This is the home archive for Charles Sledge writing on mindset, wealth, masculinity, health, and day-to-day hacks that reward discipline. Posts below are the newest first. The goal is simple: clear thinking, stronger habits, and more control over your time and income.
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New guide: Weekly scorecard with one honest number so you can see whether your week matched your intent.
Self-improvement is all about learning, then putting what you learned into practice, reading the feedback, and adjusting before you test again. That loop matches the scientific method. This piece breaks down how to pull far more value from videos you already watch: notes, replay habits, and questions that turn passive watching into real skill. We… Continue Reading
What counts as middle class today, why that band still matters for stability, and how trades, STEM paths, and sales skills still feed into it even when headlines only talk about extremes. The article walks through definitions you can use in your own planning, not a political speech.… Continue Reading
I was out and about working on a project the other day when I came across a young man who was a patron of a business I am currently working with. The man was probably in his early twenties and… Continue Reading
We do not have healthy work life balance here in the West. Life often revolves around work and one’s definition of oneself is often defined by what one does for work. There was a time when work was part of… Continue Reading
Experimentation is the key to learning. Every day we use the scientific method to grow wiser, become stronger, and do more. We form a hypothesis, do an experiment to conclude if that hypothesis is correct, and then we adjust as… Continue Reading
I’ve stated before that everyone should learn a little bit of story telling, that it’s an essential skill to have, not just for those that want to be novelists or journalists but for anyone who wants to be more influential… Continue Reading
Continuing on our discussion of success today. So far we’ve discussed a few habits that separate those that are successful from those that are not as well as we’ve discussed plenty of general success habits on this site. Today I… Continue Reading
What is success? Success is the progressive accomplishment of a worthy goal. Success is moving in the direction that you want to move in for your life. Success is developing physically, mentally, and spiritually and moving to higher levels of… Continue Reading
Influence, along with sales and politicking, is one of the most important skills that you can learn and seek to master. With it you can change the course of your life, with it you can access jobs and relationships that… Continue Reading
The first article on this site went live on February 22, 2016. Since then the archive has grown into a long run of essays on helping men live harder, cleaner, and more free. This note explains where the project is headed next and what stays the same in the writing.… Continue Reading