Our guest on the Manlihood ManCast this week is Dr. Terrence Z. Johnson, a counselor and motivational speaker who specializes in personal development for men. Dr. Johnson is a licensed professional counselor and board certified tele-mental health provider with a wealth of experience in working with men to help them achieve their goals and live their best lives.
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Understanding and Working with Dreams for Personal Development
On the show, Dr. Johnson will be discussing the importance of understanding and working with our dreams as a tool for personal growth and development. He believes that our dreams can reveal valuable insights about ourselves and can help us tap into our inner wisdom to guide us on our journey of self-discovery.
Learn more about Dr. Johnson and his Work
Dr. Johnson is also the founder and CEO of I-Progress, a personal development and coaching company that helps men to achieve their goals and reach their full potential. He believes that by understanding and working with our inner selves, we can unlock our true potential and live our best lives. You can find out more about Dr. Johnson and his work by visiting his website, I-Progress (https://iprogress.cc/), and following him on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/iprogresscc/) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/iprogresscc/).
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Tune in to the Manlihood ManCast to hear more from Dr. Terrence Z. Johnson on the topic of personal development for men and how understanding and working with our dreams can help us achieve our goals and live our best lives
Personal development is a crucial aspect of being a man. It not only helps you achieve success in your career and relationships, but also leads to a sense of fulfillment and well-being. However, many men struggle to understand where to start when it comes to men’s personal development. To help you get on the right track, here are five key principles that every man should understand and embrace.
In this post, we’ll explore the five key principles that every man should understand and embrace in order to achieve personal growth and fulfillment. From setting clear goals and taking action, to developing a strong sense of self-worth and building healthy relationships, these principles are essential for any man looking to improve himself and his life.
Setting Clear Goals and Taking Action
One of the most important aspects of men’s personal development is setting clear, measurable goals and taking action to achieve them. This means identifying what you want to achieve, and creating a plan to make it happen. Whether it’s a career goal, a financial goal, or a personal goal, having a clear direction will help you stay motivated and focused on what’s important.
Developing a Strong Sense of Self-Worth
Another key principle of personal development for men is developing a strong sense of self-worth. This means understanding your own value and believing that you are worthy of love, respect, and success. A strong sense of self-worth is essential for overcoming fear and self-doubt, and achieving your goals.
Building Healthy Relationships
Men’s personal development is not just about achieving success, it also includes building healthy relationships. Whether it’s with a significant other, friends, or family, having positive and supportive relationships can help you feel fulfilled and happy. It is important to learn how to communicate effectively, to listen actively, and to develop empathy for the people around you.
Embracing a Growth Mindset
Personal development is not about achieving perfection, but about embracing the journey of self-improvement. A growth mindset means being open to change and willing to learn from your mistakes. It means embracing challenges as opportunities for growth, and focusing on progress over perfection.
Continuous Learning and Self-Improvement
Men’s personal development is not a one-time event, but a lifelong journey. The final key principle is to continuously learn, improve, and grow. This means taking the time to reflect on your life, to identify areas of improvement, and to take action to develop yourself. This can include reading self-help books, attending seminars, or working with a coach.
By understanding and embracing these five principles of personal development, men can improve themselves and achieve growth and fulfillment in their lives. It is important to note that personal development is a continuous journey and it is important to keep the above principles in mind and work towards incorporating them in one’s daily life.
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The CEO and the janitor may not be equal in terms of pay scale, or even the value that they add to an organization – but as people, they have an equality of value.
The guy scrubbing the toilets and the guy scrubbing the paychecks BOTH need to see themselves as leaders.
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Leadership belongs in all areas of life
Your job, your family, your community, your own SELF-IMPROVEMENT, all require leadership skills. Every aspect and every area of your life will benefit if you view yourself as a leader, and if you apply the principles of leading others to leading yourself.
Leadership needs no title
You don’t need an official title to lead. If you are at the bottom of the rung, you can still set the tone, and take on responsibility.
Leadership is influence
The very nature of leadership is not that it demands obedience, but that it conveys influence upon others. Very few people obey a title. But many will follow the example of someone who is a positive influence on them, and who strives to help them improve.
Leadership is service
Leadership is about service. If we go to great historical leaders who led people well, we will see that their goal wasn’t fame or fortune, their goal wasn’t always victory or domination – but their goal was to serve their people, their country, their community, their circle.
Fight Club is a panel discussion of men (and this time – a woman) about various topics of interest. This episode features Josh Hatcher, his wife Zoe Hatcher, and Brian Mahaney
In this episode, Zoe Hatcher says:
One thing that I think is lacking in many men is emotional health. I believe this is largely due to cultural norms that dictate that men should not express their emotions and that showing emotions is a sign of weakness.
This is complete nonsense.
All humans have emotions and it is perfectly natural and healthy to recognize and express them. In fact, being able to identify and communicate one’s feelings can lead to stronger relationships.
It does not make a man any less masculine or strong to be emotionally healthy. On the contrary, it shows that he is self-aware and capable of managing his emotions in a healthy way.
This episode of the Manlihood Mancast (a Podcast for men) originally aired in January of 2021
In this episode of the Manlihood ManCast, Josh Hatcher talks about the building the muscle of your mind. We hear a lot of talk about physical exercise and strength building. Which is good! But we need to talk about building up the mind, too.
Garbage In / Garbage Out
What we consume affects what we produce.
Doing reps
We need to use affirmations to build up and tone muscle. Repeat truth to yourself until you believe it.
Powerlifting
If you want to be headstrong, it takes time. You’ve got to keep working it over time. I can guarantee you, you are already stronger than you think you are.
Discipline equals freedom.
We think of discipline as uncomfortable – but you’ve got to TRAIN your brain how to think. It literally rewrites your brain chemistry! (Look up Dr. Caroline Leaf’s research on this!) If you build healthy habits in the way you think, it really does set you free. But it takes discipline!
His frank but helpful talk about sex and relationships is going VIRAL on social media. With tens of thousands of followers, Ryan Cass Morrow has even ticked off the big tech censors – but his message is not just controversial conversation fodder. He’s just telling his story of how his seriously jacked up relationship got BETTER after he and his wife put in the work.
Cass’s message is blunt and to the point. Many married men are unhappy with their sex lives. They are unfulfilled, and tired of getting “pity sex” from their wives.
After an incredibly difficult and broken relationship with his wife led to frustration and some very toxic situations, Cass and his wife Kathryn took the reins of their marriage and steered it into a better direction.
How to get better sex with your wife
No one wants their wife to feel like sex with them is an obligation.
But what is it they want from us???
That’s the question most men ask. They don’t know or understand that better sex starts when you step fully into bettering yourself as a man, and loving her.
The married relationship between a husband and wife CAN get better, and when it does get better, better sex often follows!
From Broken and Bruised Marriage to Better
Cass and Kathryn separated 7 times in the first 4 years of their marriage, and missed four of their anniversaries.
Cass even had a 30 day restraining order filed against him, and they nearly divorced hundreds of times.
Cass begged for sex, asking “Why don’t you want sex anymore?” “What would turn you on?” “Do you even think I’m sexy?” “Why don’t you want me?”
His anger became ferocious as he felt unwanted, and that pushed her away even more.
Listen to the Manlihood ManCast to find out how Cass and Kathryn turned their relationship around
And you can find tools to help your relationship too!
According to Oxford University Press (OUP), publishers behind the Oxford English Dictionary, the slang term refers to a type of behavior which is “unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations” – traits that may have become familiar to many during lockdown.
Personal Development for Men
At Manlihood, we’re about helping men become better men. That means we focus a lot on personal development for men. We encourage men to help lift each other up, and challenge each other to become better. That’s truly how we defeat goblin mode.
You don’t want to be a goblin
Neither do I! We shouldn’t be content do descend into the laziest, sloppiest, most self-serving versions of ourselves. To break the cycle, we have to commit to a plan of personal development, and commit to relationships with other men who call us higher.
If you don’t want to be a goblin – and want to break out of goblin mode…
Then shoot me a message at mail@joshhatcher.com I’d love to help you break out of Goblin Mode in 2023.
Stephen Mansfield is a best-selling author, speaker, a podcaster, and a leadership expert and coach. He’s the author of Mansfield’s Book of Manly Men, Building Your Brand of Brothers, Men on Fire and more.
These words are the lifeblood of Stephen Mansfield’s work and the reason why this New York Times bestselling author, entrepreneur, and popular speaker is often to be found serving vital social causes.
For example, in recent years Stephen has been captured by the cause of the Kurds. It has led him to write a book about the Iraqi Kurds, give a TEDx talk about “The Most Famous Unknown People in the World,” and to issue an international call for the creation of a Kurdish homeland.
Stephen is also deeply concerned about the current state of manhood. To help reverse the downward trend of modern masculinity, he has written leading books on the subject, has appeared in major media, has spoken at conferences around the world, and has launched the GreatMan movement to train men in the art of noble manhood.
“You have a destiny, but your destiny is fulfilled by investing in the destinies of others.”
-Stephen Mansfield
While managing his busy writing and speaking life, he founded a company that helps prominent figures and top organizations produce high-quality books. He began training leaders, often appearing at conferences around the world. He also began coaching leaders to speak well, something he has done with politicians, leading artists, bestselling authors, and at major universities. In May 2021, Stephen was named a Senior Fellow of Public Leadership at Palm Beach Atlantic University where he teaches and coaches current and future leaders.
Stephen and his beloved wife, Beverly, split their time between Nashville, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C.
We’ve talked before about the powerful masculinity of Santa Claus. We wanted to call back to some of those stories for our Testicular Fortitude Series.
We know Santa Claus as a chubby white-haired man that wears red clothing and gives gifts to children, but much of that modern image was created by 19th century poets and the Coca Cola Company. The truth is he was a man with balls.
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St Nicholas: Patron Saint of Everything
Many different groups have adopted St. Nicholas as the patron saint of their causes… children, sailors, the falsely accused, merchants, archers, brewers, Russia, broadcasters, and students.
And the reasons behind that is usually because of a story from his life.
He was born in 270 AD in Turkey among the greeks that lived there. His parents were wealthy, and they died in a plague when he was young. He was raised as a Christian by his uncle Nicholas, and became a priest.
At that time, Christians would often make a dangerous pilgrimage to Jerusalem to visit the Holy City where Jesus lived and died. In 312 AD, he started his journey. During that time, he briefly settled in a cave with a group of monks. As bandits and thieves started attacking the surrounding settlement of mostly pilgrims, Nicholas took the women and children into his cave to protect them against the raiders.
When he returned to Turkey, he was named as the Bishop in the town of Myra. Christianity was widespread, but it was still under assault from the Roman empire. You remember the tales of the Christians in the arenas being eaten by lions – much of that happened under the persecution of the Roman Emperor Diocletian. The emperor’s disdain for Christians is what got Nicholas tossed in prison.
He was kept in solitary and suffered many beatings for refusing to recant his belief in Jesus.
In 2005, Saint Nicholas’s body was exhumed and forensically analyzed. There was ample evidence of broken bones, and a broken nose. This lends scientific credence to that story.
When Constantine converted to Christianity and established it as the official religion of the Roman Empire in 320 AD, they let Nicholas out of jail, and he attended the Council of Nicea in 325. Essentially, the church confirmed the doctrines of the early church at that time, and Nicholas would have had a lot of input on the matter.
It was then that Arius presented his heretical view of Jesus, not as God, but as only a mortal man. Arius was leading people astray from the truths that the church accepted, and condeming the teachings that Christians worldwide had been giving their lives for.
Nick was having none of it – and in front of everyone, walked up and slapped him across the face like he was Chris Rock at the Oscars.
The other bishops were pissed. They took his bishop robes, took his book of scriptures and threw Nick in jail.
But in the morning, when the jailer came to check on him, his shackles had been loosened, and he was fully dressed in his bishop robes and had his book. No one could explain how, and so it has been credited as a miracle.
There were many other miraculous and almost unbelievable stories that have been recorded about Saint Nicholas.
One legend show Nicholas not only catching a serial killer, but bringing the victims back to life! Three children were captured by a butcher, who chopped up their bodies and put them in a pickling brine, where they stayed for years. When Nicholas came to town, he was prompted with knowledge from God to demand that the butcher open up the barrel, exposing his crime.
Then Nicholas commanded that the dead children come back to life.
Another time, while sailing, the ship came under assault by violent storms. The crew and passengers were despairing and preparing to die. Nicholas said, “All you have to do is call out to God to save you.” and then as they prayed, he commanded the storm to cease, and it did.
Whether these miraculous stories are true, I can’t say, for sure, but I’m a believer in such miracles. But even if they are only legends, there’s something about the story of a man willing to speak with the kind of authority that could raise dead children and silence a stormy sea.
Our contemporary Santa is known for giving gifts in stockings to children, but this story comes from a very powerful story about St. Nick.
There was a poor man with three daughters. He could not afford a dowry in order to pay for them to be married. In those days, no husband would take a wife without a dowry. If a young girl didn’t have such a cushion, she may be sold into slavery, or forced to enter the sex trade. St. Nicholas had compassion on the girls, and tossed some gold coins into the window, which landed in a pair of stockings hung by the fire to dry.
His courage, his commitment, his authority, and his kindness, are why Saint Nicholas is featured today for his Testicular Fortitude.
