Regardless of what your family, friends, society might tell you, your reputation as a man is

absolutely vital. It's imperative because your reputation as a man is almost like a business card,

a calling card for people that tells them what to expect from you and also tells them who you are.

So if you have a reputation for being late,

for being lazy, if you have a reputation for being undisciplined, that tells people about who you are as a man. That's tied directly to how people will interact with you. It's tied directly to how people will view you and build a relationship with you.

It's tied directly to whether or not they can trust you as a man.

And so one of the best things that you can do is to look at your reputation, to analyze it very clearly and ask yourself the question and ask the people around do the question,

what do I have a reputation for, both in a good way and a negative way, right? Because you certainly

have some strengths and some attributes that people can rely on you for. Maybe you're somebody that

has a reputation for being assertive, for being direct, for having really solid

leadership skills, right, for being able to influence the people around you. You know, I just had

Jason Wilson on the show and that podcast will be coming out in a couple weeks, but he talked about

being on the Joe Rogan show. And he said, you know, I can tell a really good leader.

I can tell a really exceptional leader by the team that he has around them and the way that

they treat clients and guests. And he said, the moment that I walked into that studio,

all of his team were exceptional. They were kind, they were strong, they were assertive,

they were direct, they were compassionate. They were really friendly and they were really great to get along with.

But I knew exactly what was expected of me.

And he said that quality of leadership builds a reputation.

So you begin to have a reputation of that.

And I think one of the interesting things that we see in our culture and our society today is that when a man comes under attack socially, it's generally his reputation that gets attacked first, right? It's generally his reputation that gets attacked first. Think about it. That's how important it actually is. So his character and his behavior and what he does, those are the types of things that will get put out about a man when cancel culture comes for him, right? Oh, he's disrespectful. Or he talks about this way, whatever that might be. So they'll start to undermine his reputation first. So the best thing that you can do

for yourself as a man is to begin to look at what is my reputation? What do I have a reputation for?

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