When you as a man lack purpose in your life, you don't just get sad.

You actually become dangerous to yourself and sometimes to other people.

I mean, look at the statistics.

Look at the young men who are shooting up schools, killing themselves, killing other people.

They have no mission.

In the absence of a mission, they are finding their purpose and their identity in toxic situations.

I want you to close your eyes for a second. If you can, if you're driving, obviously don't do it.

But if you can, I want you to close your eyes for a second.

And I want you to imagine with me a soldier returning home from

a deployment. That soldier has likely encountered firefighters. He's led himself and other men

under pressure. He's had a mission, a real one, every single day, a mission. And then that same

soldier comes home and he's stripped of that mission. It's gone. He no longer is needed in

that context. He's trained to be a hardened warrior. He's trained to accomplish a task. And yet

he comes home and he's lost and confused

and frustrated because his mission is gone there's no orders that he has to deal with there's no

objective there's not even a real clear enemy at this point it's just Friday or Saturday or

Tuesday whenever you're listening to this.

That's the problem right there.

That's one of the most dangerous points in a man's life.

And here's the thing that I want you to know.

You don't have to be a veteran to feel that.

You don't have to be a veteran to understand that when your mission is gone, you lose hope. And millions of

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