Your Three Most Influential Role Models

FOR MALES ONLY BUT GIRLS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME!!!

OBJECTIVE: Determine and Emulate Your Three Most Influential Role Models.

We as men need to practice originality and accept who we really are. If you are a geek, be a geek. If you are smart, be smart. If you are an idiot, stop being an idiot. Simple? Well, no not really.

To help us with originality we need to recognize there are three men that will lead us to have a better sense of goodness, purpose, greatness, and happiness in our lives. Understanding who these three men are and by following their exemplary lives you can relate any challenge they had into your own life.

These three mentors make up who I like to call “your man” or essentially who “your man” is. My “man” is different then any other “man.” My “man” would do something different than what “your man” would do in any given situation. Your uniqueness comes from male influences you have had in your life. It’s good because woman like you for who you and what you are going to become. Oh, and most important. Your man is a lot cooler than you think. He is the man no matter what. Remember that.

I suggest you begin by researching and reading up on past or modern day heroes that you admire. Maybe you look up to them because they were a cool hero. Maybe they were a good father or husband. (The person may be alive or decease and cannot be a super hero. This should be someone you look up to that you don’t know personally.) Your hero could have done many great things. He could have been a leader. He could have been a no body. Just make sure you can identify him as someone influential in your life or that has made a positive impact on you.

Now that you have a few in mind reflect on those that you DO know that have made an influence for good in your life. Preferably, someone you have a good close relationship. For example a father, a grandfather, a brother, a friend, co-worker, etc. This person doesn’t need to be alive as long as they have influenced you. Pick someone who you would look at and say, “He is the MAN!” Contemplate on a few of these people. Why is this person the most influential person in your life?

Narrow your list down to only three of your best. I use three because three is a low number and easy to remember. It’s not too big and it’s not too little. My three are: Jesus Christ, my brother Tyler, and my life long friend Jeff.

Do you have your three?

Take a look at your list of three again. Make sure that it is a well rounded representation of who you want to be. Make sure your list covers all aspects of your life that you want to get better at or excel at. If you want to be a good writer, friend, and father then you should pick a good writer, a good friend, and a good father. You should stretch your self. Don’t pick easy people and above all choose great people. Like a wise man once said, “No man can become great unless he stands upon the shoulders of greatness.”

Emulate Your Three Most Influential Role Models

The goal is to be like your three mentors. Its what makes up you, your “man,” and your uniqueness. Put into practice what you’ve learned about your role models. Do what they would do in any given moment. Don’t be someone you are not. However, be who you know you should be and that is a good person. If girls don’t like you for who you are or who your “man” is then ask yourself, “What would my hero do?” or more specific, “What would MacGyver do?”

You will find a source of goodness that will flow from you. Others will notice a change of heart and you will desire to be better. You will do what you know you should do. You will enjoy serving and loving others unconditionally around you. You will make the right choices more often. In conclusion, as the imperfect men we are, we will make wrong choices but with every choice we are given an opportunity to make a right choice. If we make our selves better by emulating our role models we will become great. If not better than the greats before us.

Sucking At Golf Makes It More Fun

Yea its true. Sucking at golf on purpose does makes golf more fun. Why you ask? Well, lets face it… we all suck at the game of golf. Everyone who has golfed for the first time knows and didn’t completely disagree with their buddy who said, “Dude, you are gonna to swing and miss the ball at least a thousand times today.” You might know the feeling.

You know it’s really too bad that in the game of golf there is so much pressure to do well. People are so worried about making an good impression with those they golf with. Many golfers believe it or not cheat to impress other golfers and/or to win because of the intense pressure to excel. That is so not classy bro.

So take a deep breath and drink a Tiger Woods Gatorade and start sucking at golf cause… well, you DO!!! If you realize that fact you won’t be swearing like a sailor when your ball makes a similar torpedo explosion when it goes in the water. Kaboooom!!!!

My Advise: Dress down a bit and wear a Hawaiian T-shirt. Heck, even take off your T-shirt and get a tan. Who cares if its the middle of winter. Take off your shoes and socks and roll up your pants to hit the ball out of a puddle of mud. I promise your fellow golf buddies will appreciate the result. Slam or tap on the breaks while in your cart to surprise the other rider and see how loud or long you can make it screech (eeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrr!).

Oh and my favorite!!!!!! Use your putter to chip out of the sand trap. Make it a competition or something. You never know until you try it. Hopefully after testing out my advise you will soon see that golf, even though it has its bad connotation as the most boring game ever, if you “suck it up” enough, it can be the funnest game on the planet.

*Mega Important Note*
Don’t golf like a dork with people you should impress like your Boss, Business Partners, an Apostle, and/or your future Father-in-Law. This is when sadly, the only time golf truly does suck. Good golfers know your have to be on your best behavior because there is no streaking, no cheating, no pantsing (zoink!), no mulligans, no diving for balls in the pond, no swearing (which I don’t do), no changing scores, no credit cards, and absolutely no “Your Mom is Hot” jokes. Simply put, golf is no fun with those people. You just got accept the fact that it’s just going to suck.

Anyway, just have fun out there!!!

Clarifications and Believing

First, a few brief thoughts. The Man Theory is not a way of getting girls or dominating them. That is not cool at all. The Man Theory is to make you a better person.

The Theory should help give you a boost in your quest to find a wife and help those who need a swift kick to the head because they sit at home all day playing video games expecting that great girl to fall from the sky. I know!!! Why isn’t it that easy? Dudes, just let the games go and care about something other than most head shots in game and start caring for a someone that can care for you back. Now that is meaningful.

The Theory will help you realize that you need to start caring for someone because you are +28 and not washing your own clothes or maybe you are washing your clothes but ran out of detergent and used a bottle of bleach instead.

The Man Theory is a accumulation of what I have seen male roles in my life do to either succeed or fail in their role as father, husband, and priesthood holder. I have seen families torn apart and I have seen families grow together. Either way, the Man Theory is becoming “somebody.”

Shakespeare once said, “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”

According to what the great man Shakespeare wrote, I would like to think that we all were born great men and all of us will achieve greatness, but not all of us have greatness thrusted upon us. I think that is a decision we make in our own minds. You need to take a personal check on who you really are. Realize your greatness and how unique you really are.  You were born great and you will achieve greatness. You just need to begin believing that you are “The Man”.  I really believe that.

The Start of the Man Theory

Welcome to the Man Theory. The Man Theory is becoming that person you know you should be. This blog is to test out some ideas. It actually is what my dream job would be. That is write a book called The Man Theory and then be a public speaker promoting it.