The Tired Warrior: Why So Many Men Feel Exhausted in Midlife
Over the past few months I’ve been thinking a lot about what men in midlife actually need.
Inside the Midlife Mavericks community, I’ve been having conversations with men who are working hard, raising families, building businesses, and trying to hold everything together.
From the outside, many of them look successful.
But underneath that success, there’s something else going on.
A quiet exhaustion.
Not just physical fatigue, but the deeper kind that comes from carrying responsibility for a long time without ever putting the load down.
Playing It Safe Is Costing You More Than You Think
There have been many times in my life where I’ve played small. Not because I lacked ambition. Not because I wasn’t capable. But because I settled for comfort and slowly lost touch with my purpose. It didn’t look like failure. It looked like success.
From Fog to Focus: My Journey into Values
For the first 38 years of my life, I didn’t really know what my values were. Not because I didn’t have any, just because I’d never stopped long enough to question them.
I was doing what most blokes do.
Playing footy with mates.
Drinking and partying on weekends.
Went to uni, got the degree, landed the job, started climbing the corporate ladder.
And to be honest, it wasn’t bad.
I wasn’t unhappy.
I wasn’t stuck.
I was just... living. On autopilot. Doing what I thought I should do.