Yoooooo, what’s good Alumni? I pray you are well, if you are or if you are not, do me a favor and let us know all about it at 2deep4daintro@gmail.com. With that said…Let’s get to work!
Let me take you through my day today…not as a way for me to flex but as a way to showcase the point of this article.
I woke up this morning (Friday) at 9am and started the day with listening to some affirmations on YouTube by the channel Alpha Affirmations. Next, I went to the gym and I listened to a combination of music and YouTube videos by Mr. Forged and Casy Zander (manosphere creators). After the gym, I came home and took a nap with some meditation music on in the background. At 3pm, I started another workout session, not for me but for a friend of mine who asked if I could help train her (cuz…greatness). She had no idea I already worked out for the day, but it was all good. To get pumped up for that session, I had that new Beyonce song “Break My Soul” on repeat, that song gets me fucking amped! Right after that, I cut the grass. While I was cutting the grass, I listened to the 50 Cent audiobook “Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter.” Then, I took a bath in the jacuzzi with some Epsom salt. As I soaked, I listened to the Malcolm X audiobook, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” Now, I’m writing this article and also listening to our upcoming podcast episode that drops this Sunday making sure the description and scheduling is right. In the background, I got some Billie Holiday playing.
I’ve said all of this to give you a snapshot of how I “Fill Up.” Everything I did today was scored with a positive fill up. “Filling Up” consists of the positive or negative things you watch, read, or listen to everyday. Whatever you are “filling up” on is exactly what you will “pour” back into the world. If you watch, read, and listen to nothing but negative shit, you will be filled with nothing but negative shit, and you will pour only negative shit, it’s that simple. As you have read in the previous paragraph, I make a conscious EFFORT to fill up on positive content so that I can pour positivity back into my environment.
I’m gonna be real with you though… it’s just us, right? Worldstarhiphop.com is my fucking guilty pleasure. I love that site! But every time I go on there, my energy shifts down, and I’ll be on some “fuck the world shit” not too long after, which further makes my point about filling up on negative things.
A Self-Made-Man pours into his woman. Your woman should feel filled up, reenergized, and ready for whatever when she leaves your presence. A Self-Made-Man pours into his immediate circle of influence. Your friends should be better people because of you. A Self-Made-Man pours into the world. Someone’s suffering in life should be somewhat reduced because of the work you have produced.
I came up with this concept of “filling up” after watching a sermon by T.D Jakes called “Real Men Pour In.” I believe real men can pour only if they are filling up on the right stuff. I watch motivation videos that keep me inspired to keep hitting the gym. I watch alpha-male content to make sure I don’t get soft outchea. I listen to audiobooks ranging from fiction to non-fiction to help improve my perspective. To nourish my soul, I pray, I mediate, and I listen to a lot of T.D. jakes. I come up with most of the topics for the podcast and this blog by having serious discussions with my homeboy at work, in which we fill up and pour into one another every day.
Simply put…I pour good shit because I fill up with good shit.
Real men pour in…because real men fill up…daily.
So again, I ask, What’s Filling You?
Holla!
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