hey guys, just wanted to drop in after the Live call this evening and say I’m really grateful for the space to connect and grow together with you all. i committed to completing Man OS Lite by Sunday Evening! What’s one action step you are taking towards your intentions this week?

I had a big long post I did yesterday morning and not sure what happened to it...anyway. Here's the idea distilled down to some conclusions I've made: I used to think intention meant hopes and goals (nice house, happy family). I’m realizing intention is actually deciding what my internal “code” should do instead of what it currently does. It takes awareness first because Awareness = finding the faulty line of code that produces the undesired behavior. Code is code. It will run every time the input is provided, in the same way and produce the same results. You can try to throw in new code to take those results and alter them, but ideally you figure out the bad code and rewrite it. I’m getting better at awareness (looking for the bad code and not just identifying the undesirable behaviors) The problem is my pattern: Become aware > Jump straight into trying to redirect or alter the outcomes. I skip the intention and strategy steps. Result: behavior changes (or seems to), but the code doesn’t. Real change (manOS) works like software development: Identify the faulty code Define intention (what should it do instead?) Design a strategy Take action Use accountability as QA Iterate until it works It dawned on me why a lot of therapy feels broken. Some therapies increase awareness but stop there. Labels and diagnoses become explanations or excuses. Avoidance gets framed as self-care. Awareness without intention leads to stagnation. “This is why I do this” replaces “this is what I want instead.” Growth isn’t thru more insight. Growth is rewriting the code and testing it in real life. The goal isn’t to understand myself better. The goal is to become someone different on purpose. Spaces like this allow us to declare our intentions and have other like minded people be part of that iterative QA. So when I'm tired or defeated and say, that's good enough, someone who knows my intention calls BS and say "you're not done!...but WE'VE got this!"

Great Call tonight Men 🔥! It was a honor to witness everyone that jumped on.

What are you thoughts on the process? This is when the pieces are able to come together to and give a more complete picture of ManOS. Once you've gotten through Day 6, like this post and if you feel called- share what you've noticed so far.

Today, we talked about what was coming up for everyone around the 3 pillars in Man OS Lite - Awareness - Intention - Action Reminder: As you guys are diving into Man OS Lite, I want to remind everyone that the Full Man OS dives even deeper into what it is for you to be a man 💙