Top Ten Ways To Be A Better Man?

// November 17th, 2009 // My Thoughts

Ok I admit it … There are guys that I am jealous of,   They make being a man look easy.   These days life distracts us and we can easily just check out and forget what it means to be a man.  Following are some things that I am applying in my life to be a better man.

10. Take some time out and evaluate your daily routines to make sure you are carving out some time for the family. Cut back on the TV and just hang out.
9. Start actually listening to your wife… Look at her while she is talking and give her your undivided attention just for a little while each day.
8. Wash some dishes,  Sure we all drop a few things in the dishwasher but how about taking care of all the dinner dishes a few times a week?
7. Pay attention to how often you gripe and fuss about trivial things that don’t really matter.
6. Cook breakfast on Saturday morning…have fun and be inventive! Get good at it!
5. Start being more assertive with decision making and learn to have an opinion about things instead of being indifferent.
4. Look for a new common interest that you share with your wife… research and spend some time getting to know more about her.
3. Make a conscious effort to be involved with your kids, set aside some time to spend with them
2. Evaluate your moral behavior… Are you involved in pornography, drug abuse, alcoholism, gambling?  confess those things to someone and get connected to an accountability partner,  better yet confess those things to your wife and make her your accountability partner…

1. The number one way to be a better man… (drum roll please)  Just focus on being more like Jesus!  Serve others first and yourself last… its really just that easy… the other 9 ways are really just dealing with symptoms and not the real problem…Guys like us are just selfish… if you can learn to be selfless then you find it easy to be the man that you want to be.

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8 Responses to “Top Ten Ways To Be A Better Man?”

  1. Momma says:
    November 17, 2009 at 10:48 pm

    Great post!!!!
    Where’d ya learn all that????/

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  2. Mulled Vine says:
    November 18, 2009 at 4:09 am

    Good list and very appropriate to me. Thanks for the honesty.

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  3. Larry Clark says:
    November 19, 2009 at 1:23 pm

    Jason, Another terrific post. Gonna check you out on YouTube. Have a blessed Thanksgiving. Your bro Larry

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  4. jasonthebaldguy says:
    November 19, 2009 at 3:00 pm

    Thanks everyone! Glad you enjoyed this post!

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  5. greg rice says:
    November 23, 2009 at 8:27 pm

    very good post , but I'll opt for a different (slightly) #1: choose daily to make GRACE the dynamic for all the other changes and behavior modification; put a little differently, remind myself whio I am in CHRIST, and what has been done (irrevocably) for me and to me, and then get busy acting out of gratitude. Maybe your #1 includes this, so I hope you don't mind me meddling…..it's what I do :-)

    G-dog

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  6. greg rice says:
    November 24, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    Sooner or later in this life we get invited or commanded to do something. But in that doing, we never become the subject of the Christian life nor do we perform the action of the Christian life. We are invited or commanded into what I call prepositional participation. The prepositions that join us to God and God's action in us within the world—the with, the in, the for—are very important, but they are essentially a matter of the ways and means of being in on and participating in what God is doing.

    part 2…….sorry for the length…….

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  7. greg rice says:
    November 24, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    this makes my point much better than my chicken scratches above….but then it was written by Eugene Peterson from "Transparent Lives" an article found in the Christian Century. Enjoy.

    Christian spirituality is not a life-project for becoming a better person. It is not about developing a so-called deeper life. We are in on it, to be sure, but we are not the subject. Nor are we the action. We get included by means of a few prepositions: God with us (Matt. 1:23), Christ in me (Gal. 2:20), God for us (Rom. 8:31). With, in, for: They are powerful, connecting, relation-forming words, but none of them makes us either the subject or the predicate. We are the tag-end of a prepositional phrase.

    end of part 1

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