Audit Your Life | Cut the Crap | FRIDAY FIELD NOTES
Order of Man
Ryan Michler
4.8 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Most men don't need more information - they need fewer lies.
The most common lie?
"I'm fine."
In this Friday Field Notes episode, Ryan breaks down why "fine" is how men drift, how standards quietly erode, and why most men wait until catastrophe forces them to take their life seriously.
This isn't an emotional exercise.
It's a logical, factual audit of your body, relationships, finances, mission, and integrity - with no stories, no excuses, and no rationalizations.
Ryan challenges you to stop protecting your weak spots, identify where you're cutting corners, and draw one non-negotiable line in the sand that you enforce daily.
You don't rise to your potential.
You fall to what you tolerate.
This episode will push you to:
- Take an honest inventory of your life
- Cut distractions, excuses, and self-deception
- Set one standard that changes everything
- Stop waiting for pain to force change
- Start today - not January 1st
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:
00:00 - The Lie of "I'm Fine"
01:55 - How Men Drift Without Realizing It
03:02 - Why You Must Audit Your Life
05:21 - Body, Marriage, Finances, Mission
07:01 - Where You're Lying to Yourself
09:02 - You Fall to What You Tolerate
10:41 - What Weakens You Is a Liability
11:23 - One Non-Negotiable Standard
12:13 - Discipline Doesn't Wait
13:14 - Stop Waiting for Catastrophe
15:23 - Audit Your Life Before It's Too Late
17:47 - Iron Council & Final Charge
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| 0:00.0 | I want you, and I'm going to do this as well, is to set one non-negotiable standard. Just one. Because it's not about fixing everything today. If you do that, you're going to get burned up and you're going to get burned out and you're getting to get frustrated. And it's such a shock to the system that it's not sustainable. Take one area, one standard, one line in the sand that you will no longer cross, that enforce it daily. Not when you feel motivated to do it, |
| 0:23.3 | not when it's convenient to do, because discipline doesn't wait for your permission. As you know, |
| 0:32.1 | you do not need more information in your life. You probably need fewer lies. |
| 0:39.0 | And that's the reality is most of what we hear is maybe a not an outright lie, |
| 0:45.3 | but certainly plenty of mistruths and misunderstandings. |
| 0:52.5 | And the biggest one that I see men often embrace in their lives is |
| 0:57.2 | I'm doing fine. I'm good. I'm fine. Life is good. I'm doing great. This is something that we often say. |
| 1:04.1 | It's kind of like when you walk into a retail store and the person at the retail store says, |
| 1:09.4 | hey, can I help you? And you say, oh, no, I'm just looking. |
| 1:11.5 | That's our default answer. When in reality, when you go to the retail store, you're looking |
| 1:15.9 | probably because you're a man for something specific. And when a friend asks you how you're doing |
| 1:20.8 | and you just say, I'm fine, things are good, you're probably not fine. Some things are going |
| 1:25.1 | great and some things probably aren't. Because fine, |
| 1:28.8 | or I'm just looking, is how men drift. It's how your standards erode and evaporate. It's |
| 1:36.6 | how you wake up 10 years from now wondering what in the world happened to your life how did you get here and i've been there |
| 1:46.3 | and i've been in situations especially was when i was in the throes of my alcohol abuse where i didn't think |
| 1:53.0 | it was bad until things started to collapse around me and i remember the first a meeting i ever went to |
| 1:59.0 | and my question was how in the hell did I get myself in this |
| 2:02.6 | position so today we need to cut out all the crap cut out all the noise cut out all the nonsense and |
| 2:10.0 | we need to audit our lives we need to give an accurate representation of what we did in 2025 |
| 2:15.3 | what we did not do what we wanted wanted to accomplish, and why it did |
| 2:19.6 | or did not work. And it's, it's not about how you feel. You know, often when I talk about this, |
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