Category: Basic Training

Friends Help Each Other Find Balance  

This series about Becoming a Well-Balanced Man concludes with a post about how better friendships can help men learn proper balance which is critical to mature manhood. Earlier posts covered The Benefits of Becoming a Balanced Man and how steadiness and stability (synonyms for balance) in our emotional, mental, and physical health, our financial and social life, and spirituality can help us find peace, contentment, and purpose. This last post contains the practical ways to develop friendships that help men learn balance, rather than acting like the immature, unbalanced “boys” we so often see in the world today.    Better Friends = Better Men My book Get Out of Your Man Cave: The Crisis of Male Friendships explains how better friendships help men offset the stress and loneliness that affects our health and well-being. Written as part guidebook, part memoir, and part confessional, the book comes out of my struggle with

Read More »

The Financially-Balanced Man

As I continue this series about Becoming a Well-Balanced Man, I realize I have not covered an important aspect: maintaining financial balance. Financial balance – let’s call it financial stability, supports your adult lifestyle without undue worry or stress. It also provides security to pursue your long-term aspirations. As with the other areas a man needs to find balance, financial stability increases your satisfaction, happiness, and fulfillment with life. The series includes previous posts, The Benefits of Becoming a Balanced Man, and others on Emotional Balance, Mental Balance, and Physical Balance. After this post about financesyour money, I will conclude with one about Social Balance, followed by the need for spiritual balance since all are critical to becoming a well-balanced adult man.   Men Need Financial Balance  Becoming financially balanced typically means achieving a state where your income, expenses, savings, and investments are all managed in a way that supports your

Read More »

The Benefits of Becoming a Balanced Man

My last post, Becoming a Well-Balanced Man, stated that one of the marks of mature manhood is learning to balance your emotional, physical, mental, social life, and spiritual well-being. In this follow-up post, I describe the benefits of becoming a well-balanced man with a healthy equilibrium between physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual balance.  I’ll then continue to a few posts on how to achieve harmony in each of these areas.  When Men Are Best In that opening post, I stated that we needed men who are both good at being a man and being a good man. Being good at being a man means having the knowledge of all the soft and hard skills needed to become a mature adult man. (You can find out more in my post, The Complete Roadmap to Better Manhood, which includes links to all the posts in that series.) Being a good man

Read More »

The Financially-Balanced Man

As I continue this series about Becoming a Well-Balanced Man, I realize I have not covered an important aspect: maintaining financial balance. Financial balance –

Read More »