Yin To The Yang A guru once said, men are like trains on tracks. Once we get moving, we don’t know how to stop. I can say this is true for me. Rarely do I just sit. I’m up early making the kids’ breakfast, then school drop off, then the gym for a workout or…
About Taylor García
Gather Yourself In
A New Year's Wish
Your New Life Awaits 2025 is all but here. In forty-eight hours we will be on the other side of 2024. I for one, am thankful it’s over. 2024 was certainly one of the most challenging years of my adult life. And yet, I am thankful for the year I had. I am thankful for…
A Season to Celebrate
Progress Over Profit
What Are You Celebrating? On the walk from the lobby to his office, my therapist asked: “How’s your holiday season going?” I thought for a moment, then answered with the most candid answer I’ve probably ever uttered when asked this question. “I’m not participating this year,” I said. Old me might have said: “Yep, just…
Being At Peace to Make Peace
A Taylor García New Vibration Installment
We Only Have This Moment Aaron asked the audience, “Has anyone ever experienced tomorrow?” The murmurs hushed, the energy shifting away in a flash from the woman at the front of the audience, who had just spent the last few minutes telling everyone that she starts a new diet every day. That she tells herself,…
The New Warriors
Thanksgiving Reflection
Superhuman A cool blanket of morning fog covered the inland valley appropriate for the fall holiday of giving thanks. While it was perfect weather for staying cozy indoors, I awoke and went right to work. I imagined all the Americans in my vicinity doing what I was about to do: prepare for the feast. It’s…
Thankful for It All
Remember, Remember This November
Gratitude First As I reflect on what has felt like one of the longest months on record, I want to place gratitude at the center of it all. I’m thankful for that anticipatory feeling that ushered in this month, that turn from Halloween to the first of November. I’m thankful for November 5, the day…
One Man’s Mustache
Men's Health Is Everyone's Health
A Man Amongst Men An Elegy And A Wish in Honor of Men’s Health Awareness Month My Uncle Andrew wore the best mustache. Clean, meticulously trimmed, and often with a waxed and twisted tip on each end. It matched his thick head of left-parted, always-styled hair. It was his signature look, and I can’t think…
Next-Level Vibing
The Way Forward?
The Micro and The Macro We don’t need to spend too much time on the post-mortem. What’s done is done. I’ve shrugged my shoulders and moved on. No wound-licking here. And that’s a good sign, I think. Before all this, I was keenly attuned to the nature of change, and how we as a humanity,…
The Ever-Changing Experiment
Country Over Party
I Am A Patriot Although I consider this column the “intersection of socio-politics, modern masculinity, and fatherhood,” rarely do I ever use this space to wax overtly political. Yet today, I’m going to. I first want to say I’m a patriot. I love the United States of America, and I’m proud to be a son…
Inner Work
The Search For Our Being
That Shift In Awareness All of us are on some kind of journey. We’re all heading somewhere, looking for something. As the main characters of our own stories, our missions are our purpose. Whether it’s a physical location, a new station in life, another person, or a sense of security, we move toward that thing…
Walking Man
Walks On By
Bridges Are For Burning We’ve all heard the aphorism at one point or another: Never burn a bridge. It is to say, never end a connection with something or someone because you might need it or them later. It makes literal sense. If you need to cross a river, for example, and you burned the…
Whether the Weather
Moment of Clarity
I Can See Clearly Now Weather is a big table topic these days. With hurricane season producing storms the likes of which we’ve never seen in the Gulf of Mexico, it’s impossible to ignore them. Where I live, we “complain” of the morning and evening fog. It’s so thick some days, visibility is zero. It’s…
Letting Go
A Season of Loss
Birds Need To Fly The universe is teaching me something right now, and that is to let go. To simply, release. To let go of possessions, connections, relationships, money, worries, troubles. The universe is teaching me that holding on sometimes is harder than letting go, and that letting go is sometimes what we need. Even…
No Is the New Yes
Exercising Our Prerogatives
Yes For Self I’ve long since struggled with a very important word universal to all languages. No. It’s quick, easy, and effective. And yet, I default to yes more often than not. Not, of course, a derivative of no. Why? Because I’m typically a people pleaser. A “go-with-the-flow” guy. This is all fine and good…for…
The Shift
Fighting The Fog
Reclaim My Time Last week, I wrote about the slow creep of tiredness that had been lingering around me like a fog. I was dragging myself through the days, yawning when I shouldn’t be, and generally feeling a low-grade, unshakable fatigue. But this week, something shifted. I feel more alive, more energized, and more connected…
Burnout Is Real
The Creep of Exhaustion
Calling Back Your Energy The last few weeks I’ve been experiencing a strange new symptom. Tiredness. Not full blown exhaustion, just low grade energy. I’ve been yawning early in the day, fighting the urge to nap, and eager to go to bed earlier and earlier. One day, I fell asleep outside during my lunch hour,…