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The Daily Man-Up: Either You Challenge Yourself Or Life Will Do It For You

February 26, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Life is hard. I don’t think anyone’s going to argue against that. There will always be challenges.

You have two options:

You choose you challenges. You push yourself. You go after what you want. You make it happen. It will be hard work, but you get to chose where you go and become the active driver of your life.
You do nothing and wait until life throws something at you. Then you’re on defense. You’re unprepared and just doing your best to stay afloat. You’re unprepared and unpracticed because you’ve spent all of your time dicking around.

The choice is yours.

The Daily Man-Up: How To Make Sure You Actually Complete The Goals You Start

February 25, 2021 Leave a Comment

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I think we all know “making” a commitment is pretty easy, Anyone can start a business, a new habit, a band, etc. Sticking with it, even when things don’t go as planned, that’s the hard part, and that’s the part that makes hundreds of people quit their dreams and goals every single day. This is why today I want to share with you 6 tips I learned about making these commitments actually work, and even if you may not like hearing this, why in some cases you SHOULD quit.

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February 24, 2021 Leave a Comment

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4 Simple Ways To Make Sure That You Avoid The Friend Zone

One of the most common ways to friend zone yourself is to neglect flirting with her. Instead of flirting, most guys settle for befriending her.

That’s great, but if you’re not careful, you’ll convince her that you’re not interested in “that way,” and she’ll mentally classify you as a friend.

Now your job just got 100 times harder.

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February 23, 2021 Leave a Comment

Nothing will work until YOU do the work. Stop looking for another system and JUST DO IT.

Stop looking for the next tip, trick, big idea, etc. that will change your life. It will fail just like all the other tips, tricks, big ideas you’ve read on the Internet and tried for like 5 seconds. Because YOU don’t do anything consistently enough to see any results. YOU are the problem.

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The Daily Man-Up: You Are Not Your Thoughts. You Are Your Actions.

February 22, 2021 Leave a Comment

you are not your thoughts you are your action

Self critical thoughts. Guilty thoughts. Thoughts about what I should have done. Fearful thoughts about what others think.

How dark are the thoughts that follow you around each day? Mine get pretty dark.

This is haunting if we let ourselves identify with them. We listen to the fears of inadequacy just because they won’t shut up. We believe we really are failures because it’s all we can think about – no matter how much self improvement we read. If it was possible for us to be fixed then why do we still feel so broken?

What Should You Know About Yourself And Your Partner Before You Decide To Get Married

February 19, 2021 Leave a Comment

You know your partner is the right one to marry when you love them, are willing to make sacrifices for their happiness, they are willing to make sacrifices for your happiness, and you have thoroughly and exhaustively discussed and considered the following list of items which frequently lead to marital strife and divorce.

The Daily Man-Up: You Get To Decide Who You Are

February 19, 2021 Leave a Comment

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I’m not only saying “Just do it!”, instead I’m saying “just become it”.

I don’t buy junk food to bring home. I don’t do junk food. The idea of buying it repulses me, even though I’d get pleasure from eating it. Why? I thought about it, long and hard. About the kind of life I’d have if I continued to eat it, and I decided the person who eats junk food, that version of myself, that’s not me. That’s not who I want to be. I want to be healthy, and happy instead.

The Daily Man-Up: Why You Should Learn to Walk Away

February 18, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Many men have fragile egos when it comes to women. I’m not judging, my pride used to get the best of me, too. I couldn’t handle the reality of being rejected or losing a girl — it was one of my worst fears. I lived with a scarcity mentality.

Scarcity mentality is the belief that there’s a limited number of opportunities in your life. With women, if you miss out on a single chance, you’ll never get another like it. What happens is that you view your connections as win or lose situations. It’s black or white:

“If I don’t get this girl, I’m a failure and a loser. I’ll be alone forever. But if I do, I’m a real man and a winner.”

You then do everything in your power to “win” girls over. You will chase endlessly, pretend to be a friend for months or years, disrespect your time, and even let yourself get walked over — all because you can’t let go of this one girl.

The Daily Man-Up: You’ll Only Develop Self Discipline If You Have A Strong Enough Why

February 17, 2021 Leave a Comment

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If you want to have self discipline to do the things you know you need to do, then you need to know your “why”.

Your “why” is what drives you and stops you from getting lazy and giving in to temptation.

For example, if you weigh 500lbs and you want to lose all that extra weight, you will be presented with temptations to over eat, eat unhealthy foods, etc.

In those moments of temptation where you want to binge on 3 big Macs and 2 Oreo mcflurries, the only thing that can get you to resist the desire to over eat is to have your “why” deeply ingrained in your mind.

Your why in this situation is your ideal body. What feelings does having that ideal body evoke inside you?

The Daily Man-Up: If You Live With A Fear That You’re Wasting Your Life

February 16, 2021 Leave a Comment

wasting your life

Fulfillment – true fulfillment – is still a possibility for you even now.

I appreciate that this might be hard to believe, because from a certain perspective it’s like “well I’ve wasted all this time doing nothing, and I’m older than I’ve ever been, and I have less time now in my life than ever before… so whatever I’m capable of achieving now is only a small version of what I could have otherwise achieved if I had all my shit together.”