157. The Ultimate Opportunity For Growth
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Summary
In this episode I talk about how important it is to be aggressive during times of uncertainty and how you have the opportunity to make the most out of it. I also talk about the importance of being aggressive in your business and in your personal development.
Transcript
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what is up guys it's andy frisella and this is the show for the realists say goodbye to the lies
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the fakeness and delusions of modern society welcome to motherfucking reality guys today
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is sunday as you maybe are aware maybe you're not maybe you went out and got totally hammered last
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night and you forgot what fucking day it is it's happened to all of us okay here's the deal before
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i get into what i want to talk about i remind you of the fee now i am getting completely censored on
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the fee if you actually genuinely enjoyed the show now today because it's sunday um i actually wanted
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to talk to you a little bit about what you're going to do this upcoming week okay we all know
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that what's going on in the world is really messed up okay we all recognize that everybody sees it
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um and i've been talking a lot about it lately but i haven't been doing u.s service uh in terms of
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what you could be doing personally to be better which is really what this show is ultimately about
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at the end you know we're going to talk about current events and i think we've gone very far that
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direction and uh the personal development side is kind of taking a back seat for now but i don't
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want to stop talking about it so i came in here today uh this is today is friday in my world and
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you're going to hear this on sunday uh because i wanted to remind you guys of some things that are
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very important during times of uncertainty okay right now everybody knows there's all kinds of
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crazy shit going on right you go to the grocery store you could see it you turn on the tv you hear it
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you see it uh everywhere you look people are talking about it it's changed our entire world
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and back in the beginning when all of this stuff started happening i reminded you guys that these
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are the times when we start to uh make decisions about where we're going to go in life okay and right
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now a lot of people are pulling themselves back into their shell a lot of people are going to weather
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the storm a lot of people are going to do everything they can rightfully so to survive which is what we
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should all be doing but i want to point something out to you guys that leaves tremendous opportunity
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open for people who want to get aggressive people who want to pour into their personal development
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their business development their life progress because here's the thing guys we are in a competition
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it is just the truth a lot of people like to talk about ideal uh you know ideologies right like
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oh it's not a competition and you're only competing against yourself and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
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and like dude that's nice to say and think about but it's just not true okay you go you own a business
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you're competing against other businesses you go to work you're competing against other people for
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same jobs uh you go to the grocery store now you're competing over a motherfucking uh jug of milk
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okay so competition is part of life and if you look at any part of the way nature works uh it's all
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based on competition okay the strongest the fittest the smartest the most prepared are the ones that win
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so i want to point out to you that right now a lot of people are not trying to win a lot of people are
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trying to pull in all of their offense and and hunker down right for this time and this is no
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different than any other hard time in history guys when things like this happen when times like
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these happen it is very easy to get caught up and off track on what it is you're trying to build for
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your life but what i want to remind you of is that life is going to go on life is going to keep
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progressing and it is going to keep moving and there are people out there that are still aggressive
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i'm one of them and there's a lot of other people as well so i want to remind you today that one of
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the biggest opportunities that you'll ever have in your life is actually right now during this time
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while everybody else is pumping the brakes okay if you have the opportunity in your business to stand
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on the gas pedal now is the time to do it more so i want to talk to you about your personal
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personal development okay a lot of people right now are giving up on their fitness they're giving
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up on their mental health they're giving up on everything and they're basically using the entire
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world situation as a crutch as to why they can't do anything okay you know i went to uh my one of my
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favorite places i go to this place called billy g's here in st louis at kirkwood now over the last couple
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years i've only drank i don't know five six seven times the total um i think i've had eight days total
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off nine days now totally off my program the live hard program during that time uh whether i counted
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online or not and i take pride in that but when i went to billy g's man um and and if anybody's
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listening i'm not trying to offend anybody this is just what i observed uh you know i went there i
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saw a lot of people that i saw pre-pandemic and i haven't seen them really since you know over the
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last 18 months because i haven't been going out i've been keeping to myself as you guys know
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focusing on myself trying to keep that uh word that i that promise i made to myself uh back in
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the beginning if you remember i made a promise to myself that this time was going to be the time that
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made me and i was going to make sure that i use this time to the maximum ability to get better every
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single day and that's something i have done and i'm very proud of myself so i haven't been out
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in the world very much i've been focusing on my own shit now i did go to billy g's okay and uh
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we went up there we ate and i saw a lot of people i hadn't seen uh for a long time man and i i i gotta
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be honest like they look like shit okay most of these people had put on 30 40 50 pounds and i'm not
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talking one or two people i'm talking dozens of people that i recognize from being a regular up there
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uh previously to this to this situation so it made me really think man it made me think like
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how how if everybody's scared of this pandemic and everybody's worried about their health why is
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everybody getting fatter why is everybody getting worse why is everybody getting uh to a place that
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actually makes them more susceptible to this virus not less and two things occurred to me one uh they're
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not really scared okay otherwise they would be getting in shape we've had 600 something days of
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this going on if you were really terrified about this taking your life you would have done something
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about it that's just the truth but secondly it showed me in real life how many people are 100
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percent bailing out on anything that's actually good for them they seem to think that because the world is
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in chaos that time has somehow stopped time has not stopped there are still plenty of people out there
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who are hungry who are aggressive who are getting better day by day by day okay and you need to be
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one of them all right the way this world is going to get better and the way that our country is going to
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be better is by us being better that's just the only way it is it starts from the ground up
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so while you may be vocalizing your opinions and while you may be uh actively speaking out while
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you may be going to these board meetings and while you may be uh participating in democracy like you
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all should it's important to remember that you are only as good as the example that you set okay
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what example are you setting for your family what example are you setting for your friends what example
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are you setting for your peers at work what example are you setting as a citizen of this country and be
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honest with yourself because if you're not taking care of yourself guys you're leaving a lot on the table
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and you're setting a poor example okay so today's sunday and i'd like you to consider using the rest of the
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year to get better okay what does that mean that means being conscious of what you put into your brain
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okay are you reading or are you consuming the negative news of the day every single day are you
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putting positive thoughts into your brain are you putting negative thoughts into your brain what are
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you putting in your body are you putting helpful food and nutrients in your body or are you just
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trashing your body are you drinking four or five nights a week or are you drinking a gallon of water
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every day okay there's all kinds of things that you need to consider but the truth of the matter is
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is that when most people stop that's an opportunity for you to jump ahead all right and that's where we are
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okay when the when the real estate uh market crashed and we had the economy crash in the late 2000s
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um that was a time where i i really that's what we made our business everybody else stopped everybody
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else stopped moving forward everybody kind of pulled in and played defense and we went hard as
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fuck on offense and we were able to make up four or five years of progress every single year for our
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business okay and we ended up growing 100 every single year and by the way we're still doing things
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like that even in this economy and the reason we're able to do it is because everybody else is quitting
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everybody else is stopping we're staying aggressive so think about that think about that in terms of
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your job think about that in terms of your career think about that in terms of your company and
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think about it mostly in terms of your body because guys if we are not taking care of our own self
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our own body our own mind nurturing it testing it making sure that it gets stronger and when will we
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have a better opportunity to test ourselves than during one of the hardest times in my lifetime for sure
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and probably history of this country that's the ultimate test can you stay on track during this
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time with all these distractions can you instead of regressing can you get better can you progress can
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you improve while everybody else is getting worse all right because that's the key that's the thing
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that's going to set you up because this stuff will end okay these things will end and if you want to
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be in the best place possible right now is the time that you should be moving forward as hard as you
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can now i understand that there's things in business that are challenging right now i understand there are
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things in in the economy that are challenging right now i understand all of these things but that still
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doesn't limit your ability to really drink water it doesn't limit your ability to eat clean it doesn't
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limit your ability to move it doesn't limit your ability to read positive things it doesn't limit
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your ability to get better that's the point and we have gotten really good in this country right now
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at selling ourselves that we're waiting for this time to pass before we get back to kicking ass and
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i'm going to tell you right now if everybody in america gets in that mindset where uh they're just
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going to sit on their hands and kind of wait for this to pass it'll never pass it'll never get over
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with because our country is based upon go-getters it's based upon people who go out and create
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things seemingly for nothing these are resilient people these are gritty people these are people
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with tremendous amounts of fortitude okay these are people who can endure hard times that's the
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essence of america okay so if you're feeling like you think america needs to get better right now what
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you need to be focused on is you getting better because if every individual gets better and you're
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setting an example for the individuals around you and they get better that's how we get this
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motherfucker moving on the right track all right so it's sunday today tomorrow's monday i would listen
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to this i would really think about it and i would think about what can you do to get better and if you
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haven't talked about or thought about doing live hard or 75 hard start now don't wait till the end of
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the fucking year man okay we need to invest in our mental fortitude now we need to get tougher now
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we need to get stronger now we need to get physically harder now okay these things are important now we
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don't have time to wait and the longer you wait the longer you put it off the worse off you're going
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to get and you know that and i know that so let's stop with the bitching let's stop with the complaining
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let's stop with the screaming and let's start working on being a better example let's start
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working on building this from the ground up let's start working on building something that every
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single motherfucker that you know can look at and say damn dude that's what i want that's what i want
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to be like because you can talk about this shit all you want but unless you're truly about it it really
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doesn't make any difference okay so make this day make this week the time if you've been fucking off
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this whole time make this the time where you say dude look i'm still going to get better during this
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time i'm still going to be able to look back during this time say that was the time i got better that
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was the time that made me that was the time i got ahead because it's not too late this shit's not
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stopping anytime soon and so if you're waiting for it to stop for you to get going you're just going to
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have that much bigger of a mountain to climb all right i love you guys i appreciate you guys
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let's get together let's fucking work to be better and let's work to be better from the ground up
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those things are what's going to get america back on track it starts with you
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