Death for [a Christian] is not an ending, it's a beginning. It's not a disaster, it's the greatest benediction that life can offer because it takes you into the glories of eternal life.
—John MacArthur
A man has only 5 ways out of depression;
1. Making money.
2. Hitting the gym.
3. Believing in God.
4. Chasing his purpose.
5. Building a loving family.
If you feel down, go all in on one.
You'll feel better within a week.
Guaranteed.
5 events that change a man's life forever;
1. Being broke.
2. A friend betraying him.
3. The death of his father.
4. Getting his heart broken.
5. Realizing nobody is coming to save him
What else changes a man's life?
If you can stay consistent in the gym for years, you can stay consistent in anything. Most people just haven’t built that muscle yet. Discipline transfers. That’s the real value of training.
You're a man
Never spend all day in the house.
You'll end up depressed.
Go out. Connect with people. Make friends. Take the risks. Have a good time and learn.
At the end of the day it's about what you did.
Go out and do things.
20 PLEASURES IN LIFE THAT ARE UNDERATED;
1. Lying in bed on a stormy morning and not having to get up.
2. When you have had water in your ear all day, and then that nice fuzzy moment when the lukewarm water leaves your ear.
3. When something stuck between your teeth finally gets out.
4. The moment you see the waiter/waitress approaching on the horizon with your food.
5. Opening up your windows after a long, cold winter. When the breeze brings the smell of flowers and fresh mowed grass into your bedroom.
6. That little window of time where you're lying in bed awake just on the precipice where you could fall back asleep for another hour or two if you wanted, and then you realize you can.
7. Being finished with something you really dread doing. It's a huge weight off your mind and a sense of accomplishment rolled into one.
8. After a weekend away, going number 2 in your own bathroom.
9. When you're able to genuinely make another person(s) laugh.
10. Waking up feeling rested. It happens so rarely, that when it does you feel like you can take anything on that day.
11. Having a fresh-from-the-dryer load of laundry thrown on top of you.
12. Getting scratched by someone you like/of the opposite sex.
13. Having the song on the radio finish at the exact instant you pull into your driveway and turn off the car.
14. Hearing that gentle crumbly sound your vacuum makes when it picks something up.
15. Fresh sheets on your bed.
16. Laughing. We do it all the time but I think we take it for granted how pleasurable it actually is.
17. First gulp of water after walking home on a hot day.
18. Taking skiing boots off after a long day in the mountains.
19. Taking off cold wet socks and putting on dry new ones.
20. Going to bed after taking a shower.
Once you realize that anything can happen; sickness, death, lose your job... Literally, anything in the blink of an eye, you become very humble. Tables turn and that's how crazy life can get.
Bro, always pray, stay humble, and be thankful.