In this episode of the MFCEO Project, I talk about the importance of being the CEO of your own life and how to become one. I also talk about a story about how my family almost went without food when I was a kid and my family was going through a financial crisis.
00:00:00.360I can stack them hundreds to the roof. I ain't stopping till they stack to the moon.
00:00:04.860Without me, my family wouldn't have food. Anybody go against me gotta lose.
00:00:12.580What is up, guys? You're listening to the MFCEO Project. I'm Andy. I'm your host.
00:00:18.180And I am the motherfucking CEO. Guys, if this is your first time listening, welcome.
00:00:23.220The goal of this podcast is to help you become the motherfucking CEO of you.
00:00:29.680You have to understand that you are in control. Not your spouse. Not your friends. Not your circumstances. Not your job. Not what your mom and dad told you you have to be. You.
00:00:41.700And everything in your life right now is a reflection of the decisions that you have made in the past.
00:00:47.440What you are right now is not what you are. It's who you were. Okay? And we've all heard this before.
00:00:53.460But if you really think about it and you really put time to focus on it, you'll understand that our point of this podcast is to help you get to a point where you can make better, more educated decisions that are going to help you produce the life that you want.
00:01:11.100Now, this podcast is an entrepreneurial-based podcast. But what you guys have to understand is that entrepreneurial thinking is the key to success in almost every area of life.
00:01:21.400And it can definitely be hugely beneficial in every area of life if you decide to apply it.
00:01:29.120So it doesn't matter if you actually own a business. It doesn't matter if you actually are a millionaire or multimillionaire or billionaire.
00:01:36.500It doesn't matter if you're, you know, struggling right now. Most people are. That's reality.
00:01:41.720The goal is to help you sift through the struggle with the accurate, realistic, not idealistic information so that you can make decisions that will produce a better result.
00:01:53.100The purpose of this podcast is to retrain your ability to make decisions that will help you put out what it is you want.
00:06:32.140Why isn't 100% of the population successful and kicking ass and living the life that they want?
00:06:40.880Okay, the truth is it's not because these people aren't willing to do the hard work.
00:06:46.140There are a lot of unhappy and unsuccessful people who put in hard work.
00:06:50.180From 9 to 5, they work hard at their job.
00:06:53.220They work hard to try to be better husbands or wives or dads or moms.
00:06:57.260They work hard to try to get in decent shape and be healthy.
00:07:00.920Yes, most people do actually work hard.
00:07:05.140A lot of people on this earth, the majority, work hard.
00:07:10.740The problem is they don't work hard enough.
00:07:14.800They don't put real stress on themselves.
00:07:16.960They don't push themselves beyond their comfort zone.
00:07:19.600They don't push themselves past the point of failure.
00:07:22.560They don't put their heart and their mind and every single thing that they have to the test on a daily basis.
00:07:29.740Yes, they want to be happy and successful, but they just aren't willing to do work that is hard enough to achieve the actual happiness and success they desire.
00:07:41.680They think they can work hard in a way that is quote unquote still manageable for them to get the results they are looking for.
00:07:48.700This is something I see time and time and time again.
00:07:54.240People are afraid of going all in on tasks that have such a high level of difficulty that they are worried that they will be left depleted and defeated and depressed and basically run down and done.
00:09:04.780I just moved into a new house, as a lot of you guys know.
00:09:07.960And I've said a couple times on my stories and snaps, the land used to belong to the 18th president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, who was in office just after the Civil War.
00:09:19.960And as I was walking around our house the other day, I was wearing a weighted vest, which I commonly do, and there's a lot of hills.
00:09:28.920And I got to thinking about something.
00:09:30.200And I got to think about how the last three houses I've lived in, I've had all these really amazing hills to walk on that surround my house.
00:09:43.240The first house, which was the smallest of the three houses, had the easiest hills.
00:09:48.360And at the time, and this is important, I thought they were very hard.
00:09:52.740The second house, being a much, much larger, much nicer house, had a lot bigger hills.
00:09:59.640One of the hills, if you guys have followed me for a few years, I called Death Mountain.
00:10:04.280The hill was so steep and so long, you literally thought you're going to fucking die by the time you got to the top of it.
00:10:10.340Okay, and then we have this new house.
00:10:12.520And I remember before I moved into the new house, I thought, man, I wonder if any of the hills over there are any good, like if they're as good as Death Mountain.
00:10:21.220Well, the truth is, not only are they as good, the hills at the new house, which is the nicest house of the three, are way steeper, way longer, and much more difficult than they were at even the second house.
00:10:37.380And I was thinking how funny that parallel is, because it's really a true metaphor for what it takes to level up, okay?
00:10:46.800If you would have asked me back when I was living at the house I just moved from, if the hills could have been any harder at my new house, I would have laughed and be like, dude, you're insane.
00:10:56.980It doesn't get any harder than this, okay?
00:11:00.300And I think this is a great metaphor for the huge benefit that you experience when you do push yourself and level up to a higher standard.
00:11:11.320You know when you think shit is really hard, you're going to find out one day that it's really not that hard.
00:11:18.240We all know that, and you've all experienced that at some level.
00:11:22.120And as you level up and acclimate, it's going to become easy, and you're going to eventually look back from where you are now into where you were and be like, man, I can't believe I thought the hills of that first house were hard.
00:11:36.480I can't even believe I thought the hills of that second house were hard.
00:11:40.460And I thought it was such a great parallel for the journey, okay?
00:11:43.420Because pursuing big goals is going to be freaking hard, man.
00:12:26.640And so were the hills of my second house.
00:12:28.520And I thought those were so super hard.
00:12:30.520And I've made videos about how hard those hills were.
00:12:33.040And now I got this new house, which is the best house of all of them, and the hills are by far the hardest.
00:12:40.000If that's not a metaphor for success, I don't know what is, okay?
00:12:45.560So you have to think about that in terms of what your life looks like, okay?
00:12:50.720You're going to start a new challenge, and you're going to feel like, man, this is really difficult.
00:12:58.200But after you do it for two or three or four days, you're going to look back at what you thought was difficult before, and you're going to say, man, that wasn't shit.
00:13:52.700Because we overcame something that was hard for us in the beginning.
00:13:56.480But what that does is that blinds us from understanding that there are more levels to this moving forward.
00:14:03.200And when you don't open your eyes and you don't realize that there actually are more levels of more difficult challenges to move forward from where you are, you're going to stop progressing.
00:14:15.620And when you stop progressing, you stop growing, you become stale, you get depressed, and you look around and you're like, why am I so mad?
00:14:27.020Well, the reason you're frustrated is because you're built to fucking dominate and you're choosing because you're holding on to a label that you gave yourself many years ago or many months ago from going on the new journey up the quote unquote new hills to get the quote unquote new house that will be the prize.
00:14:49.700Okay, the house is a metaphor for the quality of whatever your success is, whether that be your body, whether that be your relationships, whether that be your business, it doesn't matter.
00:15:02.320Because once we start telling ourselves that we've accomplished something, we've done something, these hills are hard, not many people could do these hills.
00:15:11.540When we start telling ourselves that, guys, we start believing that we're the best.
00:15:15.320And when we start believing we're the best, we aren't willing to look at other challenges.
00:15:19.000We aren't willing to go up the next hill.
00:15:20.840We aren't willing to move forward on the next big project because we already feel like we've done it.
00:17:15.300Well, the reason you got it, guys, is because you started measuring yourself against people who were in your peer group at the time.
00:17:23.080And once you started to get comfortable within that peer group and you felt like you weren't getting dominated by that peer group and you weren't dominating that peer group, you just kind of fell in line and that's where you stayed.
00:17:34.680And if I could see hands raised right now, I guarantee you most of you would be raising your hand.
00:17:39.580The truth is, guys, we learned this as a young kid and it never changes.
00:17:45.300The degree of which you are rewarded is directly proportional to the degree of hard work that you put in.
00:18:02.520I know that gets beaten to the dirt by all these motivational Muppets out there.
00:18:06.260But, guys, the reason it gets beaten in the dirt is because it's one of the things that's being said that is 100 million percent true.
00:18:14.700And it is a law of reality that will stand the test of time.
00:18:19.600Your life is a monument to the difficulty and the pain and the frustration and the shit that you have to deal with on a daily basis and how good you are at dealing with it.
00:18:34.540And not only how good you are dealing with it, how good you are at asking for fucking more.
00:18:40.040And not only how good you are at playing music.