Don't Fear the Unknown, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO24
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Summary
It's not about having the perfect plan, it's about taking the cards you're dealt and making the most out of them. That's what being a true entrepreneur is about. It's about going into the unknown with reckless abandon and chasing your dreams.
Transcript
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Hey guys, this is Vaughn Kohler and you're listening to the MFCEO Project.
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Halloween is coming up. Boo. Frightening. What are you afraid of? A lot of people fear
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the unknown. That's what Andy talks about today.
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All I do is work. All I do is work. All I do is work.
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Hey guys, what's up? It's Andy. You're listening to the MFCEO Project, Thursday Thunder Edition.
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I am the motherfucking CEO and we're going to talk about something today that everybody
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suffers from. Every single person out there listening to this right now is afraid of the
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what ifs. They're afraid of what might happen. They're afraid of what if I do this and it
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doesn't happen. All right. And I used to think just like that. I used to wonder if all the
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work would be worth it. I used to wonder what would happen if I did all this work and I still
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didn't make it. Was I wasting my time? Was all the struggle for nothing? Was all the anxiety
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for nothing? Was all the fear for nothing? Would it all pay off? Would the magical success fairies
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and the powers that be grant me the life I desired? Would I be one of the lucky ones? Okay. These
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are all thoughts that I used to have. I used to think like every single one of you guys
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and then it happened. Okay. That's when I realized that it wasn't what if, what if, what if, what
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if. Okay. And that day happened to me when I bought my first Lamborghini. I realized that
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it wasn't a what if. It wasn't magical. It wasn't a lottery that you won. There's no chance
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and there sure as fuck isn't a success fairy out there or powers that be that grant you anything.
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I can remember thinking I did all this work all this time and now I'm here and this is my car.
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That's it. That's all it is. I can remember thinking that. Okay. It wasn't what if anymore. It
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was okay. This is very simple. You go out, you execute and good shit happens. All right. And so
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many of you guys get caught up on the what if, what if, what if, what if that you end up paralyzing
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yourself and doing nothing? And obviously if you're a success student, you know, that's called
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paralysis by analysis. All right. It's a common term and it affects all of us. But the point I
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want to bring to you guys today is nobody knows what's going to happen. I don't know. You don't
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know. We don't know. I get hit by a bus walking out of here, recording this podcast. Who knows?
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Nobody knows. But what defines success and what defines entrepreneur and what defines somebody
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who's going to move through life with reckless abandon, accomplishing goal after goal after
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goal after goal is not a perfect plan. It's not a plan of perfection with no obstacles. It's
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how they respond to the shit that happens that we don't know is coming. Okay. So it's not
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being afraid of the unknown. It's going into the unknown with reckless abandon, waving your
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head saying, Holy fuck, I'm going to kick some ass today. And when that shit comes, you kick
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its ass too. That's what being successful is about. It's about adjusting and taking the
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cards dealt. You know, a lot of people think being successful is being dealt the perfect
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cards. That's what losers fucking say. All right. The reality is it's not about being dealt
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the perfect cars. It's about taking the cards you're dealt and making the most of them. That's
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what being a true success is about. So while I understand the fact that you're upset and
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you're scared and it's scary and it causes anxiety, it causes stress, it causes you to
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have diarrhea and all this stuff. I get it. I've been there. I still have it. Seriously. I still
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have it. Tyler's laughing at me. All right. I don't literally have it today, but there is times
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where I have diarrhea from stress. All right, guys, it's normal. It's part of the process.
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How are you going to look that shit in the fucking eye and defeat it? That's what makes
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somebody successful. It's not about having the perfect plan. It's not about going down
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the smoothest highway. It's about taking the things that pop up and punch you in the fucking
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eye and hitting them back twice as hard so that you can keep moving forward. And that's
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what I want you to get through this. Okay. Cause I get so many questions about what if, what
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if, what if, what if, what if, what if, and it's normal to ask those questions. It's normal
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to develop a good plan. I'm not saying don't fucking plan. Cause I know there's that one
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guy out there saying Andy. So you're saying I should just run with no fucking plan. No
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motherfucker. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is, is it's good to have a plan.
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It's good to have thoughts of what's going to happen. But at the end of the day, if that
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stops you from going from here to there and moving from planning to acting, you're only hurting
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yourself. All right. All, none of us know what the fuck we're doing. Okay. Do we, do
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I have a better idea than probably you and you're on your first day for sure. Does Bill
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Gates have a better idea than me? Cause he's been doing it twice as long and, and, and
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all has way more experience. Yes. But that you develop that with time guys. And you have
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the more time you put in, the more experience you have, the more confidence you develop in
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your plan. So you lose a lot of that fear. So all this fear that you guys have about
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what if, what if, what if, what if dude, that's normal. Just go out and fucking execute.
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And when bad shit happens, figure out how to, how to get past it. Because the reality
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is the bad shit that happens, 99.99% of it is not going to kill you. It's only going to
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be there to serve a purpose for you to see, observe, find a solution and move forward.
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So you don't do it again. And every time you accomplish that, you, you become stronger,
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your company becomes stronger and you become more in line for success. So don't fucking
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wait. Don't worry about what if, don't think of it as magic. Don't think of it as lottery,
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make a list, execute the fucking list, do that every single day for the next 10 years. And
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you will be where you want to be. I fucking guarantee it.
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All I do is work. All I do is work. All I do is work. All I do is work. All I do is work.