How Men Lose Their Fire
By Bryan Ward, Founder of Third Way Man | 2 minute read
I sat on the couch in the dark, hating myself.
I felt so stupid:
College-educated, "creative," visionary… with a wife and kids looking to me to provide not just food and shelter, but to LEAD them into a life of love, adventure, joy…
And I was FAILING.
I felt more a slave at my *business* than I had felt at my day job.
Each passing day shredding my confidence, our bank account steadily draining out like a severed vein in the neck.
All around me, it seemed, men less creative, less educated, less visionary were succeeding wildly… creating the life of wealth and abundance that I craved…
…Their success taunting me like a slit of sky glimpsed from deep within a muddy pit.
I had spent countless sums on courses and seminars and had nothing to show for it: millions of dollars worth of knowledge sitting there behind my dead, spark-less eyes, wholly inaccessible.
And then it hit me:
I had everything I needed to succeed… everything save one:
The wood was piled high: all I lacked was the spark to set it ablaze.
I realized I had spent all this time piling wood (knowledge), then despaired when it did not catch fire.
It was not more wood I needed, but the means to light the wood already there.
I'll reveal what happened next in a moment, but first, let me assure you:
You have all the knowledge required to succeed: all you need is the match to ignite it.
This is how it finally begins:
