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As I continue this series on the skills needed for better manhood, I want to emphasize the importance of life planning and goal-setting. Men, in particular, need plans and goals to succeed in life. It helps them measure their personal and professional success. It helps them navigate life’s challenges and measure progress toward longer-term aspirations. Plans and goals provide structure, direction, and purpose that lead to more success in life. Success improves our self-esteem, enhances all of our relationships, and provides financial stability. Plans and goals create a vision for life, which is an important step toward maturity in adult men.  Disciplines for a Better Life As I have suggested throughout this series, maturity in a young male comes by learning to Manage Yourself Well. This begins as guys learn the hard and soft skills of better manhood and apply several personal disciplines such as:  Notice that the first discipline

The last post in this series on creating a roadmap to better manhood described how the hard- and soft skills apply to a man’s domestic life: his home and his family. This next post explains how good problem-solving and decision-making apply to those skills described in earlier posts to help men reach the level of maturity that the world needs more of today.  Subsequent posts on planning and goal-setting, and developing an awareness of your legacy, are the final marks of maturity of better men that conclude this series.  First, Have Personal Discipline  Throughout this series, I have suggested that maturity in a young male comes by learning to First, Manage Yourself Well. This maturity comes from applying a set of personal disciplines through all aspects of his life, such as:   Each of these disciplines is shaped by one’s personal experiences, cultural influences, and societal expectations. But how a male