Today's message comes from the Renewed Man Boot Camp. Renewed Man is a systematic teaching and coaching series designed to help men grow emotionally, relationally, and spiritually ... developing the essential character quality of "self-mastery." Even though this community is created for men, the principles are universal -- women will benefit from these insights
as well.
We build this teaching around 12 Keys, and this week, we're focusing on Key 12:
VIGILANCE. Here's how we put it:
12. VIGILANCE - We maintain motivation and vigilance
about our commitment to emotional and spiritual well-being, with sexual integrity being a key ingredient of this. We pursue the journey of self-mastery as a marathon, not a sprint.
Here's one of the daily messages from this week's teaching series. I hope this will help you:
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Our society is not healthy, pulling us in negative directions in a variety of ways. In a recent newsletter, secular anti-porn writer Mark Queppet wrote about the phenomenon of how in our world today, we are being overwhelmed by messages, media, and marketing. He
says that most people today are “just sucking in what our little political or social silo is telling us, and then regurgitating that on social media” and often just doing this receiving and regurgitating without even thinking about these things for
ourselves.
This is one way to describe the dysfunction of the world we're living in. We could also talk about the explosion of mental health challenges, rise of addiction and
suicide rates, the spiritual loss and emptiness all around us. But the point here is not to focus on the bad news.
The question is: What do we do about it? If we see the world around us -- and the people in it -- in a not-so-good place, and we want to separate ourselves from that, what do we need to do? That's what this Renewed Man Community is
all about.
In his newsletter, Queppet goes on say the following — and this is what we are seeking to create with Renewed Man:
The point here is that this is the way society is going, and you'll end up sucked into "The Borg" in some form or another unless you ACTIVELY RESIST IT. Social programming is one of the strongest human forces in existence - if you aren't tapped into a community that is pushing you to excellence, then you are left floating like a leaf in the stream of this unholy abomination that we call modern culture. Even if you say "Mark - I don't need a community to resist this stuff, I'll NEVER sacrifice my morals!" let me ask you a couple
questions:
1 - Do you use
porn?
2 - Do you spend more time than you should on video games, social media, sports, or TV?
3 - Are you giving less than 110 percent toward realizing your mission in life?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, then you ARE being
corrosively influenced by this culture. You can go at it alone like a tadpole trying to swim against tsunami... or you can team up with with some like-minded bros who will help forge you into the great man that you're meant to be. As far as I can tell, tight knit communities of men focusing on becoming *exceptional* men is the ONLY path to realistically save society from
itself.
The way we maintain vigilance is to stay connected and committed to this path, and being part of a healthy and like-minded community is essential in doing so.
NEXT ACTION
Today's action step is to recommit yourself to this group, and to this process -- Renewed Man. Is this group helping you grow to be a
better man? Is there something you can do to make your experience of this group even more helpful? How can you more decisively resist the pull of our dysfunctional culture? Write down the first few things that come to mind.
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Would you like to go "all in" and join the Renewed Man Boot Camp? It's a 12 Week Immersion in these principles. You'll get these daily teachings, a
weekly video on one of the 12 Keys of Being a Renewed Man, and access to a support group and/or a coaching group that I lead.
Find out more about the Renewed Man Program here.
