REAL AF with Andy Frisella - May 15, 2023


515. Q&AF： Bouncing Back From An Injury, Surviving A Recession & Regaining Momentum


Episode Stats

Length

29 minutes

Words per Minute

198.93925

Word Count

5,939

Sentence Count

566

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary

In this episode of the show, we have a special guest on the show to answer some questions submitted by the audience. We also have a new segment called the "Real Talk" where we have real talk with real people who have done some badass shit.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 What is up guys, it's Andy Priscilla and this is the show for the realists say goodbye to the lies, the fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking reality guys.
00:00:25.140 Today, we have Q and AF. That's where you submit the questions and I give you the answers. Now you can submit these questions a couple of different ways. The first way is guys, you can email those questions into ask Andy at Andy for seller.com. Or now that we're on YouTube, you can go find the Q and AF YouTube episodes. You can click subscribe. You can leave a comment right in there and leave your question right in the comments. We'll pick some from there as well. So that's how you submit questions to be answered on the show.
00:00:52.100 So questions can be about anything, but this is a personal development, business, how to kick ass and business and life type show. That's the foundational backbone of what we do here. So those questions are going to get priority. But if you have questions about what's going on in the world, we'll throw a couple there, you know, in there once in a while. Other times you tune in, if you're new to the show, this is not just an entrepreneur show. This is a full scope entrepreneur show.
00:01:16.060 And part of the full scope of entrepreneurship and kicking ass and winning life is understanding what's going on in the world. So we have CTI, CTI stands for cruise, the internet. That's where we put up topics on the screen. We talk about what may be true, what may not be true. We speculate. We talk about how we could all individually be a part of the solution to the problems being created by the tyrants in the world. That's what we do on CTI. Then we have real talk. Real talk is just five to 20 minutes of real talk. And then we have full length. Full length is what you guys hear.
00:01:46.040 Like when I had my friend Dean stop on the show, it's just a bunch of people having a conversation. Usually with people who have done some bad-ass shit. That's the gist of the show. Oh, and then sometimes we do 75 hard verses and we're going to get back to those on a consistent basis as well. With that being said, we have this thing on the show. What's it called DJ? What's that thing we have? It's called the fee, the fee. What does the fee mean, man? Do they got to send us money? Yeah. So you guys can hit me up directly on cash.
00:02:12.820 No. So the fee is not money. Okay. The fee is not buy my stuff. Although I do appreciate when you do buy our stuff. Okay. Especially when you support our companies. We're pro American, pro job, pro American job. Basically all the shit that needs to be happening in the world. That's what we're about. So when you support us, understand that that supports real families in real life. However, that's not the fee. The fee is very simple.
00:02:38.660 If you like the show, it made you laugh. It made you think. If it gave you a new perspective, you learn some things. If it helped you out, it wasn't a waste of your time. Please share the show. A lot of you guys hit me up and you're like, man, everybody should be listening to this. Yeah, man, I'm trying. I need your help with that. Okay. If you guys don't share the show, nobody learns about the show. So when we say pay the fee, it's very simple. If we did a good job, if we gave you value on that specific episode, please share that specific episode. That's all we ask.
00:03:06.220 So what we got today?
00:03:10.220 We got some good ones.
00:03:11.240 Nah, for who?
00:03:12.700 For everybody.
00:03:14.060 Say the line.
00:03:15.100 I got some good ones for you.
00:03:16.060 There you go. All right. Can't have a show without the line.
00:03:18.580 Yeah, man. We do got some good ones for you.
00:03:23.140 I'm sorry. I just switched one out though.
00:03:26.500 Andy doesn't see these questions. Just like CTI, you don't see these questions either.
00:03:29.360 We also don't run ads on the show.
00:03:31.640 We don't run ads either.
00:03:33.140 But if I did.
00:03:34.380 Quick message from my sponsor.
00:03:35.520 If I did, it would certainly be for this amazing, delicious, refreshing, energizing
00:03:43.300 first form orange sunrise energy drip.
00:03:47.760 Yeah.
00:03:49.140 The drip's capping though, man.
00:03:51.340 I feel like the drip's capping.
00:03:53.700 Is that how you say it?
00:03:54.860 The drip's capping?
00:03:56.700 Hold on.
00:03:57.180 You guys are fucking up my flow, bro.
00:04:01.420 Get that?
00:04:02.780 Not an ad.
00:04:03.800 Not an ad.
00:04:04.340 Not an ad.
00:04:04.920 But if it were, they should pay me a lot of money for it.
00:04:07.940 See, I feel like some people would argue, Andy, that you're rocking the blue today.
00:04:12.380 And so to keep the drip from slipping.
00:04:15.560 My drip don't slip, baby.
00:04:18.680 You know it don't.
00:04:19.660 What's the joke in here?
00:04:20.900 What's the joke?
00:04:22.000 Drip don't slip.
00:04:22.820 No, what's the fucking joke?
00:04:24.580 My shit is always coordinating.
00:04:25.780 Yeah, everything.
00:04:27.020 Every, yeah.
00:04:27.760 Just the hat and underwear.
00:04:28.900 That's right.
00:04:29.360 Everything else.
00:04:30.100 We do a pre-check before the show.
00:04:31.360 That's right.
00:04:31.800 But I feel like there's an argument to be made that you should be having one of these
00:04:35.600 delicious blue raspberries because you got the drip with the blue.
00:04:40.900 You know, that would be violating my loyalty to this amazing orange sunrise drink.
00:04:45.540 See, orange sunrise is the flavor of royalty.
00:04:49.560 Royalty.
00:04:50.040 Yeah.
00:04:50.500 Got it.
00:04:50.940 Now, all the other ones, the blue one and the green one, those are flavors of, you know,
00:04:56.520 just a little bit below royalty.
00:04:58.040 And then the cherry lime is the flavor of peasants.
00:05:01.280 Okay, let's be real.
00:05:02.840 If you like NyQuil, drink that fucking cherry lime.
00:05:05.160 You're right.
00:05:08.020 A lot of people like the cherry.
00:05:09.320 I know they do.
00:05:09.860 I don't know what's wrong with them.
00:05:10.660 Yeah.
00:05:11.100 I don't know.
00:05:11.520 I'm excited for the two new flavors coming out.
00:05:13.760 Dude, we got three new flavors coming.
00:05:15.380 There's three?
00:05:16.020 Three.
00:05:16.380 I didn't know there was.
00:05:17.020 I thought there was two.
00:05:17.700 Oh, there's three.
00:05:18.980 No.
00:05:19.740 One's a surprise.
00:05:20.740 You're going to like it a whole lot.
00:05:21.900 I think I know the two.
00:05:23.640 Oh, what are they?
00:05:24.620 Well, we can't say them.
00:05:25.600 Okay.
00:05:26.260 I know the two.
00:05:26.700 Let's just do the show.
00:05:27.860 Holy shit.
00:05:29.940 Now that everybody quit watching.
00:05:31.700 Yeah, right, right.
00:05:32.860 Motherfuckers just talk about energy drinks.
00:05:34.420 Yeah.
00:05:35.360 All right.
00:05:35.620 Let's punch a few holes in drywall.
00:05:37.460 Andy, question number one.
00:05:39.760 Andy, I know you've had a few injuries over your life,
00:05:43.260 and you've always been able to overcome those.
00:05:45.300 I'm 23, and I just had an injury that has me on bed rest for two to three months.
00:05:50.780 What advice can you give me for the bounce back?
00:05:54.820 Man, that's tough, dude.
00:05:57.160 You know, I just went through a major situation.
00:06:03.000 It wasn't two to three months of bed rest,
00:06:04.940 but it was definitely four to five months of complete not being able to use my arm.
00:06:09.360 I tore everything in my shoulder, had it repaired, and September of 21 was the injury.
00:06:15.780 The surgery was December of 21, and it took me until May to be able to put my arm over my head.
00:06:23.240 It took me until just recently, I would say in the last three months,
00:06:26.580 to be able to lift at an effective level.
00:06:29.120 And the mental journey in between that injury and where I'm at now
00:06:35.560 was probably the hardest test of my adulthood because it never stopped.
00:06:41.760 Like, there was no, you know, sometimes things bad happen,
00:06:45.280 and then, like, you know, you kind of move past them,
00:06:48.120 and next week or the next month, you begin to move past.
00:06:50.800 But when you injure yourself and you're not able to do the things that you want to do,
00:06:57.220 you're always reminded of that.
00:06:59.120 And especially when it's not a permanent thing,
00:07:01.720 where there is a situation where, you know, you could come back.
00:07:05.680 So there's no closure in there.
00:07:07.680 Like, and so it's a huge mental test.
00:07:10.240 And my advice, go ahead.
00:07:11.600 I was going to say, I think it's also important to point out, too,
00:07:13.920 that literally up to the minute before the injury,
00:07:17.500 that was probably the best you've ever been at that point.
00:07:20.620 No question.
00:07:21.420 That was the best I've ever been.
00:07:22.380 So we're talking about, like, from the highest.
00:07:23.560 Physically and mentally, yeah.
00:07:25.360 And, you know, and then I went through a lot of mental shit.
00:07:29.880 Through that time, because I wasn't able to train.
00:07:32.740 I lost my physique.
00:07:34.580 I, you know, I wasn't able to do the things that keep me mentally sane and tuned up.
00:07:39.080 I quit antidepressants during the middle of that shit because I figured, fuck it.
00:07:43.960 How much worse could it get?
00:07:45.720 And it got a lot worse.
00:07:47.100 And I pushed through all that.
00:07:50.980 And so now that I'm on the other side of it, I feel a tremendous sense of pride and of passing that test.
00:07:56.600 Right.
00:07:57.280 But going through it, man, was very, very difficult.
00:07:59.660 It was one of the most difficult tests of my entire life because it affected me in so many ways.
00:08:05.720 And so I think the key to getting through these things, you know, where you're on bed rest for months at a time.
00:08:12.840 You know, I was in a sling for eight weeks.
00:08:15.380 I slept in a recliner for two months.
00:08:17.540 Um, it was anybody who's had major shoulder surgery will tell you it's fucking brutal.
00:08:24.180 And, um, you know, I think I did everything right.
00:08:29.560 And what I did was I tried to do the things I could do.
00:08:33.360 You know, I kept my reading going.
00:08:35.120 I kept trying to eat pretty much how I would eat as an athlete, even though I wasn't able to train.
00:08:41.080 You know, I cut my calories down to be appropriate.
00:08:43.180 So I didn't put on a bunch of weight, um, but maintaining your routine and the things that you would do if you were perfectly able as much as you can, when you're not able, I believe is the biggest thing that you have to do.
00:08:58.820 And the reason it's such a mental test is because you don't get to see any of the real benefits, right?
00:09:04.520 You're, you're just fighting every single day to not get worse.
00:09:08.820 And that's a very hard thing to deal with because you're working really hard and you're not getting worse, but you're also not getting better.
00:09:16.200 And that's demoralizing, dude.
00:09:18.000 And so like, it's this, it's this long journey of, you know, maybe even longer than what it is in business where you're working and working and working and working and working.
00:09:27.760 And the only result that you can really see is just not regressing further.
00:09:31.740 And sometimes that's the win.
00:09:33.720 Sometimes that is the win.
00:09:35.040 You know, I just posted in my story today, had I not committed myself to the live hard lifestyle, the years prior to that injury, bro, I would have went right back up to 350 pounds.
00:09:45.580 My business would have suffered tremendously.
00:09:48.040 I would have suffered tremendously.
00:09:49.640 My life would have suffered tremendously and everybody in my life would have suffered tremendously because I'm responsible for a lot of other people's lives.
00:09:57.080 And so the way I was able to pull through that and the way I'm still working through it is I'm doing everything I can.
00:10:03.340 I'm controlling the things that I can control.
00:10:05.900 I'm showing up every day and I'm not going to fucking stop that no matter what.
00:10:09.980 And that's the attitude you have to have when you can't go.
00:10:12.720 This is the same thing as when your life is in complete chaos, right?
00:10:16.080 And, you know, you go through a divorce or a death or a loss or maybe if you lose a career or something major and things are just or like, bro, look at the state of the world.
00:10:29.220 Like it's so fucking hectic and so polarizing and so agitating and so angering that it's even hard to focus sometimes on what is actually going on.
00:10:38.480 And so you have to make sure that you're controlling whatever it is that you can control.
00:10:43.700 And we're in control of a lot more things than what we realize.
00:10:46.820 That's the key.
00:10:48.160 Most people think like when something bad happens, they kind of just throw everything out the window and then just, you know, they're like, fuck, my life sucks.
00:10:56.320 It's fucking chaos.
00:10:57.680 Shit's crazy.
00:10:59.120 And they throw everything out the window and they get way worse because of it when they didn't have to.
00:11:04.340 And so you guys have to learn to stop making your life worse when the circumstances get hard.
00:11:09.200 And you have to learn to control what it is that you can control.
00:11:12.200 You have to consistently control those things no matter what they are.
00:11:15.240 And we can control a lot.
00:11:16.300 We control the food we eat.
00:11:17.820 Even though you're in bed, you control what you're eating.
00:11:20.160 Okay.
00:11:20.540 We control what we're reading.
00:11:21.900 Even though you're in bed, you control what you're eating or what you're reading.
00:11:25.380 You control what information you do or do not allow.
00:11:28.540 You can do that from bed.
00:11:29.400 You control who you surround yourself with, who you talk to, who you relate to, who you choose to spend your time with.
00:11:37.120 You can do that from your bed.
00:11:38.120 All of these things affect our attitude.
00:11:40.180 So you might not be able to get up and go do cardio or go lift weights, but you can control a whole bunch of other things.
00:11:45.720 And if you are in a situation where you're going through a hard time and you can control your movement, your cardio or your weight movement or your activity, whatever it is for you, you should do those things.
00:11:55.120 Because when we feel out of control, it's usually a lie.
00:11:59.860 It's usually not the truth.
00:12:00.980 The truth is usually we're deferring control because we're so frustrated at the circumstances that we're presented with.
00:12:06.540 And then because we defer control to outside circumstances, our life gets exponentially worse.
00:12:12.380 And that's what you're trying to avoid.
00:12:13.960 So this next two to three months that you're in bed, make it your mission to minimize the regression as much as possible.
00:12:20.600 And then potentially, you know, even move forward in a lot of ways, like learning new skills, becoming smarter, learning about new things.
00:12:28.820 And so that way, when you're up and moving, you've actually made progress in most of the other areas, maybe just not physical progress.
00:12:34.920 And the physical progress will come back whenever you, what do you say, it was 20 something years old?
00:12:39.520 It was 23.
00:12:40.180 Yeah, bro, you got your whole life ahead of you, man.
00:12:42.060 Like you, you, this will come back for you.
00:12:44.760 I think that's, that's a very important part.
00:12:46.820 Because I think, man, people, a lot of people will go through life and they will have these hardships or situations that pop up.
00:12:54.520 And then that's it.
00:12:55.720 Like, like they use that one little piece.
00:12:57.560 Like that's, that, that, that's the downfall spiral of everything else that comes after that point.
00:13:02.080 Right.
00:13:02.280 Like, like that was the worst thing that ever happened.
00:13:04.160 Like, and the truth is like that injury, just like yours or anybody's, any of these hardships, the, the amount of time is very, very short of dealing with that actual hardship.
00:13:14.060 Yeah.
00:13:14.560 You know what I'm saying?
00:13:14.920 Like it's a, it's a fucking blink in your timeline of life.
00:13:17.820 Yeah.
00:13:18.640 That dude, that could have easily happened to me.
00:13:20.320 Easily.
00:13:20.640 Listen, bro.
00:13:21.400 When I was injured, I was 42 years old.
00:13:24.480 Okay.
00:13:24.880 If that had happened to me and I didn't have the mentality that I had built the previous years to that.
00:13:29.960 Yeah.
00:13:30.280 At 42 years old, do you know what I would have done?
00:13:33.220 I would have said, fuck it.
00:13:34.280 I can't train anymore.
00:13:35.360 I blew my shoulder out and I'd be telling this bullshit glory story about how I used to be fucking in shape.
00:13:41.580 And I used to be strong and I used to be healthy and I used to be fit until I got injured.
00:13:47.140 And then, you know, my life just sucked the rest.
00:13:49.400 That's what would have happened.
00:13:50.440 That's what happens to most people.
00:13:52.200 Most people allow major setback to happen to them.
00:13:55.160 And then they use it as a story for the rest of their life as to why they can't do anything.
00:13:59.000 And when you look at it from a very, you know, honest place, that's a ridiculous way to live.
00:14:05.600 Okay.
00:14:06.000 You had this injury.
00:14:07.120 You're in bed for three months.
00:14:08.300 Okay, cool.
00:14:09.660 That's three months, bro.
00:14:10.920 Right.
00:14:11.460 You know what I mean?
00:14:11.960 It's frustrating, but it's not your whole life.
00:14:14.480 And this is especially true for people who are older.
00:14:16.740 Because I know one of the biggest things that I was anxious about and struggling with this entire time was I didn't know if I'd be, because of my age, I didn't know if I'd be able to get back in shape the way that I was.
00:14:28.460 You know, I'm thinking.
00:14:28.960 There's a different biological clock.
00:14:30.040 There is.
00:14:30.580 Yeah.
00:14:30.740 Yeah.
00:14:30.940 And I can tell you, it's real.
00:14:32.280 Like, my body does not put on muscle the way it used to put on muscle.
00:14:35.700 It just doesn't.
00:14:36.840 I have to eat far more protein to get muscle put on than I used to.
00:14:40.940 But all that means is me just being better and more disciplined in how I execute my game.
00:14:46.020 So, it might be a little bit more difficult, but really, it's not even more difficult.
00:14:49.660 It's just making a couple changes and things start to work again.
00:14:52.560 But that's a very real thing.
00:14:54.620 And for those people who are of that age, you know, we tell ourselves that story all the time.
00:14:59.040 Oh, you know, it's too late for me to build my stream business.
00:15:02.640 I'm 35.
00:15:03.800 Motherfucker, you're 35.
00:15:05.020 You're not 75.
00:15:06.280 Right.
00:15:06.680 You're not fucking 85.
00:15:07.860 You're 35.
00:15:08.580 You're still young as fuck.
00:15:09.940 You know, like, we tell ourselves these stories that just aren't true.
00:15:13.240 And that's something that I would encourage this person to really be wary of.
00:15:16.540 Like, don't tell yourself stories that aren't true.
00:15:18.720 You're in control of a lot of the things that you were in control of before you had this problem.
00:15:23.040 And honestly, you should use this time to control them better than you were even controlling them before it happened.
00:15:28.480 And that's the beauty of having a setback.
00:15:30.680 Sometimes setbacks are necessary because they make us grateful for the times that we don't have the setbacks.
00:15:35.760 Absolutely.
00:15:36.680 I love that.
00:15:37.920 I love that.
00:15:38.620 Building off of that, Andy, let's go to question number two.
00:15:40.340 Andy, what would you do if you were in your 30s to survive in a recession economy like we're facing now?
00:15:48.900 I have a family, and I want to make sure I'm able to support them regardless of what's going on.
00:15:53.740 Would you change any of your financial decisions or how you're moving money or anything like that?
00:15:58.520 Would you do anything differently 10 years ago as compared to right now, or are you looking at the same?
00:16:02.860 Well, I mean, remember, at 2008, I was almost, I was 29 years old, okay?
00:16:12.500 So I went through one of the hardest economic times right at 30 years old.
00:16:16.920 And by the way, I wasn't making any money.
00:16:19.320 I was still making $695 per month at that time.
00:16:22.520 You know what I did?
00:16:25.180 I fucking went triple down on all my efforts.
00:16:28.240 And while everybody else pulled in all of their efforts and said, we're going to ride this storm out, and they went into their little turtle shell trying to ride the storm, I just kept moving.
00:16:37.760 And what I ended up learning was is that your biggest advantages for growth and business and life come when everybody else stops.
00:16:44.360 And everybody else only stops during certain times.
00:16:48.320 Recessionary periods is a time where people sell themselves on the idea that they cannot move forward, so they stop trying to move forward.
00:16:55.660 This is a tremendous opportunity for people to get aggressive and land grab success in many different areas, whether it be personally, professionally, with a business.
00:17:05.580 It doesn't matter because there's less competition during these times where the economy gets hard or the world gets hard just by the nature of how many people think that the right thing to do is to weather the storm by pulling in all their efforts.
00:17:18.960 I actually know this, and I know this from my own experience, and I know this from teaching thousands upon thousands upon thousands of entrepreneurs over the years,
00:17:28.180 is that most of the people that become wealthy, they made their money in those dark times because of what I'm saying.
00:17:36.020 These are people who, instead of saying, oh, I'm going to, you know, not advertise, and I'm not going to build, and I'm going to wait until the recession is over,
00:17:43.400 and I'm going to wait until this and that and this, these are people who just continue to move or even try to move harder and faster during these times,
00:17:50.640 and that's when they made their money.
00:17:52.280 That's when they found their success.
00:17:53.800 So, right now, if I'm you, and I'm 30 years old, and I'm dealing with what's going on in the world, I am sharpening my game.
00:18:02.180 I'm learning everything that I can learn.
00:18:03.880 I'm getting myself in tip-top physical and mental shape.
00:18:07.500 I'm taking it very serious.
00:18:09.400 I understand that all of these things matter.
00:18:11.780 My mental shape, you know, if it's not, if my brain isn't tuned up, I'm not going to achieve as much during this time.
00:18:17.680 If my body's not tuned up, I'm not going to achieve as much in this time.
00:18:21.080 I'm not going to be as effective.
00:18:22.340 So, like, dude, that's the foundation.
00:18:23.800 Right?
00:18:24.060 This is our unit of operation, our body and our mind.
00:18:27.220 If that shit isn't tuned up, you're going to fucking lose to someone whose it is, and that's just reality.
00:18:32.500 So, I would start there, and I'd work out, and I would get real aggressive about improving my life in every single way,
00:18:38.660 and I would use it as an opportunity of massive growth.
00:18:41.740 And from my experience, everybody I know that's, like, wealthy, legitimately, they will tell you,
00:18:47.640 I made my money during this time.
00:18:48.960 I made my money during this time.
00:18:50.260 I made my money during this time.
00:18:51.420 And let me tell you, dude, the three times where I made lots of money real fast were right after 9-11 in 2008 to 2012,
00:19:00.240 and then for the last three years since 2020.
00:19:03.180 With the COVID shit.
00:19:04.160 Yeah.
00:19:04.760 Like, it's because I got aggressive when everybody else fucking panicked.
00:19:07.940 You just didn't quit.
00:19:08.620 No.
00:19:09.120 I didn't.
00:19:09.560 Not only did I not quit, I went double hard.
00:19:12.020 Like, bro, if you remember when COVID happened, you know, I fucking lived on live hard, like, every fucking day for fucking two and a half years straight.
00:19:20.640 I didn't even come off.
00:19:21.540 Yeah.
00:19:21.980 Because I knew that, like, that was my time.
00:19:24.320 And, you know, then I got hurt, and now I'm getting back to that.
00:19:27.640 But my point is, the people who get aggressive responsibly, I'm not saying just throw money out or try to do investments.
00:19:35.680 I'm saying be smart.
00:19:37.600 Take care of your body.
00:19:38.780 Take care of your mind.
00:19:40.080 Understand this is an opportunity.
00:19:41.580 This is not something that you should be trying to fear and panic and throw, you know, your arms in the air like everybody else.
00:19:49.900 Oh, where's the toilet paper?
00:19:51.640 Right.
00:19:52.180 Be calm.
00:19:53.340 Be strategical.
00:19:54.900 Get your shit in order.
00:19:55.940 And these times will be the times when you actually make it.
00:19:58.980 So, that's my advice to that.
00:20:01.100 I love that.
00:20:01.860 As far as particular advice, what to do.
00:20:04.020 I'm not a financial advisor.
00:20:05.280 I'm not going to give you advice on buy silver or gold or fucking digital coins or anything like that.
00:20:10.440 Toilet paper.
00:20:10.860 Yeah, I'm not going to say that.
00:20:11.920 But, like, dude, a lot of you guys are so far away from even making that decision because you're not taking care of the fundamentals.
00:20:17.440 You're not taking care of your mind.
00:20:18.640 You're not taking care of your body.
00:20:20.140 You're not taking care of the things that you control.
00:20:21.940 This is why I built the Live Hard program.
00:20:24.120 It's episode 208.
00:20:25.420 You go get it for fucking free.
00:20:27.100 It doesn't cost you shit, but a lot of effort and a lot of energy and a lot of time, but it's worth every fucking drop of it.
00:20:31.960 Right.
00:20:32.100 You talk about an investment.
00:20:33.600 Yeah.
00:20:34.060 That's the biggest investment you can make.
00:20:35.720 Yeah.
00:20:36.060 And everything else will roll out from that.
00:20:37.800 And, like, you know, it is what it is.
00:20:40.860 I love that.
00:20:41.320 Guys, Andy, our third and final question.
00:20:44.040 Andy, question number three.
00:20:46.000 Hey, Andy.
00:20:46.540 I am a door-to-door guy doing pest control in Florida.
00:20:50.240 I came into it as a rookie, and I absolutely killed it in my first three months.
00:20:54.280 Now, I've ran into a wall and can't get any momentum.
00:20:58.900 I've had the worst week yet, and I'm now starting to doubt myself.
00:21:03.400 When you go from kicking ass to struggling, what do you do to get yourself back on track?
00:21:09.540 It goes right back to what I was just saying in these first two questions.
00:21:12.500 It's about controlling what you control.
00:21:14.400 Here's the difference between people who win all the time and people who rarely win or sometimes win.
00:21:22.000 And then there's a big difference between those people and people who never win.
00:21:25.320 All right?
00:21:25.560 So there's three categories of people.
00:21:27.440 People who win all the time understand something.
00:21:29.580 The other two categories don't.
00:21:31.260 And this is what they understand.
00:21:33.060 You are in control of your own momentum.
00:21:35.020 You are in control of manufacturing momentum at any given point, at any given time, no matter what's going on in your life.
00:21:43.020 You can start today to manufacture momentum.
00:21:46.360 And the way that you manufacture momentum is by executing on everything that you can control.
00:21:51.940 Your information, your associations, your diet, your movement.
00:21:57.660 Okay?
00:21:57.980 These things are things that you control.
00:22:00.420 What you drink.
00:22:01.520 Are you putting drugs in your body?
00:22:02.900 Are you putting alcohol in your body?
00:22:04.020 You control so much fucking more of your life than what you realize.
00:22:08.900 You're just refusing to take control of it.
00:22:11.240 And so when you're lacking momentum, you have to understand that it's your responsibility to create momentum.
00:22:17.400 And this is what very wealthy people, successful people who don't lose, they completely understand this concept.
00:22:23.120 So much so that they will literally do fucking insane things to not fuck their momentum up.
00:22:29.120 Okay?
00:22:29.380 They will cancel trips.
00:22:30.500 They will cancel vacations.
00:22:31.620 They will fucking, whatever they got to do, they will keep it as long as they have to do.
00:22:36.020 Okay?
00:22:36.280 They will sacrifice everything to keep the momentum because it's that powerful.
00:22:39.820 Mid-level people.
00:22:41.220 Okay?
00:22:42.380 People who do not, they win sometimes, but they do not win consistently.
00:22:46.640 They look at momentum as something that you just catch.
00:22:49.260 All right?
00:22:50.060 So they've caught momentum a few times in their life.
00:22:52.980 You know, maybe they were successful in a nutrition program or maybe they made a bunch of money one time and they can't figure out how to hit a hot streak, quote unquote, hot streak again.
00:23:02.780 All right?
00:23:03.520 These people are oblivious to the fact that they actually create the momentum.
00:23:07.880 And when they do actually create the momentum, the few times in their life where they have these wins, they are unable to connect the dots that they are the ones that actually created the momentum.
00:23:18.040 They don't look at their own actions and say, okay, well, I did this for, you know, this, I did it one day, two day, three day, four day, five day, six day, seven day.
00:23:25.320 And by day fucking 30, I'm rocking and rolling.
00:23:28.140 They don't connect that.
00:23:29.460 They think some mystical power somehow like got into them and gave them the willpower to have the momentum at that time.
00:23:38.980 So they think they accidentally caught it.
00:23:41.400 All right?
00:23:41.720 Big difference between those two groups.
00:23:43.640 Big difference between momentum on demand and accidentally catching it.
00:23:47.800 All right?
00:23:48.320 This is the difference between winning all the time and winning sometimes, occasionally, and being frustrated the rest of the time.
00:23:54.300 As to why the wind's not blowing the way you want it to blow.
00:23:57.100 Just like that movie, Tommy boy, they're sitting out in the fucking boat and they're like, man, dad, I wish the wind would blow, you know?
00:24:03.980 And like, that's, that's what most people do.
00:24:06.080 They just wish the wind would blow.
00:24:07.700 Your job is to make the wind blow.
00:24:09.580 All right?
00:24:10.080 And then there's the third group and the third group people are completely oblivious to all of it.
00:24:13.520 And they're really irrelevant to our conversation.
00:24:15.820 These are the people that are going to make fun of you for trying hard.
00:24:18.820 These are the people that are going to talk shit.
00:24:20.960 They're going to say, oh, you've changed.
00:24:23.400 You're not the same person.
00:24:24.480 No shit, motherfucker.
00:24:25.460 That's the point.
00:24:26.640 Right?
00:24:27.180 Like, that's what I've been trying to do.
00:24:28.700 I'm glad you recognized it.
00:24:29.840 Thank you.
00:24:30.340 Yeah.
00:24:30.660 Like, these people, these are fucking, these are NPCs, bro.
00:24:34.840 These are non-playable characters.
00:24:36.220 And they're going to voice and chirp and cry and bitch and whine and attack you.
00:24:40.880 And they fucking are completely irrelevant.
00:24:43.840 And you shouldn't spend one second worried about it.
00:24:46.240 Let them fucking wallow in their misery.
00:24:48.420 Let them be their little NPC self.
00:24:51.000 And you go on and fucking do your thing.
00:24:53.520 And that's it.
00:24:54.320 And that's the three kind of people that there are.
00:24:56.280 Let me ask you this, Andy.
00:24:57.160 How important is it to pinpoint what fucked up the momentum?
00:25:02.100 Like, do you, when you catch yourself like, shit, okay, momentum's just fucked up.
00:25:05.760 Well, momentum traditionally comes down to streaks, okay?
00:25:09.080 Like, it's very simple to look at what fucked up your momentum.
00:25:12.680 What fucked up, what you're really talking about with momentum is streaks.
00:25:15.300 How many days in a row?
00:25:17.360 How many wins in a row?
00:25:19.100 How many days in a row can you execute on your power list, all right?
00:25:22.940 Which is episode 16.
00:25:24.640 It's free.
00:25:25.240 Go listen to it.
00:25:26.020 That shit will change your life.
00:25:27.320 How many days in a row can you win on your power list?
00:25:30.940 We're talking about streaks here, okay?
00:25:33.520 And so what ends up fucking up momentum is usually the unintentional breaking of streaks,
00:25:39.000 not understanding how powerful they are.
00:25:42.180 So, for example, you've been eating clean and doing your workouts for, you know, 30 days,
00:25:48.320 let's say, or 14 days, right?
00:25:49.960 They're just getting the momentum started.
00:25:52.160 And you're like, fuck, I've been so good for 14 days.
00:25:55.400 I deserve a day off or I deserve, listen, bro, you deserve to keep the fuck going because
00:26:00.120 that's the best thing it's going to be for you.
00:26:01.820 But the reality is people try to reward themselves with the behavior that they had in the past,
00:26:06.400 which makes no sense.
00:26:07.380 Why would you reward your wins with the behavior that you're trying so hard to escape?
00:26:16.440 That doesn't make sense.
00:26:18.480 And so when you actually understand what fucks up momentum, which is the breaking of streaks,
00:26:23.200 you become more conscious of how to keep it.
00:26:25.760 Does that make sense?
00:26:26.560 Yeah, absolutely.
00:26:27.320 So the wealthy people, they understand this.
00:26:30.600 They don't want to fuck up their streaks, all right?
00:26:32.300 That's why you hear crazy shit.
00:26:33.600 Like I fucking ran a mile for 567 days in a row.
00:26:37.560 Like that's because they understand that momentum aspect.
00:26:42.120 The middle people, they don't understand the momentum, right?
00:26:45.120 They're catching it when it comes and then letting it go.
00:26:47.760 But what they also aren't aware of is that not only are they not aware that they have to create it,
00:26:53.300 they're not aware of the things they do to break it, which is like, you know,
00:26:57.680 going on a three-day bender when you've been working really hard, shit like that, right?
00:27:01.720 So you just have to be conscious of what breaks the momentum and then not do those things.
00:27:06.100 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:27:06.600 Would you say 99% of momentum that gets fucked up is self-inflicted?
00:27:11.360 100%.
00:27:11.880 I wouldn't say 90%.
00:27:13.280 100%.
00:27:14.280 100%.
00:27:15.280 Even like going back to the injury question, like an injury could fuck up momentum.
00:27:19.400 That wasn't necessarily self-inflicted.
00:27:21.280 Can it?
00:27:23.300 Or can it go right back to what I was saying where your momentum just changes a little bit
00:27:29.640 and no longer is your momentum carrying you forward.
00:27:32.560 It's just keeping you from regressing.
00:27:34.800 Oh, man.
00:27:37.080 Oh, man.
00:27:37.800 See what I'm saying?
00:27:38.320 Yeah, absolutely.
00:27:39.340 Absolutely.
00:27:40.100 So we still are in control.
00:27:41.860 What did I do right after I got out of shoulder surgery?
00:27:43.860 What was the first thing I fucking did?
00:27:45.040 A fucking cardio session with me.
00:27:46.800 Where?
00:27:47.860 A normal cardio session doing a normal fucking route.
00:27:49.880 Do you remember what month that was?
00:27:52.140 You remember what degree it happened to be outside?
00:27:54.160 It was fucking freezing.
00:27:54.680 It was fucking cold as shit.
00:27:55.900 Yeah.
00:27:56.340 I woke up from fucking surgery and I came straight here and did fucking cardio.
00:27:59.440 Yeah, not even an hour.
00:28:00.120 Do you know why?
00:28:01.300 Do you know why?
00:28:02.640 Because you couldn't fucking do it.
00:28:03.180 Because I wanted to keep my momentum.
00:28:04.700 Yeah.
00:28:05.760 That's some powerful shit.
00:28:07.920 I didn't do that to show off.
00:28:09.620 I didn't post it.
00:28:10.660 No.
00:28:11.200 I didn't say it wasn't me cocking off for the internet.
00:28:13.920 This is me not wanting to fuck up the momentum I had.
00:28:16.960 I already knew that I lost the ability to train for the next year.
00:28:20.740 So I didn't want to fucking lose anything else.
00:28:22.860 And that's why I did it.
00:28:24.440 So that's what you got to do.
00:28:26.260 So this person in the previous question, you've got to go in harder on the things you can't control.
00:28:32.280 I fucking love that, man.
00:28:34.080 Guys, I hope you enjoyed that episode.
00:28:36.060 Bro, that's some powerful shit, man.
00:28:37.920 Yeah, nice little 30-minute life lesson.
00:28:41.480 Here's the reality, man.
00:28:42.860 This last question that we covered on momentum, that's a major key to winning.
00:28:47.980 Major, major, major key to winning.
00:28:50.080 You create the momentum.
00:28:51.460 You also stop the momentum.
00:28:52.720 Your goal should be to not stop the momentum as much as possible.
00:28:56.720 And when you do stop it, it should be to start it right back up the very next fucking opportunity you get.
00:29:01.560 Oh, I love that.
00:29:02.760 Well, guys, Andy.
00:29:04.980 That was three.
00:29:05.980 Don't pay the fee.
00:29:06.580 Went from sleeping on the floor.
00:29:09.680 Now my jewelry box froze.
00:29:11.400 Fuck a bowl.
00:29:12.200 Fuck a stove.
00:29:13.060 Counted millions in the cold.
00:29:14.740 Bad bitch.
00:29:15.560 Booted swole.
00:29:16.400 Got her on bankroll.
00:29:18.040 Can't fold.
00:29:18.920 Doesn't know.
00:29:19.720 Headshot.
00:29:20.560 Case closed.
00:29:21.220 Code.
00:29:21.660 Code.
00:29:21.680 Go.
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00:29:30.680 Move.
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