Order of Man - February 26, 2021


Avoid Burnout in Your Business and Relationships | FRIDAY FIELD NOTES


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Length

28 minutes

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189.33087

Word Count

5,345

Sentence Count

347

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary

Avoiding burnout is something that all men deal with. It's something that we all deal with, whether it's in our personal or professional lives. In this episode, Ryan talks about 5 ways to avoid burnout in your personal and professional life.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest, embrace your fears, and boldly chart
00:00:05.020 your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time.
00:00:10.460 You are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is who
00:00:17.240 you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,
00:00:22.820 you can call yourself a man. Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Michler,
00:00:27.800 and I am the host and the founder of the Order of Man podcast and movement. Welcome here. Welcome
00:00:32.760 back. It's been a good ride. We've been in this thing for six years now, and the amount of traction
00:00:40.140 that we've been able to make in that period of time is absolutely phenomenal, which I like to
00:00:44.420 claim some credit for it, but let's be honest, it's you. It's you as men listening, tuning in,
00:00:49.180 banding with us, becoming the type of men we've been talking about for the past six years now,
00:00:53.160 sharing the message, and just stepping up the way that you need to. First and foremost,
00:00:57.700 I want to say thank you. If you are new to the podcast, this is your Friday Field Notes. You get
00:01:01.580 to hear from me for the next 20, 25 minutes or so on some topics that I've been thinking about from
00:01:06.360 throughout the week, but of course, we've got our interview show as well, where we interview guys
00:01:11.240 like Steve Rinella, Jocko Willing, David Goggins, Andy Priscilla. The men that come on are absolutely
00:01:17.500 phenomenal, and it's my job to secure these guests for you and then take their education experience
00:01:24.320 information, distill it down into a practical conversation that you can apply to your life.
00:01:29.820 So that's what this one's going to be. We're going to be talking about avoiding burnout because this is
00:01:34.540 something that all men deal with. It's something that I've certainly dealt with, not only here with
00:01:38.440 Order of Man, but other facets of my life. So we're going to get into that in a minute because I have
00:01:42.700 five tips that you can use in your life to avoid burnout yourself. But before I do, I want to make
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00:03:15.300 free bottle. So there you go. That's my announcement. All right, guys, let's talk about avoiding burnout.
00:03:21.300 This is something all men deal with. Things don't always go according to plan. Results take longer
00:03:28.100 than you think they will. You get tired, you get run down, you get beat up. This is part of life.
00:03:34.640 And I don't want you to be burned out on any facet of your life, whether it's your fitness journey,
00:03:41.320 the relationship that you have with your wife or anybody else for that matter,
00:03:44.460 a business that you might be engaged in, a career endeavor or pursuit, a hobby, whatever.
00:03:48.720 I don't want you to be burned out. And I don't want you to be burned out because often the results
00:03:54.960 come after most, the average person, the majority of people probably do burnout. And then we wonder
00:04:03.120 why we're not experiencing the results. Is it because possibly we have burnt out before we yield
00:04:09.480 the benefit, the blessing, the outcome of our work up to that point? So we're going to break this down.
00:04:18.680 We're going to talk about why you should avoid burning out and more importantly, how to avoid
00:04:23.040 burning out. So let's just jump right into it. Again, five points for this. Number one, the first
00:04:28.380 point is don't burn all of your fuel at once, right? A lot of you guys are coming out of the gates on
00:04:35.080 fire screaming. You're so excited about the new program, the new diet, the new relationship,
00:04:40.240 the new business venture, the new project, whatever it is you're doing. And you burn all of your fuel at
00:04:46.040 once. And when all of that fuel is burned up, you have absolutely nothing left in the tank. And so you
00:04:53.220 quit, you throw in the towel, you realize that you don't have the same level of interest or that it has
00:04:59.840 become difficult or demanding, or it isn't what you expected. And so you don't have any more fuel left
00:05:07.740 to drive on with what it is that you want to drive on with. I get it. I understand being excited. I
00:05:14.020 understand being hopped up, but understand that the results that you desire are going to take
00:05:18.840 a long time and it's going to take a lot of effort. And you need to know that if you burn it all up,
00:05:24.840 right at, right at front. And I know a lot of guys like this, I don't happen to be one of these guys.
00:05:29.940 But these tend to be more of your emotionally charged people, right? They're so motivated.
00:05:38.440 They're so excited. They're so inspired at this moment in time that they burn up everything because
00:05:44.140 they can't think about what's going to happen in a week or a month or six years. Like we've been
00:05:51.380 going here with order of man. They think about what's happening right now. And that's an emotionally
00:05:55.980 charged response. And by the way, I don't say that, that, that as a negative, that I, the concept that
00:06:01.900 we use our emotions. I know a lot of people do. And a lot of people interpret what isn't meant to be
00:06:06.520 interpreted as, as something negative, but they interpret it negatively. I'm not suggesting you don't
00:06:14.020 be emotional. I think you should use emotions as a metric, not the only metric, but a metric for the
00:06:21.080 direction in your life. But if you're, if your fuel is emotionally charged, that burns hot and it
00:06:28.500 burns quickly. And then when all of that is gone, there's nothing left. There's no logic. There's
00:06:34.600 no reasoning. There's no grit, no determination behind that. You got to have some other, if we're
00:06:40.840 using the analogy of fuel, some other denser, longer lasting, longer burning fuel than the emotion
00:06:51.060 of being excited. So you can be excited, but don't come out of the gate swinging, figure out, okay,
00:06:57.680 I'm in this thing for the long haul. I got to keep myself in this thing and figure out how to do that.
00:07:02.980 Number two, mix things up. All right. Some of us get so monotonous, so mundane. You know, we wake up
00:07:10.380 at the same time every day. We do the same exercises. We go through the same routines. We attempt to
00:07:15.360 solve the same problems. We send out the same emails and everything is always the same. This is
00:07:21.960 actually what gets me out of all the points that I'm sharing with you today. Number one, again, was
00:07:26.240 don't burn all your fuel at once. That's not something I struggle with. Number two is I just get
00:07:32.120 bored. I get bored if everything is always the same. So how do you avoid boredom is you mix it up,
00:07:39.940 take a new route to work, do a new workout routine, practice a different martial art,
00:07:47.840 have a different kind of conversation with your wife, take your family on a vacation or to a place
00:07:52.980 that you've never gone before, solve a different problem at work. Now, one thing I will say is that
00:07:58.800 you can mix things up too much and you can start deviating from your path. So for example, if
00:08:07.680 you're trying to start a new business and you're trying to solve problems for men, like we are here
00:08:12.980 with Order of Man, and all of a sudden you start solving problems for women, okay, well, then that
00:08:20.380 actually doesn't fit within your objective and you're detracting from what you could be doing. Yes,
00:08:26.480 it will be more interesting, but it's not going to move the needle. So instead of changing your
00:08:31.460 demographic or changing what it is you're trying to do, you change the way that you approach it. So you're
00:08:36.400 still trying to solve the same problems that is in this case, helping men, equipping them,
00:08:41.080 empowering them with what they need to thrive, but we do it in a different way. So one of the ways
00:08:45.920 that we've done it here is initially we did the interview podcast that comes out each and every
00:08:50.940 Tuesday. And because I get a little bit bored with the same thing over and over again, we came out with
00:08:57.400 a second show and then a third show. And now we have the ask me anything. We have this, your Friday
00:09:02.240 field notes. This is part of the way that I've avoided being burned out because we're still
00:09:07.080 solving the same problems, but we're going about it in a different way. Another way that we've done
00:09:12.040 that is we brought merchandise in. That isn't something we always did, but it solves a problem
00:09:17.680 that helps funding with the movement. It gives guys great looking gear that they're going to use
00:09:24.140 and wear and be proud to wear because it has a meaning and purpose behind it. And it's fun. I enjoy
00:09:28.260 the design element. I enjoy growing the store. We've also done this with live events. It wasn't
00:09:34.560 enough for me to have the digital conversations that we've been having specifically in our exclusive
00:09:39.500 Brotherhood, the Iron Council. I wanted to do events live. So we did a men's event with 20 guys. And then
00:09:45.720 we did a father-son event because I wanted to mix it up. And we did that with 40. Was it 40? Yes. 40,
00:09:52.380 well, it's 20 fathers and 20 boys. So 40 total attendees. And then we did the main event,
00:09:57.980 which we had 70-ish people there. And the next one, we'll have a hundred people there,
00:10:02.320 but we're continually mixing things up because I don't want to get bored and I don't want to burn
00:10:08.080 out. And I don't want things to be so monotonous and the same every day because that would just drive
00:10:13.880 me nuts. And this is most people, they chase what's exciting. So they'll bounce from place to
00:10:20.860 place from work to work, relationship to relationship, exercise to exercise when we
00:10:25.660 know it's been proven that the results come through sustained effort. So continue to solve
00:10:31.240 the same problems, but the way that we solve those problems is going to be different. And that's,
00:10:36.120 what's going to help you avoid the burnout that maybe you would if you were doing the same things
00:10:40.680 over and over again, every single day. All right. Number three, you got to set up your realistic
00:10:46.580 expectations. Okay. You have to set up realistic expectations for you, for other people, for the
00:10:56.080 scenario that might be playing out. Because again, most people think that the results are going to
00:11:02.200 come quicker than they actually will. And in my experience, the results that I'm after tend to take
00:11:08.000 longer. I'm not as effective as I could or should or would like to be. And so I have to set realistic
00:11:15.100 expectations that this is not always going to be an exciting ride. That it's not always going to
00:11:20.900 happen overnight. That I'm going to have to be in this game for years and years and years in order
00:11:27.240 to produce the results that I'm after. When I started this podcast, I deliberately and intentionally,
00:11:34.560 and I can remember vividly telling myself that I will not make a decision as to whether or not to
00:11:39.500 throw in the towel or keep going with order of man in the podcast for at least two years.
00:11:45.300 That meant I would get over a hundred episodes in the bank published, released before I even
00:11:51.180 contemplated, even considered not doing it. And we know that I was way more excited well ahead of
00:11:59.840 a hundred episodes into the first five or six or maybe 10 tops episodes. I knew we were onto something
00:12:05.560 big here. So it didn't take that timeframe, but look, if you're expecting the results,
00:12:10.820 if you're expecting to have the six pack abs in the next week, but you spent the last decade on the
00:12:16.040 couch, you're going to fail. You are, you're going to quit because you don't have or won't meet your
00:12:22.460 expectation. If you think that after two decades of not leading your wife and your family and your
00:12:29.480 children well, that all of a sudden, if you tell them, well, I'm listening to this podcast and
00:12:32.980 I'm waking up early. So what's your problem? If you think that's going to, that's actually what's
00:12:38.000 going to move the needle in your relationship. That's the expectation you have when it doesn't
00:12:42.600 happen by your standard, by your clock, you're going to quit and you're going to revert back to
00:12:48.480 your old ways, which we know we're not producing the results that you want. So let's lower the
00:12:54.160 expectations for others, mostly and the scenario, not for yourself, hold yourself to a high standard,
00:13:00.020 but I don't think we need to place unrealistic expectations on circumstances and we certainly
00:13:05.560 shouldn't be placing them on others. So lower the bar for those individuals and those scenarios
00:13:11.060 and what it will take, increase the standard for yourself by doing some of these other things like
00:13:16.640 mixing it up, not burning all your fuel at once, that sort of thing. But this is very important that
00:13:21.960 we make sure we have the realistic expectations in place, which by the way, actually marries nicely with
00:13:27.120 point number one, where I said, don't burn all out at once. Again, the guys who are emotionally
00:13:32.020 charged, who are really hopped up and motivated right now are burning that high octane fuel that
00:13:41.260 just doesn't last. Those people usually don't have realistic expectations. Imagine this. Here's a great
00:13:47.860 way to look at it. Imagine I came to you and I said, hey, you know, I want to, let's play football.
00:13:53.640 You're going to get your, your best guys together. I'm going to get my best guys together and we're
00:13:57.960 going to play a game, but here's the deal. I'm not going to tell you how long the game's going to
00:14:03.220 last. So now you're left with trying to decide, do I put all my best players in? Do we go a thousand
00:14:11.580 miles an hour, hoping that the game doesn't last very long? Do we underplay for the first little
00:14:17.080 while thinking that maybe the game is going to last a long time? The thing is we don't know,
00:14:21.360 right? You don't know what's going to happen in your relationship. You don't know what's going
00:14:26.060 to happen in your business. These things are largely the result beyond your control because
00:14:31.320 there's a lot of things that move and there's a lot of scenarios and things that are, that are
00:14:35.100 outside of our control. You don't know that. And so you're basically playing a game that you're not
00:14:42.140 really aware of how long it will last. So how do you strategize? How do you plan for? Well, if it were
00:14:47.620 me, I would plan on being in the thing forever. How can I sustain myself and my results and my
00:14:54.760 effort, more importantly, forever until I die? And that's actually how I look at it with this podcast.
00:15:01.540 You know, I don't, I don't have to think that I need all the results immediately. I actually know
00:15:06.580 with every fiber of my being that we will ultimately achieve the success that we're after.
00:15:11.760 I know that it's already, it's, it's already a reality. It's not a reality. It's already potential.
00:15:19.080 It just is what it is. And all I have to do is just keep myself in the game long enough for that
00:15:24.080 to happen. And that doesn't mean I'm just kind of going through the motions. No, I told you earlier,
00:15:29.460 I mix things up. I change things up. I look for new problems. I look for new ways of providing
00:15:33.560 solutions to those problems for men. I keep it in the same vein, but I mix it up. And because I know
00:15:39.680 that I'm going to be in this game for the rest of my life, there's no exit strategy here,
00:15:44.340 then I can do the work and just have faith that it's going to play out the way that it should.
00:15:49.980 All right. Number four, here's something you need to consider. There's going to be parts of certain
00:15:56.200 elements of your life, whether it's a business, mostly business, I would say,
00:16:00.760 and some of your personal things where you just don't enjoy doing them. You know, with this podcast,
00:16:06.560 I don't enjoy editing podcasts. I don't enjoy long drawn out meetings to talk about the backend
00:16:13.760 finances and all the little minutiae and details that need to be thought about and considered as
00:16:19.500 we continue to grow this movement. I don't like doing that stuff. I realized the importance of it.
00:16:25.060 I realized why it needs to be done, but I don't like doing it. But if I force myself to do it,
00:16:30.940 I'm going to burn out. I can do it for a while. We don't edit our podcast anymore. Cody Lanham does
00:16:36.880 a wonderful job editing the podcast. I have a CPA who handles the tax ramifications. I have people
00:16:44.560 in the right places to do the things that not only am I not good at the things I don't want to do
00:16:49.380 because they suck all of my energy, time, and attention. And if you're focused on all of the
00:16:55.600 things that you hate doing 90 to a hundred percent of the time, is it any wonder why you
00:17:01.720 burned out? No, of course not. You know exactly why you burned out because you were miserable and you
00:17:07.660 shouldn't be miserable. We can be miserable for a little while. And I have, there's times within
00:17:12.820 this movement where I'm, I'm, I wouldn't say miserable, but not enjoying elements and parts of
00:17:19.200 it. So I've delegated those responsibilities out. I ensure they still get done, but I delegate them
00:17:24.060 out to people who find value in doing that kind of work and get energized from doing that work. It
00:17:29.800 just isn't me. I know what needs to get done. I don't have to be the one to do it. And if you want
00:17:36.060 to avoid being burned out, even at home on the home front, imagine if you did all of the chores around
00:17:41.700 the house, everything, vacuum, dusted, put away dishes, cleaned up after everybody, took care of the
00:17:48.020 yards, took care of the house, did all the repairs, like everything that would burn you out. Same thing,
00:17:55.240 by the way, with your wife guys, if she's doing it all and you don't contribute around the house,
00:18:02.900 she's going to burn out. A lot of you guys ask, well, you know, my wife, she, it just seems more
00:18:08.640 like a roommate. Yeah. Because maybe you guys are treating each other like roommates and you're not
00:18:14.120 helping each other out and you're letting that other person do everything. And then that person's
00:18:17.800 just burning out. Of course, don't allow that stuff to happen. Again, we can delegate some of
00:18:23.480 these things out. We can share responsibilities. My wife, for example, doesn't want to handle the
00:18:28.420 finances within the family dynamic. No problem. I'll handle that. And she can handle the cooking
00:18:34.520 is actually one of her roles. I hate cooking. I despise it. And every time I say that somebody's
00:18:39.460 like, well, it's probably because you're not doing it right. If you, you know, grilled on the
00:18:43.180 Traeger grill or you, you learned this technique or learned the, no, I don't like cooking. I find
00:18:48.500 no value in it. I find no joy in it. I find no meaning in it. I just do not enjoy it. My wife,
00:18:55.240 however, loves it. She actually views it as a, a gift of, of love. It's how she expresses that to a
00:19:04.760 degree. So she's good at it. So she's the one who does the cooking. And I do other things around
00:19:10.000 the house that she doesn't enjoy it, like the family finances. So we delegate those things out.
00:19:15.180 We stick to our strengths. We stick to the things that energize us. We ensure the other things get
00:19:19.760 done and then we're less likely to burn out. So that's point number four. And then the last one,
00:19:24.380 guys, and I've been talking about this for a long time, but you got to find ventilation outlets.
00:19:28.500 You have to have a, you have to have an outlet that has nothing to do with your endeavor. So if you're
00:19:34.380 knee deep or neck deep in your business and you want it to grow and you're trying to get it off the
00:19:38.460 ground, a lot of people will be tempted to put everything, all of their time and energy and
00:19:43.040 attention and every little bit of resources they have into that venture. And while I can appreciate
00:19:48.540 that, it's a mistake to do that. This is how we burn out. So you need to find an outlet, find a hobby,
00:19:57.360 skill development, an activity, a friend, a conversation. Maybe you like reading novels or you like
00:20:03.840 painting or you like spending time with your friends golfing or at the game. I don't know what
00:20:09.460 it is for you, but I'm giving you permission as if you needed it to have a healthy outlet so that you
00:20:17.120 don't pour every ounce of your being into your business or into your relationship or into whatever
00:20:23.440 project you're working on, because I want you to actually get it done and complete it. It's a little
00:20:29.220 counterintuitive, right? I'm telling you in order to stay in the business, you have to actually get
00:20:34.620 out of the business for a little bit. It's counterintuitive, but it works. You need to be
00:20:40.800 able to rejuvenate and recharge and rest the mind, rest the body. And when you do that and then come
00:20:47.540 back in within reason, you don't want to be doing that forever, obviously, but you do that for a time
00:20:51.900 and a period and you're intentional about it. And then you come back into the business or the venture
00:20:57.300 or the relationship or the project or the whatever, you're going to be that much more effective.
00:21:03.160 So this is how I've avoided burnout over the past six years. Now we've been doing, well,
00:21:09.140 as from a podcast perspective, we've done over 700 podcasts now over six years. So that's an average
00:21:18.760 of, it's probably two and a half to three podcasts per week for the last six years.
00:21:26.340 How can I do that? How can anybody do that? How can, how can guys work out every single day for the
00:21:35.360 last two decades? How can a man be committed and married to one person for 40, 50 years? How,
00:21:46.500 how is that possible without burning out? This is how, this is how I want you to stay in it. That's
00:21:54.700 where the results happen. The results aren't going to happen immediately. And you know what,
00:21:58.300 even if they do, they aren't lasting and you don't even have a formula. It just miraculously worked
00:22:04.940 out. I want a formula. I want to know what works. I want to know what makes a person successful on
00:22:09.540 every front, systematically formulated so that I can just duplicate it. That's what I'm after. I just
00:22:15.500 want to duplicate and replicate the result over and over and over and over. I want to plug into the
00:22:20.780 system and this is the system for avoiding burnout. So let's recap these things. Number one, don't burn
00:22:26.760 all of your fuel at once. I know you're excited. I know you have a new girlfriend or you're married
00:22:32.700 and I know you're excited and you want to spend every minute and all of your time and energy and
00:22:37.200 attention on her. I get it. I understand. I've been there. It's a mistake. I know you're starting
00:22:42.300 a new business. And so you think you got to pour everything into it and all of your energy and
00:22:47.200 your enthusiasm, it all has to go in there. I get it. But the emotional fuel you're burning
00:22:53.920 burns hot, no doubt, but it's not efficient and it's not long lasting. The fuel you need
00:23:00.780 is something that burns maybe not as hot, but a little bit longer, a lot longer. All right. Number
00:23:09.160 two, mix things up again, working towards the same solution. So here's a silly example. If you were
00:23:15.880 talking about not burning out in a relationship, when I tell you that you should mix things up,
00:23:22.100 I think it's safe to assume that you know, I'm not saying go step out on your wife. Sure. That
00:23:27.920 would be mixing things up, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about mixing things up,
00:23:32.980 but staying in the same vein. So if it's in a relationship, you're still honoring your commitment
00:23:38.000 to your wife, but you're going to mix it up by going on a different date night or having a different
00:23:45.080 activity or you having a little bit of free time with the friends and her having free time with
00:23:50.180 her friends or her family members or whatever it may be. Okay. So you're still solving the same
00:23:54.860 problems. If we're talking about a business, here's an example with order of man. I'm not
00:23:58.920 going to start order of women. Although I do have a lot of women I know who reach out and want
00:24:04.520 something like this for themselves. I get it, but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be
00:24:08.200 doing that, but I am going to continue to solve problems creatively, different ways of going about
00:24:13.720 the same problems here with men. Cause that's who we focus on. And that's who we serve.
00:24:19.220 Number three, set your realistic expectations. You don't know how long it's going to take.
00:24:24.900 You don't know what's going to happen. It's probably going to take longer than you think.
00:24:29.080 You're probably not as good or as effective as you think you are. That's the reality.
00:24:32.700 So plan accordingly and become robotic and know that you're going to have to be in this game for
00:24:39.380 the long haul. When you set it more realistically like that, you're able to keep yourself in the
00:24:43.900 game longer. Cause if you think it's going to take two weeks at day 15, you're like, well, what the
00:24:49.520 hell? How come I don't have the six pack? How come my wife still doesn't trust me? How come I'm not
00:24:55.380 making seven figures a year? It's been 15 days. What gives you the right to think that that
00:25:02.600 should happen for you? No, many of you do. It's, it doesn't take, it takes significantly longer.
00:25:10.000 It's taken me six years to get us specifically with order of man. And then another decade before
00:25:15.600 that longer, probably 15 years before that to actually get me to the point where I could even
00:25:20.300 start order of man. It takes a long time. So be realistic about that and deal with it.
00:25:27.200 Number four, delegate the duties and responsibilities that don't energize you, uplift you. Certainly when
00:25:32.560 you're starting in a business, for example, you're going to have to do it all, but delegate that
00:25:36.700 stuff as soon as possible. So you can focus on the things that keep you energized and keep your ass
00:25:41.160 in the game. And number five, find your ventilation outlets. You got a vent and I'm not saying, get,
00:25:47.280 get the problems off your chest. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying you have to have an outlet
00:25:51.560 beyond whatever you're vested in. And here's there, there's another benefit of this guys.
00:25:57.040 When you go do other things, you read different types of books, by the way that you should be
00:26:02.080 doing that. Here's a mistake that I've seen a lot of guys do. They'll start a business like I did.
00:26:08.800 And then they'll read every damn self-help book, listen to every podcast on that subject matter.
00:26:17.300 And you just consume yourself with that one thing. That is a recipe for disaster.
00:26:25.140 Read a different book, read a novel, watch a different movie, pick up a different hobby or
00:26:31.220 skill. The one I'm working on now, and you guys have all heard about this is the canoe. I've had
00:26:35.820 guys say, well, I, you know, I wish I could work, work, build a canoe and work, do woodworking.
00:26:41.060 Well, yeah, you can, like, I don't have any knowledge or experience in building a canoe,
00:26:46.820 but that's how you get knowledge and experience. You do it. So, but that's completely unrelated to
00:26:53.700 anything else. It's still in the same vein though, right? Cause I talk a lot about fatherhood and
00:26:58.460 being engaged with your kids and, and working with your hands and learning new skills. So it's still in
00:27:03.380 the same vein. Like I talked about earlier, point number two, I believe, but it's something
00:27:08.600 different enough that it just unplugs me from everything else that I'm inundated with on a
00:27:15.180 daily basis. So again, finding ventilation outfit outlets. So that's it guys. That's your
00:27:21.220 five-step formula for ensuring that you do not burn out. I don't want you to burn out. I want you
00:27:28.480 to experience results and it takes longer than we think it does. And it requires more effort than we
00:27:33.340 think it will. And we're not as good as we think we are. So plan accordingly so we can keep
00:27:38.580 our butts in the game and ultimately experience the result in your relationship with your wife
00:27:44.560 and kids and friends, your career aspirations, your business pursuit, your health and fitness
00:27:50.080 goals, every facet of your life. Do not burn out. Implement these five strategies and I think you'll
00:27:56.580 have a better chance. All right, guys, that's all I've got. We'll be back next week. Until then,
00:28:00.640 go out there, take action and become the man you are meant to be.
00:28:03.740 Thank you for listening to the Order of Man podcast. If you're ready to take charge of
00:28:07.880 your life and be more of the man you were meant to be, we invite you to join the order at orderofman.com.