5 Habits To Become A Strong Man

Now I understand why my brother is so special.

Photo by Ellie

The absence of evil is not automatically the presence of good.

Think about that for a moment. You know guys who say “I don’t hit women, I don’t steal, I don’t use drugs” and think that makes them good men. Congratulations. You’re a giant zero.

Not doing bad things doesn’t make you good. It just makes you neutral. And neutral is useless.

Being good is proactive. It’s doing something.

When I say “my brother,” I’m not talking about blood. We didn’t share parents. We didn’t grow up in the same house. But he was my older brother in every way that matters.

And four months ago, I lost him. Cancer. After a fight that would have broken him if he were a lesser man. But he wasn’t.

It took me too long to understand why he was different. Why people gravitated toward him. Why even in silence, there was something about him that commanded respect.

It wasn’t because he was tall. It wasn’t because he had muscles. It wasn’t because he wore expensive clothes or drove a cool car.

It was because he built himself deliberately. And there are five specific habits that transformed him into the man he was.