The state of men's mental health in Australia is pretty crap. Grab Life By The Balls is a proactive men's mental health movement based on the Sunshine Coast. Proactive means making a change before things go pear shaped. As part of our mission; it was a pleasure to have Brent Tate candidly share his journey- the ups, the downs, the mentors, the pressure and the comebacks. The insights he offered were practical and applicable to everyday life. Brent also emphasised mateship and mentors having a positive influence on his career and everyday life. We are all about mateship at Grab Life By The Balls. This event was made possible by our mates from: Sunshine Toyota The Alliance for Suicide Prevention - Sunshine Coast Your Mates Brewing Co. Sam Coward from Hot 91 Benny Jewell Photography Brent Tate and the North Queensland Toyota Cowboys Make sure you don't miss any of our upcoming events by liking or following us here: Grab Life By The Balls

What does it really take to make lasting change? Precision Nutrition found that even putting in a small amount of change resulted in long lasting results. They found that people who worked out or did their habits 10-49% still lost weight. So, what does that mean for us? It means we don't have to be perfect, we don't have to hold ourselves up to these impossible expectations that we have in our own heads. It means we just have to keep getting up, chipping away and not giving up. Is it any wonder around 92% of new year's resolutions fail? How much do we all set the bar way too high, set our expectations way too high that we inevitably set ourselves up for failure? Everyday is a new day, keep getting up, keep chipping away, keep grabbing life by the balls. Precision Nutrition article: https://www.precisionnutrition.com/body-transformation-rese… The 5 Minute Journal (the gratitude app I use): https://www.intelligentchange.com/p…/five-minute-journal-app #grablifebytheballs Sammy P

We saw the latest Avengers movie and it got me thinking about happily ever after... I don't think there is a happily ever after moment in our lives but we see it a lot in pop culture. There's definitely some conditioning we take on after, pretty much, the majority of tv shows, movies etc that end with this happily ever after type scenario. 'You can never own success. You can only rent it. And the rent is due every single day.' - Darren Hardy Richard Branson- successful, loveable, fun, game changer- he doesn't live happily ever after he's continuing to make change...and yes even he has that 'gap' between where he is and where he wants to be. Even when we bridge that 'gap' theres going to be other challenges, other stuff we have to deal with... There's always going to be challenges. Enjoy the journey. Keep turning up. Be the best version of yourself. And, #grablifebytheballs Cheers, Sammy P

1: Ask Sammy P- Fear of Failure Fear of Failure v's Grab Life By The Balls Thanks to Shauny for today's question. #asksammyp So, there's a couple of things that can hod us back from Grabbing Life By The Balls. 1. Looking back, looking at, or, using our past as a reference point. There's a reason the rear vision mirror is so small...We get caught up in a past failures, things that didn't work in the past and other stuff that has held us back. 2. Getting overwhelmed by our future. Comparing ourselves to someone who has been doing cool stuff for decades and we wonder why we aren't as good as they are. Rather than looking at right NOW. RIGHT NOW: What's one thing you can do to get you on the journey of Grabbing Life By The Balls, one really simple, ridiculously easy thing to set you on the right track. And, what I forgot to mention on the video: nothing is ever perfect. Get used to learning on the journey. Failure isn't final, its just feedback on what you can do even better next time...just like an iPhone- constantly improving and adding features, Apple isn't waiting to make the perfect iPhone they're constantly upgrading. If its good enough for the world's biggest company, its probably good enough for us, too. #grablifebytheballs #asksammyp Got a question you want answered? Leave it in the comments below. Cheers, Sammy P

Balls Blog #9- WHO ARE YOU? Authenticity- Being You. Being Authentic. Being Real Who are you, really? Big question, right? The best answer I have for this, at this moment, is an idea of who you are NOT. 1. You are NOT your INNER PRICK 2. You are NOT everyone else's EXPECTATIONS (Good Boy Syndrome) 3. You are NOT your COMPARISONS to What Everyone Else is Doing. I would have put Dr Seuss' quote in the video but I would have stuffed it up so I'll put it here instead: 'Today you are you! That is true-er than true! There is no one alive that is you-er than you!' The movie Chopper has another great quote: 'Beethoven had his critics, too. See if you can name three of them...that's right you can't!' Keep it real for you! Be yourself! Grab Life By The Balls. Cheers, Sammy P #grablifebytheballs

Talking about feelings- I find this really f@$cking hard, especially when I'm in the middle of having the shits. I absolutely agree that we need to talk about our shit... But: I struggle to find the words to explain how I'm feeling and I don't think I'm alone in that regard & I think if your going to talk about your shit you need to find the right person to chat with about it. I could have spoken to anyone. What worked for me was having a chat with a particular guy who's a mate, a mentor and has been through a similar experience. So: 1. ITS OK TO HAVE THE SHITS, its bloody unrealistic to think you're going to be happy 100% of the time 2. It's ok to have not know how to talk about your shit 3. TEAM- who do you have around you? Who can you chat to? Who can help you out when you need it? You don't have to talk to everyone, talk to the right person for you. Would love to hear from you about this one. Cheers, Sammy P #grablifebytheballs

I recently heard the great Billy Moore speak, great speaker, great messages. One thing that he touched on that blew me away was: 'Professional sport was easy, compared to real life'. One of the things he was getting at was: that being a professional sportsmen was easy. Why? Because he had a whole team of people round him to help, to give him a leg up, to get the most out of himself. Whereas, in real life us Aussie blokes try to work out our own shit and we don't often ask for, or want help from others. I dunno about you, but I find it hard to ask for help. For me, asking for help makes me feel like I'm not good enough or that I've failed at something. Although, I find it a lot easier to ask for a hand, or for some advice...and lets be honest we need a team of people, mates, professionals etc to give us a hand if we want to #grablifebytheballs. 'Hey mate. Can you give me a hand?' Or, on the other hand: 'Hey mate. Can I give you a hand?' Maybe that's a way to work through some tough times or a good start if you're stepping up to grab life by balls? Rather than asking for help or offering help. Cheers, Sammy P #grablifebytheballs PS- 'can i give you a hand' and 'grab life by the balls' are both metaphors...just in case you were getting worried 😛

Balls Blog #6- Control What You Can Control Shit happens, we've covered that before. Life will be unfair at times. We can sit around whinge, complain, criticise. We can even recruit our mates to join us in our pity party. If we keep telling everyone our 'story' eventually the story becomes us, it becomes our identity. Life throws us curve balls (pun intended). Sometimes there's not much we can do about it... The only thing we can do is CONTROL WHAT WE CAN CONTROL. Its easy to focus on the shit- our INNER PRICK is des We could also focus on a solution. We could also CHOOSE how we react in certain situations. There will always be something going on OUTSIDE of you, outside of your control. In those situations we can only control whats going on inside of us. Controlling what you an control (ie yourself) is the starting point for Grabbing Life By The Balls, it all starts there. Cheers, Sammy P #grablifebytheballs