171 – What Moves You Forward? - a podcast by Alf Herigstad

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WHAT MOVES YOU FORWARD?My name is Alf Herigstad, I am your host and fellow man in the trenches.  I will be guiding you into this labyrinth of manly musings.
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OK men.  Here we are, at the conclusion of another week in our life.  They just keep stacking up don’t they?  the days, weeks months and years…they just keep rolling along.  Time keeps moving forward, it cannot be stopped.I think it’s important, as men to not let the wave of time wash over us and leave us behind.  If you aren’t paying attention, if you get lazy or complacent, time can roll right over your head and leave you sitting there…a stagnant, echo, of a man that could have been.I know thats a little abstract, so I’ll explain it in more concrete terms.  I’ll define what kind of guy I’m talking about.
We have all known guys like this, perhaps we have even been this guy ourselves…or are right now.  It’s a guy that has got caught in a rut.  At some point he found a job that will do, a relationship that works ok, and friends that he knows what to expect from.  Where he lives is adequate, and his routine is predictable.  Then he just stops.He stops initiating change, he stops wondering and dreaming.  This guy stops attempting to alter and improve the world around him because he has accepted his mediocrity and has become comfortable in his complacency.
For a guy like this, it’s like he is caught in a time loop.  Years can pass with no real measurable change in his circumstance.  Time has moved forward without him.This can happen at any age from high school to old age.  Younger guys might retreat into the fantasy of video games.  Older guys might retreat into the soul-sucking trap of their careers…living to work instead of working to live, or they might just give their life over to the TV every night, or a bottle of booze, or whatever.
The problem with this in my opinion, is that human males were not designed to languish.  We were not designed or programmed to become complacent.  It is therefore contrary to the nature of our soul, and over time it will rob you of your joy.I have seen guys who, after several years wake up out of their stupor of mediocrity.  They look around in their life like they are surprised, they are wondering what happened.  How did I get so fat?  Why is my life so miserable?  Where did all the time go?
Some guys wake up too late.  They accept their fate and slip back into an unconscious form of existing.  For other guys it’s a huge walkup call and they begin living as vital men once again.My suggestion, is that you avoid slipping into this malaise altogether.  So how can you assure that this is accomplished?I believe that each one of us need something, or several things, that will move us forward every day.  If time is always moving forward, then we need to also be moving forward at the same rate.
At any moment, you

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