Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] What's up, y'all? Welcome back to one percent man podcast. And today I want to talk to you about the reality of emotions for men. The truth is your emotions don't always matter, right? I would love for society to tell you that your emotions matter. I'd love for you, probably your wife, probably your girlfriend, probably your mom, your dad. People want to tell you that your emotions actually matter. No, they don't. Sometimes what you need to do is you need to put them aside and deal with the problem of situation and then come back and pick up your emotions, right? You cannot be emotional all the time. You cannot. You cannot. You cannot. If you're emotional all the time, you won't get things done, right? The same emotional person that is crying, for example, for myself, being a father, I can't put my daughter to sleep and me crying the whole time, right? Or I can't. Or I can't try to protect my family. If an intruder comes in my house and I'm emotionally crying, or if I hear a weird noise at night and I go and investigate, I can't be super emotional, right? I have to be aware.
[00:00:58] So a lot of times, men, you have to compartmentalize your emotions, handle the problem, and then pick those emotions back up later. That's why I say you should have a journal and you should be journaling. You should order the 1% man journal and get it and journal every single day. Because at the end of the day, what happens is there a lot of men have years of emotions built up in them that they have never dealt with, and they don't have a safe space or a place where they can go and divulge some of the darkest and most dangerous emotions whatsoever. When I was in the military, I had a great conversation with a guy that was in special operations and all that. He told me to start journaling because for him, was he.
[00:01:40] He was. He. He was. He was a killer. Let's just say he was a psychotic killer, right? He could. He killed for the country at the end of the day, right? So what he had to do is he. He went to therapy. And with him going to therapy, they told him, hey, have a journal. Journal about your thoughts, right? Your most darkest and most evilest thoughts can go into this piece of paper, right? And then no one should ever touch your journal. At no time, anyone should read your journal that you don't allow to read your journal. But I'm going to tell you this. My journal is probably the darkest place that I have for myself. I keep it. I Let all my darkest thoughts go there. I go curse people out, I go kill people in there.
[00:02:16] All the dangerous things that I need to do, and maybe that isn't acceptable to society or it's going to help move my relationships forward. I go in there and I let it all out, I air it all out in there. And then I come back into the real world and I'm able to have normal conversations with people. I'm able to say, okay, cool. I get that off my chest, right? I get the super emotional piece of being angry or being frustrated or being upset with whatever is going on. I let all that, all that consuming fire of emotion into the journal. Now I'll tell you this. At the beginning, it didn't feel good. I wanted to hurt people. Somebody hurts me, I wanted to hurt them, right? But then I learned after a while, if you really want to make it into this world and in society, you have to be a man that controls his emotions. And the best way to control your emotions is to let them out in a super healthy way.
[00:03:07] And that is by journaling. That's by going to a combative sport like jiu jitsu, boxing, kickboxing, something that lets you let that aggression out, right? For example, like say this morning I had a migraine from hell. A migraine from hell that like literally just like was decimating my mind, right? It felt like somebody was trying to crawl out of my head. But all that pent up emotion, I got upset at my family, right? Said some things that I probably shouldn't have said. And then even though I journaled that morning, but I went back journaled, let all that out right there, right? That I really, the stuff that I really, really wanted to say, I let it all on there. Then after that I went to go work out. I pushed myself. I was cursing just the air out, I was punching the air, all that, letting all those grievances out. Because as men, we do need a place to let go all these emotions, right? Because there's a lot of times, like I say all the time, we don't always get to handle emotions right away, right? We don't. So what we need to do is we need to find a place that's super healthy for us to let those emotions out. They let them out. After that, you come back into the real world and then you move forward with whatever you're doing. So with that being said, I hope you pick up what I'm trying to drop for you. So with that said, have a great day and remember, you are not a consumer.
[00:04:29] You are a creator. So this is your affirmation for the day is I am a creator, not a consumer of content. Create more than you consume and start where you are.
