You were designed to bear the weight of meaningful and significant change in your life.

You are alive to shoulder the weight of responsibility and improvement and service to other people.

Maybe you had an overbearing mom. Maybe your dad wasn't around. Maybe society or other people. Maybe you had an overbearing mom. Maybe your dad wasn't around.

Maybe society or other people made excuses for you because of your circumstances. And you never

realized, I am meant to bear the burden of responsibility. And you are. With a myriad of conflicts and struggles and challenges that we as men are faced with

on a daily basis, it would be very easy for us to become contentious and frustrated and bitter

towards life and people and circumstances, maybe even God.

I've seen this throughout my time doing this movement and participating in growth for men, even in myself, where it's very easy to put responsibility, burden, and blame on external

circumstances and sources of our frustrations

and contentions. But what I found is the more that we do this, where we begin to put our

blame on other people and outside circumstances, the less likely we are to address and deal with

the struggles of life and the things that were confronted with.

So today I wanted to talk with you about four things in particular that I've implemented in

my life to ensure that I do not grow bitter towards people, towards things, towards experiences,

and towards outside factors, because frankly frankly it just doesn't serve me.

And at the end of the day, man, I think we need to decide what it is that serves us, whether it's

the mindsets and the behaviors and the actions and of course the results relative to the things

that hinder us and hurt us and keep us from our ultimate objectives.

Before I get into the meat of the discussion, just want to share with you my good friends and

partners over at Montana Knife Company.

These guys are not a source of frustration for me, and they shouldn't be a source of frustration

for you.

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