REAL AF with Andy Frisella - November 22, 2018


GOOD TO BE ALIVE： What Winners Believe About Life, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO276

Topics
being grateful winners vs losers
Hosted by
Andy Frisella
Mentioned
Sam Shorts Tyler Charlie Rocket Kenny Powers Terry Bollea Ed Milet Impaler
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19 minutes

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3,329

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247

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On today's episode of The MFCEO Project, Andy talks about the origin story behind the name of the show, what it takes to be a "Motherfucking CEO" and how to develop your own personal brand identity.

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00:00:00.380 I can stack them hundreds to the roof. I ain't stopping till they stack to the moon.
00:00:04.880 Without me, my family wouldn't have food. Anybody go against me gotta lose.
00:00:12.220 What is up, guys? You're listening to the MFCEO Project. I'm Andy. I'm your host, and I am the motherfucking CEO.
00:00:19.860 Today is Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving, guys. 0.99
00:00:23.440 Guys, definitely my favorite holiday being a super, at my core, fat kid.
00:00:33.100 I love food, man. I just love it, and I'm sure a lot of you guys, too.
00:00:38.160 Today, guys, I do have a very special message for you, but before I get into that,
00:00:43.940 you know, a lot of people don't understand what and where the MFCEO concept came from. 0.97
00:00:52.160 Why has it got to be motherfucking CEO, Andy? Why can't you use different language? 0.95
00:00:58.260 Why can't you use less F-bombs? You know what? Because it's my fucking show, and I want to do it.
00:01:03.520 Little fun story for you guys. One of my good friends and former employees, Terry Boyle, 0.98
00:01:10.480 got me a shirt maybe six, seven years ago that said MFCEO on it as a play because I like the video
00:01:19.780 with Kenny Powers and K-Swiss so much. I used to play it all the time, and everybody would laugh,
00:01:25.920 and I just thought it was the funniest video. If you want to know where the name came from,
00:01:29.920 that's where it came from. It's a tribute to Kenny Powers and K-Swiss YouTube video,
00:01:36.740 which I think is one of the funniest videos ever. If you haven't checked that out, go check it out.
00:01:40.540 But the concept, the true concept, I think has been redefined. What is a motherfucking CEO? 0.98
00:01:49.100 Well, that is somebody who understands that they are in control of everything in their life, 0.99
00:01:56.340 that they can control their outcomes, they can take control of their progression,
00:02:00.900 of their success, and they're willing to do it with some confidence, with some swagger.
00:02:06.500 Because let's be real, guys, it's fun to learn how to develop your own swag and your own confidence.
00:02:12.360 And guess what? It's also a very attractive trait, okay? Not just like in the mating sense,
00:02:18.400 but in the people sense. If you want to attract good people, people are attracted to people with
00:02:22.920 confidence and people with swagger and people who know what the fuck they're doing, okay?
00:02:27.440 And sometimes, guess what? We don't know what we're doing. We got to fake it a little bit. 0.91
00:02:30.280 That's okay, too. Here's the reality, guys. This show is called the MFCEO Project,
00:02:35.420 because I want you to understand what it takes to develop your own MFCEO life, all right?
00:02:45.200 It's a project because this is something that we've been trying to do to correct
00:02:50.220 15, 20, 30 years of bad society strategy, okay? What you're going to find here,
00:02:59.900 and I'm sure if you're listening on Thanksgiving, you're not listening for the first time,
00:03:03.340 you might be, but what you're going to find here is the reality. I'm not an idealist at all. I'm a
00:03:11.380 realist, and this is a realist podcast. It's not a motivation podcast. It's about how to use real
00:03:18.740 skills in forming your own success in life, all right? So while it might be motivating, this is not
00:03:26.540 a motivation podcast. You're going to want to probably take some notes today for sure. Big announcement,
00:03:34.180 guys. I think this is really cool. As you guys may or may not know, Pandora is the largest streaming
00:03:41.320 music provider in the United States, and in December, they're going to start offering a very select few
00:03:47.080 number of podcasts, and guess who was approved and asked to be among the introductory podcasts that
00:03:55.040 Pandora offers. That's right. Your Uncle Andy, he was asked, and Vaughn the Impaler, he was asked,
00:04:02.480 and Sam Shorts Tyler, he was asked too. That means the MSCEO Project is going to be one of the very
00:04:08.900 first podcasts that's available on Pandora, which I think is such a huge honor. And honestly, guys,
00:04:15.180 I want to say thank you for that, because without you guys, without you guys sharing the message and
00:04:21.680 bringing new friends and being fans of the show, it wouldn't have happened. So I just want to say
00:04:27.140 thank you guys for allowing us to have that honor. If you want to get early access to the MSCEO Project
00:04:33.840 on Pandora, you could sign up using this link that Pandora provided us, and we're going to send it out
00:04:40.820 through our email. You're going to see it in the email. But if you want to sign up right now,
00:04:48.160 just go to andyfrusella.com forward slash email, and you'll get the email to where
00:04:53.620 this link will be. It'll allow you to subscribe and all that. So, all right, today is Thanksgiving.
00:05:01.740 And naturally, on Thanksgiving, everybody gets in the mood to be thankful. You know, we see it on
00:05:10.780 Instagram, and we see it on Facebook. You know, people make the posts, you know, I'm so thankful
00:05:15.580 for this, and I'm so thankful for that, and I'm so thankful for this. And, you know, they want the
00:05:20.460 world to know how thankful they are this one day a year. But the problem with it, guys, is that being
00:05:26.220 thankful and expressing gratitude is something that you should be doing every day. A lot of you guys
00:05:32.220 who have listened to this podcast for a long time, you know that I have specific gratitude exercises,
00:05:38.860 and I want to explain not only what I do, but why I do it the way I do it before I really get into the
00:05:45.960 message. So, guys, every day when I wake up, the first thing I do is go brush my teeth. And while I'm
00:05:52.680 brushing my teeth for, you know, the two minutes or three minutes it takes to brush your teeth,
00:05:57.660 I hope that's how long it takes to brush your teeth. I might be doing it wrong. I don't know. But,
00:06:02.440 you know, let's just say it's three minutes or whatever. I'm literally thinking of all the
00:06:08.740 things that I'm grateful for, okay? And, you know, obviously, the first thing is that I'm alive.
00:06:14.340 A lot of it is, you know, things that, you know, are going on with me at the time. It could be,
00:06:20.500 you know, I'm thankful for my dogs or, you know, we talk, I think about the company or I think about
00:06:24.540 how blessed I've been in the personal relationships that I've had and the friends I have and the family
00:06:30.800 I have and all these things. And I think about those things, you know, one at a time. And guys,
00:06:37.120 the reason that we do this and the reason that you hear successful people, and it's kind of a buzzword
00:06:41.900 right now, you know, you have a lot of guys saying, oh, be grateful, but they don't explain like the
00:06:47.180 practical aspect of why that's important. And that's what I want to try to talk about for a
00:06:51.720 minute before I get into the meat of the message. Guys, when you're in a true state of being grateful,
00:06:59.700 it is literally impossible to have negativity in you, okay? And this is very important. It's not
00:07:06.940 important because, oh, I want to feel good and I don't want to have these negative emotions.
00:07:10.680 This is why I believe it to be important, all right? I believe that whenever you are in a state
00:07:18.160 of gratitude, you are preparing yourself to receive certain energies and certain blessings,
00:07:26.620 so to speak, if you want to use that word. You know, I'm a big believer in the law of attraction
00:07:31.700 and I talk about that on many of the podcasts, but here's the thing.
00:07:35.180 Okay. Law of attraction and focusing and visualizing and dreaming about what you want
00:07:41.820 and bring those kind of things, attracting those kind of things into your life can only happen in
00:07:47.400 the absence of negativity. So you have to get yourself prepared, okay, energy-wise to bring
00:07:55.920 these things in. And I know a lot of you guys are rolling your eyes and saying, oh, this fucking corny 0.98
00:07:59.920 shit. Look, I'm telling you guys, this is real shit, okay? This is real, absolute, you could not 1.00
00:08:07.080 convince me that this isn't the way that it works because I've seen it too many times. And in fact,
00:08:13.160 I believe that your mind is a muscle or your mind behaves just like a muscle where the more you work
00:08:18.820 it, the more effective it gets. And to this day, you know, now where I'm at in my life, I have to be
00:08:24.040 careful what I focus on because those things literally materialize very quickly in my life.
00:08:29.940 So if I focus on negativity or problems or issues, I get more of those. If I focus on things that are
00:08:37.300 good, I get more of that. And so putting yourself in a position energy-wise to be able to attract the
00:08:45.220 right things, positive things is very important to success. And I know, dude, listen, I know a lot of
00:08:51.940 you guys are like, dude, this is corny shit. But I promise you, if you open your mind to it, 0.98
00:08:57.640 it really works, all right? I studied the law of attraction. I'm not talking about the secret.
00:09:02.360 I'm talking about way more in-depth books, quantum physics, metaphysics. If you want to get a taste of
00:09:11.040 what that's like, there's a book out there called Down the Rabbit Hole that you can read. There's a
00:09:15.320 documentary on it. That's like really beginner type stuff, but it gives you an idea that there's
00:09:20.720 science behind it, all right? And that's what sold me on it. I'm a very big, I got to see proof
00:09:26.320 type person. And seeing the science experiments that have been done, and if you want to go back
00:09:34.100 and review that, you go back and listen to our podcast with Charlie Rocket on it. We talked
00:09:38.660 about this and that. But the point is, and what we're talking about here is gratitude sets the stage
00:09:44.480 for that, okay? Gratitude sets the stage for you to attract in the good things in your life. More
00:09:50.500 money, better relationships, more success, better friends, everything, you know, better fitness. I
00:09:58.100 find that, like, this is no bullshit. As you guys know, I've lost over 100 pounds. I find that my body
00:10:04.140 truly loses fat faster when I visualize myself in better shape after I've practiced my gratitude
00:10:13.000 exercises. And I know that sounds weird, but I promise you there's something to it because it's
00:10:18.320 a big difference. So when we talk about being grateful, guys, and this is, you know, what I want
00:10:25.200 to clarify for you guys. When we talk about being grateful, we're not saying it as a buzzword or just
00:10:32.040 as something that's good to say, like you might pick up, you know, there's a lot of memes that talk
00:10:36.080 about being grateful. And there's a lot of, you know, personalities that talk about it, but they
00:10:40.260 never really explain why it's important. And so I wanted to give you guys just a little bit of
00:10:44.380 information as to why I believe it's important. It's not just, it goes far beyond, you know, just being
00:10:50.220 in a good mood or being positive. It actually sets the stage energy-wise for you to bring in good
00:10:56.460 shit into your life. So, um, I thought this would be appropriate to talk about, uh, on Thanksgiving, 0.98
00:11:02.400 you know, and with all the fucking posts that are going to be made and the shit that people are going 0.96
00:11:07.460 to say this one time a year, you know, and I think that being grateful, it relates to success in life 0.99
00:11:14.300 in so many different ways. You know, I had this conversation, uh, I was talking to Ed Milet the other
00:11:19.580 day and we were talking about, uh, winners and losers. All right. And here's the thing.
00:11:25.380 And this is, this is really the bottom line to this whole personal development space. And you
00:11:30.080 don't ever hear, you don't ever hear people say this because if they said this all the time,
00:11:35.260 nobody would come watch them speak. So this is really the truth. Okay. And this is the truth of
00:11:40.300 me dealing with literally thousands of different employees, uh, being around success, being one of the,
00:11:46.520 the, the highest profile speakers in the success space. Um, I've, I've seen success, man. And here's
00:11:56.640 the thing, uh, you got winners and you got losers. All right. And here's the thing. You can give
00:12:04.460 somebody who is a loser. You could give them investments. You could invest in them. You could 0.99
00:12:09.080 give them knowledge. You can give a mentorship. You can give them every single thing that would
00:12:13.420 possibly help them to succeed. And they're still going to fuck it up. They're still going to fucking 0.99
00:12:19.260 waste the money. They're still going to fail. Okay. You, on the other hand, you could take a 1.00
00:12:24.180 person who is a winner at heart. All right. And you can give them every fucking obstacle, every
00:12:31.420 hardship, every single thing that would keep them from being where they want to be. And they are still 0.99
00:12:37.280 going to win. All right. And a lot of people look at this and they say, well, I wonder which one I am,
00:12:44.000 which is the wrong question to be asking yourself. The right question to be asking yourself is which
00:12:50.840 one do I want to be? Okay. Because that's what it is. It's a decision. I had a guy DM me, uh, last
00:12:58.960 couple of weeks ago and asked me, uh, what do you hold in higher regard? Who do you think is better?
00:13:05.600 The, the entrepreneur who had, uh, uh, a mentor and parents and they might've started with no money,
00:13:12.380 but they went up to be successful or the guy who, uh, had no mentor, no parents, uh, that helped them
00:13:20.140 no help business wise. And he also went on to be successful. Who's better? You know what the answer
00:13:25.400 is it doesn't fucking matter because what matters is that you're winning. What matters is, is that 0.98
00:13:31.860 you're doing the things to succeed. And if you're worried about a little shit like that, uh, who's 0.99
00:13:36.860 better and where do I rank and this and that, and this you focused on the wrong shit. Okay. Winners 0.99
00:13:42.040 focus on getting the job done. Losers focus on why they can't do it. And that's the, that's the bottom
00:13:48.960 line here. Winners are going to fucking win. Losers are going to fucking lose no matter what. All right. 0.99
00:13:54.680 And here's a real difference in the mentality between winners and losers. Okay. Winners, you
00:14:00.900 know, people who become ultra successful, people who make the most out of their lives, they do not
00:14:06.920 confuse the idea of quote unquote hard with bad. Okay. They recognize that life is hard, but they
00:14:15.880 don't think that life is bad. All right. But here's what losers think. And this is the difference.
00:14:20.640 People who never win people who are always complaining, always making excuses and always
00:14:28.040 failing. Think about life as hard and bad. They don't understand that there's a difference.
00:14:36.980 If it's hard, it's bad. Okay. Winners know it's hard, but they know it's not bad. Okay. Losers say
00:14:43.860 shit. Like look at all the, you know, bullshit in the world and the shitty people and this world 1.00
00:14:48.460 sucks and all these people I got to deal with. And this person screwing me and this person did that 1.00
00:14:53.560 and this, and they basically come to the conclusion that it sucks to exist. All right. They act like 0.99
00:15:00.140 they wish the whole universe hadn't popped up into existence and they would have never been born.
00:15:04.860 And you know what? I actually sort of get that mentality. I get frustrated too. Like we talked about
00:15:12.020 on the, uh, Sunday sermon a few weeks ago, there's some crazy shit going on in the world. And there are 0.99
00:15:17.560 things that happen really bad things that I don't understand, but I just can't take the attitude that 0.79
00:15:25.580 losers take. I can't stoop to the level of somebody who just complains because I'm a fucking winner. 0.99
00:15:33.020 I have always won and I will always win. And that is something that you need to commit to as well. 0.94
00:15:41.660 I want to be happy and successful. And you know what? And you know what happy and successful people
00:15:47.300 think? They think, yes, there's a lot of hard shit in life. There's a lot of hard things on planet 1.00
00:15:53.760 earth. There are natural disasters like we just had in California. Okay. Uh, there's little kids
00:15:59.340 starving to death. There's, there's good hardworking people who through no fault of their own get laid
00:16:05.980 off and lose their job. There's wars, there's murders, there's people being taken advantage of by the
00:16:11.800 crooked internet scam artists every hour of the day. Yes. There are hard things happening in this world
00:16:19.460 that none of us can really understand. In fact, there are bad things done by bad people over and over
00:16:26.920 and over again. And it seems like that's all we ever get to see, but that doesn't mean that life
00:16:35.320 is bad. Successful people, people who are going to win no matter what, always see the good parts of
00:16:44.400 life. Winners are always able to find victory in the midst of defeat. They're always able to find
00:16:50.680 victory overcoming hardships. No matter how hard life gets, successful people can always identify the
00:17:00.040 blessings. They can always name the things they're thankful for. And they do so on a daily basis, not
00:17:07.100 just one time a year. Okay. And the bottom line is this guy, successful people, people who are going to
00:17:14.140 win no matter what, truly believe in their heart of hearts that in spite of how hard life can be at 0.69
00:17:21.440 times, no matter how much shit we have to deal with, it's a good thing to be alive. And here's the 0.92
00:17:29.040 reality. They don't just believe that it's a good thing to be alive. They believe that if you are alive,
00:17:35.220 then what is good in life is worth fighting for. Successful people become part of the solution.
00:17:43.080 They don't just complain about things. They commit themselves to becoming successful and helping
00:17:50.060 people solve the problems that exist. They're out there. They're the ones that are trying to clean up
00:17:56.260 the bullshit that we all see. Winners don't say, oh, all that bad stuff makes the world hopeless. 0.99
00:18:03.080 Winners say, hey guys, you know what? Let's fix shit. So the next generation can have some fucking hope. 1.00
00:18:10.360 That's how winners think. Winners aren't in it just for themselves. They recognize the problem 0.99
00:18:17.960 and they understand that by winning, they can be part of the solution. So guys, here's the thing,
00:18:25.560 especially today. Don't just be thankful for the good things in your life. Be thankful for life
00:18:33.280 because here's what you got to understand. The bad things in life teach us. The bad things in life
00:18:40.060 mold us. The bad things in life forge us into what we want to become ultimately. So embrace those and
00:18:49.380 be thankful for those challenges just as much as you are thankful for the good shit. That's what 0.99
00:18:54.580 successful people do. Successful people don't just focus on the money, the wealth, the fame,
00:19:00.280 the cars, the houses, the boats, this, that, the other. They focus on also the challenges they get
00:19:07.420 to overcome, not that they have to overcome. Guys, listen, I appreciate you guys. You're one of the
00:19:16.580 main things that I'm thankful for in my life on a daily basis. I wish you all an amazing Thanksgiving
00:19:22.260 and make sure you spread the love. Love you guys and I'll talk to you next time.