Episode 243

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15th Jan 2025

The Core 4: The Building Blocks of a Fulfilling Life

Helping you Build a Thriving Life and Conquer Your Everyday Chaos

This week, Reese and David share stories about their journeys of self-discovery, realizing that true success comes from within. Their focus this week is how personal growth is essential for a fulfilling life. They preview the four core areas of personal development and how inner work can lead to a practical strategy for building a better you.

Inside Out: The Common Denominator in every area of life is You


The Myth of Outward Success

  • Chasing external validation and achievements often leads to emptiness. The show discusses the importance of shifting your focus inward.

The Power of Inner Work

  • Inner work is the process of self-reflection and growth. It's about understanding your values, motivations, and what truly matters.

The Core 4: The Building Blocks of a Fulfilling Life

  • The show introduces the four key areas of personal growth essential for a fulfilling life: spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional health.

Spiritual Health

  • They discuss the importance of spiritual health, defining it, and offering practical tips for nurturing it.

Physical Health

  • The importance of physical health is covered, along with its definition and practical ways to improve it.

Mental Health

  • They delve into mental health, and its significance, and provide suggestions for strengthening it.

Emotional Health

  • The episode explores the concept of emotional health, and its definition, and offers practical tips to cultivate it.


Call to Action: The 21-Day Turnaround

A jumpstart program is introduced to build key habits in the four core areas. The program includes:

  • Physical: At least 30 minutes of daily exercise.
  • Spiritual: Daily reading of Proverbs for reflection.
  • Mental: Posting something you're grateful for in the Thriving Man Facebook group.
  • Emotional: Intentionally encouraging someone each day.

The program is designed to take less than an hour a day and emphasizes consistency. If you miss a day, simply restart. The key takeaway is that growth is a journey, and every man's greatest battle is internal.

21dayturnaround.com

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About the Podcast

The Thriving Man Podcast
Helping Men Live a Life They can be Proud of!
Many guys get trapped in focusing on one area of their life at the expense of everything else. It could be their physical health, their career, a sport, or even a hobby. The problem is this: A Truly Successful Life isn't one-dimensional! That is why there are miserable millionaires. Who cares how much money you have if, for example, you have no one you can call a true friend?
There has to be a better approach than this.
The Thriving Man Podcast helps men grow in the 4 fundamentals of their life: Emotional, Mental, Physical, & Spiritual. We help men see that "Success is Inside Out and On the Way!"

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David and Reese Maxwell

Over 40 Years Of Combined Mentoring Experience
David and Reese Maxwell are a father and son duo with a passion to help men live the best life possible.