Order of Man - The Single Greatest Strategy for Planning Out Your Year ｜ 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

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

00:00:10.440 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,

00:00:22.800 you can call yourself a man. Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan

00:00:27.500 Mickler, and I am the host and the founder of the podcast and the movement that is Order

00:00:31.360 of Man. I want to welcome you back to the show or here for the first time. This is going

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00:02:05.900 news and see what's going on in the world, it's apparent to me that, uh, there is certainly

00:02:10.420 a dismissal of masculinity and, uh, it's my job to help lead the charge and lead the fight

00:02:15.920 in reclaiming and restoring it. So, uh, that's it by way of announcements. I want to get into

00:02:21.540 the conversation today. Today, we're going to be talking about planning your year. Now

00:02:27.580 I realize we're a couple of weeks into 2020 already, but many of you are thinking about

00:02:32.260 planning the rest of the year or have started or tried something else and it doesn't seem

00:02:36.720 to be working. So I'm going to give you the single greatest strategy that I have ever

00:02:41.540 found and then developed and articulated for planning out your year and making it the most

00:02:47.580 successful that it can possibly be. Now I know that I'm a bit biased as I have this conversation

00:02:51.880 because I'm going to talk with you today about this planner. And if you're not following us

00:02:56.940 on YouTube, you can't see what I'm holding up right now. This is actually the 12 week battle

00:03:00.820 planner that we have created that has helped me accomplish more, uh, in my life than I ever

00:03:06.160 have prior to using a tool like this. Now, look, I know that we have this resource available,

00:03:11.400 but if you just want to take notes today and you don't want to use the accompanying battle

00:03:16.600 planner, that's, that's fine. Just take some notes and implement this in your life because

00:03:21.140 it has the power to transform what you are doing, how much you're doing, and then the results

00:03:26.880 that you're experiencing in four key areas. So as I go through the conversation in the podcast

00:03:31.780 today, I'm going to share with you exactly what I do personally to plan out not only my

00:03:38.480 year, but I do it in 12 week segments. We'll get into that in a minute and then share with

00:03:42.760 you how you can do the exact same thing. So let's, uh, let's just do a quick overview first.

00:03:48.920 Um, again, this is the battle planner right here. If you want to use this, you can go into

00:03:52.840 store.orderofman.com and check it out. Uh, we've offered a ton of these and sold a ton of these

00:03:59.180 because I think men are finding the value in this, but again, you, I don't know if you can

00:04:03.520 really may be able to see that. There it is. Yep. So basically what it does when I break this down,

00:04:10.300 and if you have a sheet of paper, then get it out because this'll help you create your own plan.

00:04:15.120 If you're not going to use this is breaking it, break that sheet of paper into four,

00:04:19.020 four quadrants, if you will. So on the top left, you're going to have your daily non-negotiables.

00:04:23.880 Now, these are things that you're going to be doing on a daily basis without fail, without

00:04:29.120 hesitation. Every single day you do these things and there's a place where you can check it off

00:04:33.880 for each day of the week. So that might be journaling or visualizing or reading or doing

00:04:40.240 scripture study or some sort of exercise, but the things that you do every day that are not

00:04:46.120 negotiable, put those in and there's power and actually checking it off every single day,

00:04:50.920 stating that you indeed have done it. And the idea is you look at this chart at the end of the week

00:04:55.420 and see that every single box is checked. If that's all you did, if that's all you did in

00:05:00.960 your life and in your planning, you would accomplish more in the next 90 days than probably you ever have

00:05:05.360 in any other 90 day period in your life. But that's not all the next segment. So put this on the bottom

00:05:10.440 left is you're going to have your daily tasks. All right. Just have a list of daily tasks. Now,

00:05:15.160 these tasks are the things that need to get accomplished throughout the day. It might be doing a podcast

00:05:19.380 or making a call or scheduling an event or scheduling a doctor's appointment, but these

00:05:24.860 are the things that you need to do today that you need to accomplish in order to move the ball.

00:05:31.540 And what I've noticed is that, you know, in fact, I don't know if there's ever a day that I've got

00:05:36.740 through every single thing that's been on my daily task list. And that's, that's not really that

00:05:41.200 important because this is a weekly planner. Now you want to get as much done as possible, but the idea

00:05:47.120 is that you have it documented what needs to be done, that it's no longer bouncing around in your

00:05:51.500 brain, that it's actually on paper. It's documented. You can go into that list and see what needs to be

00:05:56.880 done. And just because you write it down and have access to it, you're going to be significantly more

00:06:01.600 efficient than had you not written it down at all. So the system that I use for my daily tasks

00:06:08.120 are writing those tasks down. Now, if I start a task, I'm going to put one, one diagonal line

00:06:14.560 in front of it. Just one half of the, of the X that I use to check it off. If I've completed that

00:06:20.160 task, then I go ahead and complete that X. So that way I know, okay, well, I started this one because

00:06:24.900 there's things that you're going to do that, that you can't accomplish all in one shot. Maybe you have

00:06:31.020 to make a phone call to somebody and that's for an important meeting. Well, okay. Put a one line in

00:06:36.840 front of it stating that you did make the call. You weren't able to complete and schedule that meeting

00:06:41.220 when that individual calls you back, or you call that individual back and you are able to schedule

00:06:45.440 the meeting, then you can go ahead and check it off. And then what I do at the end of every single

00:06:50.680 day is I look and see, okay, here's what I got accomplished. Here's what I didn't. Here's what I

00:06:54.360 need to do tomorrow. Here's how I need to prioritize tomorrow and make sure that I get the most important

00:06:59.280 things accomplished throughout the day. And again, it's all right here. It's all documented. It's all

00:07:04.100 right in front of me. Now the next component of this, this is going to be on the right side of your

00:07:09.600 column. This is going to be a little bit difficult to draft, but I think what I'll do instead of just

00:07:14.540 telling you how to write this out is explain what we have created here, which is the 12 week battle

00:07:21.300 plan. And that's the meat of the discussion today is how do you plan out a 12 week segment? And I'll

00:07:28.160 tell you why it's important that you plan in 12 weeks. It's what most people do is they'll plan out

00:07:34.440 their year. In fact, I get a lot of questions from guys who say, well, Ryan, what's your,

00:07:37.740 what's your one year goal and what's your one year strategy or what's your goal for the next three

00:07:42.200 or five years? I have a general idea of where we'd like to go, but I don't have specific goals over

00:07:47.320 that timeframe because too much can happen over a period of 12 months. And all of a sudden you spend

00:07:53.200 all this time creating this 12 month vision and these 12 month goals. And it just doesn't happen

00:07:58.740 because priorities change and life changes and there's new circumstances and new information and

00:08:04.400 things become more important. And other things become less important over that timeframe.

00:08:08.360 The other reason that it's not beneficial in my experience to plan over a year is because you're

00:08:15.120 probably going to lose interest. I mean, let's face it. Like we, we are distracted. We think

00:08:20.920 change all the time. We have different goals and desires and ambitions and aspirations. And if you're

00:08:28.180 planning for a 12 month period, it's easy to become discouraged. It's easy to believe that the work

00:08:34.120 you're doing is too monotonous to continue to drive on. And it becomes boring, mundane and tiresome.

00:08:40.260 Now I realized there are going to be some things that are going to go beyond 12 months, but I would

00:08:44.580 suggest that you take those, those items that do go beyond 12 months or, or 12 weeks, I should say,

00:08:50.480 and you break them into quarterly goals. You break them into 12 week goals. And the reason that's

00:08:58.060 valuable is because in a 12 week period, that's enough time to start seeing the results of your work.

00:09:04.120 Then you have to build that up psychologically, physically, mentally, you have to see the results

00:09:10.480 of your effort because it's the results that keep you driving forward. So if you're waiting for a year

00:09:15.800 to produce any sort of desired result, that's too long for you, but a 12 week period, you can still

00:09:21.080 see those results. And the beauty of this is that you're not going to lose interest, likely not going

00:09:25.540 to lose interest over a 12 week period either. So there's some real psychological reasons why breaking

00:09:31.300 it down from five years or three years or, or a year down to a 12 week segment, a quarterly segment

00:09:38.420 has proved to be very, very valuable for me and very valuable for thousands of people who have

00:09:44.540 actually gone through the same planning process, utilizing the 12 week battle planner. So what I want

00:09:50.680 to do is break that down and tell you specifically what that looks like. And there's a few steps when it

00:09:57.860 comes to planning out your next 12 weeks. So this would get you through the first quarter of 2020,

00:10:03.680 the first thing you need to do, which is funny because this is often the most overlooked. And I'm

00:10:09.460 telling you right now that most of you listening, if you decide to implement what I'm sharing with you

00:10:13.660 today, we'll probably skim this or overlook it completely. The first step to the 12 week battle plan

00:10:21.020 is casting vision or you need to have a clearly defined, clearly articulated, emotionally charged,

00:10:30.660 very tangible vision for the type of man that you want to be. What kind of husband do you want to be?

00:10:36.460 What kind of father, business owner, community leader? What's your fitness look like when you walk

00:10:41.200 into a room? How do people respond? If you were to die, heaven forbid, what would people say about you?

00:10:48.580 How would they remember you? What good did you do in your community? What did you look like from a 0.72

00:10:53.380 physical, uh, uh, physical health perspective? Like these are all of the things that you need

00:10:58.340 to consider. And I'm not talking about creating goals right here. It's not what I'm referring to.

00:11:03.040 I'm referring to how do you feel? How does it look? What does it look like? And the more senses that

00:11:10.580 you can get involved in your vision about who you want to become. And you do that first,

00:11:16.340 the better off the entire plan is going to be because it's always tying back to this vision

00:11:21.060 of yourself. It's a little bit like Simon Sinek's work, start with why like in his work,

00:11:27.280 he talks about start with the why. Well, the vision could essentially be the why this is the type of

00:11:32.600 man that I want to be. Now, the way that I manifest that the way I turn myself into that type of

00:11:38.700 individual is something we're going to get to here in a minute, but you have to have that vision for

00:11:44.000 yourself first. If you don't have the vision for yourself, you're going to, you're going to phase

00:11:49.780 out. You're going to get bored with what you're doing. It's not going to be as important or relevant

00:11:53.820 to you. And it's going to be more likely that you quit or throw in the towel or just gradually stop

00:11:58.660 doing the work that was actually producing the results. It's gotta be tied into a greater purpose,

00:12:04.780 a greater vision. And I would suggest that you spend a lot of time thinking about the type of man

00:12:11.940 that you want to become, how you feel about yourself, how others perceive you, what kind of

00:12:17.460 results are you producing? What kind of man are you becoming? And you're writing this out, get a

00:12:22.560 journal and write every single day. A lot of guys ask me, how do you journal? Write this, talk about

00:12:28.400 the type of man that you want to become. Maybe even talk about the type of man that you want to become

00:12:32.160 as if you're already him. So you start moving yourself in that direction. So again, step number one

00:12:37.980 is casting vision. Please do not overlook the importance of having a vision. As I get into the

00:12:44.200 rest of this stuff, it's going to be easier than talking about the vision, but easy doesn't translate

00:12:51.720 to productive or effective, which is ultimately what we're after. So spend a lot of time. This isn't

00:12:57.920 a one-time thing. And your vision may change over the course of the 12 week period of working.

00:13:02.260 That's fine. It may change after. This is a dynamic document, a dynamic vision for yourself,

00:13:10.440 and it should change and evolve as you do. So again, step number one, casting your vision.

00:13:16.600 Step number two is you need to now begin to identify four main objectives, not five, not 10,

00:13:25.040 not a hundred. All I want is four out of you. Now, some of you might say, well, that's not enough. I

00:13:29.500 have things, more things I want to accomplish. That's great. And you can, that's why we do this

00:13:33.700 in 12 week segments, because you're going to do the first four, this 12 weeks, and then whatever

00:13:38.080 it evolves to and grows to and, and morphs into and becomes over the next quarter, then you can

00:13:43.680 implement those new plans. And I'm not saying that you're going to forsake everything just so you can

00:13:47.440 do these four things. But I've seen too many guys get spread so thin that because of their

00:13:54.080 objectives that they don't end up doing any of them. It's that old proverb that says the man who

00:13:58.360 chases two rabbits catches none. Okay. I know I'm telling you to catch four or chase four here,

00:14:03.240 but I promise you, I can guarantee you after years and years of doing this, not only in my personal

00:14:08.160 life, but seeing thousands of men go through this planning process as well, is that four is enough.

00:14:14.200 And if it's too much, maybe your goals and your ambitions and your objectives aren't, aren't grand

00:14:18.380 enough, aren't big enough. And maybe you ought to be thinking bigger about your life and what you

00:14:22.660 can accomplish. So four main objectives. Now, those objectives should be in four main categories.

00:14:29.960 Those categories are number one calibration. So this is getting right with yourself. This is about

00:14:37.780 your mental, your emotional, your spiritual wellbeing. And these are things that could from,

00:14:46.500 from the outside looking in, look as if they're selfish and maybe to a degree they are,

00:14:51.000 but we all know that you can't pour from an empty cup. We all know that if you don't take care of

00:14:56.340 yourself and you're only taking care of others, that it won't be long before you burn up and burn

00:15:02.240 out and you can't serve anybody, let alone yourself, your family, the other people that you love and care

00:15:07.920 and have an obligation for. So you have to take care of yourself first. So what does a calibration

00:15:14.340 objective look like? That could be as simple as picking up a new hobby or a new skill. Maybe it's

00:15:21.360 archery or jujitsu or learning to play the guitar or another instrument or picking up a paintbrush or

00:15:28.960 learning to sing. I don't know. I don't know what your thing is. Maybe it's hiking. There's so many

00:15:34.460 different things that it could be, but this is something that is for you alone. Now I'm not saying

00:15:39.180 you can't include other people in on this. You can, and you should. And there's going to be a lot of

00:15:43.400 crossovers between the quadrants that I give you, uh, for your objectives. But again, this is for you

00:15:50.060 alone. For me, I've done archery in the past. Um, going on successful hunts have been objectives of

00:15:56.400 mine. Uh, learning to play several different songs on the guitar has been a 12 week objective of mine.

00:16:02.680 Uh, going through the Wim Hof method of breathing, uh, has been a 12 week objective of mine. Uh, also

00:16:09.800 learning some basic mechanics and getting my scout running again was a 12 week objective of mine at

00:16:15.340 one point. Uh, so there's a lot of different things right now. My 12 week objective for calibration

00:16:20.660 is to finish the draft of my new book. Now that could be considered some of these other quadrants

00:16:25.760 I'll get into here in a minute, but, uh, that is very therapeutic for me to be able to write out my

00:16:31.760 thoughts and document on my, my ideas. So that's why I put it in the calibration component. So over the

00:16:37.760 12 weeks is finished the draft of my book. And then I've got some other things in line to make

00:16:42.480 sure that happens that we'll get to in a minute. So again, the first thing is calibration. The next

00:16:47.080 thing is connection. Okay. So connection is the relationships that you have with other people.

00:16:51.140 And when I'm talking about an objective, I would say that you ought to pick one relationship that

00:16:56.360 needs the most work. That could be the relationship with your wife. Maybe it's the relationship with your

00:17:01.120 kids. Maybe there's a business relationship that you're trying to foster and nurture and develop,

00:17:06.180 uh, or, or get closer with, with your boss or earn a promotion by working with the team.

00:17:11.840 It's the relationships in your life that you need, that you can help them, that they can help you.

00:17:16.780 And I would say on this one is pick one, just pick one relationship. Again, I'm not saying that

00:17:23.180 because you pick the one that you're going to forsake everything else, but if you pick one

00:17:27.020 relationship that you're really trying to focus on, it's going to give you a stronger likelihood

00:17:32.340 that that relationship actually grows and develops because you are heavily focused on that one.

00:17:37.360 Now, some of you might say, well, you know, like I want to get paid all my kids attention

00:17:40.640 and you should, again, I'm not saying that you forsake everything else at the expense of this

00:17:45.000 one thing, but this is where the emphasis and the focus lies. So you can be crystal clear about what

00:17:49.920 you want to accomplish and how you're accomplishing it. So number two is, uh, is connection.

00:17:54.680 Number three condition condition is where calibration is talking about your, your mental and emotional

00:18:01.160 and spiritual health condition is physical health. So what is your physical objective?

00:18:06.000 Is it running a marathon? Is it deadlifting 500 pounds? Is it earning your next stripe or your

00:18:11.780 next bill belt in, in, uh, martial arts or jujitsu? Like what is your objective with your condition?

00:18:19.440 Now, remember all of these things are tying back into your vision. So you should have a vision about

00:18:24.120 how healthy you are and how you look and, and, and how, uh, much energy you have. Like these are

00:18:30.900 things that you ought to consider and vision, and then it works and trickles its way down into the

00:18:35.160 objective for your condition. Again, it could be a marathon. Uh, it could be a certain hike.

00:18:41.380 Uh, one of the guys in the iron council, uh, Joe Agar just hiked Mount Kilimanjaro. So that was one of

00:18:47.360 his objectives. He got that accomplished. He checked it off the list. He's very proud as he should be of,

00:18:51.860 of doing that and getting that accomplished. And I commend him for doing that. Uh, but this is the

00:18:56.780 power of the 12 week battle plan. You have the objectives in place. You tie it to the vision

00:19:01.340 you want for yourself. And then you start working the plan. The fourth quadrant is, uh, is contribution.

00:19:08.480 All right. Contribution is becoming a man of value. So this could be financially driven. It could be

00:19:15.260 volunteer work that you want to give back. It could be offering a new product or a service

00:19:20.720 inside of your business, uh, to bring to market. Anything that you can do to enhance and add value

00:19:28.120 in the lives of the people around you and your community is what calibration is. So this could

00:19:33.760 be doing charity work. This could be, uh, serving some sort of a, a mission or going to, uh, perhaps

00:19:40.520 another country and building a school. These are the types of things that I'm talking about. Again,

00:19:44.940 building a new product or project at work in the past, writing my first book, actually

00:19:50.580 fell into the contribution component because I felt like I was giving contribution to the world

00:19:55.060 through the work that I was putting out there. But these are the things that you're going to want

00:19:58.520 to put into your contribution category. So again, those four categories, if you're writing these

00:20:03.440 down, if you're not come back and get some notes here is calibration. So getting right with yourself,

00:20:09.060 mental, emotional, spiritual health. Uh, number two is connections. So relationship number three is

00:20:16.060 condition. So that's your physical health. And then number four is contribution, becoming a man of value.

00:20:21.160 So now you've got your vision and I know this is a lot guys. I'm going through this very,

00:20:24.780 very quickly. But, um, again, if you, if you need a resource, by the way, on this 12 week battle

00:20:29.660 planner in our store is a great resource. Um, there's also a video, there's a link here that I

00:20:34.200 made available in this book. Uh, and you can go to that link. In fact, I'll just give it to you right

00:20:38.540 now. It's order of man.com slash T W B P T W B P as in 12 week battle plan. And you can watch that

00:20:48.220 video, uh, to learn a little bit more about what I'm talking about. And then it'll walk you through

00:20:52.640 this battle planner. Uh, the other resource that you might want to look into is my book sovereignty,

00:20:57.440 the battle for the hearts and minds of men in the last chapter or a section of the book.

00:21:01.840 I go through this in depth, the same things I'm talking about with you now. And that way

00:21:07.540 you'll actually have that written documented there in front of you. Because the idea is that

00:21:11.720 when you put that book down, you have a tangible, literal plan for the things that you want to

00:21:17.720 accomplish by using and incorporating the lessons that I, that I share in the book. So that is called

00:21:23.600 sovereignty, the battle for the hearts and minds of men. So after you've got your vision and after

00:21:28.420 you've got your objectives and each of the quadrants, now you need to break it down to

00:21:32.540 tactics. All right. This is where the rubber meets the road. This is where you actually do

00:21:35.840 the work because it's all been planning up to this point and planning is valuable, but planning alone

00:21:41.320 doesn't get the job done. You need a little bit more. You need to go to work. You need to do the

00:21:44.700 thing. So what you're going to do is you're going to pick out one, one primary tactic per day,

00:21:51.860 per quadrant. So you should have four tactics overall. Now, some of you are going to say,

00:21:58.740 well, that's just not enough. I need more guys. Like a lot of you can't even take the trash out

00:22:04.360 when you say you will. So what makes you think you're going to be able to incorporate a dozen

00:22:09.140 different new tactics into your life? I think this is where a lot of guys get hung up is they want to

00:22:14.420 do so much. And I commend you for being ambitious, but if that ambition comes at the expense of you

00:22:20.900 getting any level of work done, it's not advantageous or beneficial for you. So scale

00:22:26.560 back. And I'm not saying to take it easy because I want you to go hard, but I want you to go hard

00:22:30.920 on these four tactics that you're going to be doing. So if your condition, which is physical health

00:22:36.060 objective is to run a marathon in 12 weeks, then a tactic could be that you're going to run every

00:22:46.400 single day. Now, what, how much you run, what type of running sprints, long hauls, uphills,

00:22:52.420 like the treadmill out, whatever, that's all going to vary depending on your situation and what you're

00:22:57.260 trying to accomplish. But the tactic could be as simple as I'm going to run at least one mile

00:23:03.040 every single day. And the goal is, is that if you have that tactic in place and you do that every

00:23:09.120 single day, that it will inevitably lead you to the results. This is that where most planning fall

00:23:14.680 short. Okay. Most planning fall short because they just tell you to come up with a plan, right? Like

00:23:19.480 have your goals and then like, and then do it. Well, that's wonderful. But if you don't actually

00:23:25.820 have the roadmap for doing it and then the ability to take action on those things, like it's not really

00:23:30.400 going to serve you any purpose. So not only do you have to have the objectives, like you actually have

00:23:35.320 to have the strategy that goes with those objectives, that's pushes you in the right direction.

00:23:39.100 These are the things that you're going to document inside of your either battle plan or the sheet

00:23:43.740 that you're using personally. And you're going to check it off. Here's my objective. My primary

00:23:48.360 tactic is to run every day. And you're literally going in there Sunday. Yes, I did it Monday. Yes,

00:23:52.680 I did it Tuesday. Yes, I did it. Or if it's blank, then you don't check anything. And the goal is to

00:23:57.100 have every single one of those boxes checked at the end of every single week. If you do that,

00:24:02.260 you're inevitably going to produce the results that you want. Most planning focuses heavily on what you

00:24:08.260 want and not enough on how to get it. This is critical. So if your objective in a connection,

00:24:18.620 for example, is that you want to coach your, your son or daughter's sports team. Great. What do you

00:24:24.720 guys need to do? Well, practice every single day, every single day, I'm going to practice. Maybe you

00:24:29.640 have two weeks of on the field practice. And then when you're not practicing with the team,

00:24:33.400 you have your kids, uh, you're doing batting practice or, uh, you know, fielding drills,

00:24:39.860 whatever it may be, but you're doing it every single day. And if you do that,

00:24:42.760 then you're going to successfully coach that team. And you're going to successfully produce the

00:24:47.780 objective that you're after. Very simple, very simple. And a lot of people overlook it because

00:24:52.840 of its simplicity. They think, well, because it's so simple, it must not work. Or because it's so

00:24:56.940 simple, I'm not going to do it. I'm just telling you right now that most planning is very,

00:25:00.660 very complex and we actually complicate it more than it needs to be. And we do it as an excuse

00:25:06.500 because if it's complicated, then that gives us an excuse not to do the work that we know we should.

00:25:12.700 But if it's simple, we strip out that excuse because there's no excuse for not getting something

00:25:17.520 done. That's simple. That's not easy, but it's simple. So again, we've got vision, cast your vision.

00:25:23.880 We've got your objectives. These are the objectives that are going to lead you into the vision that you

00:25:28.500 have for yourself. These are 12 week objectives in each of the four quadrants. Again, calibration,

00:25:34.520 connection, uh, condition and contribution. Then you have your, then you have your tactics,

00:25:40.620 your objectives, then your tactics. These are the things that you're going to do on a daily basis.

00:25:44.520 One per day, every single day. If you can't do it every day, do something different. Pick something

00:25:49.300 that you can do every single day because the repetition and the discipline it takes to do something

00:25:53.500 every day is what's going to produce the value. So you've got your tactics. The last component that

00:25:58.980 I'm going to share with you, and then we'll do a recap and we'll wrap this thing up is checkpoints.

00:26:04.460 Now we didn't always have the checkpoints in place. We thought, Hey, in 90 days, you're going to get your

00:26:08.540 thing done or you're not. And then you evaluate it and figure out how it worked. Well, that's,

00:26:13.000 that doesn't work because things change. You may be on track. You may be exceeding your expectations

00:26:19.400 or not meeting them fully. So we have a 30 day and a 60 day checkpoint. Remember we're on a 90 day

00:26:26.380 plan, a 12 week battle plan. So in 30 days, you're going to go in and you're going to evaluate

00:26:31.200 is the work that I'm doing, getting me on track to where I want to be. And if the answer is yes,

00:26:38.000 great. Maintain the course. If the answer is no, it could be one of two things. You could be exceeding

00:26:44.780 your goal. And if that's the case, I would say you probably need to change your objective,

00:26:48.080 make it a little bit more difficult, a little bit more challenging, push it a little further

00:26:51.980 out there. And if you are not meeting the objective, or at least on pace to meet the objective,

00:26:58.020 then you can either do one of two things. You can change the tactic because what you're doing

00:27:03.680 is not working. So you've got to change strategies to get you to where you want to go. Or you can

00:27:08.620 change the objective. I see a lot of guys who are overly ambitious, and this is not an excuse

00:27:14.340 not to be ambitious, but I see guys who are overly ambitious and they haven't done much with their

00:27:19.280 lives over the past decade. And all of a sudden they want to do everything all at once. And they

00:27:23.380 fall short because they, they made this, this goal, this objective that was just unreasonable

00:27:28.460 and unattainable. So you tweak your objective so that you can meet it, or you tweak your, your tactics

00:27:34.780 so you can meet the objective that you have. I'll leave that for you to decide. What do I need to do?

00:27:39.480 And you evaluate, and this is why 12 weeks is valuable too, is because it's not so long that

00:27:43.840 you can't course correct along the way. So that's a 30 day checkpoint, 60 day checkpoint,

00:27:48.440 same exact thing. You're evaluating whether or not you're on pace and on track and you make your

00:27:52.780 adjustments accordingly. Now, when you get to the end of your 12 weeks, that's it. You look,

00:28:02.080 did I accomplish the four objectives I wanted to accomplish? And did they move me closer to the

00:28:07.160 vision I have for myself? If the answer is yes, congratulations, you did it. If the answer is no,

00:28:13.340 you go back to the drawing board and you create a new 12 week battle plan in the second quarter of

00:28:18.240 2020. That's going to be more suitable or, or, uh, make it easier for you to accomplish your

00:28:25.520 objectives. Same thing. If you do accomplish your objectives, congratulations. Now you got to push

00:28:30.040 harder, come up with something new, push yourself, stretch yourself, do something you've always wanted to

00:28:35.340 do. Say yes to a few more things and take some of these opportunities that are going to push you in

00:28:39.420 the right direction. So there it is, guys. I know I went through a lot of information in about 30

00:28:45.780 minutes, but you've got some resources available. You've got this audio or video, depending on if

00:28:51.680 you're listening on iTunes or Stitcher or Spotify or Pandora or wherever, or watching it on YouTube,

00:28:57.400 but you've got this resource and you've got the, uh, battle planner, which is this right here.

00:29:04.240 If you're watching this video, you can see this is the 12 week battle planner. And then inside,

00:29:08.780 this is a year, a year program right here. So this, this doc, this, this insert here has

00:29:16.280 everything you need for four, uh, full and complete 12 week battle plans. So you can check that out in

00:29:22.960 the store store.orderofman.com. And, or you can pick up a copy of the book, which breaks it down even

00:29:28.800 further and then lets you walk away with a plan. And then the last resource is orderofman.com slash

00:29:34.900 T W B P 12 week battle plan, orderofman.com slash T W B P. So there it is. You've got your homework.

00:29:43.300 You've got your marching orders. You've got your assignment. Uh, we're two weeks into this thing,

00:29:47.380 maybe a little over at this point, but, um, you know, we're not so far into it that you can't create

00:29:51.760 a plan for yourself and you can't reevaluate what it is that you're currently doing and seeing if it's

00:29:56.980 on par with this. And look, if it is, and you have a system that's working all the more power to you,

00:30:01.600 maybe you can take one or two things from this and incorporate it into your current planning system.

00:30:06.300 But I've used them all. I've tried them all. I've done just about everything I've come across.

00:30:11.040 And some of them are good. Some of them are not so good. But what I did with the 12 week battle plan

00:30:15.780 is I took elements of this one and elements of that one and elements of this combined with what I just

00:30:20.720 inherently knew and was doing and what I learned from other people. And I incorporated it into one plan.

00:30:26.200 And, uh, thousands of men have gone through this. Thousands of men have produced the types of

00:30:31.360 results that they're after, you know, thousands to be frank, thousands of men have bought this and,

00:30:35.960 or, or created this and gone through it and not done anything with it. But the roadmap is there.

00:30:41.200 The tool is there and it's a powerful tool, but like any tool you have to use it. It's not going to

00:30:45.840 work itself. So I hope that helps guys. Um, this, uh, conversation was inspired by some posts that I see in

00:30:54.300 our Facebook group. Cause guys are asking about how to do their planning and how to accomplish more

00:30:58.320 and how to do this and how to do that. And I'm telling you, this is the framework for doing it.

00:31:01.440 The 12 week battle plan. So get after it, go check out those resources, uh, reach out to me on

00:31:07.360 Instagram or Twitter. Let me know if you have questions or what's working or what isn't working

00:31:12.040 for you. And I'll direct you or answer any questions that I can to the best of my ability. I get a lot of

00:31:16.920 direct messages and that's great. And I try to get to every single one of them. So I will try to get

00:31:21.820 back with you if you reach out to me. You can do that on Instagram or Twitter, both at Ryan

00:31:26.940 Mickler. All right, guys, that's all I've got. Uh, we'll be back next week for another interview on

00:31:32.420 Tuesday. And then they asked me anything on, uh, on Wednesday, but I appreciate you being on this

00:31:36.320 path. Hope this helps. And I'm anxious, very, very anxious to see what you do over the next, uh, 12

00:31:42.280 weeks by utilizing this plan. And please share that with me as you have those victories. All right,

00:31:47.640 guys, go out there, take action, become the man you are meant to be.

00:31:50.700 Thank you for listening to the order of man podcast. You're ready to take charge of your life

00:31:55.280 and be more of the man you were meant to be. We invite you to join the order at order of man.com.

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