109. Business & Health
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Summary
In this episode of The Realist, Andy Frisella answers a question from a gentleman who is struggling with his health and wants to know if he should put his physical health on the back burner in order to run a business.
Transcript
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told my teacher dumb bitch i'm gonna get millions watch this in the project living
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spoke it till existence mo changed to 50 got mo cost than did i only weigh 180 but my watch
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cost 250 what's up guys it's andy frisella and this is the show for the realist say goodbye to
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the lies the fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking reality
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guys today i don't normally do this but i got asked such an unbelievably good question today
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that i want to answer it on the show because i think it will actually help you a lot um before
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i get into that this is uh a word of mouth show uh if we deliver good content all we ask is that
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you share the content if if you don't think it's that good then don't share it that's cool too i'm
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i'm all down for a fair deal um but it's good so share it so guys here's the thing all right i gotta
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ask this question today uh by uh it doesn't matter who it was just a good question um and the question
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was you know hey andy um you know there there's i'm going through a phase in my business and i know
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you went through this phase as well where i feel like my health is suffering i've put on a lot of
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weight um i've i and i'm paraphrasing the question i put on a lot of weight uh and and health is sort
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of taking a back seat so that i can run this company and you know it's really really hard and
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i don't have much time for fitness and taking care of myself and uh i plan on taking care of myself
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once i get it going but right now um you know i'm not doing what i need to do and i want to address
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this because i hear this same question over and over again uh and and and guys look i am the
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epitome of that okay uh i i went through a long phase in business where i i didn't take care of
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myself um and i told myself the same thing that this gentleman was telling himself which was you know
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hey man i i only have so much time man and i got to make sure that i get this business going so i
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can take care of my family take care of my employees and something's got to give and it's
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right now it's my my physical health and i used to think that same thing guys um for a long time
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and what i realized was i was justifying it to myself right like when i was wanting to eat poorly
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or skip a workout or not do what i needed to do i i told myself this same story and i think a lot
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of entrepreneurs which is the base audience of this show uh do the same thing i hear it all the
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time guys and i want to kind of let you know and tell you my experience of how i answer answered this
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gentleman's question um which is very simple i i understand i do uh i've been in business for 20
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plus years uh i started literally with nothing and now we've got close to 400 employees under one roof
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and and thousands and thousands and thousands of outside uh representatives of the company and so
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there's a lot going on now and a lot more going on now than what was going on five years ago when we
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had you know fuck i don't know 30 employees and i was 350 pounds and if we're going to make this on
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youtube keith go ahead and throw that picture up of what i used to look like bro uh so people can
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really understand what i'm talking about um and at that time in my life i was making way more money
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than i ever had before right i i thought i was killing it you know i was finally not struggling
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to pay my bills i was being able to bank some money uh i was living a pretty good life but i was very
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unhappy and very unfulfilled and the reason i was is because i had let myself go physically and every
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time i you know had to go to a wedding and put on a suit or i had to go to a pool party or i had to go
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to a barbecue really any time other than than me sitting at home working in my home office because
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back then you know i didn't i we had our warehouse but our office at our old hq but i didn't have an
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office i'd given it up to someone else because we needed the room and so i worked at home a lot and
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so like i never really saw people i i was like well i'm not working the counter at the store anymore so
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it's not as important and i sold myself this bill of goods um that really hindered me uh for a long
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time and it what what i want you to understand here is that when we sell ourselves this bill of
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good of putting our health on the back burner uh and you know and then trying to put the company first
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you really cannot do that uh it doesn't matter what you do it doesn't matter if you're a painter you own
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whatever whatever the fuck you do it doesn't matter you will never produce what you can produce in
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business without first taking care of your physical and mental health okay and physical and mental health
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is not a bubble bath with fucking cupcakes and self-care like a lot of these people try to tell
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you it is it's doing the things required to build a life that you don't need to fucking escape from
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okay that's self-love so what happened for me was i had a moment of clarity right i i i was at home i
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i got pneumonia and a lot of you guys are familiar with the story but some of you aren't i got pneumonia
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i was sick for three weeks uh and i was picking up my phone every day and i'm looking at the phone and
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i'm like fuck dude i'm still making money making more money i haven't made before i'm sitting at home
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and a lot of you guys know i'd make the joke i watched that movie pacific rim like 30 times in
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that three weeks uh which i still enjoy that movie but uh you know i clicked for me as to why uh i was
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feeling you know unfulfilled and i started thinking about the stereotype right like of the wealthy
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individual um who is depressed and not fulfilled and ends up killing themselves right and a lot of
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people like to point at that when they point at successful people successful people but just because
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you're making money and just because you have a nice income does not make you successful successful
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is pursuing your true potential in all areas of life and i wasn't pursuing my full potential over here
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with my health and because of that my business actually suffered i wasn't really aware of it
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because i was making more money than i had ever made before so in my mind i was thinking fuck you're
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kicking ass when in reality if i had taken care of business with my health i would have been kicking
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that much more ass okay and this is what i've realized over the last four or five years and what i want to
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to get through to you guys is this and when i was talking to this gentleman he said well you know
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andy i i just don't have the time bullshit you're not organized and you're not prioritizing and this
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is why i recommend 75 hard so much and i i believe in it so much in the live hard program is because what
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it does is it shows you and i hate to tell people like hey this is what you're going to experience but
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it's fucking it is the truth when you actually prioritize your health and your nutrition and
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your workouts and you're focusing on getting them done what you start to realize is how much time
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you're actually wasting and so what i was explaining this dude was look dude i know that you think you're
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real busy right now but you're not really that fucking busy and you need to get this in check and
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what will happen is you'll become much more effective much more organized and you'll actually have more
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time over here to put in your business and not only will you have more time you'll have more energy
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and the energy will be more effective which will help you grow and so if you're a young entrepreneur
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right now and you know when i say young i mean young in the name of you know or in the way of uh years
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experience as an entrepreneur take it from me okay someone who has gone through that phase where i let my
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health fade telling myself i was going to put my business first and understand that that is not an
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effective way truly to maximize your potential and if you really think about it it just it makes perfect
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logical sense our body our mind those are our tools and if our tools aren't sharp and they're not in shape
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how can you how can you expect to produce the most over here in anything especially in business
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or in entrepreneurship which requires so much mental energy on a daily basis i mean dude if you've
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chosen the entrepreneur path and you've been at it for a while you know what i'm talking about you're
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talking about getting kicked right in the fucking nuts over and over and over and over and over again
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literally every day um thinking one day that it will eventually stop and i can tell you it won't stop
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you just kind of get used to it so the best way to tolerate these things is to be built for them
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both physically and mentally all right so if you're a young entrepreneur and you're on the path
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and you're starting to tell yourself man this is taking a lot of energy this is this this this i need
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to step back from my fitness and put more more into here no dude you need to do the opposite of that
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and what you need to do is pour into your physical health and your brain by creating mental toughness
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and discipline and these other skills organization skills which will free up time for you to be more
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effective over here and if we think about the practical aspects of how much confidence helps
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in entrepreneurship how much grit helps in entrepreneurship how much uh fortitude helps
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in entrepreneurship resiliency uh you know all the little things that we talk about through the 75 hard
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program it it equates dollars and cents in your business okay you can actually pull these tools right
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out of your tool belt and put them to work in your business whatever it is that you do whether you're
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a sole proprietor or you're a freelancer or you run a big company so my main thing was guys i just want
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to try to bring you guys real thought-provoking value and not just you know tell you a bunch of
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bullshit this is real practical shit that will make your life 10 times better had i taken my health
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seriously back in 2009 10 11 12 and not let myself get really fat to where i had to make a big
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correction um we would be far better off in terms of where our company is right now because i would
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have been that much more effective i would have been able to pour that much more energy into it i would
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have been that much more sharp i would have had that much more fortitude grit and all the things i just
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mentioned so if this is you and you're like this guy who asked me this question today and you're you're
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you're letting your health fade you're letting your you're you know you're getting a little fat you're
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getting a little uh you know maybe you're a laugh fat like i was um dude handle this shit because when
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you handle that shit the rest of your life will fall in a line with that okay and it's not a physical
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thing a lot of people look at you know they need to lose weight no dude what i'm you fix your mind
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then your body follows then your life follows it's real simple but this is why i'm such an advocate
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of 75 hard guys and why i live that lifestyle most of the time the reason i you guys you know
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constantly say dude don't you want to break don't you know i don't want to break and the reason i don't
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want to fucking break is because i have a lot of shit that i want to do and win at in life and i know
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to win at the level that i want to win at i have to be my very best my tools have to be sharp
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everything has to be great because i'm competing against people who are much smarter have way more
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resources have a lot more advantages than i have and i'm aware of that i don't think of myself as
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some gifted human i think of myself as for what i am which is a fucking regular dude who grew up in
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st louis missouri who just never fucking quit okay so you guys all have that within you all of you but
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just don't make the mistake i made okay it cost me five or six years of progress and i thought this
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was a relevant question for us to bring up and talk about on the show because i know a lot of
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you guys struggle with it now um with that being said guys i really appreciate you guys sharing the
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show i really appreciate you guys uh allowing me to talk about the things i believe in and you know
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supporting me and and believing in the show and all the things that we have going on um i just want
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to take a minute because i don't do it often enough and just say thank you man um we really
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enjoy putting out this content i'm trying to do a better job at being more consistent uh in terms of
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the podcast and we're working on that i built a great team here and um i just want to say thanks
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for all the support man it's really really really cool um to connect with all of you guys you know that
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are like-minded and even those of you who are not and you're just you know taking what you will
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from us and then the other stuff you to leave it alone appreciate that too so i love you guys go
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out there and be a great example of what an american should be what you think it should be
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told my teacher don't bitch i'm gonna get millions watch this in the project living down spoke it till