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A Man's Guide to Taking More Risks ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES


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In this episode, I discuss the benefits of taking calculated, measured, bold risks in your life and how to ensure that the risks you are taking are going to pay off in the long-term. Being a man who is willing, able, and capable of taking risks in his life is the one who is going to have the most achievement in his relationships, the most success in his business, and the most financial abundance.


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00:00:00.000 It's just better to live a better life
00:00:02.640 and do the things that you know you should be doing
00:00:04.880 on a regular and consistent basis.
00:00:06.840 The challenge for a lot of men in doing this
00:00:09.300 is that they think because of where they are right now,
00:00:12.320 it will continue.
00:00:13.780 That you don't really need to do anything.
00:00:16.100 Guys, sovereignty in all ways.
00:00:18.800 And this is how we hedge our bets.
00:00:20.420 And this is how we give ourselves maximum opportunity
00:00:23.300 to take advantage of risks as they arise.
00:00:25.940 There's no question that men are more inclined
00:00:30.520 to take more risks than our female counterparts.
00:00:33.220 But just because we're inclined to do it
00:00:35.000 doesn't mean that we should.
00:00:36.760 But that being said, there are opportunities in your life
00:00:40.680 that will present themselves
00:00:41.840 or opportunities that you'll need to create.
00:00:44.640 And being a man who is willing, able, and capable
00:00:47.220 of taking calculated, measured, bold risks in his life
00:00:51.700 is the one who's going to have the most achievement.
00:00:54.300 The most achievement in his relationships,
00:00:57.080 the most achievement in his physical health,
00:00:58.880 his prosperity and financial abundance,
00:01:00.560 and his quality of life.
00:01:02.700 But that's not to say it comes without
00:01:04.640 its fair share of challenges
00:01:06.260 and maybe even some roadblocks
00:01:09.040 and some things to be aware of
00:01:10.280 when you're deciding whether or not
00:01:11.540 to ask that woman out on a date
00:01:13.420 or start that business, start a family,
00:01:17.380 invest in a new opportunity, et cetera, et cetera.
00:01:21.020 So today, what I wanna do, guys,
00:01:22.580 is talk with you about five things that you can do,
00:01:24.820 not only to calculate the risks that you're taking,
00:01:27.420 but to ensure that the risks you're taking
00:01:29.460 are going to be worth it
00:01:30.480 and give you the best chance of return.
00:01:33.360 Now, inherent in risk is the potential for loss.
00:01:37.140 That's why it's a risk.
00:01:38.580 So first and foremost, you have to be aware
00:01:40.620 that whatever I share with you and whatever you do
00:01:42.880 doesn't mean that all of the threats
00:01:44.640 are going to go away.
00:01:46.060 It just means you're going to position yourself best
00:01:48.480 to handle and deal with them as they arise
00:01:50.760 and then decide if taking the risk is worth it or not.
00:01:54.220 So let's jump right into this.
00:01:55.740 Number one, you men have to know what you want.
00:01:59.500 If you don't know what you want,
00:02:01.100 any risk could potentially look like a great opportunity,
00:02:03.960 but unless it's measured against something
00:02:06.200 that you've spent a lot of time pondering,
00:02:08.860 thinking about, planning for, preparing for,
00:02:12.280 you don't really know if that risk is worth it or not.
00:02:14.580 It might just be reckless unless you spend time
00:02:17.660 thinking about what you want out of your life.
00:02:20.360 And you can do this in two major ways.
00:02:22.740 Number one, I am a huge proponent
00:02:25.120 of having a vision statement.
00:02:27.480 And a vision statement is one of two things.
00:02:30.080 A direction for your life.
00:02:31.640 It could be goals-based, like the things that you want to have
00:02:33.940 with your business and your relationship.
00:02:35.740 Or for me personally, I choose to adopt a vision,
00:02:41.140 excuse me, a values-based vision.
00:02:43.240 And a values-based vision is based on the values
00:02:47.960 and the principles and the core beliefs
00:02:49.860 that I have as a man.
00:02:51.400 So not so much goal-driven, but how I want to show up.
00:02:54.720 So I want to show up powerfully for my family and my friends.
00:02:58.340 I want to show up powerfully in this business.
00:03:00.400 I want to be diligent.
00:03:01.520 I want to be focused.
00:03:02.920 I want to have the financial capital
00:03:04.560 through my discipline and efforts.
00:03:06.700 I want to be prudent and smart with my resources
00:03:09.520 so that I can do the things that I want to do.
00:03:11.520 These are the values and the principles
00:03:13.940 that I have in my life.
00:03:15.180 But how many times have you been asked,
00:03:17.940 what do you want out of life?
00:03:19.240 And not really had a very good answer.
00:03:21.560 This is one of the things that I see inside
00:03:23.040 of our Brotherhood, the Iron Council, all the time.
00:03:25.380 When new men come into the Iron Council,
00:03:27.360 I'll ask them what they want.
00:03:29.120 And they give me some loose answers,
00:03:30.620 a little bit of money, maybe a better marriage,
00:03:33.860 maybe some experiences down the road or opportunity.
00:03:36.860 But if I ask them to get even more specific than that,
00:03:39.640 they have a very difficult time doing it.
00:03:41.980 How much money?
00:03:43.220 What does a healthy relationship actually look like?
00:03:46.780 What kind of business would you start?
00:03:48.760 How do you see yourself promoting in your current career path?
00:03:51.600 So if you don't know exactly what you want,
00:03:54.440 it doesn't really matter what risk you're looking at
00:03:56.780 or what you're not looking at.
00:03:58.120 It's irrelevant and it's not measured
00:03:59.780 against something that you want.
00:04:01.060 This is the way that we can actually take more risk
00:04:04.360 that is calculated, smart, intelligent,
00:04:06.520 and is more likely to pay off
00:04:08.160 because we're measuring it against what we want out of life.
00:04:11.300 If we wait until those opportunities present themselves,
00:04:14.440 we're less likely to make good, prudent decisions
00:04:17.220 because we get caught up in the moment,
00:04:19.640 we get emotionally charged, maybe we get greedy,
00:04:22.320 maybe we get fearful,
00:04:23.420 and we allow the emotional response to take over
00:04:26.020 rather than the deliberate, intentional, thoughtful process
00:04:30.660 to take hold and measure our risk-taking against.
00:04:34.460 Number two, when it comes to taking risks,
00:04:37.480 not all risks are the same.
00:04:39.460 As they say, no risk, no reward,
00:04:41.620 or the bigger the risk, the greater the reward.
00:04:43.960 That is not necessarily inherently true.
00:04:46.860 I know of plenty of situations in a former life.
00:04:50.920 I was a financial advisor
00:04:52.140 and I could show you all sorts of investments
00:04:54.000 that had a huge, huge opportunity to create a return,
00:04:59.580 but they also brought a lot of risk
00:05:02.560 that maybe an investor was not willing to shoulder.
00:05:05.720 But I also saw other investments
00:05:08.300 that were relatively safe
00:05:12.020 as far as the risk-taking goes
00:05:15.400 or the potential for return,
00:05:17.620 but they had a huge amount of risk associated with it.
00:05:22.040 So that's not something I would be interested in.
00:05:24.180 Low return, high risk.
00:05:25.720 But what you need to do is you really need to measure
00:05:28.280 every chance that you're taking in life
00:05:30.660 against the potential reward and the potential loss.
00:05:33.980 So if we're talking about asking a woman's hand in marriage,
00:05:37.200 for example, that's a risk.
00:05:39.380 The risk is she could say no.
00:05:41.540 And you have to ask yourself,
00:05:42.740 is that something I'm willing to live with?
00:05:45.100 If we're talking about creating financial abundance
00:05:47.380 or investing in the stock market,
00:05:49.440 you might say, I have $100,000 to do that.
00:05:52.140 Okay, that's fine, but can you lose $100,000?
00:05:57.000 If the answer is no,
00:05:59.060 then you're not prepared to take on that risk.
00:06:02.400 If the risk is starting a business
00:06:04.340 and you have a mortgage to pay and consumer debt
00:06:08.280 and your wife and your kids to take care of
00:06:10.280 and everything else that comes with being a man,
00:06:12.980 then maybe right now, if you haven't hedged your bet
00:06:15.860 and you're not in the best position,
00:06:17.460 then starting a business is not really the best thing to do.
00:06:20.300 I know this is not sexy advice.
00:06:22.900 In fact, most of the advice that you hear on the interwebs,
00:06:26.840 especially in this space, is counter to that.
00:06:29.460 Burn the boats, go all in, burn the bridges,
00:06:31.980 like that kind of stuff.
00:06:33.080 And when you ask these individuals who give that advice,
00:06:36.220 if that's what they did,
00:06:37.860 more often than not, the answer is no.
00:06:40.140 So take a look at the risk you're thinking about taking
00:06:42.940 and ask yourself, is there a potential reward
00:06:45.720 or is this just an unnecessary risk
00:06:48.140 that puts myself in physical, emotional,
00:06:51.460 spiritual, financial danger?
00:06:53.740 Or is this something that has a likelihood
00:06:55.740 of paying off in a way that is in alignment
00:06:58.840 with step number one, the vision that I have for myself?
00:07:01.980 Now, number three is to hedge your bets.
00:07:04.660 Sometimes when you hedge your bets,
00:07:06.140 you're actually minimizing the potential reward
00:07:08.620 that you could get through the risk that you're taking.
00:07:11.200 But I'm not talking about hedging, not by going all in.
00:07:14.960 What I'm talking about is making sure
00:07:17.880 that every aspect of your life is shored up.
00:07:20.780 In a lot of ways, we refer to this as sovereignty.
00:07:23.580 So I'll give you an example.
00:07:25.240 Let's say that you've got $100,000
00:07:27.320 and you'd like to invest $100,000.
00:07:30.880 And you are presented with an opportunity
00:07:33.220 from a friend who owns a business,
00:07:35.240 they're looking for funding and they need investors
00:07:37.220 and they have a spot for $100,000.
00:07:40.120 Now, this is how you hedge.
00:07:42.540 If you're not and have not been up to that point
00:07:45.260 actively working on improving your financial situation
00:07:48.120 and you say yes to that investment,
00:07:50.560 you are open for a huge amount of risk
00:07:53.400 that doesn't have to be that way.
00:07:55.940 So let me explain.
00:07:57.280 If all I have is $100,000
00:07:59.200 and that's literally all that I have to my name
00:08:01.380 and I don't have great income
00:08:03.180 and I don't have great cashflow
00:08:04.600 and I don't have great money management skills
00:08:07.080 and my work and career is on the rocks right now
00:08:09.660 and I decide to go ahead and invest that $100,000,
00:08:12.860 man, that's a bold move
00:08:14.660 and you better hope it pays off
00:08:16.420 because if it isn't,
00:08:18.280 you're gonna find yourself in a bad way.
00:08:20.200 Now, let's look at the same scenario
00:08:23.000 in a different set of circumstances.
00:08:24.980 Your friend comes to you with a business opportunity,
00:08:27.460 he needs $100,000 in funding,
00:08:29.260 you've got the $100,000.
00:08:30.960 But over the past five years,
00:08:32.680 you've been prudent knowing that opportunities
00:08:34.780 like this will present themselves.
00:08:36.240 So you've paid off your consumer debt.
00:08:39.380 You have more money set aside.
00:08:41.740 You've been diligent in working in your career
00:08:44.100 and getting promotions
00:08:45.480 and making yourself indispensable.
00:08:48.040 You do a budget.
00:08:49.600 Your wife and you are on the same page
00:08:51.200 with how your money management works.
00:08:52.980 You're setting money aside.
00:08:54.340 You know the ebbs and flows.
00:08:56.120 The debt's paid off.
00:08:57.700 Consumer credit score is good.
00:09:02.300 You've been doing all of the work
00:09:03.780 that you need to be doing
00:09:04.760 knowing that something would present itself.
00:09:06.880 Same level of risk, right?
00:09:09.480 Objectively, it's $100,000.
00:09:11.120 You can win a big or you can lose.
00:09:13.240 But subjectively, there's a lot less risk
00:09:15.940 for the second man than there is the first
00:09:17.920 because he was diligent
00:09:19.440 about what he needed to do
00:09:21.660 leading up to a potential opportunity.
00:09:24.040 The same thing is true in the dating market.
00:09:27.260 I see young men all the time
00:09:28.760 who have a woman that they wanna ask on a date.
00:09:32.040 Maybe it's on a dating app
00:09:33.260 or maybe it's in the workplace
00:09:35.060 or any other environment that he sees this woman.
00:09:39.460 If she's the only woman that he's ever approached
00:09:42.440 or ever considered talking to,
00:09:43.980 then that's a huge risk for him asking her out
00:09:46.180 because if she says no,
00:09:47.940 he has no other options or opportunities.
00:09:50.280 And so what that does is that keeps a man
00:09:52.020 from doing the things
00:09:53.320 that actually could help him progress in life.
00:09:56.520 But if you counter that
00:09:58.040 with a man who's done work on himself,
00:10:00.880 he's fit, he's strong, he's bold,
00:10:03.080 he's assertive, he's capable,
00:10:04.580 he's got a good career, he's charming,
00:10:07.280 he knows how to present himself well
00:10:08.940 and communicate effectively,
00:10:10.080 and he approaches women that he is interested in,
00:10:14.060 and he has a large pool of women to draw from
00:10:16.900 because of who he is and how he approaches the world,
00:10:20.520 then if he asks one woman on a date
00:10:22.300 and she says no, not much of a risk
00:10:24.980 relative to the guy who only has one option.
00:10:29.660 If you wanna start a business
00:10:31.420 and you, or even ask for a promotion,
00:10:36.040 if you don't network,
00:10:37.620 if you haven't built up your skillset,
00:10:39.760 if you don't talk with other people,
00:10:42.140 if you haven't made yourself indispensable,
00:10:44.180 then asking for that promotion
00:10:45.560 or asking for feedback from a boss
00:10:47.440 is gonna be a very scary thing
00:10:49.220 because the risk is subjectively higher for you
00:10:52.480 than the guy who is well-networked,
00:10:54.960 who if he does lose his job,
00:10:56.500 has a half a dozen jobs lined up
00:10:58.340 within a couple of days,
00:10:59.840 and who has the money,
00:11:02.160 to go back to the money management,
00:11:03.540 set aside so that if he was laid off,
00:11:06.480 he can handle that.
00:11:07.920 It's just better to live a better life
00:11:10.520 and do the things that you know you should be doing
00:11:12.760 on a regular and consistent basis.
00:11:15.320 The challenge for a lot of men in doing this
00:11:17.660 is that they think because of where they are right now,
00:11:20.680 it will continue.
00:11:22.560 And Kip, my co-host on the Ask Me Anything,
00:11:25.440 talked about this the other day,
00:11:27.140 the mantra of this too shall pass.
00:11:29.580 So you think because you're in a fairly good position
00:11:32.780 right now that you don't really need to do anything,
00:11:36.500 that you can continue to be mediocre in your marriage,
00:11:39.480 that you can continue to scoot by in your career path.
00:11:43.360 But what you don't see is that maybe your wife
00:11:46.600 has some dissatisfaction in the marriage.
00:11:48.640 What you don't see is that looming medical problem
00:11:51.780 because you gain two or three or four pounds every year.
00:11:54.840 Doesn't seem like a lot in the micro,
00:11:56.500 but you do that over five or 10 years,
00:11:58.020 and all of a sudden you're 50, 70, 80,
00:12:00.480 100 pounds overweight.
00:12:02.580 Maybe there is a shift in the market
00:12:04.480 that actually puts your job on the chopping block,
00:12:07.240 but you don't see that
00:12:08.180 because things seem to be going well right now.
00:12:10.840 Guys, sovereignty in all ways.
00:12:14.100 And this is how we hedge our bets,
00:12:15.820 and this is how we give ourselves maximum opportunity
00:12:18.520 to take advantage of risks as they arise.
00:12:21.860 And I'm using risks and opportunities
00:12:23.560 a little bit interchangeable,
00:12:25.140 and I hope you understand what I mean when I say that.
00:12:28.140 Again, this goes back to measuring risk versus reward.
00:12:31.920 They don't always match up, so be smart about that.
00:12:35.300 But risk can present a great opportunity
00:12:37.500 if you are looking at the risk versus reward
00:12:39.660 relative to what you want out of life.
00:12:42.560 The next one here, guys,
00:12:43.820 so we've got know what you want and why.
00:12:45.780 We've got measure the risk versus reward.
00:12:47.900 We've got hedging your bets, not by not going all in,
00:12:50.760 but by shoring up of every other area of life
00:12:53.240 leading up to risk and opportunity.
00:12:54.920 Number four is to do a SWOT analysis.
00:12:57.800 If you've not heard this term,
00:12:59.520 it stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
00:13:05.360 And so I do this all the time
00:13:07.060 when I'm looking into an investment
00:13:08.840 or I'm looking into a new project
00:13:12.000 that I want to do with Order of Man
00:13:13.860 or a new event that I want to run
00:13:16.380 or any number of things.
00:13:18.360 Maybe it's just a project around the house.
00:13:20.480 Okay, so first, what are your strengths?
00:13:23.060 What do you bring to the table?
00:13:25.240 Because if you don't have any strengths
00:13:26.600 in this particular department,
00:13:28.020 it's going to be more risky for you
00:13:30.980 than somebody who has the strengths.
00:13:33.120 Now, in addition to that,
00:13:34.400 what are your weaknesses?
00:13:35.780 There's going to be deficiencies.
00:13:37.640 There's going to be things that you're not good at.
00:13:39.340 And you better acknowledge and recognize what they are.
00:13:41.760 Too many men will not do that.
00:13:43.780 They're afraid to look at their weaknesses.
00:13:45.740 Obviously, it's not comfortable.
00:13:47.480 It shows a measure of inadequacy and discomfort
00:13:49.920 and then conjures up images of insecurity.
00:13:53.020 But you have to know what your weaknesses are.
00:13:55.860 Now, to go to the opportunities,
00:13:57.180 I feel like we address this a little bit
00:13:58.900 when it comes to risk versus reward.
00:14:01.000 And then you can look at the threats.
00:14:02.120 What are the potential downfalls?
00:14:05.020 What could potentially happen?
00:14:06.740 So again, if you're going to invest
00:14:08.720 in a business proposition
00:14:10.500 that your friend comes to you and says,
00:14:12.220 hey, this is a new and emerging market
00:14:14.760 and we need to get in on the ground level
00:14:17.180 and here's why it's important
00:14:18.260 and here's my plan and here's the team
00:14:20.120 and here's where we're good
00:14:21.320 and here's where we're not good
00:14:22.360 and here's how you can help
00:14:23.400 and here's how we need you to serve
00:14:25.300 outside of just the financial contribution.
00:14:27.780 Okay, now you can look at
00:14:29.540 what potential threats could arise.
00:14:32.060 Maybe this product or this offering
00:14:34.300 is not as valuable or interesting to the market
00:14:38.160 as you previously thought.
00:14:40.500 Maybe it really is,
00:14:41.860 but there's a huge sort of political risk
00:14:46.360 in that if things shift in the political climate,
00:14:48.960 then all of a sudden this industry
00:14:50.420 is on the chopping block.
00:14:51.860 Like a great example of that would be electric cars.
00:14:54.960 You know, under certain presidencies,
00:14:56.580 the electric mandates
00:14:58.420 and the Green New Deal type thing
00:14:59.780 is going to obviously play in favor
00:15:01.920 of those who manufacture electric cars.
00:15:04.820 But then you have this battle
00:15:07.000 between Trump and Musk
00:15:08.960 and we don't need to talk about who's right
00:15:10.560 or who's wrong or any of that,
00:15:12.100 but there is a political risk to Musk
00:15:15.440 that he's experiencing right now
00:15:16.940 through the big, beautiful deal
00:15:19.100 or whatever it's called,
00:15:20.020 the big, beautiful bill.
00:15:21.120 There's a real risk for him
00:15:24.000 in that he's losing some credits
00:15:26.160 the way I understand it
00:15:27.360 or subsidies for manufacturing electric cars.
00:15:31.960 So now all of a sudden,
00:15:33.060 he's got a huge liability
00:15:34.900 that did not exist before
00:15:36.340 simply because of political risk.
00:15:39.620 There's market risk,
00:15:40.720 there's political risk,
00:15:41.880 there's weather risk,
00:15:43.400 there's foreign risk,
00:15:44.780 there's your health,
00:15:46.420 there's the other investors.
00:15:47.900 There's so many different metrics of risk.
00:15:49.800 So you need to look at what threats those are
00:15:51.880 and ask yourself
00:15:52.860 if I'm willing to address them,
00:15:54.420 if I'm willing to handle and storm,
00:15:56.460 weather the storm when they come up
00:15:57.720 or I have to avoid this altogether.
00:15:59.700 Just be aware of that.
00:16:01.260 All right, and then the last thing guys here
00:16:02.780 is this should not be controversial,
00:16:05.740 but oftentimes it is.
00:16:07.600 Get coaching, all right?
00:16:09.320 Somebody has likely done
00:16:10.760 what you are setting out to do.
00:16:12.800 Whether you're asking a woman on a date
00:16:14.440 or you're getting back into the dating market
00:16:17.600 after going through a divorce,
00:16:19.800 or you're starting a new business
00:16:22.520 or a new fitness routine,
00:16:23.760 or maybe you want to go run a marathon,
00:16:25.720 or maybe you want to learn how to get a promotion
00:16:28.860 or how to speak better in public.
00:16:31.580 There's literally coaches for everything.
00:16:34.720 And you might say,
00:16:35.360 well, I don't have the money to do it.
00:16:36.960 Okay, it's still going to cost you.
00:16:39.300 That's the thing that most people don't understand
00:16:41.480 is I might say,
00:16:42.360 well, coaching for X, Y, and Z projects
00:16:44.240 is going to be $10,000.
00:16:45.760 You might say, oh my goodness, that's a lot.
00:16:47.500 I don't want to do that.
00:16:48.420 Okay, well, what's the alternative?
00:16:50.520 The alternative is that it could literally cost you
00:16:53.040 $100,000, 10 times the amount
00:16:55.660 because you didn't get the coaching
00:16:57.720 where they told you where to step,
00:16:59.780 where to move, what to avoid,
00:17:01.700 how to overcome it, what are the systems.
00:17:04.220 And they're going to speed that process up.
00:17:06.020 The reason that most people will not get the coaching
00:17:09.220 is because of the associated price tag,
00:17:12.560 but the cost, and that's different than price,
00:17:14.700 the cost is so much higher to not getting coaching,
00:17:18.160 but you just can't see it
00:17:19.380 because you're not writing a check each month
00:17:20.840 or each quarter or a one-time check.
00:17:22.800 But trust me, that cost is still there.
00:17:25.700 So think about what you want.
00:17:27.400 Now, look, there's a lot of free options.
00:17:28.860 There's podcasts like this one.
00:17:30.440 There's email newsletters you can get access to.
00:17:33.380 You can go to the library and get a library card
00:17:35.580 and get books on the subject.
00:17:38.520 Moving up the rung, you can go buy a book,
00:17:41.560 whether it's Audible,
00:17:42.600 and I've been doing a lot of listening lately
00:17:44.660 or buying the actual book.
00:17:47.520 It could be subscribing to a low entry
00:17:49.680 or a low cost program or mastermind or course.
00:17:56.560 It could be going to an event.
00:17:57.940 This is going to get more and more expensive as I go.
00:18:00.060 It could be going to an event
00:18:02.000 and rubbing shoulders with somebody
00:18:04.400 who's sharing information that you're interested in.
00:18:07.300 And then it could be ultimately one-to-one coaching.
00:18:09.920 And that's probably going to be the most expensive route,
00:18:12.200 but when I say coaching,
00:18:13.580 don't think I'm saying go straight to one-to-one coaching
00:18:15.800 unless that's what you want.
00:18:17.100 There's a lot of other different ways to do it.
00:18:19.220 But don't leave that on the table because it's expensive.
00:18:21.540 It's expensive both ways.
00:18:23.380 I would just rather pay upfront, expedite the process.
00:18:27.280 It's going to be less expensive,
00:18:28.360 and I'm going to have those results that much faster.
00:18:31.180 Guys, this is how we measure risk.
00:18:33.160 Again, I want to reiterate,
00:18:34.540 we don't want to be reckless.
00:18:36.920 A lot of people will tell you that.
00:18:38.160 Just burn the boats, burn the bridges, go all in,
00:18:41.320 forget about everything else.
00:18:42.560 That's not wise.
00:18:44.420 That's not prudent.
00:18:46.000 You have responsibilities.
00:18:47.320 You have obligations.
00:18:48.420 You have commitments that you've made.
00:18:50.140 And we can't be reckless with our resources,
00:18:52.840 especially if the people in our lives are impacted
00:18:55.000 by the decisions that we will be making.
00:18:57.420 That's not to say we shouldn't take risks.
00:18:59.240 I think us as men are designed to take risk.
00:19:02.880 I think we're, in a lot of ways, expected to take risks.
00:19:06.140 We're expected to lead.
00:19:07.620 People are looking for leadership,
00:19:08.920 and they're looking for somebody who's bold and courageous,
00:19:11.800 but also somebody who can do it prudently
00:19:14.960 and in a healthy way.
00:19:16.460 So I hope that helps.
00:19:17.540 And I'd love to hear what kind of risks you're taking,
00:19:19.500 what kind of projects you're engaged in,
00:19:21.200 what opportunities are presenting themselves,
00:19:23.240 where you might be getting hung up.
00:19:24.980 And if you connect with me at orderaman.com,
00:19:27.620 you can sign up for our email newsletter.
00:19:30.540 Or if you'd like, hit me up on Instagram,
00:19:33.700 send me a message, a direct message,
00:19:35.780 and let me know what you're working on
00:19:37.340 or a comment on a post that I make
00:19:39.660 to follow up this podcast on taking risk.
00:19:42.540 All right, guys, I hope that helps,
00:19:43.880 and I hope that serves you.
00:19:44.820 I wanna see more of us take risks,
00:19:46.160 but I want us to do it in a smart, intelligent,
00:19:48.880 prudent way that will inevitably produce
00:19:51.780 the results that we desire.
00:19:53.540 Have a great weekend.
00:19:54.360 We will be back on Tuesday of next week.
00:19:56.680 Until then, go out there, take action,
00:19:58.900 take risks, and become the man you are meant to be.
00:20:03.700 Thank you for listening to the Order of Man podcast.
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00:20:10.780 and be more of the man you were meant to be.
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