691. Q&AF： Not Taking Help From Family, The Power List Misconceptions & Figuring Out What To Do In Life
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In this episode of the show, we talk about the importance of personal excellence and how it is the key to becoming a better human being. We also discuss the 75 Hard Program and how you can use it to improve your life.
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what is up guys it's andy for selling this is the show for the realists say goodbye to the lies
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the fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking reality guys as always
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we start off the week with q and af because we're gonna get better this week aren't we so this is
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where you submit the questions and we give you the answers now you could submit your questions a few
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different ways the first way is guys email those questions into ask andy at andy for selling.com
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or you can go on youtube in the comment sections of the q and af episodes and ask your question there
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and we'll choose some for the show from there as well uh if this is your first time listening we
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got lots of new listeners listening um we have shows within the show we don't just do q a all
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the time all right tomorrow you're going to hear cti that stands for cruise the internet this is where
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we put interesting topics from society and culture we speculate on what's true we speculate on what's
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not true and then we talk about how we that's us the people uh have to solve some of these problems
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going on in the world other times this week we're going to have real talk real talk just short
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five to 20 minutes of me giving you some real talk and then we have 75 hard verses occasionally
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all right i don't think we have one this week but it's an occasional episode that is where we take
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someone who has used the 75 hard program to get their life in order and we bring them on the show
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we interview them we talk about how their life was before how it is now and how you can make the same
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improvements in your life using the live hard and 75 hard program now if you're unfamiliar with 75
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hard it is the initial phase of live hard and you can get this program which is the world's most
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popular mental toughness mental transformation program you can get it for free at episode 208
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on the audio feed only we've only been you doing youtube for about a year uh so go to episode 208
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on any audio feed and you'll get that program for free there's also a book available on my website
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called the book on mental toughness and uh that's at andy frisella.com that describes the entire live
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hard program 75 hard plus 10 chapters on mental toughness why you need it how to use it how to
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make it work for you in your life and some case studies on some very famous people on how they
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have used mental toughness to create the life that you know them for uh with that being said we don't
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run ads on the show uh you're going to notice that's a big difference between other shows i don't take
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money from people to do this show uh because i don't want people having an influence on what
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my opinion is going to be and what i'm going to say we talk about controversial subjects um and most
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fee so don't be a hoe share the show all right what's up man happy monday yeah you just yellowed on
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yellow on yellow huh what i mean the hat the drink you like yellow i do i like black and yellow you
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look black black and yellow black and i cannot stand black well we we know and we're where
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all right what's up dude what's going on man not much yeah it's uh it's a it's a great monday
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got a got a great start to the week and uh yeah everything's good man yeah everything's good yeah
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yeah all right well let's get into it you want to make some people better you want to make some
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people better i do all right well you know because that's part of the equation of how we get our
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country back on track we have to get better as individuals yeah we have to be the opposite of
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what they want us to be they want us fat they want us sick they want us stupid we got to be
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not fat we got to be healthy we got to be intelligent they want us to hate people we can't hate people we
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got to love people we got to get along we got to find unity and uh that comes from personal
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excellence and when i say personal excellence is the ultimate rebellion it is the ultimate rebellion
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because it's everything that they do not want us to be and it's our job to be it and that's what
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this q a f episode is all about it's about getting better about making us better it's about becoming more
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personally excellent yeah well let's do it man guys andy question number one hey andy my father
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was and still is a very successful entrepreneur here in texas he's a great man raised me right
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and i was blessed to grow up in private schools play all the sports i wanted the family vacations
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two times a year a lot of people would call the silver spoon treatment i am 24 and i want to get
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into entrepreneurship myself i had a talk with my dad and he wants to foot the bill for whatever i want
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to do i'm sure most people would hear this and be excited the only issue is i don't want the help
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i spent most of my life getting the daddy's credit card treatment from everyone and i don't want that
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to be the narrative how would you suggest i move through this am i being dumb not to take the capital
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i know he's doing this out of love because that's how he shows it or should i stick to my heart and grind
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it out on my own well look man i think that's a very valid question i think i totally understand where
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you're coming from i think it's very important to our personal identities and how we see ourselves
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and our self-esteem and our confidence that certain things are done on our own and when you have a
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situation like you have which a lot of people would kill to have right or think so yeah yeah i could
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certainly understand the aspect and the perspective that you're coming from of wanting to do this on
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their own and so there's a couple ways you could do this one you could do it completely on your own
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and and dude that's great uh i think you can do it lots of people do it um two you could let your dad
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advise you and you could let him help you and you could give him a piece of whatever it is as in a
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silent equity part so that way he's not really giving you anything he's going to earn something from
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it three you could arrange some sort of loan that you have to actually pay him back and to get you
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started and things like that but aside from all of these things okay one of the biggest blessings
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that i've had in my business career was that nobody ever gave me money nobody ever gave me a loan
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nobody ever like gave us you know a small million dollar loan no dude that's what i'm saying and it's
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now there was some help along the way in certain circumstances for sure but here's the reality okay
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when you have a lot of financial resources and you're just starting out you are not intelligent
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enough nor do you have the experience to manage that financial resource effectively and a lot of
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people who start in business they say well i don't have any money oh i don't have rich parents oh i
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couldn't get a loan nobody believes in me good because that's gonna force you to learn the skills that
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you need to learn and no different than an nfl player or a lottery winner or someone who comes
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into a lot of money if you have someone invest in you in day one and you don't know what the fuck
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you're doing i can promise you with a hundred percent certainty you're going to squander that money
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and you're going to squander that money away and put yourself in a hole that sometimes you can't
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get out of so one of the things that i'm most grateful for is that it was so hard that first
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10 12 years i learned how to manage the money that came in so when i started making money i didn't just
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go crazy doing shit i continued to run things and we continue to run things on a on a we do a lot with
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a little that's what we do here we live below our means we we take small risks we we exercise every
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single benefit every single technique every single thing we guerrilla market we do the small things
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and we have the attitude that we're not just going to throw money at the situation we're going to make
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the absolute most of the money that we invest to get the biggest return and when you don't know how
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to manage the money just like i was saying with nfl people or what happens is lottery winners yeah you
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think that you're going to buy your way to success but you can't do that okay when people get a million
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dollar investment they like to spend it on marketing but they don't understand that there's a time aspect
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and a familiarity aspect to marketing so if you go out and you spend a million dollars over the next
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four months thinking it's going to propel you to the promised land you're going to look at four months
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and you're going to be like fuck i just spent all this money i didn't really get much out of it
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because you don't understand that an effective advertising campaign takes time it takes familiarity
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it takes people time to absorb the brand and understand what's going on see things repetitively
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and because you and and dude there's other things too you don't know how to stack inventory you don't
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know how to fund your labor costs you don't know how to balance any of your balance sheet or your profit
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and loss you don't fucking know because you don't have the skills so there's a big lesson in this
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and i believe that if you want to become an effective entrepreneur long term you're going
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to learn most of those lessons when you have to get creative with no money and still make it work
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the reason that i can coach people and help people and i'm good at it and the reason that people listen
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to me is because i have a set of skills that most people don't have that set of skills was
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manufactured from all of that time that we had no resources that we had to figure out the solution
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anyway so if you try to jump past that point in time because you get someone to invest in you or
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you get someone to uh you know give you money in some way shape or form you're trying to skip all of
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these important lessons and even if you do create a scenario where you find success you're probably
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going to make a lot of mistakes and squander the business away because you haven't learned the skill
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sets needed to maintain that cash flow and be responsible with those financial decisions
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so that's what i would tell you i would tell you that there's if you're going to get help
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that help should be minimal it should be highly advised by people who know and it should be something
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that you pay back so that you can maintain your sense of pride and self-esteem and confidence that
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you did this but also you're not eliminating the process where you're going to actually learn the
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skill set okay so that's my take on that question i i i think there's going to be situations where you
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might need a little bit of money to get things to move but those things like i said should be under
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advisement that you should seek counsel on how to do those things when you don't know and you should
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be very cautious with your moves in the beginning so you don't put yourself in a hole that you can't
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dig out of yeah dude this is a super interesting perspective because i feel like nobody here is this side of
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of that coin you know most people look at you know the trust fund kids or whatever you want to
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i'm not i don't want to call this guy this but you know i'm saying like they look at kids that are
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brought up in way better circumstances and it's like well bro you have it easy you have everything you
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need not understanding that like there's probably this dilemma in a lot of these guys's heads well
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yeah dude and and the people who grew up without that they want to be that right thinking that's just
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going to solve yeah right and it doesn't yeah it doesn't if you have no resources and you have to
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scrape your way through and you have to get creative be thankful for that because that's what's going to
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build you the skill set that's ultimately going to allow you to compete when i have to compete with
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people people have their hands full with me do you know why because i went so long without getting
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any help at all and some of these guys that i have to compete with they just started out how the
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fuck could that guy know what i fucking know okay no you can't no matter how much capital you
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couldn't know it yeah okay so no matter what business i'm in no matter what industry i'm in
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a lot of these skill sets are applicable across different industries so if i hadn't went through
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that first 12 years where i was getting my balls kicked in i didn't have any money i didn't have
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anybody invest i didn't have any of this shit if i if i hadn't gone through that how would i be able
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to compete now with people like that and other people who had those things so you have to
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understand if you build this skill set your competitors that go out and get money they're
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not developing the same skill set that you're developing because you're doing it the quote
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unquote hard way and what happens is down the road 10 years 12 years 15 years down the road
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they might have some success in business they might have a decent business but they have not learned
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the skills that you have learned so and when all things are equal and the playing field is finally
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equaled out you have a tremendous advantage over that other person because they got an investor or
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they had rich parents or they had these things okay and that's not in every case but that is in
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the vast majority of cases 98 plus percent okay and that's where you want to be because you want to
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be successful you don't want to be mildly successful you want to kick ass you want to dominate
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so you want to put yourself in the best position and right now your first five six ten years that's
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fucking training camp that's going and practicing football and doing little league and doing junior
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high and doing high school and developing your craft getting to college and then graduating into
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the game okay now if you took someone who was starting out uh you know at 20 years old and they
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happen to run a 40-yard dash pretty quick and they got all the best pretty strong right and they have the
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best equipment and you throw them on the football field against someone who started when they were
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six that guy's going to kick your ass and that's the same thing that we're talking about in business
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so when you don't have the resources in the beginning you should actually recognize that that's
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a blessing that will come to fruition later down the road which will allow you to be a better
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competitor and probably kick people's ass it's pretty easy because they lack all those lessons
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i think i think that's also cool it's an important lesson here too just in the ability to say
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you know like no like i don't need it you know i'm saying like i'm being able to be that advocate
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for yourself right because like i mean i'm sure there was a bunch of opportunities that came your way
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that sounded good looked really really good that you just had to say no to for whatever reason
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and so maybe is this also a certain time where he's able to kind of flex that lesson and learn that
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lesson yeah for sure but there's also a time aspect to life you know like if you can work for
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two or three years and get your skill set developed or five years get your skill set developed and then
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your dad is willing to invest that might be a good thing but definitely not from the beginning bro
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yeah you know people to get money in the beginning here's what they do they go out they get an office
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they get a cool car they fucking get a business card they put their name on the door they name the
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company after themselves you know which is the ultimate ego move by the way stop naming your
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companies after your fucking selves it's not marketable if you want to exit it okay nobody
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wants to buy joe smith's company when joe smith is selling the company okay so build a real brand
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that is bigger than yourself and and and dude you know i mean the bottom line is bro this happens all
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the time it's reality and i've seen it and i've been doing this long enough to know that the people
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who grind it out are much more equipped to win than the people who were given anything and you know if
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you get five six years in and you have a good grasp of what's going on then you might need to seek some
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capital or you might need to raise some capital or you get an investor or get a line of credit or take
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some debt those things can accelerate your business tremendously i never did that and that's why it's
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taken me so long to get here okay so looking back from where i'm at now i kind of wish that like when
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i was 12 13 years in i would have done some of those things because i would have been where i'm at now
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seven years ago you see what i'm saying but on the flip side how much better of an entrepreneur am i
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because i didn't you see what i'm saying and dude i would personally rather have the skill set than the
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fast success so that i can compete at a higher level more effectively yeah yeah that's real man
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this was like i like i like this question it's a good question it was cool yeah and and dude if
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you're one of these people who looks at other people and you think oh they're rich they don't
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have any problems their dad paid for everything blah blah blah bro those people have their own sets
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of insecurity they understand most of them that like hey man i was born into this and they feel guilty
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you don't have a fucking choice in that's right and so like dude you guys who fucking say that shit
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to people you need to like shut the fuck up because they can't help it just like you can't help it right
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that you got born to shitty fucking parents yeah this is what it is man i love it well guys andy
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question number two let's get to it uh hey andy i'm 29 and i have just started my entrepreneurial
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journey i've been a listener of yours for four years now and outside of the 75 hard program
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i think the most crucial concept you've taught has been the powerless um you've taught that after
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uh you've gotten your five critical tasks done the rest of the day is yours yep um but i feel like
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since i'm in the beginning stages of my business i shouldn't have any time off my question is whether
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or not i should be taking time away from work after the critical tasks are done or if i should go
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harder at pushing my business further since i'm at the beginning stages of business okay
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it's a good question when you say when i say the rest of the day is yours i don't necessarily mean
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you go to the park and fuck off yeah okay now i might do that sometimes maybe i'll go for a drive
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maybe i'll do something i want to do but you're correct i've been doing this 25 years okay most of
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the time when i finish my five lists even to this day how many days you see me leaving early no
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okay okay most of the time my power list is done by noon right okay so i choose to be here and i
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choose to go around and even though i don't have any quote unquote extra critical tasks i choose to
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have conversations and to talk to people and to to help people and to dig into what they're working
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on and try to solve their problems because like you i want to go as fast as possible but in those
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situations where maybe i don't feel like doing that that day i still count the day as a win if my five
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critical tasks got done because those were the most important five critical tasks that are going to move
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me forward over the course of time so this is a way for you to break out of what they call hustle
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culture right where you have to work 40 hours out of 24 every single day because those people are
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full of shit too nobody really works like that okay they say oh i get up at 2 a.m and i'm up till 1 a.m
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and i sleep for an hour and i do bullshit bro you're a fucking liar okay and and secondly like anybody
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that does that like if you go against me i'll fucking kill you i'll fucking kill you okay with five
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critical tasks a day because you're going to be able to do that for a year two years i'm going to be
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able to do five critical tasks until i fucking die and these are not tasks like hey uh you know
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tie my shoes these are like hey call this manufacturer talk to this you know person that's
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going to open up this channel of business call this you know what i'm saying these are things that are
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going to move you forward and if you do those consistently over the course of time the cake's
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going to bake just fine but you here's what i don't want you to do and this is where people really
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fuck it up is instead of putting five on there they put 15 okay instead of like just loosely still
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working on the business they put 15 on there and then what happens is they get seven done right so
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the day is a loss because you didn't get your critical tasks done all right so the next day they
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put 14 on there they get six done that's a loss the next day they put 15 on there they get 11 done
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that's a loss and the reason that this is a problem is because every time you have a loss
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you're actually reducing the trust reducing the confidence reducing the belief that you have in
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yourself that you can actually win the day so five critical tasks are enough to build a very very very
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successful life and if you do that consistently you can avoid the idea that you have to work 24 hours a
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day and you can have freedom and you can feel good about it without feeling stressed and guilty because
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you know that the critical things that need to get done are done now if you want to choose to still
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continue to uh you know dream and think and work with your people and build something bro fucking have
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at it dude i love what i do i love to work i'm usually on the phone till 9 10 11 o'clock at night
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not because it's on my list of critical tasks but because i enjoy it right and so i don't necessarily
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you know just check out after my five are done but i do allow myself to do that if i want to do that
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at those times which gives me a sense of balance it gives me a sense of freedom it gives me a sense that
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i'm not working as hard as i actually am and my life is still moving forward day by day by day
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you know this success is very very very simple it's very simple okay it is the matter of winning
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one day and then the next day and then the next day it is one win at a time one day at a time
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one week at a time one month at a time and you accumulate that over the course of a year
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you know good things start to happen and so if you win enough days you win the week if you win
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enough weeks you win the month if you win enough months you win the year if you win enough years guess
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what you win. You win your life. All right. And that is a very simple, very honest, very true
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fail safe system to getting where you want to go. It's the only system that I've ever seen that I
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believe if you execute is completely foolproof. I believe that if you execute the powerless
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properly, you cannot fucking not get where you want to go. You can't miss. I think it's a systematic
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way to guarantee success. And if you want to know what the powerless system is, it's a free system
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that I created back in 2000 that I used to build my entire life. And I started talking about on the
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podcast in 2015. And it's something I've used my entire life. It's a huge tool. And, you know,
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to this guy's credit. Yeah, it's probably the most powerful system that you could use for personal
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production. And, you know, 75 hard live hard is a different kind of development process. But yeah,
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these are two effective systems that guarantee success if you execute them properly. So go to
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episode 16 on the audio feed, get it for free. There's also a powerless journal on my website you
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can buy and start using it. Yeah, because it fucking works. Now, let me ask you this, because you know,
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you said you've been using the system since fucking like since you started in business. Yeah. And so
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that's a long time. It was like 2001 or two. And I when I started using it. Yeah. I can't remember
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it. Dude, that was a long time ago now. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I get it. Yeah. Getting up
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there. I know. I fucking know, bro. You don't tell me. Fuck, you should you should feel what it's like
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for me to move around. Yeah. No, I want to ask you, though, because, you know, I think I think
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I like the the mindset this guy has. Right. Like, you know, he's saying he's early in business and,
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you know, he wants to make sure the business strives to success and succeeds. Now, let me ask you this for
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it. Let's say you have an entrepreneur who's same situation, same boat. And like, and guess
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what? Like, yeah, they're getting their five critical tasks done. Is there such a thing
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as also, you know, you get your five critical tasks done and then the rest of the day you're
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doing five critical fuck ups that's almost erasing that progress you just made. Can we talk a little
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bit about that? Yeah. I mean, that's definitely a possibility, but it's also a possibility that
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the five original critical tasks are wrong as well. So that's part of the problem. You
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know, like we talked about a minute ago with this guy getting funding for his business.
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Yeah. Like if you don't know what the critical tasks are to get where you want to go and you're
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putting the wrong ones down, you're not going to get there. So you have to have enough critical
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thinking and enough foresight and enough ability to deduce from the end result that you're going
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for back down to individual actions. Right. So you want to get here in the next 10 years,
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you want to be here. What's it going to take for you to get there? And you backtrack that out.
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And then you start chunking those down into, you know, yearly parts of the puzzle and then
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eventually daily parts of the puzzle. And what you'll find out is that what you think will take
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you 10 years. If you execute a plan like this will take you much less because a lot of the things
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that we think need to happen are these big elaborate things, but it's not really that it's
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one or two phone calls. And then those people help you get those things done and they happen
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very fast. So when you actually do this, when you actually think about where you want to
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go, you chunk it down into, uh, you know, the steps needed to get there. And then you take
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those steps and you chunk them down even further back all the way down to daily actions. You
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know, what you're going to find out is how far you can go, uh, and how fast you can go
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is actually a much faster rate than what you thought before. So yeah, you have to be
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able to break that down into the daily tasks. Otherwise you don't know if you're doing the
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right ones. And then a part of it is you are going to pick the wrong ones sometimes. And
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sometimes you're going to pick the wrong ones. You're going to work on something, you're
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going to work on something, you're going to work on something. And then you're going to
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figure out, Oh, this isn't going to work this way. And then you got to change and pivot.
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But since, you know, you've been moving fault, moving the needle forward in multiple
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directions, that one setback isn't going to bury you. You see what I'm saying?
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So a lot of this is learning through experience too, which the, the power list allows you to
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do because that's just making a pivot along the way. Well, the discipline part of that
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too, because you still did what you told yourself you were going to do. That's right. And it's
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going to build confidence. That's the thing. You don't want to have a bunch of losses in
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your power list because bro, that makes you believe that you can't get it done. When you
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have a bunch of win, when you have fucking 400 wins in a row, do you really, how could you
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not believe that you can get your shit done? Like you start to believe, well, I can do
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anything. I can make anything work. I can make this work. Don't be a deal. Look how
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much, how much I've moved forward in the last, you know, 400 days. You know what I'm saying?
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Yeah. I love it, man. I love it. Well guys, that was question two. Uh, third and final
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question. Uh, Andy, you mentioned how important it was to know where you're going, right?
00:27:14.820
That's kind of what question three is about. So let's get into it. Uh, question number three,
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good morning, Andy and DJ. Thank you guys for all the insight on life and the do's and don'ts.
00:27:23.160
I absolutely love your episodes and the things you have to say about entrepreneurship and your
00:27:28.080
political views. Um, I'm sure this has already been a question, but I haven't heard that episode
00:27:32.540
yet. How did you guys figure out what you wanted to do in life? I have a bunch of different things
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that I would like to do, but I don't know for sure what path I should take. Any insight on this
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would be greatly appreciated. Thank you guys. Have a kick-ass day. Listen, dude. Um, this is why most
00:27:50.760
people never get anywhere. Most people are incapable of picking a direction and going,
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just going, they, they observe the possibilities. They get paralyzed by all the possibilities.
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They refuse to move forward on all the possibilities and then time passes them by.
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So it's very important that you make a decision and you go down that path. You commit to that path
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with the mentality of having zero options. I don't have a choice, but to see this through.
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Okay. If I don't see this through, I'm going to be digging ditches. That's what I tell myself
00:28:23.880
when I don't want to come here and I don't want to do this and I get tired of, you know,
00:28:28.100
doing what I do, which happens to everybody. You go through ups and downs. I pretend like
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I have zero options. I say, well, if I don't fucking do this, bro, I'm gonna be digging
00:28:37.580
ditches. So I better show the fuck up and get it done. And that might sound ridiculous to
00:28:41.260
you because that's not the truth anymore, but I still tell myself that. And that's how I
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operate. So you have to pick something and then you have to commit to it for as long as
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that's going to take to make sure that you see it through. And the other thing people
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do is they pick something and then when it gets hard, they decide they want to change
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to one of the other options. And then when that gets hard, they change to one of the
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other options and you can't get anywhere with that either. You're going to have to realize
00:29:08.220
that whatever you pick, there's going to be ups. There's going to be downs. There's going
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to be times when you love it. There's going to be times when you fucking hate it,
00:29:14.080
when you'd rather do anything else but that. But you have to keep going because it takes
00:29:18.340
that long to materialize into success. Now, in terms of what you want to pick, you know,
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there's a lot of different philosophies on this and a lot of different thought processes.
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But what's very important in my opinion, in the beginning is that two things come in mind.
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One, you pick something that you're actually care about, that you're actually passionate about.
00:29:39.660
And a lot of people say, do what you're passionate about. Okay. Yeah, that's true. But why is it true?
00:29:46.840
Well, here, I'll explain it. Because the first three or four years, you're not going to fucking
00:29:50.900
make any money. You think you are, but I promise you, you won't. And what's going to happen is
00:29:55.280
you're going to have to believe in this thing or enjoy doing this thing for long enough that it
00:30:01.960
bridges the gap between when you start and when you actually start making a lot of money.
00:30:06.120
And I'm not talking about coaching on the internet. I'm talking about building a real company with
00:30:10.400
equitable backend that you can sell later on that actually makes you wealthy. I'm not talking about
00:30:15.300
some internet bullshit. I'm talking about real fucking business. And so you need to pick something
00:30:20.520
that you care about, that you're passionate about, because you need to understand that from when you
00:30:25.260
start to when it starts to produce fruit is going to be time. And that love and that passion,
00:30:30.260
that drive is going to have to carry you through that process. So what are you passionate about?
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First thing to think about. Secondly, what can be scaled into a brand, into a business that will
00:30:43.900
get you the life that you want? A lot of people pick what they're passionate about, but not a lot of
00:30:49.600
people ask themselves, can this actually be scaled out to be something? You see what I'm saying?
00:30:55.020
Or even just think about it. Huh? Or even just think about it. What do you mean?
00:30:58.200
Like think about how it could be scaled up. Yeah. That you have, if you pick something you're
00:31:02.920
passionate about that really can't become what it is, it's going to provide your life. You're going
00:31:07.720
to spend all this time doing this thing and it's never going to produce what it is you want to
00:31:13.440
produce. So do you love it enough to do it for free for a little bit? And can it be scaled into
00:31:21.240
something that can provide the life you want? Those are the two questions that you need to ask.
00:31:24.920
All right. And you know, you, you can make money doing almost anything. One of the examples that
00:31:31.940
I use is butterflies. All right. Some people are passionate about butterflies and you say,
00:31:37.660
well, fuck dude, how am I, how am I supposed to get money making butterflies? Well, you could start
00:31:42.380
a butterfly YouTube. You could start a butterfly blog. You could actually make some t-shirts with
00:31:47.180
butterflies on it. You could make stickers. You can make bags. You can make an entire brand about
00:31:52.060
butterflies and you could market it to all the other people that like butterflies. And you might
00:31:55.960
love that, but here's the thing. How big can it get? What can it become? Are you going to take that
00:32:03.580
butterfly brand and turn it into a high-end apparel like Gucci with little butterfly logo on it?
00:32:08.360
You could do that, right? There's all kinds of things that you can do to transition into scaling,
00:32:13.640
but you should think about those before you start. I'm going to go here. I'm going to make a
00:32:17.740
butterfly blog. I'm going to make a YouTube. I'm going to make some shirts. I'm going to do this.
00:32:21.720
And then eventually I'm going to transition into a high value luxury brand like Louis Vuitton with
00:32:26.860
a little butterfly logo. You see what I'm saying? So you want to think this all the way through and
00:32:30.960
take some time planning it out. So you don't spend all this time on a, uh, on a mission that there is
00:32:38.520
no winning at the end, or at least enough winning. That's going to get you where you want to go.
00:32:43.040
Yeah. And so, so for you, right. Cause I feel like I remember you saying one time, it's like,
00:32:47.980
you know, uh, you became an entrepreneur because you didn't like being told what to do or something
00:32:52.120
to that effect. Right. You know what I'm saying? So how did you, one of the reasons,
00:32:54.760
well, yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's one of the reasons, right. Is that common with
00:32:57.380
entrepreneurs? I find, I find that most entrepreneurs that are like, that are legitimately like
00:33:04.240
self-made type people are definitely people that don't respect the rules that everybody else
00:33:10.060
respects because you have to break rules. You have to think outside the box. You have to think
00:33:14.620
in ways that other people don't think. And the people that do that best are people that like
00:33:18.700
have problems with the rules of general society structure and fucking. Yeah. And this is why
00:33:24.080
people either become entrepreneurs or they become fucking criminals. Okay. That's the truth.
00:33:29.780
That's the truth. So a lot, a lot of criminals would be awesome entrepreneurs if they play within
00:33:34.700
the bounds of the law. Yeah. You know what I mean? That's the only difference, bro.
00:33:37.680
It's not, it's not that, it's not that different. Yeah. It's one of the reasons I like young Dolph
00:33:42.120
so much because he, yeah, he sings about drugs and crime, but like he's a hustler. You know what
00:33:47.460
I'm saying? If you take a mind like that and you put them in a legitimate, you know, scenario,
00:33:51.360
that guy's going to be successful because he understands where the game is played. Yeah.
00:33:56.000
You see what I'm saying? Yeah. So yeah, dude, breaking rules is a pretty common theme. Doing things your
00:34:01.620
own way is a pretty common theme. You don't find many entrepreneurs that are like very
00:34:06.360
stiff in terms of that. You just don't. Yeah. You know? Yeah. That's real, man. Cause sometimes
00:34:13.940
you just got to make shit happen, dude. You got to figure out how to make it happen. And
00:34:17.860
you know, within the constraints and the boundaries that they give us in society, you know, thinking
00:34:23.380
like a normal person, right? Go to high school, go to college, get the house with the white
00:34:28.160
picket fence, have 2.5 kids work, you know, your next 70 years and then retire when you're
00:34:34.180
fucking 107, right? Right. Like that's, that's not how entrepreneurs think. Entrepreneurs
00:34:40.900
don't think like that. They don't even buy into the, what I call the list. The list is
00:34:45.620
what you're supposed to do, what they told you you're supposed to do. And the more society
00:34:50.700
changes, the less important that list is. We're to a point now where even, uh, mainstream
00:34:58.240
colleges don't even require our main mainstream jobs. Don't even require college degrees anymore.
00:35:02.980
See what I'm saying? Things are changing. Yeah. And so being, uh, of sound mind and learning
00:35:09.760
how to critically think and learning how to think outside the box to get to the destination
00:35:14.180
that you want to get to is extremely important. And you should have the foresight to do that
00:35:17.940
before you spend all this time, uh, dedicated to that thing and then figuring out that you
00:35:22.980
can't get where you want to go. Yeah. I love it. Yeah. I love it. Well guys, Andy, that
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was three. Yeah, guys, let's have a good week. Let's go kick ass. Be good to each other.
00:35:36.780
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