When I was compiling the list of Manliness Traits, this one not only had to be included, it had to be right near the top. I forgot exactly where I heard this saying, so I searched online to see if I could credit the right person, but could not find anything. However, this has been a cornerstone in my life for a long time.
The essence of this Trait lies in the one facet men have had trouble mastering throughout all of time: listening. Most men …

One of my main Manliness Traits is Protect Your Family At All Costs. When it comes to finances and managing your money, there isn’t a more important aspect of that protection than creating and controlling an emergency fund to ensure you cover all your bills when something unusual comes up. Some call this a rainy day fund. Some call it a relief fund. In short, an emergency fund is a cash reserve that you keep in a safe place and use only for emergencies.
It should …

Brad over at the Seduction Chronicles just wrote an article that is absolutely captivating. It is sitting in my crawl even as I write this and will be for a long time.
The article uses one of the most effective writing techniques known. He puts you completely into state of mind and takes us men right to the moment where it matters most for any man between the ages of 18 and 50.
He drops a huge bucket of cold water on you about 1/4 of the way through but …

This is the start of a series which I plan on posting several manly traits that I believe core to men as they journey on their Return To Manliness. I write this site in the hope that all who read it either take steps to become a better man, a better father, a better husband, a better person than what they are today. If you already have wonderful manly qualities about you, then maybe just a refresher. And if you truly have all the qualities that we …

What is a Blog Carnival?
The Art of Manliness runs and operate a really cool carnival called the Manival. If you are new to blog carnivals, it is pretty simple. Blogs submit their best of the week’s blogposts and the person running the carnival picks the best of the submissions for links. All the blogs that submit and all the readers of those blogs will usually see the links as everyone will link to the carnival and to their featured articles.
It is really a great way to get …

The fist bump has taken on a whole new meaning as of late. Barack and Michelle Obama gave each other a fist bump recently and it turned the desperate, right-wing media folk on their heads – looking for anything to hang around their competition’s neck. One literally insane, woman commentator actually insinuated it as a “terrorist fist jab”. Of course, unless you took a whole bottle of crazy pills, smoked your breakfast, or simply decided to forget you had a brain, you dismissed this as just plain …