Failure comes in all shapes and sizes, so how do you resist the ego and move forward? Failure is not an identity. Failure is an event. How can you have a successful failure?

Planning to fail doesn’t mean expecting failure, but a plan to learn. Here are some steps to recover quickly and renew your purpose as an exceptional man.

Step 1: Define Your Purpose and Goals (God-Centered)

Step 2: Anticipate Possible Failures

Step 3: Check Your Ego and Cultivate Humility

Step 4: Learn from Failure and Take Action

Step 5: Surround Yourself with Accountability

Step 6: Align Your Perspective with God’s Sovereignty

Step 7: Create a Personal Growth Plan (Taking Action)

How can we adapt a training mindset as a Christian man?

How does this connect with the instruction in the Scriptures?

• For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come. 1 Timothy 4:8, NIV

• All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17, NIV.

Timothy is a young and new leader that Paul is pouring into and challenging him to be “equipped” for every good work.

Equipping connects with training. Training is the mindset of exceptional men. If you desire to be exceptional, take on the training mindset. Tom and Chad discuss this and much more in this podcast episode.

Chad referenced Gary Thomas's book that explains some environments in which people grow.

1.    Naturalist- finds God in nature

2.    Ascetic- is drawn to discipline

3.    Traditionalist- loves historical things

4.    Activist- comes alive spiritually in the middle of a great cause

5.    Caregiver- meets God in serving

6.    Enthusiast- loves to grow through interaction with people

7.    Contemplative- is drawn to solitary reflection and prayer

8.    Intellectual- loves God by learning

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Men, you were built for more than mediocrity and passivity. Get in the game! You're not a role player; you're a starter. Get action.

In this episode, Chad and Tom discuss the purpose of being a man, and how a man can be exceptional by practicing some actionable qualities. They, also, show you some faulty stereotypes that have tripped up other good men. At the back end of this episode, they drop some nuggets of truth that may surprise you.

Chad and Tom referred to a book named The Measure of a Man by Gene Getz. This book is not as popular as Jordan B. Peterson's or John Eldredge's work, but it is just as valuable. Chad and Tom weave in and out of what manhood and masculinity are and what they are not.

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