Order of Man - January 13, 2023


Work⧸Life Balance Vs. Work⧸Life Integration | FRIDAY FIELD NOTES


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25 minutes

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205.80319

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5,251

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365

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Summary

In this episode, Ryan talks about the concept of work-life balance and how we can reclaim masculinity in all areas of our lives, from the workplace, to the home, to our community, and wherever it is that we are serving.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest. Embrace your fears and boldly chart
00:00:04.980 your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time. Every time.
00:00:10.440 You are not easily deterred or defeated. Rugged. Resilient. Strong. This is your life. This is who
00:00:17.160 you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,
00:00:22.700 you can call yourself a man. Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Michler.
00:00:27.460 I'm your host. I'm the founder of the Order of Man podcast. Welcome here today. If you are new,
00:00:33.140 I want to let you know that I want to give you all the tools and resources and conversations
00:00:37.740 that you need in your life so that you can reclaim masculinity in your own soul, in your own heart,
00:00:44.100 and also in your home, your business, your community, wherever it is that you're serving.
00:00:50.000 We've been downloaded this podcast anyways, tens of millions of times, and I am just so grateful
00:00:56.880 for you for listening. And I'm also very grateful that you're applying the information
00:01:01.400 that we're extracting from our guests, like Jocko Willink and Terry Crews and Tim Tebow and Tim
00:01:07.780 Kennedy and Andy Frisilla and Ben Shapiro, Matthew McConaughey. I mean, the lineup of the guys that we
00:01:14.680 have on this podcast is phenomenal. And that's a testament to the fact that they want to share the
00:01:19.760 message of manliness and masculinity and that you want to hear it. Today, I want to talk with you
00:01:24.420 about a very important issue, which is something that I hear a lot about. I hear it so often in
00:01:30.240 the Facebook group and in our exclusive brotherhood, the Iron Council. And that is the idea or the
00:01:34.820 concept of work-life balance, work-life balance. We're going to talk about that. And we're going
00:01:40.740 to talk about what I choose to look at it as, which is work-life integration. And we're going to talk
00:01:46.440 about the pros and cons of each. Now, look, I don't want to get tripped up over semantics.
00:01:50.040 So if you believe that I'm talking about work-life integration, you call it balance by all means,
00:01:55.320 or vice versa. I don't care what you call it. What I want you to understand is the principle of it.
00:02:01.020 Because once you understand the key, the five principles or the six, I think I have six
00:02:05.660 principles that I share with you, you're going to have an easier time balancing or integrating all
00:02:11.440 facets of your life. So let's break this down. Number one, there are no hats that we wear.
00:02:16.880 Okay. You'll often hear that. I got to put my dad hat on. I got to put my work hat on. I got to put
00:02:21.160 my clergy member hat on. I got to put the husband hat on. Guys, let's get rid of that thinking once
00:02:28.160 and for all right now. There's no change of hats, or at least there shouldn't be. There should only
00:02:33.280 be your life and what you do with it. Okay. There's, if you're wearing multiple hats, you are going to
00:02:39.520 be confused at times. You're going to be less effective, less efficient. If you have to be this person
00:02:45.180 over here and that person over here, and then you got to rush over here and there's no time to
00:02:48.380 transition between how you're showing up as a father to the time that you show up as an employee
00:02:53.080 or an employer, there's a lot of inefficiencies in that. And not to mention things are going to fall
00:02:57.700 through the cracks because what if you're playing dad role at work? I'm not going to work out very
00:03:02.240 well. What if you're playing work role at home? I know that's a struggle for me. And my wife will often
00:03:08.140 call me out on it and say things like, are you talking to me or are you talking to your guys?
00:03:13.160 And so I try to integrate all facets of my life so that I'm not a different person where
00:03:18.360 I show up. I want to be the same at work as I do at home, as I am in the community, as
00:03:23.960 I am with my friends, as I am on this podcast, because I don't need to remember what I'm doing
00:03:28.760 when and what hat and what my roles and responsibilities are. It's always the same across the board.
00:03:33.680 Protect, provide, reside. Now, the way we go about doing those things might be different in certain
00:03:39.960 areas of our lives. But at the end of the day, if you're being a completely different man at
00:03:44.560 different places, you're very inefficient and you're not honoring, I don't think, to the degree
00:03:49.020 that we can, we're not honoring the people that are in our lives. So let's get rid of the concept
00:03:54.580 that they're hats and that I have to transfer from one place to the other. And there's this abrupt
00:03:58.700 start and stop. No, it's continual. It's continuity. And that's the integration that I'm talking about.
00:04:04.580 Number two, you have to get your family involved in your business and you have to be involved in
00:04:12.120 the family. This is sometimes a challenge, but if there's opportunities to bring your kids into work,
00:04:19.140 to show them what you do, to help you even with a work project. Now I realize in not all professions
00:04:25.260 is that going to work, but if you can have your kids help you with work projects, if you can have
00:04:30.300 them see what your office looks like, if you can have them help you decorate maybe even your office
00:04:34.140 or you're helping them buy tools for you that you can use by giving them or your wife hints on what
00:04:41.400 maybe you, what tool you need so that you can grow out your business. Now all of a sudden they feel
00:04:45.600 part of the business. They don't look at it and think, well, you know, dad leaves at 8am and he
00:04:50.040 doesn't come home until six o'clock at night and I never see him and I don't know what he's doing.
00:04:53.880 No, if you can integrate them into your work process, then they're going to know. And not only are
00:04:58.860 they going to know, they're going to buy into the idea that you are going out to serve,
00:05:03.260 to help, to solve problems, to fix things with the solutions that you have, and they will be
00:05:09.400 ecstatic to be part of it. Now, the opposite of that is also true that you have to be involved in
00:05:16.200 the family unit. It's not enough for you to wake up and pat little Timmy and Tommy on the head and
00:05:23.240 then go to work for eight, nine, 10, 12 hours or longer in some cases, depending on your shift.
00:05:28.360 And then you come home and you eat dinner and maybe you ask about their day and then they go
00:05:33.660 to bed and you go to bed and you start that all over again, five to six days a week. That's not
00:05:39.720 enough either. What we must do. And this is a real struggle for me personally, because I love working.
00:05:45.720 I love my job. I love what I do. I love that. I get to talk with you guys.
00:05:48.940 So it's easy for me to gravitate towards that. But when I come home, I want to be present. Again,
00:05:55.100 I'm not always great at this, but I want to be available. I want to be present. I want to
00:06:02.420 know about their day. I want to be involved in their projects. If my youngest son, for example,
00:06:08.920 wants to do Legos, then that's what we'll do. We can talk and have fun and laugh and listen to music
00:06:14.900 together. Like we often do. If my daughter needs me to take her to dance practice, I don't have to
00:06:20.600 do that very often, but I've done that once or twice. I want to do that. If she wants to color,
00:06:25.900 go in the classroom and color, then that's what we're going to do. At dinner, we try to get together
00:06:31.180 as a family. We pray and we laugh and we ask about each other's day. Just last night, my daughter
00:06:37.100 started it off without our prompting. Hey, what was your favorite part of your day? And we go around
00:06:41.520 the table. We figured it out, but I want to be fully present. And look, I haven't always been
00:06:46.440 that way. And I'm not always to the degree that I want now, but if you are going to be separate at
00:06:51.280 times throughout the day, then do everything that you can to be involved with them. One of my fondest
00:06:56.880 memories, or I should say one category of my fondest memories is when I'm out on a hunt and my family's
00:07:03.020 here and I successfully harvest an animal. One of my favorite things is to send them a note,
00:07:08.600 a text and a picture of what I shot. And then I hear from them about how ecstatic they are,
00:07:14.380 how excited they are, how proud they are. But we don't do that for work, right? You close a deal.
00:07:19.760 You don't really share that with anybody. Why not share it with your kids? Why not bring it up with
00:07:24.020 your wife? Why not celebrate with them? Go out for dinner one night because you landed a big deal or
00:07:29.240 you increased your revenue or you paid off debt or anything that might've happened in your work life.
00:07:34.520 They want to know, they want to be part of it. So allow them to be part of your work and you become
00:07:39.660 part of their life, not just in being there, but actually being present and engaged.
00:07:46.740 Number three, this falls in line with number two as well. You have to actually explain what it is
00:07:52.600 you're doing on a daily basis. Because if you don't explain to your kids what you're doing,
00:07:57.980 they're going to come up to, or, or, or with solutions, they're going to come up with ideas
00:08:02.760 as to what you do. And it may or may not be accurate, but if you tell them, Hey, I go to work
00:08:08.280 every day and I record podcasts and I get to talk with these men. And I share that with other men who
00:08:15.480 can learn and grow and evolve because of the information that we're putting out. They want to
00:08:19.780 be part of that. They're excited about that. Often I'll have a guest, uh, just if it's a guest that
00:08:25.280 they would like, I'll ask if that guest would record a little, little hello, if you will,
00:08:30.480 a little cameo type thing, if you will, uh, so that I can show my kids, Hey, you know, Matthew
00:08:35.340 McConaughey, check it out. He was, he was thinking about you or the, or, or Terry Cruz did one for my
00:08:42.200 mom. Cause she's a big Terry Cruz fan fan. Like that's, that's integration. It's your, it's stacking
00:08:48.220 tasks. You're already there. Now make your, your family members a part of it, but expect communication
00:08:52.660 from them in return. So if you're going to open up and communicate about your day and look, even the
00:08:57.260 stuff that goes wrong, there's a lot of guys out there who will say, well, you know, you shouldn't,
00:09:02.000 you shouldn't unload your baggage on your family. It's not what I'm talking about. I'm not talking
00:09:06.700 about going to your eight or nine or 10 year old and complaining about why your boss is a dick and,
00:09:11.240 and why you're the client, you know, pulled their funds from you, or you lost a big deal. Like I'm not
00:09:18.280 talking about whining and crying about it. I'm talking about explaining to your children and
00:09:23.520 your wife that sometimes things are good. And sometimes things don't go according to plan,
00:09:27.140 but what are we doing about it? Here's how we're fixing it. Share that stuff with them,
00:09:31.300 the good, the bad, and the ugly as appropriate in context. But what I was getting at is that
00:09:36.480 you also need to ensure that they're communicating. And that might mean prompting from you asking about
00:09:42.240 their day, not how was your day? Cause that's a one word answer. That's a closed ended question.
00:09:46.940 Good. Okay. Well, I personally want more than that. So a better question might be,
00:09:51.840 what was the best part of your day? What was the worst part of your day? Why?
00:09:57.800 What did you want to do that you didn't? What kind of things are you going to do tomorrow?
00:10:02.640 What was the most exciting? Who did you talk with? How did that go? Like, these are all very powerful
00:10:08.560 questions as prompts to get them speaking and communicating with you. Again, it's about integration,
00:10:13.480 no hats, no differences between work and home. It's all one in the same. We might be in different
00:10:18.800 locations, but we're integrating. We're bringing work to the office and we're bringing the office to
00:10:24.080 home. All right. Number four is creating healthy boundaries. This is one I probably struggle with
00:10:31.740 the most. And the reason is, is because bear with me, bear with me there. I needed to grab my phone
00:10:40.480 because this is a problem. This phone can be a problem. It's a great solution, but it can also
00:10:46.920 be a problem. And it's a problem for me because it's a problem for me because I have work at my
00:10:55.580 fingertips at any point throughout the day or evening. I can access emails. I can access social
00:11:01.460 media, direct messages, text, all this stuff comes through that amazingly powerful little device,
00:11:07.020 but it's completely distracting and it keeps me from being present with my family. So I establish
00:11:13.600 rules that I don't necessarily get on that all the time. And I can feel when I do, I can feel me
00:11:18.980 just disengaging mentally, emotionally from the environment at home. If I tell my kids, Hey,
00:11:26.160 on Friday, I'm going to be home at two o'clock or I'm going to be available at two o'clock.
00:11:29.440 That's what I'm going to do. Again, I'm not always great at this. These are things that I'm
00:11:33.740 striving for. All right. So what I'm sharing with you is my ideal. I'm not saying that I uphold this
00:11:39.020 ideal all the time, every time. This is my ideal because I know when I do these things, it works
00:11:44.200 out really, really well. And when I don't do these things, it tends to go sideways. So I'm recording
00:11:50.220 this podcast on Wednesday, January 4th at four 30 five o'clock. I said I would be done because when my
00:11:57.620 youngest son gets back, he said he wants to do Legos. I said, great, I'll do Legos with you
00:12:01.040 when you get back. So I plugged that in. That's an appointment to me. I honor that. I cherish that.
00:12:06.520 I want to respect that time. And so I make sure it's not six, it's not seven. It's at five because
00:12:11.400 that's what I said. Now, had I said seven or six, that's fine too. As long as I establish those
00:12:17.880 boundaries, work doesn't come home. Meaning not that you can't talk about it because that was point
00:12:23.620 number three, but that you don't bring work home and do it while you're supposed to be home. That's
00:12:29.420 what I'm saying. And personal doesn't necessarily have to always come into the office. And there's
00:12:34.340 ways that you have to disengage with the personal stuff. I realize there may be some conflict in that
00:12:38.960 a little bit, but I think you get the point. We can integrate our family into our work environment
00:12:44.700 and we can integrate our work selves into our family environment, but we don't allow the two to
00:12:50.320 come at the expense of the other. I guess that's what I'm trying to say. And those boundaries will
00:12:55.820 keep it from turning into that. So when you're home, you're home. When you say I'm done with a
00:13:01.700 project, be done with a project. If you make a commitment, stick to it. If you're not going to
00:13:06.400 stick to it, don't make the commitment. Very simple. Which actually leads into point number five,
00:13:11.500 sticking to your commitments. You have to be a man of your word. I have to be a man of my word.
00:13:16.800 I have caught myself because one of my words of the year, and I'm really trying to focus on
00:13:24.360 a word or three words per year. One of them is honesty, being honest in all things.
00:13:33.140 And that, to me, when I think of honesty, I was in the driveway the other day, there was a piece of
00:13:37.720 trash. I stepped over the piece of trash and walked to my truck and I got to my truck door
00:13:42.060 and I opened the door. And in my mind, I was like, did you just step over that piece of trash?
00:13:48.660 And I shut the door, walked around, back around the truck to the driveway where the piece of trash
00:13:52.460 was. And I picked that piece of trash up, put it into the door of the truck, and I threw it away
00:13:56.260 later. To me, that's being honest because I want a clean environment. I know I'm supposed to do that.
00:14:02.360 So why would I not? Maybe it's an integrity issue. Maybe it's an honesty issue. But I've also
00:14:08.320 noticed just little things throughout the day. My daughter, several days ago, said,
00:14:13.920 hey, dad, do you want to color? I said, I can't right now, but I'll do it later.
00:14:17.740 And I caught myself in that moment because I knew that I was lying. I knew that later I couldn't do
00:14:24.280 it because I had other things going on, but I didn't want to let her down. And so I lied to her.
00:14:28.480 I said, I can't right now, but I'll do it later. Knowing full well later would never come.
00:14:31.840 I cannot tell you how many times, hundreds, if not thousands of times throughout the day over
00:14:38.180 the past three to four months, I've realized that I am so dishonest when it comes to the
00:14:45.060 commitments I'm making. And these are, the big things that we commit to, those aren't usually
00:14:51.360 too bad. It's the little things like, hey, I'll take out the trash. Hey, I'll fix the broken pipes
00:14:57.640 in the sink. Yes, I will go color with you. Yes, I will do Lego with you. Yes, I'll bring you to
00:15:02.300 practice. Yes, I'll pick you up from lifting at this time. Or yes, I'll get you a snack at the
00:15:07.860 convenience store. Whatever that commitment is. And you have to be very vigilant on the little
00:15:13.600 commitments because they soon become the big commitments that you are failing on repeatedly
00:15:19.360 over and over and over and over and over again. And that's how we as men erode trust with those
00:15:25.240 around us. If you want to learn more about the trust and authority and credibility with others,
00:15:29.660 you can pick up a copy of the masculinity manifesto. That's my book that came out earlier
00:15:33.740 in the year or last year, I guess now. And we talk a lot about building authority, credibility,
00:15:39.140 and trust. But the best way to do that is just stick to your commitments. Even if you have to
00:15:45.580 crawl through hell to make it happen for a little while, you should do that. Because if you made the
00:15:50.980 commitment and you're feeling pain with having to do it, good. Maybe next time we'll all be a little
00:15:55.680 wiser with what we promised to do. Look, it's not an issue to say, no, I can't do that. Or no,
00:16:01.980 I won't do that right now. That's okay. People expect that. Or they'll come to learn to expect
00:16:07.360 that from you because you have healthy boundaries and you care about your time. But it's not okay
00:16:12.260 for me to lie to my kids. It's not okay for me to let down my wife. It's not okay for me not to
00:16:17.740 have a podcast because I've committed to doing that. So it's, and it has, it has less to do with
00:16:22.380 you and more to do with my own honor, my own integrity with myself as I work to restore a
00:16:28.820 lot of that. And number five, with regards to work-life integration, I think you need to build
00:16:35.420 a business. I think you need a side hobby. Not, not, not even a hobby necessarily, but I think you
00:16:41.680 need to create some revenue from a side business. Now, when I say that, I think some of you might
00:16:46.340 believe, Ryan, I'm already, you know, capped out where I am and the time and everything else.
00:16:51.240 I promise you, you can squeeze an extra half an hour, an hour, maybe even two hours into every
00:16:55.580 single day. If you become hyper-efficient and building a business is an incredible thing
00:17:00.860 because if you're an employee relationship, which is fine, there's nothing wrong with that.
00:17:06.380 Excuse me. Nothing wrong with that type of relationship. Nothing wrong with that type of
00:17:11.720 work. It's not less noble or less manly to work with somebody else. I'm not saying that.
00:17:15.400 But I want you to have control, autonomy, authority, sovereignty, if you will, over
00:17:20.360 your own schedule, over your own time, over your own income and building a business, whether it's
00:17:26.000 underwater basket weaving or teaching people how to take pictures or doing graphic design or teaching
00:17:31.100 a podcast or teaching people basic woodworking skills or helping them build shelves or making
00:17:36.880 shelves and selling them or making tables and furniture and selling that, making paint, making art,
00:17:41.240 making music, cooking, teaching cooking classes. I mean, I got a thousand ideas and so do you,
00:17:47.240 by the way. But in the very next breath, when we think to ourselves, I would like to do this,
00:17:52.620 it's like, nah, I can't do that. I have somebody in my life who quite often does that.
00:17:56.420 Man, I've got this great idea. Here's what I'm going to do. Oh man, you should totally do that.
00:18:02.340 I don't know. The market's pretty saturated. I don't know. I'm kind of, I'm a little too old to
00:18:08.080 do it. I don't have the capital. I don't know how to do it. I don't know. That's like, oh my
00:18:12.420 goodness. How long are we going to tell ourselves that? Months? Years? Decades? I remember several
00:18:21.720 years ago. This was probably four or five years ago. I had ordered some fencing materials for our
00:18:27.780 backyard and the delivery driver came over to drop these supplies off. And I was there in the middle
00:18:33.920 of the day, one, two o'clock maybe. And he says, well, what do you do for work? You work here at
00:18:38.160 home? Like, what are you off? I said, I work here at home. He says, what do you do? And I told him
00:18:41.620 what we do with the order man podcast. He's like, oh man, it's like, I've had so many ideas on things
00:18:46.200 that I wanted to do. Like 10 years ago, I had this great idea and he told me what it was. I can't
00:18:50.780 remember. And I said, why didn't you do it? And he's like, ah, man, I just didn't have the time.
00:18:57.740 And it was, you know, it was hard. I didn't know what to do. Came up with all those lists of excuses
00:19:01.840 I just shared with you. And I said, well, why don't you do it now? You didn't do it 10 years
00:19:06.700 ago. Imagine where you'd be, but why don't you do it now? He's like, ah, I don't know. I don't have
00:19:11.520 very much time and I'm tired. I'm busy. Like all the same excuses 10 years later, guys regain some of
00:19:18.900 that control and that autonomy and authority over your life by building a business. I'm not saying
00:19:23.080 it needs to be a part-time job or a full-time job. I'm saying if you could make an extra $100, $200 a
00:19:28.160 week doing something you would love, that grows to $200 to $400, which grows to $6 to $8, which grows
00:19:33.200 to $1,000 a month. Now it's $10,000 a month. Now it's $20, $30, $40, $50, $80, $100,000 a month.
00:19:40.300 You don't even know what you're capable of because you're not willing to do it.
00:19:43.340 But what would that look like? What would your life look like if you had an extra 20 or 30 grand
00:19:48.980 in your bank account each year? What would your life look like if you were able to start a business
00:19:54.860 and completely replace what it is you're currently doing? What would your life look like? How much
00:20:01.440 time would you have available? What would your income be like? What would you be doing with that
00:20:05.040 time? How would you be spending it? Who would you be spending it with? If you have the desire and
00:20:11.100 inkling even to start a business, then you definitely should start a business.
00:20:15.580 Well, Ryan, I don't know what to do. I don't know where to start. Here's a couple of things.
00:20:19.420 What do you do when time's moving the fastest? Well, it's when I'm out in the shop and I'm
00:20:24.360 building benches and tables and furniture and cabinets. Hey, there's an alternative. There's a
00:20:30.280 route. Here's another prompt. What do people ask your advice on? Maybe it's marketing. Maybe it's
00:20:37.840 photography. Maybe it's life coaching. Maybe it's fitness. Maybe it's shooting guns. I don't know.
00:20:42.740 Whatever. If they're asking you about it, they see that you have some sort of aptitude and capability
00:20:47.180 to be able to be well and efficient in that thing. That's an opportunity. Here's one more.
00:20:54.960 What would you be doing if money were of no concern? What would you be doing if money were
00:21:00.380 no... Everybody pays your bills or your bills are all paid off. Somebody else is giving you groceries.
00:21:03.960 Like everything's taken care of. What would you be doing? People will come up with some wild ideas
00:21:10.380 and I'm not dismissing them. They're wild and they're great. And then again, in the very next
00:21:13.980 breath, they're like, yeah, but you know, that's going to take a long time. I can't make any money
00:21:17.380 doing that. Wrong answer. You can if you put forth the effort and the work. Guys, I want our lives to be
00:21:24.660 integrated. And again, to go back with where we started, I want them to be integrated because
00:21:29.080 this is life. Like this is all we have. One shot, guys. One single shot to make the most out of this
00:21:42.580 life. And if you haven't up to this point, because you're wearing dad hat, you're wearing boss hat,
00:21:47.700 you're wearing employee hat, you're wearing client hat, you're wearing husband hat, you're wearing
00:21:50.700 this hat and that hat and everything else. And you're just bouncing from place to place like the
00:21:54.720 winds and like a ping pong or a pinball machine. I don't think that's the life that you want to
00:22:01.380 live. At least it isn't the life I want to live. Now, when I started Order of Man almost eight years
00:22:07.220 ago, I came to this realization and I started this podcast on the side while I was doing my
00:22:11.040 financial planning practice. It's since turned into this global movement, which is phenomenal,
00:22:15.480 but I never had that idea. But guys, I want us to be the same across the board, more efficient,
00:22:20.780 we'll get more work done, we'll live more fulfilled lives, we'll be able to serve others,
00:22:25.280 we'll actually be in the lives of the people that we care about most, namely our spouses and our
00:22:28.880 children. And enough with the balance thing. If you look at a balance, look at a scale, like an
00:22:35.040 old time scale, right? And it's got a bar across, pardon me, I don't know the official term, but it's
00:22:41.100 got a bar across the top and then it's got a little basket on each one of those and it swivels in the
00:22:45.460 center. And you put work and stuff over here and you put this over here and it's like, you're going
00:22:53.280 to do activity after activity just to keep that thing balanced, right? Oh, work's getting a little
00:22:58.660 heavy, little heavy, little heavy, little heavy. I'm not doing as much at home. I got to do some
00:23:02.200 home, home, home, home, home. And it's like back and forth. If you're not seeing what I'm doing with
00:23:05.960 my hands, you can go check out the YouTube channel, Order Man on YouTube. Anyway, so it's going back and
00:23:11.540 forth and back and forth. And you know, the problem with that is, is usually you don't realize that you
00:23:17.480 need to make a correction until it's getting bad. It's kind of like driving on ice. You're driving
00:23:23.000 down the road and you hit a patch of ice and you start to swerve to the right. And what do you do?
00:23:27.880 You overcorrect. And because you overcorrect and spin the wheel to the left as hard as you can,
00:23:33.040 you end up in the ditch or swinging back to the right, or you roll your car and you create
00:23:38.540 collateral damage. That's what balance creates. But integration, there's no separate scales. It's
00:23:47.640 like work and personal life and family life and personal. It's all weaved together. It's all
00:23:53.200 important. And I go all in with all of those things. I hope that makes sense to you. If you
00:24:00.300 have additional questions, thoughts, considerations, ideas, pointers, tips, this work-life balance thing
00:24:07.300 is something that gets brought up all the time. And so at a minimum, I'd hope that you would
00:24:12.100 adopt the mantra of not work-life balance, but work-life integration, much more efficient,
00:24:20.440 much more effective, much more profitable, and ultimately much more fulfilling.
00:24:25.500 All right, guys, that's all I've got for you. If you want to support what we're doing, please do.
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00:25:08.600 talked about that a little bit as it comes to building trust and influencing credibility.
00:25:13.400 All right, guys, that's all I've got for you. You've got your marching orders.
00:25:16.380 Let's integrate our lives and let's go out there and become the men we are meant to be.
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