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Do You Really Want to Be a Leader?
Embed from Getty ImagesMoving up the ladder is for some, is it for you? Working with people who spend decades climbing both entrepreneurial and corporate ladders, I find that eventually, they sit back...
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10 Ways to Disconnect From Hookup Culture
If you’ve come out of the hookup culture feeling empty, you’re not alone. Daniel Dowling has a plan to help you find the satisfaction you deserve.___Have you heard heroin described as better than sex?...
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Mahatma Gandhi’s 5 Teachings To Bring About World Peace
“How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.” – Mahatma Gandhi—“If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is...
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Go Thoreau! Lessons from a Simplified Life
On Henry David Thoreau’s birthday (he would be 201), it’s only fitting to pause and remember the writer, naturalist, botanist, vegetarian, essayist, pacifist, and genius who inspired Dr. King, Gandhi,...
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Why Couldn’t We Save These Brave Young Men?
Keenan Santos and Reuben Fernandez were killed trying to protect their women friends in Mumbai in 2011Keenan Santos and Reuben Fernandez were murdered in 2011 for confronting four men who misbehaved...
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A Blueprint for Greatness
Embed from Getty Images—I’ve been studying ‘greatness’ for a long time. I’ve wanted to see if I could turn ‘greatness’ into an equation. So, I looked at ‘greatness’ in all areas – Lao Tzu, the...
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Self-Respect: It’s an Inside Job
Number 3 in a Series What increases your self-respect and what decreases it?Since I can never get enough of that which I do not need, my journey has concentrated on how to get my sense of well-being...
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List of Books and Films Which Will Inspire Men to Study Better
Embed from Getty Images—Being a student is kind of like a catch 22. It’s supposed to be some of the best times in your life but on the flip side also one of the most challenging. If you want to...
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Be The Change You Wish To See In Your Relationship
By Terry Gaspard, MSW, LICSWBen and Alicia are both waiting for the other person to change. I see it all the time in my private practice.“I’ve been miserable for years,” complains Ben. “I’ve asked...
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Gandhi, a Grandson, and Standing Together
Embed from Getty Images—Arun Gandhi, the fifth grandson of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, grew up angry.Of Indian descent and raised in South Africa, he suffered doubly under apartheid, “attacked by...
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Is There a Balm in Gilead?
Is There a Balm in Gilead? For Bayard Rustin On a street where it’s alwayssummer, on a daywhen it’s always 1948,your song rises into ether:“There Is a Balm in...
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Greater Than for Generations
—My heroes are Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, O-Sensei and Bruce Lee. Very Old-School. Then again, I’m rather old-school, and I am older. Hopefully, never too old nor completely out of...
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Accepting Me: Surrender to My Peace
—Gandhi said, “Each one has to find his peace from within.” Growing up as a child at home in fear, and surrendering half my life to training in Aikido, in martial arts, I discover strength in Gandhi’s...
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When the World Works
—On my routine bathroom break from my Saturday morning step aerobics class with Val at the Westchester YMCA I walked into the Boy’s locker room. It’s way closer than having to walk upstairs. A cute...
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5 Ways to Reduce the Male Suicide Rate
Men are dying by suicide at a rate of three to four times more than women. In a 2014 UK study, the male suicide rate was 16.8 suicides per 100,000 people, versus 5.2 per 100,000 for female deaths. Of...
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Don’t Should on Us
— In class last week I had my Penn State students read a horrifying article on tree death in America, and then polled them on their gut response. The four choices I offered were: A) This is terrible,...
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You and Your Thoughts
— How is masculinity shaped by our thinking about it? “A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes.” Mahatma Gandhi, Indian activist . . Comment below, or write your own essay...
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Forgiveness, for the Forgiver
Does forgiveness beget forgiveness? Do we forgive to be forgiven? Just asking. Perhaps, forgiveness is more for the forgiver than the forgiven. Just saying. Forgiveness can be a one-way street. We...
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“Become a Person Who Produces Hope”
By Karina Lagdameo-Santillan “At times when everyone in the world is asleep, and even when dreams are asleep confined in darkness, Become a person who walks as he follows the stars instead of being...
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Why Indian Farmers’ Protests Are Being Called a ‘Satyagraha’ – Which Means...
By Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University For the past few months, farmers protesting in India’s capital, New Delhi, have been demanding the repeal of three farm laws that were passed last year. These...
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