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Want Your Next 10 Years To Be Unbelievably Good?

Dan Dore & Steve Horsmon • 3m 48s • 29 January 2024

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Want Your Next 10 Years To Be Unbelievably Good?
Video overview: If you feel unhappy, unfocused, frustrated, or disappointed with where your life and relationship have landed, this video is a wake-up call. I’m talking about what changed things for me personally — and why the next 10 years of your life can become wildly better when you stop drifting and start building your inside game with intention.

What if the next 10 years of your life could be unbelievably good?

I know that can sound ridiculous when you’re sitting in the middle of frustration, disappointment, loneliness, or confusion. It can sound like one of those empty motivational lines people throw around when they don’t really understand what you’re dealing with.

But I’m not saying it lightly.

Because I know what it feels like to look at your life and think, “How the hell did I get here?”

I know what it feels like to be unhappy, unfocused, frustrated, and disappointed. I know what it feels like to have the outside of your life look reasonably successful while the inside feels flat, heavy, and quietly desperate.

A man can have the career, the house, the marriage, the family, the responsibilities, and still feel like something important is missing.

He may not even know how to explain it.

He just knows he isn’t waking up excited. He isn’t feeling proud of the man he’s being. He isn’t feeling deeply connected to his wife. He isn’t feeling much fun, passion, direction, or emotional freedom.

So he keeps going.

He works harder. He tries to fix the relationship. He tries to stay positive. He distracts himself. He tells himself other people have it worse. He waits for something to change.

But waiting does not create a better life.

That’s one of the hardest lessons a man has to learn.

Your next 10 years will not become incredible because your wife finally changes, your circumstances finally cooperate, your stress finally disappears, or life finally becomes easy enough for you to feel good.

Your next 10 years change when you change how you lead yourself.

That is the formula.

Not magic. Not luck. Not some fluffy idea about thinking happy thoughts.

It starts with deciding that your self-worth, confidence, clarity, and happiness are no longer going to be accidental. They are no longer going to depend on whether your wife is affectionate today, whether work is going perfectly, whether everyone approves of you, or whether the future feels guaranteed.

You become the creator of your inner life.

That is a big shift.

Most men are trained to win the outside game. Make the money. Be useful. Provide. Keep the house running. Solve problems. Take care of everyone else. Don’t complain. Don’t need too much.

And many men do that for decades.

Then one day they realize the inside game has been neglected.

They don’t know how to manage fear. They don’t know how to create joy. They don’t know how to build deep connection. They don’t know how to speak honestly without defensiveness. They don’t know how to feel confident unless someone else is validating them.

That is why life starts to feel smaller.

Not because the man is broken.

Because he was never taught the skills that actually make a man feel alive from the inside out.

This video is personal because I’ve lived parts of this. I know what it’s like to feel disappointed with yourself and frustrated with the relationship you’re in. I know what it’s like to want more and not know exactly how to get there.

And I also know what happens when a man finally stops drifting.

He starts telling the truth.

He stops blaming his wife for everything he feels.

He stops waiting for permission to become happy.

He gets around other men who will challenge him, support him, and tell him the truth when he can’t see himself clearly.

He starts asking better questions.

Who am I becoming?

What do I actually want?

What am I tolerating that is slowly killing my confidence?

What kind of life am I creating every day with my choices, thoughts, habits, and reactions?

Those questions can change a man.

They pull him out of victimhood. They pull him out of resentment. They pull him out of the fog of “maybe someday” and bring him back to the only place he has power.

Today.

The next 10 years are built in the way you live today.

The way you talk to yourself today. The way you walk into your home today. The way you treat your body today. The way you speak to your wife today. The way you handle fear today. The way you decide what you will and won’t allow in your life today.

That is where the future is created.

And brother, you do not need to have it all figured out before you begin.

You don’t need to feel confident before you take a stronger step. You don’t need to feel happy before you start creating happiness. You don’t need your relationship to be perfect before you become a man you respect.

You begin before you feel ready.

That is what growing men do.

This matters because the years are going to pass either way. Ten years from now, you will have created something. The question is whether you created it consciously or by default.

You can keep living the same loop of frustration, disappointment, emotional reactivity, and hoping things somehow get better.

Or you can decide that this next decade is going to be different because you are going to be different.

Not fake different.

Not performative different.

Deeply different.

Clearer. Stronger. More honest. More connected. More purposeful. More alive.

That is what we want for you.

Because when a man changes that way, everything around him feels it. His marriage feels it. His children feel it. His work feels it. His friendships feel it. Most importantly, he feels it when he looks in the mirror.

He knows he is no longer wasting the life he has been given.

That’s the invitation in this video.

Not to dream about a better next 10 years.

To start becoming the man who can create them.

Start creating your next 10 years

If you feel unhappy, frustrated, or unsure how to make life better from here, we can help you get clear and start moving again. You don’t have to keep doing this alone, and you don’t have to wait for everything around you to change before you become a man you respect.

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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.