Chess Not Checkers： How to Live With Intent to Build Your Ultimate Success, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO194
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Summary
The difference between where you are and where you want to be comes down to one thing and that is living with intent. In order to live the life you want, you have to live with intent, and that means you need to go through life with confidence, with swagger, and with an understanding that your results are a direct result of your actions and that your decisions are the most powerful being in your life and ultimately what builds the life that you want.
Transcript
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what is up guys you're listening to the MFCEO project I'm Andy I'm your host and I am the
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motherfucking CEO and guys I want you to be the motherfucking CEO too and not just the CEO of a
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business but the motherfucking CEO of you and what does that mean well what it means is you need to
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go through life with confidence with swagger with an understanding that your results are a direct
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result of your actions you are in control you are the most powerful being in your life and your
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decisions are going to build your entire life now that has everything to do with what we're going to
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talk about today okay we need to understand what is the difference between where you are
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and where you want to be what is the difference between who you are and who you want to be
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what's the difference between all the people out there who have achieved what you want to achieve
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and you a lot of people spend so much time on this topic they think to themselves what does that guy
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have that I don't have why am why am I not successful why am I not in the shape that I want to be in
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why why do I not have the relationships that I want in my life and let me break it down for you
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real simple it comes down to one thing passive action passive living results in a passive life
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result okay when you go through your day and you do things with no intention of producing a result
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the result you get is never going to be what you want a lot of people including a lot of you
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are under the assumption that you can just do things and go through your day and sort of just
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float through and you'll end up somehow magically where you want to be and I'm not talking about
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working hard everybody knows you got to work fucking hard okay we all know that I talk about
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that all the time because it is the biggest factor so that being a given you have to understand that
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it comes down to more than just working hard and what I mean is this successful people
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the people who have the life you want to have the people who make the kind of money you want to
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make the people who have the relationships and connections you want the people who are living in
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this kind of health that you want they all do one thing that you don't do and that's this they live with
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intent they live with intent in every single action that they take every single thing that they do
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every single place that they go every single food that they eat every single phone call they make
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every single email they send has to do with producing a certain result and so many of you guys spend so much
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time just concentrating on work and not concentrating on the other things the things that are that you
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know you can't really remember throughout the day sort of where just life just happens to you and you
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can't understand why you're not getting the result well guys the intent that you have with every action
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that you take is ultimately what builds the life that you want all right and what I mean by this
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some people go through the day and when it comes time to eat lunch they don't have a plan for eating
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lunch when it comes time for eating dinner they don't have a plan for eating dinner so what do they
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do they stuff their face with whatever's easy they drink whatever they can they don't think about the
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result and then down the road they're bitching about how come they're fat and out of shape and
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unhealthy and depressed and feeling like shit well the reason that you feel like shit is because you had no
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intention with the plan and the actions that you were taking three four five six seven eight months ago
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and now you're dealing with the result now and this concept applies to your business it applies your
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relationships applies to your spirituality and it applies to your health you have to understand intent
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every single thing that you do every single action you take should be taken with the idea of
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producing a specific result down to the smallest details how you shake someone's hand what you say
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when you meet them do you give them a dead fish or do you look them in the eye with a strong handshake
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and say very nice to meet you okay do you pick up the trash that you see on the office floor that you
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didn't happen to leave there or do you just pass by and act like you didn't see it and you're probably
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saying well that really has nothing to do with producing a result bullshit it doesn't what habits
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are you creating by passing up on that on that trash what example are you setting to your peers what
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example are you accepting to the people you lead what example are you setting to the people who look at
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you and make decisions about your career everything matters your intent with every action you take not
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just your career actions or your health actions but every action matter and people who are successful
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people who live the life you want to live people who have the things you want to have people who do
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the things you want to do they all live with intent nothing they do is on accident nothing they say
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is on accident and you have to start living your life with a plan with intent or you're going to end up
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with something that you didn't ever want and I can't tell you what that is because life owns you then
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when you don't have intent and you don't practice intent and you don't work with intent life gives you
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what's left over life gives you what is left over by everybody else who is practicing the intent
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they are making decisions with the result in mind even the smallest decisions they are aware of how
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people perceive them with their words their actions what they say and I can tell you for a fact that every
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single person I've ever met that lives an above average very successful life in any area whether
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it be health financial relationships spiritual whatever you want to say they all practice this
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practice you guys have to understand this nobody who is where you want to be floats through the day
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nobody who is where you want to be floats through their life and gets there it's not an accident
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it's a plan I always say to my team it's chess not checkers and if you can understand what that
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means when it comes to your intent you will have figured out the biggest separator between you
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and who you want to be and what do I mean by chess not checkers I mean you've got to think ahead
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you got to have a plan you got to have a strategy and not just for the big shit for all the shit