Brain Power Burns

“You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.” -Shawn Achor

While navigating through this thing we call life, staying healthy, being a productive member of society, law-abiding, and trying to become the best version of myself; the main thing that goes through my mind 24 hours a day is not “crashing out”. What it means to crash out as a man is to do something that will be drastic and can severely negatively affect your future. Whether it’s staying in a relationship or marriage that can destroy you emotionally, physically, and financially; trusting the wrong person to live with, or not managing your money effectively; etc.

There are a plethora of things that can happen to a man that can lead to him crashing out, but no matter the fuck up, setback, or mistake; the most important thing to do as a man is to find any way possible to gain some mental toughness. Mental toughness is not a quality you either do or do not have. Sure, some people may have greater self-discipline than you possess. Some people are better at resisting temptation than you are, but that’s probably not because they were born with a certain special something inside of them, instead they’ve found ways to develop mental toughness and use it when it really matters.

I’m mentally strong because I’ve taught myself how to be, learned the laws of human nature, and studied…