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Men’s Mental Health and the Role of Christian Faith

Health & Wellness, Mens Perception

In today’s fast-paced world, many men face immense pressure in balancing work, family, and personal goals. While society is becoming more aware of mental health issues, men often struggle with expectations of strength and resilience, making it difficult for them to openly discuss feelings of anxiety, depression, or stress. Fortunately, many find that incorporating Christian faith into their lives can be a powerful source of mental health support, offering comfort, purpose, and a sense of community.

Finding Peace in Prayer

One of the key ways that the Christian faith can support men’s mental health is through prayer. Life’s challenges—be it job stress, financial worries, or relationship issues—can feel overwhelming. In these moments, prayer offers a direct line to God, helping men express their struggles, fears, and anxieties. Rather than bottling up emotions or feeling the need to face everything alone, prayer allows men to lay their burdens before God. The act of prayer itself can provide a sense of calm, reminding individuals that they are not alone in their journey.

For many, the Bible offers profound reassurance, like Philippians 4:6-7: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” This simple act of turning to God can bring peace to the troubled mind, easing anxieties and promoting emotional well-being.

Strength in Community

Church communities can also provide a vital support network for men. Whether it’s attending weekly services, joining a small group, or volunteering, being part of a faith-based community fosters connections with others who share similar values. In a world where men are often expected to “handle it all” on their own, having a community of faith offers encouragement, accountability, and friendship.

Many churches also offer support groups or counseling, where men can talk openly about mental health struggles in a non-judgmental setting. Knowing that others in the community face similar challenges can reduce feelings of isolation and help men feel more comfortable seeking help when they need it.

Purpose Through Faith

A key component of mental health is having a sense of purpose. Christian faith encourages men to see their lives through a larger, spiritual lens. Instead of focusing solely on worldly success, faith encourages individuals to focus on love, service, and humility—values that can reduce the pressure of always having to achieve more.

Knowing that one’s worth is not based on career status, income, or outward accomplishments, but rather on being a child of God, can provide immense relief. It encourages men to let go of perfectionism and to focus on living a meaningful, faith-filled life. This spiritual perspective offers a sense of hope and direction, which can be particularly helpful in times of uncertainty or personal struggle.

Faith and Forgiveness

Another important aspect of Christianity that promotes mental well-being is the concept of forgiveness. Often, men carry burdens of past mistakes, guilt, or shame. Christianity teaches that forgiveness is available to all through Christ. Accepting forgiveness allows men to let go of their past, enabling healing and growth. This sense of grace can ease the emotional toll that guilt and regret take on mental health, offering a fresh start and the ability to move forward.

Conclusion

Christian faith provides a foundation of strength, peace, and hope that can significantly improve men’s mental health. Whether through prayer, community, purpose, or forgiveness, faith offers a refuge from the pressures of everyday life. While professional counseling or therapy may still be needed in some cases, faith can be a powerful complement, helping men embrace vulnerability and experience healing from within. You can help maintain your faith by wearing faith jewelry or decorating your home or office with sacred art.

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5 – Tips on Making Some Extra Cash This Month Via The Web

Mens Perception

With Christmas just on the horizon November is the perfect month to get your hustle on and try to make some side cash to boost your monthly wages. The traditional approach to this would be to spend less and try to pick up some overtime in your job, both methods can of course work well, but there are better ways which you can find online. If you expect to become an online millionaire in a month then we are sorry to let you know that this just ain’t going to happen, you can however secure some extra cash this month with these online tips. 

Online Gambling 

If you visit an online casino then you may just be able to make yourself a little bit of extra money this month, as long as you are careful and smart in your approach. There are of course no guarantees that you will make money, but it is certainly worth chancing your arm. Most online casinos offer a welcome bonus which will match your first deposit or give you free money to play with, which is how you may be able to make some extra bank this month. Check out some strategies online, pick the casino with the best offer, and then try to turn that into some cold, hard cash by the end of the month. Choose a game that you are comfortable, like online poker in New Jersey, which has a lot of fans making some serious money out of it.

Freelance Writing 

There are a number of freelance sites online which can put you in touch with clients who are looking to have content written for them. As long as you are able to write articles which are pertinent, informative and grammatically correct, you may be able to turn this into a nice way to boost your monthly income. Put together some samples of your writing work and apply for as many jobs as you possibly can.

Online Surveys 

Filling out online surveys is another way in which you can make some additional cash online, and you can do so whenever you have some time to yourself. There are many websites which offer these surveys on behalf of their clients, each will earn you a different sum of money which can be between $0.25 and $5. The more surveys you are able to fill out, the more money that you can make. This of course won’t make you rich, but it will provide you with the chance to make at least an extra $100 this month. 

Flipping 

A highly successful way of making some extra bank is to hit the yard and garage sales around where you live, armed with your smartphone. When you see toys, games or items which you think may be worth something, check on eBay to see what they sell for, if the price is higher than what is being asked, grab it, list it and sell it on for a profit. Sometimes you’ll find that the product has sold before you even get home! 

These are just 4 very simple examples of how you can use the internet to spin yourself some extra income this month, why not give them a try?

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Set Some Serious Life Goals This September

Mens Perception

As we slowly move away from summer and into the fall, we approach dangerous couple of months with regards to where we are in our lives, both physically and emotionally. What generally happens is that there is a summer come down, the warm weather goes, the nights draw in, and everything begins to change. In the knowledge that Christmas is just around the corner, which is followed by NYE, it can be easy for us to settle into a couple of months of comfort, before reviewing our lives ahead of the new year. This year however, we won’t do that, this is the year that we will be invigorated and use September like it was the very first month of the year. Let’s use this September to set and get started on some important life goals, and here is how you can start.

Dream Board

The dream boat is a great way for you to get started with your goals planning, and you can really use it to inspire and motivate you further down the road. The idea of a dream board is simple, a notice board which acts as a reminder for you to, as to what it is that you are working towards. Take a day and put your dream board together, think about all of the things that you want to achieve in life, find something that represents that visually such as photo or a piece of writing, and then put it all together on your board.

Just Doing It

We can all be very good at putting up obstacles as to why we can’t do something that we say we would like to, but let’s make this September the month that we just go ahead and do it. For example if you have always wanted to play a musical instrument, go find some deals on music instruments, download some teaching apps or hire someone, and just get started. If we are all honest with ourselves, we know what we want to do, more often than not we all know how, so let’s just get it done this month.

Using Christmas

The best way to look at this time of year is not with an eye on relaxing and planning to change once we get to the end of the year, but rather to get a head start on everyone else. Imagine if you get to New Years, and you are already well into your resolutions, imagine having lost weight before christmas and then being able to enjoy it guilt free. The best part about getting started with your life goals now, is that come next year, you are going to be even more pumped than you usually would be, because you are already making headway.

Life doesn’t operate in seasons when it comes to completing your goals, get them listed, inspire yourself and go make this September the beginning of the next chapter.

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So you lost the race for US president, now what?

Mens Perception

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Hillary Clinton has certainly had that feeling of late publicly admitting that there were times this week when she didn’t want to leave the house again. A good percentage of the world was with her on that. But where are the other second placers that couldn’t quite push the voters over the edge? We take a look at the world’s best nearly men in the last 20 years.

Mitt Romney, 2012

Mitt who? Oh just the guy who lost to Barak Obama in 2012. Admittedly it isn’t a defeat by Trump, but worthy of some decent moping time nonetheless (although apparently not enough to dissuade him!)

A Republican party candidate and Mormon (go figure?!) Mr Romney tried his luck again in 2016 but was rejected. Let’s face it; they did him a favour.

Since then Mitt has filled his time sitting on the board as a director for Marriot International and presumably playing golf.

John Kerry, 2004

Right there in the Hillary Clinton camp of nearly men is John Kerry. Losing out to George W Bush in 2004, this man narrowly misses out on first place in the list of most embarrassing presidents to lose to (we’ll let you take a guess at the first).

He replaced Hillary Clinton as 68th Secretary of State in 2013 and currently remains in charge of foreign policy as one of the four most important Cabinet members in the US….presumably also playing golf.

Al Gore, 2000

Right at the centre of a very public Florida recount alongside George W Bush is Al Gore. Bill Clinton’s former Vice President missed out on the Presidency by one Electoral College vote, because losing to a man who considers ‘misunderestimate’ wasn’t enough.

Since accepting defeat Al has received a Nobel Peace Prize for his environmental work plus created a box office success. Some would argue Al achieved more in the years since running for President than the President. Some.

Bob Dole, 1996

The oldest and quite possibly the most interesting nearly man in the last 20 years, Bob lost out on the race for President to Bill Clinton.

Since the loss he has worked in legal services and television industry as well as being a spokesman for the likes of Pepsi, Dunkin’ Donuts and Viagra. Arguably the safer Presidential candidate for his inability to have a sexual relationship with any woman…it was too easy. Ironically, he has also written books about jokes told by US presidents.

“As you look at past failures with your current eyes, you realize not only that they’ve brought you closer to what you are now, but also that they’ve made you a more complex, perhaps an even more interesting person,” Bradatan says. “Failing an exam when you were 18 was catastrophic at the time, but it caused you to take a detour, which allowed you to have some experiences without which you cannot conceive of yourself today. The fabric of our lives is always made of such failures,” he adds.

In their study, King and Hicks note that it is indeed painful to think about a lost possible self. It causes regrets, distress, and lower well-being. Not surprisingly, then, the more salient a possible self was for subjects, the less happy they were. However, subjects who scored high on both maturity and happiness later painted more vivid and richly detailed portraits of those lost possible selves than did others, but reported that they did not think of them often. Essentially, those who have failed should ideally generate an elaborate picture of their loss, but then go on to seldom call that portrait to mind. Rather than shoving it out of their minds forcefully, they might first flesh out the counterfactual life—the life in which they reached their particular dream—to investigate which precise aspects of that life seem so desirable or important to them, and why. Then, with this self-knowledge and recruitment drive, they can move on, without unproductive wallowing in what could have been.

So there you have it Hillary. There is life after Trump! A life filled with Nobel Peace Prizes, joke books and Viagra. You may also have to take up golf.

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Entrepreneurs Cannot Afford to Ignore the Benefits of an MBA

Mens Perception

Many pundits on the relative merits of business school say that entrepreneurs should stay well away, despite the fact that the founders of some of today’s most successful startup companies, from Tesla Motors to Yelp, have a Master of Business Administration. Talented, smart individuals who have an idea they want to introduce to the world should not be quick to dismiss MBA programs. They can give you a competitive edge, help incubate your venture through structured support and funding, and turn you into a versatile thinker.

Competitive edge

A practical and theoretical understandingof business can give entrepreneurs a huge edge before they begin to bring their venturesinto the world. Entrepreneur-focused MBAs also tend to attract ambitious, independent, and talented individuals, all of whom become part of your peer network. At any good business school, you will learn as much from your peers as you will from your professors. Finding a school with diverse students who come from a huge array of backgrounds, work experiences, and countries will help you make the most of your MBA experience. It will also make sure you get a chance to work with them. For example, an Integrated Core term at a Canadian business school is both a crash course in integrated business fundamentals, and a chance to cross-pollinate with bright minds from very different backgrounds.

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B-school incubators

Business school provides a testing ground for your idea, where the cost of failure is small and your ability to bounce back is greater. In the real world, making the wrong decision can prove to be a major setbackto your idea. At b-school, you have a tremendous amount of support from your peers, professors, and mentors. You have a chance to learn from your mistakes before they end your adventure.

Besides acting as valuable testing grounds in their own right, competitive b-schools also have their own incubators where you can work and earn your degree at the same time.LaunchPad is one such program, and potentially the only of its kind in Canada. Candidates who get their ideas accepted into LaunchPad are given space to work in one of three incubator spaces, including Kitchener’s Communitech Hub. Communitech is an enormous digital media incubation centre that has helped hundreds of start-up companies, andsome of the brightest minds in Ontario’s tech triangle rub elbows. Check online to find out more about how the best Toronto MBA programs foster ingenuity in today’s educational marketplace.

You don’t have to start your own business

If you value an independent spirit and want to find fresh ways of looking at business problems, but you’re not interested in bringing your own idea to market, you may still have a lot to gain from an Entrepreneurship MBA. Employers right now are fighting for graduates who have practical knowledge andexperience generating new revenues and weathering economic downturns, all things that startup ventures need to know if they’re going to survive. Startups themselves can benefit from employees with MBAs as they navigate investors and reach their scaling stages. A surprising 92% of startups fail, three-quarters of them because of premature scaling. They need talented MBAs to help them turn their great ideas into scalable ventures.

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Tis’ The Season for Shopping…and Saving!

Mens Perception

Tis’ the season, and you know what that means, time to shell out on a bunch of gifts for people!  While you’re almost guaranteed to put a smile on anyone’s face who receives one, you can expect the same grin from your credit card statement too.

Don’t blow all those saving you worked so hard to save up this year. In this day in age, you can save a ton of money by buying things online, and especially by opting to use powerful online coupons. Groupon Coupons now offers more than 70,000 of them and you won’t even have to sign up to any of those annoying lists to utilize them. Just go to the coupons tabs on the Groupon website and you can see how many there are at your disposal. From Brookstone to Travelocity, you’ll be able find discounts on everything. Check them out!

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