Category: Basic Training

As I continue this series about Becoming a Well-Balanced Man, I realize I have not covered an important aspect: maintaining financial balance. Financial balance – let’s call it financial stability, supports your adult lifestyle without undue worry or stress. It also provides security to pursue your long-term aspirations. As with the other areas a man needs to find balance, financial stability increases your satisfaction, happiness, and fulfillment with life. The series includes previous posts, The Benefits of Becoming a Balanced Man, and others on Emotional Balance, Mental Balance, and Physical Balance. After this post about financesyour money, I will conclude with one about Social Balance, followed by the need for spiritual balance since all are critical to becoming a well-balanced adult man.   Men Need Financial Balance  Becoming financially balanced typically means achieving a state where your income, expenses, savings, and investments are all managed in a way that supports your

My last post, Becoming a Well-Balanced Man, stated that one of the marks of mature manhood is learning to balance your emotional, physical, mental, social life, and spiritual well-being. In this follow-up post, I describe the benefits of becoming a well-balanced man with a healthy equilibrium between physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual balance.  I’ll then continue to a few posts on how to achieve harmony in each of these areas.  When Men Are Best In that opening post, I stated that we needed men who are both good at being a man and being a good man. Being good at being a man means having the knowledge of all the soft and hard skills needed to become a mature adult man. (You can find out more in my post, The Complete Roadmap to Better Manhood, which includes links to all the posts in that series.) Being a good man

This past weekend, I participated in another Spring Get-Away with guys from the men’s group at our church. This tradition began in 1992 when one member invited a few guys up to his cabin on a lake to help install his boat dock before Memorial Day. Ever since, many of us eagerly anticipate our annual trek to the Northwoods of Wisconsin for a long weekend of fishing, golfing, relaxing, and just hanging out with good friends. We cherish this “guy time” for the way it enriches our lives. In a previous post, Men Need Get-Aways and Retreats, I emphasized the importance for men to take time away to recharge and build relationships. I also noted the distinction between a healthy getaway or retreat and isolating oneself. The former nourishes the soul. The latter does not. As stress, depression, and anxiety dramatically increases in today’s world, Loneliness has become a huge