Follow Your Blockers, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO125
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Summary
In this episode, I discuss the importance of timing as an entrepreneurial principle, and how you can become skilled at recognizing when it's the right time to make a move in order to maximize your chances of getting a raise.
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 I am
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the motherfucking CEO guys it's been a few weeks I've been missing Thursday thunders
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I know but today I've got an extra special Friday fire for you I've got something I want
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to talk to you guys about that I think is extremely important it's not necessarily motivational
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but it's extremely valuable when it comes to entrepreneurship portraying yourself as an
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entrepreneur practicing entrepreneur principles in your life no matter what position you currently
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are and that is timing okay we've never addressed this topic and I get a lot of questions on
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it I was watching the Super Bowl like most of you guys were this past Sunday and I noticed
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a lot of times when I was watching the Atlanta Falcons try to run the football in the third
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and fourth quarter that their running backs were not following the blocks they weren't
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reading the reads they weren't seeing things happen they were not waiting for the the pass
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to run to materialize and guys if you follow sports you know that if you are a running back
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and you're not patient and we talk about that a lot aggressive patience but if you're not patient
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to allow certain paths to open up you're not a very good running back and this has the same
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implications in entrepreneurship and the problem with timing as an entrepreneurial principle is that
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it takes a lot of mistakes regarding bad timing to recognize when you need to let timing materialize
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okay so I want to try to address this with you guys and maybe save you some time whether you're an
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employee who's asking for a raise or whether you're the CEO who's making a pivotal decision in your
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company's path timing is very important all right you have to learn to recognize when the right time to
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make moves is you know we talk about aggressive patience we talk about being aggressive we talk about
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letting nothing stand in your way but sometimes things do stand in your way sometimes the
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opportunity isn't quite ready yet sometimes the opportunity is ready right now and you need to act
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right now okay and you have to be aware of that we talk a lot about busting through barriers and
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running through walls and letting nothing stop you and that's all great and 90% of the time that's the
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truth but sometimes there's obstacles in your way that you need to let pass sometimes there's things
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in your way that you're not going to be able to run over or run through and that's why you have to
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understand what timing is okay let me give you an example of this say you're an employee right now and
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we talk to you guys a lot a lot of you guys are employees you're wanting to grow up and become CEOs
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so you're practicing entrepreneurship principles now so let me speak to you guys right now
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point number one is nobody's going to give you a fucking raise without you going and asking for the
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raise point number two and this has to do with timing I can guarantee you if you do not have the ability
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to recognize the right time and situation to ask for the raise you will never get a raise
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I think from a CEO standpoint that timing and asking for a raise is literally the most important
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factor into someone getting a raise because if you go to someone on a day that they're typically stressed
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upset dealing with frustrations of business dealing with personal issues dealing with all the things
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life has to throw at them and you're asking for a raise your chances of getting it are very little
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in fact you're probably not only going to not get the raise you're going to piss the person off
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okay that's why timing is important all the time you need to recognize like hey I need to go to this
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person before anything bad happens to them in the day first thing in the morning I need to go to this
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person on the day that they have the least amount of stress that they're the happiest and usually for a
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CEO that's going to be the day that sales are typically the highest just being honest okay and you have to
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delineate and separate these different components in your mind about what is going to take to
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produce the best outcome you have when it comes to timing and sometimes that means you're going to
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have to wait other times that means you're going to have to move right fucking now but you have to be
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cautiously aware that timing is a factor now if you're the CEO and you're unrolling you know a new
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product and you know a competitor is also making a product similar to that you want to be first to
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market so you know that timing is right now okay and there's all kinds of other situations when it
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comes to timing but guys what I wanted to talk to you about today was mainly that look I know we talk
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about being aggressive I know we talk about kicking ass I know we talk about bursting through walls and
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running shit over and being bad motherfuckers on this show all the time but you have to be aware
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you have to be conscious you have to become skilled at recognizing when the timing is right because if
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you never understand when the timing is right you're going to be the guy who's trying to kill an ant
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with a bazooka and that's just not efficient okay you're going to expend all kinds of extra energy
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when you don't need to expend it and you're not going to get the optimal result so guys pay attention
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to timing pay attention to being patient but also pay attention to timing and know when to be aggressive
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and let me tell you something this takes years to develop and the reason I'm bringing this up
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is because it is a real thing it's not something that I can necessarily teach you how to you know
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practice or teach you how to become good at it but what I can teach you is to be aware of it so that
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when you are going through this journey you will be aware that and understand that timing is an issue
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all right so guys be patient when you need patience be aggressive when you be aggressive become aware of
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when those when situations dictate those certain things and you're going to have a lot more success
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at a lot faster pace it's not just about running shit over all the time that's only like 98 percent
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of the time the other two percent of the time you want to make sure that you know you let the lanes
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develop you follow the blockers and you're going to be a lot more longer lived and a lot more successful