There is a huge amount of pressure on men today.

Marriages are breaking at rates never before seen. Men are committing suicide in vast numbers.

There is no denying that life today is hard. Men losing their jobs, their livelihoods, marriages and children.

The pressure has most men at breaking point. And is there any wonder?

Pandemics.

Lockdowns.

Job losses.

Business closures.

And the list goes on.

The pressure of just being alive right now is unlike anything we have ever seen in the past.

And to cap it all off, as men, we know that the odds are always stacked against us. The rise of feminism, to ridiculous heights has men now, placed below women, who claim, “We don’t need men.”

For men going through divorce, I don’t have to tell you, you already know, that you are going in to fight a losing battle. The justice system (if you can call it that) and the courts are heavily weighted in her favour.

There’s no wonder men today are cracking under the pressure. The constant burden and weight around our necks, pulling us down into deeper pits of despair.

It’s the uncertainty that kills us. The fact that we can’t plan for the future because we don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow.

How many men, like you, were married and happy one day, and the next day, lost it all?

How many of you had a steady job one day, and then tomorrow had been made redundant?

Being you, and being alive today is incredibly complicated. Now being alive is one thing, but truly living, that is another.

I don’t want to talk to you today about being alive. Anyone can be alive. In fact 99% of the people that you know are just surviving and being alive. That is what they do every day.

Their life is just barley hanging on, struggling to survive. They are alive. But they aren’t living. Most people are asleep. Even when they are awake. They follow the same routine, day in, day out.

They follow the system, the norm. They do what everyone else is doing and they just survive. With barely enough time to stop and take a shit, never mind actually think about what it means to truly live a life of purpose.

Most people just deal with the chaos of life and whatever it chooses to throw at them, and hide beneath the sheets at night and just hope that it will get better tomorrow.

And it never does.

Being alive inside all this pressure, your ability to make decisions is being crushed. It seems impossible to avoid the pressure. It is everywhere you look.

There is no escaping it.

The pressure is breaking your marriage, fuelling your obesity and making you ill. Your only escape is through drink and drugs and before you know it, you have an addiction to escapism that you can’t control.

And while you are distracted with all the problems of just being alive, your government is making decisions behind your back to rip the only freedoms you have left, your livelihood and your hope, from beneath you.

But today, I want to talk to you today about what it means to live. To truly come alive, live and prosper.

I want to ask you a question.

What is the path to power in your own life, today?

You see, the pressure that we experience on a daily basis is nothing new. Men have always experienced pressure.

What is different today is that men are not taught how to deal with pressure.

I have been in that place of extreme stress, on the edge of suicide having lost it all. I had no idea how to deal with all the pressure put on me.

I have lied, I have taken drugs, I have cheated, all to try and hide the fact that inside I was dying. All because I had no idea where i was, what I wanted or even who I was.