519. Q&AF： Fitness And Business Correlation, Disconnecting From Work & Fears When Starting A Business
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In this episode of For the Realist's Sake, we talk about the importance of having a solid relationship with your partner and how that ties into the creation of the show, Q&A, and how to be a successful entrepreneur.
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What is up guys, it's Andy Priscilla and this is the show for the realist's sake, goodbye
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to the lies, the fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking
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Today, we have Q and AF, that's where you get to submit questions and we answer them
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There's a couple of ways you could submit questions.
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You can email those questions in to askandyandandifusela.com or now that we're on YouTube, you go on YouTube,
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you find the Q and AF episode, you go hit subscribe, you go down in the comments and
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you leave us a question and then we'll pick some questions from there to answer on the
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Now, this exact show is, but this is actually a bunch of shows within the show that we call
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And today you're going to hear Q and AF and then you're going to hear CTI.
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That's basically what we do whenever we want to talk about what's going on in the world.
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We talk about them, talk about what may be true, what may not be true.
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We speculate on what it all means and then we talk about how we can all be solutions to
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Real Talk is five to 20 minutes of me just giving you some stuff that I think you need
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Full Length is what you're used to seeing and hearing on other people's shows where they
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have a bunch of guests in the room or a guest and they have conversation.
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75 Hard Verses is where I bring in someone who's changed their life via 75 Hard, the Live Hard
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And we interview them and we learn from them and hear their story.
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So those are the basic episodes of what we do within the scope of Real AF.
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We don't have a monetary fee for the show, nor do I run ads on the show.
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I could make eight figures a year running ads on the show very easily.
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I don't do it because I don't want to answer to people about what I say on the show.
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I want you guys to know that I'm not saying things because I'm getting paid to say them.
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And in exchange for that and the value I provide, I just ask very simply that if you get value
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out of the show, if it makes you laugh, it makes you think, gives you a new perspective,
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it teaches you new skills, if it helps you out, please share the show and please share
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Okay, like sharing one show out of every 100 that you listen to is really helpful for
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You know, we're trying to get this message out.
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We're trying to help what's going on in the world.
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And for that to happen, I need you guys to pay the fee.
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And if you don't like the show, don't feel obligated to pay the fee.
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I wanted to get your take on this because I know a lot of, especially on YouTube, like I
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Because like on audio, everybody loves the Q&A Fs.
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But we know that a lot of people like the CTIs just in general, right?
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What can you, can we just quickly go into and kind of explain your vision about how these
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Q&A episodes tie in to the CTI episodes and what the, what that relationship should look
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You need to know how to operate and be successful.
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Um, I help you guys solve problems based on my perspective of being an entrepreneur for
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24 years and being a, uh, very, very, very successful entrepreneur for 24 years.
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Um, well, not for all 24 years, but at this point in time, um, and then, you know, a lot
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of people who are interested in personal development, they're like, oh man, I wish you would just do
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So just like a fish has to live in an aquarium, it requires clean water to live in its environment,
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to be successful, to make a lot of money, to, to build a great life, to do all the things
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that you guys want to do with the personal development content.
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And because entrepreneurs have been so focused over the last 10, 12 years of just making
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We've taken our eye off the ball of what's going on in culture and society.
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And, uh, it's a shit show if you hadn't noticed.
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And I know a lot of you guys would rather just look away and say, oh, it'll get better
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No one's fucking coming to handle it except us.
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So it's very simply, you have to understand and preserve the environment, not the green
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I'm not talking about the water and the fucking soil.
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I'm talking about your environment that you want to use to plant the seeds that are going
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to grow into your fruitful, fulfilling, rich ass motherfucking baller future that you're
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We have to have freedom has to, has to have, it has to be there without it.
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And the perspective that a lot of you guys don't understand is that, and I do understand
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Um, what I experienced for the last 24 years is a lot different than what you're going to
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If you don't change what the fuck is going on and you will not be able to do the things
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that I've been able to do over the last 24 years.
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So you guys who fucking cry to me and say, Oh, please stick to personal development.
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You're not understanding that fucking without freedom, we will fucking not be able to do
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And the fact that you're trying to stick your head in the sand and look the other fucking
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way is the reason the rest of us have to try so fucking hard to fix it.
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So we would just appreciate if you would just take a little bit of simple interest in what's
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going on in your community, get engaged to preserve freedom so that we all can go out and
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It's very like in my mind, it's fucking peanut butter and jelly, but for some people, they
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So CTI, we're, we're doing in-depth soil analysis and Q and A's.
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Well, bro, I just get, I do get tired of you guys like real talk, like some of you guys
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to message me and say that shit, like it's very fucking aggravating because you're showing
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You're showing that you're ignorant to what it takes.
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And then you're also showing that you're selfish.
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You're showing that you don't give a fuck about anyone else, but your exact results.
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And here's where the catch 22 for you is going to be is that because you're selfish, you're
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not going to be able to grow yourself because you're not paying attention to the environment
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of freedom that we must preserve to be able to do what we're trying to do.
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So your ignorance and your apathy and your willingness to look the other way will eventually
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come to your doorstep and clip your fucking wings.
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That's why I fucking take the abuse to do it because it's fucking important because
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if we don't have freedom, none of the other shit I talk about is even fucking relevant
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Andy, I followed you since the MFCEO days and I've seen you go.
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And I've seen you go from being overweight to being an amazing, fantastic physical shape.
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My question is, what have you noticed has been the biggest change or improvement with
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your business as a result of getting in better physical shape?
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Man, you know, I couldn't name one specific thing because all of it's improved.
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I mean, if I go back and like count, like if you were to go back four years and see where
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we were four years ago to where we are now, it would speak for itself.
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You know, four years ago we had, I don't know, fucking 100 employees.
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You know, we've got all close to 500 employees under roof here.
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I've got 200,000 square feet in the building we're sitting in.
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I've got 200,000 square feet going up across the street.
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I've got another 180,000 square feet going up across the street.
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Our company has grown multiple times over in those four years.
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So, you know, I mean, everything has fucking gotten better.
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But I would say if you made me, like you put a gun to my head and you said, okay, what's
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When you're in great physical shape and people know you handle your shit and they see you
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working and they see you doing all the work, people are not only inspired to do the same
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and hold a high level, but they're also, they also listen to you when you talk.
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You don't have to have like these powwows to convince people.
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It takes all the, it takes all the questioning and all the, all the skepticism.
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It takes it and removes it because people can see very clearly that you are who you say
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you are and that there's a mutual respect built there because they will then continue
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And so you see them working and then it just makes the whole environment work that much
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So I think the ability to lead and get stuff done at a quicker rate with less resistance,
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with less selling on why it's a good idea when you have a team is, is it's invaluable
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It saves you so much, you know, anxiety and stress and frustration.
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You know, back before I took my stuff really seriously, it was you know, it was a lot harder.
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Cause I would have people that were, you know, in much better shape to me living at a much
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And here I am thinking, because I'm the boss that they got to listen to me, which was true,
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but I had to give some convincing and like, you know what I'm saying?
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Like, it's just a better place to lead for like, you lead from the fucking front.
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You don't, you know, like I would say the leadership ability.
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You're not pulling against the grain and it's easy to get people coordinated and moving
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I mean, and obviously, I mean, there's countless of other benefits, right?
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Well, dude, I mean, there's all these other benefits.
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Like, you know, like, like, dude, when I look at myself, you know, and you know, everybody's
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This has nothing to do with, I'm the fucking best physical specimen.
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Like there's fucking 50 dudes in here that look better than me, right?
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There's, there's fucking dudes out there, you know, that look like motherfucking C-bomb,
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Like, well, there's not many that look like him, but you get what I'm saying, right?
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Like there's, it's not about the actual level of conditioning.
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It's about how close you're living to your top level of conditioning on a day in and day
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And by living as close to your potential as you possibly can on a day in and day out
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basis, that instills a level of confidence that cannot be fucked with.
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Because like when, when I look at me or I have doubts about me or my abilities, I'm very
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Well, who else is doing what the fuck you're doing?
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Who else is putting in the work you're putting in?
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Who else is planting the seeds that you're planting?
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So it's very hard to feel doubtful or not confident when you can look around at all your
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peers and everybody else that you compete with.
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And you could say, I know they're working hard, but they ain't doing what I'm fucking
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And like, that gives you a, and that's no disrespect, bro.
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What I have to do to get to my level of optimization.
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Like I'm not a particularly talented or overly skilled individual.
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So for me to operate at that high level, I have to have my shit in order.
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Like it's not about me walking around thinking I'm the toughest fucking dude or thinking I'm
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ultra, you know, more disciplined than all of you guys or whatever, bro.
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We all have our strengths, but for me to operate on a high level, being just a normal fucking
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guy that comes from the same place that most of you guys come from, I have to do that to
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be competitive because at this level, everybody's good.
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Like everybody I compete with on this level is fucking, they're fucking great at what they
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do, whether it be in any of the areas I'm in in business, whether it be fucking, uh, my
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personal development brand, whether it be my speaking ability.
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Like I am constantly competing with some of the best people at what they do in the world
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And I have to be at a high level and all that shit or fucking my shit doesn't work.
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Andy, what, what do you say to the leaders out there or the CEOs out there that are in
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Is there a valid argument to, to the, to the, I guess, is this a valid argument, right?
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I've just been focused on the business that I forgot about myself.
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Like, bro, remember I was 15 years in the business.
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Now I had, and by the way, I grew up an athlete.
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I played all kinds of sports at a high level my whole life.
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It's not like I was this big fat piece of shit for my whole life.
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I started coping with alcohol and fucking food.
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And, um, I could easily see how someone could find themselves in that position.
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And, and, and at that time, you know, if I'm being honest, you know, I would, if you would
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have asked me at that time, like, was it affecting me?
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I would have been like, fuck, no, I'm, I'm winning, dude.
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I'll fucking kick your ass, even though I'm fat.
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But bro, the truth is, is that that wasn't true.
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I was projecting and I wasn't truly confident in myself.
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And so there's a big difference between pretending and actually being.
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And at that point in my life, I had to pretend because that's what it took to get the fucking
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Um, when you get to the level of higher business, everybody's fucking great.
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They all take care of themselves physically and mentally fucking all of them.
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And if I were to say something to one of you guys out there who maybe thinks like,
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I would say, bro, you're selling yourself way short because I thought I was that too.
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And when I fucking got my shit together, the company went fucking bananas.
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And so not just this company, but all the ones I'm involved with and everything I do,
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speaking personal development brand podcast, fucking my, my actual companies, like my life,
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It's just, it's like pouring gas on a fucking fire, bro.
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And you can't sit there and say, well, my little fire works just the same as that big
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Like we're talking about a fucking nuclear weapon versus your little fucking campfire.
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And people do have a hard time seeing that because when they're in it, when you're, when
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you, when that's like, bro, when I was 350 pounds, bro, like, like none, by the way, fuck
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all you people that didn't tell me, you know what I'm saying?
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Like you fucking people, like, I didn't know you too.
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Like you, you fucking people, all my fucking people close to me, you guys all fucking dealt
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Now I look at the shit and I'm so fucking embarrassed.
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I can't even believe that I fucking even like went out of the house.
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That's why I tell everybody that you asked me the other day, do I tell people?
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So, you know, if that's you, um, you're leaving a lot on the table, bro.
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And, and I want the best for you and I, I, you deserve the best, but you got to develop
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We were talking, talking about, um, build yourself first, you know, like on the last Q and
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AF that we did, you know, I, I made a statement about, uh, these young guys making these podcast
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mics and like trying to put the content out before they actually build anything, put in
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And some, some might, you know, some of these young guys, they got a little offended, right?
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But guys, I'm saying that from a place of love.
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I'm saying that from a place of like, Hey, motherfucker, like I'm telling you, so you
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don't waste the next fucking 10 years of your life wondering why nobody's listening
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Cause you don't represent the shit you're fucking saying.
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So if you haven't built a business and you haven't built anything, bro, build yourself
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And a lot of people need that and it's valuable.
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So like, start there and start moving and the rest of the stuff will come.
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Like you guys that got upset with me, I mean, I get it, bro, but I still love you.
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I don't want you to waste the next five years wondering why nobody's fucking clicking on
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Uh, Andy, question number two, I've been using the power list and built consistency,
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which has dramatically improved my personal and professional results.
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I have a vacation coming up and I do not want to lose any momentum, nor do I want my family's
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The question is, Andy, do you continue to utilize the power list 365 days per year, or are there
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periods of time like vacations that you truly allow yourself to disconnect?
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Um, I discovered a long time ago and this, some people don't understand this.
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I don't expect them to understand this, but I am only happy when I am on offense.
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If I'm only happy when I'm creating, I'm only happy when I'm building, I'm only happy when
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I'm making deposits into something like I have to be moving forward or I'm fucking miserable.
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And it, I guess maybe it comes from 24 years of just being conditioned to have to do that
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And a lot of you guys are going to say, well, that's unhealthy.
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But you know, there's benefits to come with it.
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Like I get to do whatever the fuck I want, whenever I want with whoever I want, wherever I
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Um, I'm not going to sit here and say it's for everybody because it ain't for everybody.
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And I'm not one of these entrepreneurs that's going to sit here and tell you that, you know,
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everybody's supposed to go out and become an entrepreneur.
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It's seven to 8% of the population and only 1% of that fucking 8% is actually successful.
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Most people are going to be great entrepreneurs.
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Those that's just as important as entrepreneurs, bro.
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And you can do very well with way less stress in that role.
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And I know some of you guys be like, Oh, that's not healthy.
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Like, and you can fucking throw rocks and you can say that's not healthy.
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I don't fucking care because what makes me happy is moving forward.
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So like, um, so personally, dude, like I, I try to keep what I, the practical answer
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to this question is like when I went to Mexico, uh, was for my first vacations since our honeymoon
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I had a good time, but I also did do my power list every day.
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It was just not the same power list that I would do, uh, if I were here.
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I still did these basic things, you know, except for like, instead of me rucking, it was,
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But my point is, is you, you dial it back a little bit and the way you dial it back just
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a little bit, um, it's just by accommodating yourself while you're there.
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And then you, you, if you check the shit off, you're keeping the momentum and you're
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continuing to win those days, knowing that the standards are just a little bit different
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So I'm not going to sit here and tell you, bro, you go on vacation.
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Um, and so what I would do in that situation and what I, what I actually do do, I said do
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do, um, I, I, uh, that's one of your fucking jokes over there, brother.
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So, so, so just, you know, make it for the day and, and, and try to win that day.
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And it's interesting to do because, you know, I, I travel with you when, when you go around,
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And like, even on those travel days, you still like those days are still when, but like when
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most people would think of a travel day, like, Oh, it's going to say day off.
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No, like, like you, you were still able to accomplish every single thing that we get up.
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You make those, I get a workout in before I leave the house.
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First thing we do when we get wherever we're going is we usually do the outdoor cardio.
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I mean, that's the routine for us when we travel.
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Like we go put our shit in the room and fucking do outdoor cardio and then whatever else.
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And I stay on my diet and you know, it's, it's pretty easy.
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And, and some commitment and losing the idea that we have to have these like excuses.
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Like I used to, dude, I used to be so weak that I, I, I was like that.
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I throw the whole day away because I was fucking flying for two hours.
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But like, bro, I was also the guy that would go to a restaurant and not be able to control
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And, and while the menu sitting in front of me, I already know what I should order.
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I'm in my head while the stuff's going on, you know, there's this like crucial moment that's
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coming and it's when the waitress comes to your table or the waiter comes to your table
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And that whole time, this is how it used to go for me.
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And I'd sit at the table and the whole time, it's usually with Emily, right?
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The whole time I'm sitting there thinking about what I'm going to say to justify what
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I'm about to order, which I know isn't good for me to her to like, make it sound like I'm
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really not breaking my shit, but like, this is what that one little exception and we'll
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And that's how I got so big because I told myself that every fucking day, every day I was
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like, all right, well, look, dude, I'm starting tomorrow, so I got to fucking get it in today,
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I was going to start the next day and the next day and the next day and the next day
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I got on that scale and I was 350 and I was like, holy shit.
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And I remember when I got on the scale at 350, dude, because the last time I had been on
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I thought I was like, I thought I knew I had put a look because you dude, you know this
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Like when you get big, it's hard to tell how big you're actually getting because the clothes
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you're wearing a lot of times are like stretchy and like they don't, you know, it's, you're
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So I thought I was like, I'm like, ah, I might be like 320.
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Like it was like a fucking, like, I was like, fuck, this is not my life.
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I left the gym because I weighed myself at the gym.
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I went, sat in my car and I didn't cry, but I was just like fucking on that verge for
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I went back in the gym and I started fucking training and I never looked back.
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You know, I just feel like most people, you know, I just feel like most people,
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like a lot of people, and I don't know if it's a fault to their own or not, but like
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we just so quickly try to jump to the excuse to pull us out from doing the shit we know
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nobody could tell us these excuses better than us.
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Who's going to sell you on the shit better than you?
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That's why it's such a hard thing to get control of.
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That's why it's so important to get in control of.
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That's why I fucking made the program, the live hard program completely fucking free,
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dude, because you fucking need it because you can't be free.
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If you're not even free from your own thought process, if you can't even control your own
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urges and your own thoughts and your own internal dialogue, you're not free no matter what the
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So like I live it so people will see it and be like, what's that?
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Cause I know it's going to benefit the shit, you know?
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So if you're interested in that, you go listen to episode 208.
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It'll change your fucking life in a very short amount of time.
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And that's why I say build yourself first, because if you build yourself first, that takes
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And then you'll be that much more productive, which saves time off the journey that you're
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Guys, Andy, our third and final question, Andy, question number three.
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Andy, what were some of your fears that you had when you were first starting out in business?
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And more importantly, how did you overcome them?
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I just filed my LLC and started my business banking account and I'm scared shitless.
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That means you actually give a fuck about what you're trying to do.
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No anxiety, no stress, low, low drag, happy all the time.
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When you really care about something, you really want something to work.
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OK, so first thing first, I say that's normal and I say that's great.
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You go out every single day and you do everything you fucking can.
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That way, when shit's not materializing, you can look yourself in the mirror and be like,
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In fact, what did I say to you about three or four days ago getting out of my car at the end of the day?
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You said something to affect most people look at their days as if like, what did they get out?
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When you should be looking at your days is what the fuck did you put in?
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I said, there ain't a motherfucker on this fucking planet.
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That's planting more seeds than me in the last fucking four months.
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Because I've been planting and I've been planting the seeds deep and plentiful.
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And if you live like that as an entrepreneur, you have nothing to fear because eventually those seeds are going to sprout.
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Eventually those seeds are going to fucking produce fruit.
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And so you should not judge the entrepreneurship journey based off of how much sales you make,
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based off of how many customers you got, based off of the internet likes you today or they don't like you today.
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You should be judging yourself and saying, all right, did I do all I can?
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Did I fucking plant all the seeds I could today?
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And if the answer is yes, that actually reduces your anxiety.
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That reduces this frustration because you can look at yourself and honestly say, I'm doing everything I can fucking do.
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And bro, you can't do any more than you can do.
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So like, bro, by doing everything that you can possibly do to move forward, which I give you all the systems on how to do it.
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You can't possibly have that much anxiety because like, what else could you do?
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Daryl's one of the best dudes in our fucking company.
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Probably the hardest working dude here outside of a couple.
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We were talking about this little transformation contest that we have going on inside the company and then also outside.
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I'm like, well, I've given it everything I could fucking give it, dude.
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If someone beats me, it means they fucking, they really fucking worked.
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Like, if you do everything that you could do and someone still beats you.
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You could probably learn some skills from them.
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You could probably learn a little bit of technical skill.
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But you can't really feel bad because you did all you know and you did all you're capable of.
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So, like, a great way to reduce stress and anxiety and frustration in business is just to do everything on a day-by-day basis that you could potentially do and then track it.
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This is why the power list is such an important tool because you can actually flip back through your notebook and literally see the wins day-by-day-by-day-by-day, right?
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So, like, in those moments of doubt where you're like, oh, man, I don't know the fuck, dude.
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I don't know if this is, I don't know if I'm going to get paid.
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Like, all that shit that comes to you and you're trying to build a brand, you could go to that notebook and you could flip back the last, you know, however long.
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And you could say, well, fuck, man, I won all these days.
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Most people don't plant seeds on a regular day-by-day, disciplined basis.
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It sounds like, like, correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like a lot of people just have this bad understanding of time, right?
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Like, I'm hearing this and I'm thinking about the story of, like, bamboo, right?
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Like, it takes, like, 10 years or something crazy like that.
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Okay, so the Chinese bamboo tree is a great example for success because when you plant it, it has to be watered and nurtured
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and taken care of for five years before it ever grows, all right?
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You put this shit in the fucking ground and you have to go out there and you have to make sure it has water,
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make sure no one digs it up, make sure it doesn't get fucked up.
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And if you were to go out there and in six months, you're like, fuck, nothing's happening, all right?
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And you dig the seed up, it ain't ever going to grow, all right?
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And what happens, miraculously, after five years of nurturing this seed, this thing starts to grow
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and it grows to 80 feet in, like, eight weeks, bro, okay?
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There's this, you plant the seeds, plant the seeds, water the soil, water the soil,
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If a farmer went out and planted his corn in the field and went out there the next day
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and he looks at it and he's like, well, that didn't work and walked away, what would happen?
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So understanding that things take time and sometimes they take a lot of time to actually start going
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That's a key understanding that you have to have and it's a hard perspective to grasp
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But I can tell you, I've seen this process happen over and over and over and over again.
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You just haven't recognized that it's happening.
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You guys see some of these guys who come out of nowhere on social media,
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but you didn't see them for the fucking five or six years before that.
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You didn't see them doing their work five or six years, bro.
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Andrew Tate became the most popular motherfucker on the fucking planet
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and he was doing content for fucking years before that.
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No one ever said shit about him when he was doing that.
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Bro, Gary Vee, fucking legend in the business and entrepreneur world.
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Bro, Gary was at the game for fucking a decade before you ever heard of him.
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Same for me, 15 fucking years before you ever heard my fucking name.
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And when you get to a point where you adjust course too quickly,
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you're sabotaging your own success over and over.
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And this is what we see with a lot of young entrepreneurs.
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It didn't make them a million dollars in six weeks, okay?
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Like the gurus promise them and they, you know, they, they then change the thing, right?
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They go from that thing to the next thing that's happening right now.
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And then to the next thing, three months from now to the next thing, three months from now
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Well, dude, if you repeat that process over and over and over again, nothing's ever going
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to produce for you because it takes longer than that.
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And it takes more patience and it takes more skill.
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It takes more fucking everything, especially time.
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And so when you could grasp this and this takes, this is difficult to grasp if you've
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You don't hear, you don't hear genuinely successful people who have built things ever tell you they
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They never tell you it's going to be fucking, you know, this fun ride.
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You only hear people who haven't built shit say those things.
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And the reason you hear them say those things is because they're trying to sell you something.
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This is their ticket to prey on your impatience to get you to give your money to them.
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So you never hear the real shit from fake people.
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You only hear the real shit from motherfuckers like me or other people who have built undeniably
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Tell you the truth about they tell you the truth.
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You're going to wish that you could quit a bunch of times.
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And it's going to be the hardest thing you ever fucking did.
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And anybody who's built something real will tell you that.
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And it's only the fucking clowns that tell you anything different.
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So just to wrap this question up, Andy, so how do you, is there a tool that you use?
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Like, how do you operate and still go plant those seeds with those fears that you have?
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I mean, dude, you were 19 when you fucking started this journey.
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You're going to sit there and whine and wish it was easier?
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If you want to get from here to there, where you are now to where you're trying to go,
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you have to understand that you don't have a fucking choice.
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You have to get up every single day and you have to plant the motherfucking seeds.
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And planting the seeds has to happen every day.
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And it happens to happen every day for years on end before it really produces fruit.
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And a lot of you young guys will be like, that's the old way.
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You're inundated with the fucking chat GPT and this hack and that hack and this hack.
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And you know more than me at fucking 20 years old than I do at 43 years old with a proven
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Well, let me know how that fucking works out for you, bro.
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Give me a call in fucking five years and tell me who was right.
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Because I'll be fucking happy to tell you, guess what, bitch?
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It is a lot of fun sometimes, but it ain't always fun.
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And you have to use all those emotions to push yourself forward.
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You have to say, bro, if I don't do this, it ain't going to happen.
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Bro, when I wake up in the morning, I think of people that are trying to compete with me.
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And I'm like, well, if I don't fucking do this, bro, that motherfucker's going to catch me.
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So, like, you just have to make it not a choice.
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This is what I talk about, zero options mentality.
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We have a whole episode on zero options mentality.
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In the beginning, you do not have a real choice.
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It's something that you want to do, that you're scared to do, and you start.
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In the beginning, it's real easy to operate on a zero options mentality because it's a literal
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Where it gets tricky is whenever you start to make money, you start to get more comfortable,
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you start to have a nicer house and some cars and some expendable income.
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And then you start to think you don't have to get out of bed and do these things.
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So cultivating a zero options mentality and keeping it over the long haul is a massive
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It's either stay in bed and fucking lose or get the fuck up and plant the seeds and not
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see anything for it and do that again the next day and then the next day and then the
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next day for a few years at a minimum until you've learned some shit and those seeds start
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For those of you that don't know, my original podcast is right there in the audio feed of
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If you scroll all the way down to the bottom, you can get the complete MFCEO project library.
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And I don't think there's a better comprehensive library for a beginning entrepreneur than that
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It's going to be a little bit different this time.
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But the point is, go listen to those episodes, bro.