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How I Quit Chasing the American Dream

May 20, 2013 by D. T. Brown 20 Comments

American Dream, rejecting materialism, living simply, sell everything you own, find yourself, American man

D. T. Brown didn’t quit owning things. He quit materialism.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Lifestyle, Quitting, The Good Life, Work/Life Balance Tagged With: American Dream, American man, anxiety attacks, being true to yourself, capitalism, cube farms, cubicle land, Divorce, find yourself, finding yourself, Freedom, get away from it all, itinerancy, lifestyle, living simply, material world, materialism, men and work, men in therapy, minimalism, Office Space, panic attacks, possessions, rejecting materialism, sell everything you own, soul sucking jobs, The Office, unemployment, voluntary simplicity

I Am a Man and I Am Fat

April 9, 2013 by Josh Magill 35 Comments

Josh Magill at the beach with one of his children

Josh Magill is fat. He’ll tell you how he got fat and how he’s battling it.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Men's Work Tagged With: fat, fatherhood, Heft on Wheels, Husband, Josh Magill, lifestyle, masculinity, Mike Magnuson, self-esteem

Simplifying: Living With Less Can Leave Us With More

April 5, 2013 by Scott Behson 4 Comments

voluntary simplicity, very small houses, living with less, scaling down, lifestyle, The Good Life, work/life balance, Scott Behson

How a dot-com millionaire and a former missionary family have found greater riches in voluntary simplicity.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Lifestyle, The Good Life, Trending Tagged With: 320 square foot house, consumer culture, Debra Jordan, fight club, finance, getting out of debt, Graham Hill, home, lifestyle, lifestyles of the rich, living with less, missionaries, mortgage free lifestyle, real estate, scaling down, Scott Behson, The Good Life, Tyler Durden, very small houses, voluntary simplicity, work/life balance

Run

March 26, 2013 by James M. Chesbro 2 Comments

EKG, holter monitor, running, grief, fathers and sons, wrestling, sports, health, cardiovascular health, heart attack, mortality, medical, fear

James M. Chesbro runs from grief and mortality.

Filed Under: Father's Day 2012, Featured Content, Health, Psych, & Addiction, Lifestyle, The Good Life Tagged With: baby aspirin, cardiologist, cardiovascular health, competition, diet and heart disease, EKG, family history of heart disease, father's death, fathers and sons, fear, grief, health, healthy lifestyle, heart attack, heart disease, holter monitor, lifestyle, medical, mortality, old age, physical fitness, pulmonary disease, running, shame, sports, statins, stress test, wrestling

The River of Life

January 22, 2013 by Atalwin Pilon Leave a Comment

Why does it always feel like jumping off a cliff, every time I step back into the current of my life?

Filed Under: The Good Life, Travel Tagged With: avoiding self-sabotage, confidence, ego, Entrepreneurship, fear, flow, identity, leadership, lifestyle, meditation, risk-taking, risks, taking chances, The Good Life, travel, work/life balance

On Turning 40

December 7, 2012 by Professor Pinch 4 Comments

Have the Baby Boomers ruined aging for the rest of us?

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions, Lifestyle, The Good Life Tagged With: 1980s, 1990s, aging, Baby Boomers, birthdays, brat pack, Carl Wilson, Ed Sullivan, fatherhood, Gen X, Happy Days, internet, jfk, lifestyle, Lord Voldemort, Meaning of Life, melancholy, men at 40, milestones, Nostalgia, popular culture, progress, relevance, soldiers, staind, Stone Temple Pilots, Technology, The Good Life, The New York Times, Thomas Wolfe, turning 40, vanity, Vietnam, War, Watergate, youth

Men and Machines: 12/7

November 22, 2012 by The Good Life @ GMP Leave a Comment

How has technology shaped men’s lives?

Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: assimilation, ATM's, blue-collar professions, careers, cell phones, civilization, communication, commuters, computers, cyborgs, expectations, future shock, gadgets, geocaching, Google, GPS, grid, lifestyle, Luddites, machines, men, privacy, programmers, secrets, security, society, suburbia, Technology, texting, tools, toys, Western Union, Work, work/life balance

MINI Shares Its Vision of the Not Normal Lifestyle [sponsored post]

November 21, 2012 by the Editors Leave a Comment

A vision by MINI about what life would look like if we put down all the “normal” things that fill our lives and embrace new, creative experiences.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: creative, lifestyle, MiniUSA, miniusa.com, normal, rallying cry, SPONSORED, stand out

Last Place

November 18, 2012 by Sean Ferrell 2 Comments

How do you come to love the place you call home?

Filed Under: Featured Content, Quarter-Life Crisis, Sex & Relationships, The Good Life Tagged With: 1980s, 1990s, 9/11, adulthood, AOL, artists, blackout, Boston, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bridge, Chuck Shumer, college life, Commodore 64, crisis, Divorce, fatherhood, fine arts, first love, George H.W. Bush, grad students, graduate school, gratitude, home, I love NY, Ikea, leaving home, lifestyle, lifestyle choice, living together, Manhattan, marriage, Marty Markowitz, MTA, New York, New Yorkers, NY, nyc, NYC real estate market, Parenthood, Paul Auster, President Bush, Prospect Park, psychology, public transit, quarter-life crisis, real estate, relationships, renting an apartment in NYC, Rochester, separation, Sex and Relationships, subways, teenagers, The Good Life, urban life

Alternatives to Marriage: 12/1

November 15, 2012 by The Good Life @ GMP 14 Comments

Do you have to get married?

Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: adulthood, alternatives to marriage, calls for submissions, celibacy, civil rights, cohabitation, deciding to marry, Families, father, father's rights, forbidden love, forbidden to marry, gay marriage, gay men, having children, head of household, Husband, income tax, lifestyle, male writers, marriage penalty, masculinity, Medicare penalty, men, men who write, monks, new writers, not marrying, Parenthood, permission to marry, priesthood, privileges of marriage, provider, rites of passage, shacking up, shotgun weddings, tax loopholes, The Good Life, The Good Men Project, unable to marry, unmarried, unmarried.org, values, writers, writing

Tropically Influenced Manhattan Cocktail

November 11, 2012 by Bruce Tretter Leave a Comment

A refreshing twist on the classic.

Filed Under: Cocktails, Lifestyle, The Good Life Tagged With: bourbon cocktails, classic cocktail recipes, cocktail recipes, cocktails, lifestyle, Manhattan cocktail, original cocktail recipes, The Good Life

Under Pressure: Changing My Lifestyle

October 24, 2012 by NYC Dads Group 1 Comment

Niel Vuolo on the head injury that may have indirectly saved his life.

Filed Under: Health, Psych, & Addiction Tagged With: blood pressure, exercise, fatherhood, Fitness, health, heart attack, hospital, injury, lifestyle, Nick Vuolo, NYC Dads Group, vulnerability

Pick Your Moustache for Movember

October 23, 2012 by Josie Sampson 2 Comments

Just in time to raise awareness for men’s health in November.

Filed Under: Cancer, Health, Psych, & Addiction, Lifestyle, The Good Life Tagged With: actors, Adolph Hitler, artists, Asian men, awareness of men's issues, celebrity moustaches, Charlie Chaplin, Chinese men, Errol Flynn, ethnic stereotypes, Fu Manchu, funny, grooming, Groucho Marx, Hulk Hogan, Italian-American men, Jimmy Buffett, Johnny Depp, lifestyle, Magnum P.I., men's cancers, Men's Health, men's health awareness, moustaches, Movember, mustaches, November, pencil thin moustache, pro wrestlers, prostate cancer awareness, Ram Singh Chauhan, Rollie Fingers, Salvador Dali, shaving, testicular cancer awareness, Tom Selleck, villains, world's longest moustache

You Will Never Become Anything

October 22, 2012 by Dave Booda 7 Comments

The secret to happiness is this: learn to unconditionally accept yourself and what is.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions, Featured Content, Lifestyle, The Good Life Tagged With: acceptance, advice, confidence, contentment, happiness, how to be happy, joy, lifestyle, peace, secret of happiness, self-esteem, Sex and Relationships, success, The Good Life, zen

Oven Roasted Potatoes

October 14, 2012 by Bruce Tretter Leave a Comment

The flavor of fall is easy to achieve, with photo illustrated directions from Bruce Tretter.

Filed Under: Food, Lifestyle, The Good Life Tagged With: Bruce Tretter, cooking, easy recipes, fall recipes, Food, gotta eat, how to roast potatoes, lifestyle, potatoes, seasoned baked potatoes

The Future of a Very British Sport Could Be in China

September 30, 2012 by Nicole Bailey 1 Comment

Nicole Bailey looks at how the future of snooker may lie in the Far East.

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Sports, The Good Life Tagged With: BBC, billiards, china, cue sports, Culture, games, Great Britain, India, lifestyle, pool, Sheffield, snooker, sports, The Good Life, World Snooker Limited

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13-Year-Old’s Football Invention May Save Lives

Ryan Beck won third place at the California State Science Fair with a football helmet that could reduce sports-related brain injuries in pros and teens alike.

Australia’s Army Chief Takes a Firm Stance Against Sexual Misconduct

Ladies and Gentlemen; this is called, “Taking a Stand.”

Sergio Vieira de Mello ‘A Complicated Hero’ (TEDTalks VIDEO)

Political Scientist Samantha Power tells the story of a complicated hero, Sergio Vieira de Mello.

Facing the Reality of Men Who’ve Been Raped By Women

An article in The Atlantic exposes the reality of male survivors who’ve been assaulted by females, including Don Draper, the main character in the show Mad Men.