320. Q&AF： Paying Yourself, Instilling Mental Toughness In Your Child & Opportunities At Work
Episode Stats
Words per Minute
195.11053
Summary
In this episode of The Realists, we have Q and AAF, where you submit your questions and I give you the answer. Q & AAF is where I answer your questions about life, money, happiness, business, relationships, and life in general. If you like the show, if it brings value, or teaches you some things that makes you laugh, please share.
Transcript
00:00:00.000
What is up guys, it's Andy Priscilla and this is the show for the realists, say goodbye
00:00:20.640
to the lies, the thickness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking
00:00:25.220
reality guys. Today, we have Q and AF. That is where you submit your questions and I give
00:00:31.980
you the Andy Priscilla answer. All right. This is the personal development segment of
00:00:37.160
the show. This is the part where I share with you how to fucking win. Okay. Because at the
00:00:44.300
end of the day, all these problems that we see in the world, they all come down to us
00:00:48.000
raising our standards, becoming better and leaving a ripple effect in society that matters.
00:00:52.620
Okay. So this is the personal development format of the show. Then we have CTI sometimes
00:01:00.120
that stands for cruise the internet. That's where we put up three topics on the news. We
00:01:05.160
dissect the truth from them and we make fun of the people who write these articles. And
00:01:10.540
then we identify the problem and talk about the solution. And then, you know, then we have
00:01:15.040
Q and AF like today. So we have problem and solution for CTI. And then we have like in-depth
00:01:19.760
solution here for Q and AF. Then we have real talk. That's where I get on and I just bring
00:01:23.880
you some heat. Uh, if you used to listen to the MS CEO project, we used to call this Thursday
00:01:28.740
thunder. Um, I need to start doing those again because I actually enjoy those and it's like
00:01:32.880
therapy for me. Let's be real. Uh, then we have full length and full length is either where
00:01:37.820
I have, uh, my successful kick-ass, uh, bad-ass friends come on and talk about how you can be
00:01:43.840
bad-ass too, because there are normal humans just like you. Uh, and then we have 75 versus,
00:01:49.100
which is where, uh, people who have successfully completed the 75 hard program, come on and talk
00:01:55.120
about their journey, which I personally enjoy the most out of all the shows. So with that being
00:02:01.760
said, where can they submit their questions? Mr. DJ? Yeah. Oh, thank you. Uh, Mr. Andy and
00:02:06.820
hello children. Um, yeah guys, email, email those questions into ask Andy at Andy for seller.com and
00:02:12.580
they can be about anything. About what? What's anything? No life, no boxes of chocolate. Yeah.
00:02:19.620
Whatever you want. Yeah. All right. That's fine. That's how we do it. Um, let's see. There's a fee
00:02:25.780
fee for the show is very simple. Uh, please tell someone, okay. We put a lot of time, a lot of energy,
00:02:31.260
a lot of effort into this show. Uh, we'd be doing it for a long time. I do it out of a sense of
00:02:35.800
obligation. I don't run ads for the show and I don't run ads on the show, even though I could
00:02:40.360
get paid a lot of extra money by doing so. I do not want anyone to, uh, get information that is,
00:02:50.740
that is, uh, bought and paid for, which is not what I'm about. So I want to keep the message pure.
00:02:55.060
That's really why I don't do it. Um, so yeah, that's the show. Okay. So if you like the show,
00:03:00.020
if it brings you some value, if it teaches you some things that makes you laugh, um, which it will,
00:03:05.480
because we're funny as fuck, um, please share. All right. So Q and AF, huh? Yeah. Let's,
00:03:11.580
let's get into it. All right. What's going on? You got three good ones for me. I got some good
00:03:15.580
ones. Got some good ones for you. All right. Uh, Andy, question number one, uh, I've been growing
00:03:21.600
my business for the last four years. Um, and besides paying for the absolute necessities,
00:03:27.380
I've reinvested everything back into my business. We're finally in a comfortable spot. And I was curious
00:03:32.500
when would be an appropriate time for me to start paying myself more than the bare minimum?
00:03:38.520
You'll know when you know, um, if you care about your business and you care about the goals long
00:03:43.600
term and you care about what you're trying to do long term, it's going to become very obvious to
00:03:47.680
you when you should start paying yourself a little bit more. Now people come to this decision,
00:03:54.240
uh, with great anxiety because for me in the beginning of my business, you know, the first three
00:04:00.220
years, we didn't take any money. Um, I'm not saying we didn't take a dollar. Like we might've
00:04:04.800
went and bought McDonald's or something. Right. But it wasn't like we were getting paid. Right. Um,
00:04:10.780
then for the next, uh, seven years, we made $695 a month. Okay. For $58,000 total for the first 10
00:04:20.900
years. Um, and that sounds pretty bad, uh, because it was pretty bad and I was pretty bad. And you should
00:04:27.580
take this as an indicator that you were probably smarter than me. Um, and if I can do all this
00:04:33.020
crazy shit, this is kind of the premise of the whole fucking thing. Yeah. All right. I'm an idiot
00:04:36.400
and I figured it the fuck out. So I'm pretty confident that you could figure it out too.
00:04:40.660
Uh, but I could, I had a lot of anxiety that 11th year when I went to pay myself something that was
00:04:45.900
appropriate. And what people miss is during that year, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
00:04:52.320
nine, we could have paid ourselves, but we chose to reinvest. And so when I tell the story,
00:04:58.700
sometimes it sounds like, Oh, we were feeling so bad. Struggling for 10 years straight. And some,
00:05:04.180
you know, and just like everybody, uh, we like to make our story sound a little bit better.
00:05:08.880
And, you know, sometimes I forget to mention that, you know, in year six, seven, eight, nine,
00:05:13.560
10, we were reinvesting heavily and foregoing paying ourselves to get our business up and running.
00:05:20.540
And that's a very important detail that I need to be better about sharing because it's the truth.
00:05:24.640
Yeah. And, um, like knowing that you could have took more. Yes. And that's very important for
00:05:29.540
people to understand. Cause a lot of people will ask me, they're like, well, how'd you open 10
00:05:33.040
stores in 10 years if you didn't get paid? Well, that's how I did it. So, uh, so you have to
00:05:40.480
understand that, you know, any money that you take personally, um, is money that you're not investing
00:05:46.700
your business and it's growth that your competitor may possibly be getting over you. Um, with that
00:05:52.880
being said, there's a quality of life aspect to this, like how long and how willing are you to do
00:06:02.100
without to achieve your goal? I think that's the ultimate question here. Um, personally looking
00:06:08.660
back, um, I think, I mean, looking back from where I'm at now, because I've sort of achieved all my
00:06:16.380
financial goals that I ever really set for myself, um, at 42, which is weird, but anyhow, um,
00:06:25.260
when I look back and I look at like, you know, I look at all the cool things and I look at like
00:06:30.640
this company and I look at, uh, you know, the cool shit I've been able to experience the, the,
00:06:36.320
the properties that I've had, the cars have had and all, you know, all the shit you guys
00:06:40.220
think is the, the thing. That's not the thing at all. Um, the thing, the thing that ultimately is
00:06:46.920
for me, um, and has become for me is, is a finishing a project that I set out to do. Yeah. And, um,
00:06:54.860
when I walked through my garage and, and I noticed these material things, I mean, yes, I think they're
00:07:01.140
cool, but I could easily do without all of them. If I could still come to work every day,
00:07:06.320
and invest and put in. And so what I'm trying to get, get you to understand is don't be in a hurry
00:07:13.840
to go to the material shit because it's cool temporarily. And you, what, what will happen
00:07:20.360
is you'll come back to the project and you'll start to find motivation and inspiration in the
00:07:26.800
project. Like for me, my motivation and inspiration is to help build careers and amazing,
00:07:36.160
lives for people who have helped me build an amazing career in life. Right. And there's a lot
00:07:41.780
of people in this building. There's 400 people here on any given day, um, that I am obligated to,
00:07:48.060
to help create these paths. And I personally wouldn't, I would trade all my material shit
00:07:54.260
to be able to complete that project. And I guess what I'm trying to say in a very long winded way is
00:08:01.180
don't be in a hurry to take the most money that you can. And, and I think the longer that you can
00:08:06.860
live below your means, um, and be really, really happy and okay with that, uh, the more successful
00:08:13.000
you'll be in business. Yeah. That's real. Yeah. Because dude, look, um, the,
00:08:18.940
once you're past a certain point of being able to do certain things, all the rest of the shit is
00:08:29.420
diminishing returns. When I could go to dinner with my team and my friends or whoever and float
00:08:36.620
the bill and not like literally care, like if it was $800, I didn't give a fuck that everything above
00:08:42.960
that every car, every house, every fucking private jet, all the cool shit that I've been able to
00:08:49.120
experience. It's just cool shit, man. Like, and I can, it's not, it doesn't define me. So you have
00:08:56.040
to understand that if you can be the entrepreneur who lives below, and by the way, I still live way
00:09:02.540
below my means, um, believe it or not. Uh, and that's another thing I would set a rule,
00:09:09.060
like set your rule. You know, um, my rule has always been fun shit for me is 10% of my income.
00:09:16.760
That's the, that was going to be my followup. Okay. It's like, like, should we attach that
00:09:19.840
percentage? So, so I've always learned to live on 10% of my income. I still follow that rule.
00:09:26.320
Right. Okay. People think about like, well, how the fuck is that possible? Yeah. Well, I mean,
00:09:30.300
that's what happens when you're running a business that's, that gets to a certain skit. That's why
00:09:35.540
you want to continue to invest. Right. Because eventually you'll be able to live the amazing
00:09:39.940
life that you want on a, on a small percentage of your income. And you will be very comfortable
00:09:45.820
living that life and you're not stressing. You're not like, you don't feel like a fraud. You don't
00:09:50.060
feel like you're faking it. You don't feel like, you know, cause I felt like that before everybody
00:09:54.040
feels like that. You know what I'm saying? So if you, if you are responsible, it's just like
00:09:58.700
with 75 heart, when you do all the shit that you know, you're supposed to do, it makes you feel
00:10:02.500
good. Right. So when you're living below your means and you're investing in the things,
00:10:06.160
you know, um, that are going to pay off later, that's the right way to do it. And you can have
00:10:12.520
a lot of peace operating your business that way. Yeah. You know what I mean? It's just fucking
00:10:17.160
as genius. Cause you're not, you're not increasing the percentage for yourself. You're just increasing
00:10:21.240
the fucking pie. Well, yeah, but, but, but that's, there's two kinds of people. Yeah. There's
00:10:25.860
people who try to increase the percentage because they haven't grown the thing properly. And
00:10:31.020
eventually they get themselves in a bind because what happens is they start making decisions inside
00:10:35.820
their business to accommodate their needs for their income. Right. And that's when they're in
00:10:41.740
really deep shit. Right. Like they need, you know, they need 30 grand to pay the rest of their bills
00:10:47.240
off this month. So they run a sale on fucking the 29th of every month. Right. That is a trap you
00:10:53.040
cannot get out of. So don't start. And I think a lot of people allow themselves to be pressured,
00:10:58.100
especially with Instagram, um, you know, where you have all these younger kids who are
00:11:03.740
fucking, you know, lying about how much money they make and trying to act like they're big baller shit
00:11:09.640
at 22 years old. And it really fucks the younger generation's mind up because they make, they think
00:11:15.080
like they're wasting their time building something real. Right. Um, when in reality, those people will
00:11:22.260
expire. And if you're investing in a real business, even if you're going door to door to door,
00:11:28.000
right now, like I used to have to do, which is basically the way every business starts in 10,
00:11:32.760
15 years from now, those fucking people who were making you feel stupid aren't there. You won't
00:11:38.700
even remember their names. Right. You won't even remember who the fuck they were. Like I have,
00:11:42.440
I can remember so many people making fun of me when I was building my, when Chris, when it was just
00:11:49.060
Chris and I, and we were running the stores, making fun of me because we were, uh, you know,
00:11:54.880
we weren't making any money and we were doing it for five or six years. And people were like, bro,
00:11:59.320
when are you going to like, really like stop this as a fairy tale, you know, real job. Right. You
00:12:04.440
know? And, and dude, you know, those things to this day still drive me. Like I still am driven by
00:12:10.680
those things. So I'm glad they happen. And I hope they happen to you too. So that they continue to
00:12:15.440
drive you. Yeah. Um, and they will, because most people can't believe in anything before they see
00:12:20.600
the end product. Yeah. Like people still, people still, when I say, Hey, this is what we're going
00:12:25.060
to do. They still look at me and they're like, Oh, okay. It's like, all right, dude, well, what have
00:12:28.920
I not done that I said I was going to do? Right. Right. Right. Maybe, maybe it takes me a little
00:12:35.120
longer. Maybe it's not as pretty as I say, it's going to be to get there, but we're fucking getting
00:12:39.840
there. Yeah. You know? And that's the mentality you have to have. Yeah. So one final little follow up.
00:12:44.980
So what was that, what was that first like real payment to yourself? Like, because you said it,
00:12:50.180
like there was a sense of anxiety there. 12 years in, I bought a Lamborghini. Yeah. So first 10
00:12:55.400
years I made 58 grand 11th year. I made six figures 12th year. I made seven figures. I bought
00:13:01.380
a Lamborghini. Yeah. Fuck. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. I figured that was an appropriate
00:13:07.880
reward for 10 years of no fucking pay for sure. Okay. For sure. Well, why do you, I'm sorry,
00:13:14.320
but why, where do you think the anxiety really comes from though? Like what? Well, because do you know,
00:13:19.420
you put like your fucking 12 years in, you know, you put the work in. Here's the other
00:13:22.260
thing for two years. I owned the fucking car. I didn't let anybody know I owned it because
00:13:28.380
I was embarrassed. Right. I come from a place in life of just regular people. Right. And
00:13:35.280
I know what regular people fucking say about, about that kind of shit. Like I know exactly
00:13:40.020
what they say. Cause I've been sitting there when other people drive by and that kind of shit.
00:13:44.340
And they're like, Oh, look at this fucking guy. And I'm sitting here thinking like, well,
00:13:47.520
that's going to be me, bitch. You know? And, uh, and you know, so, uh, I was very lucky to have
00:13:54.480
some really good employees. My, uh, Mike Taylor and Kyle Combs. Uh, I can remember we were sitting
00:14:00.500
at Helen's one night and they brought that we were sitting up at Helen Fitzgerald's and we were having
00:14:04.500
a couple of beers and this is like, you know, they were like, bro, I got it. There was a Lamborghini,
00:14:09.580
uh, right in front of me on the way here. And he showed me the video. I'm like, Oh, that's cool.
00:14:13.820
And I go, I got Lambo. And I finally, cause I had a couple of beers. I told him and they were like,
00:14:17.680
no fucking way. And I'm like, yeah. And bro, they loved it so much that it gave me permission.
00:14:23.660
It took an embarrassment feeling away. Yes. And what I re and then I had a conversation with my,
00:14:28.420
my business friend, um, who also drove, uh, he drove nice cars. And I said, Hey dude, like,
00:14:35.500
what do you do with employees that like hate on you for that shit? And he goes,
00:14:38.440
do you really want employees that hate success? And I'm like, no, I don't. Yeah. And it changed
00:14:44.760
my perspective. So, you know, there's a growing process there. Yeah. You know, now I know everywhere
00:14:50.360
I go, like if I'm driving one of my cars and I pull up somewhere, I know there's a percentage of
00:14:56.920
people who are inspired. And I know there's a percentage of people who are like, fuck that guy.
00:15:01.340
And you know what? I'm not here for the fuck that guy people. I'm here for the people that are
00:15:05.560
inspired. Fuck. Yeah. And I mean, that, that's very, very, uh, evident here, especially cause
00:15:10.340
you go in the parking lot here. We got a nice parking lot. It's a nice fucking parking lot.
00:15:13.480
Everybody here. Most of the people here, you know, like not because it's no longer just you
00:15:17.460
with your car, right? You know what's cool, bro? You know what's cool is a lot of those people with
00:15:21.340
those, you know, 70, 80, 90, a hundred thousand dollar vehicles sit on the fucking lot. They started
00:15:26.460
here at the fucking very beginning. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? And, and, you know,
00:15:30.420
we got guys here who are buying million dollar houses, like that shit in million, million
00:15:34.780
dollar houses, like 5 million in California. Right. That's a fucking house. Yeah. So I
00:15:38.900
mean like, you know, um, you know, I guess a million dollar house doesn't sound as cool
00:15:44.940
as it used to, but I mean, we throw in the Putin price. Huh? Yeah. But you guys get what
00:15:51.520
I'm saying. They're buying adult houses. Yeah. Like not fucking little crackerjack houses.
00:15:55.660
These are like nice ass fucking, I'm a grown adult, badass fucking places to live. Fuck
00:16:01.420
yeah. Yeah. We just happen to live in Missouri. Yeah. So where it's not, it's just cool to
00:16:05.980
see the ripple effect of inspiration, man. You know what I'm saying? It's cool shit to
00:16:09.660
see. Look, dude, I got respect for anybody that, that is willing to go and put themselves
00:16:15.260
through that period of time where everybody's laughing and everybody's criticizing and everybody's
00:16:20.860
questioning. Um, and everybody's making fun of you. And, and you know, a lot of you guys,
00:16:26.540
you don't understand where I come from when I get intense and I get angry and like, start
00:16:32.260
like talking about like, listen, that all, all that, that intensity that I have that first
00:16:38.840
of all, it comes from a place of love. I want you to fucking win. But second, it comes from
00:16:42.860
a place of reality because I know what it takes to win and it's really fucking hard. And it might
00:16:47.640
appear that like, for me, it might appear easy, but you got to understand I'm surrounded
00:16:51.520
by fucking, um, dude, everywhere I look 10 deep, I'm surrounded by hardworking winner
00:16:58.000
motherfuckers. Right. So the only reason it looks easy for me now is because I paid those
00:17:02.320
dues for 20 something years. Right. You know what I mean? And easy is still relative. Yeah.
00:17:07.420
And this, no, yeah, it's very, you know what I'm saying? That's right. The problems you,
00:17:10.480
you never get rid of your problems. They just change. Right. And, um, you know, I would rather
00:17:16.520
have the problems I have now than that. And bro, you're with me every day. You know,
00:17:20.160
like there's days where I fucking melt the fuck down, dude. And you know, I would love
00:17:25.120
to sit here and pretend like I'm one of these other guys that pretends like I'm all fucking
00:17:29.720
collected all the time and this and that. But like, dude, look, I'm a human. Like I lose
00:17:33.740
my temper sometimes. Sometimes I say shit that I don't mean. The one thing, the one good thing
00:17:38.580
about me is that I'll think about it for, for the next, however long it takes until I realize
00:17:43.380
if I was actually wrong or right. And you know what I do when I realized I was wrong?
00:17:46.900
I apologize. You know what I do when I realized I was right? I go and I say, Hey bro, look,
00:17:51.380
I went too hard on you. Um, but here's the point. We still got this. Yeah. And, and, and so dude,
00:17:56.660
you know, I'm working to be better every single day. Um, and it's hard. It's hard for anybody
00:18:01.600
that's working to be better in any, in any regard. But if you're out there trying to build a
00:18:04.920
business and you're at that beginning level and you're just starting to get paid,
00:18:08.760
um, I would proceed with caution. You know what I'm saying? Treat yourself a little bit,
00:18:14.180
maybe go on a trip. Maybe, maybe, um, you know, maybe you upgrade your car from, uh, you know,
00:18:21.440
your, your X payment to, you know, double that payment or something like, dude, but don't go
00:18:26.620
fucking crazy. You know what I'm saying? Like you, your equity and your big payoff in life is going to
00:18:33.040
be that those companies that you're building. So make sure that you're watering and nurturing and taking
00:18:38.320
care of those by investing properly in them. And that means that you get to go along with less.
00:18:43.780
Listen, dude, some of the best times of my life came from those times I'm talking about,
00:18:48.540
you know, the, the strongest bonds I have with people are with the people that were with me
00:18:53.880
during those first 15 fucking years. You know what I'm saying? And 10 years from now,
00:18:58.960
it'll be from the people that are around me now. Right. You see what I'm saying? Those things just
00:19:02.840
take time to happen, but they're worth the struggle. And so don't get caught up in the, uh,
00:19:08.320
and I got to have material. I love material shit. It's a great motivator. Okay. But don't get
00:19:13.440
caught up in trying to keep up with some other motherfucker who stretched himself in to appear
00:19:18.000
a certain way for other people. You see, proceed with caution. You'll know when you'll know.
00:19:24.260
That's real, man. All right. Question number two, Andy, uh, with all the shit going on,
00:19:29.300
uh, the attacks on our children, um, the question is how would you go about instilling mental
00:19:35.280
toughness and discipline in children in today's world? Well, you know, the power list is a great
00:19:43.340
tool that, uh, you guys can learn about on episode 16. It's called when the day, uh, and I also make
00:19:49.360
a little product for kids, uh, that's a kid's power list. Okay. And it's basically a way to teach
00:19:54.840
your kids how to attack goals. Um, I think that is an excellent way to start your kids, even when
00:20:03.320
they're young, because what kids fundamentally have to understand is that what you invest,
00:20:08.280
you will get out and put out. Yeah. Right. Input output. One plus one equals two. They're going
00:20:13.880
to go to school and they're going to go to high school and they're going to hear all these theories
00:20:18.200
about how the world's unfair and it is, but it's, it's, it's unfair. It's the most unfair,
00:20:25.200
fair place in the world. Yeah. It's not how they think it is. That's right. Is it unfair? Yes,
00:20:29.880
it is. If you do nothing, but if you put in, you will get out and that's a reality. All right.
00:20:35.380
And there's too many experiences, too many testimonies, too many examples to ever argue
00:20:41.540
that. Okay. I could sit here. You could, if you want to sit in this chair, anybody and tell me
00:20:47.480
about your victim story, I will be able to dissect and point out where you could have went differently.
00:20:52.080
All right. And where you could go differently from here. So I'm not a buyer of the victim
00:20:56.820
bullshit. All right. So the point is, I think the biggest thing parents need to do is they need to
00:21:04.140
take, uh, seriously the idea of investing in their children at the base concept that you could be
00:21:12.820
literally anything you want and you can accomplish anything you want. If you are willing to invest.
00:21:20.520
Okay. Into the inputs that produce the outputs. Yeah. And that's why I started writing children's
00:21:27.800
books. That's why I made the, uh, the children's powerless, uh, journal because these things matter
00:21:34.500
to instill into your children before they get into our school system. If you were still planning on
00:21:40.180
sending them to our school system. So if I were sending my kids to a public school system,
00:21:47.600
I would make sure that the fundamental truths that we hold in our family are understood and that that
00:21:56.540
child understands that when they go to school, they're going to hear this and this and this,
00:22:01.040
and those things may have some validity and they may not have some validity. All right. There's a lot
00:22:07.120
of freedom and gray area in the way our kids are taught right now, which is why you're seeing people
00:22:12.120
lose their shit about it. Right. But at the end of the day, it's up to the parents to teach the kids
00:22:17.020
the basic things. And so I think if you really want to take the output of your kids becoming
00:22:22.220
great people, seriously, you have to develop the base before they ever get into the school.
00:22:28.600
Yeah. And that's, that's on you. So that's what I would recommend, man. That's real. Yeah.
00:22:33.500
I also think parents need to start whooping their fucking kids' ass now. Well, you know,
00:22:36.960
I always say, you know, if I ever have kids, it's going to be just so I can beat them.
00:22:43.660
Write a letter to somebody. I don't give a fuck.
00:22:46.660
Dude, that's real. My mom told me when I was younger, man, she said, I whoop your ass so the
00:22:49.820
world don't have to. And like, I mean, it didn't really make sense until I got a lot older, but
00:22:53.880
it's real shit, man. Real shit. That's awesome. All right. Let's move on to our third and final
00:22:58.540
question. Question number three, Andy, I've been with my current employer for about three months now.
00:23:05.680
Some of my coworkers have a negative attitude and energy about management. They're constantly
00:23:12.340
complaining and making negative remarks. I don't want to be consumed by the negativity or contribute
00:23:17.880
to the problem. What's your advice on how to respond to these remarks since I'm new to the
00:23:22.540
company and don't have the same perspective as them? Well, you know, when you're new to the company
00:23:28.300
and you, I guess you're having like established employees, like be cancerous to them. A little bit.
00:23:33.120
Yeah. Is that what it is? I'm complaining about management, complaining about fucking.
00:23:37.640
Yeah. Well, you have to understand and be an adult that there's always going to be things
00:23:42.440
that people don't like about their job and people's propensity is to bitch. And in most
00:23:48.520
workplaces, uh, cancer goes unregulated and tolerated, which is why the culture of most
00:23:54.600
companies is terrible and why most companies don't produce. Yeah. Okay. So I would look at that
00:24:01.660
situation from two lenses. One, I would understand that there's going to be people even in the most
00:24:08.520
well-run organizations on the planet that are still like that. Okay. No one's ever going to be
00:24:14.700
pleased with every single aspect of what they have to do for a living. Yeah. Like there's things I have
00:24:20.140
to do every single day that I don't like. Okay. Um, there that's going to be reality, but the greater
00:24:26.040
good of, do I love my life or not is, is, you know, we're talking about, I got to do 5%, you know,
00:24:34.540
shit. I don't like to have 95% of the ultimate dream life. Exactly. And that's the reality for most
00:24:40.400
people. And most people amplify their negatives to a point where it's all they focus on and all they
00:24:47.440
hear. So they feel upset. And so you have to sort of understand human nature before you get riled up
00:24:54.240
about something like that. The second lens I would look through is like, Hey, there's an opportunity
00:24:58.960
here. Okay. Because, uh, the opportunity is these people don't like being here. They're not willing to
00:25:04.940
do what needs to be done here. I can do what needs to be done here. And if you're in the right place,
00:25:09.240
you'll be recognized for that. And you'll move along, uh, at a reasonable pace. Um, so if I'm new
00:25:16.640
and a new company and some people that come to me and they say this and this and this and this,
00:25:20.280
and this, I look at them, I'm like, okay, losers. Like, Oh, I'm going to go fucking win.
00:25:24.280
Right. And that's where I, that's how I operate. Like, I don't, I don't listen to people. I don't
00:25:30.320
take, I have to, this is good and bad, by the way, I don't listen to people and I have to learn the
00:25:35.040
hard way. Right. Um, or I don't listen to people and I have to find out for myself. Yeah. And sometimes
00:25:40.500
that's good. Sometimes that's bad, but I certainly am not going to adopt the mindset of some weak
00:25:46.440
minded people and some people who lack gratitude and appreciation for the best things in their life
00:25:51.720
and join them. Right. Like that doesn't make sense. Right. You know? So I would say, you know,
00:25:56.840
maybe don't entertain it. Just fucking keep the mouth shut when that shit comes to you and move
00:26:01.500
along. Definitely don't contribute to it. Then, uh, you know, if you're brand new, you might not want
00:26:06.000
to be abrasive and say, Hey, blah, blah, blah. But you know, if it continues, maybe you say, Hey,
00:26:09.620
look, dude, I'm here to win and they'll leave you alone. You won't hear it no more. Right. Like if you look
00:26:14.100
someone in the face who's complaining and say, Hey, look, dude, I don't care. I'm here to fucking
00:26:16.820
win. They will leave you alone. Yeah. Like it's that simple. Yeah. Like, dude, when people don't
00:26:22.380
bitch to me, you know why? Because I'm going to say that. Yep. I'm going to say, Hey, you know what?
00:26:27.780
I didn't like that a bird shit on my fucking car this morning, but I'm here to fucking win.
00:26:32.240
You know what I'm saying? Did you get your shit done? Yeah. So, so that's how we got to, you know,
00:26:37.200
we've got to, we've got to understand that people are going to cry. People are going to bitch. Uh, but sometimes
00:26:43.060
and especially, and I'll give this, you know, this is a really good point. I think for anybody
00:26:48.620
taking a new job, because a lot of people are doing so right now is that there is a lot of people who
00:26:55.800
are just not helpful in the workplace. And if you work, if you move into a company and you're brand
00:27:02.580
new and you can figure out how to be helpful very fast, you will, you will, you will come in hot.
00:27:08.940
Okay. And you will stand out. What you don't want to do when you're taking a new position
00:27:13.920
is to come in, do what everybody else does and get lost in the shuffle. Right. And then when you
00:27:20.780
finally figure out what's what, you know, you start to like say, okay, well, I'm going to work
00:27:25.480
a little harder. And then you stand out. Well, well, dude, people can get lost for two or three
00:27:29.380
years in the fucking shuffle. Right. You don't want to do that. So when you're new, you have an
00:27:34.700
opportunity to really stand out because you're new. And my advice to anybody who's new at any
00:27:40.900
position anywhere is to totally ignore people like that and do whatever the fuck it is that is
00:27:48.040
required of you the best you possibly can, because the management is probably aware of those people.
00:27:53.820
And if you can jump ahead of them by just making them look shitty, by outworking them,
00:27:58.780
that benefits you. Yeah. So that's the opportunity there. You want to move fast
00:28:03.080
and you want to utilize the natural recognition that you're going to have just from being new.
00:28:09.180
You want to leverage that to your benefit so that you can maybe jump two or three places
00:28:14.140
ahead very fast instead of getting caught in the riffraff because you're hanging with the riffraff.
00:28:20.900
Right. You know what I'm saying? Like I would definitely wouldn't eat lunch with those people.
00:28:24.280
No, I wouldn't sit with those people. I wouldn't hang around those people. I wouldn't be seen talking
00:28:28.380
to those people because, dude, the truth is the upper management fucking knows. Like, you know,
00:28:34.480
you know who the fucking people are. You know who the cancers are. You know who the who the
00:28:39.840
clicks are. The melancholy people are. You know who the enthusiastic people are. You know, you know,
00:28:45.640
as the owner, the owner knows unless he's like in Florida every fucking day. All right. But whoever's
00:28:50.760
on site running shit knows. So when you're a new employee and you make those people your friends,
00:28:58.380
you automatically get lumped in with those people. So the best way to navigate a new job
00:29:02.960
is that when people come and fucking complain to you about the shit when you're brand new and try
00:29:06.640
to suck you in, stay the fuck away from them. Like go the other way, even if it means you're doing
00:29:11.080
shit on your own. Yeah. Because the last thing you want to do is get lumped in with them. And then
00:29:15.260
the management see you as just a body as opposed to an asset. Yeah. Or he cleans houses. And
00:29:20.520
because you have no equity, you're gone. Well, whatever the fuck that meant.
00:29:25.340
What I'm saying? Like he fires the fucking little cancer cell. That was the most confusing
00:29:28.420
analogy ever. Hey, look, we just, whatever you meant there, I'm sure it made sense to you. But
00:29:34.520
like, no, if like the owner cleans, like if he fucking fires all those fucking people and
00:29:39.120
because you were lumped in that, you're gone now too. Yeah. You have no equity. You didn't put no value
00:29:43.160
in it. That's right. You know what I'm saying? So yeah, you're gone too. I thought you would die.
00:29:46.720
Guys, Andy, that's three, man. That's three. Go pay the fee. All right, guys. I'll see you later.
00:29:54.720
Yeah. Went from sleeping on the floor. Now my jewelry box froze. Fuck a pole. Fuck a stole.
00:30:00.680
Counted millions in the code. Bad bitch. Booted swole. Got her on bankroll. Can't fold. Doesn't know.