(‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies)If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Mindset is everything. The most powerful force in your life. Set it on winning, and you’ll be a more powerful man.
Work hard. Every Day.
Nothing good comes free. You’ve got to earn it. If you want to be a more powerful man, you’ll have to earn that. So work hard. Grind at everything you do.
Surround yourself with winners.
They say you are the sum total of the 5 people you spend the most time with. Are you hanging otu with losers? Or are you surrounding yourself with powerful men that will teach you how to dominate?
View Failure as your teacher.
Everybody fails. Stop looking at it as the destination. It’s not wrong to fail. It’s wrong to not learn from your failure.
Become a student of leadership.
If you want to become a powerful man, you have to study leadership principles. It will do you no good to have power and have no clue how to use it.
Serve people.
This may seem counterintuitive, but the truth is – if we want to be great — if we want to be a more powerful man and to dominate – our perspective can easily become warped. It’s about serving people. It’s about helping people. That is how you will gain influence, wealth, or whatever it is you seek. The true rewards though are not in position or power, but in relationships.
Be disciplined
If you want to be a more powerful man, you have to train. If you wanted to be able to lift more weights, you have to discipline your body and train it to be stronger. The same is true in every aspect of your life.
Have integrity
They say power corrupts. If you want to be a more powerful man, but you don’t have a foundation of integrity – it means nothing. And integrity in and of itself will help you build and grow your influence.
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!
The Creative Man is our weekly feature to showcase creativity, music, art, poetry, and more. This week, we feature a live concert special from Austin, Texas performer JD Casper and his band as they play at The Beez Knees.
In this episode of the Manlihood ManCast, Josh Hatcher shares some quotes from stoic philosophers. Stoicism is an interesting philosophy that was popular in the Early Greek and Roman Empire. That philosophy has had resonance all throughout history. No manmade philosophy is perfect – so if you poke at it long enough, of course you’ll find something you disagree with. There’s a bit of a resurgence in Stoic philosophy these days, almost in a counter to the more emotionally driven and amoral culture that has been stirred up these days.
Stoic philosophy teaches the development of self control and fortitude to combat and overcome destructive emotions.
You can see why that would resonate with some today, and be quite controversial with others.
Marcus Aurelius was a Roman emperor, born in 121 AD. He is known for his treatise on stoic philosophy entitled “Meditations.”
“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be One.” – Marcus Aurelius
“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.” – Marcus Aurelius
“If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Choose not to be harmed — and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed — and you haven’t been.” – Marcus Aurelius
“It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.” – Marcus Aurelius
Lucius Annaeus Seneca was born in 6BC in Spain. He was popular in the Roman empire, and was a statesman and leader of the people.
“If a man knows not which port he sails, no wind is favorable.” – Seneca
“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.” – Seneca
“Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.” – Seneca
“How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?” – Seneca
Epicetus was a Greek Philosopher born in 55 AD. His work was very popular with Christian thinkers of the day. He was born a slave, later freed. He grew up mostly lame.
“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?” – Epictetus
“Curb your desire—don’t set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need.” – Epictetus
There are more modern stoic philosophers as well.
Viktor Frankl was a 20th century psychiatrist and neurologist and holocaust survivor.
“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.” – Viktor Frankl
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor Frankl
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
– Viktor Frankl
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
