On our podcast recently (Episode 64) we discussed millennial manhood with a couple of studs named Michael and Jordan. Man, what an episode! Frankly, I wasn’t on the episode and heard it on the Monday it dropped, like everyone else. I had been battling some deep discouragement and this episode totally turned me around!!
If you’re struggling, go listen to it here right now!
There were so many great tidbits in the episode, but the overwhelming takeaways for me were two:
The Lord has got this! Your life, our crazy country, the challenges we face, all of it! He is worthy of trust and the best is yet to come!
Mentors and reverse mentors are an absolute necessity in life.
That’s what I want you to see right now.
You need other men, if you’re a dude, or women, if you’re a gal, to have access to your heart, mind and soul. You need to be giving your best self to others and you need to be gaining from others, both older and younger than you, RIGHT NOW!
Never again do life without real partnerships. Never again!
Never again view mentorship as olde-to-younger only. We need reverse mentoring because the perspectives are so vastly different and powerful.
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
Don’t ever do life without this - ever again. And if it’s missing from you life, start the prayerful pursuit now.
Here are a few tips to get started:
Ask God to help you find the right persons to receive from and to give to.
Watch other men (or women) more closely and notice the ones that either inspire you with their strengths or with their transparency - and hopefully both. Choose authenticity over talents every time, by the way.
Date them. You will find the best of these relationships the way we found our spouses - date a few. You may have to kiss a few frogs, but everyone has something to offer and you’ll be better for the experience.
Don’t ask for a lifelong commitment. Just ask for a season of conversations and an agreement to decide from there where it will go next. (Maybe a series of 5 coffee times and then a decision?)
Give more than you take.
You can do this and you need this!
Thanks, Jordan and Michael!!!!