7 ways modern men are failing

5. We value our own agenda above everyone else’s.

While there’s something to be said for having a sense of personal responsibility and work ethic, many of us have taken this too far. We have such a need for control that we push everyone away (including God) if they get in the way of our agenda. Our need for control creates unnecessary stress or inflated ego (often both). We need to be humble enough to know that there’s a God and we’re not Him. We need to trust His plan instead of always forcing our own.