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Want More Respect Appreciation Confidence Sex & Money?

Dan Dore & Steve Horsmon • 3m 36s • 27 September 2023

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Want More Respect Appreciation Confidence Sex & Money?
Video overview: If you want a better life and relationship, more respect, more confidence, more appreciation, more sex, or more money, the real question is not whether those things are possible. The real question is whether you are willing to become the kind of man who creates them instead of waiting, hoping, complaining, or reacting to whatever life gives you.

Do you want a better life and relationship?

Of course you do.

You probably want more respect. More appreciation. More confidence. More sex. More money. More peace in your home. More fun in your marriage. More clarity about where your life is going.

And if a man is honest, he doesn’t just want those things in theory.

He wants to know if they are actually possible for him.

Because maybe right now life doesn’t feel like that. Maybe your marriage feels tense, distant, sexless, or disappointing. Maybe you don’t feel respected in your own home. Maybe you feel like you’re working hard, doing your best, providing, showing up, and still not getting the life or relationship you thought you were building.

That can wear a man down.

And when it goes on long enough, he starts lowering his expectations.

He tells himself, “This is just marriage.” Or, “This is just what happens after kids.” Or, “I should be grateful.” Or, “Maybe I’m asking for too much.” Or, “Maybe I’m just not the kind of man who gets what he really wants.”

Brother, that is where men start dying slowly inside.

Not dramatically.

Quietly.

They keep working. They keep paying bills. They keep being useful. They keep doing the outside game of life while their inside game gets weaker and weaker.

They lose their sense of direction. They lose their confidence. They lose their playfulness. They lose the feeling that they are actively creating their future instead of just surviving the one they accidentally ended up in.

That is the difference we are talking about in this episode.

The men we coach are not guaranteed a magical life because we can control their wives, their businesses, their bank accounts, or every circumstance around them. That’s not how life works, and any man who has lived more than five minutes knows that.

But we can say this with confidence.

When a man goes through the right process, he is guaranteed to create a different future because he becomes a different creator of that future.

That is the point.

Most men try to change the future by trying to change circumstances first. They want their wife to change. They want the sex to come back. They want more appreciation. They want more respect. They want business or money to improve. They want the outside world to give them the signal that they can finally feel confident.

But confidence created by circumstances is fragile.

If she’s warm, you feel good.

If she’s cold, you fall apart.

If work is going well, you feel strong.

If money is tight, you doubt yourself.

If people appreciate you, you feel valuable.

If they don’t, you become resentful.

That is not freedom.

That is emotional dependence with a busy calendar.

The process we take men through begins somewhere deeper. It begins with who you are being. It begins with what you believe about yourself. It begins with what you are making your life mean. It begins with your values, your standards, your self-respect, your emotional strength, and your ability to act from clarity instead of fear.

That’s the inside game.

And once the inside game changes, everything else has to change because you no longer show up as the same man.

You stop begging for respect and start respecting yourself.

You stop chasing appreciation and start living from your own values.

You stop needing sex to prove you’re attractive and start becoming a man who is grounded, alive, and desirable from the inside out.

You stop hoping money will make you feel safe and start making clearer, stronger decisions about how you create value in the world.

That is not positive thinking.

That is identity-level change.

A man who knows who he is behaves differently. He speaks differently. He listens differently. He handles rejection differently. He handles conflict differently. He makes different choices with his time, energy, body, business, marriage, friendships, and future.

That is why the results change.

Not because he manipulates life.

Because he becomes more aligned with what he actually wants.

A lot of men have never asked themselves what they truly want. They have spent years doing what was expected. Be responsible. Make money. Keep the peace. Take care of everyone. Don’t complain. Don’t need too much. Don’t rock the boat.

Then they wake up in midlife wondering why they feel invisible, resentful, and disconnected from themselves.

They built a life, but not necessarily their life.

This work is about changing that.

It’s about becoming deliberate.

What kind of man do you want to be?

What kind of marriage do you want to lead?

What kind of energy do you want to bring into your home?

What kind of future do you want to create financially, sexually, emotionally, spiritually, and relationally?

What are you no longer willing to tolerate from yourself?

Those questions matter because they put you back in the driver’s seat.

Not in control of everything.

In leadership of yourself.

That’s where respect comes from. That’s where confidence comes from. That’s where appreciation often starts to return. That’s where intimacy has a chance to breathe again. That’s where money and opportunity can begin to shift because you are no longer moving through life from fear, resentment, confusion, or passivity.

You are creating.

And yes, that is a process.

You don’t become this man by reading one book, watching one video, or making one big promise to yourself after a bad night with your wife. You become him by doing the work with other men, practicing new skills, being challenged, telling the truth, and learning how to hold your center when life does not immediately give you the response you want.

That’s why men need men.

Your woman cannot take you there. She doesn’t want to be your coach, your mother, your therapist, your confidence source, and your reward system. She wants to feel a man who is already becoming solid in himself.

That is what we help men build.

A better future is not created by wishing harder.

It is created by becoming the man who can create it.

And when a man does that, he stops asking whether he is allowed to have more respect, more appreciation, more confidence, more sex, more money, and more direction.

He starts building the life where those things naturally belong.

Create the future you actually want

If you’re tired of hoping your life and relationship will somehow change on their own, we can help you become more deliberate. Talk with a coach and learn how to build the confidence, clarity, and self-leadership that creates a better future.

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About the Hosts

Steve Horsmon & Dan Dore | Certified Professional Men’s Coach

Steve Horsmon and Dan Dore have spent over a decade supporting good men who are confused, frustrated, and afraid that their marriages and families are falling apart with no idea what to do about it. We've both experienced the same emotions that you're going through now. We know what it feels like to try all the mainstream try harder, be nicer advice while watching things continue to get worse. And that's exactly why Goodguys2Greatmen exists. Since 2012, we've coached thousands of men through some of the hardest periods of their lives; marriage breakdown, emotional distance, sexless relationships, fears of divorce or separation. We focus on practical solutions to help you survive some of the most challenging and painful experiences that a man can go through. This podcast is for men who are done waiting for their life and relationships to improve and are ready to make some bold decisions so that you become more calm and confident and start moving toward what you really want.