In this episode, Ryan discusses the importance of being able to command the respect of others, especially in the workplace and in your personal life. He also discusses how to be assertive and assertive in order to be a better man.
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00:00:24.720Hey, gentlemen. What is going on today? My name is Ryan Michler, and I am the host and the founder of this podcast, The Order of Men.
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00:00:57.620Guys, I want to get right into this show today because what I'm going to cover is such an important topic and one that I think a lot of men have a difficult time grasping and implementing in their life.
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00:02:12.000So, with that said, let's get right into this conversation today.
00:02:15.560Again, I titled this How to Command Respect because I look around in society, the people that I interact with,
00:02:21.320and I just see so many men who don't have any level of respect for themselves, let alone being able to command any respect from other people.
00:02:32.960I was noticing the other day as I was walking to the post office, there were people that wouldn't even look me in the eye.
00:02:39.480And not even that they wouldn't look me in the eye, that they were working extra hard to ensure that they didn't have to look me in the eye.
00:02:47.340I shake people's hand and I see these little limp fish handshakes that people do.
00:02:53.600It's bad, guys. It's bad. You know exactly what I'm talking about.
00:02:56.760You have a co-worker, you have friends, you have kids, you see this.
00:03:11.260I want you as a man to step up, to be able to be assertive, to be confident, to be able to ask for promotions and ask women on dates and really get out of this life what you should be getting out of this life.
00:03:25.000And part of that is being able to command the respect of other people.
00:03:28.840And when I talk about commanding respect, one of the things that I'm really addressing here is this idea of the X factor, right?
00:03:37.360We've all been to a meeting or in a conference or in a office setting and we see or even don't even see.
00:03:46.020Maybe we just feel somebody walk into this space and you turn around and you see this guy who has it, whatever it is.
00:03:53.620You can't quite put your finger on it, but you know that this is a guy that has something special.
00:03:58.820There's something unique about this individual.
00:04:01.680And I think what a lot of guys will do is they'll write that off and dismiss it as something that he was naturally gifted or naturally born with.
00:04:10.560And sure, there may be men who have a predisposition to be more like this, but I'll tell you what, being able to develop what most people write off as the quote unquote X factor, it is something that can be developed.
00:04:22.540I know this because this is me for a long time, especially when I was young, I walked around very insecure, very complacent, frankly, just a little bit afraid and scared of life in general.
00:04:36.280I couldn't make eye contact with people.
00:04:39.580And not only that, I actually just tried to avoid them altogether.
00:04:42.220And it wasn't up until relatively recently that I have been able to develop a level of confidence that allows me to look in another person's eyes.
00:04:52.220It allows me to ask and command exactly what I think I deserve and know what I'm worth.
00:04:59.340And I'm just telling you from experience, it's a significantly better way to live.
00:05:04.800So we're going to talk about that today.
00:05:06.540I made a post on Instagram, I don't know, two or three weeks ago about teaching others how to treat you.
00:05:14.760And a lot of people agreed with me and said, yeah, you definitely teach other people how to treat you.
00:05:19.640And other people blew that off or dismissed it or said I was full of garbage or whatever.
00:05:24.860But I do believe that you and me and everybody else is teaching other people how we will be treated.
00:05:31.620And what I see is a lot of people who through their actions and their words and the way they carry themselves are teaching other people, kids, spouses, colleagues, employers, and bosses that they don't need to treat them with respect.
00:05:49.200That's the last thing I want to see in men.
00:05:51.460I want men to walk around with their heads held high.
00:05:53.700I want them to have a level of confidence in what they're doing, who they are, how they show up.
00:05:57.600Because I believe that this will, number one, save their sanity and their well-being.
00:06:02.120And then number two, it will determine much of your success.
00:06:05.300There's study after study after study that suggests and shows that confident people make more money.
00:06:18.320I've broken this down as I was thinking about this and taking notes for what I wanted to talk with you about today down to five strategies.
00:06:26.060Five strategies that will help you command more respect in your life.
00:06:41.540Number one, and this is the most important one.
00:06:44.280You have to treat yourself with respect.
00:06:46.780If you want to be respected by other people, then first and foremost, you need to respect yourself.
00:06:53.740I see a lot of guys out there who downplay their role in society, downplay their contribution to the family or to the business or to the community.
00:07:05.940I see a lot of guys who are beating themselves up, who are inside of their heads, negative self-talk, negative people around them, and they don't even respect themselves.
00:07:15.120They don't respect themselves enough so that other people will look at that individual and say, oh, I need to treat this guy with respect.
00:07:23.540No, they see how you're treating yourself and they determine how they're going to treat you.
00:07:27.820So, first and foremost, and everything else I'm going to share with you after this point will help you more fully do this.
00:07:35.140But number one, treat yourself with respect.
00:07:43.560Know that you have a contribution in this life or to an environment or a conversation or an encounter or an experience or a project at work.
00:08:00.520What have you done in the past that proves that you have something to add, proves that there's some level of significance in having you around?
00:08:08.500I can guarantee that every one of us have it.
00:08:10.360And yet, there's so many guys out there who decide instead to focus on that, what they'd rather focus on is their failures and their setbacks.
00:08:17.360And how horrible they are or how weak or how sad or how whatever they are.
00:08:23.840And they tell themselves that over and over and over again.
00:09:38.960Because you do the things that are worthy of receiving that level of respect.
00:09:43.360So, if you're in a leadership position, for example, and you're asking your subordinates or your employees or your children to do something,
00:09:50.920if you're not willing to or have not done that type of stuff yourself, they're never going to respect you for that.
00:10:05.280Are you just talk or are you somebody who takes action to back up the conversations that you are having every single day with those who are going to be impacted by the conversations and the subjects that you're discussing?
00:10:38.760So, as I said, as the first step is treating yourself with respect, the second step is be worthy of being respected by doing the things that are going to make you a more respectable human being.
00:10:47.420I'll delve deeper into that maybe on a separate podcast, but for the sake of time, we'll get on to number three.
00:10:52.280Number three is communicate your expectations to the people that you want to command respect from.
00:11:09.440When I coach my boys' baseball, football, and basketball teams, in the very first practice, I talk about respect.
00:11:16.980I talk about what that means, what that looks like, how we will talk to each other, how the players are to talk to me, what title they will be using when they address me.
00:11:28.440That is so important that you communicate, communicate the expectation.
00:11:33.660You do that verbally through the example I just shared, but you also do it non-verbally with how you carry yourself and your demeanor as you engage in conversations and the activities and the things that you're doing on a daily basis.
00:11:45.500You have to be able to communicate the expectation.
00:11:49.200Let there be no guesswork, no misunderstanding, no confusion about the way that you expect to be treated.
00:11:57.240Because if there's confusion, guess what?
00:12:00.000Your needs are not going to be met and the other people that you're working with, whether that's your spouse or your kids or your subordinates or employees, their needs are not going to be met either.
00:12:10.140So get on the same page, communicate the expectation and know how you actually expect to be treated.
00:12:16.660Now, number four, really, really critical guys.
00:12:23.020If you've communicated it, you've commanded it.
00:12:27.260And yet you let people continue to walk over you over and over and over again.
00:12:33.860If you don't share what's on your mind, if you aren't assertive in the conversations that need to be had, if you don't let there be consequences for the way people treat you, then you're never going to be able to command any level of respect.
00:13:10.020So if something's bothering you about the way somebody's treating you or the way they're handling a situation, you need to get very, very good at being able to communicate that.