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Today a very good friend and one of the strongest guys I know is in icu after a head on collision coming home from a power lifting meet.  I ask for your Prayers and support for his family.  Please share and lift up my friend.

Thank you all who pitched in to help my friend and his family. His surgery went well and they should be trying to get him awake today. These injuries are going to be a great challenge, and recovery is going to be very long but this guy will fight to get back in the gym.

I'm amazed at the generosity amongst the people in our circles. Please continue to pray for a good recovery so we can get this beast back on the bench press where he belongs.

Life is short and uncertain.  Because of that, many people live in fear to the point they never accomplish anything great.  This fear breeds mediocrity and halts all growth.  All of the great people that I've met that do amazing things reject the cult of fear. 

Live every day in activity.  Don't fear the world or death or hardships.  Smile at the problems you come across and treasure the people in your life.  Odds are you inspire many around you.  Your time is so valuable, treat it accordingly.

"Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately." -Seneca-

Our Culture is layered with tales of Good vs Evil.  The brave knight stands in front of the dark cave, calls the monster out by name and kills it.  There is great power in knowing the enemy, if you can expose the evil you can cut through the darkness with the light of the truth. 

The recent backlash from
the general public against the evils that major corporations are trying to normalize proves the power of exposing the evil in this world.  If you can get enough people to identify evil for what it is, it can be driven back,... It can be destroyed.

We've seen the evils of this world, and have been speaking out for a long time.  Finally we have everyone's attention.  Let's make Weimerica pride months and appeasing 10% of the population a distant memory.

As with anything you do in life, today could be the last day you interact with one or more of your friends and family.  That day will come.

What a shame it would be to ruin that last interaction by not giving that person your full attention and yet even when we’re with our most loved ones we insist on doing other things.

Make your time with others count. Seek always to - be here, now.-  Ask questions. Listen to the answers. Be present.

Too often our work life, our worries, and other problems can put us into a fog.  All the distractions of the world, or self inflicted distractions, drinking, smoking, drugs, etc take away the real you.  You don't want the last image people have of you to be physically there, but mentally and emotionally dead.

Having a happy life has little to do with possessions, but instead by being fulfilled.  We are most fulfilled when we live according to the laws of the natural world that God perfectly created for us.

With having a large family, people expect the parents to be overly stressed and miserable with the perceived chaos of it all.  Looking at what we can and can't control, letting children make and learn from mistakes, and having a good routine overcomes it all.  There are so many little moments that make you smile.

The biggest fulfillment of my life is watching my wife smiling at babies, seeing my sons grow and learn to challenge themselves, and living a simple life according to the laws of the natural world.

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” -  Marcus Aurelius.

A man almost always has the God created and God given desire to be great and flourish.  But he faces a great deal of anguish when he discovers that the road to flourishing seems closed off to him by his vices.

We find ourselves through work and struggle, creativity to build things, fixing things, coaching others, failing, and accomplishing.  Work requires discipline and when its applied to suppressing our vices, that energy is redirected into greatness.

Be honest with yourself and look at the path you've set upon.  The biggest obstacles we face are the ones we've created.

Don't stand in your way.

Being a Father requires an investment into the future, building the kind of world around your homes and communities that you want to raise your children in.  More times than not though, the present rules the day.  The larger the family, the more involved in the moment we must be.  All of the teaching and coaching moments, the "hey Dad watch me!", and especially the "Dad can you fix this?". 

There are different stages of life a man goes through.  In his youth he looks to the future, as a young Father he lives in the present, and in his age he remembers all the fond memories of the little voices and the stampede of feet rushing to greet him.  Treasure the present now so you don't miss out on memories to smile at in the future.

Happy Father's Day to my American followers tomorrow!

In the past I've talked about many things that I believe will help build up a man.  Preparation, Motivation, Discipline, Strength Training, Family, Etc.   All of those things are great attributes to strive for, but too often we get dulled down in complacency, ruts, blocks, and obstacles.  I've talked about living Immediately to a point but I'd like to expand on that thought. 

Some of the most successful men I've had the opportunity to work around all have a very important character trait, one that I struggle with myself.  A sense of urgency.  Looking past the temporary motivation, the cultivated discipline, and all the deep thought we put into our daily lives...we lack a sense of urgency. 

Throughout history, the most decisive and great things that have been done, were done with a sense of urgency.  It has been said necessity is the root of invention.  Now more than ever it is necessary that we find a sense of urgency in all that we do in our daily lives. 

It is urgent that you take care of yourself both spiritually and physically.  It is urgent that you lead your family and friends.  It is urgent that we put aside all of the worthless things of this world and prepare to charge ahead.  Raise your swords and shields and lead your men.  There is no time to be complacent.

The things that we battle with in our lives are better off delt with now instead of putting them off.  Help yourself and your family now.  Take ownership of the world around you.  If you don't, the evils of this world will dig in and be even harder to drive away.  The perpetual tug of war is going on whether you acknowledged it or not.  If you aren't pulling, the world always is.

Looking through the internet, anyone can find a plethora of articles about the decline in food and agriculture literacy.  What is more surprising to me is the amount of people that say they don't care where their food comes from or what its made of.  Mindless consumerism is a big part of modern culture, but signs are pointing towards a shift. 

Everyone can see that the global economy is in shambles.  Food prices are soaring higher than ever, and major food corporations are shrinking their products to maintain prices to delay the inevitable.  All of a sudden the hyper processed foods that used to be cheap easy slop are getting sidelined by real food, but with traditional farm land being gobbled up by billionaires and foreign investors I see a unique opportunity for change at the home level.

Sustainable homesteads offer not only a healthier and happier change from modernity on the individual level, but they can bring communities back together that have been separated by disgusting strip malls and convenience shopping.

Look around your area and find an existing small farm and take on an internship.  Farming conditions differ from region to region so it's important to draw knowledge from your area.  Together we can farm the future.

Imagine this: The dollar and the stock market crashes over night following years of out of control government spending. The value of your home has plummeted and your work has cut wages and issued layoffs. Lines have formed outside of banks, mass riots and looting are going on everywhere. Are you resilient enough to bounce back?

During the Great Depression, the farmers who were able to keep their farms faired the best. Take this excerpt for example. "We always had enough to eat because Mom and Dad raised a large garden and Mom canned a lot. We butchered a cow and a couple of hogs every year, and had chickens for meat and eggs. My sister and I wore patched clothes to school, but we were much better off than many of our fellow students. I guess we kids didn’t really feel poor at all. Most everyone else around us was just as bad off, or worse." - Sam Moore

Preparation for the hard times ahead will make or break your family. Prepare ahead, become resilient.

Earth, land, soil, terra, boden.  Throughout history people have sought after, and fought over good land.  Having good soil and a place to raise livestock insured a people's existence and the future of their children.

In modern times the majority of commercial farm land has been poisoned for decades with chemical fertilizers and pesticides.  The soil that was once full of life has been reduced to a dead growing medium.

Keeping protein on the table starts from the ground up, and everything on my farm has a purpose.  The garden and fields feed our family and our livestock.  All of the manure from the rabbits, goats, and chickens goes back into the garden, and any household food waste goes back to the livestock.

A healthy living soil ensures healthy produce, and healthy proteins are always available for generations to come.  Too many people sold away everything their ancestors built for the future.  It's up to us to leave something worthwhile behind for our children, and teach them the mistakes that squandered away our birthright.

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Divide et impera

Sun Tzu said, “Managing a large force can be made like managing a small force by the use of dividing up the numbers."

Divide and conquer is a strategy that's as old as war and politics.  Look at the world around you and you'll find it almost everywhere you go.  It happens with families, friends, coworkers, and all the way out to religion and culture wars.

How you respond to this tactic will determine the outcome.  Resistance to division is the obvious solution, but it can only be achieved through strong unshakable leadership.

In the face of division, we need something to unite behind, something good and hopeful that everyone can believe in.  A divided culture needs a united religion, and a divided nation needs a united people. 

There will always be deceivers sewing division and illusion amongst the ranks.  Bring them out into the light and lead your people.

"Wholesome:  Good for you, and likely to improve your life either physically, morally, or emotionally."

There has been a decades long culture war on wholesome things.  60 years ago, healthy tv shows that taught life lessons and good values were the norm.  Physical fitness and a healthy attitudes towards religion, life, and love were all part of regular society.  You can even measure the decline of testosterone with the decline of wholesome culture, and the rise of depression and despondency with the increase of morbid and unnatural culture. 

In modernity, if something is good and beautiful, it is attacked and deemed evil by cultural Marxists.  Happy families with several children are demonized and called to be destroyed.  Religious and homeschooled children are deemed weird and not compatible with normal society.  Wholesome life must be promoted more than ever.

When you look out into the death and decay of modern art and architecture, we see a pattern of removing beauty from the world and replacing it with a depressing shell, a dead husk of a once prosperous people.  The cure for this starts in our homes and leaches out into society in the way that we live and interact with the world.   Using the past as our guide, we know that we are quite good at creating, and building beautiful things. 

Like every living thing in this world, we are what we consume, from our basic nutrition, to the things we view and hear.  We must protect our children and show them the good and beautiful things, and shield them from the morbid and unnatural culture that's decaying all around.

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Statistics in multiple studies show that if the Father is healthy and exercises regularly, the children will keep this lifestyle themselves into their adulthood.  Alternatively, fathers that are unhealthy will have children that continue down a path of self destruction.

If you are invested in the future, and you should be, you have a great responsibility ahead.  In a world that promotes anti-health, we are living outside the formless mediocrity that they want to keep us in. 

Read the ancient tales of heroes past and think back to the hero prototype our ancestors looked up to.  We have the opertunity to carve ourselves into that likeness, and our children will strive to be strong like Dad.

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