I’d like to tell you a little story…
Back in October 2005 my mother suffered a nasty stroke. It left her mostly paralysed down the right hand side of her body. It also badly affected her speech and she now struggles to get her words out.
It was hard for me to see my mother go from [...]

Procrastination is the bane of many a gentlemans life. It is so easy to not do that which must be done now.
Let’s face we are all guilty of it at some point or another. The question is how can we avoid falling prey to its deliciously lazy charms and keep productive?

The first thing is to [...]

A lot of people see clubs as something associated with the teenage or university years, or maybe with rich businessmen and big fancy dinners. It’s also fair to say that most people drift away from clubs as they mature. That’s not surprising when you take in to account the time needed to settle down and [...]

There is a saying “Getting angry doesn’t solve anything” and I agree with that saying wholeheartedly. When you are wronged, expressing too much anger can get in the way of finding a solution. Anger can also make you appear to be ungentlemanly or brutish. In this article I will talk about anger and how to manage it when you feel the rage building up inside you.

Recently I wrote a post discussing why you should be confident in yourself rather then trying to be cool. In the posting I mentioned peer pressure and how it can force someone in to adopting an image or attitude that just doesn’t reflect their true personality. In this post I am going to expand on this and explain why sometimes your best friends can be your worst enemies and in turn your biggest barrier to becoming a true gentleman.

Something that far too many of us forget about is that life has it’s and downs. It is also fair to say that human nature causes us to dwell on the downs more than the ups. That is after all only natural. When things are going well, we can get on with our lives with [...]

Men today are under tremendous pressure to keep up with the latest trends and project an image of being ‘cool’. The mass media does strongly imply that failing to keep up with the latest fashions can put you at risk of being accused of not being ‘with it’ or some other hip and trendy statement [...]