CLIMB THE PYRAMID： The Plan for Powering Through to the Top, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO257
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Summary
What is a CEO? What is a MFCEOEOE? What does it mean to be one? What are the benefits of being a CEO and why there is no place for you in whatever it is that you re in?
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I can stack them honeys to the roof. I ain't stopping till they stack to the moon.
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Without me, my family wouldn't have food. Anybody go against me gotta lose.
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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. All right. Today is Thursday Thunder and I've got something very important
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to talk to you about, like I always do on Thursdays. But before I do that, remember that
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we have an iTunes reviews contest going. All right. Screenshot and email your reviews to
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contact at andyfusella.com with the subject line review contest after you go make the review.
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What's the prize for the review contest? The prize is coming out to St. Louis, Missouri
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staying at the Four Seasons, going to a five-star dinner, hanging out with me so we can help you
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kick ass at whatever it is that you're doing. And we're going to do that in the next two weeks.
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Not the actual trip, but we're going to pick the winner. All right. So if this is your first time
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listening to the MFCEO Project, what is a motherfucking CEO? And you may be thinking,
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well, I don't know. Well, the answer is this. The answer is we are all motherfucking CEOs.
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We are people here who take command, who take control, who make decisions that are conscious
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and deliberate about our lives. We work to make ourselves and the people around us better
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through our actions. We are not people who get our lives dictated to us. We are not people who take
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whatever anyone else will give us. We go out and take what the fuck we want. That's what an MFCEO is.
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And that's also why we have been ranked in the top 10 business category for nearly three years straight
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because we talk about the real shit. We don't talk about ideal things. We talk about real things.
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Okay. And most people spend all their time talking about the way things should be and the way things
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aren't and why they can't get ahead. And they take actions that are based upon this fucking world that
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doesn't even exist called idealist unicorn land. And that's how they operate. While real people like us,
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we actually recognize the way the world is and we take appropriate actions to succeed in the real
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world. And then by the way, if we want to fix things, we use our success in the real world to
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make the real world more ideal. You should probably go replay that again because that's what this world
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is missing. Now, what I want to talk to you guys about today is something that has been on my mind.
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And I've covered this in the past before, but it is, it is, is really on my mind a lot lately because
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I've got a lot of, um, DMS and emails and, and, and I guys, I read, uh, a lot, all the emails you
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send in on Andy for sell. I read, um, sometimes I don't check my DMS, uh, and I read them, but I won't
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respond because I don't get fucking time to do it. And that's just the truth. But something that I see
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consistently across the board is the idea that there is no place for you in whatever it is that
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you're in. Okay. Whether you're starting a new business and you think, well, there's already X
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amount of this out there. I can't do this because of them. Or you're in a company because really do
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there's only two ways to be successful. Let's be real. One, start your own fucking business. We're
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talking about financially successful, maybe three. Okay. Be born rich to which none of us are to, uh,
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just go start a business or three becomes such a valuable part of the company that you work for
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that you're rewarded financially very well. All right. And a lot of you guys are in that third
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category and that's okay because what we're going to talk about right here is applicable. Just like
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everything we talk about is applicable to both two and three categories. People who want to start
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their business and people who want to become a highly valued, uh, asset to the company they work
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for. Now I seen this a lot. Um, and I see it with both groups. I see people thinking that there is no
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room for them. They might be working in a company and they might be sweeping the floor and they look
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ahead and they say, Oh man, there's so many great people in this company. There's no way there's
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going to be room for me to build a valuable career. And so what do they do? They, they do the job half
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ass. They don't take pride in what they do. They don't work to become a valuable asset of the company.
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And what happened because they don't believe it's going to pay off. And what happens is their thoughts
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become a self-fulfilling prophecy. All right. They think it's not going to work. So they don't work.
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And then the plan that they have doesn't work. All right. And we see this all the time, but I'm here
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to tell you something. I want to explain to you the idea of how this plays out conceptually so that
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maybe you can have a little more belief in yourself than what you have at this current moment.
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I want you to imagine a pyramid. Okay. And at the base of the pyramid, the widest part that is year
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number one. All right. And for you guys that are working in the company, sweeping the floor or for
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you guys starting a business, it doesn't matter. This is year one. And in year one, there is tons
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of people who are trying to start a business or who also doing the same job you're doing in your
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business. You're coming in, you're the lowest common denominator. All right. The competition is
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immense because the barrier to entry at this level is fucking zero. All right. So then I want you to
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think about the next level of the pyramid. All right. And this pyramid, this level is people who
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stick with that job or whatever it is, their company or their idea or their mission or their
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whatever for five years. All right. Now, obviously the second section of the pyramid is not as big as the
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the base of the base of the pyramid. And what this represents is the people who quit in the first
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four years. All right. And so now you're competing with less people for the same thing. Okay. And by the
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way, you've learned five years of skills that are going to help you be more effective. All right. And so
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then let's look at the next section of the pyramid, the next section of the pyramid is way smaller than
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the second section of the period. And, and only a quarter of the size of the first section. And the
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sec, the third section of the pyramid is people who stayed there for seven years. And what happened?
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Half of the people from the second section now quit, which means you're competing with less and less
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people. All right. And ignore the years. This could be one, three, four. It could be, you know,
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one, two, three years. It doesn't matter. The point that's being conveyed here is that as you stick with
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something, the competition becomes less and less because other people quit. All right. And this is why
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most people spend their entire lives going from job to job, to job, to job, or an entrepreneurship
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idea to idea, to idea, to idea, because they are part of the group, the mass, the majority that quits
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at the base. So they can never get anywhere because they don't put in the time and they don't learn the
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skills that would allow them to succeed at whatever it is. So what are we really talking about?
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We're talking about fucking endurance. We're talking about being able to put up with more pain than
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the next guy. We're talking about being able to be more patient than the next person. We're talking about
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being able to learn more skills on a daily basis and take more pride in your job on a daily basis than
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your coworkers. We're talking about people who will not fucking quit. And I get asked this all the time
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when I do interviews for other podcasts. What's the biggest secret to success? Don't fucking quit.
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That's it. And I know that sounds overly simple. And I know that doesn't sound like, oh, I can make a
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fucking million dollars in one fucking day. And I know that doesn't sound like buy my course and you'll be
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rich in three months because all of that shit is bullshit. The only fucking truth that you need to
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know about being successful is that you need to have fucking endurance. You need to have grit. You
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need to have the stick-to-itiveness to persevere past the point that your competition will.
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And your competition could be other companies. It could be your coworkers. But you are in a
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competition whether you want to recognize it or not. You have to understand that as you go further,
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your competition gets less and you become more skilled. So it becomes easier to defeat
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your competition the longer you're in the game. And a lot of you guys, I love millennials,
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man. My whole company's made of them. But a lot of you guys just don't understand the concept of
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being patient. You don't understand the concept of that it's going to take years for you to build a
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successful career. Years. And the reason that you don't understand that, and it's not your fault,
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by the way, the people who created the technology that you were born and bred and grew up in created a
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world for you that was fast, that was easy, that was quick, that was instant. It involves things like
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getting your food quick, calling a fucking Uber and they're there in two seconds, texting, emailing,
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social media, seeing your friends everywhere. Everything is fast and fucking easy now. And for
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that reason, you didn't grow up with the understanding that some things, regardless of technology, are going to
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take you years. And being successful financially is one of them. It's going to take years. It's not
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going to take one year. It's not going to take two years. It's not going to take three years. It's going
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to take a fucking decade or more. And that's the truth. That's the shit nobody wants to tell you.
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Because if I were to tell you that, hey man, why don't you buy my program and you could fucking be
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successful in 10 years, what are you going to say? You're going to say, fuck off. Because most of the
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people aren't willing to stick with shit for 10 fucking years. But that's the truth. That's why
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success is so rare. That's why people who have success will tell you all the same shit I'm telling
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you right now. You got to have grit. You got to have endurance. You got to understand that it's going
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to take time. And while that time is passing, you've got to be aggressive. We talk about it all
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the time. Aggressive patience. You got to learn as much as you can while you're doing it. You've
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got to hustle as hard as you can on a daily basis. You've got to fucking practice your skill on a
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daily basis to the point where you're better than everybody else. That's the key to success.
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Your competition is going to get less and less the longer you go. Your advantage is going to get
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bigger and bigger over everybody else. And let me tell you something. When you've been doing
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something for 10 years and you know the ins is out and you have real skill, you're fucking valuable
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anywhere you go. Anywhere you go. Not just in that company you work at now. So a lot of people will
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say to themselves, well, I'm not going to do that because my company doesn't believe in me. My
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company doesn't grow the way I want. You know what? It doesn't matter if your companies grow the way you
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want it to grow or have a position for you or this or that. Because the skill that you're going to learn
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by doing what I'm talking about over the course of a fucking decade is going to be valuable anywhere