Where to Start on Your Self-Development Journey | FRIDAY FIELD NOTES
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In this episode, Ryan talks about where you should start on your self development journey and why you should go to the gym. He also talks about the Iron Council, a group of men who are dedicated to reclaiming and restoring masculinity.
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You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest, embrace your fears, and boldly chart
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your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time.
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You are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is who
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you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,
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you can call yourself a man. Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Mickler.
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I'm your host and the founder of the Order of Man podcast and movement. Welcome here today.
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If you're just finding us, we've been around since 2015. So we are coming up on almost eight
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years now, which is crazy to think about how far we've come and what we've been able to do
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in the mission to reclaim and restore masculinity. And that is what we're all about, specifically
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with this podcast, giving you the tools and information and resources and connections
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that you need to thrive. And that's what I'm going to be talking with you about today for
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our Friday Field Notes. I'm going to be talking about where you should start on your self-development
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journey. Because if we're being honest, around this time of year, we start reflecting on what
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we've done in the past. We start reflecting on what we want to do in the future, moving into
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2023. And so this is something that's on everybody's mind. So I am going to be sharing with
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you a couple of things that probably you've heard of, let's be frank. And I'm going to
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share with you a couple of things that I think might be different because I want it to be
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different. Because if it's the same advice you've always heard, but you're not implementing
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it for whatever reason, then it's not going to serve you and you're not going to do better.
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So we're going to get into that. Before I do, I just want to mention that I'm very excited
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to let you know after months of telling you about it, that our exclusive brotherhood,
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the Iron Council is officially open. If you don't know what this is, it's a group of men
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working together, having conversations, holding each other accountable, working through challenges
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that we offer, assignments and topics that we flesh out and give to you guys so that you
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know how to develop and build yourself as a man. And we are open for enrollment until the
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end of the year. So for about two weeks. So do it quick. If you want to join us and you
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can do that at order of man.com slash iron council, order of man.com slash iron council.
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I'm going to talk about that in a minute too, though. So for now, let's get to where to start
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on the self-development journey. I would say number one exercise. I know it's common advice.
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I know that you probably hear that all the time. You might be overlooking it because it sounds
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so simple or everybody suggests it. I'm just telling you right now that the best thing that
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you can do right now today, if you want to start on improving yourself as a husband, a
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father, a business owner, a community leader, a coach, a mentor, a friend, a teacher, a boss,
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an employee, et cetera, is start going to the gym. And I'll tell you why, because when you
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do not only are you going to almost immediately start to feel better physically, mentally,
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emotionally, you're also going to start seeing changes very quickly, especially if you're
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out of shape significantly. The closer you are to being in ideal shape, it's a little bit
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like that law of diminishing return. You probably won't see or notice the gains or improvement
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as quickly, but if you are severely obese or you are drastically out of shape, by going to the gym,
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you're going to start to notice those physical improvements and changes immediately, which gives
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you a little bit of fuel. And let's be honest, we all need a little fuel sometimes. I know motivation
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gets a bad rap because it's fleeting and it's not as good as discipline and whatever, but motivation's
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a good thing. So let's not beat up on motivation. If you're motivated because you lost a pound or two
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or five pounds on the scale this week, and you're motivated enough to go back into the gym, then I
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would say that motivation was a pretty good tool in that instance. Again, I know it gets a bad rap,
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but motivation is a good thing. So let's use it how we can. But the other thing it does is it helps you
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clear your mind. It helps you start thinking about things differently. It gives you the space and the
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margin to go through difficult and demanding and challenging workouts and then proving to yourself
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that you're capable of overcoming them. If you're anything like me, whether it's going to the gym or
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even going to jujitsu, I get done today. I'm sore. I'm a little bit sore. My back's a little bit sore.
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My legs are a little tight because I've done leg workouts the last couple of days. And I actually
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feel good in spite of that. Maybe not even in spite, maybe because when is the last time that we as men
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really had to go struggle? When's the last time we really had to suffer or we really had to work
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through something? Odds are, we just don't have to do it like we did a hundred or 200 or a thousand
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years ago. But if you're anything like me, it feels good when you're in a little bit of physical pain
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because you know, you exerted yourself. You know, you pushed yourself. You know, you did something
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you thought you should do. And let's not forget about the health benefits of exercising. I mean,
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losing 10, 15, 20, 30 pounds, what's your stamina going to be like? What's your energy going to be like?
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What's your attraction level? Not only to your wife or significant other, but also to
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potential clients or employers or partners, people you want to work with. They're naturally
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going to start gravitating more towards you because you're more magnetic because you look better
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and you walk better. It's not just about the physical looks. It's about the way that you carry
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yourself, shoulders back, chest out, head a little higher, a little, a little, a hop in your step.
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We all know of the benefits of exercise. And yet so few of us are willing to go and do it.
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Why? Oh, I'm busy. I don't have a workout. I don't know a coach. There's not a gym near me.
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All of that stuff. Those are all excuses. I'm busy. Who isn't busy? In fact, I know most of the guys
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that go to the gym that I know of are extremely busy and yet they find time to do it. They go to
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bed a little earlier so they can wake up earlier. Maybe they do it on their lunch break. Okay. So
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I'm busy is not an excuse. I'm tired, right? Of course you're tired because you're carrying around
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30 or 40 pounds extra of weight around your midsection and you have no energy to carry it
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around. Imagine if you weren't carrying a plate and a gym plate around your midsection all day,
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every day. Or imagine if you didn't have that extra layer of fat that's trying to strangle you
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for eight hours as you're trying to sleep at night. Of course you don't have any energy.
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So what's the solution? Lose the weight, get in shape, build strength, build cardio, build stamina
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so that you aren't as tired. And yes, it's going to be hard at first because your body's not used to
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you doing something, but you're going to feel better very, very quickly. What's another excuse?
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I don't have a gym near me. You don't need a gym. Do squats, do pushups, do pull-ups,
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pull things, throw things, lift things, drop things, drag things, push things. That's it.
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Go outside, swing the ax. You can see I got my jacket on today because it's a little cold.
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We're supposed to be getting a snowstorm this weekend. And a lot of people around here are
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chopping wood for their wood-burning stoves. There's a good workout. No gym required.
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Just an ax and a tree. Guys, that is an excuse. I don't have a gym near me, so I can't do anything.
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What did your ancestors do? Did they go to these climate-controlled gyms? Did they pick up these
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perfectly machined, symmetrical, balanced bars and weights? No, that would have been laughable.
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But why were they in shape? Because they were running. They were throwing. They were jumping.
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They were pulling. They were lifting. They were pushing. If you're using, I don't have a gym near
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me as an excuse, then really you just don't want to go to the gym. And then just say that.
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At least you're being honest. You might be being lazy, but at least you're being honest. Or you could
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be lazy and a liar. I'd rather be lazy and honest about it. Or better yet, not be lazy and be honest
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and get my butt into the gym. It's a no-brainer. All right. I beat that one to death now.
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Number two, this one's a little different. I would say that you can go out and you should,
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if you want to start on your self-development journey, find a hobby.
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Find and develop a hobby, something that's meaningful and interesting to you.
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That could be something in the physical realm like picking up martial arts, boxing or jujitsu
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or wrestling or Muay Thai or whatever. It could be something that is just interesting like learning
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how to take pictures. So you're getting into photography and you're doing landscape or you're
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doing family pictures. Maybe you want to learn how to develop and build websites. Maybe you've always
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been interested in painting. And so you pull up Bob Ross on YouTube and you start going
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through his lessons because not only is he fun to watch, but you know, you could create some pretty
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cool art and that's meaningful to you. Maybe you want to take an improv class. Maybe you want to do
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standup comedy. I don't know. Whatever your thing is, Ryan, what should I do? Whatever you're interested
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in, you don't need my permission and you don't need anybody else's permission. And what I would
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suggest to you is there is nothing that is, as far as hobbies go, that are manly or unmanly hobbies.
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A lot of people will think that, especially when it comes to the arts, painting, instruments,
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singing, those types of things, cooking, those aren't unmanly things. And it doesn't matter even
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if they were. What matters is that you find something that's interesting to you and then
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you go all in on that thing and you learn how to be good at it. And why is this important? Well,
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it teaches you that you can develop and learn new skills. And so there's an element of pride
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that comes with that. Uh, this, this past week, my wife was out of town and I don't do hardly any
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cooking, but we grabbed the instant pot out. She had this cookbook for instant pot. And my oldest
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son and I made four or five meals while she was gone to dinners. And it was actually a lot of fun.
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And I know for some of you who may cook and all of that, you're thinking that's, that's ridiculous.
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That shouldn't be a big deal. It is for me because I just don't cook and I haven't for 20 years.
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So I started cooking and it was fun. You know, I had a good time with my son, learned some new
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things, went to the grocery store, figured out where things were, took me way longer to grocery
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shop than it should have, but it was fun. And I built up just a little bit of confidence in being
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able to do that. The next part about developing a hobby is it makes you interesting. How dull and
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bland and boring are most of us. We get up, we do the same routine. We go into an office,
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we crank out the paperwork, we go to the same places for lunch. We come home, we eat dinner,
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we have sex the same way. We go to bed at the same time. Our kids and I are having the same
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conversations and life is just boring. If you want to start on your self-development journey and you
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want to improve and get better, make yourself an interesting person. Be interested in lots of
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different things, dive deep into a few things, and then people will be interested in you. Again,
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you will, you'll be like a magnet. People will see you and, and think, man, there's really something
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different to this guy. He's, he's well-rounded. He's well-versed. He's cultured. He knows about
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cooking. He knows about painting. He knows about martial arts, right? It makes you an interesting,
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fun person and enjoyable person to be around. And it rounds out some things that maybe you need to
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work on, like for myself cooking. All right. Next, number three, this one's a little different as
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well. And this is something that admittedly I've only really started doing over the past couple of
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weeks, but journaling has been huge for me. Now I get a lot of questions about how I should journal
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and what should I start with and what should I write and what should this and what should that?
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I don't actually know. Okay. I don't know. I don't know the perfect plan for journaling. I don't know
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what system out there is the best. And because there's all kinds of systems you could use.
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What I've been doing a couple of prompts for me is number one, what did I learn today?
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What did I learn today? Number two, what went well and what didn't go so well? You know,
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were there some things that I excelled at? Were there some things that I could have done better?
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That gives me some forward thinking for tomorrow and moving forward.
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I also think about what I would want to read or what lessons that I've learned in the day
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that I would want to read at a future date. So I'm writing to my future self, Hey, here's what I
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learned about today. And here's why the way I did this one thing wasn't effective. And here's what I
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would do in the future. Another way you can spin that is that if your children were to get a hold of
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this journal and they likely will in the next 10 or 15 years, what lessons would you want them to
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know that you learned today? But there's one big prompt that I use that's been really, really helpful
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that I have avoided for a very long time. And that is how do I feel? How do I feel?
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And I'm not just talking about, yeah, I'm happy or I'm down today or I'm mad. Sure. If you're
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experiencing that, write that down. I'm talking about like deeply, how do you feel about your
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relationship? How do you feel about the work you're doing? How do you feel when you look at
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yourself in the mirror? How do you feel when you get upset or offended or triggered by something that
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some random person says to you? Start documenting how you feel about those things. We don't have
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enough feeling type conversations because we're men and we're not supposed to feel those things.
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Wrong. We are supposed to feel those things. And even more important, we're supposed to understand
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what we're experiencing, why we're feeling the way that we're feeling so that we can use that as
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feedback to make either the same or different choices in our lives moving forward. If you're happy,
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I don't think it's enough to know you're happy. If you're feeling fulfilled, I don't think that's
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enough. I think you should really start to uncover why that's the case. Because if you're like me and
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you're feeling fulfilled, I want to replicate that today and tomorrow and the next day and the next,
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I like to feel like that. If I notice myself on edge or uneasy or irritable or resentful or bitter
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or contentious, I would like to know why I'm feeling that way. And typically it isn't because
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you got an email from a customer that said the wrong thing. That may have been the straw that broke
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the camel's back. That may have been the trigger, but there's something underlying there. And if you
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start to see trends about why you're feeling this way, don't we want to explore that? Don't we want
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to uncover that? And on the topic of our self-development journey, now we actually have something we can
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work on. Hey, I don't want to be angry. I don't want to be contentious. I don't want to feel like
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garbage. I don't want to feel guilty about my behaviors. I don't want to experience those things.
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So I'm not just going to bury them. I'm actually going to uncover. I'm going to dig them up through
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journaling. And then I'm going to start putting some plans moving forward that will help me not
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subdue the way I feel, but actually address the root problem. That's creating that feeling for me.
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That's powerful. So a lot of the times I think the message, whether it's spoken or unspoken is,
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Hey man, you're feeling guilty. Get over it. You're feeling sad or lonely. Toughen up.
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Well, yeah, I mean, you could, and there might be moments, isolated, acute moments where you do need
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to toughen up for a minute. Like you can't dwell on that for a minute because you have work to do.
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But if we do that all the time, we're never addressing our problems. And that's not
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unmanly. Like I think it's manly to actually confront your problems, confront your challenges,
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live with those feelings. So you can actually do something about it. So those are some prompts
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I use for the journaling. All right. So guys, we have exercise. We have finding a hobby. We have
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journaling. And then the next one is organization. I can't tell you how often, you know, maybe randomly
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I'll catch a ride with somebody and their car is a mess. Like fast food bags and trash in the door
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and trash in the ground. It isn't vacuuming dog hair. And it's just a mess. And I, if, if your space
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like that, your car is a mess, that's, that's going to spill over into your effectiveness.
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It just absolutely is. If your office is a mess, it's a wreck. If your closet's a mess, your drawers,
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all your clothes are just like thrown in there and it's a mess. Or you have a stack of paperwork up to
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your eyeballs. And like, it's just messy and cluttered that it's not conducive to success.
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We know this. It's not organized. It's not effective. It's not efficient. It's that clutter is coming into
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your mind. It's, it's keeping you from being effective, from you focusing on the things that
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are important. So what I would suggest to you is write down, maybe even in your journal,
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write down a list of places that need to be organized. The other day it was my filing cabinet
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because I have a tendency of in my filing cabinet, I'll file papers. But then when I get mail, I'll
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just throw on top of the filing cabinet. And so eventually, you know, there's a stack of paperwork,
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12 inches or 20 inches high on top of my filing cabinet. So the other day I went through and I
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went through and I, and I organized them. Can that, that one requires action. That piece of paper can be
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filed. That piece of paper can be thrown away. Here's another one that needs action. This one can
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be thrown away. And I organized it and it was nice. Like I felt good. I felt good because I organized it.
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I had, I took care of a few things that I had been putting off. Some that I actually forgot
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that I was penalized for on some tax issues because I didn't take care of it right away.
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So I was being productive. And don't we, as men feel better when we're productive?
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Sometimes you might think, well, there's nothing for me to do. I did all my work. No,
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there's always something for you to do. Organize your car, clean out your closet,
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clean out your trunk, clean out your glove box, put your files away, vacuum the carpet,
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do the dishes, clean the garage. It's always something you can do.
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And I would make that list of things that you need to organize and just start cranking out.
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Maybe go through your books. It's a great time to go through books. Hey, what books do I want?
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What books do I want to give away? I mean, these, these are things you can give away.
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We can be charitable right now. Maybe just go through your closet and there's
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stuck clothes that you need to get rid of from three, four, five years ago that you can donate.
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That like, this is a good time to do that this time of year, or even in your garage.
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Decorations and tools and all sorts of weird stuff in there that you've completely forgot about.
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We can donate those things. People might find those things useful where we don't.
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Anyways, organize your environment. Also your, your computer is another one you can organize.
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Like I've seen some desktops that are like files just everywhere. Organize that, clean it up,
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have a system, be systematic. You're going to feel better when you do. All right.
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And the last one guys is, and admittedly, I will say this disclaimer, a little bit self-serving,
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but it's also true. Two things can exist at once. It can serve me and it could also serve you. And
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what I would say to you is that you need to have other men in your corner. There are so many men out
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there who are flying solo. They're lone wolves and it's a problem. I've been there. And when I'm down
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and I'm depressed or I'm in my head or I have an issue or I have something I'm struggling with,
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or maybe I don't, but I'm just not as effective and productive as I could otherwise be.
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Those are the moments that I need men in my corner who are strong, who are virtuous,
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who are capable, who care about me, man. You have guys like that in your corner that you can reach
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out to and say, Hey man, I'm struggling with this thing. What do you think? Or maybe even you don't
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have to reach out. Maybe they recognize something and they call you. It's like, Hey man, I've noticed
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you've been off a little bit. What's going on? And there's some humility in there. And I'm using
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that word as opposed to the word vulnerable. I don't completely like that word. I get what people
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are saying. I don't think it's vulnerability. I think it's just being humble. Acknowledging that you
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don't have things all figured out, acknowledging that you aren't as good as you think you are,
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acknowledging that other people might be served by the lessons that you've learned. Some of the
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hardest lessons that we've learned, the painful agonizing lessons that we've learned. That's
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humility. And guys, we need to be humble. And if we are humble, we can find those other men who we
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can band with. Now, the problem is they're hard to find. Not only do you not know how to do it because
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you've never done it. And culturally, we've never been taught really how to do this with other men.
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But even if you did know how to do it, there's few and far men between that actually are interested
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in that. Why? Because they've been culturally conditioned not to do it either. But there are
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men out there and there are men who are interested in connecting. There are men who are interested in
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building up their band of brothers. And that's why we started. And here's where the self-serving
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part comes in. That's why we started the Iron Council. When I started Order of Man seven and a
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half years ago, it was difficult for me to find guys like this that were interested in developing
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and growing and maturing the same way that I was. And so, I created it. And we created the systems and
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the processes and the planning and the tools and everything that we needed to be able to help you
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tap into a network of men you already know who are motivated and ambitious. How do we know?
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Because they've raised their hand and they've got out their credit card and they've said,
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okay, I'm going to pay for this. I'm going to invest in myself. And I've had a lot of people
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say, oh, you know what? That's ridiculous. Men paying for friends. You're not paying for friends.
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You're investing in relationships. But you wouldn't say that about a woman unless it's a prostitute.
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You wouldn't say, oh, you're just paying just to have a woman's company. No, I'm investing in this
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woman because I love her. So, I take her to dinner and I buy her things on her birthday and on
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Christmas or just because. It's not a transactional thing. You do it because you're investing in that
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relationship. And yet, when it comes to men connecting with other men, it's like, oh,
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you're paying for friends. No, I'm investing in myself. I'm investing in other men who I know
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can, I can serve and they can serve me. And it's investment in each other. This is the way of
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community. We always invest in each other. It may not always be monetary. Maybe it's time. Maybe
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it's attention. Maybe it's resources. But if you care about something, you invest in it.
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So, look, if you have a band of brothers and look, I've had guys that have left the Iron Council
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because they have something local and that's awesome. I wish those guys well. In fact, most of the
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time I tell them, hey, if there's anything I can do, resources I can provide to you guys, happy to
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do that because I care about them. I want them to win. But if they have something there, great. If
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not, and you need to tap into this, then go where the winners are. And they're in the Iron Council.
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And even the guys that aren't winning, they're on the path to winning. Because look, I'm not winning
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in every part of life, but I'm trying to be on that path. And I'm trying to surround myself with
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other men who are there or actively working on getting there. So, you can check that out at
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orderofman.com slash Iron Council. All right, guys. So, where to start in your self-development
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journey as we finish up 2022 and move into 2023? Number one, get your butt to the gym. Or if you
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don't have a gym and you're using that as an excuse, just get your butt moving. Run, push, pull, lift,
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et cetera. Number two, find a hobby. And don't worry about whether or not I approve of it. It doesn't
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have to be jujitsu or archery. I think those things are good. I like those things. You might like those
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things too, but maybe you like something completely different. And I don't care. Nobody cares. What
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matters is it's something that's interesting to you and it makes you a more interesting, capable
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person. Number three, journaling. Give you a lot of prompts on how to journal. Number four,
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I will say that journaling, the one that I really like is how do you feel and get deep into how you
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feel? Because we just don't do that enough. Number four, organize your environment, your space,
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your car, your closet, your garage, your whatever, your computer. And then number five,
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banding with other solid men. If you have them in your area, do it. If not, or maybe you do and you
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want to expand that network, then check out the Iron Council. We have men everywhere, literally
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everywhere. And you can check that out at orderofman.com slash Iron Council. Guys, I want you to
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kick 2022's butt as we close this thing out. And I don't want you to wait until January 1st or 15th or 30th
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to get the ball rolling. Let's get some momentum right now so that when we hit January 1, 2023,
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we already hit the ground running. You guys get it. Okay. Exercise, hobby, journaling, organizing,
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and banding with other men. All right, guys, we will be back next week. Until then, go out there,
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take action, get developed or started on the self-development journey and become the man you
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are meant to be. Thank you for listening to the Order of Man podcast. You're ready to take charge of
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your life and be more of the man you were meant to be. We invite you to join the Order at orderofman.com.