Meet Curtis Brooks

We were lucky to catch up with Curtis Brooks recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Curtis, really happy you were able to join us today and we’re looking forward to sharing your story and insights with our readers. Let’s start with the heart of it all – purpose. How did you find your purpose?
One could easily say that purpose and pain are polar opposites. I would say that they are close neighbors, perhaps like a nosey relative, living just across the street. You know the one with the window blinds that look like they are on permanent surveillance.

I found my purpose through the pain of missing my father. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the opportunity to know my biological father; of course, it’s not to say that my outcome would have changed, but those were the cards I was dealt. Naturally, as a youth, I had a lot of questions, maybe they were questions a son would’ve asked his father, who knows.

In retrospect, my life journey has appeared to be filled with all kinds of metaphors and similes and it was up to me to go and seek meaning, herein lies the problem. It’s been a painful, yet rewarding journey. My life’s journey. has served a dual purpose, finding the love that I had not received as a son from my father and becoming the father I was missing. My faith has been a consistent part of my life, although it definitely didn’t start off this way.

You see, I had a problem. I didn’t believe any of that faith stuff. Those people were excessive and loud, I thought, it doesn’t take all of that crying, they were emotional and it was nonsense to me. Me and my older sister had a great relationship, we were very close. Until things took a turn for the worse when she left home and got married; those were my thoughts, I lost my best friend.

I would later find out from my sister that her marriage had not been all that great.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
As a Men’s Life Coach, my goal has always been to connect with men and meet them where they are! Men are often challenged with forming their own identities. Understandably, this can cause anger to be displaced and lead to behavior issues that a lot of men are currently facing.

My job is coaching men from a place of logic and reasoning, something I found many men are missing from their lives. I love the courage of my clients and the stories that they share. I assist them in shedding light, on the sometimes dimmed areas, we can all use more light, right?

I work with men from many different backgrounds and the common thread is men learning how to separate their feelings from facts and begin believing and seeing themselves as divinely inspired and created.

We’re preparing for Rewriting Success & Revolutionizing Well-Being: The Ultimate 2-Day Men’s Conference, Friday and Saturday, October 20-21, 2023, in the Houston, TX area. Doors open at 7 PM CST on Friday. This will be a hybrid conference, virtual and in-person. Conference attendees can visit, https://bit.ly/themensconference to learn more and reserve their seats.

It’s Not Rocket Science Coaching is also partnering with New Life Fitness, Tomball, TX – for “Men’s Whole Health”, #menswholehealth

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Humility, active listening, and leadership have been absolutely the most impactful skills on my journey. Humility, because even with the best of intentions we will often be bold and wrong about a view concerning a subject(s) or person(s), this is a reality. The adult thing to do is learn to accept this, recover and admit when we’re wrong.

Apologizing doesn’t always mean dealing with another person, it also means we’re saying, I’m sorry to the man in the mirror, yourself, for having wrongful and damaging thoughts and/or actions taken on a matter with more moving parts than we may have cared to understand at that moment.

Active listening, learning how to listen by paying attention to the details of your discussion or conversation. This means that you are present and in the “Now”, giving your undivided to the active party(ies) at hand.

And finally, True Leadership is what emerges, out of the ashes, through a continuous desire to hold ourselves accountable. Remember “the others” will not likely hold you and me accountable, only because they may be doing the same things. So, make a decision and stand out from “the others”.

Thanks so much for sharing all these insights with us today. Before we go, is there a book that’s played in important role in your development?
The Holy Bible is a major part of my day-to-day life and development as a father, son, and husband. Personally, there have not been many books that can stand up against this.

I learned that I could not manage anything I could not understand. Discovering and understanding who I am in God was the first call to order. And through much reading and studying I was able to separate facts from fiction and build a relationship upon trust.

I’ve had to learn how to trust in the leadership of God’s divine order and his timeliness, deconstructing the constructs that “the others” had established for me. Consequently, reverse engineering ideals, paths, and behaviors that rose out of the plans of another. Now I take great delight in being attentive to my thought-life.

Our thoughts become the reality that we create intentionally or unintentionally.

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