Order of Man - August 07, 2020


5 Rules for Self-Governance ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES


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In this episode, Ryan Michler discusses the importance of self-governance and how it can help you achieve your goals and achieve your dreams. Self-Governance is the ability to govern yourself and your organization.

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00:00:00.000 You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest, embrace your fears, and boldly chart
00:00:04.980 your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time.
00:00:10.420 You are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is who
00:00:17.220 you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,
00:00:22.780 you can call yourself a man. Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Michler,
00:00:27.980 and I am the host and the founder of this podcast and the Order of Man movement. I want to welcome
00:00:33.240 you back today. Glad you're here. I've got one for you today that I think on the surface could
00:00:38.700 sound a little boring. Self-governance sounds a little lame, sounds a little boring, but I can
00:00:43.780 assure you, if you listen to what I have to say today and you implement and apply these lessons
00:00:48.400 and these rules into your life, you're going to be better off. And whatever your goal, whatever
00:00:52.900 your objective is, I'm sure you have multiple objectives and goals in your lives. The idea
00:00:58.880 of self-governance will help you accomplish all of them. So if the topic doesn't sound
00:01:03.820 interesting to you, then I want you to consider that maybe you want to tie it into the results
00:01:08.260 that you're experiencing in your life or the lack of results that you're currently experiencing
00:01:14.320 in your life. Before I get to that, I want to make a very, very quick mention of our battle
00:01:19.300 ready program guys. Uh, at this point, thousands of men have gone through it. Uh, it's a free
00:01:25.120 course. It's a 30 day course. You'll get a series of, uh, I believe it's 17 emails over
00:01:30.200 30 days, and it's going to walk you through four phases that you need to incorporate in
00:01:35.560 your planning strategy so that you can accomplish more over the next 90 days than you potentially
00:01:43.080 have in any other point in your life. So again, we're going to walk you through the four
00:01:47.320 phases. There's some accountability, there's some structure, there's some guidance built
00:01:51.040 into it. Uh, and it's a planning system that I have used from multiple different sources
00:01:55.960 created my own over a series of years at this point, but I think it's probably been close
00:02:01.440 to 10 years now that I've been implementing elements of this planning process. And it's
00:02:05.800 worked for thousands and thousands of men. So you can check that out at order of man.com
00:02:10.140 slash battle ready order of man.com slash battle ready. All right, guys, let's get into
00:02:15.720 the idea of self-governance. Uh, I talk a lot about sovereignty. You guys have heard me talk
00:02:19.760 about it before. Obviously I wrote the book on it. Uh, it's very similar. Self-governance
00:02:25.480 is obviously the ability to govern yourself. It's not hard to understand what that means.
00:02:32.600 What I see is so many men who have relinquished authority and governance over themselves and given
00:02:41.880 it either consciously or subconsciously to another person, an organization, potentially their
00:02:48.500 government. And the problem is when you do this, when you relinquish the ability to govern yourself,
00:02:55.260 you're always going to be in an inferior position. A couple of reasons for this. Number one, there's
00:03:01.760 just an inherent conflict of interest built in between two people or between an organization
00:03:08.360 and a person. Now, sometimes those interests are aligned, for example, in a marriage, uh,
00:03:14.020 or, uh, in a lot of cases, you working for a company, those interests are aligned, but there's
00:03:21.340 also moments even with aligned interest where there's some conflict where the interest aren't
00:03:28.840 exactly in line. Maybe they overlap, but maybe they're at odds with each other. And anytime there
00:03:35.420 are interests that are at odds with each other, whose interests are going to be sacrificed.
00:03:41.720 If you're not willing to govern yourself, well, yours, your interests are going to be sacrificed.
00:03:46.000 And the party that is doing the governing has the ultimate say and dictates the tone of the
00:03:52.200 conversation, the way the project will be run, the way that you live your life, the actions that you
00:03:56.580 take. And I personally am not willing to do that. Now I'm willing to compromise in certain circumstances,
00:04:03.020 for example, with my wife, our interests are aligned. They overlap very well. Uh, there might
00:04:09.220 be a night, for example, that she wants to go do something and I want to go do something.
00:04:13.400 Well, that's a, that's a moment where our interest may not be aligned. And you know, in times like
00:04:18.240 that, I'm willing to compromise. And maybe this week she goes and does her thing. And next week I go
00:04:22.540 and do my thing. There's going to be little conflicts like that. But generally speaking, if you can't
00:04:26.640 govern yourself, you are giving control, power, and authority over to another person or another
00:04:33.700 party. And your interest will lie on that, uh, altar of sacrifice. When push comes to shove.
00:04:41.520 The other side of this is that if you're allowing somebody else to govern or somebody or something
00:04:46.380 else to govern the way that you live your life, it's always inferior. You're always going to produce
00:04:51.420 an inferior result. You should have the highest standard for yourself more than any person,
00:04:57.300 more than any organization, or more than any other party out there. You should be setting the standard.
00:05:03.440 And when you're living by somebody else's standard, you're setting the bar lower than you're capable of.
00:05:09.680 This is why we see people doing the bare minimum and thinking, Oh, it must be okay.
00:05:14.280 Right. For example, with work, what do most people do? Well, they go to work,
00:05:18.600 they punch in exactly the time that they're supposed to be there. Not, not a minute earlier.
00:05:23.120 They leave it exactly the time that they're supposed to not a minute later, regardless of
00:05:27.620 what's happening. They do the bare minimum. They absolutely can get away with in order not to get
00:05:33.660 fired or to just to get that 50 cent promotion. This is what most people do. And then these are the
00:05:39.720 same individuals who complain about their life and wonder why people seem to be exponentially
00:05:45.400 increasing their wealth and abundance and prosperity and achieving their goals when they are just
00:05:50.360 coasting, living paycheck to paycheck, wallowing in mediocrity. It's not difficult to see why
00:05:57.940 you're doing the bare minimum. And that minimum is set by the weakest link of the organization.
00:06:05.580 And that's the reality is like, if you're part of an organization and there's a standard that needs
00:06:10.280 to be set and you have relinquished control and authority, and you said, okay, I'm just going to
00:06:14.540 do the standard, whatever this organization dictates. Well, then by default, you're going to
00:06:19.880 go to the lowest common denominator, the weakest link of the organization. Well, guys, you're capable
00:06:28.700 of so much more than that. And if you're living to that lower bar, you're setting yourself up for
00:06:34.660 failure. You're setting yourself up for disaster. You're going to be miserable. And there's a disconnect
00:06:39.180 between the way that you see yourself, which is a man of integrity and, and hard work and sacrifice
00:06:46.220 and dedication and mastery and all these things that we're trying to achieve. And then your actual
00:06:50.380 performance, which is lackluster, it's mediocre, and it's the bare minimum that may be required of you.
00:06:58.520 So allowing somebody to govern you is subpar to governing yourself. Now I realize I might be
00:07:10.700 preaching to the choir a little bit. You guys are listening to this podcast. You've been tapped into
00:07:14.780 what we're doing here with order of man for years at this point now. So I realized I may be preaching
00:07:20.400 to the choir and the people that need to hear this the most are probably the people who aren't really
00:07:24.420 going to going to listen to this because they aren't interested in governing themselves. And isn't
00:07:28.340 that sad? Isn't it sad that people are willing to live an inferior life so they don't have to
00:07:36.020 shoulder the burden of governing themselves. Cause let's be honest, taking care of yourself is not
00:07:42.720 always sunshine and fairy tales and rainbows and this utopian society that those who would govern you
00:07:50.560 would have you believe there's responsibility. There's hard work, there's sacrifice. There's the
00:07:59.120 roller coaster of successes and failures. I just posted a picture of our, our podcast over the past
00:08:05.660 podcast downloads, I should say over the past three years or so. And you know, when you zoom out over a
00:08:12.380 three-year period, it actually looks pretty good, right? Steady growth. And it continues to grow every
00:08:16.700 single month. But the more you zoom in, the more you see the ups and downs and the roller coaster
00:08:21.600 and the highs and the lows, and it does really, really well. And it is really, really poorly.
00:08:25.960 And when you govern yourself, you have to be willing to write out those low times because what somebody
00:08:32.800 or some other party or government will come in and do is they'll say, well, we'll rescue you from
00:08:36.280 those, from those low times. And that sounds very tempting, but what they don't tell you is that
00:08:42.520 you're limiting your upside potential as well. So they're leveling it off, right? Hey,
00:08:46.520 you're not going to experience the valleys, but what they don't tell you is you're not going to
00:08:49.820 experience the peaks. We'll level it off. We'll, we'll shave some of the peaks. If they're being
00:08:54.700 truthful, this is how it would work where we'll shave some of the peaks off. And then we'll prop
00:08:58.300 those up in the valleys. Well, you know, that sounds really good. If you spend your entire life in the
00:09:03.460 valley, if you're a perpetual underperformer, but if you're somebody with high integrity,
00:09:11.400 highly motivated, you're a high achiever, you're a driver, you're ambitious, which I think most of you
00:09:16.160 are, why, why would you, why would you be willing to sacrifice that? I'm not willing to sacrifice
00:09:21.720 that. I'm willing to take the valleys, the lows, because I know the highs will be exponentially
00:09:27.500 greater than what the valleys are. And that's why I I'm always willing to govern myself. And here's
00:09:34.180 the deal. If you're not willing to govern yourself, there's more, somebody in some institution,
00:09:37.720 some organization who is always more than willing, more than willing to come in and govern you.
00:09:46.160 And I don't want somebody else dictating the way that I'm going to live my life. And I don't think
00:09:50.720 most of you want that either. And what's interesting about this is that you become a cog in the wheel.
00:09:58.900 So you're actually incentivized. If you're being governed, you're incentivized to perform
00:10:05.580 poorly, or at least less than you're capable of, because they just need you to be a good little boy,
00:10:11.380 a good little cog in the wheel, do what you're told. Don't ruffle any feathers, sit down,
00:10:16.400 shut up, color within the lines, follow the rules. Don't buck the system. Don't be creative.
00:10:22.940 Don't make anybody else look bad. How many times have you heard that? Hey,
00:10:25.960 you got to slow down because you're making everybody else look bad. That's your fault.
00:10:28.760 That's not my fault. That's what I'm talking about. That's the inferior standard. Oh,
00:10:33.360 you're doing that too fast. We've got to spread this workout over a period of two weeks.
00:10:37.200 When you know, good and well, it's only going to take you one week.
00:10:41.880 So what are you conditioned to do? Spread it out, slow down, perform in a manner less than
00:10:46.780 you're capable of. Well, I'm not willing to do that. And I don't think you should be willing to
00:10:50.560 do that. I don't think you want to do that. I think you're pressured to do that. I think that
00:10:55.320 there's, there's definitely a level of peer pressure in some organizations. And there's definitely
00:10:59.440 the powers who would be, who would love nothing more than you just to do exactly what you're told.
00:11:03.760 So let's talk about these five rules that I've identified for self-governance.
00:11:08.020 Now these aren't in any particular order. And there's probably more that you can identify and
00:11:12.880 that you, you can think of. And if that's the case, hit me up on Instagram or YouTube or wherever
00:11:17.060 you're listening or watching, and we'll have a continued to conversation about this. But
00:11:20.780 the first one is just taking ownership of your life. Like this is the foundation for self-governance
00:11:26.680 is realizing that you have the authority, you have the power, you have the control,
00:11:31.300 you have the ability to do this and you should be doing this. And anything less than governing
00:11:36.180 yourself is inferior. I've been talking about this now for what, 10 minutes. So rule number
00:11:41.660 one is to take ownership of your life and recognize that everything is within your control. Recognize
00:11:48.380 that what you are experiencing largely and generally is a result of your effort or lack thereof. Now,
00:11:55.100 there might be some circumstances and situations that fall outside of that. You may be in a circumstance
00:12:01.280 where you've been victimized in some way, or you've been cheated, or you've, you've been
00:12:06.940 stealth for a stolen from, you know, there's, there's things that happen outside of this,
00:12:11.360 but generally speaking, what you're experiencing over your life is a result of the efforts and the
00:12:18.300 work and the progress that you have put into it. So if you want better results over a longer period
00:12:23.560 of time, and generally, then you have to be willing to do more of the work and put forth the effort.
00:12:29.220 All right. So number one, take ownership.
00:12:35.760 All right. So number two is to exercise humility. Now, some of you guys might be wondering what is,
00:12:45.020 what does humility have to do with self-governance? Well, if you're prideful and you're arrogant and
00:12:50.980 you believe you have it all figured out, you're limiting yourself. That's it. You're limiting
00:12:54.700 yourself. You're shortchanging yourself. You're not opening yourself up to new possibilities and
00:12:59.220 new ideas and things that might happen to you and new information that you could incorporate into your
00:13:04.300 life to better serve you and help you reach your objectives. If you want to govern yourself,
00:13:09.020 you have to be humble, humble enough to realize that, you know, I'm going to mess up.
00:13:13.540 I'm going to fall short. I I'm not going to always be able to do this.
00:13:19.960 And that level of humility is going to open you up to new experiences, to taking risks,
00:13:26.180 to taking on more ownership and authority over your life, because you recognize, you know what?
00:13:31.140 Yeah, I'm going to screw up and it's not going to be life or death. Probably, hopefully if it is,
00:13:35.700 I'd question it, but I'm going to screw up. I'm going to fall short. I'm going to lose a little
00:13:39.700 money. I'm going to rush too quickly on something. And I'm going to pay some stupid taxes as I've
00:13:44.440 heard them called. And then you just drive on and you learn and you grow and you expand.
00:13:50.200 But if you're not willing to be humble and you're not willing to expose yourself to risk
00:13:54.880 and you're prideful, what are you going to do? You're going to do all your actions and all your
00:13:59.780 words and all your behaviors are going to lean more towards somebody else dictating because you don't
00:14:06.280 have to take the responsibility. You won't have to take the fall. At least that's the
00:14:09.540 promise. I mean, you will be thrown under the bus if things go wrong, but the promise is,
00:14:14.360 is, Hey, we'll protect you. We'll keep you safe. We'll give you that guaranteed paycheck,
00:14:20.040 except for when cuts come, you're the first one to go, but they don't tell you that part of it.
00:14:25.440 Right? So if you want to govern yourself, you have to be humble and willing to fail. You have to be
00:14:32.260 willing to suck for a while at certain things, knowing that in the short term, if you've been
00:14:38.000 accustomed to, we'll just take a business as an example, you've been accustomed to working for
00:14:42.820 another organization. And by the way, I don't, I don't think that's inherently bad. Okay. We can
00:14:46.440 talk about that in a minute, but you've been accustomed to working with another organization.
00:14:50.500 And then all of a sudden now, uh, you've decided to go out on your own. Well, you're probably going
00:14:56.080 to take a hit. Your bank account's probably going to suffer. Your income might suffer temporarily.
00:15:02.940 You have to be okay with that. You have to embrace and accept that because over the long
00:15:06.600 haul, you've given yourself so much upside potential, but you have to be humble and you
00:15:10.960 have to be willing to get kicked in the teeth in order for you to develop the resiliency,
00:15:14.760 the attitude, the thoughts, the behaviors, the processes, the systems that will allow you to
00:15:19.960 govern yourself, which will allow you to produce superior results to what you've experienced in the
00:15:24.420 past. Now, the thing I just said a minute ago was that I don't think that it's bad, that inherently
00:15:29.580 bad that you work for another organization. That's one thing I want to be very clear on.
00:15:33.560 You know, a lot of these quote unquote self-help type podcasts make it sound like you should always
00:15:38.660 own your own business. Now I think there's immense value in owning your own business. I have now for
00:15:45.020 close to 15 years and, and I wouldn't have it any other way, but that doesn't mean I don't think
00:15:51.320 that there should be people who are employees that work with other organizations, but I'm saying,
00:15:56.440 if you work with another organization, don't relinquish control over your life, because you
00:16:00.600 think that organization is going to take care of you indefinitely. We're finding that to be true
00:16:05.100 in the wake of COVID-19. It might not even be the fault of your employer. We have a, a global pandemic.
00:16:12.700 Nobody would have saw this coming. And yet here we are. And there's millions and millions of people.
00:16:20.640 I heard last week alone, something like a million and a half new Americans filed for unemployment
00:16:26.320 benefits for the first time. Well, we didn't see this coming. And if you didn't take ownership of
00:16:32.860 your life, if you weren't humbled by building up the skillsets and the things that you need,
00:16:36.380 a lot of people, millions of people, frankly have found themselves in a very difficult
00:16:41.000 and dire financial circumstance. All right. Number three, build an accountability
00:16:47.140 guys. You have to build an accountability because there is one thing that's nice. There's,
00:16:52.080 there's probably a few, but there's one benefit of, of allowing somebody else, some authority and
00:16:57.160 control over your life. And that is that there's some accountability built in. If we're talking about
00:17:01.180 employment, for example, you are required to show up a certain time, you're required to do this
00:17:07.000 project, this task, you're required to put in this much work or these many hours, those are requirements.
00:17:12.180 And if you don't do those things, what happens? You're demoted, you lose income, you're fired.
00:17:18.100 And so that level of accountability is a good thing because it keeps you on track when you want to
00:17:24.100 deviate. And trust me, we all want to deviate. Everybody wants to deviate from time to time.
00:17:28.520 So if you've decided, Hey, I'm going to govern myself now, I'm going to take control over my
00:17:32.380 own life. I'm going to control my own destiny. I'm going to take this on my shoulders. Then you
00:17:38.160 want to build in accountability, accountability with other individuals. Now, some of you might
00:17:44.300 be thinking, well, isn't that some sort of, is that, is that not self-governance anymore? No,
00:17:49.620 because you've voluntarily decided to have these individuals hold you accountable. And if they don't
00:17:55.540 hold you accountable, you have to say, they don't have to say, right? Like these people are not
00:18:00.900 holding me accountable. So I want new people in my life who are going to hold me accountable.
00:18:04.880 Or these people are not being accountable to me. Maybe you have some sort of reciprocal
00:18:08.440 relationship. And therefore that person is quote unquote fired. If you want to use that term
00:18:13.760 from my accountability partnership or group, and I'm going to bring somebody else in.
00:18:19.040 So just because you have other people in your life who are holding you accountable,
00:18:22.840 doesn't mean that you've relinquished control. You still have autonomy.
00:18:28.220 You still have the governance over yourself, but what you're doing is you're creating the
00:18:33.280 framework. You are creating the environment and the systems that allow you to stay on track
00:18:39.420 when you inevitably want to deviate. So accountability systems could be planning.
00:18:46.180 You know, I've got a daily planner. I use, it could be having other influential men or
00:18:51.940 people in general in your life. I have a circle of influence people that I talk with people that I
00:18:57.720 communicate with. Even when I train those people I'm accountable to, like I've got to put in my
00:19:02.080 training, they've got to put in their training. And then we come together and we train together.
00:19:05.100 These are all little methods of accountability that help me stay on track. When I want to deviate,
00:19:11.080 when I want to take slack off, when I want to take it easy, I've got Josiah Novak as a fitness coach.
00:19:16.680 Okay. I don't get to take it easy because he's, he's there holding me accountable. And I've paid him
00:19:22.460 to do that. I invest in myself for him to hold me accountable to what I say I want.
00:19:29.180 So again, number one, we have take ownership. Number two, we have be humble. Know that you're
00:19:35.120 going to get kicked in the teeth when you do this, especially for the first time.
00:19:38.400 It's like a young child leaving his parents' house for the first time. It's going to be hard at first
00:19:44.580 because now he has to pay his own bills in his own way and make his own decisions and
00:19:49.480 suffer the consequences of his poor decisions. It's going to be hard at first, but it's better.
00:19:54.940 And then number three is, uh, building accountability.
00:19:59.180 Number four, free yourself from dependency. So what I want you to do is if you're ready to
00:20:06.160 embrace this idea of self-governance is to inventory what areas in your life and in what
00:20:14.260 ways you are dependent on outside people, outside resources. If you went without something,
00:20:22.880 what would that look like? The things I'm thinking of, for example, would be fuel.
00:20:25.820 I know this sounds silly when it comes to self-governance, but if you rely on a car to get
00:20:30.840 you from point A to point B, like 99.999% of us do, well, then you're dependent on fuel.
00:20:39.440 You're dependent on fuel to fill up the truck, to get you from point A to point B. So that's
00:20:45.380 a dependency. You need to free yourself from that dependency. So how do you do that?
00:20:49.120 Well, you stock up on fuel. Now you may not be able to fully remove your dependency on these
00:20:56.480 things, but you can hedge your dependency. I do the same thing with food storage. My family and I
00:21:03.020 are reliant upon food like anybody else to ensure that we stay alive, water, food, provisions,
00:21:11.900 resources, firearms, fuel, all of these things that we're dependent on on a daily basis. And so how do
00:21:19.140 you free yourself from the dependency of those things? You hedge and you stockpile. So you have
00:21:25.920 fuel, you have food, you have water, you learn a skillset like hunting, for example, that will allow
00:21:34.120 you to be free of the dependency that you found yourself in. Other dependencies I see is addiction,
00:21:38.860 addiction to drugs, addiction to alcohol, pornography, gambling. This is very prevalent.
00:21:47.260 I see this all over in society and I can't help, but think that this is somebody who has relinquished
00:21:51.820 control probably over a long period of time to whatever the vice is, drinking, drugs, pornography,
00:21:58.300 gambling, sex, whatever, whatever your addiction, whatever your thing is. And you've relinquished
00:22:05.500 control over your own life, authority, autonomy over your own life, because you've subjected
00:22:10.780 yourself and put yourself at the mercy of somebody or something else. Now, this isn't a podcast and an
00:22:17.980 episode about how to overcome addiction. We've had other conversations like that. There's plenty of
00:22:22.900 resources and other podcasts available that talk about overcoming these addictions. But if you're
00:22:26.740 dependent on some of these things, then you are not governing yourself.
00:22:30.300 I know it's hard. I know it's difficult. I know in some cases it's a, it's a real medical issue,
00:22:38.320 but it needs to be dealt with. If you want to govern yourself, it needs to be dealt with.
00:22:42.700 So free yourself from the dependency of some of these vices that we're talking about. Free yourself
00:22:47.960 from the dependency of fuel and food and ammunition and all these types of things, even medication.
00:22:53.980 Like how many of you are re are required to take a medical prescription for, for some sort of ailment
00:23:04.060 or health condition that you're dealing with? Well, think about what you can possibly do to get rid
00:23:10.460 of having to be reliant upon that medication, namely take care of your body, exercise, diet,
00:23:18.860 get the proper sleep recovery, get strong. And I'm not saying that you, in every circumstance can
00:23:26.660 just ditch your prescriptions. You need to talk with your medical provider for that stuff. But I am
00:23:32.520 saying that there's some instances in some cases that what you're taking right now, whatever, whatever
00:23:38.100 medication you, you are quote unquote required to take right now, it might be that there's some
00:23:44.060 lifestyle changes that you can make where that will no longer be a requirement. And then you have moved
00:23:51.260 one inch closer to self-governance. What have we seen in the wake of COVID-19? Well, we've seen
00:23:58.640 medications not be as readily available. We've seen that China makes a lot of the base ingredients that
00:24:05.520 go into some of the medications that millions of Americans rely upon. Well, that's the antithesis of
00:24:10.740 self-governance governance. So get yourself healthy, get yourself strong. So you're not
00:24:15.960 relying upon these things and you're less reliant on, on the, uh, pharmaceuticals and medical community.
00:24:21.900 Very important. All right. Last one guys, always go above and beyond the expectation.
00:24:28.460 Always, inevitably, always without fail, go above and beyond the standard, go above and beyond the
00:24:34.200 expectation. Because what you do is you train yourself to not live to somebody else's standard,
00:24:40.360 but you train yourself to live to yours. So if your company is requiring that you put in these
00:24:45.260 many hours, put in a few more hours. If the standard is, you know, X, Y, Z for this project,
00:24:50.840 you're working on for the organization, go above and beyond, do it faster, do it quicker,
00:24:55.220 do it more efficiently, produce a better result. If your trainer is telling you to do a hundred pushups,
00:25:00.560 you do a hundred and one pushups, always, always go above and beyond what is, what is required and
00:25:08.960 what is expected. Yes. You're going to produce a more favorable result, obviously, because you're
00:25:13.800 putting forth more effort and it's smarter and you're doing a better job, obviously. But again,
00:25:18.160 what you're doing, the real benefit of going above and above and beyond is you're training yourself,
00:25:23.820 you're conditioning, you're programming, you're rewiring yourself to take full governance,
00:25:31.960 authority, and control over your life and not live to somebody else's standard and setting your own
00:25:37.600 superior standard to the relative to the inferior standard that other people would set for you.
00:25:44.800 Guys, I know that when we're talking about self-governance, it sounds like, oh, this is boring.
00:25:48.620 I don't want to talk about this. And it sounds lame, but I can assure you whatever that, whatever it is
00:25:53.740 that you want in your life is found on the other side of self-governance. It's found on the other
00:25:58.720 side of you taking absolute control, authority, and responsibility over your life. It's not a difficult
00:26:07.800 thing to do. It requires some sacrifice. It requires some effort. It requires some systems.
00:26:13.600 But if you want maximum results out of your life, then you better incorporate the idea
00:26:21.660 into your operating system, the way that you live your life, incorporate the idea of self-governance.
00:26:29.480 It will radically alter and transform your life and the lives of the people that you're working for,
00:26:35.700 your kids, your wife, your clients, colleagues, coworkers, boss, the people that you want to serve and
00:26:42.540 you want to do good for. So let's recap. Number one, take ownership, take responsibility of every
00:26:48.180 facet of your life. Number two, be humble. Know that you're going to get kicked in the teeth,
00:26:53.380 but you're going to be better in the long-term for it. Number three, build an accountability
00:26:57.280 systems, processes, other people who are going to hold you accountable. Number four, free yourself
00:27:02.560 from dependency on drugs, alcohol, gambling, resources, provisions by stockpiling, by developing your
00:27:11.360 skillset, by getting yourself healthy and strong. And then number five, always in every situation,
00:27:17.000 go above and beyond the standard, the expectation. All right, guys, that's my message for you today.
00:27:23.140 Self-governance, etch that into your mind, burn it into your brain. You are in control of your life.
00:27:31.500 Do not relinquish control. Do not give it to anybody else. Do not perform to somebody else's standard.
00:27:37.980 You elevate your standard. You live to that standard and you produce the best possible
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