Order of Man - Focus Wins ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES

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

00:00:04.980 your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time. Every time.

00:00:10.460 You are not easily deterred or defeated. Rugged. Resilient. Strong. This is your life. This is who

00:00:17.220 you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,

00:00:22.780 you can call yourself a man. Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Michler,

00:00:27.700 and I am the host and the founder of the Order of Man podcast and movement. I just got back

00:00:32.960 from a hunt that was relatively successful. Not as successful as I would have liked, but

00:00:39.340 I did enjoy the time hunting. I enjoyed the time being with some of my friends and learning a new

00:00:46.620 applicable skill that helps me become a better provider for my family and friends. And I

00:00:51.260 appreciate you guys holding the fort down while I was away. We had a lot of good podcasts lined up.

00:00:55.720 Of course, Kip, my cohost with our ask me anything filled in a solo the other day. You guys heard

00:01:00.800 him do that. I appreciate him taking the lead on that and you guys tuning in. Now, if you are new

00:01:06.020 to the podcast, this is a podcast designed to give you the tools and resources and conversations and

00:01:12.140 equipment that you need to thrive as a man, as a father, a husband, a leader within your community,

00:01:17.760 a business owner, however you're showing up. I want to give you everything that you need to

00:01:21.680 thrive in those areas of your life. And today, I think I'm talking with you about a very, very

00:01:27.860 important subject focus because we are on the heels, the back of the elections, the presidential

00:01:35.180 elections in the United States. And at this point, it's likely that we, well, we should know,

00:01:41.700 but based on when I'm recording this, which is Monday of this week. So the voting for the majority

00:01:49.500 of the country will happen tomorrow, Tuesday. So we should know, but based on what we've been

00:01:55.320 seeing in the news and everything else in the political climate, it might take a little while.

00:01:59.820 So my prediction is that Donald Trump will win, but I guess by the time you're listening to this,

00:02:04.820 we'll figure out whether or not that's accurate or not. But either way, regardless of who wins,

00:02:11.060 I think there's going to be a lot of craziness, a lot of wildness, maybe some looting and rioting and

00:02:18.540 quote unquote, peaceful protests. There's going to be a lot of confusion. There's going to be a lot

00:02:24.040 of frustration. It's just going to be a very interesting time. And a lot of that is going to

00:02:28.220 be played upon by the media and social media and everywhere else you turn your potential eyeballs

00:02:36.240 and attention. And that's what this podcast is about right now. It's about focusing because we

00:02:40.420 live in an environment where everybody's clamoring for your time. Everybody's clamoring,

00:02:44.900 clamoring, if I can say that, for your attention. They want your eyeballs. They want your attention. 0.86

00:02:51.080 They want your money. And so they'll do, and they'll say anything. They'll perpetuate stories

00:02:56.280 that aren't true. They'll spread false narratives. They'll lie. They'll cheat. They'll steal whatever

00:03:00.480 they need to do in order for you to pay attention to them because their pocketbooks are lined when your

00:03:06.660 eyeballs are on them. And let's be, let's be frank. This podcast for some of you could also

00:03:13.720 potentially be a distraction, a distraction from what you ought to be doing right now.

00:03:18.780 Now, if you're running or working out, got it. If you're on the road and you're listening,

00:03:22.360 got it. No problem. But you know, I see this a lot in the quote unquote self-development space.

00:03:27.520 I'll see a lot of people who will think that, you know, reading a book is actually moving the needle.

00:03:32.280 Reading is important. I read a lot of books, as you can tell behind me, I've got my, some of my book

00:03:36.420 collection in my bookshelf there. So it is important, but I think we ought to be careful of believing

00:03:42.500 that just because we read a bunch of books that we're actually doing something about it and you're

00:03:45.820 not, you're kind of warming up, but you're not actually in the game yet. So you've got to get

00:03:49.960 in the game. And sometimes that requires you putting down the book. Sometimes that requires

00:03:54.680 you as much as it pains me to admit and suggest that you got to take the earbuds out and stop

00:03:59.940 listening to the podcast and start applying some of this stuff in your life. Because I know

00:04:04.340 there's a lot of you based on the responses that I receive who aren't applying it for whatever

00:04:09.000 reason, for one reason or the other. And, and you might feel really good about listening

00:04:14.040 to this podcast or reading a book or buying that course or going to that conference or

00:04:18.460 whatever it is you're doing to improve yourself. But it might be a distraction from you actually

00:04:22.380 doing the work. So when you combine the fact that everybody is trying to get your attention

00:04:27.120 and we have become this immediate gratification society, like we want it absolutely everything

00:04:33.300 that we can possibly have. And we want it all right now, which is nice. You know, if I want

00:04:40.180 to order a new shirt or a new hat or a new piece of hunting equipment, I can jump on Amazon

00:04:46.760 and I can order it. And although over the past several months, it's taken me a little longer

00:04:50.540 than in previous months, I can still have it within two, three, four days. I mean, how nice

00:04:56.620 is that we've been conditioned to get everything now to lose a lot of our ability to just focus

00:05:03.620 and be present in the moment. As I said earlier, I was hunting earlier in the week and the end

00:05:08.300 of last week. And we sit in tree stands for the majority of the time. And I think I calculated

00:05:13.860 that it was somewhere around 25 hours in, in a tree stand, which shouldn't be difficult,

00:05:21.580 but it is, it's really, really hard to sit there for three or four hours and just sit

00:05:29.640 and watch. Now, if you've got action, that's one thing, but if not, you're just sitting

00:05:33.380 and you're watching and you're thinking and you're being still, and you're being silent.

00:05:36.520 It's a great practice. And it's very, very difficult because we've lost the inability to focus because

00:05:42.020 we always need to be entertained. So I know that's a long warmup, probably five or eight minutes

00:05:47.800 into this thing at this point, but it's a warmup to what I wanted to talk with you about today,

00:05:52.120 which is that focus wins. And it's very important, especially in the political landscape and climate

00:05:56.340 that we're in, especially where all these entertainment industries and media and sports

00:06:01.600 and everything else is clamoring for our attention. Just like frankly, this podcast is that we learn

00:06:05.700 how to focus on what's important so we can get the meaningful work done. And then we can move the

00:06:10.020 needle and accomplish what we want to accomplish in our lives for ourselves and the people that we have

00:06:13.980 a responsibility and obligation for my family, my friends, my neighbors, and everybody else that

00:06:18.920 I'm trying to serve you guys. Same goes for you. You're trying to serve yourself and other people

00:06:23.180 as well. At least I hope that's the case. So I've got five points here. I wanted to break down

00:06:27.360 that I think are going to help you focus a little bit more better, a little bit better, not more better,

00:06:31.660 just better and get on the path to focusing so you can produce the results that you're after.

00:06:36.980 So number one is you've got to identify and find what it is you value. If you have no idea about

00:06:42.300 what you value, then, then how can you focus on that thing? And if you have no North star,

00:06:49.140 no compass guiding and informing, or you basing your decisions off of, how are you going to know

00:06:54.640 that what you're doing is either distracting and actually detracting from what you want to accomplish

00:06:59.680 or moving you closer towards your goals and objectives? You don't know. So the first step in

00:07:04.500 being able to focus more adequately is knowing what it is that you value and knowing exactly what you

00:07:09.560 want to accomplish. I'm not going to drone on about this in this podcast today, because if you are

00:07:14.460 interested and, and you don't know how to do this, then I would suggest that you sign up for our free

00:07:20.440 course. It's called the 30 days to battle ready program. And if you go to order of man.com slash

00:07:25.880 battle ready, you can sign up for free. Now, I know I just told you that potentially signing up for

00:07:30.860 courses might be a distraction and it might, it might, if you already know what you need to be

00:07:36.640 doing, and you're using that as an excuse, not to go out and do what you know you should be doing.

00:07:40.900 But if you don't know what you should be doing, then the course is designed as an interactive

00:07:45.480 program. That isn't you just reading a bunch of information, but actually applying this stuff,

00:07:51.600 writing it down and then implementing action steps throughout the 30 days so that you can accomplish

00:07:56.300 more over a 90 day window. I mean, let's close out this year, which is just an insane year,

00:08:01.880 but let's close out this year with a bang. And if you need to figure out what you value and what's

00:08:06.180 important and what you should be working towards, so you can use that as a litmus test for everything

00:08:11.020 else that you're doing, then do the battle ready program, order of man.com slash battle ready.

00:08:16.160 It's free. It's an email course. It's going to take you, I would say 10 to 20 minutes per day.

00:08:21.640 Uh, and, and then you just get after it. So let's check it out. Okay. But number one, again,

00:08:26.680 find what you value. Very, very important because if you don't, you don't know how to measure anything

00:08:31.880 else against it. All right. Number two, I want to change these around a little bit. Here's a good

00:08:39.040 question. So I just pose this as a question for point. Number two is asking yourself constantly and

00:08:44.280 continually is whether or not what you're doing is serving you or if it's hindering you, right?

00:08:52.580 So step one is finding what you value and coming up with your goals and objectives. Then step number

00:08:56.700 two is asking yourself when it comes to focus is what I'm doing right now, this very minute,

00:09:01.680 listening to this podcast or working out or training or on a run or on a drive or whatever

00:09:06.900 it is you're doing is what you're doing right now, serving you. Is it moving you closer to your goals

00:09:13.240 and objectives, or is it moving you further away from those goals and objectives? That's a very

00:09:19.000 simple yet powerful question that you can use to analyze what you're doing in any given moment.

00:09:24.680 So for example, right now, I took some notes prior to hitting record on this podcast because I wanted

00:09:30.520 to be prepared. Uh, and now I'm recording. And then when I get done with this, I'll upload it.

00:09:35.480 And I've got Cody Lanham, who's our podcast editor who will then edit it. But I know that this is a

00:09:40.300 system that we've created and everything that I do in this system is serving me and my goals in some

00:09:45.920 capacity. My goal is to reach more men. My goal is to grow this platform, to grow this movement

00:09:51.840 internationally, uh, and to continue down the path of what we're doing here in this movement.

00:09:57.580 When I get done, I'll probably spend some time with my kids. Like I said, I've been hunting and

00:10:01.580 I've been away for the past week or so. So I'm going to spend the afternoon with my wife and my

00:10:06.080 children. And although that might not move me towards my work and career aspirations with this

00:10:11.760 movement, I have other goals. I have goals for being a great father and being present with my kids

00:10:17.340 and being present and there for my wife. And that's what I'm going to do. And I know that when I'm

00:10:21.080 spending time with them, it will move me closer to my goals and objectives with those important

00:10:26.840 relationships. Another example, uh, this earlier this morning, uh, we filled some, some store

00:10:32.480 orders. So we've got merchandise and stuff, including this new hat, by the way. So we've

00:10:36.420 got new merchandise and, uh, in our store. And, uh, my son and I did fulfilled the orders.

00:10:42.520 We didn't have very many today. So we got them cranked out and filled them. And I ran to the

00:10:45.560 post office and then I had to run some other errands. And, you know, normally I would just

00:10:49.000 go out and run those things and I would be quick and get it taken care of. Well, since I've been

00:10:52.660 gone, I decided to take my son along on the errands with me. So kill two birds with one stone.

00:10:57.260 Cause if I'm just running errands, it might not actually move me closer towards my objectives.

00:11:01.000 It might be a detraction from it, but by having him there, well, there you go. I get to build

00:11:06.240 and solidify the relationship I have with my son. So we call it task stacking, right? You

00:11:10.700 can stack some of these tasks up together to turn insignificant things that do need to

00:11:17.180 get done, but aren't really moving the needle in the right direction. You can stack those

00:11:21.360 with things that are so that you can actually make that a meaningful event because you want

00:11:26.080 to maximize your time. And guys, time is really the only thing that makes us all equal. I know

00:11:32.940 equality is a big thing in pop culture today. Like let's make everybody equal. Let's make

00:11:38.020 us all equal. Well, it's never going to happen because no two people are equal. We're not the

00:11:43.180 same. We have different skills and different experiences and different cultures and different

00:11:47.620 backgrounds and different beliefs. And we sabotage ourselves and we do things that move us in

00:11:52.220 the right direction, but none of us are equal of worth. Sure. Yeah. Of, of human potential.

00:11:58.800 Yes, absolutely. But equal as it comes to performance or the way that we show up. No, it's just not true.

00:12:04.400 But time, time is the factor that is equal for everybody. Now, some people know how to leverage

00:12:11.020 that time effectively, but we still only have the same 24 hours in a day has no different for you.

00:12:17.940 And it's no different for me. The men who are the most successful in their lives are the ones who

00:12:22.840 have learned to manage that time. Well, so your goal is to maximize time. And how much time do we

00:12:29.420 waste digging around on, on Netflix, watching the latest series of who knows what, uh, playing on our

00:12:35.360 phone. You know, you get that alert and tells you you're, you're 25% up this, this week on your phone

00:12:39.980 use. Okay. That's not actually moving the needle in the right direction because odds are you're

00:12:45.880 probably on Facebook or the Instagram and you're dinking around and waste a bunch of time. And it's

00:12:50.480 not serving you. So to reiterate point number two is asking yourself in all actions and in all ways,

00:12:56.900 and even thoughts, is this serving me? Is this helping me get to where I want to go? Which leads

00:13:02.920 you back to point number one, what is your goals, your dreams, your ambitions and desires?

00:13:06.340 All right. Number three, uh, you guys, you've got to plan out every single day.

00:13:12.540 You have to plan out your day. I cannot even begin to describe and tell you the amount of men,

00:13:17.740 the percentage of men who do no planning whatsoever for their day. I mean, they might have a calendar 0.61

00:13:23.480 and they know generally what needs to get done or what tasks or projects they're working on at work.

00:13:27.720 But outside of that, no planning whatsoever. And I know for me, some of the least successful times

00:13:34.420 in my life was when I was just kind of coasting, just going with wherever work told me to go and

00:13:40.320 whatever my wife told me to do. And, and I just felt like I was grinding, right? You're busy. I mean,

00:13:45.520 how many of you have got home from work and thought to yourself, man, I'm just so busy today,

00:13:49.960 but I don't feel like I got anything done. That's an indicator that you're not doing any planning,

00:13:54.580 that you're just a cog in the wheel. And in many ways you've made yourself that cog in the wheel.

00:14:00.260 You're just grinding and grinding and grinding and not getting anywhere. Okay. Because you're

00:14:05.720 not deliberate. You're not intentional. You're not mapping out your day. You're not planning what

00:14:10.840 needs to get done. You're not building in buffers so that you can focus on other more meaningful

00:14:15.500 work. I mean, that's what I started to do in my financial planning practice. I would just grind

00:14:19.640 and grind and grind and grind and wonder why I couldn't get ahead. And it wasn't until I learned

00:14:24.980 to carve out time every single day to plan what I was going to be doing when I was going to be doing

00:14:32.060 it, how I was going to move myself, what I was going to do with buffers. If I had a no-show or a

00:14:35.900 client who didn't show up, what was I going to do in that time? How is it going to improve myself?

00:14:40.040 And by going through that process process, I was able to get out of that rat race of just 0.99

00:14:46.120 on the wheel, just spinning, but not getting anywhere. And I know so many of you feel that way.

00:14:51.940 And it's because you're not planning out your day. I've got my battle planner. I have this right

00:14:56.240 here. I've got this notepad sitting right here that I take notes on and I've got notepads on my

00:15:01.880 phone. I'm constantly taking notes and journaling and documenting and just processing all of this

00:15:07.520 information, but I've got time designated to do this. So when do I do it? Well, I do it every morning

00:15:12.560 when I come into the office. In fact, I wrote down because I'm going to be gone next week as well.

00:15:17.060 I wrote down what podcasts need to be done. And I've got one, two, three, four, five, six podcasts.

00:15:21.160 This is the second of six. And I've got to get that done in the next three days.

00:15:25.080 And because I've got to get that done in the next three days and I've documented it all.

00:15:28.180 And I know, and I've planned it out. There's not as much stress. I can get these done.

00:15:32.220 I know what days I'm going to, I'm going to do two today, two on Tuesday, two on Wednesday.

00:15:35.940 That's when I'm recording this podcast. And then Thursday I'm, I'm good. I'm ready to go.

00:15:40.460 Okay. So you've got to plan this stuff out guys. If you want to look at the battle planner,

00:15:46.040 look at the battle planner. If you just want to get a blank notepad, like I have right here

00:15:49.060 and just take notes, then do that, but get it out of your head, get it onto paper, document it,

00:15:54.600 put it in your calendar. I don't care, whatever, but use something to plan out your day and secondary

00:15:59.120 to that. So I guess this would be 0.3 B maybe instead of three a is end your day. Like, how are

00:16:04.840 you ending your day? Are you recapping? Are you going through and, and, and, and looking what you

00:16:10.680 accomplished and looking what wasn't accomplished? Are you rolling over your tasks from one day to the

00:16:15.220 next? Cause if you're not doing that, you're not being efficient. You're not maximizing your time.

00:16:20.100 You're wasting your time. And you might feel like, oh, I got a lot done, but imagine what you could

00:16:24.840 get done. If you plan it out, you had a schedule and you were relentless in pursuing that schedule

00:16:30.880 on your own terms. How much more effective and productive could you be with the limited hours

00:16:35.520 that we have? This is what it takes to focus. And yeah, you won't have so much time to act

00:16:41.100 because you're taking some of the time away from action to plan. But I'll tell you what,

00:16:45.400 the remaining time that you do have to act is going to be that much more effective

00:16:48.920 because it's like, it's a sniper, right? Instead of a shotgun blast and you hope you hit something.

00:16:54.600 It's like, it's sniper. Like this is what I need to get done. This is what I need to accomplish.

00:16:59.440 And then you focus all of your attention and energy on that task at hand. And you're so much more

00:17:06.420 effective than just the scattergun approach, hoping that something sticks and lands and works out.

00:17:11.100 Sniper, like focus on your priorities, on what's important, plan out the day and act.

00:17:17.360 All right. The next point guys that I want to make, and this is very important

00:17:20.200 is you've got to have a ruthless adherence to your plan and your calendar. And initially you're going

00:17:26.700 to have to probably risk being maybe perceived as a bit of a jerk. I'm not telling you to be a jerk. 1.00

00:17:34.560 I'm just saying that you might be perceived this way because people aren't going to initially 0.99

00:17:39.680 understand why you're all of a sudden starting to stick to a plan. So now when people call me,

00:17:47.060 I should say it this way before, when people would reach out or call me or email me or text and say,

00:17:52.000 Hey, I need your time or attention or energy. I would say, good, let's do it right now.

00:17:56.240 And then I would give away any momentum that I had throughout my day on, on the actions that were

00:18:01.680 important to me. I'd give them to other people and I would make their problems, my priorities.

00:18:07.500 And I've changed that. If someone wants to reach out, I'm happy to help in whatever way that I can,

00:18:12.920 as long as it's within the confines of the boundaries that I've established based on what

00:18:16.880 I'm sharing with you regarding focus, but it's on my time. So if you want coaching or you need to

00:18:23.800 answer, ask a question, or you need a half an hour of my time or whatever it may be,

00:18:28.480 it's going to be on my time. I can't make your problems my priority. Now I will get to it as

00:18:36.420 quickly as I possibly can, but I'm not going to shift my schedule around endlessly in order to

00:18:41.740 appease or make things work for you. I just can't do that. And yeah, that comes with being busier and

00:18:47.160 being more productive. But as soon as you start to learn some of these skills and you become

00:18:51.580 ruthlessly committed to adhering to your schedule and adhering to your calendar and adhering to your

00:18:58.360 own goals and ambitions and not letting people derail you or get you off track or help you lose

00:19:05.280 your focus, the sooner you're going to start realizing some of the success that you guys

00:19:10.060 have been talking about wanting to accomplish now for years and years and potentially even decades.

00:19:16.300 It's because you're letting other people dictate the way that you're going to spend your time and

00:19:21.280 attention and energy. Now, granted, if my wife called me up and said, Hey, you know,

00:19:25.980 we've got a problem with one of the kids and your son broke his leg. Okay. I got to shift some things

00:19:31.060 around, right? Because that's a priority, but there's other situations and circumstances where

00:19:37.120 I might tell my wife, you know, I can't go run that errand today because I have this agenda and

00:19:41.380 this plan. If you want that done, you're either going to have to do that yourself, or I can do it

00:19:46.780 this evening or tomorrow at two or whatever, but I'm not going to drop everything for any little

00:19:52.860 possible thing that might come up because I'm focused. This is what I'm on right now. I'm doing

00:19:58.060 my podcast right now, or I'm responding to emails or, uh, you know, I'm writing, writing a portion of

00:20:03.140 a book or whatever. And so I can't not focus on that right now, but I will come to it, but it's

00:20:09.180 going to be on my time, not necessarily on yours. All right. That's number four, ruthless adherence

00:20:16.000 to your calendar, to your planning, to your goals and ambitions. Number five, last point here, guys,

00:20:21.840 you've got to evaluate this stuff. You've got to evaluate. So when I was in the military,

00:20:27.540 I was in an artillery unit. And what we would do is we would get, uh, enemy positions or reports

00:20:34.120 from forward observers. These are guys who are observing enemy positions and they would call

00:20:40.240 that into us. And then we'd take that information and we'd disseminate that information down to the

00:20:43.780 guns and they would fire. And then those forward observers would tell us the effects

00:20:47.300 it worked or it didn't work. And then based on that, then we would disseminate new information

00:20:53.000 if needed to the guns and they would repeat the process. So the forward observers were very

00:20:57.260 important because they're the ones who are giving the, thus the initial Intel on what these enemy

00:21:02.700 positions are. So we could make a correct assessment and we could fire or not, or what

00:21:07.700 charges we use and everything else. They would also let us know if we were effective.

00:21:12.600 And without those forward observers, we could shoot and fire all day long,

00:21:17.340 but without those forward observers, we have no idea whether or not we're being effective.

00:21:23.120 So this is what men do in their lives. They act. Oh, just like I said earlier, I was so busy today.

00:21:29.360 I was so busy. Oh, it was a good day. I was busy. Well, busy doesn't mean productive.

00:21:35.300 Busy doesn't mean effective. Busy doesn't mean that you're moving the needle or you're accomplishing

00:21:40.100 your goals. It just means you were doing a lot of stuff. So I don't know about you, but my, I have

00:21:45.600 no, no interest or desire in simply being busy. Now I like being busy with productive work,

00:21:52.320 but that's not about busyness. That's about productivity. I'd rather be efficient. I'd rather

00:21:58.240 be effective. And in order to know if what I'm doing is working, I've got to evaluate. I've got to

00:22:03.440 have those forward observers who are reporting and saying, yes, this worked or no, that didn't work.

00:22:10.240 So you need to adjust fire. And we did a podcast probably years ago at this point on adjusting

00:22:14.560 fire and why that's so important. But guys, if you weren't going back again, this goes back to my

00:22:19.740 previous point at the end of every day, at the end of every 90 day battle planning cycle and looking

00:22:26.740 at what you accomplished and looking what didn't get done. If you're not evaluating that stuff,

00:22:31.260 what a shame. Cause you actually might find out that what you're doing is working really well.

00:22:37.420 Good. You want to know that because you need to replicate that process.

00:22:40.600 And you're also going to find out what doesn't work so well. So you can scrap that, incorporate

00:22:45.780 new ideas and new information and new ways of doing things, new procedures and things like that.

00:22:50.560 So that you can be more effective the next go around. But again, you can't do this. If you don't

00:22:54.920 have this ending process of every day, can't do this. If you don't know what you value,

00:22:58.920 what's important to you, you can't do it. If, if you're not asking yourself whether or not things

00:23:03.180 are serving you throughout the day, these steps are very important, but at the end, you've got to

00:23:07.480 evaluate it. Did this work? The next question, why or why not? The next question, what will I do now?

00:23:17.360 Simple. Did this work? Why or why not? What will I do now? There's three questions that you can ask

00:23:24.580 after every conversation, every podcast, every book that you read, every conversation that you

00:23:30.020 have with your wife, every task that you tackle at work. And in every circumstance and situation,

00:23:34.920 did this work or what, excuse me, what did I get accomplished? Why or why not? And what's my next

00:23:42.080 move? Very simple guys. So there's a five-step framework for maintaining focus. When everybody

00:23:49.300 wants your attention, your wife, your kids, me, the media, politicians, entertainers, athletes,

00:23:56.880 everybody wants your attention. And look, I'm not one of those guys who says, well, you should never

00:24:02.480 watch sports or you should never play video games. I have no problem with that. It's all taken in stride.

00:24:10.200 And as long as you're accomplishing what you're accomplishing, but you've got to ask yourself

00:24:13.460 whether or not it's moving the needle. It's not up to me. It's up to you. So I'm not telling you not

00:24:18.880 to do those things. I'm asking if you're looking at it objectively and asking whether or not it's

00:24:24.040 serving you. And if it is great, if it isn't consider doing something different, consider using

00:24:31.280 that time more effectively, excuse me. So let me recap these. We'll call it a day. Get your weekend.

00:24:38.300 By the way, as we're coming into the weekend, this is a perfect time to start mapping this stuff out.

00:24:42.560 So come Monday, you hit the ground running. All right, here we go. Number one, find out what you value

00:24:47.840 and what's important to you and what your objectives are. If you don't know how to do that,

00:24:52.200 go to order of man.com slash battle ready. Number two, ask yourself in all activities and all

00:24:58.220 encounters and everything that you're doing throughout the day. Does this serve me? Is

00:25:01.320 this helping me or is this hindering me? Then act accordingly. Number three, plan out your day

00:25:06.540 and put a cap on the end of your day. So you know what you want to accomplish. You know what you got

00:25:11.900 accomplished. And then you can roll over the remainder for the next day. Number four, ruthless adherence

00:25:17.280 to the calendar and systems and processes that you have in place. Do not allow other people's 1.00

00:25:21.540 priorities to become your problems. Sometimes other people's priorities are your problems. For

00:25:27.440 example, the health and safety and wellbeing of my wife and children is a priority of mine,

00:25:32.960 but somebody who needs to have an answer, a question answered in an email, although I would like to get

00:25:42.020 back to it. And I likely will. That's not a priority of mine. So we have to prioritize those

00:25:47.340 things. And we don't necessarily make those priorities of other people are immediate issues.

00:25:52.960 So be wary of that. And then the fifth component evaluate just like those Ford observers I talked

00:25:58.820 about, by the way, the Ford observers are your evaluation process. I use an after action review.

00:26:04.560 I gave you the three questions that I would suggest you use. What did you get done? Why or why not?

00:26:11.900 What's your path moving forward? All right, guys on the heels, on the back of the U S elections

00:26:17.520 and the chaos and pandemonium that I'm sure is in the midst of ensuing. As we speak, I want you to keep

00:26:27.820 your eye on the prize. I want you to stay focused. I want you to stay motivated. I want you to focus on the

00:26:33.340 things that you can control, not the things that are outside of your control. And I want you to

00:26:37.840 accomplish all that you want to accomplish in your marriage, your relationship with your kids,

00:26:42.100 your friends, your families, your colleagues, your coworkers, your health, your wellness, your bank

00:26:46.360 account, your business, everything. I want you to achieve on all levels. And this is a very simple

00:26:50.920 step, a framework for making all of that a reality. All right, guys, get out there, get to work.

00:26:56.720 We'll be back next week. Until then, go out there, take action, become a man you are meant to be.

00:27:01.560 Thank you for listening to the Order of Man podcast. If you're ready to take charge of your life

00:27:06.140 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 06, 2020

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