@Brian Arbuthnot Solid morning session! Let's knock it out.

Hey guys! This is the place to introduce yourself. This is a judgement free zone. We are all here because we want more, better, different. This is a place to share your story so we all can get to know each other, find similarities, differences, common hobbies, goals and dreams. Lets come together and help each other become our best and grow. I believe vulnerability is important and having men to confide in makes a difference. Lets make this our space to be those men for others and become a brotherhood who take on this world together. I will be posting about myself and i look forward to seeing what everyone says about themselves. Tell us: Where are you from? 1 cool fact about your childhood? How many kids you have? What you do for work? What is a dream you've always held onto? What are the biggest 2 barriers holding you back? Why you joined? 1 thing you want to accomplish in the next 4 months? I know those are a few questions and it might seem like a lot. It will be easy when you do it and it will help you get it out and allow others to learn more about you. I will have more questions for us to discuss later. Welcome!

I used to think that providing for my family meant being available to my clients 24/7, even when I was a thousand miles away from the office. I remember sitting in a shaded room in Mexico while my wife, the step kids, and my parents were out by the pool playing a game. I could hear their laughter through the wall—it was loud, messy, and full of life. But all I could feel was the vibration of my phone in my pocket. My real estate business was exploding, and I was terrified that if I didn't answer every single text or lead right then, it would all disappear. I stayed in that other room, hunched over my laptop, snapping at anyone who walked in because the "noise" was breaking my focus. I wasn't in Mexico. I was in a mental prison of my own making. When I finally emerged for dinner, I was drained and distant. I wasn't the fun dad or the present husband; I was a ghost. The breaking point came when my family looked at me and said, "If you aren't actually going to be here with us, we just won't invite you next time." It felt like a gut punch because I realized I was winning at work but losing the very people I was working for. I learned that a King who isn't present in his own Kingdom eventually loses his seat at the table. We tell ourselves we are doing it for them, but if we aren't careful, we sacrifice the relationship on the altar of the "hustle." True discipline isn't just about working hard; it’s about the discipline of turning it off. It’s about realizing that our presence is the most valuable currency we have. Being a brother in this forge means holding each other accountable to not just build wealth, but to build a home where people actually want us to stay. 1. Where are you "in the other room" mentally even when you are physically home? 2. What is the one work habit you need to kill so your family actually feels your presence? Your action today: Use the Family Council Meeting tool. Sit down with your inner circle for 10 minutes, put the phones in another room, and ask them how you can be more present this week.

For years, I woke up on January 1st feeling hungover on regret. I would look at the calendar and feel a heavy, suffocating weight in my chest. I wasn’t excited. I was tired. I was dragging around a corpse—the dead weight of every mistake, every missed workout, and every broken promise from the year before. I was trying to run a race while looking backward. And it was destroying me. Then, I felt the shift. It wasn't a whisper; it was a lightning bolt. I realized that the past is ash. It literally does not exist anymore. I realized that I wasn't "continuing" an old story. I was holding the pen for a brand new book. I felt the weight drop off my shoulders. My lungs filled with clean, cold air. The possibility of who I could be was suddenly electric. It wasn't about "fixing" the old me. It was about birthing a new one. I realized that right now, this very second, is the only reality we have. We get to decide. We get to set the standard. We get to be the kings of our own lives again. That is what The Proving Grounds is. We are a tribe of men who refuse to live in the rearview mirror. We are building the future with our bare hands, starting today. 1. If you truly believed your past mistakes were gone forever, how big would you dream for yourself today? 2. What is the one massive, scary goal you’ve been afraid to touch, that you are finally going to hunt down this year? Your action today: Stand in front of the mirror. Look yourself in the eye for 60 seconds. Say out loud: "The old man is dead. I am choosing who I am right now." Feel the fire come back.

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