Pause to celebrate your success and accomplishments of hard work so you can find happiness along the journey as well. Don’t be so concerned about the end goal that you don’t enjoy all the little wonderful achievements on your way to the ultimate win.

Who or what has shaped your identity? Did you cultivate it yourself, or did someone else choose to prune you to grow in a particular direction? Often, this pruning happens unintentionally and is the product of the environment in which we live. You have to nurture your own growth in the direction of your own Meaningful Mission, or it will flow wherever other people take it.

The research shows that the embrace of traditional masculinity increases the possibility of domestic violence and abuse committed by a man. If you’re told all your life to “man up,” and you’re not taught any of the other things a man ought to do, then is it any wonder that you’d grow up thinking that a fist is the solution to everything? If you’re told that your physical dominance over a woman is what makes you a man, how else would you act?