Order of Man - FFN 013： Invest in Yourself

00:00:00.000 You're a man. You're committed to the work required to forge your own destiny.

00:00:04.600 Your blood. Your sweat. Your tears. You will not be defeated. You cannot be deterred.

00:00:11.480 Nothing stands between you and the victory you seek. You're a rock. Steadfast, resolute,

00:00:17.020 and unwavering. And, at the end of the day, the job will be done. Welcome to your Friday Field Notes.

00:00:24.420 Welcome to the Order of Men podcast. My name is Ryan Michler, and I'm the host and founder of Order

00:00:29.800 of Men. Now, whether you're new to the show or you've been listening for a while now, I want to

00:00:33.300 welcome you to the manliest podcast available. Guys, we're talking about all things important to

00:00:38.480 you as a man, from relationships to fitness to starting businesses to protecting your family.

00:00:42.760 We have got you covered, and most of you know by now that we have a full interview show that's

00:00:48.120 released each and every Tuesday. This today is our short show. It's released each Friday. I'm

00:00:52.500 going to share a lesson, a thought, or an idea with you that I've had over the past week,

00:00:56.180 and we usually go for about five to eight minutes on these. But, you want to make sure that you

00:00:59.780 subscribe in iTunes or wherever you get your Fixed Podcasts so you never miss this show or our Tuesday

00:01:05.680 show. Now, I want to get into the show today. I want to talk with you about investing in yourself.

00:01:10.540 If you've been listening to me for any amount of time, you know that I'm a financial advisor by

00:01:14.400 trade. I have been for about eight years, and I cannot even count how many ideas that people have

00:01:20.080 wanted to invest in. It ranges from stocks and bonds to gold and silver, rental properties,

00:01:25.520 exotic art, private islands, private jets, and of course, everywhere in between. I've heard it all.

00:01:31.140 But you know what I rarely hear that people want to invest in? It's themselves. Everyone seems to

00:01:35.660 want to invest in other people. They want to invest in other ideas, but no one wants to invest in

00:01:40.480 themselves. I cannot, for the life of me, figure this out. I get it. It might be maybe too hard or

00:01:45.760 too expensive for people or they don't see the value in it or even that it's something that's

00:01:50.600 been overlooked. Look, I'm here to tell you that if you want to have any measure of success in your

00:01:55.180 life, you better find a way to invest in yourself. I know it gets expensive, but the question really

00:01:59.720 shouldn't revolve around cost. The question is, can you really afford not to invest in yourself?

00:02:05.420 Now, while we're on this topic, I really want to address what this word invest even means. Now,

00:02:10.940 the idea behind an investment is that you give some sort of capital. It doesn't always have to

00:02:15.540 be money. It could be, but it could also be time, energy, resources. And you take that and you put

00:02:22.020 that into an idea or a project or a venture with the hopes of that capital returning back to you with

00:02:28.880 more capital. Again, time, energy, money, resources, et cetera. But what's interesting is that when you

00:02:35.040 make an investment into a traditional vehicle, say stocks, for example, it might, it might

00:02:40.260 return back to you, but there is no guarantee on that. But when you invest in yourself,

00:02:45.960 it always yields a return, a guaranteed return. Yet for some reason, we don't do it or we don't

00:02:54.680 do it to the degree that we should. When's the last time guys that you went to a conference?

00:02:59.400 When's the last time that you spent money on a course? When's the last time that you bought a book?

00:03:03.420 Now, I know I'm probably preaching to the choir here because you gentlemen are obviously willing to

00:03:07.780 invest time, energy, resources, money, all of that stuff into approving yourselves, or you wouldn't

00:03:11.620 be listening to me on this podcast. But let me ask you this. Can you name a time where you invested

00:03:16.920 in yourself and you didn't get a return five, 10, 20, a hundred times over? And if you can't think of

00:03:25.240 a time when that actually happened in your life, then I'm challenging you right now to double down

00:03:30.780 on that investment in yourself, double down on that investment. If you knew that you couldn't

00:03:36.220 fail, would you do it? Of course you would. And that's exactly what's happening when you invest

00:03:42.220 in yourself. You cannot fail. I was looking at my book library the other night with my wife and we

00:03:47.820 calculated that I have close to $6,000 in books in my library. And I know it's been more than that

00:03:54.440 over the course of the years that I've been reading and studying. I'm probably going to spend

00:03:59.340 in the ballpark of 20 to $25,000 this year on coaching and events. And I tell you this because

00:04:05.500 I want you to know that I'm serious about what I'm telling you to do right now. This is critical

00:04:09.960 guys to your life and your success. So what does it look like? How do you invest in yourself?

00:04:14.780 I think probably the lowest barrier to entry is books, physical books, audio books. I don't care

00:04:19.960 what it is. As long as you start building up your library, you can even use the library if you need

00:04:24.140 to. It's free. I prefer to own a book. I prefer to physically and tangibly flip

00:04:29.220 through a book. But as long as you're reading, I think that's the first investment that you can

00:04:33.840 make in yourself. Turn off the TV, get in front of a book. Second, I would suggest that you start

00:04:39.560 attending events. There are events happening guys all over the world and they're focused on the

00:04:44.380 topics that you care about. You need to go rub shoulders with the people that care about the

00:04:48.800 same things that you do. You'll learn a ton of information and you'll start building another type

00:04:54.120 of capital. And I can talk about this in another podcast, but it's relationship capital. So get your

00:04:58.120 butt to events. Next, I want you to consider a mastermind of sorts, whether it's done locally

00:05:02.860 or it's done virtually. A mastermind is going to connect you with other like-minded guys.

00:05:06.500 And it allows you to see things in your life that are difficult or even impossible to see for

00:05:11.840 yourself. The power of masterminds is in the accountability that it brings to the table for

00:05:17.200 you. Now, if you really want to take this thing to the next level, when it comes to education and

00:05:22.060 investing yourself, and this may not be where you start, but it is something to consider

00:05:25.540 is that you hire a coach in whatever field that you're trying to improve. If you need to get in

00:05:30.180 better shape, hire a fitness coach. If you want to grow your business, hire a business coach.

00:05:33.880 This is a question I get a lot. Who do I hire as a coach? I want you to look for somebody who is

00:05:38.160 experiencing the same results that you want to see in your life and do exactly what they say.

00:05:43.320 Do not recreate the wheel. Hire them and do what they say. It's simple. And bottom line here,

00:05:49.700 guys, I want you to invest in yourself. I don't care where, I don't care how, but if you really want to

00:05:54.780 take your life to the next level, if you really want to become the man that you're meant to be,

00:05:58.240 it's what you're going to have to do. And you're going to have to learn how to put up some capital

00:06:02.080 with the idea and the goal of it returning back. And again, every time you invest in yourself,

00:06:06.420 that's how it's going to work. Now, Albert Einstein said,

00:06:09.320 we cannot solve problems at the same level of thinking we use to create them. In other words,

00:06:14.260 you and I, we both live in a box. It's our box. We created it. We live in it. And the only way for

00:06:19.680 us to get outside of that closed box is to actually get outside of the box that we created.

00:06:23.800 But the problem is we don't really know how to do that. We can't see outside of our own box.

00:06:29.100 You can't see what's on the outside, but other people can. And that's why it's critical

00:06:32.580 that you read, you go to conferences, join masterminds, go to events, hire coaches.

00:06:38.660 They're going to help you see a world you didn't even know existed. I know this has been true for me

00:06:44.440 in my life. Every time I participate in one of the things that I'm telling you guys to do today.

00:06:49.100 Now, I want to give a disclaimer real quick with what I'm about to say,

00:06:52.420 because I've got two resources for you where you can start tapping into some of what I'm talking

00:06:55.980 about here. And as much as I want to have you tap into these resources, I don't care again,

00:07:00.220 if you join me and the order of man, or you invest somewhere else, just make sure that you're doing

00:07:05.100 something. Now, the first resource I want to share with you is our elite mastermind,

00:07:08.940 the iron council. You've heard me talk about it before we meet together each and every week

00:07:12.960 online. We've got a closed Facebook group. I share exclusive videos. You get, you're given

00:07:16.660 assignments, you complete daily challenges, and you're going to be accountable to other men in the group

00:07:21.000 and taking your life to the next level. Next month, we're actually going to be start implementing

00:07:25.160 12 week goals and some platforms and ways to be accountable to each other. Guys, it's 67 bucks a

00:07:31.640 month, 67 bucks a month. You and I spend more on that each month on stuff that just doesn't matter.

00:07:37.000 And I suggest that you start spending it on the things that do. So if you're interested in that

00:07:42.860 resource and that investment, check out order of man.com slash iron council. Now, the second

00:07:48.180 investment that I want to share with you is our inaugural order of man uprising experience in

00:07:52.220 the mountains of Southern Utah. This event is going to be held September 15th through the 18th,

00:07:56.200 2016. It's in the mountains of Southern Utah. We're going to take three days in a cabin that I've

00:08:00.920 leased, and we're going to work together and helping you become a better protector, a better provider,

00:08:06.340 a better presider, a leader over yourself and your family and your business. We've got some tactical

00:08:09.860 scenarios. We've got survival situations. We're going to be hiking in probably the most beautiful

00:08:15.220 parks this country has to offer. We're going to be doing fireside masterminds each and every morning,

00:08:19.800 each and every evening. And then we're going to have instruction, expert instruction to help you

00:08:23.460 gain confidence and discipline and mastery again, to take your life to the next level. So if you're

00:08:27.940 interested in that resource, you can get more of the details at order of man.com slash uprising.

00:08:32.720 I hope to see you guys in the iron council and at the uprising, go out there, invest in one

00:08:39.640 thing this week, just one. If it's one of these resources I gave you, excellent. If it's a book,

00:08:46.760 excellent. If it's hiring a coach, great. If it's going to an event, I don't care, but get out there,

00:08:52.660 go invest in yourself and you're guaranteed to see the returns. Guys, I look forward to talking to you

00:08:58.300 next week, but until then take action and become the man we're meant to be. Those are your Friday

00:09:03.240 field notes. Now it's time to crush your excuses, own your choices, accept responsibility and live

00:09:10.100 manfully. Learn how at order of man.com forward slash field notes.

Order of Man - July 22, 2016

FFN 013： Invest in Yourself

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