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Mental Health - Everyone has a Story

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius

Everyone has a story to tell, whether good or bad or challenging or epic, everyone has a story to tell that’s worth listening to.

Let’s stop for a blog post. 
Let’s stop to talk about something near and dear to my heart. One of the many reasons I write this blog, likely the most important reason and the ‘why’ around sharing these lessons on living a life of harmony. Health, particularly men’s health but not limited to men only. It’s for the career-oriented, adult-responsibility, busy-living individuals out there and a greater issue among this group, a lack of fitness and health well-being balanced off with driving careers and raising families. 

It’s not only about physical health though. It’s about mental health as well, in my opinion this is the most important piece. 

November is coming this week, which also means Movember. The re-named month of the moustache. But it’s not about the moustache, it’s about a much greater message than some funny, embarrassing, off-normal attempt to grow moustaches. It’s about fundraising for Men’s Health issues but mainly around building awareness for the health issues men face and would have generally avoided due to social normalcy.

I’ve signed up for this month, growing the mo and committing to running 60kms for the 60 men who die each and every hour to suicide.

Mental health, everyone has a story to tell that’s worth listening to. If we listen close enough and actually hear the story we can actually learn so much from others. 
This month is about men looking after men and men being voices telling us to look after ourselves, we simply need to listen. 

I write my story down a lot. Self reflection, awareness, and journaling or blogging helps me to connect with the things I’m achieving in life but also the things I may be failing at and need to work on. In terms of mental health, this is one aspect I use to understand what’s going on in my head and in my life to make the best of it.

For the marathon I did just that, wrote a lot about what I was going through; my fears, progress, challenges, obstacles, and balance. I self reflected a lot, which also takes much time out of your day. It’s also one of those aspects where you slow down to speed up. Such a simple thing in life but helps you to really take steps forward, often when you didn’t even know you needed to step forward. I attribute much of my mental capacity to push through a marathon and training for one through really understanding my mental state. I take time daily, often a couple times a day to write...I did it when training and still do it now. 

Everyone has a story to tell, this month is about men telling their stories to other men to engage them to look after their health. It’s about loudly telling the story so other men don’t struggle through the same without support.

Physical and mental health, living a life of harmony can help lower or eliminate the issues with both of these. Harmony within work, family, health, fitness, and writing or self reflection.

Tell your story; daily, weekly, writing, video....doesn’t matter, simply tell your story.


DadBud

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