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This series on Becoming a Well-Balanced Man is covering the importance of learning to maintain balance in your emotional, mental, physical, social, and spiritual well-being since all are critical to becoming a mature adult manhood. This next post describes why men need mental balance and suggest provides some tools ways to improve your balance of personal and professional lives.   Why Become Well-Balanced? First, I have to state I am not a trained psychologist or medical doctor. But I do understand the importance of staying mentally balanced after my struggle with workaholism that teetered on depression several years ago. I have also read a lot over the years on the issues men face today, especially mental health, suicide, and anger. As I wrote in The Benefits of Becoming a Balanced Man, maintaining balance helps improve a man’s self-esteem, sense of purpose, accomplishment, and growth. Balance helps boost our confidence and self-worth,

The opening post, Becoming a Well-Balanced Man, in this current series on maintaining balance stated that learning balance was critical to becoming a mature adult man. This included balancing all the aspects of a man’s life: his emotional, mental, physical, social, and spiritual well-being. The second post, The Benefits of Becoming a Balanced Man suggests that finding balance helps boost your confidence and self-esteem, sense of purpose, and accomplishment. It also fosters adaptability and builds greater resilience which helps men manage their challenges and setbacks effectively. In this next post, I describe the importance of emotional balance; quite often the most difficult of these areas for men. Subsequent posts will cover physical, mental, social, and spiritual balance. The Difference between Emotional and Mental Health First, let’s understand that there are key differences between our emotional and mental health. Both are important to our overall well-being. Both affect how we behave,