Order of Man

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.

00:00:10.420 You are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is who

00:00:17.200 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 Brian Michler.

00:00:27.700 I'm your host and the founder of this movement, the Order of Man movement, and this podcast,

00:00:31.980 and I want to welcome you here. If you've been with us for any amount of time, really thank you

00:00:36.000 for the support, what you've been sharing with us, sharing with other people, implementing in your

00:00:41.660 own lives is amazing to see, amazing to hear, and that's why we've created this movement.

00:00:46.160 If you are new, I want to welcome you. Glad you're tuning in. This is a Friday field note,

00:00:50.020 so you're going to hear from me for about 20 to 30 minutes on some different ideas and thoughts

00:00:54.140 that have been running through my brain, but we also have an interview podcast where we

00:00:58.360 interview guys like Jocko Willink and Tim Tebow and David Goggins and Tim Kennedy and Matthew

00:01:05.400 McConaughey, and I say it every week, the guys that we've had on the podcast are phenomenal.

00:01:09.940 It's my goal to bring incredibly successful men in their own right onto the podcast and extract

00:01:14.800 some of their hard-fought and hard-earned wisdom so that we can use that in our own lives.

00:01:19.760 I've got a good one for you. I think today, I'm going to be talking about battle rhythm,

00:01:22.880 which is the rhythm of life, finding rhythm, finding a groove, finding flow, even you may

00:01:27.700 have heard. We're going to talk about why it's so important. We're going to also talk

00:01:31.300 about some pitfalls of not finding your battle rhythm or developing your battle rhythm, and

00:01:36.300 then I'm going to share with you five strategies for creating a battle rhythm in your life that's

00:01:39.400 going to help you with maximum efficiency. Before I get into that, I want to let you know

00:01:43.500 that part of this battle rhythm, I think, is making sure that you have a good band of brothers

00:01:48.580 around you, all working alongside of you, all with their own rhythm, holding you accountable,

00:01:54.300 holding you to task. When we're talking about rhythm, it's a little bit like running a marathon,

00:01:59.040 and it's nice to have somebody in front of you who's pacing you, or you're pacing rather,

00:02:04.840 where they might be going a little faster than you normally would, but you pace off of them so that

00:02:09.460 you can keep that rhythm and you can keep that pace where you need to be. I found that to be true

00:02:13.480 in life. If you don't have anybody that you're pacing, you don't have anybody either to the side of

00:02:17.400 you or out front of you, it's going to be really hard to figure out what pace is right for you and

00:02:21.940 how quickly you can go into career aspirations, relational goals, fitness, objectives, and that

00:02:29.640 sort of thing. Our exclusive brotherhood, the Iron Council, is going to allow you to have

00:02:33.980 somebody to march in step with that can help you keep pace, that can help keep that rhythm in place.

00:02:41.960 We open up next week, middle of next week. If you want to check that out and learn more about what

00:02:46.720 we're doing inside of this exclusive brotherhood that thousands of men have joined now, go to

00:02:51.220 orderofman.com slash Iron Council. Again, that's orderofman.com slash Iron Council.

00:02:57.220 All right, guys, let's get into the concept of battle rhythm. There is a natural rhythm of life

00:03:03.860 that once you find and develop, I keep saying find, I don't want to say find. I want to say develop

00:03:09.540 because find is a little bit more passive. It's too passive for me. Develop is something that's a

00:03:15.180 little bit more assertive. And it's very, very important that we're assertive, that we're

00:03:20.360 proactive, and that we go after what we want. So let's not use find, which is what I was using.

00:03:25.480 We'll use develop. But it's important that you develop your battle rhythm in life, that there's

00:03:31.160 a rhyme, there's a reason, there's a purpose. You're moving with intentionality in your life.

00:03:37.060 If you don't have that, you're going to be tossed to and fro based on what culture says you should or

00:03:42.020 shouldn't be doing. You're going to be tossed around based on what other people's objectives

00:03:46.300 are. Other people's problems are going to become your priority. And then ultimately you're going

00:03:51.500 to be living your life for somebody else. And I see that so often with men. They're doing all the

00:03:56.000 quote unquote right things, but they're not fulfilled. They're not satisfied. That's because

00:04:00.560 they're marching to the beat of someone else's drum. They've been told they need to behave a certain

00:04:05.280 way and act a certain way and do certain things and be engaged in certain hobbies. And then when

00:04:09.940 something comes up, they deal with other people's fires at their own expense. It's not healthy.

00:04:14.860 It's not good. So you need to create and develop your own battle rhythm. And here's why, because

00:04:21.140 if you don't, number one, things are going to get missed, right? Things are going to fall through

00:04:27.620 the cracks. You don't have systems in place. You don't have processes for managing all of the

00:04:32.860 information, all of the tasks, all of the objectives, all of the daily chores and things that you're

00:04:38.640 expected to do again on a daily basis. And over time, because you're juggling so many balls in the

00:04:44.260 air with such sporadicness to it, you're going to miss things. You're going to drop a couple of those

00:04:51.060 balls every once in a while and people are going to be hurt. They're going to be left out. You're 0.95

00:04:55.620 going to miss opportunities. That's the second one. So you have things are getting missed. Number two,

00:05:01.640 opportunities are going to be overlooked. You're so busy. You're so inundated. You're so consumed with

00:05:06.300 everything else that's going on. You don't have structure. You don't have organization to your

00:05:10.220 life. And so even if an opportunity smacked you across the face, you would not be able to capitalize

00:05:15.240 on it because of your sporadic nature, because you're crazy, because you don't have things locked

00:05:20.000 in, because you don't have a plan and there's no flow. There's no system to your life. Number three

00:05:25.420 is there's going to be a lot of inefficiencies. Things are going to take longer than they need to.

00:05:31.920 Projects are going to go past deadlines. You're not even going to know what the projects are because

00:05:35.960 again, there's no processes in place to ensure that you're on the right path. You're doing the

00:05:41.040 right thing and you're producing maximum results. And the last one is that you are going to expend

00:05:47.080 so much energy in trying to stay up with life. If you're exhausted and you're tired and you're beat

00:05:55.780 down and you don't have energy to do anything else at the end of the day, except for sit your ass on 0.96

00:06:00.300 the couch and pull up the latest game or the latest Netflix series or documentary that you're 0.99

00:06:04.320 watching, that's not going to work for you, right? You're here in order of man, because you want to

00:06:09.380 do something meaningful and significant and productive with your life. But if you're gassed

00:06:14.080 because you have no rhythm and it's super inefficient in your life, then you're going to expend all this

00:06:18.900 energy and it's going to go towards nothing. Absolutely nothing. If we're going to expend any amount

00:06:25.240 of energy, we want to make sure it's focused, it's clear, and it's directed. So when you create a battle

00:06:30.320 rhythm for your life, number one is you no longer have things that get missed or fall through the

00:06:36.580 cracks. You're on top of everything. You make all of your calls, you make all of your appointments, you

00:06:41.660 manage all the expectations, you deliver on what you promise. We know being a man of your word,

00:06:47.900 obviously as a man is crucial. This is what happens when you have a rhythm. Number two, opportunities are

00:06:54.700 going to present themselves and you will be in the prime position mentally, emotionally, physically,

00:07:02.560 even financially to capitalize on opportunities. I've had investment opportunities that have come

00:07:07.560 into my life that I have been able to capitalize on because I have my finances in order due to some of

00:07:14.760 the things that I'm going to share with you here in a bit. If you have rhythm in your life and you have

00:07:19.240 systems in place to ensure that you're maximizing efficiency, you're going to be able to take

00:07:23.760 advantage of those opportunities. Number one, you'll recognize them. Number two, you'll be in

00:07:27.440 the position to work on them. Number three, if you have rhythm in your life, you're going to be

00:07:33.300 hyper-efficient. This is important because if you're hyper-efficient, then that is going to allow

00:07:40.140 you to be present in moments. If you find yourself distracted or thinking about other things when you

00:07:47.700 should be at the baseball game with your son, for example, or out on a date with your wife and

00:07:51.660 significant other, and there's distraction there, that is a sign of inefficiency. What is happening

00:07:56.900 is you're allowing other facets of life and they are important. Let's take career, for example.

00:08:03.660 And because you were inefficient with your work schedule, now that time is spilling over and

00:08:10.180 bleeding into your family life. And that's not okay. You know, it's not okay. You don't want that to

00:08:15.960 happen. Your family knows it's not okay, but if you're inefficient, it's going to bleed and then

00:08:21.020 everything's going to spill over each other and it's all going to become tainted. If I were to

00:08:25.080 take a glass of water and put it on the desk, a clear glass of water, and I was to take red dye

00:08:29.560 and I was able to drip two or three drops, it wouldn't take long before everything is stained

00:08:34.400 in that water. That's what happens when we're inefficient. We come home and instead of being

00:08:40.080 present and available for our family, that is all tainted with our work stresses. We should be able to

00:08:46.860 leave that at the door. And the only way to do that is to be hyper-efficient at work.

00:08:51.220 I know there's extenuating circumstances. I know that there's deadlines and things that need to be

00:08:55.160 hit that would spill over in the family time. I understand that. Those are exceptions, not the rule.

00:09:00.940 And then the last one is you're going to have lots of energy, lots of energy. People might even comment,

00:09:07.780 hey, what have you been doing? You feel lighter. You feel like you have more energy. You feel more

00:09:11.480 excited about we're engaged in what we're doing. Well, that's part of the rhythm that you're going

00:09:17.120 to build in systems. Again, we're talking a lot about that already. I could break that down in a

00:09:22.540 minute, but you're going to build in systems that are going to keep you at a maximum energy potential

00:09:29.040 so that you can focus on the things that matter. So let's get into five key strategies for creating

00:09:36.080 and developing more of a battle rhythm in your life. And by the way, why do I say battle?

00:09:41.940 I say battle because it's a fight. It's easy to fall into complacency. It's easy to fall into coast

00:09:49.200 mode. It's easy to be lazy and immediate gratification and want all the effort, excuse me,

00:09:55.220 all the result without the effort. It's a battle. It's a battle that you need to fight with yourself.

00:10:00.180 It's not typically with somebody else. It may manifest itself that way, but typically it's a battle with

00:10:05.200 yourself. It's lack of discipline, lack of clarity, lack of focus, lack of drive, lack of determination,

00:10:10.000 lack of processes and systems that are keeping you from accomplishing what you want. You have to go to

00:10:15.600 war with yourself. And that's not to beat yourself up or think negatively about yourself or be overly

00:10:20.420 critical about what you have going on. But you have to realize there's a battle against what I've

00:10:24.400 dubbed the natural man. And that guy's weak and he's lazy and he's cowardly and he wants the results 0.99

00:10:28.860 without the effort. And you and I, we're going to fight against that. Number one, you have to live 0.99

00:10:34.200 your life. Okay. This, when you're creating a battle rhythm, it's your battle rhythm. It's not

00:10:40.880 my rhythm. So we hear things from guys like Jocko is a great example. You know, get up at 434 every

00:10:46.740 single morning. That's great. That's fine. I don't get up at 434. I get up around six o'clock on

00:10:53.640 average. That changes depending on the morning, but I get up about six o'clock AM on average.

00:10:59.300 That works for me. That works for my sleep schedule. That works for my circadian rhythm.

00:11:04.480 That works with all the testing I've done. That works for what I need to accomplish in the morning.

00:11:08.620 That works for what I have going on throughout the rest of the day. That works for me. The activities

00:11:13.820 and interests that I'm engaged in work for me. I've got a bunch of hunting gear. You can't see it. It's

00:11:18.320 behind the camera because I'm going on a hunt. I'll be gone for about 10 days and we're going to go hunt

00:11:23.040 on Molokai in the big island of Hawaii. And that works for me. Does every man need to be a hunter?

00:11:30.300 No, you don't. If it's interesting to you, you should pursue it. Does every man need to be Jocko?

00:11:36.300 Does every man need to be David Goggins? Does every man need to be Cam Haynes? No, you can try those

00:11:41.680 things. You can dabble into the world of what those men that you're inspired by or interested in,

00:11:45.840 but you don't have to. And you're not obligated to pursue that just because that one guy on Instagram

00:11:50.940 follow does. It has to be your rhythm. So, 434 doesn't work every single morning. That's fine.

00:11:59.580 Get up at 530. Get up at 630. I don't get up at noon for all I care. The principle is that you get

00:12:05.380 up and you get your work done. It's not so much the time, but the principle. So, guys, live your life.

00:12:12.640 There was probably a time where I would have tried to compel you or convince you that doing it our way

00:12:19.180 is the best way. It might be for some men and it might not be for others. The principles we teach

00:12:24.480 are important. The way in which we implement them is going to vary on a case-by-case basis.

00:12:30.200 Do what works for you. Stop living through me. Stop living through other influencers or athletes or

00:12:38.420 scholars. Stop living your life vicariously through them. This is one of the things that drives me nuts

00:12:44.760 about professional and even college sports. These guys, they'll buy jerseys. They're like 150 bucks

00:12:50.980 or more if they're rare ones or even more signed or something. They'll buy jerseys with another man's

00:12:56.760 name on the back. It's like, what are you doing? Really, what are you doing? If you want to be

00:13:01.700 excited about baseball and football or any sport, by all means, if it's a great way for you to enjoy and

00:13:08.520 have some fun with the guys or you like it or you have an affinity with it or maybe you were part of

00:13:13.160 that team in another life, by all means. But why are we so vested in other people's lives? It's

00:13:18.340 crazy. It's crazy. We do it on social media. We're following all these guys and it's like we

00:13:24.940 cling to every single word and every single thing that they do. And then when they mess up, we're

00:13:28.480 like, oh, the world gets shattered because we're too vested in their lives instead of our own lives.

00:13:34.180 Be vested in your life. Live your life. Use these guys as examples of how you can show up,

00:13:39.860 but do it in your way. Because if you do it in your way, you're going to be able to flow

00:13:44.520 easier. If you feel like you're trying to grind through an activity you're not interested in

00:13:48.520 just because so-and-so does it, it's not a great way to live. Number two, develop and create systems

00:13:54.420 for everything that you repeatedly do. If there's a one-off type thing, no big deal. But if you find

00:13:59.920 yourself sending, for example, the same email to people over and over and over and over again,

00:14:05.500 just create a canned response in Google. You can Google it on how to do it. Create a canned response.

00:14:11.580 So when anybody asks that question or sends that type of email to you, all you do is click one

00:14:16.940 button, sends out that canned response. It's a thoughtful, good response for them, but you're not

00:14:22.540 having to type it up every single time. That's a small example of what a system would look like.

00:14:27.320 The beauty of that is now we just recaptured a couple minutes, two, three minutes. Man, you do that

00:14:32.640 10 times a day, 20 times a day. You're looking at saving a half an hour to an hour every single

00:14:39.480 day, not answering an email that you've answered a million times. And besides that, there's not only

00:14:46.020 the physical time element of it, there's the emotional energy of it. So if you do something

00:14:53.140 repeatedly, create a system, create a process, create a standard operating procedure, share it with

00:15:00.040 people. That's a little bonus there is delegate. So you're not having to do anything. I don't want

00:15:04.980 to do something that takes me an hour. If I can outsource it to somebody that it'll take 10 minutes

00:15:10.260 and let's say I could pay somebody to do some work for $20 an hour and my hours are worth a hundred

00:15:15.260 dollars, I would make that trade all day long, all day long. You'd be an idiot not to. 1.00

00:15:21.380 So we're going to create systems, create processes, delegate what we can. And by the way, 0.99

00:15:27.480 if we create systems, it's more easily to delegate. If you don't create systems, then you're the one

00:15:32.200 who's the bottleneck. You're the one has to do the training. You're the one that has to be engaged with

00:15:36.640 these guys. You're the one that has to answer every email. You're the one that has to do all of the

00:15:40.300 onboarding for new team members. Like you're the guy. Don't be the guy. You're the problem. You want

00:15:46.480 to get out of the way. You want to remove the cork or the bottleneck. And how do you do that?

00:15:50.920 Systems processes. Then when your subordinates, your clients, your colleagues, your coworkers,

00:15:54.800 friends, your family members, your kids come to you and say, dad, how do I do this?

00:15:59.100 Here's the SOP. Slide it over to them or tell them where to get it. And then go figure it out

00:16:02.960 for themselves. Guys, we need to create systems and processes. If you're going to the gym, for example,

00:16:08.800 and you're just kind of haphazardly doing like whatever you think you should do,

00:16:12.300 that's a waste of time. You need a system in place. Hire a trainer, jump online and look at

00:16:19.220 one or two podcasts. Mind Pump Media is one that comes to mind. Johnny Loretty is my personal trainer.

00:16:24.800 These guys are part of my system. I don't spend time thinking about what I'm going to be doing

00:16:31.540 at the gym. It's not a thing I do. I pull up the app. Johnny tells me what I'm going to do and what

00:16:37.540 he programmed for me. And then I do it. And that's the beauty of creating systems.

00:16:42.780 Guys, the third thing we need to be aware of when it comes to creating this battle rhythm is that you

00:16:47.160 have to have healthy boundaries in place. We've talked about this a lot, but so many men overlook this.

00:16:52.380 I said it earlier. They allow other people's problems to become their priorities. You should

00:16:57.760 not do that. Now, look, there are certain cases where it could be. If your child comes to you and

00:17:02.620 has a difficult day at school, maybe they're being bullied, maybe they got into a fight,

00:17:07.640 maybe they did something illegal and they're in some trouble. There's a lot of things where you

00:17:12.020 would make their problems your priority because those are actually your problems. But not everything

00:17:17.080 that everybody is going through at all times needs to be a priority of yours. And this is

00:17:21.860 where healthy boundaries comes into play. This is hard for the quote unquote nice guy who wants to

00:17:27.780 serve other people and he wants to make sure everything's okay. And he wants to smooth everything

00:17:32.380 over and he doesn't want to rock the boat. It's hard to set up boundaries. But if you don't do that,

00:17:37.320 then you're hindering people because you're not allowing them to figure things out on their own.

00:17:40.640 And you're hindering yourself and the people you could otherwise serve if you would have had

00:17:44.620 healthy boundaries in place. So if you notice yourself getting upset about the way somebody

00:17:49.580 talks with you or the way somebody comes into your office, barges into your office, or the way that

00:17:55.720 somebody might perform or show up at work or something that has to do with you, then you need to figure

00:18:01.200 out what the boundary is. For example, if it's barging into the office, a simple boundary is literally

00:18:06.560 closing and locking the door. That might not be enough because sometimes people knock. And so you may

00:18:11.740 have to communicate that if the door is closed, I am not to be disturbed. That's a boundary.

00:18:17.520 Now, when people inevitably do it, there has to be consequences for the boundary. And I'm not saying

00:18:22.420 that you need to punish them, but they need to know that you're willing to uphold it. So for example,

00:18:27.660 if the door is locked and closed, and I tell my colleagues that I can't be bothered if the door is

00:18:33.960 closed and they knock on the door, then I'm not going to answer it. Unless the office is burning down,

00:18:41.120 I'm not opening that door. Now I might say, Hey, I might yell through the door. Busy. We'll talk

00:18:47.620 later, but I'm not going to open that door. That's what nice guys do. They go over, they're like, Oh,

00:18:52.920 this is uncomfortable. I don't, I don't know if I can do this. And then they go over and open the door

00:18:56.840 and that person, when the door's open, they stick their foot in the door and they start to wiggle

00:19:00.740 themselves into your life and into their schedule. And it creates real problems. If that person takes up

00:19:06.100 20, 30, 40 minutes, an hour of your day, that's an hour that you can't do your work.

00:19:10.960 What does that do? Spills over into your family life. We talked about that earlier because you

00:19:15.680 didn't have the balls to uphold your boundaries. Guys, know what they are. Communicate them 0.98

00:19:22.540 effectively. You can do it in a kind way. You don't need to be a dick about it, but you can tell

00:19:26.980 people, Hey, look, if the door's closed, I can't be bothered right now. I'm in an important meeting or 0.92

00:19:32.000 I'm having a discussion or I'm doing notes or I'm working on a task. If my door's open, come in all

00:19:36.300 day long, come in, but establish those boundaries, know what they are and be willing to communicate

00:19:41.560 those things. Number four, you have to have some margin in the middle because as much as I talk

00:19:48.020 about boundaries, life is going to happen. One of the kids is going to break their arm. You're going

00:19:53.100 to have a fire at work that you need to put out. Somebody missed the deadline. You're going to have

00:19:56.880 somebody who maybe did something illegal that you need to address. There's going to be a

00:20:01.760 health issue. One of your family members needs you to hurry and meet them somewhere. Look,

00:20:07.980 we're talking about boundaries, but certain things come up that are your responsibility.

00:20:12.900 So we need to create margin. And what I mean by that is if you have a meeting from nine to 10,

00:20:18.680 then 10 to 11, then 11 to 12 and 12 to one, then one to two and so on, there's no margin in that

00:20:23.760 whatsoever. This is why doctors are notoriously horrible for keeping their schedules. They don't know 1.00

00:20:30.900 time management. They don't. They have somebody else manage all their time. They have somebody

00:20:36.380 else manage their clock. I don't think most of them don't care. I think they do, but they're horrible

00:20:40.740 at time management and boundaries. If they were respectful of their patients, they would for an hour

00:20:49.640 consult, let's say, they would actually block out an hour and 15 minutes. And they would do that because

00:20:56.080 one of their previous meetings could have gone long. Maybe this one goes a little bit longer.

00:21:00.320 Plus they have notes and charts that they need to update and address. They're not planning their

00:21:04.900 time very well. And they're not treating you with the level of respect you as a patient,

00:21:09.080 you as a human being deserves. So if you're a doctor and you're listening to this, hear me.

00:21:14.040 I know there's extenuating circumstances. I know some of you work in emergency and ER. That's

00:21:18.020 different. It's not what I'm talking about. But if you have a schedule, you know your schedule.

00:21:21.880 And at that point, really what you're trying to do is just make a bunch of money and not care too

00:21:26.760 much about your clients. But guys, you got to have margin throughout your day. If one meeting

00:21:31.240 goes a little long or somebody comes in early, or you have to address a problem in between

00:21:35.240 appointments that comes up, where are you going to do that? And if you don't do it, guess what's

00:21:39.080 going to happen? You're going to get stressed out. You're going to get pissed off. You're going to

00:21:42.220 become irritable and impatient. And that's going to be taken out on the people you love the most.

00:21:47.480 It's always your family. It's always your kids. It's always your wife. Don't allow that to be the 0.61

00:21:54.080 case. Great margin. Hour and a half meetings, hour meetings are actually hour and a half long

00:21:59.860 meetings. When I close out meetings, I don't close meetings on the hour. If I have a meeting from

00:22:05.840 at 10, it isn't done at 11. It's done at 1055. And usually that means it's done at 11 because that's

00:22:13.340 what happens. We know it. And my next meeting isn't until half an hour after that because I have

00:22:18.680 things I need to do and things that may have come up in that appointment. And that allows me the

00:22:22.220 freedom and flexibility to deal with it without stressing me out. Number five, we have to anticipate

00:22:28.020 changes. One thing that I hear a lot from guys is like, is he'll say, Ryan, I have a sporadic schedule

00:22:36.560 and I want to create consistency or a rhythm in my life, but my work schedule is so chaotic and crazy.

00:22:42.140 I just don't know what to do. Yes, you do. Barring the few exceptions, most of you know your schedule

00:22:48.300 at least a week in advance. And it might be graveyard. It might be swing. It might be day

00:22:52.780 shift. It might be kind of all over the place and maybe it changes every week. But you know,

00:22:57.900 you know, three, four, five, six, seven days ahead of time what it looks like. And so what we can do is

00:23:03.540 we can anticipate that our life isn't always as cookie cutter as we would hope that it would be.

00:23:09.600 Another great example. If you're on vacation, many guys will say, well, you know, I'm on vacation,

00:23:14.040 so I'm not going to work out. Adapt. You know, you're going on vacation. You can't do a little

00:23:19.440 research into a gym near you or another one on vacation. Oh, well, you know, it's harder to eat

00:23:24.200 healthy on vacation. It's not harder to eat healthy. You're just using that as an excuse. And trust me,

00:23:29.660 I do it too. So I'm not pointing fingers, but let's call it for what it is. It's not that it's harder.

00:23:34.980 It's just that we're unwilling to exert the amount of work that it's going to take to think about it

00:23:40.760 ahead of time. But isn't that an amazing thing when you do? Isn't it like I'm leaving? I told

00:23:45.680 you I'm leaving out of town. I've got all my podcasts recorded. I've got all of our meetings

00:23:50.320 in the iron council delegated. I've got everything packed here over here two days early. Like I'm

00:23:55.100 anticipating that I'm going to be gone and I'm putting all the ducks in a row to make sure that

00:23:59.080 when I'm gone, I can be present in the hunt with my friends and my son, my oldest son,

00:24:02.800 and that everything over here is going to be taken care of. I don't want to be thinking about

00:24:07.080 doing podcasts while I'm on my hunt in Hawaii. I don't want to be wondering, oh, who's going to

00:24:11.880 cover this call because I didn't talk to them. I anticipate what's going on. I plan for what's

00:24:17.360 going on and then I execute. And that's a beautiful thing, especially for men who have a hard time

00:24:23.280 turning it off on vacation. You can't turn it off because it's reliant upon you to be standing by

00:24:28.460 the light switch, keeping the dang thing on. It's like there's a spring in the light switch. And if you

00:24:32.720 leave and let go, that spring just pushes it to the off switch. That's wrong. Many of us,

00:24:37.880 because of that spring, we'll go over and we'll just hold our finger so that the light never shuts

00:24:42.020 off. But you're going to be gone sometimes. You're going to want to be gone sometimes. You're going

00:24:46.140 to want to focus on other things. So take the dang spring out of the switch or delegate holding it up

00:24:53.460 for somebody else and you go do your thing. Anticipate things are going to come up, put the systems in

00:24:59.680 place like we talked about in point number two and let yourself relax. Let yourself enjoy.

00:25:05.340 If you have a sporadic schedule, sometimes you're going to wake up at noon, sometimes two,

00:25:09.800 sometimes seven at night. You know that. So instead of saying, I'm going to wake up at 3am every day

00:25:15.180 because that might not work. You might say, I'm going to wake up two hours before I'm supposed

00:25:18.920 to be into work. It's going to give me a 45 minute workout. It's going to give me 20 minutes of

00:25:23.460 getting cleaned up and shaved up and ready to go. And then it's going to give me a 30 minute commute

00:25:27.820 equal to two hours, but close enough. Okay. You guys understand what I'm talking about.

00:25:33.520 Guys, it's really, really important that we create this battle rhythm. And I told you why

00:25:37.180 things get missed, opportunities overlooked, inefficiencies abound, and ultimately too much

00:25:43.100 energy is expended. We want to be lean, mean, fighting machines, as the saying goes. We want to be

00:25:47.880 efficient. We want to be effective. We want to do what we want to do. We also want to have fun doing it,

00:25:51.960 creating systems, living your life, not somebody else's, having healthy boundaries, creating margin

00:25:57.620 in the middle, and then anticipating changes is going to allow you to create the battle rhythm that

00:26:01.760 you need to succeed in every facet of your life. And on a parting note, guys, make sure you check

00:26:07.300 out the Iron Council. It opens up next week, June 15th. You can do that at orderofman.com slash

00:26:12.520 ironcouncil, orderofman.com slash ironcouncil. All right, guys, we will be back next week until

00:26:19.440 that. Oh, and by the way, on the same note, that podcast is already scheduled, already recorded,

00:26:25.180 already ready to go. So I'm not having to worry about it. I'm going to be gone. I can enjoy my

00:26:29.500 time and create the rhythm that I want in my life. All right, guys, let's go out there, take action,

00:26:34.060 create that battle rhythm, become the man we are meant to be. Thank you for listening to the Order

00:26:38.580 of Man podcast. If you're ready to take charge of your life and be more of the man you were meant to

00:26:43.560 be, we invite you to join the Order at orderofman.com.

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