Order of Man - April 02, 2021


Men, Tend Your Field ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES


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00:00:00.000 You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest, embrace your fears, and boldly chart
00:00:05.020 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
00:00:17.240 you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,
00:00:22.820 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. Welcome here. Welcome back.
00:00:33.920 Glad you're tuning in. We need more men in this fight to reclaim and restore masculinity. That's
00:00:38.060 exactly what we're doing here via this podcast and interviewing incredible men and sharing insights
00:00:43.000 and ideas with you. And of course, banding together as a community of men who want to thrive and
00:00:48.000 succeed as fathers and husbands and business owners and community leaders. And it seems like much of
00:00:52.660 the world is against what it means to be a man. And that is what we stand against and what we stand
00:00:58.780 for, genuine masculinity in a society that's increasingly dismissive of it. So I've got a
00:01:03.600 good one for you lined up today. We're talking about tending your field, what that means, and more
00:01:07.780 importantly than just what it means, specific strategies, ways, tips that you can incorporate
00:01:13.080 and implement into your own life for tending your field. And we'll talk about that here in a minute.
00:01:17.220 Uh, before we get into that, I want to make a mention of something I'm very excited about.
00:01:21.900 We just launched last week, the new Order of Man 12 Week Battle Planner. Now you guys are used to
00:01:28.060 this written version because I've been talking about it for, well, five years at this point,
00:01:33.140 but we just came out with the digital version. So if you go to 12, the number 12, 12weekbattleplanner.com,
00:01:40.920 12weekbattleplanner.com, the number 12, uh, you're going to be able to take a look at that,
00:01:45.800 uh, that app on both, uh, Apple and Android devices. So again, 12 is in the number 12 week
00:01:53.560 battle planner. You're going to be able to check that out. There's a free version. There's an
00:01:57.380 upgraded version. And if you're a member of the Iron Council, then that is included. The, uh,
00:02:01.960 free annual subscription to that is included in your membership. So go check it out. 12 week battle
00:02:07.380 planner. It is basically this in a digitized format in an app format and a little bit on steroids
00:02:14.160 as well. It's got some cool new features that are going to help you manage not only your quarterly
00:02:18.780 plans, but also your day-to-day activities and non-negotiables and tasks and things like that.
00:02:24.180 So go check it out. 12weekbattleplanner.com. All right, guys, let's talk about tending your field.
00:02:28.620 You know, it's amazing to me. We were so inundated with information, whether it's via
00:02:32.240 even this own podcast, uh, or social media posts where we're inundated constantly
00:02:37.680 with other people's problems, other people's ideas and concepts and what's outraging them and
00:02:45.560 what they're upset about and what their missions and what their goals are. And it's good. You know,
00:02:49.240 I think we need to do a better job curating our own feeds and content based on what is relevant
00:02:55.160 and pertinent to us, but we get become inundated and consumed with what other people are doing
00:03:01.020 at the expense of tending to our own field. And we neglect and overlook our families,
00:03:08.820 our own business, our bodies, our health, our bank accounts, because we're so worried about what this
00:03:13.500 person is doing or what they're not doing or what books they're selling or what shoes they're talking
00:03:18.660 about and what we're supposed to be outraged about and what the news cycle is telling us. And all of
00:03:23.680 that comes at the expense of you focusing on yourself. Now that said, I get it. Look,
00:03:30.580 I understand we can't just be so consumed with ourselves that we aren't aware of what is going
00:03:36.160 on around us, but there's a line. And we all know that there's a line in many of us, including myself
00:03:41.780 cross that line from time to time and forget to take care of what is actually important,
00:03:46.220 the things within my control. So when I talk about tending your field and my field,
00:03:51.860 what I'm specifically referring to is taking care of your family dynamics, spending time with your wife,
00:03:57.380 engaging with your kids, taking care of your fitness, worrying about your business,
00:04:03.060 growing your business or your career or your employment activities, hobbies, interest, health,
00:04:09.740 bank account, everything that is going to help you get what you want. Worry about that first,
00:04:16.240 take care of that first. And as I was walking around in the field with my family yesterday,
00:04:21.520 I got thinking about this because, uh, the snow here in Maine is starting to melt. The field is
00:04:28.820 about 85% uncovered at this point from the snow, the grass is greening, the water's running through
00:04:36.900 the little Creek. And, uh, it was nice to be able to walk around outside. And as my wife and I were
00:04:42.500 walking and the kids were playing on the trampoline just last night, uh, we walked by the food plot
00:04:46.900 that my oldest son and I, uh, worked on last year. We started it in fact. And what was cool about it
00:04:54.040 is that we spent most of the fall and winter watching the deer come in and enjoy the food plot
00:05:01.580 that we had put together and spent a lot of time on. Uh, we did a lot of work with, uh, uh, trail cameras
00:05:07.820 this year as well. So we got to pull those cards out and, uh, you know, see the pictures of the deer
00:05:14.080 and the fox and the, the raccoons and all kinds of animals that were coming through and enjoying
00:05:19.480 what we had done and what we had had put together, which was the point, right. To, to bring the animals
00:05:24.960 in so that we could hunt those animals and provide food for the family. But what was interesting is it,
00:05:31.780 it didn't happen overnight. The place that we built this, this food plot was an old, it was either
00:05:39.100 an orchard or some sort of crop that previous owners of this property had, had made. But when
00:05:46.500 we first moved here, which was almost two years ago now, uh, that was completely overgrown. The weeds
00:05:53.460 were as tall as I am. Uh, you could barely get through there. There was one little path. There was
00:05:58.940 rocks everywhere. The ground was bumpy and uneven. It was, it was unworkable in the stage that it was in.
00:06:05.860 Now there was potential and there was promise. And so my son and I went out there and we plowed it,
00:06:14.120 pulled all the big rocks that we went, then went and tilled it. We seeded it multiple times. Uh,
00:06:20.760 we planted different plants and vegetation in there to bring the animals in. Uh, we did a lot of research
00:06:27.800 on what kind of, of, of mixture, seed mixture and food mixture we need to actually plant. Uh, then we set
00:06:33.900 up the trail cameras and we move those around and we spent a lot of time out there and it actually
00:06:38.680 yielded and produced the results that we wanted. And this presented itself as an analogy for life
00:06:46.340 for me. You know, how often do we have these things that we want in life? We have these desires and
00:06:52.300 goals and ambitions. Uh, let's take your marriage. For example, you guys who are married or have a desire
00:06:57.160 to be married at some point, want your wife and your relationship to be just perfect. You want the
00:07:00.800 intimacy and you want the sex and you want the deep connection and you want the meaning and the
00:07:04.180 purpose and the satisfaction. And yet you aren't really willing to put forth the amount of effort
00:07:08.780 that's required. You just hope that you can snap your fingers and experience those results.
00:07:13.140 Some of you guys that have 20, 30, 40, 50 pounds on you, uh, have spent two decades potentially
00:07:18.280 building this layer of fat that is consuming you. And you think just because, uh, you, you want to be
00:07:25.200 healthier that you can just snap your fingers or, or, or take a shot or a pill or something
00:07:29.560 that's going to help you lose that weight that you've been building up over the past two decades.
00:07:37.100 You want the promotions, you want the, the, the business, you want the podcast to climb to the
00:07:42.920 number one charts without putting forth the effort. I mean, isn't this a great explanation of society
00:07:51.400 is that we all want the results without the effort. It would be nice. It just isn't possible. And so you
00:07:57.640 need to tend your field. So what I want to do right now is share with you four tips as I was thinking
00:08:02.200 about this analogy and walking around, uh, with my wife last night and looking at the field that my
00:08:07.320 son and I had, had put together and why we had so much success with it. And I wrote down just,
00:08:12.600 just a few tips here, five tips that are going to help you tend your field more effectively. But
00:08:16.960 before I get started, what I will say is I want you to begin to identify what your field is,
00:08:21.700 what field you need to tend. Is it the fatherhood field? Is it the entrepreneurship field? Is it the
00:08:28.460 health field? The finance field? What, what field are you, who knows? Maybe it's even your office space
00:08:34.040 or your car that, that you need to make sure you get in order before you start worrying about what
00:08:39.920 everybody else is doing and how, if only other people did what you wanted into, then your life
00:08:43.780 would be different. Start with you. All right, here we go. Number one, create a workable space,
00:08:48.700 create a workable space. And it has to be goal oriented. You have to have a goal. You have to
00:08:54.300 have a desire. There has to be something that you actually want, because if you don't know what you
00:08:58.100 want, you don't know how you're going to set up your field. So for example, my son and I wanted a
00:09:03.400 food plot that would draw in the deer. Now we actually happened to plant some vegetation that
00:09:09.540 attracted turkeys, but it didn't attract the deer as well as the turkey. Okay. Well, we learned,
00:09:15.800 and although it was successful in bringing in quite a bit of turkeys, it wasn't as successful
00:09:21.000 as bringing in, in the deer. That was a problem, but we got to create this workable space based on
00:09:26.440 what we want. So we had to go in and we had to clear out all the vegetation. We had to plow it. We
00:09:32.520 had to pull these big rocks. They were probably, I would say, anywhere from 50 to 150, maybe slightly
00:09:37.840 more pounds. We had to pull all those rocks out of the field, get them out of there. We had to then
00:09:43.120 till it, that was then a workable space. Same thing with your office space. If your office space
00:09:50.020 is cluttered and it's chaos and there's trash everywhere, or your car has old, you know,
00:09:55.520 food wrappers and garbage and filth everywhere, that's not a workable environment. If in your
00:10:02.560 marriage, there's a lot of baggage and contention and animosity and frustration, that's not a workable
00:10:10.400 environment. So that, that, that's a little disheartening. It's a little frustrating, but
00:10:15.960 know that as soon as you begin to work on it, you're going to start clearing the path so that
00:10:20.920 you can create the results that you're after. So, so how are you going to clear the path? Again,
00:10:27.420 I'm going back to whatever your, your goal is, whatever fields you need to tend, what is it? And
00:10:32.640 then what is it that you need to do to clear the path and make it something that's going to be
00:10:37.480 conducive to the results that you desire? Number two, along the same lines, you've got to remove
00:10:43.860 the weeds. All right. The weeds are going to come in. You're going to get distracted. There's going
00:10:49.520 to be temptations. There's going to be people. There's going to be toxicity. There's going to be
00:10:54.200 stuff that comes up. Steven Pressfield, who I've had on the podcast now twice talks about this in the
00:10:59.640 form of the resistance. There's going to be resistance and you need to be aware of that because if you
00:11:05.840 think everything's going to be roses and fairy tales and sunshine on your path to improve your
00:11:09.940 relationship or your business or whatever it may be, you're setting yourself up for failure
00:11:14.400 because it's not going to be like that. It's going to be long and arduous and painful. There's going to
00:11:19.320 be struggles and ups and downs and highs and lows. And if you aren't aware of the fact that it's going
00:11:26.280 to be challenging at times, then at the first sign of hardship, you're going to throw in the towel
00:11:33.800 because you weren't expecting it. And you're going to assume that you're doing it wrong because
00:11:38.460 you're bumping up against what, again, Steven Pressfield calls the resistance. It's there
00:11:43.820 and it doesn't go away, by the way. You know, I thought that with this podcast, that once I got
00:11:49.020 to a certain point that it would just be easy, right? Things would glide and go along smoothly
00:11:55.160 and nothing would come up. And everybody I ever reached out to would join me on the podcast.
00:11:58.860 That's what I believed. I'm finding that not to be the case. This resistance continues to pop up
00:12:04.860 just like the weeds in the field do. And the weeds will strangle whatever your goal is,
00:12:10.900 whatever your desire is, whatever your ambitions are. So you need to constantly be weeding your field.
00:12:18.140 You need to get rid of the temptations. You need to get rid of the distractions. There might be people
00:12:24.240 that you need to cut out of your life altogether that are bringing you down and adding toxicity
00:12:28.360 and negativity to your space in your field. You need to get rid of it. Ruthlessly get rid of it.
00:12:34.060 And I'm not saying you have to be a jerk or an a-hole to anybody, but you got to protect your field.
00:12:38.900 And there's people that are going to represent and activities that are going to represent a
00:12:46.200 conflicting
00:12:48.360 frame of reference, a conflicting point with what it is you're trying to accomplish.
00:12:55.220 Identify it, be realistic about it so that you can address it the way that needs to be addressed.
00:13:00.840 All right. Number three, continual maintenance, ongoing maintenance. When we planted that first
00:13:06.380 seed, it didn't take as well as I would have liked. There was some mixtures in there that I didn't really
00:13:13.560 think we're going to do a good job. And so we continued to do research and then we continued to plant and we
00:13:19.540 went out there and we weeded and we went out there and made sure it was getting the water that it
00:13:24.120 needed. Continual maintenance. This is not a one and done type thing. If you clean up your office space
00:13:29.400 or you create a workable space for your marriage or your business or your client interactions and
00:13:35.720 relationships or your finances or your fitness, it isn't like once you create it, it's done. You can
00:13:40.540 wipe your hands and never deal with it again. Guys, you have to build in systems.
00:13:44.180 Systems need to be put in place so that you will do this however often you need to do to address it.
00:13:51.680 There's things that I do with the podcast every single day. There's things that I do with my
00:13:55.160 business every single day. When it comes to, for example, the merchandise that we have,
00:13:59.180 there's a set time we order new merchandise. There's a set time that we actually ship out
00:14:03.580 merchandise. There's a set time that my son and I do customer interaction. We have that all
00:14:10.440 identified. We have that all laid out. We have systems for maintenance and ongoing
00:14:13.940 management of the field. It isn't a one and done type thing. You don't get to say, Hey, you know,
00:14:19.240 I lost 20 pounds and I'm under a 15% body fat. So I can check that off the list and now I can go
00:14:25.180 and do whatever it is I want. No, it has to be continually maintained. And this is what men do.
00:14:32.660 They're mature enough to recognize that things are going to continue to pop up. Weeds are going to
00:14:36.960 continue to present themselves. Temptations are going to continue to come up and they implement
00:14:41.060 systems. They create and implement systems that allow them to manage those things when they come
00:14:46.640 up. Cause I'll tell you what, it's a whole lot easier to deal with the weeds early and often than
00:14:53.500 it is to wait for a year or even six months to deal with it. Those weeds get out of control. They
00:14:59.220 get unruly. They spread, they get worse. So if you deal with it ongoing, you're not going to have to deal
00:15:05.400 with the headaches of not dealing with it when things are harder to deal with. All right. Number
00:15:11.660 four. Okay. You've got to prune. You got to prune your trees. You got to prune your life. How is this
00:15:20.900 different than weeding? Well, weeding is getting rid of the things that are obviously not conducive to
00:15:26.900 what you want to do, but pruning is different. When I lived in Utah, we had a big peach orchard next to
00:15:33.060 us. And occasionally we would go prune the, the peaches. And essentially what you're doing is
00:15:40.560 you're cutting off branches. You're picking fruit that looks good. It's not a weed. It's actually
00:15:46.860 fruit. It's the fruit of what it's the harvest. So you're actually picking that off and sacrificing
00:15:54.160 that because if you don't do that, then you're going to not yield the best possible crop that you can
00:16:02.100 because all of the resources are being dispersed and divvied up to so many different things. In this
00:16:09.060 case, fruit that you have a bunch of average fruit, but if you pick and prune and pluck, then you're
00:16:15.220 going to have fewer fruit, but it's going to be better. It's going to be the best. And it's going
00:16:21.400 to be a better crop because you do that. So weeding is getting rid of the obvious. Pruning is getting
00:16:27.740 rid of the things that are good so that you can clear room for the great. We've all heard it.
00:16:33.900 Good is the enemy of great. And I have, that is so true. I found that to be so true in my life.
00:16:39.520 And yet a lot of us will hang on to the good because we see it. We're like, Oh, this is amazing. Like,
00:16:45.200 I feel like I'm doing it. Or, or even worse, we slip into complacency and we think, you know,
00:16:49.800 like this is good enough because it's scary to prune, right? It's scary to pluck something off
00:16:56.100 the vine or off the tree. That is actually the fruit that you're after with a little faith and
00:17:01.400 hope that if you do, then something better will come along. That's, that's scary. That represents a
00:17:07.700 risk. And yet pruning is crucial. It's crucial to ensure that the tree and the harvest are as good
00:17:17.120 as they possibly can get. So don't settle. Don't be complacent. Don't fall back into, into ruts.
00:17:27.900 Continue to prune, get rid of the good, explore the good, even question the good.
00:17:33.100 I do that with this podcast and the podcast is doing good, but I'll look at it and I'll say to
00:17:37.300 myself, okay, well, you know, what, what can we do better? How can we improve this? What do I need to
00:17:43.980 get rid of? What do I need to change? What do I need to tweak? And all of us will say,
00:17:47.120 hey, if it's not broke, don't, you know, don't, don't fix it. I don't think that's true. I think
00:17:52.700 we should be running through experiments and trying different things and testing different
00:17:57.480 strategies to see if we can make it that much better. Because here's the cool thing. If it
00:18:01.320 doesn't work, you can always revert, right? If you implement that new business strategy and you think,
00:18:06.560 hey, we're going to get rid of the good, we're going to move on to the great, and it doesn't work
00:18:09.400 or produce the great, then all right, go back to the default and try something new.
00:18:12.960 But man, we can't be complacent. We can't believe that what got us to the point we are right now is
00:18:19.440 going to get us to the point that we want to go. We've got to prune the good to get to the great.
00:18:24.460 And then the last point that I wanted to make here is that at some point you get to harvest.
00:18:28.580 And this is the ultimate goal, right? You get to harvest. You built that relationship. You built
00:18:34.720 that business. The paycheck is coming. The notoriety is coming. The sense of accomplishment and pride
00:18:41.420 and fulfillment is coming. And that feels good. And you get to harvest. And there is a harvesting
00:18:46.560 time, right? There is a point where you should be able to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
00:18:53.440 The deer are coming into the food plot. The turkey are coming into the food plot. We get to go and we
00:18:57.960 get to harvest one of those animals. The fruit is on the tree or on the vine. And we get to harvest
00:19:02.860 that. We get to break bread and eat that fruit together. We get to enjoy what we created,
00:19:08.040 what we worked so hard for. But here's the danger. I said harvest. I didn't say destroy.
00:19:15.520 See, a lot of the times what we'll do in our lives is that we'll harvest the fruit.
00:19:19.440 We'll reap the benefit. But we'll do it without thinking about when the next crop is going to come
00:19:25.080 along. So we'll destroy it, right? So if we're using our same analogy about the trees, for example,
00:19:31.140 the fruit trees, you're going to pick the fruit off, but you're not going to cut down the tree.
00:19:35.220 Right? You're not going to just think that, oh, this is over. This is all it was. No. What you're
00:19:41.960 going to do is you're going to pick the fruit, but you're going to keep managing the trees so that next
00:19:45.880 year it's easier than it was this year. And you make yourself even more capable of what you want
00:19:51.240 to accomplish moving forward year after year after year after year. So don't think that just because
00:19:57.840 you're in harvest right now that you get to destroy or let the weeds come in and destroy
00:20:04.000 everything that you've worked so hard to create. Harvest is temporary, but along with the harvest,
00:20:11.720 you have to realize that this is a temporary state. You know, if you're making the paycheck or
00:20:17.980 you've got the body or you've got the relationship and you're connecting with your kids, you're growing
00:20:21.620 your business. Things are, you're just knocking out of the park. That's temporary. That's the,
00:20:27.500 the harvest will be consumed at some point. You will eat everything. And what are you going to do
00:20:32.800 then? Well, if you didn't think about how to continually maintain what it is you're trying
00:20:37.740 to create, you're going to run into some problems. I dealt with this in my financial planning practice.
00:20:42.280 I would, I called it the accordion effect. And so what would happen is I would spend all of this
00:20:47.260 time doing the four steps that I was telling you, creating workable space, removing the weeds,
00:20:52.040 continual maintenance, pruning the good to get to the great. And then I would harvest.
00:20:56.180 So what I was doing in my financial planning practice is I was calling clients, networking,
00:21:00.500 asking for referrals, and I'd have a flood of new business come in. And then I would harvest it,
00:21:05.720 right? I'd close the deals. I'd close the accounts. I'd get assets under management. I would grow the
00:21:11.300 business. And all the while, while I was harvesting, I was forgetting to continue to do the other
00:21:17.220 four things I'm telling you to do. So I wasn't going out and getting the clients. I wasn't
00:21:21.460 marketing. I wasn't asking for referrals. And so once I harvested all the income that was generated
00:21:27.540 through my own hard efforts, I burned through it all. You know, you burn through the money,
00:21:34.600 you burn through the results. And then I realized, oh crap, I'm in trouble. I didn't do any of this other
00:21:39.500 stuff in the meantime. And so now here I am on rush mode, trying to like get all this business back in
00:21:46.020 because I wasn't doing it on an ongoing basis. And that's what I'm talking about when it comes
00:21:50.100 to the harvest. Just because you're harvesting doesn't mean you get to sit your fat ass on the
00:21:55.000 couch and be lazy and complacent and satisfied with what you've created. If you do that, you're not in
00:22:00.560 this incredible cycle, this incredible process that I'm telling you. It's like you're like grinding
00:22:08.400 through. And then every time you harvest, you have to start over and you know what it's like to start
00:22:13.340 over with nothing. So when we harvest, we're not going to destroy, or we're not going to allow what
00:22:19.820 we created to get destroyed. We're going to continue to be good stewards, to be prudent
00:22:25.040 with our field so that we can continue this process, not only for the benefit of ourselves,
00:22:30.160 but the benefit of those who around us. You know, when I think about the field,
00:22:34.720 my whole family's benefited. Our neighbors are benefited. People in our lives are benefited. People have
00:22:41.120 have shared meat with me from their harvest and hunting. And so I'm benefited by their work.
00:22:46.460 What an amazing thing. What an amazing opportunity, but it only comes if you're able to tend your field
00:22:50.360 correctly. And if you miss any one of these steps, it's not going to work. Or if it does work,
00:22:56.100 it's not going to work as effectively as it could. So think about that. Chew on that. Ponder on that
00:23:01.540 this weekend. Specifically, I want you to think about what field you need to tend. And then think about
00:23:06.840 the analogy of the food plot or the apple orchard or peach orchard that I'm sharing with you and think
00:23:12.660 about how that applies to your life and how you could apply it to your life. Let me recap and then
00:23:16.460 we'll call it a day. Number one, create a workable space and it has to be goal oriented. If you're
00:23:21.660 setting up an environment, but you don't know what it's for, how well is that going to work? So for
00:23:27.320 example, somebody comes to you and they say, Hey, I need you to set up a sports complex right here. I just
00:23:33.120 need you to set up a field right here. And you think that person's talking about baseball. You're
00:23:36.960 going to create a baseball diamond. What if they come back to you and say, no, I needed a football
00:23:39.860 field. Well, I mean, technically you created a field, you made it work, but it's not for the goal.
00:23:46.360 It's not, it's not usable at that point. So create a workable space based on what your goals are.
00:23:52.920 Number two, remove the weeds and the debris. You got to get rid of the rocks. You got to get rid of the
00:23:57.640 weeds. You got to get those things out of there. They're going to cause problems. There are temptations.
00:24:01.840 There are distractions. There's people, there's contention, there's animosity. And I get it.
00:24:06.040 Sometimes it's easier to say, you know what? I'm just going to leave that there. Yeah. That one
00:24:09.420 little weed. Nah, it's not going to mess with anything. I'll leave it alone. Cause we don't
00:24:12.560 want to deal with it or, Oh yeah, that one rock in the middle. We'll just work around that. No,
00:24:17.500 get it all out of there. Clear it completely out of the way so that you have a great workable
00:24:22.600 environment. Number three, continual and ongoing maintenance. It's not enough to do it once.
00:24:27.680 You got to do it forever and you've got to create the systems to do it. Number four,
00:24:31.540 prune, get rid of the good, prune the good, sacrifice the good, which is hard. I get it's
00:24:37.560 risky, but sacrifice the good to get to the great. If your relationship is okay, that's not,
00:24:45.060 that's not great. If your business is, yeah, average, that isn't great. What can you do to
00:24:52.700 make it great? And what good ideas and what good results do you need to sacrifice so that you can get
00:24:59.320 to the great and number five harvest, but don't destroy harvest, but don't destroy enjoy the fruits
00:25:06.200 of your labor, but don't allow that field to get overrun again, or don't destroy it. Don't chop down
00:25:13.240 the tree just because you yielded the fruit for the year. How can you make this a habitual ongoing
00:25:19.680 process that's more efficient, better, more profitable, more lucrative as you continue to go.
00:25:25.160 This is how we tend our field guys. This is how we do it. Whether it's your family, your kids,
00:25:30.000 your friends, your colleagues, your business, your faith, your finances, your bank account,
00:25:34.420 your body, your whatever. This is how you tend your field. Let's stop focusing so much on what
00:25:40.040 everybody else is doing. Oh, if Ryan only did this. Oh, if you did this. Oh, Ryan, you should do that.
00:25:44.380 You should do this. Great. I can appreciate the feedback, but also maybe we ought to spend a little
00:25:50.080 bit more time on what we're doing and how we're improving our station and the station of the lives
00:25:56.040 of the people who are around us, who we care about, who we have an obligation for. All right,
00:26:00.460 guys, take this weekend. Think about how you're going to tend your field because we've got a lot
00:26:03.660 of work to do this year and every year, but let's make it work so that we look back at the end of the
00:26:08.860 year and we get to harvest what we've done. And then we can roll into 2022 next year, of course,
00:26:14.340 with the same excitement and opportunity, potential and hope for what we created this year.
00:26:22.620 All right, guys, that's it. We'll be back next week.
00:26:26.780 Sorry, my cough interrupted my timing on that, but I'm glad it did because I didn't want to mention
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