Discipline Is The Difference, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO140
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Summary
In this episode of the MfCODE PROJECT, Andy talks about the importance of discipline and how it's the difference between a successful person and someone who doesn't feel like it. If you don't have the discipline you need to be successful, you're not going to burn the motherfucker down.
Transcript
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what is up guys you're listening to the mf ceo project i'm andy i'm your host and this is
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fucking thursday thunder all right look today it's been a while since i've really punched you
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guys right in the fucking face with something that really makes you think but today i had
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something happen to me and it made me really consider and think about how a lot of you guys
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have been thinking and i know that you're thinking this way because you send me emails
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that indicate you're thinking this way uh but first before i get into this i want to talk to
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you about kind of what i've got going on um as you guys know that january 1st of 2016 so a year
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and a few months ago i was 330 fucking pounds i was fat as fuck i was not working out i was not
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eating correctly i was drinking four nights a fucking week um and i made a video and a lot
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of you guys saw it and i talked about how i was going to get back in shape and and do all this
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shit and most of the people thought i was lying blah blah blah well here i am uh you know 75 pounds
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down later i'm really honestly uh close to the best shape of my life um i could maybe lose another 15
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20 pounds but as far as like conditioning at this weight i've never been in better shape um now
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i've developed good habits over the course of that time i've gone from being totally detrained uh in
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the habit of not training to to the point where a lot of you guys don't know that like uh when you
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get in the habit of training you know i've been training for a long long long time and i've gone
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through phases but when you get in the habit of training you feel weird when you don't train and
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um you know i'm to the point where that's kind of taken over my life like it's it's an ingrained
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lifestyle habit at this point i don't even have to think about it it's just something that happens
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now with that being said today i okay sunday i drank a bottle of maker's market easter a whole bottle
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um and i got fucking drunk and i felt like shit yesterday and today i'm recording thursday thunder
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on tuesday because i'm motivated to record it um and and it's always better content when i feel it
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you know what i'm saying so anyway yesterday i didn't train today i still felt like garbage all day
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and the last thing in the world i wanted to do was train um i seriously would have probably eaten
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a fucking fresh steaming nugget of dog poop before i wanted to go to the gym all right now
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usually i train in the morning like around nine o'clock today it took me until 3 30 to finally talk
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myself into getting my fat ass to the gym all right now i got to the gym i fucking did my cardio
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i did my weights i had one of the best fucking workouts that i've had in the last year and four
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months okay uh i killed it dude i walked out of the gym you know i feel great i'm feeling good my whole
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day is turned around and i'm i'm i'm energized i have this energy which is why i'm sitting here now i'm
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still literally in my workout shirt from the from training and i and something occurred to me because
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i keep getting the same question over and over in different ways from you guys and this is going to
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be the meat and potatoes of today's message you guys constantly ask me how i stay motivated or how do
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you get motivated or what do you do when you start to lack motivation and i want to talk to you guys
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about the importance of understanding the difference of what really matters when it comes down to success
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and what really fucking matters when it comes down to being successful is not motivation it's
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discipline anybody can do the shit they want to do when they feel like they feel like doing it okay
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anybody can go to the gym when they feel like going to the gym anybody could show up to work and give
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a hundred percent when they feel good about what they're working on anybody can give a hundred percent
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to their family when they're really in the mood to do so but that's not what makes successful people
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successful what makes successful people successful is what they do when they don't feel like it okay
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it's what you do when you don't feel like going to the gym and you're dragging ass and you're partially
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hungover and you would rather eat a piece of dog shit than go to the gym it's what you do when you show up
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to work and you want to kill your fucking boss and you want to burn the motherfucker down okay it's what
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you do when you look at your family and they annoy the fucking shit out of you those are the differences
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that make up successful fulfilled life from people who become very fucking average very fucking mundane
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in in in uh you know non-fucking i'm at a loss for what i'm saying just in capable of of of living a quality
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life okay and when we talk about how to become successful everybody likes to talk about motivation
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you know i see people writing on my page oh andy you motivate me blah blah blah oh andy i'm motivated
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oh i listen to your videos and i get hyped that's great i'm glad that you can do that and i'm glad
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that i can get you hyped for five fucking minutes but what do you do after the five minutes is over
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what do you do after you walk out of the seminar that you paid a thousand dollars to go to what do you
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do when you walk out of the meeting with your boss because he got you a little fire under your ass
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what do you do when you wake up the next day what do you do when somebody's not there watching you
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what do you do when you have to either do what it is you know you're supposed to do without somebody
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there to supervise you or you get to take the playoff because no one's going to know the difference
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those are the things that make up success and that's not motivation that's discipline that's
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discipline to do the shit that you don't want to do because you know it needs to be fucking done
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all right that's the quality that makes people successful and when we talk about when we talk
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about regret and like at the end of your life how you're going to feel about your life i can one
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thousand percent guarantee you that how you feel about your life at the end of your time here
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is going to come down to your ability to cultivate discipline it's going to come down to you developing
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the ability to do the things that you don't feel like doing because you know that it's the right
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thing to fucking do and if you want to look at any successful person on earth okay they have
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cultivated discipline nobody wakes up in the morning every day of their life fired up contrary
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to what you might see because i post clearly the best shit that i say on the internet and you guys
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perceive that to be how i am i'm not mr fucking fire 24 hours a day in fact i give most of my fire to
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you motherfuckers the reason i'm successful is because i execute whether i have the fucking fire
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or whether i don't have the fucking fire and you guys have got to start cultivating the ability to have
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discipline you have to do the things that you don't feel like doing because that is the thing that you
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actually need to do and i'm going to tell you a little trick that i use to make this happen
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okay guys i've talked about this before if you follow me on snap i've talked about it a number of
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times it's a pivot point okay and you have to understand how to utilize a pivot point a pivot point
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is this you come to a situation where let's say for example like today where i didn't feel like going to
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the fucking gym and doing the things i know that i needed to do for me to reach my long-term goals
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i i got to the point where i was like dude i'm either not going to go to the gym and i'm going
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to order a fucking pizza or i'm going to get up and go to the gym and i've trained myself that in
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those situations where i can either pivot one direction or the other direction to always pivot
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in the direction of my goals i've trained myself to recognize that point in time that specific
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point in time as the trigger for me to get up and go do something productive now are you always going
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to have the best results when you're in this mindset no it's likely that you're seriously
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probably gonna have much better results when you're totally in the zone and you're totally fired up and
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you're totally ready to go but just because you don't have those feelings doesn't mean that you
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should just wash out the rest of your fucking day what if you went and got a 50 workout versus zero
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percent what if you went and got a 50 work day versus zero percent that's still a fucking win
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considering the circumstances and so many of you guys try to look at it as all or nothing and wash
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out your days well guess what all the motherfuckers that you compete against all the other people you
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see they're successful all the other people who are building multi-million dollar careers and lives and
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businesses they've all figured out one thing they know how to get themselves up and moving when they
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don't fucking feel like it and it always comes down to discipline so don't ask the question how do i stay
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motivated because no one stays motivated ask the question how do i develop the discipline to do the
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things that i know i need to do when i don't feel like doing them that is the question okay because
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it's really fucking easy for anybody to come to work on the days they feel like killing it and killing
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it but what happens on the days that you don't feel like killing it what happens on the days you don't
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feel like going to the gym what happens on the days that you don't feel like getting out of bed
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because those are the fucking days that are going to find where you end up in your life