228. How Big Is Too Big? Expanding Your Vision Without Losing Your Soul

You weren’t meant to live small.
But chasing vision without wisdom? That’ll crush you.

In this episode of The Impossible Life, Garrett and Nick unpack what it really means to expand your vision—not through hype or hustle, but through God-anchored clarity and discipline.

This is the blueprint for men who know they’re called to more, but refuse to sacrifice their soul or their family to get there. Whether you're launching a business, building a ministry, or just hungry for more meaning—this conversation will sharpen your direction and challenge your limits.

🔥 In This Episode:

• Why most men aim too low and call it humility
• How to know if your vision is from God or your ego
• The role of discipline, patience, and obedience in expanding territory
• Why bigger isn’t always better—but clearer always is
• How your current capacity is a ceiling you're called to break
• Why vision needs structure, not just inspiration

📖 Key Scriptures:

• Proverbs 29:18 – Where there is no vision, the people perish
• Habakkuk 2:2 – Write the vision and make it plain
• Luke 14:28 – Count the cost

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Vision is not control. A lot of people try to
like control and manufacture something to be a certain way. No,
there's there's a great faith element that underlines your vision. Like, Hey,
this is the way, this is the type of experience
I want to have. This is what I want our
time to be like. And you just control only the
things that you can control and leave the rest up
to God. And if you'll have if you'll practice your

(00:22):
vision in these short things, Hey, this is who I'm
going to be at work next week. This is the
way that I'm going to treat my fitness in this quarter. Right,
If you'll practice and exercise your vision in this way,
you'll be able to see further.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
That's impossible.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Let me tell you what I believe.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
What's your weakness? It's not your technique. Don't think you
know you the Impossible Life Podcast. I mean you're sitting
on a winning lot of sects, an idea that is
fully formed, fully understood, that sticks.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
This is the Impossible Life Podcast because Nick and I
are attempting to live impossible lives. What we know is
that nothing is impossible. So instead of using impossible as
an excuse to not try, we'll use the pursuit of
impossible as an accelerant for greatness. If something's never been
done before, that just means it's unexplored. If they tell

(01:20):
you it's too hard, it's just waiting to be simplified.
Impossible as a default label used by uncourageous people unwilling
to take a risk.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
The real truth is this.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
The solution to any impossible task starts with this question,
if I had to, what would it take?

Speaker 2 (01:39):
What would it take? Welcome to another episode of the
Impossible Life podcast. I'm your co host, Nick Surface, and
I'm looking across at a man who recently had his
eyesight checked and the results came back as X ray.
That's right, friends, Skart, Uncle Buck, a man who can

(02:00):
see the future and gaze into your soul.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
I thought that's good. I thought you were going to
thank you when when you started that when I thought
you were going to go laser. So I was a
little surprised by X ray.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah. Well, you know, I like to keep you on
your toes and I think I think I've said you
have frickin lasers for eyes. That's like I at some point,
and this is probably never gonna happen, but like I
envisioned a compilation of my intros because I've forgotten. I mean,
I have them all written down, but there's definitely a
lot that I've forgotten. Because I'll have people be like, oh,
you did this intro and I'm like, oh, yeah, I
forgot that one.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
So you're the guy that's like, I've forgotten more jokes
than you've ever told.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
I will definitely not be that guy, but maybe it's true. Anyways.
All Right, so today's today, man, So I'm excited to
talk about today how to expand your vision because vision
is is man. I will say that I don't think
it's something. I think everybody has an idea of what
they think vision is. And when you actually can capture
how powerful vision is, it is like a life changing

(02:53):
I don't know whether Yeah, I think I was called
a skill. It's like a life changing skill and force
to grab hold of.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
It's a force when I when I the Navy put
me through rally racing school, they told they showed us.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
And taught us.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
And this is like in driving fast cars down dangerous
roads aka life, they showed us how important it is.
Like they taught us, like your eyes drive the car
right right where you look is where you're going to go.
And so vision is so important because this is you know,
it's it's figurative or metaphorical vision, not just what you
can see with your eyes, but what you see with

(03:26):
your life. What you see is telling you where you're.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Going to go.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
When I went through Hell week, really interesting. I mean
it was just poetic timing. The day that we showed
up to San Diego to Coronado, we're driving on base.
So like you know my story getting to the Navy.
You go to boot camp which is in Chicago, which
is so strange for the Navy. Yeah, you think boot
camp would be like Florida or San Diego.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Chicago is known for it's great oceans, so you know
it makes sense.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Right, Navy boot Camp Chicago. You do pre buds out
there another eight weeks of like athletic training, preparing for
seal training. And so after that you fly to San
Diego and I'm driving onto the This is like this
is there's a lot, it is like nervous.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
This is all I should imagine.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
You're driving onto the seal compound for the first time
in a bus. They pick up my whole class at
the airport, we're driving on in a bus and as
we're driving on to Base, driving to the Buds compound
to go check out, we see a class that had
just finished Hell Week. Right, these guys were in whatever.
We all know the process. Right on walk Week, the
week after Hell week is the for all of Buds.

(04:30):
You have to run like we literally you run everywhere.
You're not allowed to walk. As a BUD student, you
have to run at all times. Think just think about
that with that, you know, if you want to lose
some weight, like, yeah, just right everywhere.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Walking is secured.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, there's no walking, But we see this class that's walking,
and so you automatically know these guys are on walk week,
which is the week after Hell Week, and that's also
the timing for the classes. The next class shows up
at that time. But we just happened to as we're
driving on to Base see this class walking. But they
were not a bunch of students walking. These guys are

(05:03):
on crutches. These guys had broken ribs. Their faces are
all swollen. They look like the bus we were on
drove over them, reversed back over them, and then sped
off like they were in trouble and ran them over
a third time, like, that's what this class of students
looked like, and the like the instant thought in my
mind was I'm going to finish whole week, but I

(05:23):
won't look like that. And I just continued to develop
this picture, which, if you know, my story turned into
later on before right before we started Hell Week, I
told my classmates or the guys in my boat crew,
that I'm going to finish Hell Week, but on Saturday,
when everyone goes to medchecks and they're on crutches and
they're shafed and you know, their head is swollen, I'm

(05:46):
going to go for a run on the beach by myself.
I had determined not just that I would finish, but
what I would look like when I finish, And I
had this very clear picture of completion.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, and that clarity is I think one of the
underrated parts of How much did you think about that
when you were in Hell Week?

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (06:02):
It was every time that we were going through like
really difficult stuff, this vision, like this vision reminded me
of this is where I'm going, right, So I had
to act in accordance with that. Right you've heard me
talk about My dad would say to me all the
time growing up, I wish I had a camera so
you could see yourself right now, And there's all these

(06:24):
things go together. One of the things they say in
the seal teams is rule number one is look cool
at all times.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Right.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
And that's not like a vanity arrogant statement, Like if
you don't look like a Navy seal, you're probably not
being a very good one, right right, Like you could
go go take a picture of and I'm not hating
on any branch of service, So go take a picture
of insert any branch of services, General Infantry or general security.
What they look like holding security versus what Navy seals

(06:51):
look like holding security. Holding security is like posting up
in a perimeter or being in an alert position. And
Navy seals look a little bit cooler when they do it.
Why because they're just trying to look cool. No, because
they're very aware of every little detail about the things
that they do. When I was getting beat down, when
we were going through push ups, when we were going
through rock portage, all of these events, I'm thinking about,

(07:14):
I'm not just going to finish, but I'm going to finish.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well, yeah, how many people? I really man? What a
great intro, because I really hope a lot of people
grasp this. My mind immediately went to something Garrett has
said to me, and he says it to the men
and Mighty Men from time to times when we're doing
push ups. So every Saturday morning, if you don't know,
we do mighty Men, and Garrett leads us through push
ups and their command push ups, and I will tell
you I've gotten to do the command push ups a
few times when you're the one giving the command.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Forty command push ups, yeah, is equal to like sixty
five on your own push ups.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
That's what I was going to say. It's so much
easier when you're giving the command as opposed to receiving it.
So like, I'll hang out at the bottom. Sure, we
can hang out here, burn out our pecks. I'm like,
I feel great, and I'll have guys after us be like,
oh dude, take it easy on us, and I'm like,
I didn't think that was hard. So g puts us
through this all the time. So what happens, sure enough,
and Garrett knows how to mess the people's heads. He'll
have us hang out at the bottom. So you're at
the bottom holding off the ground, which is gonna burn

(08:04):
your shoulders and pecks out. Then he'll bring us up
and he'll do a few of those, and then he'll
crank up the pace and we could be at like
fifteen at that point, and you can already see guys
out there going, oh my gosh, he's gonna like they're
already kind of mentally falling apart.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
So you start hearing noises, especially the guys who are new, right,
because they're not familiar with the unknown distances exactly. And
so like the rest of us, if you've been around
Garrett or you know him, or you've done this a
few times, you're like, we're just gonna go, and every
once in a while you surprise us as well. I
think about some specific examples that you don't need to
be shared.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
But what happens is you start hearing guys go like
ah ah, they start making like these and that's where
my insert pops right.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
I wish you could see yourself right now, yeah, And
I wish you could hear yourself right now, right, And
because you don't sound strong, right, And that's exactly how
GARYL say no girly noises like aka buck up, Like
if you're gonna if you're gonna suffer, at least suffer
and like keep something about you, about have a vision
for who you are and who you want to be
that you're not gonna sit there and be like oh
and like start letting all your weakness out.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
And it's sound. You may think like, oh, that's weird
or that sounds harsh, but it's having that understanding of like, no,
I still have there's a way I want to appear
at all times, and having a resoluteness about who you
are and how you show up in those things. I'm
telling you it's powerful. Don't if you think what I'm
saying sounds ridiculous, it's because you haven't grasped this and
you haven't experienced it. When you experienced what it is
to be in a really difficult moment to remind yourself,

(09:21):
hang on a minute, this isn't how I want to
show up and you can instantly change. Man, that's so powerful.
And so I would say, like, as we get into vision,
understand what Garrett just said. He went through what many
would say is the most difficult week of military training
and was able to come out on the other side
of it in an uncommon way because he set himself
a vision and so it's not that you would necessarily
be going through hell week yourself, although I know we

(09:42):
will have some people who are tadpoles that listen to this,
But like, you need to have a vision in your life,
and I think people get so, like I said, everyone
has a definition of vision. Some people I think get
intimidated by because they see a visionary like Elon right,
and they go like, well, I'm not him or Walt Disney.
I mean there's a few like real visionaries, but it's
we're not.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Elon is a bi centennial man people like might come
along every one hundred to two hundred years.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
So yeah, maybe don't compare yourself, right, But well, but
what can you learn from him? So I think about
he recently did this vision of the future and it
was around autonomous driving, right, And we're gonna get into
the definition of vision, but think about what he did.
He basically used his resources to show people what could
be of the future. And if you saw that launch,
I mean a lot of people were terrified because he
had those AI robots like marching out looking like something
from like Terminator or I Robot or whatever insert movie. Yeah, exactly.

(10:30):
You're like, oh, so this is this is where we
all celebrate the end of the world. Yeah, this is
where we celebrate our future rulers. Awesome. But what he
also did was he he said, what could a world
with autonomous driving be? And I looked at this. I
watched this thing multiple times, so I thought it was
so amazing. He took really well known places like aerial
shots of Lax, which if you've flown out of Lax
you know what an absolute parking lot that place is,
and really that whole city is. And he took all

(10:52):
these places.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
He and I were just talking yesterday in random conversation
about how terrible because it's.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Awful, Like, no matter what turn terminal you go to,
you are fighting to get like your spot on the
curve or whatever you gotta do.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
I saw this Instagram video of a guy like pretending
to be an airport designer, like just throwing shade at
the guy like who designed this.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, oh you got his inspiration from a coke bottle
clearly anyways, but but you so you look at this
vision of the future. And what he did was he said,
if a world of autonomous driving meant that cars were
always in use, and he gave all these stats about
how often they're parked. He's like, look what we could do.
And he took all these famous parking lots like and
he took like big sports stadiums and instead of having
a parking lot, they had a park and like at Lax,

(11:33):
instead of all the parking lots, they had once again
like greenery and I mean and they showed you over
like you see what it is, and then suddenly it
kind of slow fades and changes into the new one
and you're like wow, yeah, and imagine a world exactly
without parking lots, right, And you sit there and go like, well,
I've not thought about that, but actually and you start
to see it and what does it do to see something
that people haven't seen exactly? And so what does it do?
It stirs you. It's there's something about vision that moves you.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
And what's you bring up a really great point, because
when you have a a strong vision, when you have
a clear vision, there are people that will not like
you for it.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Right.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
There's people that will disagree with you. There's people that
will say that you're foolish or that your ideas are foolish.
The same way I mean I had people tell me
my visions were foolish. People think, like you, that's stupid.
You can't you know, cars have to park somewhere. Where
are the car is gonna go?

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Right? Yeah? People will not I mean, people will not
understand you. And what's hard is when it's people close
to you. You like to talk about Elon crime because
of what Neil Armstrong said about landing people on the moon.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, Neil said that privatization of the Space Force is wrong,
right right, Like he said that the government should do
this and that was his hero, right.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
And you know what, I don't know Neil Armstrong or Elon,
So I can't come on that. But what I will
say is when you get real clear vision in your life,
it will it will alienate you from some people. There's
no better. I don't know that I can say it
in a nice way. Some people will, like you said,
they'll not only not understand, they'll think that you're an idiot.
They and they'll throw their stones at you from a
well meaning place. A lot of times people can't see

(13:00):
what you see, right, and so because they want to
protect you or whatever.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
Pastor Josh was just talking about that the other day
and the story of Jesus's family, right right, Jesus' family.
They were well intentioned, yep, like telling you, hey, Jesus,
like you can't you can't be saying that stuff. They're
gonna You're gonna get in trouble. And and and Jesus
in that moment basically like disowned his family and said,
you know, you don't know.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, he said, who are my mothers? Who are my brothers?
Those who do the world of God? Of God? And
it's like, oh, because they're like Jesus, your mother and
brothers are at the door. And he just immediately was like, hey,
here's who my mother and brothers of Jesus had really
clear identity and really clear vision. Yeah, I didn't say
he had the clearest identity of vision of anyone who's
ever walked the face of the earth. All right, so gee,
we've said what is vision? Then, man Like, because we've
we've given examples, what.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Is My friend Joe Musselman has a great definition of vision.
Joe's episode seventy. I want to be like sixty eight
or seven or somebody all we're in there, but my
friend Joe Musselman, who I'm getting to spend a lot
of time with recently. His definition of vision is it's
the world that you wish to create. And really, the

(14:04):
way that I like to talk about vision I do.
I tell a story and I'm not going to tell
it here, but I tell a story that it aligns
with the Israelites going into the Promised Land. It's the
question that I've had to answer in my life. It's
the question you have to answer for your life, which
is what do you see? Right, that's a reflection of
your vision. When josh One Caleb looked at the Promised Land,

(14:25):
they saw the land that God had for them. When
the other ten spies looked at the Promised Land, they
saw difficulty and challenge, and they didn't think that they
could do it. They were looking at the same thing,
but they saw something different. And the question of your
life is what do you see? What is the picture
that you have for yourself that goes beyond your eyesight?
Because all twelve spies their eyes saw the same thing,

(14:47):
but Joshua and Caleb saw something different, different vision, and
so there's different things that feed into that.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Vision as well. Yeah, and that's so good and really
capture that because you can have a vision that's not
from God and it can still be very powerful and
shape your life. My father inlaw, by the way, Joe
Musselman's episode sixty seven, I'll link to it because that
he talks a lot about purpose and story and story
in which are parallel to the vision. Yeah, because from
a vision, you'll develop a story. But we're not going

(15:13):
to get into that on this episode. But my father
in law, who was also on the podcast, which is
nice that people actually know who we're talking about. So
Gwynn said to me my favorite definition of vision because
for us as followers of Christ, this is what vision is.
For us. It's seen the mind of God in the
presence of God. Right, and you want to talk about
getting a great vision for your life, start spending time
with the one who wrote the story for your life,
and you will. You will begin to develop vision in

(15:34):
areas and see things and and it'll create a desire
in you from a place of God showing you. I mean,
you think about like Joseph had a vision that's one
of your favorite stories and look how.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, I mean a lot of people would would say
that dream and vision are interchangeable. They're they're similar, they're
not quite interchangeable, but out of his dream. Joseph had
a literal dream of his brother's bowing down to him.
He had a vision of being a leader. Yeah, and
so even in all the places that he wasn't And
this is this is why I love his story so much.

(16:06):
When he was in the opposite of a leadership position,
when he was a slave in Potterfard's house, he acted
like a leader. He acted like the one that everyone
would bow down to because he knew where he was going.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
He said the same way that I looked at, you
know what, any specific evolution and buds trending. I was saying,
how would the guy who goes for a run on
Saturday after a hell week look in this situation? Joseph
looked at his situation in slavery and said, how would
the man that they're all going to bow down to act.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
In this situation? Yeah? What I love about that man
is that I know that you think that way. And
then I think there's a reason why you've always been
drawn to Joseph's story, because like what you did in
hell week and you continue to do in your life
is is very I would say parallel with that. Now,
one of it's.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
It's a great underline of faith as well, which is
very The vision requires faith because you're believing that what
you can't what many people would define faith that way
is believing beyond what you can see. And vision is
seen beyond what you can see.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Very good.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
And Joseph had no evidence in his life that everyone
would bow down to him right he could see it.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
And similar to how faith is a gift from God
as we're told, like we all get a measure of
faith as a gift from God. You have if you
get into God's presence, that is where you will develop
your vision. Now here's what I want to encourage people
on is it takes reps to develop vision. It's like anything.
If you could just sit down and be like, well,
hey what am I? What am I? What am I
going to do with my life? What do I see
from my life? Like I mean, if you want to
challenge yourself, ask yourself this, what do you see for

(17:36):
your marriage, or your family, or your career? Literally pick
any area of life. What do you pick? What do
you see for your finances? Most people will be like
like a lot of people will ask the question what
do they want? And they're not very good at answering that.
So when you say, what do you see, it's like,
I don't know. I see that, I don't know. We're
going to go on vacation in a few months, yeah,
and hopefully we have fun. Yeah. And so I want

(17:58):
to encourage you. You this repetition, And that's why I
said that this is a concept that most people think
they have an idea, but they don't realize how powerful
of a force this really is.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
Well, you need to you need to really exercise your
vision in this way. Like you don't go from like
I don't have vision to like I can see the
end of my life and I know how to bring
it into into being. Take something like a vacation that
is two months away and say like, Okay, here's what
I want this vacation to be like. And also understand
that vision is not control. A lot of people try

(18:29):
to like control and manufacture something to be a certain way. No,
there's there's a great faith element that underlines your vision, like, hey,
this is the way, this is the type of experience
I want to have, this is what I want our
time to be like. And you just control only the
things that you can control. And leave the rest up
to God. And if you'll have if you'll practice your
vision in these short things, Hey, this is who I'm

(18:49):
going to be at work next week. This is the
way that I'm going to treat my fitness in this quarter. Right,
If you'll practice and exercise your vision in this way,
you'll be able to see further, and see further, and
see further. This is where I kind of I relate
a little bit of vision to kind of a lot
of things come back to shooting. For me, I think
there's a shooting is very prints. It's physics based. There's

(19:11):
a ton of physics that go into shooting. So I
like to make some of the parallels there. And if
you want to shoot, like people don't go to the range.
Like on day, I've never shot a gun before, I'm
going to shoot twelve hundred yards today. Yeah that was
my first day, right, Like even people who shoot guns,
like four hundred yards seems like a long range to them, right,
But if you get around the right people and you
get some of the right training, shoot twelve hundred yards,
shoot fourteen hundred yards becomes very possible.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
That's great. But you don't go to the range.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
The first day and just shoot that far, like, hey,
we're going to do like some basics and try to like,
you know, put a few bullets together on paper at
twenty five yards. But the more you practice, the more
you get reps, you begin to be able to shoot
further and further and further. And there's two things that
are required to be able to shoot long range. And
the where I'm gonna parallel these things is the two
elements is identity and vision. We're not going to talk

(19:57):
about identity today, but I'm going to bring this this
metaphor together and we're going to use vision out of it.
But if you want to shoot really far, you need
two things. Basically, you need a stable platform, and you
need range. You need bullets that can go that far,
and you need to be able to see that far.
You can see far with your eyes and buds. They
trade it. They teach us to shoot six I shot

(20:18):
six hundred yards iron sights, really right, I shot a
fifty I shot a fifty gallon barrel at six hundred
yards with iron sights. You have to every seat like
it's one of the final evolutions on the island. In
third phase, right, you run this nasty combat course where
you swim in, you set explosives. It's like the final
culmination of everything you've done in seal training. You swim in,

(20:41):
you do an OTB, you do a change out, long
range run, set explosives, moving and shooting, and then a
long range shot at the end of this like difficult course,
a six hundred yard iron sight shot. But I say
that to say you've got to have range. You've got
to be able to see far, like with your eyes
or or telescopically with a scope, but you also have

(21:03):
to have a stable platform. If you don't have a
stable platform, you may be able to see far, but
you're not going to be able to hit anything. And
what I want to relate this back to is identity
is the stable platform in your life, and vision is
the range that you have. You need to have both
of them to be extremely effective. So we're not going
to get into identity today. We've talked a lot about identity.

(21:23):
But even assuming the stable platform that you have, you've
got to be able to see far. You need those
long range bullets. You need a long range scope. And
what many people have in their life is they don't
have the range. They're not looking very far. So you know,
I'm saying all of this to say, I want you
to practice your shooting, practice your vision, begin to look
further and further down the road. For me, the story

(21:46):
that we started with today, that was just six that
was I mean, that was just a couple of months, right,
I got there and two months later I went through
Hell week.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Right.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
But so for that two months I could see that
vision and it was a part of other things. I mean,
there's I would say, unclear picture that's just becoming more
and more clear in my life. But since I was
about thirteen years old, I believe that there's a great
plan for my life, right, and I've been searching after
that and seeking after that. So anyways, that's vision, how
it works together with identity, and how you need to

(22:15):
exercise your vision and continue to look further and further
and know that there's.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Faith to it. But you have the ability to see.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
And bring things into past, yeah, and really capture that
because Garrett said you should look at like that vacation
or whatever.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
That is so powerful. People will all have done this
and they won't have noticed it, like, oh, I've got
my wedding day coming up, or I've got X, and
so I'm going to get in great shape for that thing,
and they'll do it.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
I don't want this to sound arrogant, but nothing in
my life that I have right now has happened by accident,
right right, The marriage that I have, I saw it,
the way that Mighty Men is today, I saw it,
The way that my business is operating today, I saw it.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
Right.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
These are things that I've been looking at and working
towards for a long time.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Right. And the clearer that you get it, because like
you can say I'm going to get in good shape
and you get just better than what you are when
you started, or you can have like so clearly defined,
like I'm going to have a six pack, I'm going
to like you have a lot. What a lot of
people will do is they'll look at somebody else and go,
I'm going to look like that, and they'll start building me. Arnold,
if you hear his story, he would look at himself
and be like, okay, I need to add a little

(23:18):
bit to this delt. Yeah, And he would literally look
at himself like this, that's exactly right, and he would
just be like, Okay, this is what I'm going to
work on and you might think that's crazy, but like
if you can understand it in the physical, there's lots
of non physical like you talked about, like your marriage,
where you can start to go like, this is what
it's going to look like. And when I say non physical,
I mean because it's like, Okay, you can see your
marriage like it's me and my wife, but to actually

(23:39):
see how you interact and the harmonious and the connection
and all those things, that's where you The more you
do this, the better you'll get. And here's what a
lot of people have is they have default vision. And
what default vision is is you it ends up being
like a blueprint for your life. And you'll hear people
where they'll realize they've bumped into vision or they've they're
falling down. Is they'll say, I just thought my life

(23:59):
would look there, or I thought i'd be further along,
or I thought and it's like, well, where did you
get that from? And for most people, it's usually because
it's what they saw around them, right, they just became
like what they saw around them, and so they thought
that they would follow some blueprint or maybe just a
little bit better than what they saw around them. And
then if they don't they go in? I thought it
would be better, and it's like, well, how clear was

(24:19):
that in your mind? Usually not very clear, because I
mean Prover's twenty ninety eighteen says, without vision, people cast
off restraint. And so if you don't or the people perish,
the people perish. Right, You depend on what translation you
look at. If you don't have a vision for your life,
why wouldn't you go hook up with X person and
drink this or ingest this? Like why not just eat,
drink and be merry because tomorrow you'll die? Right, Like,
It's like it sounds fun in the moment, so I'm

(24:41):
going to do it. Whereas if you have an actual
clear vision of what you want to become, those things
seem like utter foolishness. If you're saying you want to
be a fitness like you want to be really in
great shape, and someone's like, hey, let's go to the
fast food buffet. That's easy, I mean, and we laugh.
But it's an easy choice. But there's so many things
in our life that we make decisions based on like
will it be fun? Well, there's lots of things that

(25:01):
are fun, but that doesn't mean that they're actually going
to take you anywhere you want to go. So you're
having fun all the way down to the bottom, and
then you hit the bottom, you're like, man, what's my life?
And that is default vision if you're not careful.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
Most fun I've ever had is being being partially miserable
but doing some of the most meaningful things in my life. Yeah,
I love I love fun, But just like alcohol or
many of the other vein pursuits like humor, can be
empty as well, right, And it's a lot funnier, like

(25:32):
to me, Like, one of the funniest moments is, like
you've heard me tell this story before. In the middle
of hell week, my peanut butter and jelly gets washed
out of my hands.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
This was like my tiny moment of joy.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
And I looked at my friend Matt next to me,
and all I could do was laugh because it was
either laugh or cry and quit.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Right, Yeah, it's funny you say that because while you
were saying, I hadn't really thought about it. But every
time we've done something difficult, I look back on her
really fondly. It's funny, Yeah, which is which is odd because, like,
you know, some of the worst pain I've had was
I say probably in one hundred how term it was, Yeah,
but I actually think about them, like, man, I would
do that again tomorrow. What I wouldn't do is the training,
but but I would happily just go go out there

(26:08):
and suffer for sure. But Okay, so what we're hoping
you get to and we're going to give you, We're
going to give you three ways to expand your vision.
But what we hope you get is that you would
have vision in every area of your life. Garrett and
I actually do this at our fast Track every year
is we help people cast their goals for the year
in the last track. Tell about the fast Track. Sorry.
Fast track is what we've been doing the past couple
of years is when we do the Cold Punch, which

(26:30):
we do on New Year's Day every year, we do
a giant ice bath. We had over one hundred and
fifty people last year, which was an awesome experience, and
then we would do a fast Track afterwards where we
would have I think we've limited it to twenty people
would come in and we literally take them through prioritization,
goal setting, and vision for your life so that because
everyone wants to have the best year of their life,
we give you the actual framework of just saying don't

(26:52):
just say that and like charge out of the gate
with a lot of good intentions and then fall down
by February, come out and have a very clear prioritization
of your life. Ak where you put your time and resource.
Once you understand your priorities, learn in line with your vision.
You know what goals to set. Because the person who's
like you know setting goals like I'm going to make
one million dollars this year. It's like you make fifty
thousand dollars this year? Right now, how are you going

(27:13):
to get to a million? I'm just going to do it,
that's my goal. Okay, Well, are you willing to sacrifice
your family any other time you have for spare pursuits
and pretty much everything else, because that needs to be
your absolute number one where you give seventy to eighty
hours a week. Are you ready to do that? Well?
I can't do that. Well?

Speaker 1 (27:28):
Uh, the when I when I teach people one of
my core beliefs, which is you can have anything you
want as long as you're willing to pay the price
for it. Right, it's a core belief you you you
must have it. I think if you want to really
succeed in life. But when I teach people that, I say,
you've you all know that life's not fair, right, And
so what does that mean? If life's not fair, that

(27:50):
means some people have to pay more than others. Right,
There's many things in my life that I that people
could look at me and say that's not fair.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Right?

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Right? Why does he get that? Yeah, I got things
that other people don't have.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
That's not up to me.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
God is sovereign, not Garrett, right, thank the Lord. Right,
I've been and there's things in my life that have
been not fair against me. But the point that I'm
making is you can have anything you want as long
as you're willing to pay the price for it. Some
people like Jacob have to pay double price. Some people
have to pay triple price.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
And you can.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
If you want to go from fifty thousand dollars to
a millionaire in a year, some people can. Some people
do it in three months for sure, and some people
it takes them seven years. You can do it. You
just have to be willing to pay the price. And
if you don't always know what that price is. Jacob
thought it was seven years, but for him it was fourteen.
I would say, you never know what the price is.
It's always more than what you think. But here's a

(28:38):
little mindset shift. If you don't like what Garrett said
about it's not fair, it's not fair that you're born
in America. If you're listening to this in America in
the most prosperous time in all of humanity, So what
did I think America is like less? It's like fifteen
percent of the world population, right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
So you lucked out? Yeah, and if you're outside of this,
I'm sure you could look around and go. Actually, in regardless,
you're in the most profitable time that's ever been for
human kind on Earth.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
So your chances of dying of disease and starvation are
at an all time historical low.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Yeah, which seems and you take it for granted, and
that's how you know how unfair it is. But the
point being is we're not plugging anything for it, because
obviously this is we're recording this in July. But I'm
just telling you what we do because the goal that
we would love for every person what will change your
life is when you have a vision for all eight
areas of your life, which is your spirituality, it's your marriage,
it's your family, it's your friendships, it's your finance, it's

(29:26):
your business, it's your rest, and it's your health. Those
eight areas. If you get vision in those and even
if it's not a great vision to start with, and
you get better, I'm telling you, man, it will change
your life.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
If you don't have vision in those areas, you'll end
up sacrificing one for the things that you do have vision. Yeah,
very good, And I was, well, I'll share this last point,
then we'll move on. I was talking with one of
my team members the other day, uh, and he was
he's younger than me and at the beginning of starting
his family, and he was just asking me for some
thoughts around like you know, like how do you how

(29:57):
do you do it?

Speaker 2 (29:58):
How do you have a good family?

Speaker 1 (29:59):
And like he's like, you know, see, you know you
and your wife have a great relationship, you have kids,
and you do all this stuff, like how does that
work out?

Speaker 2 (30:05):
And I said, I had a vision. I was telling
him this.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
I said, I know that I want to be like
highly highly successful, and I've looked at like people there's
hey and everyone has different definitions of success. And I'll
just say this again. This may sound arrogant to people,
but I want to go to the highest level, right,
I want to play in the NBA so to speak.
You know, of all sports, NBA is lowest percentage.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Right. I'm not a big basketball fan.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
It's not my favorite sport, but I do respect how
hard it is to be in the NBA. And Garrett
wants to play in the NBA. And so I know
what I'm setting out to do when I say that.
And when I've looked at people in business success that
are NBA players, so to speak, I have found they
are Their family is one of two things. They have
either mastered family. They have a beautiful, wonderful family that,

(30:55):
despite the craziness that exists in this person's business life,
they have a beautiful, one wonderful family and it's well
organized and they have great children. Or it's either that,
or they are someone who has clearly left their family behind.
If they're not divorced, they are basically an absentee father,
don't have great relationship with their kids, their wife despises them.

(31:16):
There's some people who they like. They they grow to
a level of success and they kind of cap out
because they say, like well, if I to go any
further in business, I'd sacrifice my family. And they're just
kind of like I've reached my max juggling capacity. I'm
juggling six balls. I can't do seven. I'm plateaued in life, right,
And that's where some people get to. But to get

(31:37):
to the very highest level, I've met, people have been
around them, looked at them. I saw people at the
highest level. It's either either or they have mastered family.
They have a beautiful, wonderful family, very well organized, they're
just as successful in family as they are in business,
or they completely left it behind, right. And so I
shared this thought process in this picture with my teammate.
I'm saying, like I decided what type of person I

(31:59):
was going to be going to I want to be
the successful person who has a beautiful, wonderful, well organized family. Yeah,
because I suppose we haven't said it this bluntly, But
when you have a vision, you start to, like you said,
you don't know the actual price, but you got a
lot better idea of what the price is, and so
you start to begin to pay what you know and
you discover what.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
Else needs to be paid. And that's the way it
goes all right, let's get into it. So three ways
to expand your vision? What is way number one? Three
ways to expand your vision? Number one is.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
You got to see through eyes of faith. We've been
talking about this right like faith underlines vision. So let
me give you some scripture here Matthew, Chapter six, verse
twenty two and twenty three.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
The eye.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Notice this says eye, not eyes. The eye is the
lamp of the body. So then if your eye is clear,
your whole body will be full of light. But if
your eye is bad, your whole body will be full
of darkness. If then the light that is in you
is darkness, how great is the darkness. Here's what the

(32:59):
eye is. It says eye, not eyes. The eye is
the lamp of the body. Jesus is not talking about
eyes that see physical but he's talking about what you perceive.
He's talking about your vision. He's not saying what did
your eye see? He's saying, what do you see? What
does your soul? What does your spirit? What do you
as a man, what do you as a woman? What
do you see with your life? I think it is

(33:19):
one of the most important questions. That is the answer
of your life. And again That's why I bring it
back to the twelve spies. He sent them in to
give a report. The report was not a reflection of
what was there. The report was a reflection of who
the spies were.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yeah, big time.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
So the vision that you have with your life, it
has to be based on faith, right.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
This is why this.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
Verse says the eye is the lamp of the body.
If the eye is clear, your whole body will be
full of light. You've got if you want to have
great vision with your life, you've got to see with
eyes of faith. I've made some statements on this podcast
that could make me look foolish. That's okay with me,
because here's what I know. Here's what I know. This
is one of the strongest beliefs I have in my

(34:00):
life is that God has a great plan for my life.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Right. And that's that.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
And I'm not saying the story is about me. But
I know God has a great plan, and whatever his
plan is, even if it doesn't look like what I think,
I'm going to act in alignment with This is a
part of what I do every day. I honor God,
I get on my knees before and we'll come back
to this in a second, and I say, God, I
want your way because I know his plan is great.

(34:26):
So all I've got to do is line up with that.
And so when difficult things, negative things, bad things happen
to me, say, you know what, this is a part
of God's great plan. It's all going to work out
for his best, and his best is a great plan
for me. I want his plan in my life so
I can walk into difficult things, I can make bold statements,
I can take big risks with faith, not with a

(34:48):
not with certainty that everything is going to work out
for me, but with absolute certainty that God is sovereign.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah, that's so good gie, and that I mean you
talked about that earlier. There's an element of faith in
every single piece of vision that you're gonna have.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
If you don't act that way what I'm talking about,
which kind of seems scary and dangerous of like saying like, well,
it doesn't have to be my plan, but I know
God's plan is great and his plan is sovereign. If
you don't act that way, you are actually playing against God, right,
And let me explain that to you. Because you're saying
I want my certainty, God will never give you his

(35:23):
certainty exactly right. He has certainty in his plan. And
if you're saying I have to have certainty, you are
in opposition to God. And how do you think that's
going to go for you?

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Yeah? Not very well. But that's where people fall down
all the time. And I'm so glad you highlight that.
It's the how. Like we said, okay, so start to
get a picture, and we said it already, you're not
going to know the price, And the price is the how,
because if we've talked about this, we said this multiple
times in this podcast, I think there's a lot higher
percentage of people that if you said, here's the exact
development pipeline, I mean, what should we see it? In sports?
Everyone knows in sports that if you're really really good,

(35:54):
there is a chance for you to be famous and
make lots of money, which is what everybody thinks they want.
And so how many people enter the sport pipeline? Tons?
How many people wash out? Tons? Right? But this is
ninety nine point ninety I mean it's a super high percentage.
I mean I was actually very impressed that you broughtup
that NBA park because I'm sports guy on the podcast,
and like you're right. The NBA only has two rounds
in their draft. Every other draft has way more rounds

(36:14):
because there's a lot of hey, there's only there's five
guys on the court. Yeah yeah, well that that too,
and yeah, and the squad at twelve. So it's a
very small percentage. But but I think that's such a
great point because so many people they fall down on
how because it's like, well, at least with the NBA,
I know, if I'm really good at high school and
really good at college, I got a chance. So like
they can see it. That's their quote unquote certainty. Oh
you want to do have a great family. Yeah, well

(36:38):
I believe I'm supposed to lead these people. I believe
I'm supposed to do that. Okay, well, how's that going
to happen? Because that's what everybody wants to know. I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Great, that's a lot of people think like, oh, man,
if I was just seven feet tall, right, there's there
are thousands, if not tens of thousands of seven football
athletic people in the US that you've never heard of.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
For sure. I always think that when I meet somebody, really,
I'm like, I know you played basketball, but obviously you
don't play it professionally, and now you've just got to
be inconvenienced everywhere you go. Yeah, like if you're tall,
I would be killing myself to make it pro because
otherwise you just got to wear jeans that they'll fit
and sit in seats that weren't made for you. Anyways,
that was not really anything to do with vision, but
it's just the thought. Let's go on number two genes.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
Well, the last thing on vision, just as a reminder,
you have to see through eyes of faith. This is
and hey, if you don't want to do that, your
vision is very short sighted, right, if you are only
based upon what you can see uncertainty, you have weak vision.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
Yeah, very good.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
Like I call it spiritual night vision when you have
like faith vision, because it gives you the ability to
see in the dark. Right, Like I spent a lot
of my career in the military walking around in the dark,
being able to see where others could not. And that's
when you see through eyes of faith. It's like you
can't see, but I can. And that is a superpower.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Yeah. And I will say that when you start to
have vision and eyes of faith, you'll instill it and
encourage it in others, and you're you're a great example
of that. You instill vision. You know, as somebody who's
close to you've definitely helped me in that. And from
a practical sense, I know you spent a lot of
time in the dark because I've been lectured by you
on multiple adventures where you'll sit down with a group
of us and be like, look, don't turn your flashlight on.

(38:17):
If you flash that my eyes, I'm going to hurt you.
Because we have night vision and we can see everything
in the moments.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
You know, there's actual nods night optical device, which is
you know, it's a tool that gathers night vision. But
also your eyes have night vision. We have these things
called cones and rods in our eyes. And if you've
you know, kept your eyes in the dark for a
long time, they adapt before we had lights, people still
lived before there was electricity. Shocker, and because your eyes

(38:45):
will adjust at night. But it's a point of awareness.
Because we hiked I'm thinking of our first mountain line.
When we woke up at one thirty in the morning,
we walked by moonlight, which was incredible.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
I don't think I ever used my book. I said guys,
you don't need your light to turn them off, Like
what Yeah, And that's exactly my point. That's why I
want to say, when you start to.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Develop, give your eyes a few minutes, right, if you
don't shine that white light in your eyes, because it takes, like,
depending on the health of your eyes, anywhere from thirty
minutes to an hour and a half for your eyes
to get to like full night perception. And so you
want like you if you look at your phone, you
look at a white light, like you've just ruined that,
right because you saw it when we're on that walk,

(39:23):
it's like, hey, I can actually see pretty good. If
the moon's out, you can see just fine at night.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
Not only could I see, I could see better because
when I've done headlamps. Headlamps are really convenient, but you
can only see a few You can see it really
clearly in one spot, but you can't exactly else. Whenever
we had them off, I was like, dude, I can
see into the forest and see also. I mean, it
was actually an incredible thing to experience. But I think
that's a natural, supernatural correlation of what it is to develop.
Seeing with eyes of faith is the spiritual night vision. Boom,

(39:47):
there we go. Let's go climb a mountain. Gee. Okay.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
Number two and this is not a complete list. This
is just you know, three things that will help develop
your vision. Number two walk with wise men, and you
also need and this is a reference to scripture, but
I'm going to give like the second part because a
lot of my points have like a slash and then
walk with wise men slash alignments and alignments. In this context,

(40:12):
if you are a Mindset Mastery member and you really
know the principles that we teach and you understand this stuff,
this makes a little bit more sense to you. A
constant plug for Mindset Mastery, you need to go through
our program and really pick up some of the like
it's one thing for me to talk to you about shooting,
it's another thing for me to get on the range
with you. And Mindset Mastery is an opportunity for me
mentally to get on the range with.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
You well and physically, because you have two live calls
where you can ask Garrett or myself any question you.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Want, right Proverbs thirteen twenty. If you walk with my
wise men, then you're going to become wise, not some
scripture like you got to kind of like dig through
it and think about it to understand it. This one's
pretty simple. Yeah, walk with wise men, then you're going
to become wise what you need around you. So this
is the alignments part wise men can see, right, And

(40:59):
that's what wisdom is.

Speaker 3 (41:00):
Like.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
People come to me for wisdom, But why are they
asking me questions? Why are they asking for wisdom? Because
they don't know what's going to happen? Right, But what
do I do in this situation? What's going to happen
in the situation? Wisdom has the answer. Wisdom is knowing
what's going to happen. Why, because you have principles. You
have an understanding of the universe that that God has
created principles governed outcomes. It's like being It's like going

(41:23):
thousands of years back or going to some lost village
in the rainforest and you can do math and no
one's heard of math. That's what wisdom is like, Like
I can do the calculations, I can tell you what
the like, how do you.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Know, well math? Like what is math? I don't know? Right?

Speaker 1 (41:39):
If you never heard of math, It's what principles is like.
It's like, oh, look, I understand the formula. I know
the calculations. If you be around, if you'll hang out
with wise men, you'll pick up some of these principles
and you'll begin to understate. Like you, principles shows you
things that's different than vision, right, Okay, vision requires faith,
principles requires zero. I don't need faith for princess. I

(42:01):
don't need faith for gravity to work.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
Right.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
But so these things overlap, and if you'll get principles,
it also what it'll allow you to do is enhance
where your vision goes.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
Right.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
Some people are trying to use vig like because you
don't have an understanding of principles. They're trying to have
vision for things that principles will tell you the answer to.
And so when I've eliminated all the things that principles
can tell me the answer to, it's really clear the
few things that I do actually need faith for. I
try to have as much faith as possible, but I
don't feel like I have infinite measure of faith, so
I don't want to use it incorrectly. I don't want

(42:36):
to use fail. Here's what will mess you up is
when you're using faith for something that if you knew principles,
you know it would never work. Right, And I see
this happen to people all the time. It's good, right,
They like they're trusting in God for gravity to stop working.
And God's not going to do that because he's the
one who made it, right God, God stopped the sun
in the sky one time in the Bible. He's not

(42:56):
going to do it all the time.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Right.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
God's not going to overturn gravity for you, most likely.
And so if you're trying to use faith for something
that principles has already told you won't happen, you're probably
going to get busted and learn a lesson on your faith.
God wants you to know principles just as much as
he wants you to have faith. So what will expand
your vision is walking with wise men pick up these principles,
understand how the universe works. But then also here's the

(43:18):
slash alignment's portion, because there's really two things that come
from being around these types of people. One it's that
understanding of principles, but two, you want to walk with
people that are going in the same direction as you.
You want to be like this is what mighty men is, right,
We have a shared collective vision of like man, this
is what a godly man should look like, and we're
all trying to walk it out together. Part of the

(43:38):
reason I wanted this is because I knew I would
go further and what a godly man is supposed to
be with a bunch of other men. Then if I
just said, you know, this is the Garrett journey, and
Garrett's going to go figure it out for himself. Now
I said, I need other men to do this with me.
I can't do this by myself. I need other men
who believe in this, who see this. This is like
when you go hunting. Okay, lots of man masculinity analogies today,

(44:02):
what else night vision guns hunting.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
If we ever talked about perse shopping, just turn it off.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
So my dad and I since I was five years
old have hunted together. Yeah, this is a funny story.
We've hunted together since I was five years old. Like
a lot of you know, men grow up like teach
their kids to hunt, and as soon as their sons,
you know, a thirteen fourteen fifty can he can hunt?
Some of you go hunt right, because like I don't
need you trying to kill the stuff that I want
to kill. Right, you go hunt over there, I'll hunt

(44:29):
over here. Well, me and my dad have always hunted
together because for us, the most important part of hunting
was us getting to be together. We also love hunting, yeah,
but like I love hunting with my dad way more
than I love hunting. Yeah, And so we always hunt together.
And my dad and I's collective kill rate is higher
than we hulmet with a bunch of other experienced hunters

(44:50):
on this really nice lease in the Panhandle of Texas,
seventeen thousand acres is huge swath of land to hunt
whitetail and mule deer, and me and my dad together,
we hunt together. So you would think less chance, less opportunity,
two people one location, Like our collective kill rate on
trophy animals is higher than the guys who hunt by themselves.

(45:13):
You would think like, we're half of the person, half
the chance of kill, or you got two people hunting
only one person could kill. Well, the two of us
have been more successful than these guys have by themselves.
And they used to make fun of it and say
it was silly and even complain, and they've started like
they're not father and son, they're just friends. And these
guys have started pairing out school because they're like, man,

(45:34):
they're actually more effective when we work together in this
and alignment and vision works the same way in your life.
You want some people around you that see the same
things as you. Because when I see animals, my dad
doesn't see and vice versa. He sees things that I
don't see. We're more effective hunting together.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
And if you're a person that's like you have you're
listening to this, and I think there's a lot of
people around the country and the world that will be
going Man, I want that, Like I would just encourage
you do whatever it takes to get that. If you
have to pay for a coach, or if you have
to pay to be a part of something, just get
around those people because once you pick up from them,
will be way more valuable than whatever it costs you
to pay if you're not in a place like I

(46:13):
was sat yesterday in a mighty man group g and
there's this guy who was this first timer, and I
really enjoyed it because when someone comes to monument for
the first time, I always for I kick off every
week and I always ask guys who's grateful to be here?
And I do that on purpose because I'm still grateful
for mighty men the same way I was when I
first discovered it, because I don't want to ever lose
that appreciation. So this guy, when you see a first timer,

(46:34):
it reminds you why you should be so grateful. So
he sits in the circle and he's listening to everybody
talk and I can see him getting like kind of like,
he's like wow, and so he goes, hey real quick,
he's like, who here owns a business? And I was
in a group of like fifteen. Every guy put his
hand up and he's like, He's like, I've never He's like,
I can't believe this. He literally says this out loud.
He goes, I've never been in a group of in
a circle like this in my life. And I just

(46:54):
said to my I said, most people haven't. I was like,
and that's one of the things that makes this place
so special, not because we're a business consultancy, but because
the type of person that's like running in the same
direction is finding that. And I was sitting with Clayton,
and Clayton's obviously attracted those men and done a very
good job with that. But like it is, it's rare.
But when you get in that group, you kind of go, Okay,
here's my people, and like you realize how much better

(47:16):
it gets. And so I now in my own life
cultivate very intentional rooms of people for that exact thing
to happen, because I know how powerful it is and
the amount of time somebody will share a problem and
somebody else is like, hey, let's here. I'll text you afterwards,
because actually I know what you should do. What a
gift that is man to not have to figure it
all out.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
The purpose of the Napoleon Hill mastermind inception, I need,
like Carnegie was in a place of like, man, I'm
a titan of industry in the world, and I don't
have anybody I can talk to, right, and I'd like
to talk to some people, And so well.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
Let's get Henry Ford.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Let's get some other titans of industry in the same room,
and I can talk to some people who are going
in the same direction as me, who see what I
see but might also see some things I do see. Yeah,
So good man, I think we could go on and on,
and we have. We've done podcasts on alignments, so you can.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
Join us in mindset. Master.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
I'm not going to sit here and panhandle our program.
It is that there's sometimes people say it's expensive, and
depending on where you're at financially, you may consider it expensive.
But I would tell you, for every single person that
it's worth it. I have been where people have been.
If you if you make forty or fifty thousand dollars
a year, our program is really expensive for you, and
I have been in that situation and paid what our

(48:29):
program costs, and I can tell you that it's worth it.
You have to invest in yourself, and you have to
see further than where you're at exactly, and not just
a lot of people look at stuff like this and say, well,
what am I going to get? And you know what,
how am I? You know, how's this going to How
am I going to get my money back? And you've
got to see the value in yourself of If you
don't see greatness for yourself, you probably shouldn't purchase this

(48:52):
program because it'll just be some group class that you
went through that made you feel good. But if you
see greatness for yourself and you know that maybe there's
just one more thing I'm missing, Maybe if I just
had a little bit better understanding of principles maybe if
I just had some wise men around me, it's going
to lift the entire lid on my life. You need
to join us in that program.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
Yeah. By the way, this podcast that you're listening to
is because somebody paid a price to level themselves up.
That was expensive and I'm not patting myself on the back,
but that was me. This podcast starts, I paid you
to coach me. It was not cheap for me and
I but I didn't know what the ROI was. I
just knew I needed. I had no idea it would
literally change my life and that we would be where
we're at here four plus years later. But you know what,

(49:32):
I knew I need. I need something more for me,
and I knew I need to be around you. So
praise God, Thank you Lord for directing me. What's number
three g.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
Number three daily transformation and I'm going to get Let
me get into this. I'm gonna give you the scripture
first Romans, Chapter twelve, verse two. Those of you and
mighty men get to hear this all the time. Do
not be conformed to the pattern of this world, but
be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you
will be able to test and approve. What God's will

(49:59):
is is his good, pleasing and perfect will. Transformation is
a death to self and a resurrection. And here's what
this looks like practically in my life. Every morning, I
get on my knees before the Lord and I say, God,
not not my way, but your way.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
I ask God.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
I pray and ask the Lord to forgive me of
my sins, because you know what, it's not always intentional,
but I sin every day and sometimes you're not even
aware of the things that you've said and you've done.
Because we are so sinful. Say God, forgive me of
my sins, cleanse me in your righteousness. Let your ways
be my ways. Less of me and more of you.
And I ask God for this every single day because

(50:38):
I have a lot of hunger in my life, and
I hope for people that listen to this podcast that
you have a great amount of hunger. I was got
the privilege yesterday to be on stage with Less Brown.
I spoke right before him, got to spend a lot
of time talking in the back, and his whole talk
yesterday was about hunger. You've got to have hunger, and

(51:00):
it's one of the things that I have a great
deal of and it's what I want for every single
person this podcast, that you would have a great hunger
for your greatness, for your destiny, for everything that God
has for you. But with that hunger, right, like what
all of the like, the worst things that can happen
in your life, they come from poor appetites, right, right,
Becoming obese a poor appetite. Agreed is the wrong type

(51:22):
of appetite. LUs the wrong type of appetite.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Right.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
So you need to have hunger, but you've got to
have hunger for the right things. Right, You've got a
hunger for the Lord, You've got a hunger for his ways.
Those who thirst and hunger for righteousness will be filled.
You need to have hunger, but you need to have
hunger for the right things. And I have a lot
of hunger in my life, and every day I pray
and say God to remove the wrong hungers from me.
I'm not asking God to remove my hunger. I'm asking

(51:46):
God to remove my sin, to remove my wrong way
of doing things, because I know the hunger that I
have for greatness in my life could very easily turn
into the worst qualities. I always tell people, you know,
people put me on a pedestal and they know, well,
Garrett's this way, Garrett's that, And I just tell people,
I wish you could see who I could have been,
because I've seen the roads that I could have walked down,

(52:07):
and they're they're terrible and depressing and disappointing. And so
I've chosen for myself. I don't want to go down
those roads. And I know the only way that I
don't go down those roads is a constant renewal with
the Lord. It's daily transformation. I've got to let these
things die that keep popping up on my life and
continue to let God transform me. And I won't get

(52:27):
into it in depth, but in mindset mastering, we talk
about focus as it relates to vision. And one of
the things that amplifies your vision, that amplifies your focus
is the lens. Right, if you think about a laser,
like a dirty laser on a lens messes up the laser.
The crystal lens on a laser or other lasers have
different types of lenses has to be perfectly clear. And

(52:50):
that's my spirit, right, I've got to have a clean heart.
I've got to have a clear spirit before the Lord,
or it's going to weaken my vision. That's a laser
is light that's extremely focused. But if you get it dirty,
it can't do its job. And I've got to have
laser focused vision in my life. But if my lens
is dirty, if my spirit is impure, if I'm letting

(53:12):
the wrong things get into my life, my vision is
going to be weak and ineffective. So don't have a
dirty lens. That's that's the daily transformation port.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
Yeah, what what you focus on really determines your hunger,
is what you're saying. And it's it's so true because
I think when we say this, it's very easy to understand.
When Garrett's talking about daily transformation, it would make sense
that you are the only consistent ingredient in every area
of your life. Now, So like, if a bunch of
stuff in your life is not how you want it,
at some point you have to go like, what's the

(53:42):
consistent Well, what's the common denominator? Yeah, it's it's you
and so and and that that may that may hurt,
but I will tell you that on the other side
of hurt is great growth. And I'm speaking from experience
as as.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
Pops and Pops wisdom for you, we need to we
need a Pops sound by you. But Pop says, if
the fits wear it, you know, if you're on your
fourth marriage. I hate to say this to you, but
you've been a common denominator in each one of those marriages.
And I'm not saying you're a bad person. I'm saying
you've missed some principles. You've had an unclear picture of

(54:16):
who you are. There's some inconsistency in your life. There's
some things that you haven't seen about yourself yet. And
you can take that as a personal attack, or you
can say, like, the only thing standing between me and
my success is personal growth, right, And if you'll have
the attitude of this, or my dad would say so
to me, it's like, you know what, you're making a
lot of really good defense. Like my dad would correct me.

(54:37):
He says, like, you know, all your points are really valid,
but what I said is still true.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
Yeah, And thank god for a guy like your dad.
You talk about walk with the wise and you'll become wise.
That's one of the things that wise people will do,
is they'll show you areas that you've just been repeatedly
missing it. And like I said, it hurts, but man,
it is the greatest gift that you could have is
somebody that will say things. I mean, Garrett has been
probably the biggest wise corrector in life of saying, dude,
you're doing this, why don't you try this? What about this?

(55:04):
And just highlight so many things that didn't feel great,
But man, I look at the growth and I'm like,
thank God.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
So I hope what your takeaway from today on vision
is because we got into it and we taught you
about it, but also there's so much more to learn
on vision, and again we get into some of that
and mindset mastery. But what I hope that your takeaway
from this today is that one I've got to have
a foundation of faith in my life. Vision, Like, if
you want to see great things in your life, it's

(55:29):
going to be beyond what you can see with your eyes.
And if all you can see is what you see
with your eyes, if you stand on certain certainty, you
won't see very far. But if you can look through
eyes of faith and have spiritual night vision, begin to
see what God sees in you, and see and see
with a foundation of who God says you are, that's
where you will go far in life. That's where you
will see things that other people haven't seen, and you'll

(55:51):
be able to do things that other people cannot do.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
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Speaker 2 (56:03):
We appreciate it all.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
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Thank you again for listening. Go out there and think
better and live the impossible.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
See you again soon.