271. The Winning Formula: How to Win at Life God’s Way

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
When you're living on purpose. You see it like every
second of the clock you see as winning. You're scoring
points with every second when you know you're doing the
right thing. And I just want to remind you right,
it's the power of principles. When you do the right
things in the right order, and you do them consistently,
you will get right results in life.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
That's impossible.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Let me tell you what I believe.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
It's your weakness, it's not your technique. Don't think you know.
You the Impossible Life Podcast and you're sitting on a
winning lot of.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Second an idea that is fully formed, fully understood, that sticks.
This is the Impossible Life Podcast because Nick and I
are attempting to live impossible lives. What we know is
that nothing is impossible.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
So instead of using.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Impossible as an excuse to not try, we'll use the
pursuit it is impossible as an accelerant for greatness. If
something's never been done before, that just means it's unexplored.
If they tell 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

(01:19):
is this the solution to any impossible task starts with
this question, if I had to what would it take?

Speaker 3 (01:27):
What would it take?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Welcome to another episode of the Impossible Life Podcast. I'm
your co host, Nick Surface, and I'm looking across as
a man who thinks the term downtime is an oxymoron.
That's right, friends, the phone you Garrett Uncle back, a
man who has never wasted a minute in his life.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Up time only up looking for one percent efficiency.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
You make server farms look lazy. If you know anything
about it, you'll know about that. But if you don't,
you'll just think that we're nerds. And maybe you're right. Anyways, Gee,
I am very excited as always to dive into today.
Today was one of those episodes where I showed up
at your house a five thirty am to record and
I thought I had an idea of what we're gonna do,
and we're like, we're gonna take a hard left turn.

(02:15):
And said, cool story, nerd, that's not actually what happened,
but you know that's probably what happened in your mind. Anyways.
So we talked about winning philosophy where we revisited it,
and I think that's massively powerful. And you talked about
you mentioned on that episode about winning formula and you
said that's a whole other episode. Well, today is that
whole other episode is Because wouldn't it be great if
we could just say, hey, here's A plus B plus

(02:37):
C plus D equals winning every time. We would be
we'd be working professional sports teams, we would be doing
all the stuff that we do, and here's exactly how
you get And I actually do think that this is
that what we're going to give you today on the
episode is that it's just what people want is do
exactly this and it works all the time.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Winning philosophy is the mindset portion. Okay, yeah, everything we're
going to get into some math today. You don't let
that put you off every Yeah, if you don't like that,
I'm sorry. Everything in life is math.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Life is math.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Reality is governed by math. Hey, you know, physics, chemistry, biology, space, time,
it's all it's all math. Some things in life are
math plus math plus psychology. Right, Psychology is the mindset portion.
I love mindset. That's what winning formula was. I mean,
winning philosophy was. Winning philosophy is the mindset portion. Today

(03:33):
we're going to talk about the winning formula, which is
the math portion. I put a lot of things into
a math or algebraic formula because sorry.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
That's how life works. It is.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
I mean a great example is how of how it's
both is. That's what our economic markets are today. Their
math problems h plus the psychology problem and there are
times where the math doesn't make sense for a moment,
and that's the psychology portion. I viewer the math of
math and the master of psychology. You'd be really good
at the markets.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah. Well that's why you get some of these really
strong quotes from people like Albert Einstein, because, like I think,
an overly simplistic understanding of it. You'd be like, why
is he talking about like motivational quotes, Like he has
great quotes like official, yeah, even.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Officially understands the world right.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
But because he also had a mindset. By my point is.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Many physicists were also philosophers, right, because they sought to
understand right, and they when they found the edge of physics,
they were interested in philosophy.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
So the goal of today, what we want to take
you through is to help you understand the winning formula
and then help you be able to apply it to
your life to be able to look at where there's
four things, and we want you to be able to
look at your life and understand perhaps where you've been
missing it so that you can get the wins and
the results and the growth in your life that not
just you want, but really we firmly believe on this
podcast that God wants for you. And that's one of

(04:51):
the things that I think is underlying all this. I
don't necessarily know that everybody out there will really believe
in their heart of hearts g that that God wants
them to prosper. I think it'll be like God wants
me a prosper if like it's conditional, God wants me
a prosper but like, ah, you know, and I think
because people hear things like you know you shouldn't you
can't have two lords. You can't serve both money and God,
which is one hundred percent true. We're not going to

(05:12):
ever step back on that.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Mammon.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Mamonas actually means what you put your trust in. So
you can put your trust in a lot of things
other than God and create false idols. That's a whole
other podcast. But God does God does want you to
prosper when you by doing things his way. His ways
are best. And so what I want to share just
before we dive into this, you have a really strong
belief about this and in the way you see your life.
And you told me from like literally before we even

(05:35):
did episode one, you told me this, and here we are,
you know, four plus years later, and like it's still
one hundred percent true. So, like, what is your kind
of desire to or how you see.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
This when people ask me about my dreams or my
vision for my life. So there's a lot to it,
but I can put it into a very simple statement.
It's good to be able to simplify things helps you sometimes,
just like you can have a really like complicated compass,
and I've shown you what those look like, but it's
also nice to just if you ever seen like a

(06:04):
military watch, it has a little like tiny dime sized
compass on the side and just a little needle and
all all that. The only directional on there is just
an in for north right. That's all that's on there.
Just kind of helps. Hey am, I generally going in
the right direction, And that's what this is for me.
It's a very simple compass. Hey am, I generally going
in the right direction and what that looks like for me,

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or the way I say it is that I want
to go as far in ministry and business as possible
at the same time, or another way I've said it
is I want to go as far as I can
in business and never stop leading in ministry, right, And
because that's also because I kind of see them both interchangeably,
and it's some of also the foundation that God put

(06:46):
me on in my life where I saw people do
very well or prosper in either area, but not both right,
and that that it always just rubbed me the wrong way.
And I've explained that to people, or part of what's
your purpose. Some of what you're called to do is
you'll you'll first see it or you'll first discover it

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and the things that really frustrate you, that really bother you,
Cause just like anything in life, there's stuff that's gonna
stick out to you, problems that that really bother you,
that don't bother other people. I'll talk about some of
the stuff that bothers me to people. Sometimes you're like,
what are you talking about? I've never even thought about
that before. It's like I've spent my entire life thinking
what do you mean you've never thought about that before?

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Well you call that problem site. That's how that's the
term you use. I often repeat to people. I'm like,
what's your problem site? And you're right. People are like,
what do you mean? And I go and give my
own example, like and I've shared this podcast, there's things
that have stuck out to me about men my whole
life that I'm like, well that doesn't seem right, like this,
like there's something missing here and that that's like the
clue in. It's only whenever you actually stop and think
about because because it becomes so much a part of

(07:49):
your vision that you assume, like you said, it's everybody's vision,
and then you'll say it to people and I'm like,
I never even think about that or notice it. Clue, clue, clue.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
You know.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
We need like a little one of those alarm. It's
one of those life questions we've talked about before. What
do you see right? That is that is going to
frame up what your life looks like? Is when you
look at life, what do you see?

Speaker 3 (08:09):
It was?

Speaker 1 (08:10):
It's the Israelites going into the Promised Land, the quiet
Moses sent them in, came come back, give a report,
tell me what you see? Yeah right, they all looked
at the same thing. They gave different reports.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, very good. So I guess the question if you're
listening to that, I mean, Garrett just talked to what
he sees for his life. What does winning God's Way
look like to you? I would really, I would. I
would be really curious to sit and hear people answer that.
One of the things I love about what we do
a Mighty Men is like Garrett, so how we do
mighty Man? Garrett'll preach and then he gives us a
question to discuss in our group, and we all like,
Garrett preachers for half the time. Yeah, we gave us

(08:41):
three yesterday. Garrett preaches for half the time. Then we
go away and we spend half the time together and like,
as we always say, that's the real magic is when
you sit there and I love because you'll say things
from the front people like oh yeah, like you hear
all the oh Amen's like that's good, Okay, Well now
we're gonna go talk about it. And then you go like, hey,
so you know, what does purpose in your life look like? Well,
it's the future. It's computers, you know, Like you just

(09:03):
and I'm saying that from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
if you know that movie, send tous high school Football rules.
But but but what I'm people don't actually like we
so much of life happens and it goes by because
we don't stop and actually wrestle with what's happened, and
we're not willing to give things the time. We want
things to happen in a certain amount of time and
if it doesn't happen to that sort of time, oh well,
I guess it wasn't meant to happen. And we move

(09:24):
on like we want a microwave it and there's no
microwave for growth. Like you have to be able to
wrestle with things. And that's what I love about monument
is we sit around and we ask these questions. So
for people out there, I'd be so curious to actually
be able to hear from people, what does winning God's
Way look like to you? You know, because that's it's
a it's a worthwhile answer to to go into. But anyways,
we're gonna get into the formula, okay, and you like

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we said, this is mathmat math, or as they say
in the UK, maths, it's plural over there maths with
an F, Yeah, with an F instead of thh, I'm
good at maths? Am I in it? If you if
you don't like math, just bear with us because, like
Garrett said.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Sorry, sorry, life is governed by math, and it really is.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Like that's when you see these pictures of people doing
things on the chalkboard like that worked out to something
that you used, like the phone you use.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
You want to be good at life, like I said,
Like I said earlier, you need to understand both. If
you like I love psychology and I hate math, life's
going to be hard for you.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Right.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
See, I love math and I hate psychology, Life's going
to be hard.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
For you, right. You need to get a little bit
of both.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, Because the person that loves psychology and hates math
is the person who understands how you feel but doesn't
understand why.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
You know why, how to change things. I don't know
how to make anything work right.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
And the person who understands math but doesn't understand psychology
can't get along with anybody, right Like.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
This is I don't understand people. I only understand the systems.
Give me ones and zeros all day. Yeah, guess what
neither of the are are as effective as they could be.
All Right, So gee, the winning formula is four things
and they all multiply each other, and the very first
one is right aim.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
Right?

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Is that so simple?

Speaker 1 (10:54):
So last time we talked about winning philosophy, now we're
talking about winning formula.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Right. What is a formula? It's a recipe.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
And if you maybe you're like I don't like math,
but you like cooking recipes are math?

Speaker 3 (11:06):
You like math?

Speaker 2 (11:07):
The point of this podcast is convinced everybody that they
need math everything math. We need a math sponsor.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
You know.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Hey, if you would like to win, right, here's the
recipe for it. If you don't, if you want to
instead of say formula, I'll say recipe because that's easier.
Very gracious digest, Right, But here's the winning formula, and
this is the first key ingredient. And different than a recipe,
these ingredients they multiply each other, right, And if you
understand math, when you multiply things, you can also accidentally

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do division if you multiply towards something.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
That is less than a one. We'll talk about that
here in a minute.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
But the first ingredient, first piece of the formula is
right aim Okay, right aim. This is having right so
like very simple, I kind of brought it back to
tactical battlefield. Hey, we got to like shoot at the
right thing. Okay, so let's break that down. There's a
lot of pieces to that. It's your vision, it's your strategy.
Let's talk about vision for a second.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
Vision.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Here's the way I like to look at vision. Vision
is the world that you wish to create. Vision is
what you care about. Vision is what you want to change.
Vision is some of what you it's some of what
you see, it's some of your dream. Purpose plays a
big piece of right aim. Right like to talk about
right aim, you have to first define what is right.

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And if you believe that God is a purpose for
your life, then you would believe that there is a
right aim for you. If you don't believe God is
a purpose for your life, you're just going to define
like right aim based upon the outcome.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
And that's a.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Very difficult circular formula to get stuck in of. Well,
I believe success. I believe what's right is me succeeding.
And if you're not succeeding, you're not doing the right
thing right. That that is a like downward SPI spiral.
You can get stuck on in life. But so if
we're just going to put through a simple definition on
right is like God's plan. Well, I don't always know

(13:02):
God's plan. What I do know is what he tells me.
What I do know is what God speaks to me.
What I do know is the difference between right and wrong.
God won't show me the plan, but God gave me
a very clear compass that points north. I know which
way north is. I don't always know what's on the
plan where are we going exactly? But I know which

(13:23):
direction is the right direction right. God has given each
of us a sin compass. You know what's wrong, you
know what's right. And so I say that to say
just a long vision. I always like to share this story.
This is some of the greatest clarity in the Bible
for me.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
On having a.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Vision or having a dream is Joseph's life. And just
to paraphrase Joseph's life in forty five seconds, Joseph had
a dream, and his dream was that he would be
a leader, that his brothers would bow down to him.
That was not the purpose for Joseph's life. If you
read Joseph's story. What you realize is that because of
his consistency, because he stayed with it even when it

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wasn't working, he continued to be excellent. Joseph continued to
pursue being a leader one day over a decade of
his life of it not working out. Eventually that did
happen for him. His brothers even did bow down to him.
But that wasn't the purpose of Joseph's life. Joseph lived
purposefully even though he didn't feel a lot of purpose
and what was happening in his life. He controlled what

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he could control, gave his very best, sought greatness, and
eventually his brothers did bow down to him. But the
purpose of Joseph's life was to save all of Israel
from starvation and famine, and that's what was right for
Joseph's life. Joseph played the part that God put him
on the earth to play. God never told and spoke
to Joseph and said like, hey, I'm going to use

(14:43):
you to lead my people out of Israel or lead
my people out of uh.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Into Egypt.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Right like that was the plan for Joseph's life, was
to save all of Israel from starvation and famine.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
Later, God spoke to Moses.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
That way and said like, hey, I'm going to use
you to lead my people out of God never gave
Joseph a purpose statement like that. He just put a
dream in his heart to be a leader. And it's
really interesting that in scripture it just says Joseph had
a dream.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
I didn't say the Lord appeared to him or the
Angel of the Lord spoke to him. It just says
Joseph had a dream. So the first piece of winning
formula is that you've got to have a right aim.
You have to have This has to boil down to
commander's intent. What direction are you going? What problem do
you want to solve?

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Well, and here's what will mess a lot of people up.
And even in the Joseph example, so many people look
at somebody like you or like a Joseph, they go, yeah,
but he had this dream in their heart at this
young age. I didn't have that. And what people have
this blueprint in their mind. It's very uncommon for a
person who's at nineteen years old, like you were, to

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do something that is universally accepted as great. I've never
said to somebody, hey, one of my best friends in
the Navy seel. We do a podcast and they go like, oh,
Navy seal, puh never.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Never.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
I've told a lot of people I've never had that reaction.
I'm guessing you don't get that reaction either. It is
universally respected as great. So what will mess people up
is they think, well, I didn't have this thing in
me at a young age. So now I'm sitting here
and I'm behind and I don't really know what to do,
and when's this gonna happen? And so they start to
try and rush it right, because it's like if you
ask your brain a question, it'll give you an answer,

(16:19):
like what's my purpose, What's what's my vision? And then
they just they find something and they just go about it.
What you just said is to say, like, God gave
you a compass, and here's the compass is that you
would seek after him right, that you would that you
would get your heart right with him. You say this
all the time, and I think it's.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
It's God never puts someone in a place where they
can't succeed right, right, Like, even sometimes success doesn't look
like what success looks like. Yeah, And in the middle
of Job's destruction, there was a path for job to succeed, right, right,
And what he did was he followed his compass. Right,
I'm gonna you know what, this sucks. I hate everything.
I'm going to continue to honor God.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Right, Jesus didn't enter into what we know as his
purpose until he was third. Now here's what's so interesting.
The last thing we hear is at twelve years old,
it's like, so he went and he submitted to his parents,
and he was obedient to them. And then eighteen years later,
when he gets baptized, we hear God's voice audibly say,
this is my son with whom I'm well pleased. Well,
what was he well pleased about? He was well pleased

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about the way he had lived his life for eighteen years. Yeah,
but he wasn't doing miracles and he wasn't like changing
the world. He was getting prepared. What does that mean?
It means that a lot of what God's interested in
is who you're becoming, which means that if you're wondering
where to start with what Garrett just said, because you're like, well,
I don't have this dream in my heart and I
don't necessarily have my right aim start improving yourself. What
does that mean, see closer to God, get around the

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right circles, start doing things God's way. How does God
do money?

Speaker 1 (17:39):
It's actually that's actually the first piece for many of
the great stories we see in the Bible, exactly right.
Like David. David didn't have a dream or a purpose
or a plan right as a thirteen year old boy,
he just said, you know what, I love God and
I'm gonna be my best.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Let's just make it. Yeah, there you go. I love
God and I'm going to be my best. If you
there you go. Thank you for shortening what I said.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
That's the beginning of it. And when you do that, right,
when you love God and you become your best, it
makes you capable, It gets you ready. One of my
favorite quotes Abraham Lincoln, I will prepare, and my time
will come. There will be a time for you if
you'll prepare for it. As soon as David didn't know
what his problem was in life until it was standing
right in front of him. Yeah, he met his Goliath

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and he said, I'll kill you, and the whole world
will know there's a God. No one's going to speak
about my God that way.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Right, when you've prepared, when you see a problem that
was meant for you, you'll attack it. If you've not prepared accordingly,
you'll see a problem that was meant for you and.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Say, that's not my problem, right, Hint, there is a
problem that's going to present itself in your life. It
is why you love Benny the Jet and you talk
about these things all the time. And I don't necessarily
think that it's always picked up on, but like, there's
a problem coming for you. There's something, and don't be
afraid of it.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Prepare.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Like if I told you you're gonna have to fight
a bear, and like, no matter what, you're going to
have to fight a bear. I would hope that you're
responsible be like, well, I'm gonna start it ready. I'm
going to become really trained at primary and secondary weapons systems.
I'm going to learn how bears like.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
It's one of the traits of greatness, whether you look
at people in the Bible or you look at people
like Bruce Lee.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
This was Bruce Lee's mindset.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
He's like, I will be like I he The way
he talked about it was like I believe the fight
of my life is coming, and I'll be ready when
that fight shows up. Like had no, you know, it
wasn't like there's somebody out there who wants to like
you know, knew of a person who wanted to kill him.
He's like, I'll just be ready when the day comes.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Man, I love the preparation mindset. Like that thought process
gets me pumped.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
So if you'll prepare, you will find a problem. And
like I said, that's part of what vision is. You
were meant to do something on the earth. There's a
problem that you're meant to solve. There's a problem that
there's or the way I like to talk about it
is dragons, right, Like dragons are things that one need
to be killed. Dragons also hoard lots of gold, so
there's value in killing a dragon. But dragons are something

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that are They're a blight on the land. They hurt
so many people. And if you you've seen or experienced
a dragon in your life. The easiest one I like
to use that, like people understand is cancer, Like cancer
is a dragon and they're so like no one is
like there's no one that's like, yeah, you shouldn't fight
against cancer. I like, I don't like cancer is not
a dragon for me, but I acknowledge cancer as a

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dragon in culture, and there are some people who are like,
I will give my every breath to kill this dragon,
and that's that's the problem that they've sought to destroy.
And it's you know, I'll you know what if one
of my friends invites me, like, hey, come do this,
you know, walkethon for cancer. I did some as a kid,
and I'd probably still do some. I'm not going to
get in anybody's way, and fighting that dragon is just

(20:38):
not the problem that I'm after. Everyone's got something like
that that you like, it is worth giving your life to, right, like,
you want to give your life towards a problem that's
worth solving. And one of my purpose questions is I
think a lot of people, you know, they they don't
think so, but they're stuck in that circular downward loop

(20:58):
of they don't know what a rite aim is and
so they just said, well, I guess right is to
be successful, and so I'll just pursue whatever I can
succeed at. And when I think about that, I see
a man who's been given armor and a sword and
he's afraid of a bear and has decided to kill
a chicken, right Like, well, I know I can kill
this thing. Yeah, of course you can. You have a sword,

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and this is a nearly defenseless creature. You're going to
have to train if you want to kill a bear.
But that's the tools that you've been given were made
for a much larger problem. And no man is going
to feel fulfilled butchering chickens with a sword. It's not
what you were meant to do. But if you'll prepare
for if you'll prepare for your problem, you will find

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a problem that you want to go after, a problem
that is scary, dangerous, but a problem that you could say,
even if I failed at this, it was worth doing. Right,
Like if there was a let's just you know, metaphorical
allegorical here for a second. If there's a bear, you know,
living in your a bear outside of your home that

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has you know, endangered your children. As a man, you
should want to kill that bear. This bear is you know,
I in my family. If I don't kill it, it
might kill me or my family. And that would be
a thing that even if you failed in doing so,
you would have done so heroically. Like here's a man
who gave all he had trying to defend his family.
Right that even if you failed at it, it would

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have been a worth while problem to fail at. And
that's really a that's a good indicator of hey, I'm
on the right thing where you could say, like, man,
I really want to change this, I really want to
solve this problem. I want to make the world a
better place in this way. And I don't even know
if I can really do it, but to succeed at
it would be great, would be special. If I failed

(22:43):
at it, I would still feel like I was doing
the right thing. If you don't feel that way about
what you're doing, Like, even if I failed at this,
it would it would feel like the right thing. You're
in the wrong loop. You're in the circle circular downward
loop of trying to define right aim by.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
What you think you could succeed at.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, what I love about that question. Gee, that is
such a heart revealer question. Because let's stick with the
bear analogy and we can apply it easily to business.
Let's say the guy wanted to kill a bear because
he wanted to prove how tough he was, so basically
he died for pride. Now he died a fool trying
to do the exact same thing. Whereas if he died
because he was trying to protect his family.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
He's a hero.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
So a lot cares way more about why because a
lot of people will be wrecked by you asking that
question because I'll be like, man, I'm just working my
job for money. Man that like, what am I doing?
This is worthless? Okay, So you've now revealed why you're
doing it. What if you did the exact same job,
but you did it with a very godly purpose and
you're like, well, how is that possible? What if you

(23:38):
went in there every single day with the mindset of, like,
I'm here to be a difference maker. I'm here to
show what a godly man looks like. I'm here to
be a blessing to every single person I encounter. I'm
here to develop myself and grow better because I know
that God's not only using this now to bless others,
but also repair me. Doing the exact same thing, very
different reason. Guess what your level of purpose and your

(23:58):
motivation is going to feel like for that very very
different because like I think that's what so many people think,
Like when they discover purpose, they're just gonna completely like
wipe the table off, just throw everything off, like everything
I've been doing is wrong. Now I've got this one thing,
and it's it's like, no, what changes is internal in you?
You know, if you need to wipe everything off, means
if you're like a porn star, like what I think
about Josh Broom, Yeah, okay, then you need to wipe

(24:20):
this late clear because it's clearly sinful. But I think
a lot of people will look at that and they'll
they still are stuck on the what rather than why.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
I've walked that journey with some men before. These people
will come to me like trying to like help me
with my purpose. Sometimes it's just that you're doing the
right thing, but you the way you feel about it,
what's in your heart about it, is what's wrong.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yep, we change that.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Nothing on the outside, change everything on the inside change.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
And then I've also worked with guys where it was
the flip side. It's like, man, their heart was right,
but what they were doing was wrong and they had
to make a change right right, And that's it's very
difficult to do. I've watched the men do it, and
sometimes it kind of looks like blowing up your life
and moving across the country and making a big change
but again, when you when you're when you are after
the right aim with the right heart, that's where it's like, Man,

(25:06):
even failing at this, I know is the right thing
to do because it's understanding that that God is your provider, yes,
and not so like, oh, it's it's my job to
do everything. No, my job and one hundred percent my
job and nothing else. My job is to do what
God's put me on the earth to do, and I'm
going to let.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
Him take care of the rest.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Very good, all right, ge, So winning formula Part one
was right aim?

Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, and the business I want to give like the
practical side of this as well. Right, So we're giving
a winning formula, right aim, Like, that's that can seem
intangible for people. So I just want to take like
one step deeper into practical reality to help people see
this formula is very real. The business side of this,

(25:47):
of this formula. The other way of saying right aim
would be saying product market fit or a clear value proposition. Right, It's, hey,
what problem are you going to solve? If you start
investing in young businesses?

Speaker 3 (25:58):
It's one of the.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
First things you're going to see is like how valuable
is the problem you're solving. How is what you're trying
to do going to solve that problem? And if you
can't tell me how what you're doing is going to
turn into a product, and how the market is interested
in your product, non investable?

Speaker 3 (26:13):
Right, It's it like.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Doesn't matter how altruistic you are, how brilliant you are,
that the market does not reward brilliance. Right, solve a problem,
solve it well, solve it consistently.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
I think what you just described right there is where
so many entrepreneurs shouldn't have even gotten out the blocks,
but they did. And you see people that are down
the road with lots of money and time invested into
something that they're like, but this is such a cool thing,
and it's like, yeah, but nobody wants this. Yeah, Like
you're solving a problem that you that like five people have.
It's not you. You didn't find a market. You found

(26:45):
a passion, right, And that's a big thing I talked
anyways that I'm going down my principles. I know you've
worked with some people, so many, so many, so many
startups anyways, Okay, gee, so that's right. In that was
the business example. Number two is the old action plan and.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
I'll just say there's so much more we could say
about right aim, for sure, but is there's a lot
of other episodes that you could take pieces of this
from right, but we're trying to give the formula. Here's
the math, right, So right aim, and then the second
piece is really your your action plan. This is right execution.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
This is also consistency.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
There's a lot to this second piece, but hey, I've
got to have the you know, step one is clarity,
Step two is consistency. Got to I've got to have
the right tactics, or another way of saying it is
like how Paton talked about strategy and tactics.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
Step one is knowing.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
What like what should we do, what hill should we take?
And then step two is knowing how to do it.
It's the execution of it. It's the tactics of it.
There's a lot of other pieces to step two as well,
which is the training side of it. You've got to
if we look at it in the market context, right,
it's okay, what's the problem that you're going to solve?

(27:54):
And then the second piece is how consistently can you
deliver that value? And so maybe in your life you've
got like, man, this is the big dream that I
want to solve, or this is the big problem I
want to solve. This is the dream that I want
to see happen. This is the way that I want
to change the world. Okay, what is your plan? What
are the steps that you're going to take to do that?

(28:15):
What's your level of excellence in that in those steps?
What's your level of consistency in those steps. I was
saying this to Nick before that a lot of people
would look at like if you watch the Seal teams
do something, you would just think like, man, those guys
are like so special and like so high level. Like
I don't even know how to do the things that
they know how to do. And that's not what I see. Like, Yeah,

(28:38):
it's like you don't know anything about long range shooting
because that's not your world, Right, you go hang out
with some other long range shooters.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
You can be.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
As like there are civilian courses that you can go
to and for they're kind of expensive, but like twelve
fourteen thousand dollars you can go spend like three weeks
at places like Hat Creek, and you're as good as
a seal sniper.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Really.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
Yeah, like it's not.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
That's not the it's not like they know how to
some magical you know, they don't have alien technology, right, Yeah,
what you should see when you look at at Navy seals.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
What I see is I.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Watch a guy step through the door a thousand times
in a row, and his foot lands in the exact
same place every time, right right. It's like watching a
like if you microscopically studied great NBA players, It's like
the ball is rolling off of like the exact same
spot in their fingertips every time. Their their level of
execution is perfect. It's not that they're you know, they've

(29:32):
figured out some magic thing. It's that, Okay, this is
what works. Here's my chocolate chip cookie, and I'm gonna
make a million of them the exact same way right now, Like, oh,
I've got this great I'm gonna make the greatest chocolate
chip cookie ever.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
You could definitely sell those, right, but then you can't
consistently do.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
It right now. What Garrett said in there, the right
action or the action plan, aka the right execution. To me,
I think a lot of people can get you can
get broken in any one of these. Garrett said. A
couple of things here, and it's easy to be like,
oh yeah, okay, Navy seals right, like they put their
foot in the right place. Well, here's the thing. They
had someone show them what the right place was. For
a lot of people in business and in life, you

(30:09):
don't have someone saying, here's exactly the right place. So
guess what.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, I never really questioned in seal training, right, is
this gonna work?

Speaker 2 (30:16):
That's exactly right. You're like, I just need to do
what they say because it's proven. Well, in your life
you don't have that, So first you have to figure
out what right place is and then guess what. Guess
how that comes from doing a lot of the repetitions
the wrong way. I think about like I'm putting this
into marketing context and different contexts that I have in
my own life. I think this is like, for example,
in your business, you may go like, we need to
run ads. Yes, you do, well, we're running ads and

(30:37):
it's not working. We're running really bad ads right, or
you're running into the wrong people, or you're optimizing. Like
there's so many different things and so it's like how
many reports.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Shoot the enemy? We shot millions of rounds? Yeah, yeah, exactly,
we shot them all. Well, yeah, you weren't very accurate.
Nothing hit, right, nothing hit, but you got rid of
all your AMMO. And we laugh at that, as one
of my instructors used to say, you can't miss fast enough.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
Right.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Okay, that's that's a great one. But you get my point,
Like in some of these things that we take these
lessons from, you need to think about what that looks
like for you because we don't have, you know, seal
instructors for life, right, Like what we're hoping to be
on this podcast is to help people grow in their vision.
But what we will always say on this podcast is
that you need to find mentors, You need to connect
with people locally. Like Garrett and I aim to be

(31:21):
everything we can be to draw people closer to God
and that they would see Him wholeheardly and have their
thinking changed and their perception of what a godly man
changes by doing this podcast and all the stuff that
we do. But at the very same time, it will
never replace actually being able to follow somebody who's followable
and actually spending time with them in true discipleship. It
just won't. So I want to make sure to highlight

(31:41):
that because in whatever you're applying this and you're like, okay,
I need to execute right. Know that this is going
to take a lot more reps than what you think.
Whatever you think it is, Multiply it by two and
maybe you're close. Maybe Okay, I'm gonna put you on
the spot here, Nick, let's do it.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Why do you think? Okay, you get guys, they get
the right plan or close to a right plan. They
got they got a good used a good plan. Yeah,
and then they step into execution and they're not consistent.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
Right, you got a good plan.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
What what what happens to men that they can't consistently
execute on what they know is a good plan?

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yeah? This is I have an answer for this immediate
because it's something I think about a lot. I think
that people's underlying assumptions of what it will be like
is never what reality is. And so when reality starts
to not match what they didn't even know they made
this assumption. People have a blueprint in their head of
how it's gonna go, like, yeah, it's gonna be hard,
but you don't really know how hard. And so whenever

(32:34):
the what you had in your head doesn't match with reality,
your your level of belief in what you set out
to do starts to wane, and so does your consistency.
Like when belief drops, action drops, and that's what that's
what that's.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
What you said it it's belief. Yeah, I think there's
a lot of things that you know, you have at
least one that's still young, like mine are. And I
think there's a lot of things that stand out when
you observe young people and like the nature of people,
and especially in children like your youngest and my oldest,
who like really are competitive, have a dr high drive

(33:07):
to win. What happens to them when they swing at
the ball with all their might on their first attempt
and they don't get it right, They get so angry
they throw the I don't even want to do this anymore.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
This is stupid, right.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Because they went in with this like high desire, high
level of motivation to win, and then their motivation met reality,
and motivation comes and goes, and children don't know how
to work through that correct and so they have this
emotional encounter with reality and what is supposed to help
you push through that is what you were saying belief, right,

(33:43):
Like that's okay, I missed, but I know I'm meant
to hit this ball. If you don't have the belief
backing that up, you say like, I don't even want
to do this anymore. You know, baseball stupid? Why would
I want to ever swing the bat again? It's like
you swung like there was nothing really wrong with what
you were doing. Now when you watch a child swing
a bat, it's pretty much everything was wrong with what
they were doing. But you made a good attempt. Let's

(34:05):
attempt again, because I know you can hit the ball
and help get the bat onto your ball. But the
point is what and you said it right, is it's
the belief piece, and that's what messes up people in
their execution.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Right.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
You've got to say like, Okay, I've got the plan,
and when I step up to the plate and I miss,
it's just that my execution needs to get better. You're
the opposite of stepped in the exact same place every time,
because think about what seals were asked to do is
walk into a room where they know you're coming and
they have machine guns pointed at the door.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
How are you how are you supposed to win in that?

Speaker 1 (34:40):
Yeah, you have to be what Kobe said, I'll tell
you what I'm going to do and you still won't
be able to stop me. Not because it's only because,
like Kobe would say, that is because my execution is
better than yours. I'll tell you what I'm going to do,
and you still can't stop me. That's what went like.
So what I'm the point I'm making here is in
step two. So if you really want to win in life,

(35:01):
you can win with And Patent even said this, great
tactics will save the worst strategy, and bad tactics will
destroy the best strategy. A man who was known as
one of the greatest strategists in World War Two put
tactics up on the pedestal and said, you can have
an average plan, but if your level of execution is high,
you're going to win. And I see this all the

(35:21):
time in business. I see products who, in my opinion,
the product is average, but I see them crush it
and level of execution.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Apply this to business because you did this for the
first step g in right aim for action plan, you've
kind of touched on it, but like, what like take
this a step forward for market the market example, what
does what does right execution look like in the market?

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Okay, so in the market, what right execution looks like
right again, we're making you know, here's the big picture
winning formula, right aim Right. This is the first piece.
Second piece is action plan and right execution. In the
first piece with winning formula, we talked about product market fit. Right, Okay,
so we're making the market example, just trying to make

(36:07):
this a little bit more tangible for you. Market example.
For the second piece, which is right execution is just
repeated value delivery or consistent value delivery. This is just
like in a restaurant, you don't get rewarded for like
having one great dish one time, right, like the like
who do you love? And I love In and Out?
Why it's so good every time?

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Everywhere?

Speaker 1 (36:28):
It's like, yes, their burgers are so good. But also
I wouldn't say, like, you know, In and Out Burger
is a fifteen on a scale of one to ten.
It's just a great burger and it's great every time,
exactly right, And that's why people go back. Right, there's
probably more magical burgers out there than in In and Out Burger,
but I can't it's not right off the road, easy
to pick up every single.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Time, right, and in multiple states.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah, and so like in that example, what pays really well,
high levels of quality, consistent delivery.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
There's people in the Northeast, like god, I doubt it.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
In and out by this kid, you got to come
to the south and the Southwest.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
Oh man, if you do go to in and out,
it is just wonderful. Anyways, shout out in and out.
They've brought me so many happy moments in my life.
All right, Gee, so we've got right aim action plan.
Next up is well, just you know what that does.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
And so let's take out of the market and bring
it back into like the big picture because I want
this to be realistic for people in business. But really
the only reason I'm using the business examples is to
help people understand and believe that this is the winning form.
Yeah for sure, right, this is what works when you
can do things consistently. Okay, let's take this to marriage. Yeah,

(37:39):
when you can do something consistent consistently, you know what
that gets you.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
It's trust.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
You.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
When you are consistent, you get trusted and trust is
the high way for value. Right when you in the market,
when you can do something consistently and you and people
trust you in it, trust allows you to scale if
you want to grow the level of quality in your marriage.
You need consistency. Consistency creates trust. Then when your wife

(38:06):
is like, well, man, I see the way you did
this one thing, and I'm starting to believe you'll do
everything that way, that's when every area of your marriage
gets better.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Yeah, that's a that's a I think that's an easy
one to understand, but it's there's a difference between knowing
the path and walking the path. But it's so true.
I'm telling you, man, I've told it on this podcast before.
When you I'll put it like this. I had really
started like leading myself intentionally to the point where I
was like dogmatic about my discipline because not because I

(38:34):
was being legalistic, but because I realized I need to go.
I had made compromise a regular practice, and I realized
what it was costing me. So I became hardcore about
my discipline in everything. And I remember Rien and I
were sat in bed.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
She I that's why, just just with you on this,
this is why businesses that have great customer service. It's
not because the owner is just such a nice, merciful person, right,
It's because they're relentless and they're like that one bad
experience is going to cost so much business. Ya, they
realize I'll do whatever it takes to not have a
bad experience.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Yeah, because you realize what you realize how valuable it is, right,
you realize what it's costing. But also, and I don't think,
I think you realize what it costs you more than
you realize what's possible. I think you discover what's possible,
but you realize the cost of you know what you're
missing first. And that's how it was for me. So
when I started realizing how much my compromise and discipline
were like leaving me short, I was like, man, I
want to figure out what's on the other side of that,

(39:25):
So I'm going to start being hardcore. Well so I
was hardcore about my discipline. I can't even remember what
I did. I did something that Rihan didn't like, and
she said, I don't like when you when you do that.
I said, okay, I'll never do it again. She's like okay,
and then she and that was it. There was no
like I didn't have to discuss it with her, we
didn't have to talk about the way she felt. I
didn't have to apologize multiple times. I didn't have to
like convince her why it would be different. She was
just like, Okay, I remember we moved on. I didn't

(39:48):
say it, but on the inside I was like, oh
my gosh, this is amazing. Like my wife knows that
if I say something, that's the end of it. That
did not come because I did something once or twice
or I was really good at working out. It was
because she saw me do that in every single area.
What you said you're gonna do the dishes, what you
said you were never going to lose your temper, you
said you were gonna do this with the kids. You know,

(40:09):
you start hitting those those things enough times, it just
becomes like, yeah, that's that's who that person is. And
it was incredible.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
But you're either training your people and your customers to
believe you or you're training them to not believe you. Yeah,
and that's when you when you realize the value of
that of that trust, that's when you'll prize it and
protect it that way.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
I had one of our friends yesterday tell me, hey man,
just like thank you for like I know you're in
a crazy season of life right now, and thank you
for just always bringing your best at mighty men.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
I I like, there's times where I'm just like I'm
pressed and just crushed by how much I got going on,
and I just whatever it takes for me to bring
my best to mighty men, I do it. I don't
get paid by the reviews. I don't get paid at all.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
Right.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
I do it because it's what I what's what I've
believe in. And the reason I care about it so
much is because one of the reasons I know that
helps it grow. It's not just this reason, but the
reason I know that helps it grow is my level
of consistency. If sometimes my messages were good and sometimes
like man, I can tell Garrett was tired this week,

(41:18):
what would happen is some people would say, like, I
won't come, Garrett's probably tired, right, right. And the reason
I want people to come isn't for me. I want
them to come so that they can get relationship with
other men and see some of the fruit in their
life that comes from following God, doing it with other men,
and experiencing transformation in their life. But if I don't
do my part right, if I'm not consistent, then people

(41:39):
are going to people are like, people are going to
match my level of consistency. If I'm not consistent in
my delivery, people are not going to be consistent in
their attendants. If your product is not consistent, your customers
will not be consistent.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
Back.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Yeah, I just little bonus, not it. I keep feeling
like I need to say this, so I'm going to.
I've thought about this a lot, and this is just
a side note for those of you that start businesses
or you think you're gonna have a business partnership. I've
thought about because I've got three businesses. One of them
I do on my own, the other two one of
them I do with Garrett. The other round I do
with the business partner who's in my production company. And
I've not had any bad business relationships. And you can

(42:11):
say I'm lucky, and maybe I was, but I've thought
about this. What's the number one we got lucky with me?

Speaker 3 (42:16):
Dude? Okay?

Speaker 2 (42:18):
So I've thought about this, and I've asked myself like what, Okay,
So I've got business relationships that work, and I thought,
what's the number one thing you should look for when
you're when you're looking for a business partner? And you
know what I boiled it down to G is reliability.
It's the number one thing. Well, no, you laugh at this,
but here's what I mean by that, and it's that

(42:40):
I never have to question how either of my business
partners is going to turn up, Like I never wonder.
And you could say, well, well, that's easy. You got a
Navy seal. Guess what. My other business partner's not a
Navy seal. He's a normal dude who went to college. Uh,
you know, he's really really amazing with cameras and and
just a great person who I love dearly. I never
wonder his name is Matt. I never wonder about how
mad or Garrett's turned up. Literally, we've been I've had,

(43:01):
I've I've pushed Matt. You'll love this. There was times
when we flew to London once and I said, you
know what we're gonna do. I realized we were competing
against other people. We were there for Puma, and it
was gonna be about speed to market in the US.
So I said, let's just stay on us time. We'll
go to the party and shoot everything we need to do,
and then we'll stay up through the night and we'll
go to bed at what is normal time in the US,
but will be like five or six in the morning
UK time. That way, everything's already ready to be like presented.

(43:24):
We'll send it to the people that need to present
it and we'll win. And we did. Now he was,
he was, and you know what, when we will. The
reason I'm bringing that up, Matt was never like nah, dude,
come on, that's too hard, or oh I'm tired. I
never wonder how he's going to turn up. He always
turns up, whether he's tired, whether he's sick, and he
brings excellence and I know who he's gonna be. And
like it's the same thing with you. I've I've tell people.
I'm like I could show up to Garrett's house at

(43:44):
two in the morning, slap him in the face and
be like, hey man, we need to wake up do
a podcast. You'd be like, give me ten minutes, you
get coffee, you'd like, get yourself presentable, and we would
go podcasts and like that's not common. But like the
point I'm saying this is because I want you to.
If you're looking at a business partner, that should be
the question you're asking, do I want or if this
person's going to turn up in a mood or sometimes
it's going to be this way sometimes it's going to
be that way, or are they going to be consistent

(44:05):
every single time? If they're consistent every single time, man,
that's a great quest.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
Sports values the same thing, and it's a very expensive industry.
The guy who only shows up on the mound half
the time, it's like, man, sometimes that dude is lights
out and the other times he can't get the ball
in the strike zone, never makes it out of the
double a trip area. Never the guys who show up
on the mound or the guys like dude, this guy
shows up every time.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
That's exactly right. All right, Gee, so we've got the
first a ready to move on. Yeah, let's do all right.
We kind of touched on. Number three is alignment.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
So, like I said, this is the winning formula. It's multiplication, right,
So we have you know, number one right aim and
there's a lot in that right. Then there's that's clarity, vision, purpose, strategy,
a lot of things we could talk about. Again, it's
just the formula. We're not driving deep on every single thing.
That's step one multiplied right aim multiplied by right execution

(45:00):
in simple formula, multiplied by alignment. Okay, So step three
is alignment. Here's what you need to understand about alignment, though,
I'm going to do some math, so just put on
your math hat with me. For a second. Alignment is
a maximum of one. Well, dang, So you're not gaining

(45:22):
any value from alignment. You are only losing value from
a lack of alignment. Right, great, Like here's okay, look
at it this way. It's a very simple analogy. Look
at alignment as a plumbing pipe. Okay, you can have
a perfect, you know, brand new pipe. It's and that's
what a lot of businesses are. You just start a
brand new business. Hey, we're in alignment. Why the pipe's clean, right,

(45:43):
got a brand new pipe. There's nothing there's no clogs
or you know, things caught in the drain that are
slowing down the flow or creating friction. The pipe can't
doesn't create more water. It just allows the water to flow.
When alignment is poor, when you start to get friction, well,
you could have like great valuable water or product, but

(46:05):
the alignment gets in the way of that.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
Right.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
So alignment is where you got everything pointed in the
right direction, where both partners, where both people in a marriage,
where all of the team is aligned to the vision right.
I'm not going to do an alignment teaching. We cover
that in Mindset Master. We've also talked about alignment plenty
on the podcast. Alignment is also structure, right, right, You've
got to have the right structure that supports the system

(46:30):
for everything to work together. You can have you know,
right plan, right execution, but if you don't have all
the support systems around a seal team, they don't work
very well either. You've got to have you know, when
we went on the battlefield, there's twenty of us, there's
one hundred people behind us, whether it's aircraft mechanics, the aircraft,
the intel team, the support team, all these different people

(46:53):
that enabled us to be on the battlefield.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
Right.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
So alignment is getting everything pointed in the right direction.
It's a mac some of them value of one, and.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
It is the structure.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
If you don't, if you when you don't have alignment,
say you and your partner have a let's just talk
about alignment the way.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
We've talked about it before for a second.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
You guys have a right plan, you guys have right execution,
but you and your partner, and I've seen this happen
many times, aren't aligned necessarily necessarily on what matters most,
or aren't aligned on what the you know, the vision,
the true meaning of the business is what happens is
in the beginning that'll start to create some friction. So

(47:32):
maybe you have a valuable product that you know, good execution,
good training, planning your team, but because you guys aren't aligned,
each of these decisions will start to have friction on them,
and it slows down in the flow of the business,
until ultimately it either slows down so much that the
business can't succeed or the alignment is completely cracked and

(47:52):
the business fails because.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
One partner wants to do this and one partner wants
to do that.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
Right now, we've talked about god math as being one
plus one equals three, right in relation to alignment. Do
you think that the reason it it's one plus one
equals three is because people are so used to feeling
drag that what they think is one is not actually one.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
You set that question up perfectly.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
The one of the examples I've used that I've experienced
my own life of like great alignment, or when I
teach on on on team and when I talk about synergy,
I've talked about where I've been on the battlefield, there's
twenty of us that the enemy thought they were one hundred. Yeah,
it's because the enemy is used to feeling, like experiencing
people out of alignment, right, So their estimation of what
twenty is is inaccurate. There was what however, you want

(48:41):
to look at it, There wasn't a hundred of us.
It was just twenty of us at maximum effectiveness. Right,
twenty is twenty, right, right, But the way you're used
to twenty feeling is not what twenty is fully capable of.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
Right. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
And that's that's why I want to because we've said
that before that and that's that is such a This
can be a in coal thought process when you because
when you're saying alignment, like I wanted, I wanted to
paint this for people, where most people feel friction is
with other people. And that's how we speak about alignment
a lot. But you can have really great people that
you get along with that you have the same vision,
but your actual actions can be pulling in different directions

(49:17):
because you're not clear on the actions that need to
be taken aka go back to step two action plan.
Your execution can be in the wrong things, because you'll
see this where you're like, everybody's whole hardly. I look
at what you've done with Union. You guys have such
a simple thing. It's one line, one factory, one shell.
That's that was your whole goal for the year, and
everything you did pointed at that. And for people that

(49:38):
don't know that, Garrett's working in a you're basically redefining
what it means to actually have manufacturing. And so right
now you're you're developing munitions a big goal, big goal,
massive goal, and it's going to be very big.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
Yeah, it goes very proud.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
It's uh, it's I mean, it's special what's happening. But
right now you're doing that with munition shells, and you're
not a munition's company. You're just doing it with munition shells.
Right now, now, what would be very You have so
many moving parts in there. You have what fifty people.

Speaker 3 (50:05):
Now working for you.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
Yeah, it's over fifty, okay, over fifty. It grows every week.
So that's why you know, if you listen to an
ald episode this podcast, you're like, wait, I thought there
was twenty Yeah, it happened that fast. But but you've
always had that central in the stain, and you said
that from day one. I remember talking to you about it.
In February of this year, we're known like this is
the very last podcast will release this year and in
December and still the same saying and to me that

(50:27):
that is alignment. So now apply that to all the
different areas of your life. You can be with right people,
but maybe you start to get caught in some side
missions or you know, you start doing things that you
think are towards that, but they're not. Actually that's when
you start to take it down to less than one.
Like you said, that's whenever you start to reduce what's
actually flowing through the pipe. And so like, I don't
want to be cynical. I think I just want people

(50:47):
to understand how important this is to have that that
clear flow of like, hey, we're all going in the
same direction. We're all very clear about why we do
what we do, where the actions that we're taking lead
towards and you know, the type of people that we
need to be in order to make that happen. And
and like you said, it feels like more.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
It's it's really just a perspective issue, right, because look
at it this way, let's make it. Let's talk about
it from a spiritual perspective a lot. What you know,
alignment is getting everything point in the right direction, right,
that there's a purity to that. The opposite of that
is some form of a miss or friction, and that's
exactly what sin is. Sin is to miss the mark. Yeah, okay,

(51:28):
when you don't sin, does it make you more of
what you were supposed to be?

Speaker 4 (51:32):
Right?

Speaker 1 (51:33):
Not like Adam. If Adam had not sinned, it didn't
make Adam more than what he was designed to be.
Sin made him less than what he was designed to be.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
Right.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
So it's it's what it's from what side are you
looking at the equation? You might, oh, the more I
don't sin, I'm multiplying myself. No, you're just getting back
to whole right, You're getting back to what you were
designed to be right.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
And we've talked about that before about some people think
the purpose of their life is not the sin, and
it's like, no, yeah's definitely not.

Speaker 1 (52:00):
Sin was just what got in the way. And so
I also say this around alignment. Alignment is so important.
But you can have because Nick was asking me about
this in the beginning, and I was like, well, what
do you know about principles? I said, Nick, you and
I are a great example of an alignment. We could
get really aligned on a wonderful idea that is an
unprincipled idea, and our level of alignment is not is

(52:22):
never going to make that thing work with that when
you don't get principles right, Like principles is math. When
you don't get the math right, alignment's not going to
help you. You guys just have a good time and
have great relationship and get along along the way, but
you're not going to make it more than what it was.

Speaker 3 (52:36):
Supposed to be.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
Yeah, And that that was where it like, cause we
especially in our circles here, like we're taught so much
about alignment and it's one hundred percent to do with people,
and so like so many people just back. I just
got to get the people.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
Right then, because I've seen I've seen the other side
of it. People got the math right, but there are
alignments terrible, and it's like they're just limping along. It's like, man,
you guys are so okay. You could do so much.
If you could just get aligned right, your math would
be so much more powerful. And you got other people like, man,
we're we have perfect alignments, like yeah, but your math
is never going to.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
Work right, Yeah, and that those are I think those
are the one that that really leave people with a
mess because they're like, but but like we had you know,
we put God first. Our values were right, and it's
like God made a principled world and that that's where
the just righteous side of God's nature comes out.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
Is as Nick likes to use as an example, like
you're trying to plant an orange farm in Texas. Yeah,
your level of alignment is never going to fix that.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
That's exactly right. Yeah, thank you for quoting me to me. Wow,
I feel like I do that to you. You've never
done that to me. That was a sobering moment, A
good example.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
All Right, what's the what's the market example here?

Speaker 1 (53:35):
Man?

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Because I I was surprised at what your market example was.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
Okay, so alignment in market context right to people who
don't speak what we talk about here on the Impossible Life,
it's proper incentivization right right, And this is so this
is get like you could have a brilliant plan for
your business and everything if the payment structure is not right,
like when you get paid for your product. That can
blow up the business if you tell you know, like

(53:59):
you could have a great product, you could have a
great team level of execution. But you start telling your
employees you're not going to get paid for two years. Wrong, incentivization,
business isn't going to work. I could continue to mess
with the math on that, but it's incentivization. Everyone had
like follow incentive, right if you want to see if
something's going to work, what has been incentivized and if
you incentivized a team correctly, that will perform the way

(54:23):
that you want them to perform.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Right now, everybody thinks money, Yeah, and what you you
worked in one of the greatest incentivization teams in the
world where they get paid far less than like a
lot of people listening to.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
This, Yeah, the the Kobe Bryant of the Seal team
makes one hundred and twenty K year.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
I mean think about really think about that. They think
about the price that dude's paid and what he's been
anes to do.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
I mean, I'm thinking about some guys that I know,
guys from development group that they're like the Kobe Bryant
of the Seal teams, right, I think he made like
one hundred and thirty k is last year in right,
you know, he's an E eight. You know, with eighteen years,
it's like, well, you just don't make that.

Speaker 3 (55:00):
Much money, right.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
And the reason I wanted to highlight that is because
I don't want people to just be so simple that
they make it solely about money. Because once again, at
some point we'll talk more about what you're doing in union,
because I feel like we keep you know, it's a
big thing that you're doing. If you pay attention to
this podcast, a lot of what Garrett's doing has already
been described on this podcast, not actually to the detail
it has, and you're actually just walking it out. What
I'll say is that when you talk about visions or

(55:23):
talk about slay dragons or building your own castle you
talked about earlier this podcast with cancer, when you start
having people realize that they're part of something more, they'll
give you way more than they ever would just for money.
And so just really capture that.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
We've been Like I wrote an offer letter a few
weeks ago to somebody that the salary he's coming from
San Francisco working for one of the biggest companies that
you know of, right at the top of the market,
and we're paying him half of what he got paid there.
We just we can't We're at the level that we're
at right now, we can't afford to pay what those

(55:55):
guys pay. But he's coming here for opportunity, and he's
also coming here because what we're doing really matters to him.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
Right, So there's a different type of value people, so
many people that have joined our team.

Speaker 3 (56:07):
Now that's not every role.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
This is just like some of like the top you know,
tech talent roles, some of those salaries are just ridiculous
and unmatchable.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
A lot of the you know, many of the other roles.

Speaker 1 (56:16):
Sure we can match pay, but some of those top
tech roles there's a huge skew from hundreds of thousands too.
If you if you read about some of these AI companies,
you got softwares in the millions of dollars per year. Right,
so tech like really skews the top five percent of
the market and talent salaries. But anyways, the point I
was making is that people come and join our team

(56:37):
not just because of the financial opportunity, but because of
like they believe in what we're doing, and that means
so much more. We've had some people join our team
that they're at a company that, you know, they'd already
been there for eighteen years. They loved what they were
doing there. They're like, you know, there's nothing wrong with
the corporate structure, good pay, good benefits, and they just
did not care at all about what that business did right,

(56:59):
and so they left. Now I'm thinking of a couple
specific people, we matched their pay. Our business way riskier. Yeah,
what they were doing right, Like that business that they
were in, thinking of two specific people, gonna it's still
gonna be there twenty years from now. It's very like
mainline product going to be there for a long time.
And they could have just kept doing that, like kept

(57:19):
kept the safety, but they left because they wanted to
do something that mattered.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
You know, I just realized, dude, I'm wearing the union
shirt while we're talking about It's like it's like I
didn't realize I came on here to do an ad
for union. But but I love that because it's it's
a practical example. And I think for anyone out there.

Speaker 1 (57:37):
You are interested in the jobs that we have open
to have a lot of jobs open. You can go
to the Union page on LinkedIn and just check out
our available jobs. I have a lot of people asked
me like I want to work for you know, I'm like, well, okay,
well yeah, go go to the website, look at our
open jobs, and if you can do those things, please apply.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
Don't text s Garett. I'll just say what he's thinking.
Don't text him. Just go to the page. There's a
reason that page exists. All right, gee, so we've got
right aim, right action plan, We've got alignment, and now
we move on to the one that everybody loves more
than anything in this equation. We've multiplied them all and
now it's time.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
Oh yeah, right, So the first two right, right aim,
and right execution. That's where a lot of your math
is happening. Right, That's where you get to some big numbers.
If you've got a big plan, that's a bit. That's
a big first number, right right, multiply that by quality execution.
That's then now you're starting to get some big numbers. Okay,
Alignment can completely erode that thing.

Speaker 3 (58:29):
Right.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
You could have the biggest number in the world on
one and two, but then you multiply that by you know.

Speaker 3 (58:35):
Point zero one.

Speaker 1 (58:36):
You're not doing so good correct, right, like you eroded
it completely, and then you've got to multiply all of
that by time.

Speaker 3 (58:44):
And time is the big number.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
The longer you can do the right thing for like,
the longer you can have a clearer plan and have
consistent quality execution with alignment, the number just gets like
infinitely bigger. It just continues to grow, So time doesn't.
There's I can give you the market. I can give
you like a split example in the market, and we'll

(59:07):
get there here in a second. But time is really simple.
You just got to keep doing it. Another way of
saying that is that the market rewards patience. How long
can you add value and wait for return? If you
can continue to do like this is a spiritual principle.
If you can continue to do the right thing without
waiting for return, you store up value, right. You see

(59:31):
this happen in the market, And there's a And that's
why it's like, gosh, if you can really get a
Kingdom mindset, it's such a great benefit to you in
this world as well. And Jesus, we did a whole
podcast on Kingdom. Go back and listen to that one,
because I think it shakes up what people think kingdom
means where the Bible talks about kingdom. It gives you

(59:51):
the ability to look at this world right, because he
just talks about the kingdom of heaven is like this,
he's also talking about the world we live in today.
When you get this piece of kingdom mindset, right, like
adding value for a long period of time waiting for
the reward, you also get one of the kingdom. Piece
that you get is an eternal mindset, yes, right, where

(01:00:12):
you're working not just for this life, but you're working
into the next. And this goes back to what I
said in the beginning with the purpose. Right, if you're
doing the right thing, even if you've failed at it,
you know you're doing what you're supposed to be doing.

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:00:25):
When you have an eternal mindset, you also know that
I'm not just throwing up treasures.

Speaker 3 (01:00:29):
For this life. I'm going into the next life as well.

Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
What I want to hear I'm doing everything I'm doing
is because what I want to hear God say to
me is well done, good and faithful servant. That's an
eternal mindset. I'm not waiting to die and God say,
great job. You amassed a lot of cash Rright, Like
God is the creator of cash. He's the creator of
everything of value that we know. God can make whatever
he wants to make. Everything that I will do is

(01:00:54):
tiny to God. Accept right, Really think about this, Okay,
God doesn't get a crap about money. He made it all.
But think about the fact that you can actually do something.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
That God finds valuable.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
Yeah, all of the money in the world God finds worthless.
He made all of it. But think about this. You
can do something that God finds valuable. And what does
God find valuable? Your development, your growth, your maturity. You're
becoming more like him on this side of eternity. God
actually looks at that and sees value in it. The

(01:01:28):
author of the universe sees value in something that you do.
And what allows you to do that is having an
eternal mindset where you're looking into the next life and say,
everything that I'm doing here is for what's next. Yeah,
it'll give you a And when you can do that,
it allows you to get one of the great multipliers
in the winning formula, which is patience.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
Right, Yeah, that's so good. By the way, Kingdom episode
was episode one oh eight.

Speaker 3 (01:01:50):
I just agreed. I need to go. I want to
listen to that episode.

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
Of This Good Thing that's available for you on Spotify
and have a podcast and everywhere podcasts are played, but yeah,
you can go listen to that one. I just want
to make sure people have the reference of that. What
I love about time, Gee, I was thinking about the
winning formula as we're doing this. I said this when
we were prepping. Time is a moral in the sense
that like the more the more it multiplies what you have,

(01:02:12):
which can be both good or bad. Because I think
about this in marriages. If you've been married for twenty
years and you've been doing things wrong, you're not going
to fix it in like five months, or it might
even be you know, not even maybe five years. I
don't know what the timeframe is. Whereas if you start
off and you've caught yourself early on, great, you know
what I mean, Like you can reverse the cycle. And
we all understand that in something like a picture like relationships,

(01:02:33):
or like in health for example, if you've gotten really
overweight because you've been eating badly your whole life, it's
going to take you longer to fix it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
There's a great proverb says the best time to planet
a tree was forty years ago. Right, The second best
time is now boom. Get on the right side of time.
Make time work for you. Yeah, right, And that's when
you've been consistent for a long time. The more you
do the right things, the more patient you become.

Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:56):
Because when you know you're following principles, when you know
you've got the the right plan, when you've got the
right execution, when your heart is aligned, when your mind
is aligned, when your actions are aligned for you, try
to get alignment right in all these other areas. Get
aligned in yourself properly, like make sure your words and
your actions line up. When you start doing all of
those things. You look at time like and you're just

(01:03:17):
watching that change change to change the chain as each
second on the clock goes up when you're doing the
right thing. When you're not doing the right thing, as
time is ticking on, you feel like time is eating
away your life. When you're living on purpose, you see
like every second of the clock you see as winning.
You're scoring points with every second when you know you're

(01:03:38):
doing the right thing. So I'm not going to end
today on getting you excited, on getting you hyped up,
on getting you motivated. What I am going to end
today is reminding you because most of the time we
talk about mindset. Today we weren't talking about mindset. We're
talking about math, and I just want to remind you right.
It's the power of principles. When you do the right
things in the right order, and you do them consistently,

(01:04:01):
you will get right results in life.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
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