985. Q&AF: Dealing With Pressure, Leading Without Losing Your Identity & Realigning Yourself
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Summary
In this episode of Q&A, we have Andy Purcell on the show to talk about the 75 Hard Program and how it has changed his life. 75 Hard is the world's most famous mental transformation program and is the most famous program in history. If you haven't completed the program, you should definitely get started.
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What is up guys, it's Andy Purcell and this is the show for the realists
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Say goodbye to the lies, the fakeness and delusions of modern society
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You can submit your questions a couple different ways
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Hey guys, you can email these questions in to askandy at andyfricella.com
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You can also click the link in the description below
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Or drop them in the comments of the Q and AF videos
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We've got CTI, which will be live tonight at 7 o'clock
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We also do those on Thursday nights at 7 o'clock live
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Real Talk's just 5 to 20 minutes of me giving you some Real Talk
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That is where people who have completed 75 Hard
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It is the initial phase of the Live Hard program
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Which is the world's most famous mental transformation program in history
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And you can get it for free at episode 208 on the audio feed
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There's also a book available at andyfricella.com
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Especially for those of you who need to know the in-depth ins and outs of how, why, what
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Again, you get the program for free at episode 208
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And that turned to me being up till five this morning
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Fuck, a shit ton of people are starting 75 hard today
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So, you know, if that's you, just know you're not alone
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I think it's the biggest amount we ever had started
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Which is interesting because according to everybody else
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And that's why it has been, you know, as big as it has been for the last six years
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And, you know, this is the time of year where we see everybody try to attack 75 hard
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And you don't want them to actually get results
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And the program is made for you to plug in all of your programming right along with it
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I would maybe recommend actually working with the program
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You know, we're getting to the point where people kind of know
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Like, you can't go to people who, you know, have completed Ironmans
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And done Ironman training and has changed their fucking life
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This is literally the 10th anniversary of me losing 110 pounds
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So if we want to talk about what sustainable means
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It's about correcting the issue and keeping it away
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You know, you should just be able to go on a diet
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Until you figure out that this is a discipline problem
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And that these skills of discipline, grit, fortitude, perseverance
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These are perishable skills that you have to stay on top of over the course of your life
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That's why the Live Hard program has multiple phases to it
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And that mandatory break is so that you can realize that this isn't something that is fixed forever
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So this whole program is designed to keep you sharp throughout the year
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So it's, you know, it's just people that don't understand
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Bro, paper straw is pretty much the worst thing ever
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You gotta chug your shit in, like, three minutes, bro
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And then, you know, if you don't chug your shit in three minutes
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There's little pieces of straw floating in your drink
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We all go through these different learning lessons
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You can take it on the other end of the spectrum
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Every everything is downstream of culture culture is the
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Question for you Andy guys Andy question number
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Same shit you listen to Nick Saban all right Nick
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Where we get it right and then oh it's great we
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Run it so many times that every single time that
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We run it it's almost impossible to fuck up that
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Everybody's ass same thing we play one snap at a
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Time okay now I want you to take that idea and I
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Want you to apply it to a single day all right we
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Are all playing a 24-hour game this is not a 10-year
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Game it's not a five-year game it's not a one-year
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Game it is a 24-hour game and if we can win one day we
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Can win our life because all we have to do is replicate
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Those wins over and over and over and over again so it's
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Not understanding the game when it comes to winning now when
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It comes to what this man is talking about you have to
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Understand there are things within the game that increase
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Our ability to execute or decrease our ability to execute I
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Want you to think about it for a minute like deposits and
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Withdrawals okay so you worked really hard to develop this
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Standard of discipline in your life and you've put a lot of investment
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You've you've built up a really nice score inside of your life of
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Discipline think of it like a john madden game right this guy can run
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Speed 95 he's 98 agile he's you know 10 intelligence whatever right
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68 but but let's say you get to discipline and his disciplines a 90 okay
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And by the way very dumb people can win very dumb people can win in fact a lot
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Of very dumb people win because they don't overthink the fucking game so
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You understand that you have a 90 discipline all right and you feel i'm a
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Disciplined person well here's what you don't understand is that every time
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You cut that corner every time you walk by that shopping cart every time you walk
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By that litter you know that it should be addressed okay a lot of people aren't
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Aware and the people who aren't aware it doesn't affect their score all right but
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When you're aware it does affect your score because you fucking know that it's
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Wrong so every time you walk past one of these things that gets addressed even
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If you identify it as something small and insignificant you're making a
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Withdrawal from your score so when you walk past that shopping cart your score goes
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From a 90 to an 89 okay and then on the way out you walk past that cup that's
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Some piece of shit left in the parking lot and now it goes from a fucking 89 to an
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88 okay and then you do something else and it goes to an 87 and this is why
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Discipline is something that has to be practiced on a daily basis by doing the
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Things that you know need to be done to make investments in that score now let's
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Take it the opposite way and you're a 90 all right and you see that shopping cart and it's out
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Okay, and then on the way out you see that same cup and you're like man what the fuck and you pick that cup up
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It goes from a 91 to a 92 but here's the thing that people don't understand
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There's 10 people that saw you pick up that cup
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There's 10 people that saw you put that shopping cart away
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So it's not just about making the investment or making the deposit or the withdrawal
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It's about who sees you make the deposit or the withdrawal so
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These little things that you have a trouble passing up on
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The reason you're cutting those corners is because you don't understand how it affects you when you build a high discipline level
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So if you want to protect that high discipline level that you've that you've built and you understand that little things take away from it
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You're going to be much more likely to not cut the corners. Yes. Yeah. Okay
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And this issue that this person's talking about is a very common issue and this is also why
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People who are very disciplined and then you know find themselves in this place where their life sort of fell apart
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It's because you're not aware of how it works. You're misunderstanding the game
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Same reason why people have a problem winning dude. They think they could set a goal today
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There's a lot of people listening today that are saying i'm going to change my life this year
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But they said it last year and they said it the year before and they said it the year before that and they said it the year before that and they said it
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The year before that and they can't understand why shit isn't working out for them
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Well shit's not working out for you because you don't understand that this is a 24-hour game
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And when you win the day and then you win the next day and then you win the next day
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And then you win the next day and let's say you lose a day and then you win another day
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Typically how people do this they say this year i'm going to lose a hundred pounds and then
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And they they repeated the same pattern, right? They they got to they got to wednesday and they're like, oh fuck
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Drink sure does sound good. You know, i'm going to order a pizza. I've had a rough day
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And and then they're like fuck I failed. Well, you know what i'll start again on monday
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All right, and then what happens is that they repeat that cycle over and over and over again
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And by the time, you know march comes around they're up another 10 pounds, but they're telling themselves. Well, you know what?
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It's only march i've got the rest of the year to do it. So i'll just go extra hard and
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They keep going down the same path. They don't change and then they're up another 10 pounds
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You know got all the way up to 350 pounds because I kept cutting myself off
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Every wednesday and starting over on monday and then between wednesday and monday. I'm like well i'm starting monday
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And and uh, i'm gonna start monday. So I and I meant it
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I meant I was gonna start monday, but when monday came around
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So when we think about why people fail and why their situation continues to get worse
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And you start to understand that i'm winning on a 24-hour basis, okay
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What happens is is that over the course of time if you continue to win every single day
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All right, and you win your weeks and then you win your months
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What happens is is that winning becomes the standard, okay?
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It's not something that you're after. It's something that you become
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And that's where the power really lies when you can take this winning standard of getting the day one every single day
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Negativity or pressure or anxiety or frustration eating at you anymore
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Because you know you're doing what you're supposed to do and you're seeing it result in
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Think if you could take yourself from where you are right now
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To a place where winning wasn't something that you even had to try to do it just became
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Yeah, and that's what happens when you understand the game and you start to create this identity
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And when your identity starts to to develop into this idea of like well, dude, i'm winning I win every day
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Now you've become extra powerful because now no longer are you saying well, I hope I win or I could do this
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Yeah, you end up on tv like kurt signelli from uh, from indiana and he's like, yeah
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I fucking win bro google me like and people are like, oh, he's so cocky
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No, he's not cocky. He's stating a fucking fact
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Here's my track record. This is what we do in the operator standard by the way, but it's not open
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So you can't join right now and let me ask you this because I want to I want to make sure we're setting some realistic expectations
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Specifically on this the the proverbial metaphorical bank account of discipline, right?
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Is it a true one-on-one ratio, right? Like look and I ask that because like I I think of it very similar to like losing weight, right?
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Like it's gonna take some time for you to build up and get to where you want to be
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But a couple of fuck-ups here and there cheat meals here and there that's gonna set you back way more
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You know, you know, I'm saying so like is it a true one-on-one input output when it comes to the discipline stuff
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Missing that shopping cart versus putting that shopping cart back up. Is it a true?
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It is because I'm saying yes, because it's not about the task
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It's about the awareness. Okay, it's not about how hard the task is. It's about the fact that you did it
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So whether or not it's pushing the shopping cart into the corral or i've got this big pile of rocks that I got a shovel from here
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To there and it's going to take me eight hours, but I know it needs to be done
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The discipline is still the same that you gain because it's about the awareness of shit that needs to be done and then you addressing it
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Just doing it. So it don't even matter what the task is. No, it's doing it. Yeah, I love it. Bigger tasks
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Do certain things can certain things damage you and take you back further, right?
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But that is different than what we're talking about
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Okay, so like if you are to like one of the commonalities in in, uh, you know diet culture is
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Monday through friday and great, you could do whatever you want on the weekends. That's not true
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Okay, because mathematically the weekends represent
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Okay, so if you're doing it 60% of the time, what's that grade in your what's what's a 60% in school?
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It's a fucking f right. Okay, so we have to understand that you can wipe out a week's progress
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As what we're talking about with discipline that becomes the awareness that you have
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To handle things big or small when you know, they need to be handled and those make
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You don't get any more discipline from shoveling the rocks that you do from putting the shopping cart away
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Absolutely. Yeah, because you're you're just aware that you're getting you're aware that it needs to be done and you're handling it
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And every time that you handle the things that need to be done, you're making a deposit everything
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You don't you're making a withdrawal and most people aren't aware of that and that's why they feel discipline
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One week and then six weeks later. They can't figure out why shit fell apart
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Well, it's because the little things that you passed up along that whole entire way that you knew needed to be addressed
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leaked into the things that actually dictate what your results are
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Okay, so let's say you walk by the shopping cart you walk by the cup
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And then that leads into i'll start again on monday and then that leads into you know what i'll start after uh
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March 1st or i'll start this bro. There's only one fucking time to start and that's right motherfucking now
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And if you can't fucking pick that up and do that, you're not going to win. That's reality
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That's that's the biggest misunderstanding in culture
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People think that they can casually win. They think that they can kind of want to win and win
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There's nobody that's ever won. There's nobody that's ever been fit. There's nobody that's ever been rich
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Anything that you want to do but haven't done yet that did it casually. It's not reality
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That everybody deserves to win and everybody will win with a casual effort is
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It's fucking stupid dude. It's a gross misunderstanding of the game
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It's total disrespect to everybody else that's trying to achieve the goal
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And it's you believing that you're much better than you are and quite honestly, you're not
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So we have to understand yes, there's people competing for what we want. Yes, there's a limited amount of spots at the top
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Everything fucking matters in getting there and you will never get there being casual about it
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A winner and you want to have a big fat bank account
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You want to be in shape and you want to have the life that you think you want
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You could just be like everybody else and accept it because i'm going to tell you this
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Is having all of these dreams and all of these goals and everything that you want to do
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And never fucking doing them and then keep telling yourself i'm going to do them one day
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So either accept right now that you're going to be a fucking winner and do it or accept right now that you're not and just live your life
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Because the worst thing you can do is think about all of these things that you want to be and never fucking execute on
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Yeah, it is worse than losing because it's agonizing
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It will eat you fucking alive losing at least you can say oh at least I fucking tried
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I know or you could just say yeah, you could just say whatever fuck. This is what I accept
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Yeah, I accept a mediocre life. I accept a subpar life
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But then you can't be mad at people who don't accept that right right so
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I I certainly wouldn't want to be one of these people that
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That talks about all these things they're going to do and then lives in that nether
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Another, you know region of like fucking, you know, I want to do it, but i'm not doing it
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Yeah, so either accept that you're going to win or accept that you're not going to win
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Yep, that's a hell of a way to start a week, dude. Yep. All right, guys, we will see you tonight at seven