Why High Achievers Often Feel the Most Lost
From the outside, they appear to have everything figured out. They’ve built successful careers, earned the respect of their peers and become the people others turn to when important decisions need making. They have families, responsibilities and lives that many...
What Happens When You Spend 30 Years Ignoring Yourself?
Nobody wakes up one morning and decides to ignore themselves for thirty years. It happens quietly, almost invisibly, through thousands of small decisions that all seem reasonable at the time. You put your career first because your family depends on you. You postpone...
The 5 Ways Your Life Changes When You Stop Living for Everyone Else
There comes a point in many men’s lives where they realise something uncomfortable. They’ve become exceptionally good at looking after everyone else. They’ve built careers, supported families, solved problems, carried responsibilities and become the...
Why Men Stop Dreaming (And How to Start Again)
Ask a child what they want to be when they grow up and you’ll probably get a dozen different answers. An astronaut, footballer, musician, pilot, business owner. Children dream naturally because they haven’t yet learned to limit themselves. They see...
What Happens When You Ignore the Feeling That Something Is Wrong?
Most men don’t make reckless decisions. In fact, in my experience, the opposite is usually true; most men wait. They tell themselves they’re just tired. They put it down to stress, getting older, or having too much on their plate. They convince themselves...
The Question Beneath Every Midlife Crisis
Every midlife crisis has a surface story. Sometimes it is a man buying a sports car. Sometimes it is a career change, a relationship ending, retirement approaching, or a growing sense of restlessness that seems to appear out of nowhere. The details vary from person to...
Why Buying the Sports Car Doesn’t Work (And What You’re Really Looking For)
Every joke about a midlife crisis seems to start in exactly the same place. A man in his fifties buys an expensive sports car, changes his wardrobe, grows a beard, or suddenly starts behaving like he’s twenty-five again. The stereotype has become so familiar...
The 5 Lies Men Are Told About Midlife
There comes a point in many men’s lives when something starts to feel different. It is often difficult to explain. From the outside, life may appear perfectly fine. The career is established, the family is doing well, and many of the goals that once felt...