Category: Basic Training

With a New Year often comes change. Not just a simple change of the calendar, but oftentimes a significant change. Many people resolve to change their diet or eating patterns to lose weight. Others change their drinking practices, TV watching, or social media usage because they developed bad habits. Some set personal goals or update existing ones to change the direction of their life. Most businesses make changes to gain continuous improvement, increase employee retention, add sales, or improve profitability. In each case, the reason for the change is better results. So this year, I’m making some changes too. Upcoming Changes to GodBuddies This next year for my blog, I’m changing the frequency of my posts to every other week. I will also shorten the length of my posts and include some reflection questions. The reason for these changes is to increase the engagement with you, my readers. While this approach

In this post for my year-long series, New Year; New Types of Friends, I describe the reasons why friendships end. So far, I’ve run through the History, Philosophy, Psychology, and Physiology (physical aspects) of friendships, then described The Friendships Throughout a Man’s Life and How Much Time Men Need to Become Friends. After those introductory posts, I began providing examples of real-life friendships in politics, sports, entertainment, movies, television, literature, and even cartoons (a future post will include links to each of these subsets). I also described how music strengthens friendships, the benefits of diversity in your friendships, and the differences between male and female friendships. Next up is a post on the spirituality of friendship. I will conclude the series with my formula for creating GodBuddies, which are the deeper, more authentic friendships that most men need. All this should give you the tools to enhance your friendships to help