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Many men are living their life with unnecessary baggage. No, I'm not talking about our weight!! I'm talking about the reality of emotional baggage in men. Emotional baggage weighs us down and often changes the way we live and interact with other people. Men can try to ignore the reality of their emotional baggage, but it does affect all aspects of our lives as men. If we want to explore our full potential as men we must recognize our baggage. Today's show will discuss the three main areas of baggage that men carry around.

Old Hurts

• Many men are carrying around old hurts like abuse, abandonment, or betrayal
• The problem is we aren't the best at dealing with these things
• Too often we nurse them and keep them inside of us
• Men also come up with plenty of excuses for why they don't deal with old hurts

Old Hangups

• I use the term old hangups to describe negative habits we picked up when we were young
• The problem is we are still dealing with them today as adults
• We often start them for one reason, then they control us
• They are bad for us because they keep us in a non-growth cycle
• Old hangups are a special case for men and they need outside help to overcome them
• We need help because the old hangup is usually a surface issue based on an inner problem

Old Guilt

• Have you ever said or done anything dumb in your life?
• I'm talking about the big things that we did that were wrong
• We may have been the bully, the betrayer, or the player
• This is a problem for us because it becomes a soundtrack in our heads that keeps us from growing
• We are constantly beating ourselves up in our heads over it
• This soundtrack skews our view of ourselves and how we live
• We need to deal with it and get rid of it
• The key is to deal with our old guilt and not let it hang around in our lives