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Are you able to say what it is you really want in life?

Can you own what you want without needing to defend or justify it to others?

And how does just going with the flow mean you won’t be helped?

This is part 2 of our talk with Alex Linsley. Listen in as we discuss how you can grow a pair AND inspire those around you to lend a hand.

Alex Linsley is the founder of Man Collective in Oxford, England. In this episode he continues his story of being thrust into the limelight to explain his position on men’s personal development. He also has some amazing lessons to share.

In this episode:

• Getting clear on what you want in life
• What motivates you?
• Do you believe you need to justify or defend what you want?
• Owning your desire is not dictatorial
• What keeps us from owning what we want
• What inspires people to lend a hand
• Avoiding criticism
• Taking your seat beyond the mediocre

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Are you afraid of what your friends may say if they caught you listening to The New Man?

What would it be like to suddenly and unexpectedly become the national spokesman for men’s personal development?

And how did one guy manage to seemingly unite the feminists and the chauvinists?

This week we talk with a New Man listener who set out to quietly start a men’s group and then found himself bombarded by the British national press.

We’re talking with Alex Linsley of Man Collective in Oxford. Listen to this amazing story about how, in an effort to remain “under the radar”, Alex ended up in the national press explaining to the country why he wanted to be in a men’s group.

In this episode:

• What a men’s group can do for you
• Most guys are tolerating a lot of surface-level BS
• Authentic Man Program
• David Deida
• Why some guys are “in the closet” about personal development
• Top Gear
• Uniting the chauvinists and the feminists
• Loaded Magazine
• What Alex learned from being in the gunsight of the press

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Are you one of those guys who tries to make a change but find yourself right back where you started a few weeks later?

Is it possible to arrange your life so that making a positive change is more automatic than struggle?

And why are there little bees or flies painted inside the urinal?

This week we’ll explore how you can create positive habits that stick and why hope alone is the raw material of losers. We’re talking with Michael Brooks and Josh Summers — authors of “The Buddha’s Playbook.”

In this episode:

• Breaking Bad Habits
• Making Good Habits Stick
• Why New Year’s resolutions are like Vegas marriages
• Hope is for losers (according to Fernando Flores)
• What those little bees in the urinal have to do with your success
• How to set up your practice to ensure your success
• Choice Architecture
• Why losing is more painful than gaining is joyful
• Why perfectionism doesn’t work
• “Muscle Confusion” and your life

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