Category: Basic Training

As I continue this series about a man’s emotions, I now move to Happiness that begins to counter our Sadness, Anger, and Fear, which are factors that prevent us from becoming more godly men.  I need to start off by saying there is a difference between happiness and joy, at least from a Christian perspective. One is more temporary and one is more eternal.  That stated, let’s first understand what makes men happy. Where Men are (Mostly) Happy   A recent Inc. magazine article revealed one very surprising thing that predicts happiness for men: their satisfaction at work.  That is based on research used from the 2018 Masculinity Report by the British Psychological Society which shows that American men are pretty happy overall. Job satisfaction is by far the strongest predictor of positivity for men; three times higher than the next in every region and across the U.S. overall. Far

This series about a man’s emotions continues with the emotion of Sadness. The last two posts about Anger and Fear were preceded the “Why”, the “How”, and the “What” of managing our emotions to become more godly men. In this post, I’ll dive into the emotion of sadness, which became personal for me several years ago.  Sadness Defined There are multiple levels of sadness, each with varying degrees and physiological states requiring deeper levels of care.  Dictionary.com defines Sadness as the quality or state of being sad or an instance of sorrow. According to Psychology Today, sadness is a normal human emotion usually triggered by a difficult, hurtful, challenging, or disappointing event, experience, or situation.  In other words, we feel sad about something or some situation.  In many cases, feelings of sadness will go away quickly and you can go about your daily life. Another word for sadness is Melancholy, which

This series about a man’s emotions started with posts on “Why” we need to manage our emotions, “How” God’s gift of emotions became distorted, and “What” we are to do to become more godly men. The last post on Anger describes the effects on our brain and our relationships.  In this post, I write about our emotion of Fear.  The Fear of Being “Enough”  In his article, This is the Single Man’s Greatest Fear, Ben Weaver suggests that men live as if we are “not enough”. We’re not good enough, smart enough, good-looking enough, athletic enough, strong enough, loveable enough, successful enough. Fear of failure—of failing to be a man, leads to men to ask: “Am I enough”? Weaver states the world’s ever-moving bar of excellence has taught us that we’ve got to somehow stifle the most powerful organ in our body – our heart when it comes to our