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ManTalks Podcast

Five Steps I Used To Unf**k My Life

ManTalks Podcast

Connor Beaton

Relationships, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8591 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

At a men's weekend, one of the guests asked me to give a simple breakdown of what I did to climb out of the wreckage of my life. While life is always more complicated than some 5-step solution, these are the biggest, most impactful steps I took—just in time for the new year! (00:00:00) - Intro(00:00:40) - Stop lying(00:03:03) - Do what you need (but don’t want) to do(00:04:30) - Replaced coping mechanisms with generative habits—one at a time(00:06:06) - Do some more of what you love(00:07:13) - Learn to regulate your nervous system, aka get better impulse control Pick up my book, Men's Work: A Practical Guide To Face Your Darkness, End Self-Sabotage, And Find Freedom: https://mantalks.com/mens-work-book/ Check out some free resources: How To Quit Porn | Anger Meditation | How To Lead In Your Relationship Build brotherhood with a powerful group of like-minded men from around the world. Check out The Alliance.  Enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the tools and training they’re looking for. And don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts  | Spotify For more episodes, visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, team, welcome back to the man talk show. Today I'm going to give you the five steps that I use to unfuck my life.

0:09.3

I've been thinking about this for a long time. One of the guys that came out to a men's weekend recently was asking me, you know, he read my book and he was like, listen, man, I feel like my life is a mess. And I'm curious about

0:23.0

the like simple tactical things that you did on a daily basis to actually get your shit together,

0:30.4

you know, to live a better life. And so I've put together a few things here that were really,

0:36.1

really impactful. And I'm going to rip through them.

0:38.7

So number one is I stopped lying. I was a chronic liar. I was a classic withholder of information

0:48.2

that was probably my go-to way of lying, lying through omission. So I would just omit certain details. I would leave

0:55.8

certain things out. I wouldn't talk about certain things. You know, when people asked me directly,

1:01.3

I would find a way around answering. And I had a very good way, which is, you know, in hindsight,

1:09.5

at the time, I think I thought it was like this great trait

1:12.7

that I could talk my way out of anything, like I could really talk my way out of anything.

1:17.2

But what I started to realize was that that got me into more trouble than almost anything else.

1:24.6

Because while I was charismatic and like smooth talking sometimes, I also could get out of

1:31.4

things that were genuine. I could get out of having to tell the truth about something. And that

1:38.3

really left my life damaged. It really screwed my life up because in many ways, most people didn't really know who I was.

1:45.9

And I didn't feel like most people really knew who I was because I didn't want them to know

1:49.8

because I didn't like who I was. And I didn't like who I was because guess, ta-da, I was lying

1:55.9

all the damn time. And so it might seem small and insignificant, but my challenge to you is for the next

2:04.3

72 hours to catch yourself in the act of lying, of not telling the truth, of embellishing

2:10.8

something, whether it's in a story to a colleague or a friend or a family member, and call

2:15.6

yourself out. Just call yourself forward and say,

2:17.8

hey, listen, actually, I think I got that wrong. Or you know what? That's not right. You don't

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