Bad ass virtues represent those virtues we as men need to embrace, forge into our lives, honor, and replicate in younger men as well as sharpen each other with. These are the virtues that require the crucible for refining the dross, purifying strength, courage, confidence, resilience, and depth of character. This is what makes them bad ass because they will break us and reshape us on the anvil. They will never be easy to conquer but conquer we must. We must awaken these lost masculine virtues in each one of us and become them allowing them to define us. They give definition to our masculinity a frame, a reference, a routine, a map of true manhood north unleashing our masculine power. Bad Ass Virtues – Blog was last modified: June 29th, 2021 by John R. Hatfield

John R. Hatfield Be Resilient! Life will be a bitch. Hardships and struggle are the norm for everyone because life is not fair. Yes, pain, suffering, heart ache, and brokenness will enter your life. We all get knocked on our ass, sucker punched, personally, with our family, in significant relationships, and in our workplace. I guarantee it, if you don’t think so, hide and wait. “The world breaks everyone and afterwards many our strong at the   broken places,” Hemingway. We must never let these knockdowns keep us down. We must choose to not detach. We must stand back up, get our legs under us, clear our head and emotions and then get into position to fight again. Staying down demoralizes us, depresses us, makes us cowards, and opens the door to all kinds of addictive behavior. We must enter the wilderness because it is there, we become resilient as we learn and overcome the brokenness into men of valor. Our

Saying no to yourself and yes to others smacks against selfishness. And everyone is naturally selfish, we want our own way and often throw an adult tantrum when we don’t get what we want or think we deserve. Self-sacrifice will always have a price, a point of pain because it is self-denial. It is choosing to think and put the interests of others, a cause, or an ideal ahead of your own interests, desires or wants, influencing a greater good. Self-sacrifice builds self-control which helps us to make decisions not based on feelings, but to push through not giving into these temporary emotions to reach a better decision. Men who demonstrate this BAD ASS VIRTUE, build self-control and selflessness. SACRIFICE was last modified: June 2nd, 2021 by John R. Hatfield