#1 The Formidable Family Man -- Redefining What It Means to Be The Man, Particularly a Family Man

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In today's episode, we're going to dive into what it means to be a man.

Especially a family man getting a definition or perhaps even redefining.

Since there are definitions out there.

But many of them just aren't working and we want to kind of debunk.

This whole idea that the family man becomes.

This modern music man who hands over his man card and just settles into this mere existence.

Distance thinking he is forfeited.

All his opportunities to really be a man and how he may be makes excuses or tells himself stories that it just can't happen.

And he becomes that iconic guy, that gets made fun of all the time and and doesn't really live life.

As a man, we want to redefine that and I'm going to introduce you to this amazing word.

Formidable what it means and why it fits.

I think so well with, with being a real man, and especially a family man and I want you to This word, remember to subscribe to the podcast and the YouTube channel and connect with us on social media, on Facebook, and Instagram, or LinkedIn.

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Today, I want to stablish a working definition and maybe even redefine, what it means to be a man, particularly a family man.

You know, pop culture has its weak definitions and plenty of mockery and mediocrity.

Interestingly has its own week definitions, but I want to State and fatica Lee that just because it's common meaning average mediocre.

Just because it's common, doesn't mean that that's the way it is or has to be.

And then other men with with really good intentions, have tried to establish definitions, but in a lack of Education or experience.

Come up short.

Now, I'm not saying that that, I know it all and that as a whole I'm right, and they're wrong in a few instances.

I will be so bold to say that.

Yeah, in that, I think they're wrong.

And I'm not saying that I have all the answers, and I hope honestly, this will become a discussion where you'll chime in chime in the comments here, chime in, in the discussions and social media in Instagram or Facebook or LinkedIn and chime in in the conversation and even in the great conversation or what's been called the great debate, right?

As this conversation has been going on for decades, for centuries, really, even Millennia of like what it is, what it what it means to Be a great person.

But in this case, a great man, and a family man in particular, because family, you guys know this, it's the core of society.

It is the fundamental building block of civilization and Society, especially the ones that really work.

And last and we got to care about family.

There's ample amounts of research and evidence out there.

That what happens when we neglect families to us individually and the lack of understanding and meaning and fulfillment.

But also if well and as a family and then as a whole as a society, but there's more to it too.

If we don't we could do it right?

You guys, we could go through the motions.

Of being a man of being a family, man, we could check the boxes.

But that most often leads to misery, right?

And a lack of fulfillment and suffering and blood is just this lame existence instead of really truly living so together because none of us is as smart as all of us.

Let's start with a working definition.

And and I say working, because It has to be something that's evolving and growing that we're adding to it.

Continually, we have experiences, we have insights, we have conversations, we read books, listen to podcasts, watch videos and think, hmm.

That's that's powerful, that's significant.

That means something to me and it'll spark out different times to different people and different during different periods of of your life.

Where it'll principle or practice, something significant will stand out to you and you're like that that has to be a part of my life.

And that's honestly, why is literally why I created, what I call the My Philosophy Journal?

Here's, here's mine.

Right here, leather.

This is leather, journal is My Philosophy, Journal is where I capture the best ideas, the best quotes.

The best insights, this isn't a journal, as most normal journals are run.

I'm documenting things that have happened or whatever.

Is only has the core pieces of my philosophy of how I want to live and be as a man, particularly, as man with family, right?

And, you know, it's been my experience again.

What I'm sharing here is the things that are working.

I've been studying this stuff voraciously for well, over two decades.

I've been teaching it coaching mentoring speaking training, literally across five continents with thousands and thousands of men.

And just had my finger on the pulse of this, for a long time and it just works.

It doesn't just work in my situation.

I'm not trying to make principles out of my own experiences but it's applicable for so many men and that's what we're looking for.

We're looking for these common denominators that we can all add together and say, okay this this is happening and in I'm not please don't misunderstand me here, I'm not boasting or bragging but it's it's rare, it's extremely rare that I Eight men who have read more than I've read or traveled more than I traveled.

It's a rare experience and it man.

I love me with guys like that and that and that doesn't mean that reading and travel.

The only way to get insights, it's that's not true at all.

There's so many ways to learn and grow.

I guess, the invitation here is I want you to be thoughtful and let's all be thoughtful together and let's come up with this definition so that we can lean into and become real men.

And today I want to like emphasize this word formidable, I love it.

I realized that for some people has a negative connotation, right?

And it can be like, you're not approachable or you're intimidating, or it can have a negative aspect, but here's some her, some awesome definitions that I want to share as you work through this.

And and for me, my working definition for myself, is I want to be a formidable, family, man.

Instead of, like, if you were to picture this picture, the the iconic family, man, the one who's being made, fun of right, The, he's on the receiving end of the mockery, from anywhere from cartoons, to movies, to songs to whatever, right?

They see that guy is weak and the despised him picture that guy in your head, right?

And and he has, he's become soft, and he's unhealthy, and he's just, you know, he's weak and he's not really living anymore.

Kind of handed over his man card for family and he's just kind of going along through the motions and it's easy to slip into that, right?

It's easy to let those things go.

Go.

And for me in my invitation for you spend some time thinking about this and even writing about it, write it down and grab, grab your Journal, grab some notebooks, open a document, open the notes on your phone and, and really capture this.

Like, can you describe it?

Could you write it down?

Can you articulate it?

Can you see it?

Can you see yourself as as this man as your best self?

But not the guy that becomes weaker or worse.

But actually gets better.

He gains wisdom and strength.

And he becomes a better man.

A better leader, a better businessman, their husband better, father better in a community at greater influence and insight.

It's all that.

So let's dive into formidable here.

I love this word.

It's such an awesome work.

So here are a couple meetings that I found from a checked into multiple dictionaries and then references online.

So here's, here's some of the ones I like.

And this this came from one particular dictionary, right?

Out of the gates then Very powerful or strong, deserving serious attention and respect.

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Whoa, I love that one.

And it's not it's not that we're going out seeking attention but that you deserve it.

You earn it, right?

This is one of the things I went through created a 7-Day.

Be the family man course, and one of the things, one of the there, they all start with a, so it's the seven A's.

And one of the A's is Authority but it's not the kind of authority.

We usually think of it's the authority that we get from earning it.

That kind of authority.

Authority can only be earned.

It can't be given if you can't get it from a title or a position, it can only be earned.

And this is what I see here in this.

This definition is first definition deserving, serious attention, and respect.

I asked my son, whom he's turning 18 and I asked him, one day, we were having a conversation and I said, what, what is, what is formidable to you?

And we were just having this great conversation with my kids, and with some others and he said, a formidable, man is someone who is dangerous enough to care about?

It's dangerous in a good context and I'll expand on that further in other episodes.

I'm really going to go into that because I love that word.

There's a there's a positive connotation of being a dangerous man.

In fact even have a right here, be dangerous, right?

There's this in the for those of you just listening, it's doing a video as well.

So it's on my hat, I have this house has be dangerous and it's the same idea of this positive definition of being dangerous, but dangerous enough that you have to pay attention to You have to care about it, right?

You can't just dismiss it and so they deserve and even sometimes demand serious attention and respect.

And, and that can be done in so many ways, right?

So if I were to ask you, who are the men that, you know, that they deserve attention and respect serious attention and respect, who are the men, you know, that the demand it not in the come up and tell you to do it, but they're very being requires it.

The way they carry themselves, what they accomplished and it can come from a physical presence.

And even their appearance, it can come from intellect.

And from character some men have this powerful Spirit about them as energy that demands and deserves serious attention and respect.

And it might be the quality of the relationships, it might be the quality of their experiences, it might be the quality of their achievements. and as we as you think, about the whole man, and his whole life, and what he's doing, and who he's becoming, and what he's accomplishing, what his priorities are, where his focus is, That deserves serious attention and respect and literally mostly, I want to talk about and emphasize for your consideration.

It's mostly who he is.

As a man. in Parker Palmer's, excellent book, called the courage to teach He emphasizes the principle that you, you can't not know, that's a double negative there, you can't not teach who you are.

So whatever your subject matter whatever you're teaching, you still always teach who you are, you're being comes out in every subject from from chemistry to physical Ed to, like, whatever.

It doesn't matter whether its history or biology.

It comes out.

Out and it comes through you and it can't not you teach who you are and the same is true, as you carry yourself.

And so the invitation right out?

The gates here is to say well what a reputation are you establishing What image are you establishing for others?

Are you contributing to the mockery and the this iconic lower level kind of definition of what it is?

Have you used your marriage or your children or family life as an excuse as a cop out for being a man?

And you can't we can't even answer that question.

Unless we have the working definition of what it means to be a man.

And so, we start there because you might, there might be some conflict in your head of, you know, there's a lot of mistaken definitions out there and misalignment where you think.

Oh, so I know some guys will say, you know, being a man like, you can't have a family and be a man, according to their definition, right?

But we're trying to rework that whole thing and and this is this is worth discussing and debating and thinking about because it's actually In the public platform.

Now in a major wave, there's a lot of misandry, there's a lot of man-hating and and this whole idea of toxic masculinity and there's a lot going on it and across all society and we'll talk about these things and interview people and go through this as we go through this, this whole podcast journey together and it's important that we participate in it.

First by thinking about it, giving it time and attention it deserves, then by writing about an articulate, and ideas, and then sharing those ideas, and then participating in discussions and debates, we have to get involved.

And we have to help the working definition, not hurt it.

Some of you are hurting it, all right?

You are, you are you're going along and maybe it's maybe it's not intentional.

Maybe, you know, it's unconscious or unintended, but You're not helping.

And you have to own that.

And the example you're setting for others.

I often think about that gentleman. how my example, will influence the decisions that other people make particularly younger people, if they look at my life, And you know this happens because it happened to you and me and happens all the time.

People will look And they'll make observations and judgments and then often make decisions if they look at you and think little man if that's what it's like to be a family man I'm out.

That's an interesting idea and I think we have to take responsibility for the influence we have, for the example, we're setting for the reputation we established.

And honestly the definition we establish for ourselves and for others by our Behavior.

Whoa, there's a lot there's a lot to chew on here and I want you to chew on it.

I really want you to give this the time and attention it deserves.

Let's keep going with these definitions.

The second one is very difficult to deal with now.

That's right.

That has that has a negative connotation like no I don't want to be the guy who's difficult to deal with, but there's a way to there's a different way to see that, right?

And one of the example, definition terrorists, like these mountains are a formidable barrier or it was a formidable challenge, your task.

There's actually a positive side to that and there are situations and people that I think you and I want to be very difficult to deal with for example, bullies or punks people who are crooked and they're trying to take Take advantage of you, trying to deceive you.

I recently had an interaction.

The guy was really trying to, he was trying to pull one over on me, and I can tell he was I won't dive into it, but I was tired.

I could tell.

He does this often and actually as part of his career he does it for a living of trying to take advantage of people and trying to kind of, you know, cause a big scene over on one side.

So you aren't really paying attention to what he's doing on the other side.

And I want to be very difficult.

To deal with for that kind of guy, and those kind of situations.

And for the bullies, and the Predators and the people that are going around, looking to take advantage of people and it hurt people and just be malicious.

I want to be very, very difficult for them to deal with and it's true with, you know, government or politicians or think about in any work organization managers, who are tyrants or business owners are Executives, who who are bullies and dictators and, you know, causing problems all the time, you want to be very difficult to deal with.

So in a real sense, gentleman, I think that can be a very good thing you.

And I for Dangerous Man, in for formidable family men, we are difficult to deal with for those people who want to cause trouble.

I want to be that guy.

I want to be as formidable as those mountains are a barrier to them taking advantage of other people to not just for myself now, just for my family.

But for others I want to step in and I want to defend and I want to protect and I want to be a formidable barrier in between other people who are more vulnerable and and those who would take advantage of them, I want people to think twice or more.

About trying to take advantage of someone, or hurt somebody, or do something that's, that's wrong, or inappropriate, or unethical or immoral.

I want to be that barrier.

So that second definition works for me as well.

The third one is to be large or impressive in size or amount now, you know, you could be formidable physically, right?

And you don't necessarily, I mean, if you're if you're 66 and 280, that's pretty formidable.

That's awesome.

But you can do it in fitness and health.

I would submit here gentlemen, that every one of us needs to have, you know Health.

So to speak, formidable Fitness, you got to be in, fantastic shape and do not use your family as an excuse for that.

Most of you or many of, you know, my story, we started traveling when we had four kids and they were four and under.

So we adopted our our oldest and then had three kids and then we started we realize you don't we love traveling as a family want to try this.

And so we have four little kids, we're traveling all over place.

I had had gym, memberships and was working out regularly.

But when we were traveling, there were either know, Jim's available or couldn't get a membership because we were passing through For a time I thought, man, I can't I can't stay healthy and fit well, because I have little kids.

I'm so busy with marriage and kids, and employment, and owning businesses and traveling.

I just can't do it.

And I got out of shape, but then I was like, no, this is unacceptable.

It's just an excuse.

And if we exercise the little more leverage mentally in our own mind saying, well, what, wait a minute.

What if, what if something really serious was on the line?

What if my life was online?

Could I figure out a way to exercise and stay fit?

Absolutely.

What if millions of dollars are on the line?

Could you figure out a way to stay healthy and fit with no equipment and only short amount of time if millions of dollars are on the line?

Like somebody's going to pay you a million bucks.

If you used a zero equipment and stayed in fantastic shape, the whole year, You do it, of course you could.

And so it really comes down to excuses.

And I want to challenge you to remove that especially family, you don't have to get out of shape and overweight and lose any athleticism or any problems.

Like take care of your body, your body is your vehicle for life and so be fit.

And so some of you can have some formidable Fitness, you don't necessarily have to be huge, muscley, being be fit and there's something to that right?

Whether it's running.

Or swimming or endurance, or weight or strength, whatever that is, but incisor amount.

There's, there's other ways to be impressive or large to have a large vocabulary.

A large intellect, large understanding, right?

That, that's the kind of stuff we should have, as I think about it, and I hope you too, and I hope you're thinking about already.

I hope you're taking notes.

If you can, or you do it later like what are the things you would write down?

What are the characteristics attributes?

Your eye down?

I would definitely include that.

We To have phenomenal, education, a large and even an impressive education.

There's no excuse with with all that's available for us gentleman to let off let up or let off or quit and education.

There's never a graduation from education, you should be learning every single day every day.

And with with as many videos, and audio programs, audio books, podcasts trainings courses, webinar seminars.

There's so much available.

Some of the brightest Minds ever are available to us.

And you can have it in digital form where you can read it that way or have it read to you, or you can take a book.

We travel with books everywhere.

It's so easy and cheap now, to get access to Great Stuff.

The only reason is not happening is because we're cheating ourselves, there's no excuse.

Why, you can't spend a piece of time every day.

Dedicated to your education, and your mind, and your understanding many of Our if we spending time reading or perusing things, we're just wasting time or we're wasting resources.

We're reading stuff that's not worth reading or listening to things that aren't worth listening to.

So, carve out some time, I would say, if I had to throw something out here, it's going to be different for everybody.

For some of you and your situation might be 10 minutes.

A day is all you can throw down, but if I can throw out an ideal, something we could shoot for, I would say a minimum of 60 minutes a day.

Just spent really digging in just studying education and you can start with the great Classics are Classics across all, genres, and Fields and definitely spend some time.

Maybe if we're holding up an ideal here, it's an additional 60 Minutes in your chosen field of study.

The the thing, you're trying to master.

And that's another thing where you can be very strong and impressive in your skill, set in the thing, you are trying your craft right?

That thing you're trying to to own it in lead in your Field.

What could you choose to do?

That would put you in the top 5 to 10% in your industry or field or area.

Like what is it?

You want to be absolutely phenomenal at.

And speaking of that you'll hear me say often or maybe you already have those of you been with me for a while.

I love this idea and it's is so profound to me and I just keep getting Reaffirmed in his truthfulness in order to live an extraordinary life and to be a great man and formidable family, man, you simply have to be great and become great at several things.

You can't just do one or two things.

You've got to figure out how to be great mentally and physically spiritually mind-body-spirit.

You've got to figure out how to be a great husband.

And lover to your wife and father Mentor, coach teacher got to figure out how to be a great businessman and provider and a protector and how be a leader and an influencer.

But you got to get all that dialed in.

And you got to learn how to get really great at creating income managing expenses and managing your Investments right learning how to get money to work for.

You and getting great at really living and living your ideal dream life, whatever that includes for you.

I hope you have hobbies and dreams and goals, and things.

You absolutely love to do that.

Just make you feel alive, and let you up.

As we good at all, that you can just pick one thing and hope the rest of the works out.

It just won't, and I think that's where we get into trouble.

And we're honestly, you end up being a fraction.

Of the man you could be because you don't put in the work.

And the effort and the intentionality, the focus to be really great at several things and being great at the right things, some of you are really great at thinks that genuinely do not matter and do not add value to your life.

So, that's, that's where we put in this work and effort, and again, that makes you formidable because you be lot, your you become large, and impressive, In size or amount across the whole Spectrum.

Man, I love this stuff.

Get her some other ones causing fear or dread or apprehension.

This is from another dictionary again that could be seen as negative and we don't want it to be on the negative side.

You don't want people to be afraid of you or dread.

You're apprehensive of you because because you're angry all the time, you have a crazy temper or because you're so unpleasant to be around so hard to get along with that.

You don't, they don't trust you.

It's none of those things.

In fact I would say if a truly formidable family, man is a man of integrity of character and integrity and honesty like nobody's going to doubt his goodness.

That he is a straight shooter so to speak and they can trust him.

Even if they don't like him, they can trust him.

And even if they don't like him, they respect him.

Because of how he operates.

So it's not fear and dread an apprehension in a negative way, because you, again, it's significant to me, to really carefully.

Consider if you are unpleasant to be around that one stands out to me all the time, I bring it up in my coaching sessions, when working men, I'm thinking about all the time, are you unpleasant to be around?

Is there something that makes you Repulsive to others.

You have a bad attitude.

You complain.

Do you blame you criticize?

You whine and cry.

Throw.

Pity parties.

Are you rude?

You just grumpy.

You talk too much.

Do you talk to little and whatever it is.

Write a great, man.

Formidable family, man, my best definition is going to develop these skills to get along with people and be pleasant to be around.

Now, who will?

He cause fear in or dread or apprehension?

Bad guys.

That's where you want to be.

You want to be because if you think about it, who who did bullies and bad, guys?

Target?

Sometimes we think it's just random.

They just go out and they just randomly.

Go after people, occasionally, maybe but for the most part, a bully or a bad guy.

They're picking targets and they're going to pick targets that they think they can beat.

They're going to prey on people who they're pretty confident, they can get away with it.

So yeah in that sense I want to be the family man who is going to be a formidable opponent and I cause fear dread and apprehension in a thief.

Or bully or some Predator?

Yeah, I want to be that guy.

I want to cause fear and dread and apprehension in the wrong kind of people or people with the wrong kind of intentions.

And I don't want to be that iconic family, man, that I can take this Punk, because he's not going to defend himself or his family, he can't.

And he won't because he's a coward.

He's LED his life get to shambles and so that they take advantage of people like that.

And so I want to be the kind of guy they look at me and then I think twice about I got actually a fear and dread me and I'm going to be able to step in and help the other guys, they can't or won't defend themselves.

All right, here's another one.

Having qualities that discourage approach or attack.

Yeah, again, there's the - piece there, and I want to beat this too much.

You could see that. - like you don't have the qualities that discourage approach, like no one wants to approach you because they're so intimidated by your afraid of you or don't want to be around your near your anything.

You want to be an approachable person, but you want to discourage approach or attack, there's that piece right there, right?

Having qualities that discourage attack.

Yeah, that's the man.

I want to be that I have qualities that are obvious that discourage attack and within moments of people seeing You are interacting with you.

They need to know that you are someone that cannot be messed with the not be taken advantage of.

And it's not that you're rude or mean or you walk up and you're like hey nice to meet you.

Don't mess with me, right?

You don't have to tell people, it just comes out in who you are?

You have those qualities?

That's the formidable family man that I'm talking about.

Oh I love that one.

Here's another one tending to inspire.

Awe, or wonder?

Tending to inspire, awe, or wonder?

And I think that perhaps is probably my favorite working definition, that you become a man.

Who threw his priorities?

His actions, his philosophies, his behaviors, and attitudes his words, his habits, his results.

Key in on that one, your results make you. a person, a man who inspires ah or wonder and so I asked as I ask myself, I ask you, are you doing that?

Or are you least becoming that?

Are you consciously and consistently cultivating the skills?

The mindset, the heart set, the skill set.

To do that.

And to be that.

And so take, take an inventory on your life and this working definition of what.

It means to be a man and a formidable, family, man, take a look at your body.

Is it where you want it to be?

Take a look at your marriage.

Is that where you want it to be?

Your mind, your spirit, your family.

Each of your children. and no longer gentlemen will use any of those things as an excuse Yeah, you might have some disadvantages, you might have some handicaps but who's to say that's not an advantage.

It's not a privilege.

That those obstacles are actually opportunities.

How are your finances house?

Every part of your life?

And the coolest part here is it doesn't matter like where you're currently at or where you're facing where you've been, because what you've been doing in the past has led you to where you are and you can change direction.

Right now, you can resolve and commit with real determination and grit.

That was, that was a little poetic line right there.

I some rhyming.

You can commit with real determination and Grit.

To change directions to change, your course to be that man.

And you can take any condition of your life and every condition.

And start moving them towards the target, but if you never clearly, identify and articulate your target to yourself and to those around you, you can't hit it.

You can't move towards it.

You'll be stuck in this limbo, this going and going, but never actually going anywhere.

And you'll be trapped there.

And you'll feel it and it will be evident to you and to the people around you, and you won't be fermentable and you won't Inspire our Wonder.

And you won't deserve the serious attention and respect that you could.

Become that, man.

Get in a place. and get yourself into place, earn it, create it, like carve it out, Forge it gentlemen, The fermentable men are forged.

And yes, that takes some fire and some pounding, neither of which is very pleasant.

But choose to do it anyways.

I did not feel like taking a cold shower today.

You know what I do when I don't feel like doing something, I do it.

Because movement.

Creates motivation and momentum.

And so I do it anyways, and once you get going and I feel fantastic, I never regret taking cold shower and I rarely want to It's the same with, you know, working out going to the gym, going to Krav, Maga going through the training, doing the hard work, getting on that phone call or having that tough conversation.

You don't want to do it but just do it, get after it, make it happen, care.

Gentlemen, care care about your family care about family in general, be a defender of family and the faith.

Care about the world care about people. care about life, fight, back against the growing plague of indifference and apathy and nihilism and I get it I get how discouraging it can be a frustrating and disappointing people can be But be optimistic.

Anyways, B+.

Anyways care anyways and and when you care and people take advantage of you or doesn't turn out you like you hoped keep caring.

Anyways Be that, man.

And lean into it. and, Identify.

Who it is?

You would be as your very best self at an awesome conversation.

Yesterday, with a good friend, and a coaching client who's facing some some tremendous difficulties.

And I always come back to the question always is, how would your best self handle that?

If you could see in your mind's, eye your best self as a formidable family man.

What does he look like?

What did he say?

What did he do?

What's, how is he different from who you currently are?

It might even come down to something about the way you dress.

The way you carry yourself your posture, your mannerisms.

It's definitely going to come down to your habits and attitudes.

And your routines and rituals.

I promise that guy doesn't waste time because wasting time is wasting life and leaving potential on the table.

So let's lean in fellas.

Let's lean in and get a Clear Vision.

So, spend some time writing about this and again please like connect with me on Instagram or Facebook or LinkedIn on YouTube here, like leave comments like let's, let's get this conversation going and keep it going and and jump in with us in the be the man master class and tribe where we have this community of Great, Men and tools, and training, and resources and team to become our very best.

Self is let's literally why I created the master class and the tribes.

So we'd have a community of men that together can get into all the resources and tools to become that man, to become your very best self.

Now, that doesn't mean we're all going to turn out and be exactly the same, right?

We're going to be vastly different, but there will be common denominators and we will be able to trust each other and work with each other and understand each other fact we're going to be able to disagree with each other without About being disagreeable.

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