FFN 010： Work the Plan
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Summary
Too many of us these days are flying by the seat of our pants, hoping that things will go our way, that Lady Luck will somehow smile upon us and allow us to win the lottery, or find the woman of our dreams. She works hard to make us believe that luck is a real thing, and that if somehow, someway, we just wait long enough that we will catch a break. And I m here to burst your bubble today. Life just doesn t happen that way.
Transcript
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You're a man. You're committed to the work required to forge your own destiny.
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You will not be defeated. You cannot be deterred.
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Nothing stands between you and the victory you seek.
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You're a rock. Steadfast, resolute, and unwavering.
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And, at the end of the day, the job will be done.
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Hello, men. What's going on today? I am Ryan Michler, and I am the host and founder of Order of Men.
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Now, if you're listening to this show for the first time today, I want to welcome you to the show.
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You'll find that this is a show about all things manly.
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So, whether you're looking for career advice, relationship advice, how to be a better leader, how to communicate more effectively,
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how to protect yourself and your loved ones, whatever it may be, you are in the right place.
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Most of the guys listening to this show know by now this is the Friday show.
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It's a short show of my ramblings for the week.
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But if you are new to the podcast, make sure that you subscribe so you never miss this, your Friday Field Notes,
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or our full show, which is released each Tuesday.
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Now, next week, we've got a Navy SEAL coming on to talk about raising boys.
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So, if you're a father, you'll definitely want to catch that one.
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Now, let's get into the conversation for today.
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I want to talk with you about something that really isn't all that glamorous.
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It isn't really all that exciting, but it's what separates the most successful people on the planet
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Too many of us these days are flying by the seat of our pants, hoping that things will go our way,
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that Lady Luck will somehow smile upon us and allow us to win the lottery or find the women of our dreams.
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She works hard to make us believe that luck is a real thing and that if somehow, someway,
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we just wait long enough that we will catch a break.
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Now, you might be telling me that it does for some people.
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And to that, I say it's probably the exception, not the rule.
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So, I, for one, I'm not the kind of guy, the type of guy to sit and wait for things to happen.
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I'm going to go out in the world and I'm going to make those things happen for myself.
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We live in an incredible time in history where someone can actually go out and do just that.
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They can come from nothing, extreme poverty, a broken home, prison, whatever,
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It reminds me of the movie A Knight's Tale, if you guys have seen that,
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And that leads to the results that you are currently experiencing,
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In other words, let's talk about making things happen in your life.
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I want to give you a few steps and a resource or two that you can start using today
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And I don't care if it's in your marriage or the relationship that you have with your
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kids or the promotion you're seeking or the business you're starting, whether it's health
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and fitness goals or picking up a new hobby, the process, it's always the same.
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And it all starts with identifying what you want.
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It's amazing to me how many men haven't even completed this first step.
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They haven't taken the time to identify what they want.
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So, I want you this coming week to focus for the time being on four key areas of your life.
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What do you want for your own self-improvement?
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Get out a notepad and start writing those goals down in each of those four categories
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I mentioned, relationships, health, wealth, and self.
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Now, from there, you need to download a guide that I put together.
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If you go to orderofman.com slash weekly planner, it's a spreadsheet.
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You'll be able to download, again, the exact document that I use to plan out my week.
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And this is where you're going to list your goals.
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But more importantly, this is where you're going to reverse engineer.
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Reverse engineering the process of actualizing those goals.
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And more important than the goals themselves is the action steps, guys.
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It's the action steps that you'll need to implement in order to achieve those goals.
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Stephen Covey talks about starting with the end in mind.
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We're starting with the goal, and then we're working back into the steps that we'll need
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So, for example, if your goal is to lose 20 pounds, your action could be work out at least
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Stop eating food after 7 p.m. or drink a gallon of water each day.
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That's something you actually have control over.
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Now, on this weekly planner, you're going to put in all of those action steps, and you're
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literally, guys, going to check those things off as you do them.
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There's power in lists and in the deliberate action of actually checking that list off.
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So, I want to talk with you now quickly about prioritization.
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There's a lot of talk and a lot of ideas about how to prioritize the tasks that you're completing
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If you want a great book or a great resource for this, read The One Thing by Gary Keller.
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And what I suggest that you do in the premise of the book is that you just focus on one
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thing at a time, the thing that will have the biggest impact, not a hundred different
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And there's this huge myth out there that multitasking is actually a legitimate way to
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As you're planning out your day, what I want you to do is ask yourself, what is the one
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thing that I can do right now, which will yield the highest result in achieving my goals?
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What's the one thing I can do right now that will yield the highest result in achieving
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And when that's done, check it off the list and ask yourself that same question again.
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And at the end of the day, you will have gotten so much more accomplished, probably more
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in that day than most people do all week or even all month.
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And then you repeat that process over and over and over again, every single day.
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Now, the last thing I want to talk with you about is what I refer to as an after action
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And the idea is that after every engagement or exercise, you're going to go back and you're
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Everyone's really good at talking about how to plan out your day, but I want you to get
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Having a great plan is good, but understanding how you executed that plan is better.
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And you're going to ask yourself the following questions.
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What didn't I get done that I would have liked to?
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Why didn't I get those tasks done and how will I improve tomorrow?
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And I promise guys, you'll have no problem achieving success that you desire.
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I know this plan works, but a lot of you probably won't implement it, which is the sad
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And a lot of you won't implement it because it sounds so simple.
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You're probably telling yourself it really can't be this easy.
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And so you won't do it, but I can guarantee you guys that it is.
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I use this process and so do thousands of other successful people and it works.
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So my challenge to you, my marching orders for you are to try it for the next 30 days.
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You've got all of July to make this work in your life.
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And if it doesn't move on, but you won't move on because again, you'll see that it actually
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So again, the process is first, identify your goals.
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Second, reverse engineer the process, reverse engineer goals in action.
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And then fourth, complete your after action review.
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And on that note, I want to share with you another resource you'll be interested in.
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If you want to make this a strategy or a habit that you will implement in your life, it's
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It's our elite mastermind of men working together to help themselves accomplish big
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things in their relationships, in their health, in their wealth, and themselves.
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So you're going to get weekly assignments, daily challenges, weekly accountability calls,
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and also all the tools, the resources, the strategies, everything that you need to help
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And so if you're interested in that, join us and the council by heading to orderofman.com
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In the meantime, I want you to identify your goals, reverse engineer those goals into action,
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prioritize and execute, complete your after action review, and work the plan.
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Now it's time to crush your excuses, own your choices, accept responsibility, and live manfully.
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Learn how at orderofman.com forward slash field notes.