Order of Man - How a Man Builds Sovereignty in 2025 ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES

00:00:00.000 If you're blaming your financial or economic status or position on who's the president,

00:00:06.720 I mean, really, how much say do you have over that?

00:00:09.480 People who build massive amounts of wealth can do it under a liberal president or a conservative president.

00:00:15.620 It doesn't really matter because they find a way to make it work because they're eliminating excuses.

00:00:20.340 It's time for you to go out there and get after it and stop blaming the things that aren't working on other people

00:00:25.520 and start taking it upon yourself.

00:00:27.460 That is what leads to sovereignty.

00:00:30.860 You're a man of action.

00:00:32.520 You live life to the fullest.

00:00:33.980 Embrace your fears and boldly chart your own path.

00:00:36.920 When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time.

00:00:40.280 Every time.

00:00:41.380 You are not easily deterred or defeated.

00:00:43.680 Rugged.

00:00:44.460 Resilient.

00:00:45.460 Strong.

00:00:46.420 This is your life.

00:00:47.520 This is who you are.

00:00:48.920 This is who you will become.

00:00:50.660 At the end of the day, and after all is said and done, you can call yourself a man.

00:00:55.600 Gentlemen, as of the release of this podcast, it is January 3rd, 2025.

00:01:02.780 So we are 48 hours into the new year.

00:01:07.580 And first things first, you're listening to this podcast, so that's good.

00:01:11.200 Hopefully you have a desire to grow and build yourself as a man, whether you've been here for years and years,

00:01:16.360 or this might even be your very first episode, our job, my job, is to give you all of the tools necessary to achieve more in your life.

00:01:24.820 So you're joining us at just the right time.

00:01:27.560 Today I'm going to talk with you about how a man gains or regains his sovereignty when he lets it go.

00:01:33.880 So, and sovereignty, guys, is free from the influence of other people.

00:01:40.960 It's free from financial burden and the stress and the weight that comes with owing money to people.

00:01:47.180 It's free of health hardships that are unnecessary because you're overweight, out of shape, not getting sleep, not eating the right foods.

00:01:55.460 It's freedom from ensuring that you're not swayed by what I call the doctrine of popular culture that would have you slip into a pattern of degeneracy,

00:02:06.380 whether that's addiction or pornography or stepping out on your significant other or any other vice that you may have fallen prey to.

00:02:15.440 My job, I consider it, is to help you become the most sovereign version of yourself.

00:02:21.980 In 2016, I wrote a book called Sovereignty, The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Men.

00:02:26.620 And that's what I really want more of us, millions of us, to be thinking about as we continue into 2025.

00:02:33.860 How do we regain our sovereignty in all ways?

00:02:36.700 So I'm going to give you some tips today and some things to consider.

00:02:39.720 And this will help you regain or gain, maybe even for the first time, your sovereignty in your life.

00:02:45.640 So let's talk about it.

00:02:46.400 Number one is have a vision and set goals.

00:02:49.300 Because if you don't know where you're going, there's no way that you could ever attain anything meaningful or significant in your life.

00:02:57.500 Now, you might actually have victories.

00:02:59.600 You might actually have a few wins.

00:03:01.920 But if you do, it's purely happenstance.

00:03:04.420 It's not something that you can replicate over and over again.

00:03:07.760 It's just something that you've stumbled into.

00:03:11.160 And I'm not going to say you got lucky necessarily.

00:03:13.580 Maybe you've made a few right choices.

00:03:14.980 But the problem is you can't replicate it.

00:03:17.160 And when I was working in my financial planning practice, I got some mentoring and coaching early on.

00:03:23.840 And one of my mentors said, your first appointment, your first potential client appointment should always be very similar.

00:03:32.980 And the reason is, is because you need to be able to determine what works in those meetings to convert prospects into clients and what doesn't.

00:03:39.920 If you're haphazard and you're random and you're just kind of winging it or shooting from the hip, the ability to define what is helping you win is hard to do and to define what is holding you back.

00:03:55.380 So the first thing that you need to do if you have not done this exercise is to really sit down and just think about what you want for the year.

00:04:03.400 And you can extend this out if you want to look at it over your lifetime or the next 10 years.

00:04:07.540 But ask yourself, what kind of financial position do I need to be in or want to be in?

00:04:12.240 What does my body and my physique look like?

00:04:14.540 How am I feeling physically?

00:04:16.460 What is my connection with God and my spiritual side of my life?

00:04:20.240 And what is the family dynamic?

00:04:22.960 Who am I leading?

00:04:23.740 How am I leading?

00:04:25.020 Really write these things down.

00:04:26.480 I have this journal right here.

00:04:28.300 It's kind of buried in there under a few things.

00:04:30.320 But I have this journal that I write in just about every day.

00:04:34.280 And constantly, I'm visualizing and thinking about what do I want today?

00:04:39.040 What do I want for 2025?

00:04:41.300 And once you start thinking about the vision, and you can do that in a lot of different ways.

00:04:45.160 You can write down, again, your aspirations, or you can write down the type of person you want to be.

00:04:51.100 You know, for example, I show up powerfully for the people I love.

00:04:54.460 I am not stressed in my life because I know I don't have any creditors chasing me down and trying to get me to make payments because I've paid all those things.

00:05:03.780 I'm working diligently and hard.

00:05:05.780 That way I can create financial abundance and prosperity for me and my family.

00:05:09.200 I'm able to enjoy the vacations and trips and experiences and hunts that I want to participate in.

00:05:16.580 When somebody comes to me with a problem, I don't take on their problem as my own, but I help them work through that problem they're having.

00:05:23.900 When I'm tempted to stray from my plan or make bad choices, I'm reminded of this vision and my goals and how those decisions, bad decisions, impact me negatively and also impact negatively the people around me.

00:05:38.840 These are just some ideas that you might incorporate into your vision, but the most important thing is to ensure that it is emotionally charged.

00:05:47.780 That when you get that thing out and you read it, you might even get chills on your arms or feel a little teary-eyed or a little emotional.

00:05:57.280 And that's how powerful it needs to be because you are going to be tempted with some challenges this year.

00:06:02.840 You might have financial hardship, medical diagnosis, breakups, breakdowns in relationships.

00:06:10.780 I mean, you name it.

00:06:11.700 Any one of those things can happen to any one of us at any single time.

00:06:16.040 So you need to make sure that you're dealing with it before it happens so you know how you're going to handle and conduct yourself.

00:06:23.620 And then once you have that vision, now you can start backing into what your objectives are.

00:06:28.520 Some people call them goals.

00:06:29.600 I call them objectives.

00:06:30.540 Your objectives are exactly what you're going to do or accomplish in order to realize that vision.

00:06:37.520 I just talked with one of our guys inside of the Iron Council and he has this vision over the next five to ten years to start homesteading.

00:06:45.940 And that's a little bit of a ways out.

00:06:47.900 So what can we do now to ensure that in five years he can realize that vision or that dream he has for himself?

00:06:53.940 Well, it's getting himself in a good financial position, stashing some money aside so he can put a down payment on a nice piece of property, a nice piece of land with a little house on it.

00:07:03.500 It might even be learning how to garden or looking into homeschooling his children or looking into how to raise cattle or goats or chickens and other livestock.

00:07:16.160 These are things that he can do now.

00:07:18.280 So his objectives, I typically work in 90-day segments.

00:07:23.380 So I work in quarterly segments for the year and I focus on some of the key areas that I'll talk with you about today.

00:07:29.980 But I create those objectives for those key areas for 90 days.

00:07:33.260 And it's all driving me towards the vision I have for myself down the road.

00:07:37.780 But 90 days, I've noticed, is a short enough time frame to keep me engaged in it.

00:07:43.780 If it goes out much longer than that, it's more easy to lose interest in it and not maintain that core.

00:07:51.060 So 90 days.

00:07:52.700 But it's also long enough that you can actually begin to see results.

00:07:57.020 So if I said, what do I want to do in the next two weeks?

00:07:59.000 I mean, unless I got lucky, there's not a whole lot that I can produce that's meaningful and significant in a 14-day window.

00:08:06.680 I can put myself on the right path, but I can't achieve a whole lot in that 14 days.

00:08:10.820 But in 90 days, you better believe I can achieve quite a lot.

00:08:15.380 And then what I do at the end of the 90 days is I either continue on that course of action, if it's working and driving me towards my vision.

00:08:22.520 Or if it's not, I do what I call an after-action review.

00:08:26.000 And then that will allow me to pivot and change and make adjustments to my objectives in order to either get me back on path or to find a different path that will be more effective.

00:08:36.920 So that's a quick overview, but you have to have a vision and you have to have objectives.

00:08:41.960 Again, your vision is long-term, either or a list of things that you want to have or be over the next 12 months, 5 years, 10 years, or how you personally want to show up, the characteristics that you want to exhibit and portray in your life.

00:09:02.520 And then you back up into your quarterly objectives.

00:09:07.820 So that's number one.

00:09:08.860 All right, number two, guys, train hard, eat clean, and sleep well.

00:09:14.620 I did a fitness challenge with our guys inside the Iron Council over the past, it's about six months, six, seven months or so.

00:09:21.060 And some guys did very well, and some guys did not do as well as I thought they would have done.

00:09:26.660 But the guys that did well did these three things.

00:09:29.800 They trained hard, they slept, excuse me, they ate clean, and they slept well.

00:09:35.240 If you can get those three things right, you don't need to worry about what supplement you should use and what biohacking mechanism is going to be best for your situation and doing ice baths and sauna and all that stuff.

00:09:48.680 And I'm not saying, by the way, that any of that is bad, but that's ancillary to the three things I just shared with you, which is, again, train hard, eat clean, and sleep well.

00:10:00.000 That is the key to fitness.

00:10:02.160 There's no HCG diets, if you remember that when that was happening.

00:10:07.040 What's the other one now?

00:10:08.200 Semi-glutide, I think is how it's pronounced, where it's a shot and it just makes you nauseous anytime you eat.

00:10:13.880 Like, that's not the way to, that's not healthy.

00:10:16.320 You might lose weight, but you're not actually being healthy.

00:10:20.260 I want you to be healthy as men.

00:10:22.100 And again, this ties back into our sovereignty.

00:10:24.180 If we're healthy, the odds of us having to visit our doctors, the odds of us getting diagnosed with some sort of heart condition or being obese or running into diabetes is significantly reduced.

00:10:37.020 And those medical causes or medical problems are at the top, always the top of the list when it comes to premature death, heart problems typically, which is a direct reflection in many cases of being overweight and obese.

00:10:54.720 So, if you train hard, okay, you eat clean and you sleep well, that's going to eliminate 90% of your problems.

00:11:04.820 What does training hard look like?

00:11:06.500 I don't know what it looks like for you.

00:11:08.540 For me, I do strength training.

00:11:10.460 And strength training has proven over time to be the best way to not only build muscle, but to reduce your body fat percentage.

00:11:19.300 It's the way your metabolism works.

00:11:21.640 It's the way you're working when you're actually lifting.

00:11:26.340 Excuse me.

00:11:27.100 It's the way your body metabolizes after the fact.

00:11:30.160 And that is, in my experience, the best way to get healthy, to lift heavy weights.

00:11:36.200 And I do that six days a week.

00:11:38.020 You might do it four days a week.

00:11:39.640 A lot of trainers that I've talked with say anywhere from three to five days per week.

00:11:44.480 I do six days per week because it's not only about my health, my physical health, it's about my mindset and mentality.

00:11:50.640 In fact, when I'm done with this podcast, I'm going to go get a workout in.

00:11:54.800 Eating clean, we all know what that looks like.

00:11:57.520 Get rid of the processed sugars.

00:11:59.540 Get rid of the processed food.

00:12:01.760 For me, it's eating high protein.

00:12:04.400 I try to eat, I don't always hit this, but I try to eat one gram of protein per ideal body weight on a daily basis.

00:12:11.740 So for me, that's about 180 to 100, I'd say 185 to 195 grams of protein per day.

00:12:18.340 That is my ideal body weight.

00:12:19.880 I've got about seven pounds to go before I get there, but that is my ideal body weight.

00:12:24.520 So that's what I do for protein, and protein is first for me.

00:12:27.580 Like, that is the first thing.

00:12:29.220 From there, I get vegetables, a lot of different vegetables.

00:12:31.480 Last night, my girlfriend and I went to a nice restaurant just outside of Zion National Park, and it was a little steakhouse.

00:12:41.120 And I had the seared ahi tuna, shrimp, mixed vegetables, and sautéed mushrooms.

00:12:50.340 And that's all I had.

00:12:51.580 And it was filling, and it was delicious, and it was healthy-ish.

00:12:55.120 When you go to a restaurant, you know, they put sauces and things like that that aren't necessarily healthy, but healthy-ish.

00:13:00.680 And then every once in a while, I'll mix in rice.

00:13:05.060 I try the sweet potato thing.

00:13:06.800 I don't really like sweet potatoes all that much, but they are growing on me.

00:13:10.900 But it might be a potato here or there, but definitely rice mixed in as well.

00:13:14.720 And then I try to drink a lot of water.

00:13:16.180 I do drink Diet Coke, and I also do enjoy a Red Bull on a daily basis.

00:13:22.620 So I guess there's my process stuff, but it's 90%, 85%, 90% dialed in.

00:13:29.020 It's pretty simple.

00:13:30.280 It's not real complicated.

00:13:31.580 And people say, oh, it's expensive, or it's hard, or this or that.

00:13:33.940 It's not.

00:13:34.420 You just need to make a decision to do it.

00:13:36.600 And once you make that decision, it just takes consistency until you build reps.

00:13:40.880 And one thing you'll notice, at least I do, is when I eat clean, let's say I have a lunch, a clean lunch, like I just shared with you.

00:13:47.600 So my afternoon, my work afternoon, and even my afternoon with my kids goes so much better than if I go to Burger King and I get a double bacon cheeseburger of some sorts with a large fry and a Diet Coke.

00:14:04.600 Like, don't get me wrong, it's really good, but I don't feel great after that.

00:14:09.220 But I eat it anyways because it's all about that really quick fix of, oh, this is delicious, and that taste rather than how is it actually making you feel.

00:14:18.080 So document that and see how you feel when you eat certain foods.

00:14:21.540 And then sleeping well, most people will recommend seven to eight hours.

00:14:25.560 I'm about seven hours.

00:14:26.640 If I can get seven hours, I feel energetic, I feel alive, I wake up on time, my alarm usually doesn't even go off because I wake up a few minutes before my alarm even goes off, which is around 5.30.

00:14:41.400 And I'm up, ready to get after it because I've slept well.

00:14:44.900 And there's a lot of other podcasts on how to sleep well, but you sleep in a dark environment, shut down the electronics before bed, keep the thermostat around 68 degrees, and find a mattress that's suitable for you.

00:14:58.160 That's about it.

00:14:59.440 This is not hard stuff.

00:15:00.580 People like to make it complicated because then they can sell you their programs and their wares and their expertise and their books.

00:15:06.700 You don't need that.

00:15:07.780 If you do what I just told you, you're going to be 95% locked in on your physical health.

00:15:14.160 And the rest, you can start supplementing and biohacking if you enjoy that sort of thing.

00:15:18.680 But a lot of you just won't need it if you do that.

00:15:21.360 All right, number three, eliminate the excuses.

00:15:25.560 Guys, this is a big one.

00:15:27.340 I talk with so many men every single week, every single day about what's working well, what isn't working well.

00:15:36.120 And a common theme that I hear among many men who aren't achieving what they want to achieve is that it's somebody else's fault or problem.

00:15:44.500 My marriage isn't going well because my wife fill in the blank. 1.00

00:15:48.100 My business isn't good because my boss is blank.

00:15:51.600 My financial situation isn't great because the president or the economy is blank.

00:15:57.000 It's always somebody else.

00:15:59.160 But you know who I don't hear excuses from?

00:16:01.240 The guys who are actually succeeding.

00:16:02.620 The guys who are out there tearing it up, they're achieving their dreams, they're reaching their vision, they're hitting their objectives, they've got their nutrition and their sleep and their training schedule dialed in.

00:16:14.060 Those guys don't complain. 0.99

00:16:16.160 And you might wonder, are they not complaining because everything's good in their life or is everything good in their life because they're not complaining?

00:16:23.460 I would argue it's the latter.

00:16:24.740 That even when things are bad, those people still don't complain.

00:16:30.720 They dust themselves off.

00:16:32.440 They pick themselves up, like it says in the Order of Man intro for the podcast, and they go right back at it and they fix the problem.

00:16:38.980 Now, that's not to say that we need to turn a blind eye to people who might take advantage or manipulate us or hurt us in some way.

00:16:44.720 But you've got to get rid of those excuses.

00:16:49.480 Anytime you find yourself justifying performance, justifying the way that you feel about yourself, saying like, oh, well, you know, I was tired or I deserve this or I deserve that or everybody this and woe is me.

00:17:04.580 Those are all justifications for underperformance.

00:17:07.260 And that's a good indicator that you're starting to make a lot of excuses.

00:17:11.560 The problem with excuses is it doesn't lead to sovereignty.

00:17:14.540 It actually leads to reliance on other people.

00:17:18.020 See, if I make an excuse that my relationship is poor because my girlfriend is blank, then I have to just sit back and wait and hope that she changes in order for this relationship to work.

00:17:28.780 That's not a great way to go about relationships.

00:17:31.540 If, on the other hand, I say, well, here's some things that I'm deficient at.

00:17:34.880 Here's some things that I can work on.

00:17:36.320 Here's some ways that I can improve.

00:17:38.720 Then, lo and behold, the relationship tends to get better.

00:17:41.780 Not in all cases, but in most cases, that's true. 0.99

00:17:46.140 If you're blaming your financial or economic status or position on who's the president, I mean, really, how much say do you have over that?

00:17:56.300 You get one vote every four years.

00:17:59.720 And at the state level, you get a few more.

00:18:01.860 But I'm just talking about, you know, in a presidential election.

00:18:04.460 So you get very few votes to determine who is going to be your elected representative.

00:18:09.400 So how much control do you really have over that?

00:18:12.400 On the other hand, those people who build massive amounts of wealth can do it under a liberal president or a conservative president.

00:18:20.740 It doesn't really matter because they find a way to make it work because they're eliminating excuses.

00:18:25.560 And again, leading back to sovereignty, they're not relying on who the president is.

00:18:30.000 Imagine that.

00:18:30.680 Imagine saying, well, you know, in the next four years, I'm not going to be able to do anything.

00:18:33.420 What a waste of time.

00:18:36.220 That's like, what, 5% of your, well, it's probably less than that, 2.5% of your life?

00:18:43.520 Just waiting for a new president?

00:18:47.540 Or waiting for your boss to change his mind to a 55, 60-year-old man and you think he's going to change all of a sudden because you're not satisfied in your career?

00:18:57.000 It's time for you to go out there and get after it and stop blaming the things that aren't working on other people and start taking it upon yourself.

00:19:04.160 That is what leads to sovereignty.

00:19:06.440 Next, number four, tapping into the spiritual realm.

00:19:10.000 I have found and I've interviewed, gosh, over 550 highly successful men and women at this point

00:19:16.740 that those individuals who succeed have a longer-term vision for their lives and what their purpose on this earth is than those who are not successful.

00:19:30.440 Generally, I find that to be true.

00:19:31.800 And I'm not saying all of them are believers, by the way, but they see themselves in a very long-term perspective and, in many cases, an eternal perspective.

00:19:40.020 So, the power of that is that they might lose a battle because they make a good choice and decide to do something right.

00:19:49.740 Maybe they don't make as much money.

00:19:51.120 Maybe they get thrown under the bus.

00:19:52.540 Maybe they lose a relationship.

00:19:54.440 There's a lot of things that could happen in the micro if you make those right choices.

00:19:58.960 But in the macro, over the long haul, those people tend to do better.

00:20:04.040 And I think that's why it's so important to have this spiritual component of your life.

00:20:09.120 And not only that, it represents an unwavering litmus test against how you can measure your life.

00:20:19.160 You know, for example, I'm a Christian, so I believe in Christ.

00:20:21.920 And so, if I follow what He is doing and I follow His example and I follow His gospel,

00:20:27.720 then I will be able to make choices that are more aligned with something that is going to be absolutely, unequivocally good for me and good for the people around me.

00:20:39.100 But if I don't have that eternal perspective and I don't have that spiritual guidance,

00:20:45.540 really, I mean, it doesn't matter what I do.

00:20:47.820 I get to create my own moral compass.

00:20:50.220 And I don't think that's always the best way to go because we're compromised as human beings.

00:20:54.620 I talk about the natural man sometimes.

00:20:58.320 We're lazy.

00:20:59.360 We're immediate gratification.

00:21:01.880 We want the results without the efforts.

00:21:04.400 We'll lie.

00:21:04.960 We'll steal.

00:21:05.520 We'll cheat.

00:21:06.000 We'll do whatever we can to get out ahead and get ours, even at the expense of other people.

00:21:11.040 It's only a righteous moral code that keeps us doing the right things.

00:21:18.200 And that's why it's so important to tap into that spiritual realm.

00:21:21.300 And not to mention, life is hard.

00:21:24.620 So if you can pray with God or open your scriptures and find some problems or solutions to your problems, that seems pretty worth it to me.

00:21:34.520 And again, to go back to the sovereignty thing, I'm no longer dictating my actions on what other worldly people would tell me to do.

00:21:43.460 And you can see it.

00:21:46.340 You can see it in culture.

00:21:47.720 It's just degeneracy.

00:21:49.880 And in a lot of ways, it's gross.

00:21:52.000 And it's unrighteous for sure.

00:21:53.480 And I'm not saying I'm above that.

00:21:55.020 I make mistakes all the time.

00:21:56.460 And I have.

00:21:56.860 And I've been vocal about those things when I do make those mistakes.

00:21:59.420 But this gets me back on track faster and allows me not to worry about what so-and-so is saying or what the tide of culture is going towards.

00:22:07.580 It's that eternal perspective unwavering does not move.

00:22:10.280 Next, guys, and this is the former financial advisor in me speaking up here, tighten up your finances.

00:22:17.640 You've got to tighten up your finances.

00:22:19.960 You cannot allow yourselves to be a slave to the banks or the financial institutions that just want to keep you under their thumb.

00:22:27.320 You have to break free from those shackles.

00:22:29.140 And it's hard if you're strapped with tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of debt.

00:22:34.960 It's hard to do.

00:22:36.800 It's supposed to be hard.

00:22:38.300 It's designed to be hard.

00:22:40.320 Those financial institutions do not want you out of debt.

00:22:43.540 They want you borrowing money at high interest rates and paying them back very slowly over long periods of time.

00:22:49.980 That's what they want.

00:22:50.680 I can't remember who said it, but some people, and I'm butchering this phrase, but something like poor people have interest working against them. 0.74

00:23:03.320 Rich people have interest working for them.

00:23:05.600 So you've got to get out of that poor mindset of using interest or borrowing other people's money and paying high levels of interest.

00:23:13.540 So here's the hierarchy in how you manage your finances.

00:23:16.400 Number one is a budget.

00:23:18.640 All right.

00:23:19.200 You have to have a budget.

00:23:20.940 You have to know how much money is coming in and how much money is going out and where exactly it's coming from and where exactly it's leaving.

00:23:28.480 Men have an incredible ability to overestimate our own performance and overestimate how well we're doing even financially.

00:23:36.600 But then when you actually start looking at the numbers, most people have no clue of where their money's going.

00:23:42.320 No clue at all.

00:23:43.360 They don't know how much money is coming in.

00:23:44.880 They think it's more than it actually is.

00:23:46.460 And they have no clue about where the money's going.

00:23:48.320 They think it's less than it's actually going out.

00:23:50.680 So sit down, write out a budget, and adjust it.

00:23:55.600 Sometimes I've seen people who are like, I don't know, because of this and this.

00:23:58.500 Just do what you can right now.

00:24:01.860 And then you can adjust your budget down the road.

00:24:05.340 But the first one is a budget.

00:24:07.080 Second, we start hammering that debt.

00:24:09.500 We got to get rid of that debt.

00:24:11.260 That is crippling you.

00:24:12.360 If you've got $20,000 of debt, and you've got $20,000 in savings, I'm not suggesting you do this.

00:24:18.180 I'm just using this as an example.

00:24:20.280 This is not financial advice, as they'd say.

00:24:22.560 If you have $20,000 in debt, $20,000 in savings, the debt is at 8%.

00:24:28.480 The savings is at 0.5%.

00:24:31.860 Well, I can save you 7.5% on your money just by taking the $20,000 of savings and applying it towards the $20,000 of debt.

00:24:43.380 Now, again, I'm not saying to do that because it might not be prudent based on other savings you have in your financial situation.

00:24:48.880 But I'm just using that as an example.

00:24:51.260 Paying off debt is a huge wealth booster for you.

00:24:55.080 And it might not get you ahead, but at least it gets you back to break even.

00:24:58.740 And if you're behind, if you're in the red, we got to get you back to even.

00:25:02.100 And then we can start worrying about getting you into the black.

00:25:04.520 So you have debt, then you have savings, making sure that you, and we've all heard the conventional wisdom, and I think it's good wisdom, is having three months worth of living expenses.

00:25:13.960 So if your living expenses are $4,000 a month, do the math, you should have about $12,000 in savings.

00:25:22.120 That's a good buffer.

00:25:23.440 That way, if one of the kids breaks their arm and you have to hit a deductible on health insurance or the transmission on your car goes out or Christmas comes up and you spend a little more than you thought, you've got a good buffer there.

00:25:34.420 And you're not going to be crippled in a moment's notice.

00:25:36.480 You're not going to be homeless just because, you know, you lost your job.

00:25:39.320 You've got 90 days to find a new one because you've got your expenses covered.

00:25:42.160 And then next, we get into investing, stock market investing, investing in real estate, investing in businesses.

00:25:49.620 In fact, I just invested in a business called Black Flag.

00:25:52.460 You guys can check them out.

00:25:53.860 And I have other businesses that I'm invested in, and I have rental property as well.

00:25:58.700 So find a way to invest, but only when it's appropriate.

00:26:03.380 You should not jump the gun and start investing if you don't know your budget, if you have excess debt and you don't have any money set aside.

00:26:10.220 Do that in the proper order.

00:26:12.160 And that will keep you free from that financial and mental burden of just being under financial stress.

00:26:20.520 And then guys, so that's really what I want to share, but I have a bonus for you.

00:26:24.280 And one thing that is that I do every single quarter is we open up our brotherhood called the Iron Council.

00:26:31.860 And inside the Iron Council, we have channels that are dedicated to each and every one of these topics that I shared with you today.

00:26:37.780 So having a vision and setting goals, we have the battle planning channel and our battle planners, including an app called the Battle Planner app.

00:26:45.660 We also have, when it comes to training hard, eating clean and sleeping well, we have our fitness and nutrition channel where there's hundreds, if not thousands of guys in there who are talking about what kind of workouts they're doing, what they're doing for meal prep, how they're taking care of their food.

00:27:02.660 In fact, we just did a fitness challenge that wrapped up the end of December and someone is going to win $12,500 for winning that fitness challenge.

00:27:12.020 So the return is there for sure, if you do it.

00:27:16.340 Eliminating excuses, obviously we're talking about that because there's accountability built into what we do in the Iron Council.

00:27:21.720 Tapping into the spiritual realm, there is a spiritual channel where these guys are talking.

00:27:25.300 It's non-denominational, but they're talking about their spiritual health and then the finance and entrepreneurship channel to cover that last one I shared with you.

00:27:32.960 But remember, all of this under the umbrella of building sovereignty.

00:27:38.020 That's what I want for you in 2025.

00:27:40.160 I want you to free yourself.

00:27:42.220 I want you to unshackle yourself from unnecessary burden and hardship and medical conditions and debtors and creditors calling you and hounding you.

00:27:49.760 The mental and emotional struggle of just being underwater physically, mentally, emotionally, relationally, financially.

00:27:57.180 I want you to be free from all that.

00:27:58.860 I don't want you to be tossed to and fro based on what the doctrine of popular culture tells you.

00:28:03.960 I want you to have a good moral righteous compass and be working towards becoming that kind of man.

00:28:08.720 Just like I am personally.

00:28:10.580 Everything that I'm talking with you about, including the Iron Council, I'm part of.

00:28:14.620 I'm involved with.

00:28:15.520 And I'm doing these things.

00:28:16.880 And I can tell you with 100% certainty, when I get these basics right, life seems to go pretty well.

00:28:23.560 It's only when I slip, do the results slip.

00:28:27.060 Let me recap.

00:28:28.020 Number one, have a vision and set goals.

00:28:30.120 Number two, train hard, eat clean, sleep well.

00:28:33.020 Number three, eliminate excuses.

00:28:35.540 Number four, tap into the spiritual realm.

00:28:38.300 Number five, tighten up your finances.

00:28:41.080 I hope that helps.

00:28:42.240 If you want that bonus of the Iron Council, we're open until January 7th.

00:28:46.240 So that's what, four or five more days.

00:28:48.800 January 7th, go to orderofman.com slash ironcouncil.

00:28:53.700 That's orderofman.com slash ironcouncil.

00:28:57.100 All right, guys, have a great new year.

00:28:59.560 We've got a lot of work.

00:29:00.460 I've got a lot of exciting things to announce as we roll into the rest of 2025.

00:29:05.040 So stay tuned.

00:29:05.740 We've got events.

00:29:06.440 We've got new guests coming on.

00:29:09.620 So it's going to be an exciting year.

00:29:11.540 I'm looking forward to it.

00:29:12.800 And also thank you for being in this fight to reclaim and restore masculinity with me.

00:29:17.600 Society needs it.

00:29:18.520 I think now more than ever.

00:29:20.060 All right, guys, we'll see you next week.

00:29:21.400 Until then, go out there, take action, and become the man you are meant to be.

00:29:25.060 Thank you for listening to the Order of Man podcast.

00:29:32.200 You're ready to take charge of your life and be more of the man you were meant to be.

00:29:36.240 We invite you to join the order at orderofman.com.

Order of Man - January 03, 2025

How a Man Builds Sovereignty in 2025 ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES

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