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🙏 Starting With Gratitude
With Thanksgiving fresh on the mind, I want to begin with gratitude —
gratitude for God, my family, this country, and for the caliber of men I get to walk beside in this Brotherhood.
My association with you all is a huge blessing and strength to me.
And speaking of gratitude…
A young reader — a 15-year-old I once taught in North Carolina — reached out recently.
We talked about life, service, F5, and business.
But one question he asked has been on my mind for three weeks.
📅 Also… It’s Planner Season
Thanksgiving also signals the end of the year coming up — full of fresh starts and big goals.
To help you hit those goals, I published a 2026 planner built specifically for F5 men!
I can’t tell you how excited I am about this planner! In my goal of learning how to publish, I hope you get a boost toward achieving your goals too.
👉 Get your copy at: planner.f5brotherhood.com
💰 The Million-Dollar Question
He asked:
“If entrepreneurship gives the greatest return on time…
why doesn’t everyone do it?”
My answer is simple: Because most people won’t pay the tuition.
Tuition = Work + Learning
And the price is whatever it takes until the lesson is learned.
As Alex Hormozi says:
“It’s not like running a marathon. At least that has a finish line.
Entrepreneurship is someone telling you to run.
How far? You don’t know.”
How far you run depends on how quickly you learn.
🏗 Example #1: Building My House
You might not think building a house is entrepreneurship…
Trust me — it absolutely is.
One builder in this F5 group heard what I paid for framing and said:
“Oof… you paid for framing and a little tuition on that one.
Everybody pays tuition early on.”
Translation: We probably overpaid. But we learned.
🌙 Example #2: House Building at Midnight
Last Friday night at midnight, while most people were asleep or relaxing, I was outside digging trenches so concrete could be poured the next morning.
Who else is literally in the trenches, by choice, on a Friday night?
Nobody.
That’s a tuition payment.
🚜 Example #3: “Time in the Seat”
While leveling my backyard with a skid steer I’d never driven before, I watched a tutorial.
The whole video basically said:
“Honestly… it just takes time in the seat.”
At first I thought, wow thanks for nothing. But he was 100% right. After ditching the phone and just spending time in the machine, I got better — fast.
You don’t become skilled by thinking, wishing, or dabbling.
You become skilled by time in the seat. The average man simply won’t get in the chair — or stay in it long enough to learn.
🤷♂️ Why doesn’t everyone do it?
Because most people aren’t willing to:
stay up late and wake up early
fail repeatedly
lose money
learn hard lessons
try things they’ve never done
sit in the seat long enough to get good
Everyone wants the freedom, very few want the furnace.
But if you stay in the game and learn the lessons? Eventually, you win.
If you quit early, or fail to learn the lesson? You don’t.
Stick with it, and learn the lessons.
🔥 The Great Creator
On a spiritual note:
There is something deeply satisfying about creating something that didn’t exist before.
In business → people pay you for the value you create.
With God → we receive the value of becoming more like Him.
Through creation, sacrifice, and struggle, we learn the nature of the great Creator.
Entrepreneurship is one of His best classrooms.
🏁 Understand this.
Brothers, whatever you’re building:
A Business
A body
A spiritual foundation
A skill
A mindset
Understand this 👉 The tuition is real.
The struggle is real. The satisfaction is real. And the transformation is eternal.
Stay in the seat.
Pay the tuition.
And keep building.
You’re closer than you think,
Justin & Jared
The F5 Brotherhood
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