July 31, 2025 • 26 mins
Success isn’t complicated. But it does demand consistency in the basics.
In this no-excuses episode of The Impossible Life, Garrett and Nick break down the 5 foundational habits every man must master to stop spinning his wheels and start moving with power.
Whether you're struggling with chaos, burnout, or stagnation—this is your reset. These principles aren’t trendy. They’re timeless. And the men who live by them? They're the ones building lives that actually work.
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In this no-excuses episode of The Impossible Life, Garrett and Nick break down the 5 foundational habits every man must master to stop spinning his wheels and start moving with power.
Whether you're struggling with chaos, burnout, or stagnation—this is your reset. These principles aren’t trendy. They’re timeless. And the men who live by them? They're the ones building lives that actually work.
In This Episode:
- The simple daily choices that create unstoppable momentum
- Why routine isn’t boring—it’s a weapon
- The enemy’s strategy to get you to ignore the obvious
- How mastering the basics leads to spiritual clarity and mental sharpness
- The truth about “advanced problems” being just ignored fundamentals
- Garrett’s no-fluff take on discipline, structure, and showing up when it’s hard
Level up your greatest asset with us in Mindset Mastery. How you think will change everything in your life. Click here to learn more.
Level up your life with IDLife nutrition by clicking here.
Apply to join Giant Killers here if you're a man that wants real accountability and training to become a leader.
Level up your greatest asset with us in Mindset Mastery. How you think will change everything in your life. Click here to learn more.
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Advertise on the podcast by clicking here.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That's impossible.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Let me tell you what I believe. It's your weakness,
it's not your technique. Don't think you know.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
The Impossible Life Podcast and yes, sitting on a winning lottery. Second,
an idea that is fully formed, fully understood, that sticks.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
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
(00:46):
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. The real truth is this. The
solution to any impossible task starts with this question, if
I had to, what would it take? What would it take?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Welcome to another episode of the Impossible Life Podcast. I'm
your co host, Nick Surface, and I'm looking across a
man who list his core competencies as leadership, vision and suffering. Well,
that's right, friends, Garrett, Uncle back a man who can
go to the dark places and keep a smile on
his face.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Where's the joke?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, it's actually true. This is uh, you know, suffering
well is one of your skills? Yeah, well, you know,
I like to bring some truth in the intro and.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Never claimed to be that talented, but I can take
a punch.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Man, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And this is real because I was like, you and
I are competing along with the friend norm right now
in the how lean can we get challenge, and we
compete a lot of things. I've said, we compete. We've
competed at putting office chairs together.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
It's our own it's our own personal version of The
Biggest Loser exactly, really, except everybody wins.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Everybody's gonna be a winner on this one because we're
all we're all getting down there, which is great. But
the thing is, I was thinking, I was like, I
was like, I would compete with you on most things,
but I was thinking last time, I was like, I
think if it was just like how much suffering can
you take before you tap? I do not have any
real degree of confidence about that, which is, you know,
not a great thing for me.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Anyways.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
All Right, so today's today's episode is this is really
like This is basic training for men. These are five
things you need to be doing your entire life as
a man of God. And I was I sent this
to g because I was like, man, I don't want
to uh. We talk a lot about mindset. We talk
a lot about the different things that you need to
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the ways that you need to think, because ultimately, the
way you think the terms of the way you live,
and that is the center.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
That is so much central.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That's that's scriptural, that's you know, you can look at
it from your own experience.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It holds weight.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
But sometimes we just need to be told, hey, just
do this, Like you experienced this in the military where
they're just like here you go, like, no one, no
one's going to explain this to you. We're just going
to beat this into you.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
But when they taught us firearms, basic firearms instruction at
the beginning of my Sealed Journey, it's one of the
things that said in the beginning was just do what
we're telling you to do when and the point was
like later on, when you actually learn fiarms a little
bit better, you can, you know, insert some of your
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own ways of doing things, some of your own ways
of thinking. But the very beginning is just hey, just
do this right. You don't know anything yet, and you
have to learn a basic discipline. It's kind of like
martial arts when you first get into martial arts, Like
when you master, like your first martial art, you need
a master and you need to submit to him, and
you need to do everything he tells you to do right.
(03:51):
And your your master may just you know, have mastered
one discipline of martial arts. And after you've mastered one,
then you can start to get into other and you
can pull things from other ones. But if you like
go to your you know, your sense or whoever you're
master of a martial art is and you're telling him like, well,
you know, I know you're the best at this, but
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I want to be you know this UFC fighter on
TV and he does all of these seven different disciplines
and you're going to be very lost at that point.
And so when you are learning and growing and developing
in something, it is you do need what are the basics?
And and so the military pushed hard on us about
mastery of basics and regardless of just submitting to a
specific plan, this there is principle and mastery of basics.
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Jim Rohn says, success is neither magical nor mysterious, but
the basic consequence of consistently applying the fundamentals. And for us,
one of those mastery of basics was like in that
firearm instruction, they would put us on the three yard
line with pistol, teach us that they taught the basics
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of marksmanship. Put us on the three yard line with
our pistol and how to shoot paper until we can
shoot dozens of rounds through that paper and it looks
like we've only shot one round, right, Like all the
bullets just go through the same hole, which you would
That sounds easy, it's actually like terribly frustrating to be
able to do that. If you can just get all
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the bullets to touch at three yards, which is nine
feet you think with a pistol, because a lot of
people they get up there and they're like, oh, I
want to shoot from twenty yards to see if I
can hit the guy. Right, if you can get all
of your rounds to go through the same hole at
three yards, then you can do consistent head shots at
twenty five yards with a pistol. Right, So it is
about like, what are the basic fundamentals that need to
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practice develop which when I get to the real world,
when I'm at twenty five yards, when complexity and difficulty expands,
now I'm actually going to be useful.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, now that sounds like a foolish thought process, I
think if you haven't really grasped it. But what I'll
say is this, So like, if you're not looking to
be a martial artist or you're not looking to be
a navy seal, you might go, Okay, that.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Was good for you.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
But everybody has an area that they want to grow in.
You may want to grow in your wisdom, you may
want to get a better marriage, you want to maybe
better whatever physically, insert whatever your next level is. If
you're not doing the basics, you will not hit the
next level. And I see this over and over and
over again. What you see is you'll see a man
that he'll hit a wall. And when I say it
hit a wall, it means that he finally realizes how
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much whatever he's been doing has cost him, Like it'll
be a massive breakdown in his marriage, he gets fired
from his job or insert whatever painful experience, and you'll
start asking him like, what happened? And it always comes
back to they stop doing something that was basic with
some of the basics that we're going to give you today,
and you sit there and you go, how could you
You know, that's so easy, like how how did you stop?
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And it's never like, well, I just decided in the day.
It's always like I just kind of got drifted off,
or you know, I got I went through a busy time,
and then you never really got back to your basics,
and it's like and then eventually blows up and you realize, Man,
if you would have just kept doing some of the
core things over and over and over again like that
Jim Roun quote, guess what, you would continue to grow
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and then you would be able to labor to build
on some of the things we talk about. If you
want to understand principles and you want to be a
person who's a great perspective and can inspire others, if
you can't do some of the basic self leadership stuff
that you need to do on a day to day basis,
you will never be in a position where you can
inspire other people. Because what you don't realize when you're
in that state is that people are going to follow
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somebody they respect, and they're going to respect someone who
has consistency. And if you don't have those things, guess what,
you won't have respect from anybody because people are going
to look at your life and go like, man, it
doesn't work. So understand, whatever you're doing, you need these basics,
and you do them forever. This is not like once
you get done with these, you check the box and
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you build onto advanced level too.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You always keep doing these.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
It's like being a probe. You want to be a
pro basketball player and you have some great jump shot,
but the other team full court presses you and two
back and forth and you're out of breath. It's like, dude,
you're missing basic cardio, right, Like you can't be a
pro athlete.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I mean nobody likes to turn up and do like
you know, uh, windsprints. But guess what, you don't have that,
Like you got no business dribbling.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Michael Jordan did. But we don't have to get into
that right now.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
But well, that's what they said. No, it's a good point.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You talk about the greatest basketball player of all time,
and you know what they said, he never lost. I
was watching the Last Dance recently. He never lost a winspring.
It wasn't that he like when they say lost, I
mean he finished first. Every time get some young rookie
in that wants to compete with Mike, he's going to
beat them. What he was playing when he was thirty four,
He's going to beat them. He never finished any place
other than first. Like that's and like we all sit
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there and go, wow, I hope that that Like what
did he figure out that maybe some of us overlook
So anyways, let's let's get into this g because we've
we've put this for men, but I will say these
are five things that whether you're a man or a woman,
these these are these are absolute musts.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
So we discuss a lot of thinking on this podcast,
but today we're going to talk like, these are the
very specific. You don't have to we're going to give
you the thinking behind it, but we're going to give
you the very specific. Hey, if you're a man, you
should be doing these things. And if you're not doing
these things, you're missing it.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, and I really hope you look at this.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Don't have a I want to encourage everybody as we
go through this list, don't sit there and look for
your excuses or your reasons why you can't just really
hear this and examine yourself and we'll give the practical
So let's just get into it so very first, and
this is not a surprise. G You've got to read
your Bible and pray daily. If this is not something
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that you are doing every single day, there's literally there's
no excuse. You're absolutely missing it because it's God in
his rightful place. If you think you're going to draw
your source or you're going to understand who you are
or be able to put life in the right order
by having anything other than God first, meaning you spend
time seeking Him daily, truthfully seeking in Him, then there's
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not you know, there's only so much we can do
for you. I know you've said, like, there'll be people
who come to you and want to talk about purpose,
and if they don't have a relationship with God, you're like,
I can't help you.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
And I totally get that thought.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
For us, Oh I can. I can show you the
beginning of the journey. And I've had some of these
conversations recently with people like, Hey, this is what the
real journey for a purpose looks like in your life,
and by the way. What it's going to require is
belief and faith. You can't pursue your purpose without it.
And here's where faith comes from. So it is very
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much a I can only show you the door moment
when I have that discussion with people who don't have
a relationship with God. But reading your Bible and praying
on a daily basis, if you're not doing that, really,
here's all it takes. Right, here's all it takes. You
just need to make a commitment that ten minutes a day. Right,
it should be more than ten, but just start there
and say ten minutes a day when I get up
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in the morning or before I leave the house. Put
some very clear metric around it, right before I go
to the gym. Right, if you're a gem everyday person,
whatever it is, put some metric around it and say,
I'm going to read my Bible for ten minutes, just
at a very simple metric. Read your proverb every day.
That's something that I have done since I was fourteen
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years old. Is I heard people talk about that. I
heard my dad heard Patrick Keith talk about that. I said, okay,
you know what, I'm going to do that and just
that one thing will bless your life greatly, and as
you do that, you'll develop. You're like, man, this is
actually working really well for me. I want more, and
that's exactly what should happen to you. But you'll never
get to that place until you make the commitment as
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a man.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I'm going to do this every day.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yeah, I mean, it really is that simple, all right.
Number two, And some of these things you'll notice we've
talked about them. Hint, we've talked about all of them.
We've just never put them as simple as we're putting.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Put them on in a real, real short stack.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
You got to do these things. Number two.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Intentional brotherhood, all right. We have this in Mighty Men.
We also have this. Nick and I both have this
in many other places. We've got a lot of other
groups that he leads, groups that I lead, other groups
that we both lead together. And here's the greatness of
intentional brotherhood, you know. And guys come to Mighty Man,
I tell them this. I said, I believe that discipleship
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happens through brotherhood because when I went through, when I
went through the Seal teams, there's plenty of things there
that were ungodly, but there was a few things there
that I saw that were and I said, man, the
church is missing this. And what I saw was a
group of men, regardless of creed, color, financial level, all
of these things, regardless of any of that, they were
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there for one common mission and it grew them closer together.
And there was like there was a great amount of
iron sharpens iron in the military outside of a spiritual context.
And I said, man, this is what it's actually supposed
to feel like. And iron sharpens iron when there is
a commitment to, like there's a common mission, when like
we talk about in this podcast. If you've been around
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for a while or you've listened to all of our
episodes on alignment, an alignment is where there's a governing authority,
there's something that you're drawn towards together. Just like a
man and a woman, their life isn't just about them.
Their life is about following God. Their life is about
their family. Right, that alignment creates tension. And what I
knew in my own life, even coming home from the Navy,
I said, hey, I need to be around other men,
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like I'm not just going to try to do this
follow God thing by myself. Because here's what I can
tell you is absolutely true. I would not be the
man that I am without some of the men around me.
Many of the men around me, I've had a massive
impact on them and developed I'm not taking credit for
full credit for Nick or for anybody else in my life,
but I've had a big impact on them and they're
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very different because of me. But I can say the
exact same thing even if I was the one and
this doesn't even have to be the case, but even
if I was the one developing them, they turned around
and developed me back. If nothing else, that they that
they took on the standards that I have and gave
me back accountability in the standards that were my own.
If at the lowest level, if you'll be in a group,
you'll get that. But there's so many other great benefits
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that come from it. We're supposed to follow God with
a group of men, with a group of other families.
We're not meant to do it by ourselves. So if
you don't have this in your life, if you're just
like trying to do your you know, your thing, you
don't have any deep male relationships, you're not going to
grow to what you're capable of growing to.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, and I we've talked about this before, but I
want to give you like the practical house, because I've
been in those shoes where I'm like, when I was
out in San Diego, I'm like, I don't I feel
like I'm on my own. So here's here's what it
looks like. And we've said this before, but I want
to give it real clear. You need to find one
other man. Just find another man, or if you're a woman,
obviously then find find a sister and you just commit,
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like Garrett said, to something bigger than yourself. What's bigger
than yourself. Hey, we're not meant to do this alone.
We need to go together. So this is what this
is going to look like. You set a regular schedule
to meet and you don't break it like I, like
Arrett said, we have this with mighty men.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
And so you can be like, oh, it's easy for
you guys. Guess what.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I have another group I meet with every single week
and it's at the same time, it's at the same place,
and we get together and we share life together. And
it's like, well, you have a body man, why do
you do that? Because it's so important that you absolutely
have to have it.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
And you know if you're like, well, what would we do.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Get a book, Grab a John Beavie book where at
the end of every chapter they have questions. There's so
many great Christian books, and you say, hey, I'm gonna
read this chapter. You read this chapter, we're gonna come
together and discuss it and then share your life as well.
I have a really simple format with men that I
get together with. I say, hey, give me a highlight
for the week, tell me something you're grateful for, and
tell me what God's doing in your life. It's not hard.
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You answered those three questions and guess what. You just
start sharing like what guys will say as oh, well
my highlight was this, and you start to get to
know each other. You know what's going on in life.
You start to hear where it's challenging each other, and
you sharpen each other, and you know what happens when
you do that stuff regularly. It can be at a
coffee shop or whatever. Other people want to start taking part.
It's amazing how you draw people in.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
And it very much is a And we can do
a longer episode on this, but I'll just say this
last thing and then we'll move on. Developing a brotherhood
and a group of for brotherhood is very much a
mastery of basics exercise. People will go like, man, how'd
you do this? How are there four hundred guys here
every week? Like this is this is insane? Like what
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did you do to do this? I said, it was
really simple. I just started with one guy, right. It
really is mastery of basics. The greatest advertisement for Christ
is the transformation that comes from a relationship with Him.
And I can tell the story and show you in
my life with both the fruit and the story of
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my life of how Christ has changed me and how
a relationship with Him has made me who I am.
And as I've shared that with other men, they've wanted
some of the same and they've experienced some of the same,
and that is something that continually multiplies. And that's that's
all Jesus called us to, right, was to be disciples,
be students of Him and other people. That means we'll
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draw up other students like him to follow us, to
be with us, and our students will develop more students.
And that's exactly how you grow something there's the Bible
does not cover, Like, hey, here's how you do marketing
for a men's group, and you know, here's how you
here's how you send thousands of invites and get people
to show up. And I'm not saying that big conferences
or big events are wrong. But what I am saying
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is that that the Bible teaches discipleship, which is be
a great student. Really let him change who you are,
and that'll attract that's all. That's all the attraction that
you need to develop a group. And so we went
from twenty guys to four hundred guys because those twenty
guys like God change them, and that drew other men in.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, and keep in mind that was over years. I
can't stress enough. If you're going to pick a time
to meet, you need to make sure it's a time
that you can you can commit to for how long forever.
It's why we meet seven am on Saturday. Not a
lot of stuff happening at seven am on a Saturday
to be wise. I mean, it's just it's just true,
all right. Number three, no surprise to physical discipline slash challenges.
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You have to remind yourself all the time how often
daily that comfort will kill you? Well, how do I
do something hard daily? Take a cold shower? For us,
it's the ice bath. It could be the way.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Yo. There's so many different things, but.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
You absolutely cannot be in a place where you're not
pushing yourself to do things that at some point you go, man,
I don't want to do this.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Here is so important. Here's the phrase that I hear
come out of men's mouth. It's way too often that
shows me where you're like. When you say something like this,
I know what the rest of your life looks like.
And men'll say to me, whether it's push ups or
running or whatever it is, they say something like, oh,
I don't have to do that stuff anymore. Right, those
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days are behind me and the moment like I'm I'm
gonna die run in a four mile run. That's the
way that I'm going to die. I'm going to keep
pushing myself and pushing my body to the very end.
If you ever get to this place in your life
where you think that physical discipline and challenging yourself is
behind you, you are on your way to the grave.
That's not just a biological thing, but who you are
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as a person is dying.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
God.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
This is James Chapter one. One of the things that
God wants most for our life is to develop endurance,
and so what you're saying is right. The Bible talks
about physical discipline. The Bible talk uses runners, athletes, and
soldiers as the most common analogy in the New Testament.
And what you're saying as a man is you've come
to maybe you're like steal in shape because I've met
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these guys. They're like, well, I just hit my little
weight routine and I know how to not be fat.
But they're saying, I don't want to do hard stuff anymore.
And if you get to that place in your life
where you don't want to do hard stuff anymore, you
are dying as a person.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, because what are you going to do whenever hard
stuff comes to your door? Because guess what it will
And you're practicing over and over and over again it's pain.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
And that's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
And so when the pain comes, and it will come,
you're unprepared, and how do you think you're going to react?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Not well?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
And what you're going to end up doing as a
man is you're going to pass that pain onto all
the people around you that depend on you. So if
you're married, your wife, your kids, the people, you're gonna
get it. When a man's life blows up, it takes
uh hostile, it takes people down with him, and.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
So you just you know.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
That one to me is you absolutely have to give
yourself that reminder.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
This one's not so that one's not complicated, but just
to give a little more context to it. For physical discipline,
you need to be working out all the time, but
also you need to be, you know, on at least
on an annual basis, doing something really hard that challenges you.
Whether it's a mountain climb or a marathon or a
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triathlon or whatever it is, you need to be doing
something that really challenges you.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I do a murph every month gee, as part of that,
because no matter how many times I do the murf,
you always hit that point where you're like, man, this sucks.
And every time when I'm done, I'm like, I love
that workout. It's like it's never not delivered. So I
love soa So does lindsay, Yeah, well there you go,
and your wife is tougher than you know many.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
People out there. Anyways. Number four, gee, hit us, what
is it?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
This is about serving? This is a huge thing, right.
This isn't just like a great place to serve is
at your church. You should be involved in your local
church and give in some way. Right, what serving is
is it something that you do that doesn't pay you back.
Because what we talk about on this podcast all the
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time is the number one way to live a miserable
life is make your life all about you. If you
want to live a great life, make your life about
other people. I can tell you some of the best
growth and development in my life came as like I
had the privilege of getting to grow up from the
time I was ten in a church that talked about
servant leadership all the time and taught me to serve.
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And I learned so much about leadership. I learned so
much about people. I learned project management and organization and
managing timelines as a young boy on serving projects and
serving is a great place to develop yourself. Whether you're
ten or you're seventy five, you're not just developing those skills,
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you're developing care.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, you're learning how to give to something bigger than yourself.
Because a lot of people will bring a volunteer mindset
in that they're like, well, I'll do this stuff that
I like anyways, and as long as it's out of time,
that works for me. And you know, what's actually really
going to grow you is when you serve something that's
completely inconvenient, not what your preference is, and puts you
in a situation where you don't necessarily feel super skilled.
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And some people may be like, well, I don't know
about that, Well what's the question. It's what's required. And
I'm speaking as a man who's helped lead our children's
church that and I never thought that'd be in there.
But guess what what was required of me? At some
point I was in the two year old room cleaning
up literally puddles of pea. There's no skill set required
for that. And I'm not saying this like pat myself
on the back. What I learned was I was like, Hey,
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if this is how I'm here to serve the advance
the kingdom mission, and this is what's required today, then
I'm going to do it. And I'll tell you, man,
God meets you in that place, because who are we
following Christ, who, in the being, in the very form God,
took on the form of a servant and became obedient
even unto death. It's literally the example of Christ is
like you humble yourself to the point of like, okay,
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here's what's required, and you can't learn that in theory.
The serving is the way that you just get out
there and you and it'll teach you so much more.
And what we know about our God is that when
you're obedient, the blessings are abundant. And sometimes I'm not
talking about like material blessings. I'm talking about the development
of who you are and just the sense of relationship
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and fellowship with Christ. It's the most deeply satisfying thing.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
So's just making serving is just making a commitment to
allow yourself to be used, not saying this is how
I want to be used, right it is. It's the
pickup brass mentality of saying, hey, look, I'm just going
to give myself to this place and however they want
to use me. Pastor Keith used to tell stories of
people would come to the church like, hey, you know,
I think you know I could really be used greatly
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in this way. You should use me to to sing
or to speak, or I have a gift of leadership.
And he'd say, well, okay, those guys over there need
you to help stack chairs. And that's the heart of
servant leadership. And that doesn't mean that you can't you
should give your skills and the best of yourself. But
it starts with the right heart.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Exactly right, well said g all right with number five,
because I think this one's a little bit of a surprise.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
And the last one, again these are things that every
man should be doing. If you're missing any one of these,
you're missing it as a man. And the last one
is skill development. Whatever your skills are, each one of
us has different talents, different measures of rule. You know,
I'm about to be thirty five here at the end
of August, and at this age in my life, I
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know what my skills are. I know what I'm really
great at, I know what I'm naturally gifted at. I
know what some learned skills that I have are. Like
you know, I have a propensity for it, and I
don't really like doing it things, but it is a
great skill that I have and I end up keep
having to use it. That's one type of skill. God's
also given me a natural propensity for leadership. And this
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is a gift that I have studied since I was young.
I wanted to be a leader. I read books on it,
I practice, I think on it all the time. How
can I be a better leader. And whatever your skills are,
you need to be constantly growing them. This is how
you add value as a man. This is how you
are able to provide for your family. Not what are
the ideas that you have, but what are the ways
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that you can add value?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, that's so good.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
And because remember guys, you're always growing either better or worse.
And if you're constantly developing your skills, if you're sharpening,
you're going to keep growing better. And guess what your
value is going to grow up, go up. Your opportunities
are going to go up. Your ways to serve are
going to go up. I mean they are all linked.
And so that one is, I think is an easy
one to overlook. So once again the five are number one,
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read the Bible in prayer, two, intentional brotherhood, three physical
discipline challenges, four serving and five skill development.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Just do these. It really is that simple. Thank you
very much for listening.
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Speaker 4 (26:19):
Go out there and think better and live the impossible.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Speaker 4 (00:22):
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
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Impossible as a default label used by uncourageous people unwilling
to take a risk. The real truth is this. The
solution to any impossible task starts with this question, if
I had to, what would it take? What would it take?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Welcome to another episode of the Impossible Life Podcast. I'm
your co host, Nick Surface, and I'm looking across a
man who list his core competencies as leadership, vision and suffering. Well,
that's right, friends, Garrett, Uncle back a man who can
go to the dark places and keep a smile on
his face.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Where's the joke?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, it's actually true. This is uh, you know, suffering
well is one of your skills? Yeah, well, you know,
I like to bring some truth in the intro and.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Never claimed to be that talented, but I can take
a punch.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Man, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And this is real because I was like, you and
I are competing along with the friend norm right now
in the how lean can we get challenge, and we
compete a lot of things. I've said, we compete. We've
competed at putting office chairs together.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
It's our own it's our own personal version of The
Biggest Loser exactly, really, except everybody wins.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Everybody's gonna be a winner on this one because we're
all we're all getting down there, which is great. But
the thing is, I was thinking, I was like, I
was like, I would compete with you on most things,
but I was thinking last time, I was like, I
think if it was just like how much suffering can
you take before you tap? I do not have any
real degree of confidence about that, which is, you know,
not a great thing for me.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Anyways.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
All Right, so today's today's episode is this is really
like This is basic training for men. These are five
things you need to be doing your entire life as
a man of God. And I was I sent this
to g because I was like, man, I don't want
to uh. We talk a lot about mindset. We talk
a lot about the different things that you need to
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the ways that you need to think, because ultimately, the
way you think the terms of the way you live,
and that is the center.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
That is so much central.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That's that's scriptural, that's you know, you can look at
it from your own experience.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It holds weight.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
But sometimes we just need to be told, hey, just
do this, Like you experienced this in the military where
they're just like here you go, like, no one, no
one's going to explain this to you. We're just going
to beat this into you.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
But when they taught us firearms, basic firearms instruction at
the beginning of my Sealed Journey, it's one of the
things that said in the beginning was just do what
we're telling you to do when and the point was
like later on, when you actually learn fiarms a little
bit better, you can, you know, insert some of your
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own ways of doing things, some of your own ways
of thinking. But the very beginning is just hey, just
do this right. You don't know anything yet, and you
have to learn a basic discipline. It's kind of like
martial arts when you first get into martial arts, Like
when you master, like your first martial art, you need
a master and you need to submit to him, and
you need to do everything he tells you to do right.
(03:51):
And your your master may just you know, have mastered
one discipline of martial arts. And after you've mastered one,
then you can start to get into other and you
can pull things from other ones. But if you like
go to your you know, your sense or whoever you're
master of a martial art is and you're telling him like, well,
you know, I know you're the best at this, but
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I want to be you know this UFC fighter on
TV and he does all of these seven different disciplines
and you're going to be very lost at that point.
And so when you are learning and growing and developing
in something, it is you do need what are the basics?
And and so the military pushed hard on us about
mastery of basics and regardless of just submitting to a
specific plan, this there is principle and mastery of basics.
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Jim Rohn says, success is neither magical nor mysterious, but
the basic consequence of consistently applying the fundamentals. And for us,
one of those mastery of basics was like in that
firearm instruction, they would put us on the three yard
line with pistol, teach us that they taught the basics
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of marksmanship. Put us on the three yard line with
our pistol and how to shoot paper until we can
shoot dozens of rounds through that paper and it looks
like we've only shot one round, right, Like all the
bullets just go through the same hole, which you would
That sounds easy, it's actually like terribly frustrating to be
able to do that. If you can just get all
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the bullets to touch at three yards, which is nine
feet you think with a pistol, because a lot of
people they get up there and they're like, oh, I
want to shoot from twenty yards to see if I
can hit the guy. Right, if you can get all
of your rounds to go through the same hole at
three yards, then you can do consistent head shots at
twenty five yards with a pistol. Right, So it is
about like, what are the basic fundamentals that need to
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practice develop which when I get to the real world,
when I'm at twenty five yards, when complexity and difficulty expands,
now I'm actually going to be useful.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, now that sounds like a foolish thought process, I
think if you haven't really grasped it. But what I'll
say is this, So like, if you're not looking to
be a martial artist or you're not looking to be
a navy seal, you might go, Okay, that.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Was good for you.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
But everybody has an area that they want to grow in.
You may want to grow in your wisdom, you may
want to get a better marriage, you want to maybe
better whatever physically, insert whatever your next level is. If
you're not doing the basics, you will not hit the
next level. And I see this over and over and
over again. What you see is you'll see a man
that he'll hit a wall. And when I say it
hit a wall, it means that he finally realizes how
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much whatever he's been doing has cost him, Like it'll
be a massive breakdown in his marriage, he gets fired
from his job or insert whatever painful experience, and you'll
start asking him like, what happened? And it always comes
back to they stop doing something that was basic with
some of the basics that we're going to give you today,
and you sit there and you go, how could you
You know, that's so easy, like how how did you stop?
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And it's never like, well, I just decided in the day.
It's always like I just kind of got drifted off,
or you know, I got I went through a busy time,
and then you never really got back to your basics,
and it's like and then eventually blows up and you realize, Man,
if you would have just kept doing some of the
core things over and over and over again like that
Jim Roun quote, guess what, you would continue to grow
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and then you would be able to labor to build
on some of the things we talk about. If you
want to understand principles and you want to be a
person who's a great perspective and can inspire others, if
you can't do some of the basic self leadership stuff
that you need to do on a day to day basis,
you will never be in a position where you can
inspire other people. Because what you don't realize when you're
in that state is that people are going to follow
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somebody they respect, and they're going to respect someone who
has consistency. And if you don't have those things, guess what,
you won't have respect from anybody because people are going
to look at your life and go like, man, it
doesn't work. So understand, whatever you're doing, you need these basics,
and you do them forever. This is not like once
you get done with these, you check the box and
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you build onto advanced level too.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You always keep doing these.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
It's like being a probe. You want to be a
pro basketball player and you have some great jump shot,
but the other team full court presses you and two
back and forth and you're out of breath. It's like, dude,
you're missing basic cardio, right, Like you can't be a
pro athlete.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I mean nobody likes to turn up and do like
you know, uh, windsprints. But guess what, you don't have that,
Like you got no business dribbling.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Michael Jordan did. But we don't have to get into
that right now.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
But well, that's what they said. No, it's a good point.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You talk about the greatest basketball player of all time,
and you know what they said, he never lost. I
was watching the Last Dance recently. He never lost a winspring.
It wasn't that he like when they say lost, I
mean he finished first. Every time get some young rookie
in that wants to compete with Mike, he's going to
beat them. What he was playing when he was thirty four,
He's going to beat them. He never finished any place
other than first. Like that's and like we all sit
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there and go, wow, I hope that that Like what
did he figure out that maybe some of us overlook
So anyways, let's let's get into this g because we've
we've put this for men, but I will say these
are five things that whether you're a man or a woman,
these these are these are absolute musts.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
So we discuss a lot of thinking on this podcast,
but today we're going to talk like, these are the
very specific. You don't have to we're going to give
you the thinking behind it, but we're going to give
you the very specific. Hey, if you're a man, you
should be doing these things. And if you're not doing
these things, you're missing it.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, and I really hope you look at this.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Don't have a I want to encourage everybody as we
go through this list, don't sit there and look for
your excuses or your reasons why you can't just really
hear this and examine yourself and we'll give the practical
So let's just get into it so very first, and
this is not a surprise. G You've got to read
your Bible and pray daily. If this is not something
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that you are doing every single day, there's literally there's
no excuse. You're absolutely missing it because it's God in
his rightful place. If you think you're going to draw
your source or you're going to understand who you are
or be able to put life in the right order
by having anything other than God first, meaning you spend
time seeking Him daily, truthfully seeking in Him, then there's
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not you know, there's only so much we can do
for you. I know you've said, like, there'll be people
who come to you and want to talk about purpose,
and if they don't have a relationship with God, you're like,
I can't help you.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
And I totally get that thought.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
For us, Oh I can. I can show you the
beginning of the journey. And I've had some of these
conversations recently with people like, Hey, this is what the
real journey for a purpose looks like in your life,
and by the way. What it's going to require is
belief and faith. You can't pursue your purpose without it.
And here's where faith comes from. So it is very
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much a I can only show you the door moment
when I have that discussion with people who don't have
a relationship with God. But reading your Bible and praying
on a daily basis, if you're not doing that, really,
here's all it takes. Right, here's all it takes. You
just need to make a commitment that ten minutes a day. Right,
it should be more than ten, but just start there
and say ten minutes a day when I get up
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in the morning or before I leave the house. Put
some very clear metric around it, right before I go
to the gym. Right, if you're a gem everyday person,
whatever it is, put some metric around it and say,
I'm going to read my Bible for ten minutes, just
at a very simple metric. Read your proverb every day.
That's something that I have done since I was fourteen
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years old. Is I heard people talk about that. I
heard my dad heard Patrick Keith talk about that. I said, okay,
you know what, I'm going to do that and just
that one thing will bless your life greatly, and as
you do that, you'll develop. You're like, man, this is
actually working really well for me. I want more, and
that's exactly what should happen to you. But you'll never
get to that place until you make the commitment as
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a man.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I'm going to do this every day.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yeah, I mean, it really is that simple, all right.
Number two, And some of these things you'll notice we've
talked about them. Hint, we've talked about all of them.
We've just never put them as simple as we're putting.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Put them on in a real, real short stack.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
You got to do these things. Number two.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Intentional brotherhood, all right. We have this in Mighty Men.
We also have this. Nick and I both have this
in many other places. We've got a lot of other
groups that he leads, groups that I lead, other groups
that we both lead together. And here's the greatness of
intentional brotherhood, you know. And guys come to Mighty Man,
I tell them this. I said, I believe that discipleship
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happens through brotherhood because when I went through, when I
went through the Seal teams, there's plenty of things there
that were ungodly, but there was a few things there
that I saw that were and I said, man, the
church is missing this. And what I saw was a
group of men, regardless of creed, color, financial level, all
of these things, regardless of any of that, they were
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there for one common mission and it grew them closer together.
And there was like there was a great amount of
iron sharpens iron in the military outside of a spiritual context.
And I said, man, this is what it's actually supposed
to feel like. And iron sharpens iron when there is
a commitment to, like there's a common mission, when like
we talk about in this podcast. If you've been around
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for a while or you've listened to all of our
episodes on alignment, an alignment is where there's a governing authority,
there's something that you're drawn towards together. Just like a
man and a woman, their life isn't just about them.
Their life is about following God. Their life is about
their family. Right, that alignment creates tension. And what I
knew in my own life, even coming home from the Navy,
I said, hey, I need to be around other men,
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like I'm not just going to try to do this
follow God thing by myself. Because here's what I can
tell you is absolutely true. I would not be the
man that I am without some of the men around me.
Many of the men around me, I've had a massive
impact on them and developed I'm not taking credit for
full credit for Nick or for anybody else in my life,
but I've had a big impact on them and they're
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very different because of me. But I can say the
exact same thing even if I was the one and
this doesn't even have to be the case, but even
if I was the one developing them, they turned around
and developed me back. If nothing else, that they that
they took on the standards that I have and gave
me back accountability in the standards that were my own.
If at the lowest level, if you'll be in a group,
you'll get that. But there's so many other great benefits
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that come from it. We're supposed to follow God with
a group of men, with a group of other families.
We're not meant to do it by ourselves. So if
you don't have this in your life, if you're just
like trying to do your you know, your thing, you
don't have any deep male relationships, you're not going to
grow to what you're capable of growing to.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, and I we've talked about this before, but I
want to give you like the practical house, because I've
been in those shoes where I'm like, when I was
out in San Diego, I'm like, I don't I feel
like I'm on my own. So here's here's what it
looks like. And we've said this before, but I want
to give it real clear. You need to find one
other man. Just find another man, or if you're a woman,
obviously then find find a sister and you just commit,
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like Garrett said, to something bigger than yourself. What's bigger
than yourself. Hey, we're not meant to do this alone.
We need to go together. So this is what this
is going to look like. You set a regular schedule
to meet and you don't break it like I, like
Arrett said, we have this with mighty men.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
And so you can be like, oh, it's easy for
you guys. Guess what.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I have another group I meet with every single week
and it's at the same time, it's at the same place,
and we get together and we share life together. And
it's like, well, you have a body man, why do
you do that? Because it's so important that you absolutely
have to have it.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
And you know if you're like, well, what would we do.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Get a book, Grab a John Beavie book where at
the end of every chapter they have questions. There's so
many great Christian books, and you say, hey, I'm gonna
read this chapter. You read this chapter, we're gonna come
together and discuss it and then share your life as well.
I have a really simple format with men that I
get together with. I say, hey, give me a highlight
for the week, tell me something you're grateful for, and
tell me what God's doing in your life. It's not hard.
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You answered those three questions and guess what. You just
start sharing like what guys will say as oh, well
my highlight was this, and you start to get to
know each other. You know what's going on in life.
You start to hear where it's challenging each other, and
you sharpen each other, and you know what happens when
you do that stuff regularly. It can be at a
coffee shop or whatever. Other people want to start taking part.
It's amazing how you draw people in.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
And it very much is a And we can do
a longer episode on this, but I'll just say this
last thing and then we'll move on. Developing a brotherhood
and a group of for brotherhood is very much a
mastery of basics exercise. People will go like, man, how'd
you do this? How are there four hundred guys here
every week? Like this is this is insane? Like what
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did you do to do this? I said, it was
really simple. I just started with one guy, right. It
really is mastery of basics. The greatest advertisement for Christ
is the transformation that comes from a relationship with Him.
And I can tell the story and show you in
my life with both the fruit and the story of
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my life of how Christ has changed me and how
a relationship with Him has made me who I am.
And as I've shared that with other men, they've wanted
some of the same and they've experienced some of the same,
and that is something that continually multiplies. And that's that's
all Jesus called us to, right, was to be disciples,
be students of Him and other people. That means we'll
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draw up other students like him to follow us, to
be with us, and our students will develop more students.
And that's exactly how you grow something there's the Bible
does not cover, Like, hey, here's how you do marketing
for a men's group, and you know, here's how you
here's how you send thousands of invites and get people
to show up. And I'm not saying that big conferences
or big events are wrong. But what I am saying
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is that that the Bible teaches discipleship, which is be
a great student. Really let him change who you are,
and that'll attract that's all. That's all the attraction that
you need to develop a group. And so we went
from twenty guys to four hundred guys because those twenty
guys like God change them, and that drew other men in.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, and keep in mind that was over years. I
can't stress enough. If you're going to pick a time
to meet, you need to make sure it's a time
that you can you can commit to for how long forever.
It's why we meet seven am on Saturday. Not a
lot of stuff happening at seven am on a Saturday
to be wise. I mean, it's just it's just true,
all right. Number three, no surprise to physical discipline slash challenges.
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You have to remind yourself all the time how often
daily that comfort will kill you? Well, how do I
do something hard daily? Take a cold shower? For us,
it's the ice bath. It could be the way.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Yo. There's so many different things, but.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
You absolutely cannot be in a place where you're not
pushing yourself to do things that at some point you go, man,
I don't want to do this.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Here is so important. Here's the phrase that I hear
come out of men's mouth. It's way too often that
shows me where you're like. When you say something like this,
I know what the rest of your life looks like.
And men'll say to me, whether it's push ups or
running or whatever it is, they say something like, oh,
I don't have to do that stuff anymore. Right, those
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days are behind me and the moment like I'm I'm
gonna die run in a four mile run. That's the
way that I'm going to die. I'm going to keep
pushing myself and pushing my body to the very end.
If you ever get to this place in your life
where you think that physical discipline and challenging yourself is
behind you, you are on your way to the grave.
That's not just a biological thing, but who you are
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as a person is dying.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
God.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
This is James Chapter one. One of the things that
God wants most for our life is to develop endurance,
and so what you're saying is right. The Bible talks
about physical discipline. The Bible talk uses runners, athletes, and
soldiers as the most common analogy in the New Testament.
And what you're saying as a man is you've come
to maybe you're like steal in shape because I've met
(19:24):
these guys. They're like, well, I just hit my little
weight routine and I know how to not be fat.
But they're saying, I don't want to do hard stuff anymore.
And if you get to that place in your life
where you don't want to do hard stuff anymore, you
are dying as a person.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, because what are you going to do whenever hard
stuff comes to your door? Because guess what it will
And you're practicing over and over and over again it's pain.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
And that's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
And so when the pain comes, and it will come,
you're unprepared, and how do you think you're going to react?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Not well?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
And what you're going to end up doing as a
man is you're going to pass that pain onto all
the people around you that depend on you. So if
you're married, your wife, your kids, the people, you're gonna
get it. When a man's life blows up, it takes
uh hostile, it takes people down with him, and.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
So you just you know.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
That one to me is you absolutely have to give
yourself that reminder.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
This one's not so that one's not complicated, but just
to give a little more context to it. For physical discipline,
you need to be working out all the time, but
also you need to be, you know, on at least
on an annual basis, doing something really hard that challenges you.
Whether it's a mountain climb or a marathon or a
(20:31):
triathlon or whatever it is, you need to be doing
something that really challenges you.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I do a murph every month gee, as part of that,
because no matter how many times I do the murf,
you always hit that point where you're like, man, this sucks.
And every time when I'm done, I'm like, I love
that workout. It's like it's never not delivered. So I
love soa So does lindsay, Yeah, well there you go,
and your wife is tougher than you know many.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
People out there. Anyways. Number four, gee, hit us, what
is it?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
This is about serving? This is a huge thing, right.
This isn't just like a great place to serve is
at your church. You should be involved in your local
church and give in some way. Right, what serving is
is it something that you do that doesn't pay you back.
Because what we talk about on this podcast all the
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time is the number one way to live a miserable
life is make your life all about you. If you
want to live a great life, make your life about
other people. I can tell you some of the best
growth and development in my life came as like I
had the privilege of getting to grow up from the
time I was ten in a church that talked about
servant leadership all the time and taught me to serve.
(21:38):
And I learned so much about leadership. I learned so
much about people. I learned project management and organization and
managing timelines as a young boy on serving projects and
serving is a great place to develop yourself. Whether you're
ten or you're seventy five, you're not just developing those skills,
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you're developing care.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, you're learning how to give to something bigger than yourself.
Because a lot of people will bring a volunteer mindset
in that they're like, well, I'll do this stuff that
I like anyways, and as long as it's out of time,
that works for me. And you know, what's actually really
going to grow you is when you serve something that's
completely inconvenient, not what your preference is, and puts you
in a situation where you don't necessarily feel super skilled.
(22:22):
And some people may be like, well, I don't know
about that, Well what's the question. It's what's required. And
I'm speaking as a man who's helped lead our children's
church that and I never thought that'd be in there.
But guess what what was required of me? At some
point I was in the two year old room cleaning
up literally puddles of pea. There's no skill set required
for that. And I'm not saying this like pat myself
on the back. What I learned was I was like, Hey,
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if this is how I'm here to serve the advance
the kingdom mission, and this is what's required today, then
I'm going to do it. And I'll tell you, man,
God meets you in that place, because who are we
following Christ, who, in the being, in the very form God,
took on the form of a servant and became obedient
even unto death. It's literally the example of Christ is
like you humble yourself to the point of like, okay,
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here's what's required, and you can't learn that in theory.
The serving is the way that you just get out
there and you and it'll teach you so much more.
And what we know about our God is that when
you're obedient, the blessings are abundant. And sometimes I'm not
talking about like material blessings. I'm talking about the development
of who you are and just the sense of relationship
(23:25):
and fellowship with Christ. It's the most deeply satisfying thing.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
So's just making serving is just making a commitment to
allow yourself to be used, not saying this is how
I want to be used, right it is. It's the
pickup brass mentality of saying, hey, look, I'm just going
to give myself to this place and however they want
to use me. Pastor Keith used to tell stories of
people would come to the church like, hey, you know,
I think you know I could really be used greatly
(23:51):
in this way. You should use me to to sing
or to speak, or I have a gift of leadership.
And he'd say, well, okay, those guys over there need
you to help stack chairs. And that's the heart of
servant leadership. And that doesn't mean that you can't you
should give your skills and the best of yourself. But
it starts with the right heart.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Exactly right, well said g all right with number five,
because I think this one's a little bit of a surprise.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
And the last one, again these are things that every
man should be doing. If you're missing any one of these,
you're missing it as a man. And the last one
is skill development. Whatever your skills are, each one of
us has different talents, different measures of rule. You know,
I'm about to be thirty five here at the end
of August, and at this age in my life, I
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know what my skills are. I know what I'm really
great at, I know what I'm naturally gifted at. I
know what some learned skills that I have are. Like
you know, I have a propensity for it, and I
don't really like doing it things, but it is a
great skill that I have and I end up keep
having to use it. That's one type of skill. God's
also given me a natural propensity for leadership. And this
(24:54):
is a gift that I have studied since I was young.
I wanted to be a leader. I read books on it,
I practice, I think on it all the time. How
can I be a better leader. And whatever your skills are,
you need to be constantly growing them. This is how
you add value as a man. This is how you
are able to provide for your family. Not what are
the ideas that you have, but what are the ways
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that you can add value?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, that's so good.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
And because remember guys, you're always growing either better or worse.
And if you're constantly developing your skills, if you're sharpening,
you're going to keep growing better. And guess what your
value is going to grow up, go up. Your opportunities
are going to go up. Your ways to serve are
going to go up. I mean they are all linked.
And so that one is, I think is an easy
one to overlook. So once again the five are number one,
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read the Bible in prayer, two, intentional brotherhood, three physical
discipline challenges, four serving and five skill development.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Just do these. It really is that simple. Thank you
very much for listening.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
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Speaker 1 (26:00):
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Speaker 3 (26:02):
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Speaker 4 (26:07):
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Speaker 3 (26:08):
At Impossible Life Podcasts at gmail dot com if you
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and find out about Garrett's personal or business coaching.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
That's the way to do it.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Thank you again for listening.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Go out there and think better and live the impossible.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
See you again soon.
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