Order of Man - FFN 031： Gratitude

00:00:00.000 You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest. Embrace your fears and boldly charge

00:00:05.000 your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time. Every time.

00:00:10.640 You are not easily deterred, defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is

00:00:17.180 who you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,

00:00:22.840 you can call yourself a man. Men, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Michler and I am the

00:00:27.840 host and founder of Order of Men. If you're new to the show today, and I'm sure a lot of you are,

00:00:31.620 because guys, we are growing each and every week. I want to welcome you to the manliest show

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00:00:46.260 feel like will help you become a better man. Now, each and every week, we interview the world's most

00:00:50.940 successful men, Navy SEALs, New York Times bestselling authors, professional athletes,

00:00:55.280 And also, speaking of Navy SEALs, next week, I'm going to be releasing an interview

00:00:59.020 with a retired Navy SEAL and ex-lead instructor for SEAL snipers. We talk about some of the team

00:01:04.880 building strategies that he learned and used over a 20-year career of serving with the world's most

00:01:11.120 elite warrior. So, make sure you subscribe, guys, if you have not already, so you never miss an episode,

00:01:16.920 including the one I just mentioned. Now, with that said, this is not an interview today. Each week,

00:01:21.580 every Friday, I release our Friday Field Notes, which is my ramblings, guys. It's my ramblings,

00:01:25.980 it's my thoughts, it's my ideas that I've had over the past week that I think will help each and every

00:01:29.840 one of us become better men. But before I get in the topic for this week, I want to make sure that

00:01:34.540 you know about and you join our Closed Men's Facebook group. Guys, we have over 11,000 men

00:01:40.500 having some real and valuable discussions about what it means to be a man. So, you can do that.

00:01:46.100 You can join at facebook.com slash groups slash Order of Men. And also, if you have not already

00:01:51.200 done so, make sure you go check out what we're doing inside our private mastermind,

00:01:55.120 the Iron Council. I'm not going to get into it today, but you can get the details at

00:01:58.860 orderofman.com slash Iron Council. Now, with all that said and done and out of the way,

00:02:03.300 let's talk about Thanksgiving today. I don't want to talk with you about the history of it. I don't

00:02:07.300 want to talk with you about what you ate yesterday or what you did over the weekend. You can do all

00:02:11.040 that stuff on your own. But what I want to talk with you about today is the idea and the concept

00:02:14.520 of gratitude and why it's so critical that men express gratitude every single day. The fact is

00:02:22.180 that it's easy. It is so easy for us to get distracted from showing gratitude and expressing

00:02:26.840 gratitude in our lives. Think about how much we have going on. Business, family, life, coaching,

00:02:32.080 spiritual obligations, kids, civic causes, everything else that we have going on in our

00:02:35.920 lives. And if you're anything like me, you drive so hard that you rarely, if ever, take any time to

00:02:41.940 reflect upon what you currently have because you are so focused on the future. And I know there's

00:02:47.240 the time for that. I know there's a time to think about what's ahead in the future, but there's also

00:02:51.780 a time for reflection in our lives. I'm going to talk with you about that in a second, but I want

00:02:56.320 to first talk with you about one of the biggest traps that I think each and every one of us are

00:02:59.960 guilty of. We all fall into this, myself included. It's the trap of comparison. We look around at what

00:03:05.820 our neighbors have, what car they bought, what vacations that are going on, what kind of clothes they wear,

00:03:10.220 what gun they just bought. And we think to ourselves, I want that. I want to have what

00:03:14.140 they have. Then what do we do? We look at Facebook and we read a blog or we listen to a podcast,

00:03:18.480 including this one. And we think to ourselves, look at Ryan or look at this guy or look at that

00:03:22.340 guy. He has it all figured out and I'm just getting started. And what a lot of us fail to realize

00:03:26.680 is that we have so many blessings around us already. You know, I'm sitting here in my office

00:03:32.060 and I'm recording this podcast with a microphone that I bought for less than a hundred dollars

00:03:35.900 that gives me the ability to reach hundreds of thousands of men in a matter of minutes.

00:03:41.200 I have this roof over my head and this carpet under my feet and a bed to lay in at night.

00:03:45.400 This is a standard of living. Even the world's wealthiest people didn't have just 100 years ago.

00:03:50.220 You know, we live in relative peace and harmony. The likelihood that I'll have to defend myself

00:03:54.500 or protect others is relatively low. Although guys, that's not any reason to let our guard down.

00:03:59.800 We also go to work in these incredible machines that get us to and from where we need to go in

00:04:04.660 minutes and hours, what used to take days and months, even years. And if the air conditioning

00:04:09.680 or the radio doesn't work in our cars, we have these meltdowns. We office in these climate

00:04:14.820 controlled buildings. If it's too hot, we flip this little switch and we get to cool down. If we're

00:04:19.380 too cold, we flip another switch and we get to warm up. We have these books and the ability to

00:04:24.700 tap into the minds of the smartest people this planet has ever known. We have TVs to stay up to date

00:04:30.500 with what's going on thousands of miles from us. Although mainstream media is not necessarily

00:04:35.000 the best place to always tune in for that. Now I know we still experience wars, but think about

00:04:39.200 these wars for a minute. These are fought in distant countries, not here in America. I've talked

00:04:43.420 with people from other parts of this world who have seen the horrors of war since the time they were old

00:04:48.660 enough to retain those vivid memories of murder and rape and destruction. If you miss someone,

00:04:55.640 you pick up this little phone and you make a phone call. If you're hungry, you go to the refrigerator

00:05:00.060 and get some food, food that you didn't have to make or kill or prepare. Somebody did all of that

00:05:05.780 for you. All you had to do was to hop into your transportation machine that again, somebody else

00:05:10.520 built and get to the grocery store where they store everything you need and also everything you

00:05:15.940 don't. I can hear and I can see my kids playing today in the backyard on their trampoline and the

00:05:21.500 basketball hoop. There's some children on this planet who wouldn't even recognize what those things are.

00:05:25.640 I see this American flag on my wall, which represents the sacrifice of thousands of our men

00:05:29.700 and women who have given all so that we may enjoy the blessings that we honor once a year.

00:05:38.140 And yet, what do I complain about? That I got a flat tire, that I had a bad hair day,

00:05:44.000 that I don't have clothes to wear, we're out of food in the kitchen, or maybe my internet is running

00:05:48.460 a little bit slower than it normally does. We've got to get some perspective here, men. I know there's

00:05:53.480 some of you that may be experiencing some difficult times right now. I realize some of you may be going

00:05:57.240 through a separation or a divorce. I know what that's like. Or a bankruptcy. Or maybe you just

00:06:02.340 lost your job. Or someone you know or even yourself is dealing with some health issues. But you're still

00:06:07.200 here. There's air in your lungs. There's ideas in your head. There's strength in your hands and your

00:06:12.380 back. Even in the worst of times, there are people who can't even imagine the level of wealth

00:06:16.740 and abundance with what each of us live with every day of our lives. So I hope you've taken

00:06:22.320 the time this week to reflect upon all the blessings you have, the great fortune each and

00:06:26.300 every one of us enjoy. But I also hope that you do this every single day. Expressing gratitude

00:06:30.760 not only brings your life more fulfillment, it also welcomes more abundance in your life because

00:06:37.300 you have proven worthy and capable of handling the abundance that you do have. So with that said,

00:06:44.480 guys, I just want to take a quick minute and I want to thank you. And my family wants to thank

00:06:49.360 you. I want to thank you for the trust that you've placed in me. I want to thank you for tuning in to

00:06:54.820 this podcast each and every week to listen to what me and our guests have to say. I want to thank you

00:06:59.520 for motivating me and inspiring me to continue this work. I also want to thank you for allowing me to

00:07:05.900 pursue this dream that I have over the past couple of years. But most importantly, I want to thank you

00:07:11.340 for showing up as men, men in your communities, men in your family, men in your businesses. It is

00:07:17.640 apparent that the world needs us more than ever. So until next week, guys, continue to take action,

00:07:25.460 continue to live worthy of that title of man. And as always, live manfully.

00:07:31.160 Thank you for listening to the Order of Man podcast. You're ready to take charge of your life

00:07:35.660 and be more of the man you were meant to be. We invite you to join the Order at orderofman.com.

Order of Man - November 25, 2016

FFN 031： Gratitude

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