Before They Call You Crazy, After They Call You Genius, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO26
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Summary
In this episode of the MFCEO Project, I talk about the Before and After voices in your head, and why you need to understand that there are going to be the before voices and the after voices when it comes to your goals and dreams.
Transcript
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All I do is work, work, work, never run the sidelines, I only hustle, I don't ever take
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your day off, I only work, work, work, I don't mess around, kid, I only can't, can't, can't,
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what he never sees, get you, all I do is work, all I do is work, all I do is work,
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I'm Andy, I'm your host, and I am the motherfucking CEO.
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We're going to come in, we're going to hit you with something short, and I'm not going
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I want you to go out, I want you to be productive, and I want you to do something.
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Something that was on my mind today, as I was getting ready to sit down and talk about what
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we were going to do for Thursday Thunder, was like these before and after pics, okay?
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Everybody's seen these before and after pictures, whether it be in a magazine, on TV, right?
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Here's the dude before he used the Ab Destroyer workout program, you know, all flabby and marshmallow-y,
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And then here he is after, just nine days after, using the Ab Destroyer, looking like
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he's a model off of Men's Health with washboard abs, badass, surrounded by all these hot chicks,
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And it got me thinking, you know, it's so funny how opinions changed about people as
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they move through the journey of life, especially entrepreneurship.
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You know, if you want, everybody who wants to be a successful entrepreneur or really successful
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at anything in life needs to understand that there's going to be the before voices and there's
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And what I mean by that, guys, is there's going to be ways that people talk to you and
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think about you before when you're the hippopotamus and they're going to think about you after when
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you're the ripped, you know, ripped diesel, MacGyver, solve anything, nuclear physicist,
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After you proved them wrong, that's what we're getting at.
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All of a sudden, you're a stud before you were just a hippo, all right?
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When I'm talking about the way people look at you at the before and after, let me give
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We were sleeping on a piss-stained mattress in the back of our first retail store that
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we got from the Salvation Army three or four stores down in our center.
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This is people I love, people I believed in, people I trusted.
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Hey, man, do you still have that little vitamin shop?
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And as years went by, guys, and day, I'm talking day after day after day of frustration, day
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after day of work, day after day of execution and struggle, the conversations changed, okay?
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And instead of being, hey, you know, be realistic, it started being more like this.
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Man, I can't believe you guys are still doing that.
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And this is exactly what the conversations have gone for the past 16 years of my life.
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Guys, you have to understand that most people are incapable of thinking big.
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They're pre-programmed by the system to instill limits on themselves.
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They look here and see big things and automatically get scared and accept as reality that they
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This is why you can't expect people to agree with or understand you trying to accomplish
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It hurts when people you love say they don't believe in you, but you're going to have to
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learn to be okay with people not understanding or trusting or believing your end result if
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You know, this is just part of the process, guys.
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They're going to hate on you to try and get you to quit.
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And it's not because they hate you or think you're a bad person.
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It's because your success serves as a constant reminder as to what they could have been had
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And if given the chance, these same people would switch places with you 100% of the time.
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Focus on your action because that's what matters, not your talk, not your doubts, and especially
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You have to realize that when you're talking about the quote unquote average crowd, you need
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to realize that they are not going to see the after until it exists.
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You, as an entrepreneur, as somebody who has dreams, sees the after before anyone else.
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Successful people, which you're successful already if you're listening to this because
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You're showing a genuine investment moving forward.
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Your thoughts should be, fuck yeah, I'm crazy, but I'm a mad fucking genius for doing this.
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You have to use their criticism and use their doubts and use the things that they feed you
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You know, so many people hear these negativity, you know, the people who they trust and who
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they believe in and who they want to take their opinions from, and they say, oh, you
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And that causes so many people just to stop and quit and say, you know what?
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But guys, you have to realize it's not just you.
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Just because your peer group or your parents or your teachers or your friends are saying
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they don't think you can do it, that is a normal process of being successful.
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It wasn't any different for anybody that stepped outside the regular realm of success.
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The difference between successful people and people who quit and reside to being an average
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person and left their dreams just fade off into the sunset is that successful people
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know that when the roar of laughter from the crowd dies down, there's only one person who's
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going to have the last laugh, and that's going to be you.
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You have to quit giving a shit whether or not the crowd supports you, okay?
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And as long as you take daily action on that vision every single day, step after step
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after step, you're going to get where you want to go regardless of what anybody says.
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This is the hardest thing that I have to get through with the young entrepreneur mindset
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is that they think that other people's opinion is going to affect their outcome, and it's
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What's going to affect your outcome is how well you execute on a daily basis, day after
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day, week after week, month after month, year after year.
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And if you do that, guys, it doesn't matter what your parents say.