my needy desire to be liked, to fit in, to get a gold star. I saw it as a product of shadow....

What is most important to you?

In reply to my last email, men said things like, “My life is so chaotic I don’t even know what’s important anymore.” “I feel like I’m juggling so much that I can’t keep up – I’m dropping more and more things.” At the root of your comments and questions was, “How...

From the Department of Accountability

Well it happened. I blew it and missed a posting. Ugh. On Tuesday August 27, I was far away from my computer at Burning Man making my annual pilgrimage. The truth is I realized it even before it happened, as I was madly packing all the things four days earlier. And, I...

#Unmask – Live a Bold and Authentic Life

If we are going to live bold and authentic lives, then we must unmask and value ourselves as whole human beings. After leading a process on getting out of the man box, I’ve been thinking about my mask. I want to share a movie I think you’ll find meaningful, The...

From the Department of Abundance

From the Department of Abundance On Labor Day, I got back home from an 11 day trip to Black Rock City, home of Burning Man, and though we Burners like to Welcome each other Home, in truth, my home is in San Francisco with my sweetie Alycia and Enzo and Trixy the Dog,...