Work/Life Balance is a Myth, Re-Focusing Your Energy, and When Plans Go Wrong | ASK ME ANYTHING

Order of Man

Ryan Michler

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4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Ask Me Anything, Ryan and Kipp tackle questions from the Order of Man community around productivity, energy management, and living with greater intention. From balancing family responsibilities with work, to eliminating distractions and staying aligned with long-term goals, they dive deep into practical strategies men can apply right now.

They also cover tools for planning, handling setbacks with resilience, and the value of family meetings. Plus, updates on the Iron Council and the importance of choosing growth over mere compliance.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS

00:00 News headlines – Phillies “crazy Karen”
08:32 Shifting AMA format & topics
09:18 Work-life balance & energy
19:07 Refocusing after interruptions
22:36 Full alignment in planning
31:22 Income and spending trackers
32:15 Writing vs. digital planning
34:39 Recommended tools
42:48 Weekly family meetings
47:03 Best time to plan
51:19 Mindset when plans go off track
01:00:29 Iron Council promotion & Facebook group

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest.
0:03.0	Embrace your fears and boldly chart your own path.
0:06.0	When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time.
0:10.0	You are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong.
0:15.0	This is your life. This is who you are.
0:18.0	This is who you will become.
0:20.0	At the end of the day, and after all is said and done, you can call yourself a man. Kip, what's up, man? Great to see you. I was hoping that we could connect this week, but, you know, you had church obligations. I was trying to get you out of teaching a lesson at church, and you're like, sorry, I have to teach at church, but I appreciate your priorities. I teach gospel doctrine. Yeah. And it was okay. It was okay. Trust me, I wanted to get out of it. It's just I made the commitment weeks ago. And so I was like, yeah, darn it. Fair enough. No, I get it. And then you just got,'re just on the men from your man cold, which is why I told the guys, which is why you couldn't be with us last week. So they're glad that you're healed and you're out of the hospital and, you know, all the things that went wrong in your life because you had this little little man cold for 24 hours they were really worried about you here's the
1:12.3	reality man cold you're supposed to be you're supposed to get pampered it didn't work so I maybe I'm
1:18.1	over the man colds that they're not paying off she you just do it too often that's the key you just
1:23.3	do it too often now Asia's like all right no dude dude, you're outworn your welcome on this one.
1:29.0	Yeah, too many man colds. I did tell the guys you were probably being pampered, having saltines,
1:37.3	chicken noodle soup, and watching Price is Right for the entire day. Because isn't that what we did
1:41.2	when we were kids when we had a cold or we faked a cold? Yeah.
1:45.9	We watch TV.
1:47.4	You can't select anything.
1:50.2	You just have to watch whatever's on in the middle of the day.
1:51.5	Man, Price is Right.
1:52.5	It was my go-to.
1:57.4	That and all my children or the time of our lives or something.
1:59.3	Soap operas my grandma used to watch.'re so bad too they're so bad well hey
2:05.7	we got some good questions but i want to get to a to a headline first and this is in the news this is
2:12.4	everywhere right now it's the crazy karen who loses her mind at the Phillies game. You saw this, right?
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