Why Fitness Matters For Fathers

I remember a specific day at the beach years ago when I was undisciplined and sloppy.

It should have been perfect. Beautiful weather, beautiful wife, amazing kids, but I couldn't get out of my own head.

Just years earlier I was ripped, confident and discipled now I groaned taking my shirt off.

Instead of focusing 100% on my family I was hoping my wife wasn't taking a video of me.

I was selfishly focused on my own frustration.

We stopped for ice cream right before we arrived and I could have said no, I knew to say no, but I didn't.

Even worse I knew we would stop at a retuarant on the way back and knew I would give in again.

I used to have the discipline to prep a weeks worth of meals in the fridge and eat chicken and broccoli while other staff ate pizza. I wasn't tempted at all. I just smiled and was happy with myself.

My roomate at the time even won a years worth of chocolate that stayed in our condo and I didn't have a bite for the entire year I lived there.

I was poor, no family at the time, but so happy and proud of who I was.

Fast forward to the day at the beach... I make more money, have the family I dreamed of but I was miserable...because I wasn't proud of who I was or the model I was giving my children.

Even if I was a multimillionaire I still would have been miserable. As long as I was dissapointing myself, I would always be frustrated.

A broke disciplined man is happier than a rich sloppy man.

Now that I'm years past this time, in the best shape of my life, disciplined, leading my family with joy and have coached hundreds of men inside my group coaching program Men Of Fire to do the same,

I know that my family gets the best me, when I am the best me.

I know who I should be and what I am capable of.

When I don't live up to that man, my conscious let's me know and that's what steals my presence.

It's the pounding message in my head of YOU ARE BETTER THAN THIS

The more I try to ignore it with food, alcohol, or comfort the louder it gets.

This is now my perspective, and what you need to realize if you find yourself where I once was.

Look inward, not outward.

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