FFN 031： Gratitude
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Summary
In this episode of The Manliest Show in Podcasting, host Ryan Michler talks about the importance of being grateful for what you have, and why it is so important to be grateful for the blessings you have in your life.
Transcript
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You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest. Embrace your fears and boldly charge
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your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time. Every time.
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You are not easily deterred, defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is
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who you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,
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you can call yourself a man. Men, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Michler and I am the
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host and founder of Order of Men. If you're new to the show today, and I'm sure a lot of you are,
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because guys, we are growing each and every week. I want to welcome you to the manliest show
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in podcasting. We cover everything from self-defense to leadership, to developing a better mindset,
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to building better relationships with your wife and your kids, and just about everything else you
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feel like will help you become a better man. Now, each and every week, we interview the world's most
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successful men, Navy SEALs, New York Times bestselling authors, professional athletes,
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And also, speaking of Navy SEALs, next week, I'm going to be releasing an interview
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with a retired Navy SEAL and ex-lead instructor for SEAL snipers. We talk about some of the team
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building strategies that he learned and used over a 20-year career of serving with the world's most
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elite warrior. So, make sure you subscribe, guys, if you have not already, so you never miss an episode,
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including the one I just mentioned. Now, with that said, this is not an interview today. Each week,
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every Friday, I release our Friday Field Notes, which is my ramblings, guys. It's my ramblings,
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it's my thoughts, it's my ideas that I've had over the past week that I think will help each and every
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one of us become better men. But before I get in the topic for this week, I want to make sure that
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you know about and you join our Closed Men's Facebook group. Guys, we have over 11,000 men
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having some real and valuable discussions about what it means to be a man. So, you can do that.
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You can join at facebook.com slash groups slash Order of Men. And also, if you have not already
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done so, make sure you go check out what we're doing inside our private mastermind,
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the Iron Council. I'm not going to get into it today, but you can get the details at
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orderofman.com slash Iron Council. Now, with all that said and done and out of the way,
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let's talk about Thanksgiving today. I don't want to talk with you about the history of it. I don't
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want to talk with you about what you ate yesterday or what you did over the weekend. You can do all
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that stuff on your own. But what I want to talk with you about today is the idea and the concept
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of gratitude and why it's so critical that men express gratitude every single day. The fact is
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that it's easy. It is so easy for us to get distracted from showing gratitude and expressing
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gratitude in our lives. Think about how much we have going on. Business, family, life, coaching,
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spiritual obligations, kids, civic causes, everything else that we have going on in our
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lives. And if you're anything like me, you drive so hard that you rarely, if ever, take any time to
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reflect upon what you currently have because you are so focused on the future. And I know there's
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the time for that. I know there's a time to think about what's ahead in the future, but there's also
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a time for reflection in our lives. I'm going to talk with you about that in a second, but I want
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to first talk with you about one of the biggest traps that I think each and every one of us are
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guilty of. We all fall into this, myself included. It's the trap of comparison. We look around at what
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our neighbors have, what car they bought, what vacations that are going on, what kind of clothes they wear,
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what gun they just bought. And we think to ourselves, I want that. I want to have what
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they have. Then what do we do? We look at Facebook and we read a blog or we listen to a podcast,
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including this one. And we think to ourselves, look at Ryan or look at this guy or look at that
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guy. He has it all figured out and I'm just getting started. And what a lot of us fail to realize
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is that we have so many blessings around us already. You know, I'm sitting here in my office
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and I'm recording this podcast with a microphone that I bought for less than a hundred dollars
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that gives me the ability to reach hundreds of thousands of men in a matter of minutes.
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I have this roof over my head and this carpet under my feet and a bed to lay in at night.
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This is a standard of living. Even the world's wealthiest people didn't have just 100 years ago.
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You know, we live in relative peace and harmony. The likelihood that I'll have to defend myself
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or protect others is relatively low. Although guys, that's not any reason to let our guard down.
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We also go to work in these incredible machines that get us to and from where we need to go in
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minutes and hours, what used to take days and months, even years. And if the air conditioning
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or the radio doesn't work in our cars, we have these meltdowns. We office in these climate
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controlled buildings. If it's too hot, we flip this little switch and we get to cool down. If we're
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too cold, we flip another switch and we get to warm up. We have these books and the ability to
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tap into the minds of the smartest people this planet has ever known. We have TVs to stay up to date
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with what's going on thousands of miles from us. Although mainstream media is not necessarily
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the best place to always tune in for that. Now I know we still experience wars, but think about
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these wars for a minute. These are fought in distant countries, not here in America. I've talked
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with people from other parts of this world who have seen the horrors of war since the time they were old
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enough to retain those vivid memories of murder and rape and destruction. If you miss someone,
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you pick up this little phone and you make a phone call. If you're hungry, you go to the refrigerator
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and get some food, food that you didn't have to make or kill or prepare. Somebody did all of that
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for you. All you had to do was to hop into your transportation machine that again, somebody else
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built and get to the grocery store where they store everything you need and also everything you
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don't. I can hear and I can see my kids playing today in the backyard on their trampoline and the
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basketball hoop. There's some children on this planet who wouldn't even recognize what those things are.
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I see this American flag on my wall, which represents the sacrifice of thousands of our men
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and women who have given all so that we may enjoy the blessings that we honor once a year.
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And yet, what do I complain about? That I got a flat tire, that I had a bad hair day,
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that I don't have clothes to wear, we're out of food in the kitchen, or maybe my internet is running
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a little bit slower than it normally does. We've got to get some perspective here, men. I know there's
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some of you that may be experiencing some difficult times right now. I realize some of you may be going
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through a separation or a divorce. I know what that's like. Or a bankruptcy. Or maybe you just
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lost your job. Or someone you know or even yourself is dealing with some health issues. But you're still
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here. There's air in your lungs. There's ideas in your head. There's strength in your hands and your
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back. Even in the worst of times, there are people who can't even imagine the level of wealth
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and abundance with what each of us live with every day of our lives. So I hope you've taken
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the time this week to reflect upon all the blessings you have, the great fortune each and
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every one of us enjoy. But I also hope that you do this every single day. Expressing gratitude
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not only brings your life more fulfillment, it also welcomes more abundance in your life because
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you have proven worthy and capable of handling the abundance that you do have. So with that said,
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guys, I just want to take a quick minute and I want to thank you. And my family wants to thank
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you. I want to thank you for the trust that you've placed in me. I want to thank you for tuning in to
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this podcast each and every week to listen to what me and our guests have to say. I want to thank you
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for motivating me and inspiring me to continue this work. I also want to thank you for allowing me to
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pursue this dream that I have over the past couple of years. But most importantly, I want to thank you
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for showing up as men, men in your communities, men in your family, men in your businesses. It is
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apparent that the world needs us more than ever. So until next week, guys, continue to take action,
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continue to live worthy of that title of man. And as always, live manfully.
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Thank you for listening to the Order of Man podcast. You're ready to take charge of your life
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and be more of the man you were meant to be. We invite you to join the Order at orderofman.com.