Everyday is a holiday for gym enthusiasts:

Arm Day, Back Day, Leg Day, Chest Day…

It’s a great concept. Train part of you to the point of failure. Then, as it recovers and grows stronger, train something else.

Don’t limit that to the physical.

Train your character, too.

Train your heart to failure.

Metaphorically. Obviously.

But if you don’t find the limits of your heart, your mind and your strength, the world will. It will show you those limits all too cleanly.

Many men flinch when I speak of fighting Evil. It sounds violent and risky. It doesn’t have to be.

And it’s less violent and risky than sitting down, hiding and hoping the wicked don’t notice you. Evil schemes are best defeated in their conception. Waiting until some dark tyrant sits on the throne is a dangerous play.

If you train your body, you should train your soul.

And you train your soul the same way: start small, then steadily build up.

It also means training properly. Some folks think that fighting Evil means flinging memes at demons. Unlikely. Do something that makes a difference.

And while you’re doing that, sharpen your weapons. Learn. Advance your mind and develop your senses.

Seeing Evil for what it is helps you fight it.

And fighting it helps your heart grow stronger.

Metaphorically. And maybe literally too.

Find your real strength when you resist the wicked, and become the man the world needs by reading Why You Should Fight Evil:

https://christianhypnotism.com/fightEvil

Yesterday, I talked about the concept of getting better as a person.

I didn’t call it “personal development”.

Or “growth”.

Or “evolution”.

I called it advancement. Your advancement as a man should be a priority – a guiding star in your life.

It all means the same thing but, for now, the life coaching industry hasn’t drained it of all meaning through overuse.

And I’m glad I took some time to find that word. I’m a fan of “evolution” – it’s a continuous, natural adaption and refinement that comes from facing nature’s challenges.

I like it.

But, apart from being vague and tired, there’s been a problem with the term from the beginning:

Evolution has zero future orientation.

It’s great at focusing on the present. Whatever is useful today – not yesterday, not tomorrow, today – endures.

And it’s okay at the past, with each organism lugging around the genetic legacy of those who came before.

But it doesn’t factor in the future at all.

“What about, say, squirrels evolving the instinct to bury acorns for the winter? Isn’t that planning for the future?” How did squirrels evolve that? “Well, their ancestors-” Exactly. Squirrels hide acorns because it worked before, not because they foresee it working now.

Advancement, though, has a strong orientation towards the future. The future is where what you’re advancing to lives. Calling the coaching I offer “evolution” was selling me short.

It’s advancement. It’s taking you from where you are towards where you need to be.

I don’t know what advancement will look like for you. You might have some issues to sort out, businesses to build or dreams to chase.

Whatever the case, part of it will involve fighting Evil.

Fighting for a cause you believe in fires you up, focuses your attention and refines your skills against reality. It’s a fantastic way to become a better man.

They call it a baptism of fire for a reason.

And fighting Evil can be simpler than you think. Evil is everywhere. The cosmos is a target-rich environment. You have your choice of schemes to thwart and ideas to dismantle.

Answer the hero’s call and read Why You Should Fight Evil:

https://christianhypnotism.com/fightEvil

One giant leap in his advancement.

If you’re stuck, then you lack power. The ability to reposition yourself is essential, a key part in adapting and overcoming.

And one of the best steps you can take is backwards.

Children respond to their emotions as if they’re real, accurate and important. It’s all-caps, always – they’re never upset but UPSET. Every pleasant thing is sublime beyond compare. Every bad experience is the greatest tragedy.

Who are adults but tall children?

We all have moments where emotions hit us hard. Some of them don’t make sense. How you respond defines who you are.

Recently, I felt pissed off at one of my mates and I couldn’t tell you why. He hadn’t done anything to earn that. So I took a step back from my anger and examined it, curious about where it was coming from.

Giving into the anger would have been folly if it was all on my end. I was tired, hungry and wrestling with some minor back pain. Or maybe I was being jealous or resentful of him.

But ignoring the anger would have been folly too. Maybe he was doing something, prodding some boundary I needed to reestablish.

This applies to much of life.

And the ability to step back and examine yourself is a vital tool in the fight against Evil. Most sinning is weakness in the moment – an ineffective response to a bad situation. Talk with people indulging in a vice right now, and you’ll find folks who are scared, frustrated, tired, lonely, miserable or bored.

The ability to step back and examine yourself is a powerful weapon.

Use it wisely.

Another powerful weapon?

My book, Why You Should Fight Evil.

Evil is everywhere, including in your heart. And it mostly looks mundane and harmless. It’s not. Your duty as a Christian and as a man is to learn how to root out Evil from your life.

Step back, see Evil and strike.

You’ll have a clearer image of your foe once you read this:

https://christianhypnotism.com/fightEvil

Whenever I talk about Why You Should Fight Evil, things tend to get heavy.

Of course it does. This has a lot of weight. What could be bigger than fighting Evil?

That said, one of fiction’s biggest villains – the Joker – expresses it best:

“Why so serious?”

He’s right. I should loosen up about this.

Yeah, this battle matters. That’s the point. The fight against Evil is far too important to be taken seriously.

I’m only so intense about this because you need to get into the fight. For our sake. For your own. Just do it, however you can help.

Once you’re in the fight, though?

Well, then your focus should be on staying in the fight. And a great way is to make resisting Evil fun and satisfying.

If it involved literally slaying demons, there’d be no issue. As gruesome as that sounds, it also sounds deeply cathartic.

Oh well. You’ll just have to turn your own quest for spiritual excellence into a game.

By hunting your own sin, weakness and folly.

Or designing your own Iron Man suit – like the Armour of God as described in Ephesians 6.

Or by turning this into a roleplaying game. Even character creation can be fun. What stats and feats do you need to be heroically righteous?

It’s up to you to figure out how to make it a game.

In the meantime, here’s the player’s handbook:

https://christianhypnotism.com/fightEvil

No civilisation falls in a sudden, climactic burst.

Whenever it looks like it did, that was always the final moment in a lengthy saga. Take a mighty oak tree. If a storm snaps its trunk in two, the tree has been rotting for a while.

So it is with civilisations. For one invasion, famine or coup to break an empire, the empire must have been dying already.

Trust that this applies to us, today.

Everyone has opinions about what’s ruining our society. Some say corporate greed. Others say we’ve lost touch with our moral and cultural core. It barely matters. No threat to our way of life would stand unless we all allowed it.

We betray our civilisation daily, making a thousand small compromises that add up to a fatal blow. We doom ourselves. Our destruction is our fault.

If greed erodes everything, it’s because we tolerate it.

If we’ve lost our culture and codes, then how could we get angry? It was we who failed to embrace them, teach them and enforce them.

It’s these thousands of betrayals that let Evil flourish. If Evil showed up with blazing banner and vicious horde, you’d stand against it. It knows this. That’s why Evil sneaks around, whispering instead of shouting.

Fighting Evil doesn’t always look heroic. It often looks like drawing firm boundaries and living a clean life. People will mistake your heroism for intolerance, cruelty, inflexibility and outdated thinking.

That’s by Evil’s design.

That’s why it takes constant vigilance – more than courage or strength – to resist Evil.

And that’s why I wrote a book on this. With everything at stake, I could do nothing less.

Read Why You Should Fight Evil here:

https://christianhypnotism.com/fightEvil

A classic story formula:

Some wicked entity – either a wicked king or a savage monster – kidnaps the princess. A dashing hero of noble birth rescues the princess, they fall in love and they marry.

“That’s sexist!” says the modern critic. “I hate it when stories portray women as helpless victims who reward men with their bodies!”

Huh, strange. You’d think they’d complain about the classism more. The hero is always of noble birth. These stories come from an era where your class defined everything, right down to childhood mortality rates.

Or they could point out how weird it is for chaotic beasts to imprison princesses. True chaos wouldn’t bother taking her captive.

The stories aren’t supposed to make sense. They’re metaphors. So many stories follow this theme because they teach you how men and women work. Femininity is precious and must be protected. Masculinity is vital and must protect.

“We need to change the stories! The princess must save herself! And the prince!”

Yeah, those stories fade. The wafer-thin plots of the original Super Mario Bros games – “rescue the princess” – are iconic. Despite doing well financially, the cultural impact of the Mario movie was basically nil.

The classic plots speak to universal Truths. The “modern takes” on them are spiritually hollow, lacking anything the audience needs.

We’ve lost so much from the olden days. Yes, some things are better. No one pines for dysentery. But our ancestors feared nothing, built everything and toppled kings over single-digit taxation rates.

It just goes to show:

Often the old ways are best.

And Evil takes many forms.

Yes, Evil. It’s bad to rob a generation or two of the skills they need to survive. Skills people have instilled through stories for millennia.

People need all the wisdom they can get. The world is insurmountable – insurmountable! – without it. No matter their intentions, they’re vandalising stories to conform to how they wish the world was, not how it is.

Princess Peach failing to teach young people about life – that’s far from the biggest Evil in the world.

But who says you have to only fight the biggest ones?

Start small, especially if you need the practice.

One way is to preserve, share and create real stories.

But you can fight Evil every day, even without stories to tell.

Here’s how:

https://christianhypnotism.com/fightEvil

Loneliness is crippling.

It crushes the soul, drains your vitality and leaves you vulnerable to wicked temptations.

Worse, it’s not a problem you’re allowed to complain about. Wretched harpies and fallen dudebros will throw it in your face if you do.

“Have you tried not being an incel?”

“That’s the patriarchy for you!”

“Just talk to people!”

No, none of that is helpful.

Here’s what is:

Bloodlust.

Honourable, noble, righteous bloodlust, that is. None of this nonsense about violence for violence’s sake. No, I’m talking about the healthy desire to defeat Evil wherever it wiggles its eyebrows. This is the part of you that rages against the follies and injustices of the world.

Battle is the best cure for loneliness. And so simple, too.

Here’s how it works:

Find a cause that gets your blood rising.

Fight on the front lines against that Evil.

Look to your left and to your right. The men beside you are your brothers.

It’s so simple.

And it’s yet another benefit of fighting Evil.

Not that you need rewards. Fighting Evil is reward itself.

Still, it helps.

That’s one reason to fight Evil. If you want more, I wrote an entire book on this. You’ll find a lot more than mere cures for loneliness inside, as if that weren’t enough.

Read it. It sharpens your sword for the fight of your life:

https://christianhypnotism.com/fightEvil

The Coldplay concert thing shows why you should fight Evil with everything you have, in every domain of life.

Everything, every domain.

Otherwise one random swing of a camera can destroy more than just your life.

Playing loose with the rules is a great way to get ahead, succeed and be happy. It works. Otherwise no one would do it.

But you pay that price somehow, even if just in sleepless nights or the taste of bile on the back of your tongue.

The safest place to be in the fight against Evil is on the frontlines on the side of Good.

It’s not safe.

But it is the safest.

That’s the selfish reason Why You Should Fight Evil:

You’ve seen and experienced this. You have some big ah-ha moment – from a seminar, while on vacation, from a course – and it changes everything.

“All this time, I should have been leading from my heart!”
“I need to forgive and move on!”
“This is the answer I’ve been looking for for years!”

I’m happy you’ve had your insight.

But keep in mind Jeremiah 17:9 – the heart is deceitful. If nothing changes, then your epiphany wasn’t real. Your brain is tricking you. I don’t know why – maybe it’s a way of protecting yourself, or perhaps it’s a test.

Either way, if it feels profound but changes little in how you act, it’s vapour.

Horrifying stuff. You could spend a lot of time, effort and money chasing self-improvement that ends up being meaningless.

There are ways to avoid this.

The first is to test. Test, test, test. Apply your epiphany. If it yields something radically new, great! Genuine changes lead to improvements. You should see different numbers, or have folks respond to you differently.

That’s a solid approach, a bright idea.

But if only there were a way to get better epiphanies in the first place. Changing practically at random and then tracking your results sounds slow, painful, clumsy and doomed.

Or…

The best epiphanies are about subtraction, not addition. They’re about abandoning some unhelpful belief or habit, not adding something new. And I just so happen to know a few brilliant ways of popping bad ideas and letting something new grow in their place.

If you’re not into personal growth, you won’t appreciate that. Anyone serious about their capabilities, though, you see the value in outgrowing what no longer serves you.

My call to action is the same as everyone’s. If you’re interested in learning more, reach out. If not, take this idea and apply it yourself. There’s some real magic here.