• Beating Back Discouragement

  • Oct 23 2024
  • Length: 31 mins
  • Podcast

Beating Back Discouragement

  • Summary

  • Discouragement is easy to fall into in our society today. With the rise of social media and worldwide connectedness, we often find examples of guys who do things better than us. This means we have to fight against it actively. If we aren’t careful, we can fall into a place of discouragement where we stay busy but don’t live purposefully.

    On today’s show, we discuss the cycles of discouragement and why we get to this place. As we recognize the mindset, we can begin to fight against it.

    The Suck Cycle

    Many men get to a place of frustration and declare, “I’m going to CHANGE!”

    Then they come up with some crazy plan which often ends in failure

    This puts them right back to the start but with more frustration

    They eventually develop a lack of belief in their ability to change

    Everything’s Personal

    Our discouragement grows when we take everything in a hyper-personal way

    “I’m fat because I’m a failure” “I’m poor because I’m lazy”

    There is a place for taking personal responsibility, but does everything have to be personal?

    We have to learn to separate who we are as men from what we do as men

    Dealing with Failure

    Our sense of failure often derives from our Unrealistic expectations

    We battle this by learning to approach setbacks differently

    Defining the problem

    Trading condemnation for curiosity: Curiosity asks, “Why I fail?”; Condemnation assumes it’s all our fault

    Get help

    CHALLENGE:

    Quit trying to fix multiple things to get better in

    Pick one thing to get better at and focus your energy on that

    Get curious about past failures and seek to learn from them instead of ignoring them

    Quit trying to lone-wolf fix things in your life


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