Order of Man - Adjust Fire ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES

00:00:00.000 You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest. Embrace your fears and boldly chart

00:00:05.000 your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time. Every time.

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00:00:22.800 you can call yourself a man. Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan

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00:01:22.460 you today. I'm going to talk with you about adjusting fire. I'm going to give you a little

00:01:26.800 bit of a background into what I did in the military and talk about why it's important to you and why

00:01:33.480 it's critical that you learn the concept and apply it effectively in your life, especially in times

00:01:38.340 like we're dealing with now with the coronavirus fallout and all the chaos and the variables and

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00:03:12.120 great company and great people. All right, guys, let's get into the conversation today. We're

00:03:16.600 talking about adjusting fire. Now I got to give you a little bit of background as I get into this,

00:03:21.080 my, my experience in the military. I joined the military when I was 17. I was a senior in high

00:03:28.580 school and joined the national guard really with the goal of paying for some schooling. And also,

00:03:34.360 you know, I had a call to patriotism and wanted to serve and wanted to step up and do my part in

00:03:40.100 society. And I was very happy that I did. And I had joined an artillery unit in Southern Utah.

00:03:45.260 And specifically what I did was in, uh, uh, fire direction control. So it was my responsibility to

00:03:51.160 take, uh, enemy information, uh, and Intel that we'd received, send it down to our howitzers and

00:03:57.480 then give them the information they needed to, uh, fire upon and effectively destroy the enemy.

00:04:02.480 So that was my job generally, uh, just to give you a quick overview. Now I'm telling you this because

00:04:08.420 occasionally we would miss the targets that we were aiming at. Uh, and if we miss those targets,

00:04:14.940 then we needed to fire more rounds, more volleys and effectively destroy the target. And we would

00:04:21.000 call in an adjust fire when we needed to do that. So they would take the old information that we gave

00:04:26.160 them the information that didn't apply. Uh, and then we would call an adjust fire, give them their

00:04:31.820 corrections and they would fire again. And hopefully we, we were effective that second time around.

00:04:36.240 Uh, I'm telling you this because what I learned in the military about adjusting fire is very,

00:04:41.500 very applicable to you, uh, to every man who might be listening to this, uh, in, in their life,

00:04:46.940 especially as things change and priorities shift, and there's new variables and new equations. And

00:04:52.880 look, we're, we're in the midst of that right now. Many of you listening are furloughed and you're

00:04:57.940 being laid off and now you're at home and your priorities have changed. And some of your objectives

00:05:02.500 have been tossed around and man, it's just hard to, to make the necessary corrections, uh, to,

00:05:09.360 to your battle plan, to the things that you want to do in life. So I'm going to share with you,

00:05:14.520 knowing that we had to make those adjust fires when we missed a target, I'm going to share with you

00:05:19.480 three, uh, primary reasons why we would miss a target. And then I'll share with you how that

00:05:27.140 applies exactly to your situation and what you can do in your life to now adjust fire as well.

00:05:32.840 So there's three reasons. All right. Number one, the first reason that we may have missed, uh,

00:05:37.000 our, our enemy target initially is because we received bad intel. So we had a unit that would

00:05:43.960 observe enemy troops and enemy movements. And then what they would do is they would call that into us.

00:05:49.320 And they would tell us the coordinates. They would tell us all about the enemy position and

00:05:53.500 the troop movement and what type of enemy it was and what type of vehicles and equipment,

00:05:57.140 et cetera, et cetera. And then we would take that information and we would calculate it and do

00:06:01.560 what we did. I can't get into all the specifics of that. And then we would transfer that information

00:06:06.100 down to the guns, the guns would fire. And therefore that's how it worked. So if we got bad intel,

00:06:12.880 which happened occasionally, maybe the coordinates were wrong. Maybe the observation was wrong. Maybe the

00:06:18.860 report was sent incorrectly. Then it's very possible based on bad Intel, not having all the information

00:06:25.880 accurate and correct, that it would be obvious that you could potentially miss the target. So

00:06:30.500 that's number one, bad Intel. And I'll circle back around to that in a minute. Uh, number two,

00:06:34.980 the second reason why we may have missed our target is because the enemy moved. So where the enemy was

00:06:42.360 is different than where the enemy is now. And that tends to happen, especially if you're dealing with

00:06:48.220 an enemy convoy or, or a troop movement. And so, because the enemy moved, we shot where they were

00:06:54.420 not where they are now. And we missed the target. So that's the second reason enemy movement, the target

00:07:00.740 moved. The third reason is operator error. So maybe that information was received incorrectly.

00:07:08.420 Uh, maybe, uh, a radio operator heard something different than what was actually real. Maybe

00:07:13.760 some information was input wrong. The calculations weren't done correctly, but there's a thousand

00:07:18.980 or more reasons that the Intel, or excuse me, that there could be operator error. But those are

00:07:25.300 primarily the three reasons that we would miss a target and therefore have to adjust fire. And this

00:07:31.140 is primarily what's happening in your life. If you're not hitting your targets and you're not

00:07:36.180 accomplishing what you want to accomplish, then it's safe to assume that it probably falls into

00:07:41.500 one of these three reasons. So let's break this down and talk about how this applies in your life.

00:07:46.760 And then we'll talk about what you need to do about it. So the first reason is because we received bad

00:07:52.200 Intel. Well, guys, you're not going to have all the information at hand. If you're trying to

00:07:56.700 secure a promotion or, uh, ask a woman to marry you or to pick up a new hobby or an activity or improve

00:08:04.900 your physical fitness or your nutrition, there is so much information in the world that it's hard to

00:08:11.440 decipher which information is best, what's accurate, what's inaccurate, what's going to apply to your

00:08:16.980 circumstance or situation. Have you got all the pertinent information together? And if you're making

00:08:21.940 decisions in your life based on inaccurate data, then it's probably safe to assume that you're going

00:08:28.340 to miss the objective. You're going to miss the thing that you're after. So what do you do about this?

00:08:33.580 You look to the experts, right? Is very, very important that you find people in your life who

00:08:41.580 are experiencing the exact type of results that you're after or, and, or have produced those types

00:08:48.440 of results for other individuals because they know they have the information. They've been through the

00:08:54.000 course. They've been through everything that it is you're going to go through. And they can now teach

00:08:58.940 you that and they can show you where to step and they can show you how to act and they can show you

00:09:02.800 what resources you need. And they can show you how to get what it is that you're after.

00:09:07.600 But if you're not open and you're not receptive to new information, you're not paying for coaching,

00:09:12.240 you're not investing in yourself. You're not going to courses. You're not reading books and listening

00:09:17.120 to the podcast, then you're just winging it. And you know, you might actually hit the target,

00:09:21.980 but it's going to be luck if you do. And if you do hit the target that way, congratulations,

00:09:31.420 you hit the target, but now you can't replicate the results because you don't know how you got them

00:09:35.660 in the first place. So what we're looking for is systematic results in our life. And you have to

00:09:41.240 evaluate, why did I not accomplish what I wanted to accomplish? Maybe just, maybe you didn't have all

00:09:47.760 the information at hand. Therefore start to acquire new knowledge, new information, look to

00:09:53.320 those who, uh, who have gone before, who know this stuff, who have seen what you're about to see,

00:09:58.820 who have stepped into all the mistakes and all the pitfalls you're about to step into and learn from

00:10:03.720 them. It's been said that a smart man learns from his mistakes. A wise man learns from the mistakes

00:10:10.180 of others enlist other people into your battle. And you're more likely to have accurate Intel.

00:10:15.760 Therefore you're more likely to hit your objective and your target. All right. The second reason that

00:10:21.120 you might miss your objective, again, whatever your objective is, is because the target moved.

00:10:29.240 Now this is very, very applicable in a lot of our lives right now. You were on this, this path,

00:10:35.900 maybe it was a career path and you were on track for a promotion. You were going to get a raise or you're

00:10:40.680 starting a business and you were going to get, get this big order. A lot of things could be going on

00:10:45.400 right now. And then all of a sudden we're hit with a global pandemic, something that not very many

00:10:50.740 people predicted and your priorities change. You know, the, the, the promotion. Now you're just

00:10:57.240 worried about keeping your job, let alone trying to secure a promotion, let alone trying to start a

00:11:02.960 business. Maybe you're furloughed, maybe you're laid off. And so now you have time at home and you're

00:11:08.620 not knee deep into your career. Things change guys. Priorities change. External circumstances

00:11:15.000 move. Internal circumstances change. What was a priority is no longer a priority. You begin to

00:11:20.960 see things differently as you get older and you mature. And the things that were important 10 years

00:11:25.660 ago are not the things that are important. Now you need to be able to adjust quickly. You need to be able

00:11:31.940 to adapt. You need to be able to recognize that what was once important to you is no longer important.

00:11:39.360 And by the way, this doesn't make you a quitter. Understand that, that if you've decided I'm no

00:11:44.360 longer going to pursue that thing, whatever that thing is for you, it doesn't mean that you quit.

00:11:50.360 It just means that you pivoted and give you an example. When I started podcasting, which was roughly

00:11:55.640 six years ago or so ago, I had a previous podcast called wealth anatomy. And the podcast was all

00:12:01.860 centered around a financial advice for medical professionals. That was what I did in my, my

00:12:07.440 previous life is as a financial advisor. So I realized within 15, 20 episodes that I love the

00:12:14.480 medium of podcasting, but I didn't want to continue to have that financial conversation. I wanted to have

00:12:19.700 a broader, deeper conversation specifically about what it means to be a man. Hence order a man was born.

00:12:25.780 It was hard for me. I had to really wrestle with the idea that I was no longer going to do this other

00:12:32.080 podcast called wealth anatomy, because in my mind, I had equated me stopping that to me quitting,

00:12:38.260 not to me pivoting. And that's really what I did. I didn't quit. I didn't throw in the towel. I didn't

00:12:44.280 certainly waste all of that time. I learned a lot of valuable information about how to, how to interview

00:12:49.440 people and the technology and the, the, the things that I needed, the resources that I needed to tap

00:12:54.800 into in order to have what it is that I wanted to have, which was, which was the podcast. So

00:13:00.900 I pivoted and I started order a man in March of 2015. And here we are a little over now,

00:13:07.220 five years later. And it's amazing what we've grown to and how we've evolved and how we've

00:13:12.520 changed and how many hundreds of thousands of not millions of people we've impacted through the work

00:13:17.340 that we're doing. But I never would have experienced that if I wasn't willing to adjust based on where

00:13:23.120 my new objective was guys, it's okay that you mature. It's okay that life changes. It's okay

00:13:28.680 that priorities change. It's not okay. If you don't evolve as those things change and you just

00:13:34.480 keep firing on the same position, hoping that you're going to accomplish something big and great

00:13:39.240 in your life. You're not. And even if you do accomplish some form of success, you are certainly

00:13:45.120 not going to be satisfied and fulfilled with it because it's not even the objective. It's not even the

00:13:50.120 target. That target has changed. It's moved on and you need to learn to evolve and grow and move with

00:13:56.580 the changing of those objectives and targets. Now, the third reason is operator air. All right.

00:14:03.480 You got the right information. The enemy is still there, but you messed it up. You screwed up.

00:14:09.360 This happens all the time. Every day I mess up every day you mess up. And what most men do is they

00:14:15.660 will overlook what the mess up was and what they need to do to fix it. So they'll put the blindfold

00:14:21.760 on and they'll pretend like everything's fine. And they'll try to bury it and their head in the sand

00:14:26.300 and keep going on and keep moving. Look, you're not going to hit your target. If you keep messing up,

00:14:30.740 if the calculations are wrong, but you will, if you learn what those mistakes are so that you can

00:14:37.340 correct them. And that's the point of understanding and identifying mistakes. The point is to figure out

00:14:44.100 where you messed up so you can rectify the situation. It's not to dwell on it. It's not to

00:14:49.940 identify yourself as a, as a loser or a failure is to say, okay, well, here's exactly what I did.

00:14:56.460 It didn't produce the results that I wanted. And here's where I messed up. And here's where I didn't

00:15:01.640 commit fully or didn't do the activity or the work required. And because I didn't do that, I didn't

00:15:06.780 produce the desired result. It's that simple. Now, speaking of all this, what needs to happen in order

00:15:13.300 for you to identify operator error is you need to a be tracking it, right? If you're not tracking

00:15:19.980 what it is you're doing, the amount of sales prospecting calls that you're making, uh, the

00:15:25.940 conversations that you're having, the amount of work and effort that you're putting into your income

00:15:31.320 and your expenses, whatever your objective is, your, the amount of weight that you're lifting and

00:15:35.440 how often you're doing it and how fast you're running and all of these things, regardless of what

00:15:39.920 your objective is, if you're not tracking it, you'll never be able to know if what you're doing

00:15:44.620 is working and effective or not. And even if you do hit your target, and I've heard a lot of people

00:15:49.340 say this, well, I accomplished what I wanted to. Yeah. But what if you tracked it and you look for

00:15:55.020 ways to do it more efficiently? Imagine getting out of debt that much quicker. Imagine securing that

00:16:01.200 promotion in two months instead of six months. Imagine fixing your marriage now, rather than waiting a

00:16:08.040 year for it to go bad and you to go through a separation and, or a divorce. Imagine you starting

00:16:12.900 a business today and it growing over the next year, as opposed to you just waiting, hoping that things

00:16:19.360 were going to work out. This is what I'm talking about. You need to be able to track this stuff so

00:16:25.300 that you can see what is efficient, and then you can improve your efficiencies and your processes and

00:16:30.800 your systems along the way. So a, you have to be tracking it and B you have to review it. This is the,

00:16:37.540 this is the idea, the concept of an after action review. So at the end of every encounter,

00:16:42.780 engagement process, system, conversation, et cetera, you're going to go back and you're going

00:16:47.800 to review the work that you did and the results that it produced, the work that you did and the

00:16:53.280 results that it produced. And if you produce the desired result, you're going to find ways to do it

00:16:57.740 more effectively and efficiently. If you didn't produce the desired result, meaning you didn't hit

00:17:02.100 your target, then you're going to adjust fire. You're going to figure out where you messed up and why

00:17:06.980 you messed up. Maybe it was operator error again, and you're going to correct the behavior. And then

00:17:11.560 you're going to fire again, which means you're getting back into the battle, back into the fight,

00:17:15.300 doing the work and trying to achieve that objective again. So an after action review consists of

00:17:22.200 the following five questions. Number one, what did I accomplish? What did I accomplish? Did I hit the

00:17:30.000 target? Was the enemy destroyed? Did I set out to do what I wanted to do? And that means that you

00:17:36.580 actually have to have an objective, right? So there actually has to be something you're working

00:17:40.120 towards. Number two, what did I not accomplish? Maybe you didn't hit the objective. Maybe you

00:17:45.220 partially hit the objective and now you need to double down and figure out how to destroy that

00:17:49.920 target completely. But what did I not do? Number three, what did I do? Well, now these are the tasks

00:17:57.320 and the projects and the processes and the systems and the activities and the behavior and the mindset

00:18:02.240 that went really well in order for you to accomplish your intended objective. Maybe you

00:18:09.240 communicated well, maybe you had all the resources, maybe you got all of the Intel correct. Maybe you

00:18:14.960 executed very well. You put in all the effort and you worked hard towards that objective. That's what

00:18:20.380 you did well. So write this down, document this. I have a lot of these field notes everywhere. I,

00:18:26.200 I mean, I've got just a few right here. I've got a couple there. I've got my planner here. I've got

00:18:32.080 these things everywhere because I'm documenting always what's working and what isn't so that I can

00:18:36.240 go back and review it. So that third question is what did I do? Well, specifically get a specific

00:18:41.140 as he possibly can. The fourth question, what did I not do? Well, again, this is not to dwell on it.

00:18:47.800 This is not to internalize yourself as a loser or a failure or a piece of crap. This is just for you to

00:18:53.800 get some objective information and some feedback on what you didn't do well so that the next go

00:18:59.720 around, you can fix it. You can adjust fire and you can make the necessary corrections and be better

00:19:05.040 moving forward. The fifth and final question of the after action review is what am I going to do

00:19:11.340 moving forward? What am I going to do moving forward? I know what I did. Well, I know what I

00:19:16.240 didn't do. Well, I know what I got done. I know what is yet to have been completed. And now what am I

00:19:21.120 going to do about it? This is the adjust fire. All right. There was the target. There was the enemy

00:19:25.740 we messed up or the target moved, or we got bad Intel. All of that's been rectified and fixed. And

00:19:30.260 now I got to fix it. I got to re-engage and I got to fire again and hopefully hit that target and that

00:19:36.280 objective. Like I meant to the first time. It's a very, very simple framework. It's a very simple

00:19:41.900 mindset. It doesn't always mean that it's easy to implement, especially when you're not used to

00:19:46.880 adopting and including this in your planning process. But if you wrap your head around the

00:19:52.240 idea that it's okay, that you miss occasionally, it's going to happen. Don't internalize it to be

00:19:58.120 something that it isn't. All it means is that you failed and you've got to take another shot.

00:20:03.040 And that other shot has to be based on new information, something new. Otherwise you're

00:20:07.880 just going to produce the same result. All right. So let's recap this again. We're talking today about

00:20:12.980 adjusting fire. When things change, external circumstances change. There's a global pandemic

00:20:18.120 or a kid breaks his arm, or you go through a divorce or are dealing with a bankruptcy or some

00:20:23.000 debt issues or a health crisis. You're going to have to adjust fire. Your priorities are going to

00:20:29.260 change. Circumstances are going to change. Don't beat your head against the wall and continue to do

00:20:33.780 the same thing, hoping that you're going to produce the desired result when the external and internal

00:20:38.760 circumstances have changed. We're talking about adjusting fire along the way. Men are good at

00:20:44.480 adapting. Another way of looking at this is adapting and overcoming something we hear quite

00:20:48.700 often. Adapt, overcome, adapt, overcome. I call it adjust fire. All right. The three primary reasons

00:20:55.140 why you may miss an objective that you're after is number one, bad Intel. So you got to shore that Intel

00:21:02.100 up. You got to get all the necessary information that you need to be able to make better shots.

00:21:08.360 The second reason is your objective moved priorities, change, external circumstances change. And if

00:21:15.760 they move and change, then you need to adjust and move with those things. So you can continue to hit

00:21:21.080 your objectives. And the third reason operator error, you messed up somewhere along the way.

00:21:25.820 You weren't as committed. You didn't participate in the activities. You didn't do what you were

00:21:29.860 supposed to do. It's okay. Regroup, figure out what was the thing that went wrong, the variable

00:21:35.940 that was off and then fix it. Adjust fire, get back in the battle and hit those targets. So I hope that

00:21:42.180 helps. I hope that serves you really glad we're in this battle together, especially now. I mean,

00:21:46.160 I'm seeing firsthand because I received messages and emails and texts from you guys talking about

00:21:51.140 how important this work is. It's crucial that we understand what it means to be a man. It's crucial

00:21:57.560 that we take the frameworks like I'm sharing with you today and others that I've shared over the past

00:22:01.200 five years and implement those in our lives. So we can produce the desired result, the thing that

00:22:06.780 we're after and desired results for other people. We have an opportunity and frankly, an obligation to

00:22:12.120 serve other people, our children, our wife, our neighbors, our community, our friends. And there's

00:22:17.520 no time like today in the history, well, not the history, but this is certainly a big milestone,

00:22:24.280 if you will, a test to see whether or not we are capable of serving and helping others and being

00:22:32.080 the men that we have the opportunity to become and the opportunity that we need to step into because

00:22:38.880 other people are relying upon us. So I hope this helps adjust fire along the way, guys, make your

00:22:43.580 necessary corrections as we deal with this coronavirus fallout. And let me know how it's going. Hit me up

00:22:49.100 on YouTube or Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, all at Ryan Mickler, and let me know how it's going.

00:22:56.920 Again, thank you for being in this battle with me. I'm looking forward to seeing your progress as you

00:23:00.960 implement the strategies I share with you. All right, guys, we'll be back next week for the interview

00:23:05.380 series. And then of course, the Ask Me Anything with Kip Sorensen. But until then, go out there,

00:23:10.460 take action, become the man you are meant to be. Thank you for listening to the Order of Man podcast.

00:23:16.080 If you're ready to take charge of your life and be more of the man you were meant to be,

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Adjust Fire ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES

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