Discerning the Path to Righteous Entrepreneurship

And well , first of all , let me just say there would be no Founders Fire without expert ownership , without David and Jason , and it's been an incredible journey with these amazing brothers and they're just giving me the honor here to sit in on their podcast for a second .

So let me just say , if you haven't really gotten into the expert ownership materials owner suite , any of their books , please do . It is the best investment you could possibly make in your calling , in your life . These two men of God have just been incredible , incredible influences , I know , in so many people's lives .

But I want to just say my life , my family and it's just been an honor to work with them and to build out this coaching arm of their calling that marketplace , a warrior ship calling , and so we're going to get after it . Today they asked me to do a segment on the details of kind of this intentional building how do we build God's way ?

So that's what I want to do . I'm going to dive right in here and just ask you guys a very important question . If you were to look at your week right now , a given week , how much of that week do you think is authorized ? Meaning , how much of that week do you have authorship of ?

We're going to go a little further Meaning how much of your week do you have authority ? Okay , authorization , authorship , authority . You know what it's like to act without authority . You do . All of us in school have experienced this . I want you to think back to one of the classes where there was a teacher that you really respected .

Maybe they were pretty hard on you , but you respected them . And if they said to do something , man , you did it Right . If they said , oh , you got a seat , you're like oh , man , I got to do better , right , okay .

But now , if that person went on vacation for a week and the substitute teacher came in , the substitute teacher could say all the same words , can make all the same gestures , have the same physical presence , all the same things . But what happened when the substitute teacher comes to town ?

Okay , okay , probably , if you're like me , you know a fair bit of chaos was going on . There was some Tom Fulery going on . Why ? Why ? No authority , no , authority . Authority has to be earned . Authority comes from being commissioned , and when you have a substitute teacher who comes in has not got any relationship with the kids .

Typically they act as though they have authority that they don't have Now . I taught school for years and in doing so and designing curriculum , I would always counsel teachers if you're going to sub in the first 10 minutes of the class cannot be about English , it cannot be about history or math .

It has to be about establishing , even in a very small way , a legit relationship with those students and from that to start to build the sense of authority that you're there to help . If you try to walk in there in the existing teacher's authority , that's not going to go over .

Well , okay , now that's exactly what it feels like for some of us in our week , we feel like the substitute teacher . In our week , where we just don't have that authority , we're not in authorship of the week , we're in reactivity to the week . Finally , we haven't been authorized to do what we're doing . Now .

You could say well , are you talking about , like , sinning or doing things that are bad or immoral ? No , no , no , that's not what I'm talking about .

I'm talking about Hebrews 5 , where it says very clearly that the mature who are eating the meat are not rehearsing the fundamentals all over again on the milk , but these are people who , through constant use , have trained themselves with a very important level of discernment about what is , if you'll permit me , what is authorized and what isn't Okay , what is

righteous and what is evil , and it's different than just right and wrong . Okay , could the enemy attack you by getting you to do lots of right things at the wrong time ? And how would that go ? I think it'd mess you up . I think it would mess me up . Okay , what about this ?

When you hear an orchestra playing in a movie soundtrack , or if you go see the orchestra or you're at an opera or something like that , right , do the musicians just walk up and start playing whatever they want to ? No , they don't . Do they play the right notes , but in the wrong order or at the wrong time ? No , because it would be a mess .

Right , that's exactly what we do with our week , though we don't have our sheet of music . We haven't defined the what and we haven't defined the when . That's the first level of systemization . We teach all of our clients at Founders Fire , okay , all of our spiritually minded entrepreneurs . We have to define the what and the when . That's what music is .

Music , a sheet of music is the what and the when . If we haven't defined it , if we haven't authored it , then we will not have any authority , and if we don't have any authority , then the power is gone . It says the kingdom of heaven is not a matter of talk , but a matter of power . I would add to that a little bit .

My thinking is power comes from alignment and leverage . Power comes from footing , grounding . Think about a football player who's going to plant his feet to tackle someone . What would happen if you put his feet in sand ? What would happen if you took off his shoes and put him on a gym floor that had water on it and he planted his feet to push off ?

What would happen ? We know what would happen . You can see it in your mind right now . Is that happening to you ? Are you losing traction ? Are you losing your authority ? Are you losing your power ? Is it because you're doing wrong things ? No , no . It's not that it could be . It could be , but likely it's not that .

What it's more likely is that we're not doing the authorized work , we're not running the play . So if there's play 11-14 , that's on your football team , that's a play number right and the quarterback calls a different play , but you run 11-14 . What's going to happen ?

You know what's going to happen we're going to have missed assignments , people are going to get sacked , passes might get intercepted . It's not going to go well . No authority , no authorship . Okay , we're not in alignment . So , ultimately , what we can do is we can see oh , oh , oh , oh , oh .

This is just like music , this is just like sports , this is just like a building and that's the analogy that's used several times in the New Testament . Is the house okay about ? The foundation Can't be on sand , it's got to be on the rock . Okay , you guys have hardly .

If you've listened to this podcast before , you've heard David and Jason teach this , or maybe me . But listen to this idea , guys , and maybe even hear it in a new way . Martha , martha , you are worried about many things . Do you have a Martha spirit right now ? Are you worried when you're listening to this ? Are you distracted ? Are you worried about many things ?

Are you right here with me right now ? Because I want to coach you , guys . I have coached some of the best in the world . I've been so lucky to coach the best in the world , and if you were to ask me , what's the difference between somebody who really , really excels and somebody who just can't seem to get it together . I'll tell you number one distraction .

Dis meaning without traction , without traction . Why ? Because Martha worried about many things . It says it later in the New Testament . It says do you see the man who goes and looks at you , who goes and looks in the mirror and when he comes away from the mirror he cannot remember his face ? This man is double-minded and unstable in all that .

He does Distraction . He doesn't have traction . That cannot operate in our life and to the degree that it does is to the degree we need to work out . Don't feel condemned . No , we need to do push-ups . Let's get stronger there . Let's get you less distracted . Let's make 2024 a year where you say , wow , I got so much traction .

And it starts right this minute , literally right this minute , doing an assessment internally of am I , in the Martha spirit , distracted by many things , or am I doing what Mary did ? She's chosen the one thing . Oh man , that is so against our culture , so against social media .

It's against the distraction culture , the attention economy , everyone vying for your attention , and we're losing our strength , our muscle tone to stay focused .

Imagine that you're having a really important conversation with someone you deeply love , but every minute or two you look away and you clearly are thinking about something else . And then you come back to that conversation . You're trying so hard to be there and be earnest , but every minute or two you look away . What is that communicating ?

It's communicating that you don't really care , that you're not really there . And you see , it's not about your effort , it's about your discipline . You're trying to be there , but the discipline's not there , and so there's not the freedom to say this is what I'm authorized to do . So I'm going to do this one thing right now , with my whole heart .

I'm going to do what Jesus did in John 5 . I'm going to try to see where the Father is working and go there and work with Him . It says that our work will be tested by fire , by fire , but if it remains , there will be a great reward . The remaining is just like in Mary .

Mary she's going to choose the one thing and it won't be taken , it stays , it remains , it's solid , it's the rock , there is traction and that means there's authority . Authority means there's power and in some cases , there's miracles , there's literal miracles . Now some of you , baby , listen to this saying man , I need a miracle .

And I want to say you're in the right place . Expert ownership is the place where we bring faith into every area of life and , in particular here , business entrepreneurship .

And I want to say , if God's given you a vision and you haven't revisited that , you need to , like that man , look in the mirror and see your face , see who you've been made to be , and I don't just mean in the sweet by and by way off in the future in Bula land . I'm trying not to offend anybody , but we got to be real here , people .

We got to be real . If we have airy fairy notions of what it means to be a believer , to be a spiritual person with a destiny in God , and all we can come up with is just to love him and know him better . I'm not saying that that's not true , but it's in many cases not actionable and we need action . Our culture is disintegrating in front of our eyes .

Okay , why ? Mainly because we've abandoned our post , we have thought about the future and we've left the now to the enemy . Well , not on this podcast , not at expert ownership , not at Founders Fire . We are about kindling that fire , getting people into the now at high speed , major level deployment boots on the ground right now . These are my orders .

What am I to do , Sir ? Yes , sir , show up and salute and get that done , but we can't do that with distraction . We have to leave the , the Martha spirit behind us , and everywhere that shows up , even in good content . But too much distraction .

You guys know the study I've mentioned it before and if you haven't heard it , if you are distracted , it is the same as Losing ten points on your IQ . That means you could go from a normal intelligence to special needs category , simply by distracting yourself , by allowing yourself to be distracted . Why do we want to be distracted ?

Well , there's a lot of reasons we're not going to get into all over right now . We feel bad about something . There's pain in an area of our life , whatever it is . Ultimately , though , we have got to take control of that . We've got to take control of the distraction , and we've got to say this this is not how my life is supposed to go .

I have to make a difference now , and I have to do so by being obedient now . It doesn't mean that we take on all the responsibility for the outcome . That's another way the enemy gets us . He's like oh yeah , you got to be right here right now , all in , and it's all up to only you . Well , no , no , no , no , that's not , that's not it either .

So we can't be on the one side , distracted , no traction , no authority , no authorship , no power . But we can't then just swing to the whole other side . It all depends on you , it's all about you , and you're the only one who can get it done . That's , that's another trick . We want to be right in the middle . We're submitted . Okay , we look in the mirror .

Proverbs 20 , verse 5 . The purposes of the human heart are like deep waters , but a man of understanding draws them out . I can see my face for the first time . I look in that mirror . I can see my face . Think about it . In the ancient world , I don't know that , there were a lot of mirrors .

That's probably something that the only the wealthy had , or maybe you could . You would only see your face , you know , on certain occasions maybe , like in the reflection of water occasionally . Okay , no , so so think about that . You're going to this place of refinement . That's what a mirror is . It's refinement . And you're seeing Yourself .

You're seeing who you're really supposed to be .

That's alignment , that's clarity about that vision , you're seeing it , and then you go away and you get distracted , you forget , you forget what you look like , you forget who you are , you forget who's you are and you just start working hard and , as my Mentor back back in the day , michael Gerber , said at E-Meth , now you're just doing it , doing it , doing it .

You're working in the business , but not on it . Why ? Why does that happen ? Because the enemy is coming to wreck you . Did you know you're in a war ? You totally are , you absolutely are . And it's not just I , golly , gee , that's a nice metaphor . No , he comes to kill and steal and destroy and he is Doing those things .

But we're here to stand against that , and part of the way we stand against that is we do it married it . We choose the one thing and it will remain , and then we choose the next one thing and it will remain .

And now we're building the Foundation and pretty soon we got the foundation , we're starting to frame this bad boy out , and pretty soon We've taken some territory , and In this territory the Kings , laws reign , the , the fruits of the spirit are here peace and gentleness , justice , right all of the things that we know we want to see on the earth and that need to

be here . That's what alignment brings and that's what you can bring , not only in your life but in your business the primary hammer in your hand to Construct , to build , to bring increase . They've been adjacent to so many great teachings on multiplication Right . They do so many great teachers on everything right the best teachers I've ever heard .

But yeah , multiplication right , increase . How do you bring that ? By just wanting it . No , you gotta get your toolbox . You gotta get that hammer out . What is the hammer for the entrepreneur ?

Well , one of the main ones is the business that you're in right now and if you do a great job to systemize so the work heads towards automation and people know how to run the play right . They're not making up their own music . If you grow the business and scale it on the back of those systems now , you're heading to full potential .

Finally , you're in the place to be ready to exit that business , to hand it off to another righteous leader , a management team that can run this thing the way it's supposed to be run , or maybe for you it's right to sell it . Whatever it is that's leading you to maximum impact . So we're talking about systemize in order to automate . That makes things easier .

Grow and scale . That takes you to full potential . That makes things better . And then finally , exit or sell . That brings you to maximum impact . That means a better future . So , easier , better future . How do you do that ? You swing that hammer . You do what , mary did you choose the one thing . You build a culture that does that . I'm gonna tell you what .

That's what we're about at Foundershire . We are all about helping people , just like you do that . We would love to help you do that by giving you something free , and it's a roadmap . If you've heard me talk about it before , it's called the flagship assessment . It's free , that's right . It's free . It's normally 200 bucks . It's probably worth about $5,000 .

What is it ? It is a 12 month roadmap for all the areas of your business to bring them into alignment . Okay , how do I get ? I think it's all right , but it's not working together . Or sometimes it works together , but then the wheel pops off a little bit

. I gotta go do this or ask yourself this question how long can you let your business run on its own and not be involved at all ? Zero involvement A day , an hour , a week , a month , a year . Hey , that's one of the best measures for the maturity of the business .

And if you did leave it alone , would it follow the principles that are in the DNA of the vision God put in your heart for it ? That's what we wanna give you . We wanna give you a business that's fully mature and good news is it doesn't have to go from toddler to adult like a human . 18 years .

It usually takes between 12 and 18 months and again , depending on how get after it you got in you , it could take even less . But it starts by knowing where am I today , what is happening , and getting clarity and organized around that . So if you go over it'll be in the show notes , but the link is foundersflagshipcom .

If you go to foundersflagshipcom right now , go to that sign up page and put in the word spark S-P-A-R-K and you can get the flagship assessment for free . That's what captains need . Captains need orientation . Where am I Get that compass out ? Look up at the stars . Get your heading . Okay .

You're not gonna go in a straight line , nobody goes in a straight line but you are gonna go in a direction , okay . And holding your ship to that direction , to that heading amongst the waves and the wind , is gonna get you to save harbor , and it's gonna get you to that place where Mary was , where she chose the thing and it wasn't taken from her .

It's gonna get you to what it talks about in Corinthians the work can be tested by fire and it will remain . We're not just living for the weekend , we're not just living for quarterly earnings , we're not just trying to survive , to make payroll . We're gonna bring you into , by God's will , a new season , a new season of traction and groundedness and alignment .

Yes , it's gonna happen . So courage , you guys . If you're new to expert ownership , please head over to expertownershipcom . Pick up a copy of the book Expert Ownership . I have literally marked that thing up like it's the Bible , like I have literally notes on every page . It's , to me , the best business book out there and highly recommend you guys .

Dive into that or get involved in the owner suite where you can be around a community of like-minded entrepreneurs and believers . Or , if you're ready and you're like , you know what , I gotta take that next step . I need to get into the coaching man .

We would love to serve God's vision for you and your life and your business and get you through these three stages Systemize , grow and scale , exit and sell for a maximum impact future . All right , guys , it's been a blast to be with you today . Hope you guys have an amazing and strategic into this year and launch into next year .