How to Beat Burnout, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO178
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How to deal with burnout and what to do when you feel like you're getting tired and not feeling like doing what you want to do. In this episode of the MFCEOPROJECT, we talk about the concept of burnout, why it happens, and what you can do about it.
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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 the
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motherfucking ceo today is tuesday that means a normal tuesday podcast we've got the whole crew
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be appreciated so that we have time to actually watch all these videos um with that being said
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that's housekeeping today is tuesday and we do have a normal podcast and i am joined by my co-host
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dj dj god what's up my man well it's october and we're getting closer to halloween so i really want
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you to call me von helsing von helsing it would go with the impaler theme okay von helsing the
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impaler the impaler all right we'll just mix two together vampire killer yeah right yeah why are
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you wearing uh quotation marks on your chest that's three commas man that stands for a billion
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dollars because there's three commas in a billion see i'm not a billionaire it's actually mark cuban's
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mark cuban's brand oh that's nice his apparel brand nice so i like it uh so yeah i like it too
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yeah and i'm gonna start making everybody in the whole company wear a three comma shirt like every
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one like every friday because it's like the day that everybody starts to slack off and i want them
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to be reminded of what the fuck we're trying to do here right you know what i mean is cuban an
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actual billionaire oh yeah okay like multi-billionaire yeah yeah yeah okay yeah so he's uh he's he's
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doing okay yeah yeah yeah so today we are going to talk about a a super important concept and one
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that we get a lot of questions and comments about which is how to avoid burnout and what to do when
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you're feeling burnt out okay you're going to see people in the entrepreneur world that always pretend
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like they have all this energy all this momentum and they make it seem like they're always on and
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blah blah blah blah blah and what you don't see is the shit behind the scenes you don't see the times
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when they're burnt out you don't see the times when they're frustrated you don't see the times when
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they don't feel like doing shit and so what that does is that creates a situation where when you
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feel burnt out when you feel frustrated when you feel angry when you feel tired and not feeling like
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doing what you want to do you feel like there's something wrong with you and i'm telling you guys
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right now there is nothing wrong with feeling burnt out that is a natural part of the process now i can
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tell you from employing a lot of people over the course of my career that a lot of people have
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trouble coming back from burnout they get burnt out and they don't know what to do to rekindle that
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fire and if you want to be successful whether that be working inside of a company or owning a company
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you are going to have to understand and learn how to deal with burnout you're going to have to
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understand how to rekindle that fire and how to work through that because dude being burnt out
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is just part of the process it's something that you are going to go through multiple times
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probably multiple times a year okay and you've got to learn what to do to get you back on track
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so that's what i want to tackle today i want to tackle you know something that most people like they
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get this feeling in their head like oh my god i don't have it anymore i just don't have this passion
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and then they quit and they go and find something else and they do that process over and over and
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over again and it keeps them from getting anywhere they want to go so if you're in it for the long
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haul if you're going to find real success in anything that you do you have to know how to
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deal with being burned out yeah so what's the number one culprit culprit in your mind well
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obviously you know anytime that you're being on a path to being successful you're doing repetitive
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things you're doing things over and over and over and over again and i think that most people when
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they do repetitive things they can only do those things so many times before they start to feel
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frustrated and they start to feel burned out because time as fast as it moves when you're in a hurry
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to get somewhere it moves really fucking slow and so understanding that first of all you know the
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concept that we've talked about multiple times aggressive patience and go back to listen to the
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podcast that we did on aggressive patience you guys have to understand that is a very real concept
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and that'd be the first thing that you need to do is just understand that concept and i'm not going
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to get into it other than saying you've got to be patient but also during that time you've got to be
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doing every little thing that you possibly can to get where you want to be we've done a whole episode
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on this go back and listen to it but if you understand the concept of aggressive patience i think most people
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start to get burned out because of the repetitive nature things aren't happening fast enough you're not
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seeing progress that you want to see you're not where you are financially you're not where you are
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where you want to be physically all right and what happens is you get burned out because you start to lose
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hope all right i would think of patience as delayed hope like you're you're basically saying i know this
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is going to work i'm trusting it's going to work eventually and then maybe when you get burned out
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you start losing hope you start you start not trusting the things that you originally believed in
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well the problem for the reason most people have this problem is because they haven't ever seen any
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success when you talk to a seasoned entrepreneur someone who's made a decent amount of money who's
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started a project seen it through sold a project or started a project seen it through had it become
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successful enough if you do that enough times and you become seasoned you you don't ever really lose
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hope because you understand that you the work is going to get you where you want to go you trust the
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process you trust the work and so when you're inexperienced and you're young in entrepreneur
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years you have to put a lot of faith into the process of working you know like dude i can remember
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when i was a young guy and i was running a business and i would always think and i would think like this
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man i wonder if i'm going to be one of those guys you know that's successful i wonder if i'm going to
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be one of those guys that you know gets granted the wish of being a millionaire i wonder if this and
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that and i spent so much time worrying because i didn't know and i hadn't been there and i haven't
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been through the process and that took away a lot of energy that's a lot of negative energy that could
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have been spent on productive shit that would have helped me get where i am a lot quicker you see what
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i'm saying so i think people you know when they when they haven't really accomplished too much
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you know there's a lot of faith and a lot of trust that you have to put in the work but if you talk to
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a seasoned entrepreneur they will always tell you dude if you do the shit every single day like we
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talk about in podcast 107 if you win the day you win the day and if you win three or four days you
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win you win a week and if you win a week you know you're on road to creating uh you know the habit of
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winning a month and if you win a couple months in a row now winning has become who the fuck you are
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so when you create a habit of winning and you instill that character trait in you the work and the
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results are going to be automatic but that is hard for somebody to understand and put faith in
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that has never been there right so trying to define faith i think of it as as you know
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basically rely whatever you consider reliable and it sounds like what you're saying is
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is that at some point people go into burnout because they they've always relied on the work
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they've they've taken control of the things they can they can control but then over time they start
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thinking well maybe it's not going to work maybe it's not going to work and then they start
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thinking well what about all these other factors that are going to do not only that they start
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looking at other opportunities yeah and when they start looking at other opportunities their focus
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on what they're doing is less so they start to produce less and then they start to lose belief
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in the path they're on and they start to look at another opportunity and then they jump they make
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that jump right dude i've seen this so many times with guys that work in our company they do well
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for two or three years and they're young so they're impatient and they think two or three years
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is 30 years you see what i'm saying and then they they they're like well i'm not where i want to be
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i'm not this i'm not that i'm not making a million dollars a year there's something wrong no there's
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nothing wrong man you're just going through a burnout phase and you need to learn how to rekindle it
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so you have to remind yourself that the work when you started is what got you to this point and also
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having that same faith in the work now is going to get you to that next point you just got to fight
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through that feeling because if you always switch opportunities when things start to feel like
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they're not worth it or you're losing hope or you're losing drive or you're losing momentum
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and you just switch to something new you have to realize you're starting over from scratch now
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so that fucking three years that you put in is now zero is now zero so now you've got to go
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through that whole process again and then once you get into three years there you start to get burned
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out it's a fucking deadly habit you understand what i'm saying absolutely as you're talking i'm
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thinking of that great quote i think it was uh thomas edison where he says the real the real
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tragedy is that most people failed like just just before everything's going to start to succeed dude and
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most people make a habit out of slitting their own throats at the time of right before it happens
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and then having to go back to fucking being born again you know what i mean and that it's a it's
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extremely extremely common thing that people do and it's easy to overcome if you understand that
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burnout is going to happen and how to overcome it you see what i mean because i think a lot of people
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they think it's they don't think it's natural because a lot of these entrepreneur fuck faces out
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there make it seem like they're always on and they've got all this energy and they want to they they're
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so proud of their own ego they want to pretend like they've got something that these other people
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don't and the reality is they don't have anything that you don't have they're just not showing you
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that they get fucking burnt out too and i'm gonna tell you right now i'm as driven as any one of those
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motherfuckers and i get burned out all the fucking time i just know how to deal with it right so i'm
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not afraid to tell you guys that so when that happens do you consciously just say i have to
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recommit to my belief in the work well i think it's important absolutely yeah absolutely but i
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think it's also important that we understand why burnout happens and i think you know what it
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happened the reason it happens for most people is because they they stop focusing on winning today
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they stop focusing on trying to create momentum by handling their five critical tasks on a daily basis
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and instead they start looking at how far they have to go or how much shit they have to do or how
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long it's going to take and that creates a feeling of over of being overwhelmed to where they feel like
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pressure that really isn't even there right like let's be real what the fuck are you in a hurry for
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what are you in a hurry for you know what i mean like dude life as short as it is sometimes it's long
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too and i could tell you from experience that that old saying it's not about the destination it's about
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the journey it's true like dude and i've had to teach myself that you know i've had to learn to focus
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on today focus on enjoying the conversations i have today focus on being grateful for the things i have
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today the friendships the relationships the employees the business where the business is today being
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grateful for those things because when you start looking at where you are and see it as how far away
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you are from where you want to be that's going to create burnout all right because if you if you
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continuously focus on that you can never appreciate what you have if you never appreciate what you have
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you're never going to be happy go ahead i think it's not only about appreciating it but obviously there
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should be a given but the learning process too that you have to go through like let's take a company
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or let's take someone who just started a company today and we said hey you're gonna literally have
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overnight success and then you know their company's successful the next day but dude how fast would
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they fucking end up losing that business every every time right away we've seen it a million times i could
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name 10 companies in our fucking business and you could too because we talked about it then had quick
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success and lost it just as quick because you have to realize that the journey is where the value is
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the reason i'm able to sit here and have a podcast that gets a million and a half downloads a month
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off of business knowledge is not because i became overnight successful it's because i learned every
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motherfucking lesson the hard way and i'm able to communicate to you and hopefully save you some time
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all right so obviously you and i have been talking through all of the details of your entrepreneur
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academy and we've just literally been taking apart the whole craft of running a business piece by piece
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right and it's enormous like there's so many different moving parts i'm so excited about it i am too but
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but have you ever wondered i mean i just thinking about this there are so many aspects to running a
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successful business why are people tempted to to look at all of them at once instead of dividing them
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down and into the critical class why do you think that's the case i think they're fed that i think that
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the the entrepreneurial experts and i'm holding up my fingers in quotes right now experts feed feed feed
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dude people are really good at razzle dazzle let's be real like what we see online what we see on
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instagram what we see on youtube there's a lot of fucking razzle dazzle there especially when we talk
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about what we're talking about right now of not being burnt out and always being on and always having
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this crazy amount of energy you realize you're seeing a fucking minimal highlight reel somebody else's
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game they're they're showing you what they want to show you and because of that they they're able to
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make themselves seem a certain way that they aren't really in real life you know what i'm saying
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absolutely so when people are fed this message okay first of all they don't believe they start to
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believe that they don't have what it takes and second of all they're getting sold usually by people like
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this some sort of course or some sort of shit that is like how to start your own fucking business
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or it's very general in nature and if you research a lot of these guys none of them have literally
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started a business from scratch not fucking one somebody might have walked into a business at three
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or four million dollars and then grown it into something another guy might make millions of dollars
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by selling you programs on how to run a business but how many of those motherfuckers even started
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from ground zero and built something okay it's all about the show to a lot of these guys and they're not
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telling people the reality so when we talk about you know teaching people how to become successful
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in business i mean there's literally literally dozens and dozens of of super crucial points
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that need to be addressed and it can't be surmised in some fucking three-hour business course it just
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can't there's just more than that right and something else you and i've been talking about that i think
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plays into this is the part of the razzle dazzle is using all the cliches in the most meaningless way
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possible and not getting people to think about what they mean so you always hear the so-called
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gurus saying stuff like you know you gotta have big picture thinking and i think they lead people
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into believing that you have to think of everything at once they don't ever unpack how to utilize the
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tools right you know why they don't do that because they don't even fucking right because they're
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selling they're selling buzzwords they're not selling rich fertile content that can actually
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take somebody from zero to fucking wherever they want to be right another cliche that we hear all
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the time is is it's not it's actually it's not a cliche it's just very misunderstood it's pay attention
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to the details and until i actually met you and got involved in this whole enterprise i heard that but
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the way that that was presented was pay attention to every detail all at once whereas the whole concept
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of the powerless is that's right you take little details a little at a time so what you're saying
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dude is exactly what i'm saying in in this point the reason people get overwhelmed the reason people
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get crazy the reason we get like we feel like the whole world's coming in on us is because we start
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to look at all the fucking details we look at everything as if it needs to be solved right now today
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and that's not how business works business is cumulative effort it's compounding interest so to speak
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it's what you do today what you do again tomorrow and what you do the next day over the course of
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years okay and if you just take if you just take the time and to understand what we talk about in
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episode 107 uh uh win the day yeah win the day thank you um if you understand the power list i teach you
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how to win every single day and i can promise you if you adopt that mentality if you adopt that mentality
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and start to execute on just five tasks i'm not talking about 55 because 55 is how you end up burnt
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out 55 is how you how you start to believe that you can't accomplish things because you never get
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your fucking list done there's something very powerful about crossing off five fucking things
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you do and saying dude i won it's very fucking powerful okay and if if you if you do it the way i
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i just had this meeting last night with my guys if you do things the way i tell you it will work if
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you modify it and try to create some other bullshit i can't guarantee you anything if you do things the
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way i tell you if you do the power list exactly the way i tell you you will create massive amounts of
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momentum you will avoid burnout for the most part because you will always feel like you're winning
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the problem is is that you cannot feel like you're winning when you look when i if i were to sit here
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and say all right we're doing 160 million dollars and and say i want to get to two billion dollars and
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i start thinking about all the things that need to happen for us to get to two billion dollars and i
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start getting getting in a you know an anxiety fueled like rush how am i gonna feel i'm gonna feel
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overwhelmed i'm gonna feel hopeless i'm gonna feel like the world is fucking squeezing my head but if i just
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focus on the five things today that are going to move forward today what i could the five phone
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calls i make or the five emails i got to do or the the two emails and the workout and this and that
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and i can go home at night and say man i fucking won right dude now you're creating belief in yourself
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you're creating confidence in yourself you're creating momentum that you wouldn't otherwise have
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and you're avoiding what we call burnout okay so it's very very important to focus on today's tasks
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not just like what you said they're going to think big picture there's a time for thinking big picture
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absolutely we talk about that a lot but when you're talking about executing you don't execute on the
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big picture you execute on the small picture which is today yeah absolutely add another layer to this
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is that just that whole feeling of hopelessness just to drive home the point that actually makes total
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sense that somebody would feel hopeless because you literally cannot solve tomorrow's problems today
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you cannot deal with with detail number 50 until you've dealt with detail number one through 49
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so people literally are putting themselves into a position of complete futility so it makes sense
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that they would feel hopeless it makes sense that they would right they would be completely detected
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right and most people most people can only see what they don't have they can only see
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how far they have to go how much they have to do what's left to do even i get caught up in this
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and you have to just focus on winning the day and eventually you'll find yourself in a place where you're
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like man i made a lot of progress right there yeah you know i'm getting closer and you start to believe
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so you know avoid being overwhelmed by focusing on today um you know i think another thing that keeps
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people uh that keeps people getting burned out over and over again is that they're not taking the time
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to remind themselves why they're doing something in fact um you know that's we talk about visualization a
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lot in some of the earlier podcasts and how important it is um and you can reference that in the notes for
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the podcast yeah but if you're not specifically taking time to remind yourself why you're doing what
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you're doing you're eventually going to feel burnt out because you're like well what the fuck is the
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point of this why am i busting my ass every day why am i working so hard why am i doing this and that's
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why it's important to a surround yourself with reminders of what your goals are i personally use
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a vision board that has pictures of all the shit that i want to do pictures that represent not only the
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material things but also the kind of life i want to live all right also i practice visualization in the
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morning and in the evening okay i also practice gratitude exercises and we talk about those in
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detail in other podcasts which you can know but what but i'll just summarize them you know real quick
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i've learned to condition myself when i'm brushing my teeth in the morning to think about all the
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things that i'm grateful for so anytime i start put toothpaste on the brush i start to think about
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what i'm grateful for and as i'm brushing my teeth for that couple minutes you know i'm thinking about
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like all the great shit that i have in my life and dude try to feel thankful and also feel burnt out
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it's impossible you cannot feel the two things at the same time so a great way to avoid burnout is to
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remind yourself on a habitual basis of what you're thankful for in your life all right and the other
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thing i do is i make sure that i take a few minutes to look at my vision board in the morning
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and then i take the minutes the minutes directly before i go to sleep okay so while i'm laying in
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bed with my eyes closed i think about all the things that i'm going to accomplish i think about
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i don't think about how i'm going to accomplish it i think about the end result i think about what my
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life will look like i imagine what my house will look like what my garage will look like because that's
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important to me uh what my lifestyle will look like uh and and i look at it in detail i try to see it as
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as close to in as much detail as i could possibly uh see it in and you got to note this in the notes
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so that people can go listen but that's the summary you know i make habits of doing things that will
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automatically squash that feeling of being burnt out and actually instead get me excited and rekindle
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the vision so that i'm reminded of why i'm doing these things you know most people fall off a diet
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because they forget why they're they they they can't remind themselves enough of the delayed
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gratification benefit and and instead they're like fuck that pizza looks great you know what i mean
00:24:12.880
and if you're able to think about you know hey uh i look pretty shitty naked i would really like to
00:24:19.200
look a lot better at the pool this summer every time a pizza was in front of your fucking face
00:24:23.340
you know if there was a way to remind you like maybe wear a bracelet or something that reminded you
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like hey this is why you're doing that um it would be a lot easier to stick to it you know but but
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but long-term goals are are extremely important to consistently remind yourself of the vision and the
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path that you're on because if you're working hard every day and you should be you have to always
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understand why you're doing those things otherwise you're definitely going to get burned out because
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why the fuck would you want to work so hard when you don't even know why you're doing it
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visualization is so huge i know that i read this great book called the little book of talent
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and it talks about how all the great athletes spend hours and hours breaking down game film or or or
00:25:06.280
tape of previous athletes who have gone before them who were you know larger than life so tom brady's
00:25:12.020
constantly looking up at uh video of of the greats joe montana uh john elway same thing with all of
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the great uh basketball players i know kobe bryant spent hours upon hours probably days
00:25:24.420
watching uh tape of of michael jordan you have to stare and and and behold what you want to become
00:25:32.820
and it's i think in the business sense and in the personal success sense if you're not every day
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at least every day taking some time like what you're saying and envisioning something in your
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imagination of what you're wanting to become what you're wanting to accomplish um you're not going
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to get there but if you do it every day it's going to ingrain itself in your soul it's going
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to ingrain itself in your brain yeah it's going to guide you yeah 100 and it's going to help you
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avoid these times when you you feel like you know it's pointless right one thing to add to that i don't
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think i think a lot of people fail with is like visualization because they're not specific enough
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i agree 100 that's why whenever we talk about like visualizing um when we've covered in the past
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you know you've got to really you know and there's books on this but on exactly how to visualize
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you've got to learn to like try to see specific details like the finishes on handrails like the color
00:26:29.680
of a car the color of the interior of a car you know uh the faces in a crowd the the more detail that
00:26:36.980
you can that you that you could put into your vision i found the more effective it is actually
00:26:43.780
accomplishing it and and i've been able to accomplish literally every single fucking vision
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that i've ever had up until you know obviously what i think about now but i don't have doubt that
00:26:54.220
it's not coming right i know it's coming right well i mean what you're saying is absolutely true
00:26:58.740
if you if you've uh ever read any of the books or seen any of the videos by these guys that are
00:27:03.120
absolute masters of memory you know they can memorize like thousands and thousands of pages
00:27:07.520
worth of information they say the same thing they say when you're trying to memorize something
00:27:11.660
you literally want to imagine like if you're if you're memorizing something that has to do with an
00:27:16.280
orange you want to visualize the orange you want to pretend you're tasting it because when your brain
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engages your senses that way it literally beats paths into your neural pathway and and it it becomes
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part of your brain and it just embeds itself in your brain so what you're saying is i mean it sounds
00:27:32.100
so goofy to people who have never really experienced its power right but if you do it you know it's
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legit yep you know 100 100 100 um the another thing that i think that people need to think about too
00:27:45.900
and it goes back to what we talked about when feeling overwhelmed is that you know people
00:27:52.160
they're so hard on themselves and they're so they get so frustrated when things don't go exactly the
00:27:59.520
way that they want that they end up quitting or they end up changing course and you have to realize
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that being in being successful whether it's inside of a company or as the head of a company
00:28:11.500
i'm going to tell you let me tell you the percentage of the time things are going to go the way you want
00:28:16.040
fucking zero okay so if you quit every time things go a different a slightly different way
00:28:23.040
you're never going to get anywhere entrepreneurship is not about having this perfect path it's not about
00:28:28.660
having this perfect uh execution it's about being it's about being on the front of the ship
00:28:35.660
and navigating through the fucking icebergs and seeing uh oh shit there we were going to go that way
00:28:40.860
but there's something there we got to make an adjustment and then oh we were going to make that
00:28:44.200
adjustment and that adjustment there's something there too so let's make another adjustment and
00:28:48.020
that is the life of an entrepreneur it's not this clean cut path like everybody thinks it is
00:28:53.060
it's consistently adjusting till you find what works and what works now isn't going to work 30 days from
00:28:58.720
now it's not going to work 60 days from now you're going to have to fucking constantly evolve
00:29:03.180
constantly change constantly learn new shit over the course of your entire life dude i have people
00:29:09.260
tell me i had somebody tell me recently once i get this business up and going you know i'm gonna i'm
00:29:14.020
gonna go do i'm gonna go do this and i'm like well then your business is gonna fail you know what i
00:29:19.740
mean like you've got to be present you've got to be able to see what's going on you don't it's not
00:29:24.380
just hey you get it up and going and it goes on autopilot you know it's the same for your career and
00:29:29.140
any anything you know you've got to constantly be evolving you've got to constantly be you know
00:29:34.660
changing direction and making adjustments and knowing what adjustments to make and that doesn't come
00:29:39.640
from being perfect you're never going to be fucking perfect you can chase perfection but you have to
00:29:46.860
understand that it will never happen all right chasing perfection is a great thing because it
00:29:52.120
creates it creates greatness okay it creates great results when you try to be the absolute perfect
00:29:59.060
version of yourself that you could be you might not be perfect but you're going to be pretty fucking
00:30:04.120
good okay so chasing perfection produces excellent results but you also have to understand that if you
00:30:11.900
get down on yourself because you don't achieve perfection you're going to be extremely unhappy
00:30:16.240
your entire life your entire career is going to feel like a waste you're going to always feel
00:30:20.640
overwhelmed you're going to always feel burned out you're going to always feel like you're not good
00:30:23.900
enough and that's not a good thing so have the power and drive of a locomotive but the versatility
00:30:28.780
of a dune buggy yeah pretty much yeah you know that's what you got to do you know you've got to be
00:30:33.540
willing to adjust and you've got to be willing to be running full speed as you adjust yeah that's
00:30:38.960
a great analogy thank you um so let me uh let me run through what you see if i can summarize what
00:30:45.060
you've said so far so you might be burnt out because you're losing hope and in that case remind
00:30:50.260
yourself to trust the work number two you might be burned out because you are overwhelmed that probably
00:30:55.960
means you aren't focusing on winning the day so focus on the day not tomorrow not down the road
00:31:01.320
uh number three was uh you might be burned out because you've lost some vision so take time to
00:31:06.280
visualize uh number four is you might be burned out because you're being perfectionistic and um i guess
00:31:13.840
you're saying you don't want to do anything wrong you want to do everything perfectly and never have to
00:31:18.860
adjust and that's never going to happen it's not reality right so anything else but if you watch
00:31:23.620
if you watch if you watch some of these dudes online they'll make it seem like it's reality for them
00:31:29.520
right and you know all that is that's their fucking massive ego not allowing them to be vulnerable
00:31:34.540
so that they can be actually more effective at helping people which is very selfish in my opinion
00:31:40.880
right right well those are those are all uh pretty reasonable reasons to burn out and and good answers
00:31:48.020
um i i know that you well the one thing so so i want to so i do have another point but i want to tell
00:31:54.400
a little bit of a story before i talk about it so um i actually this this last thing i want to talk
00:32:00.580
about was reminded of me this morning i got an email from a guy who follows me on instagram and uh he said
00:32:06.280
hey bro and i barely ever check dms by the way um i just happened to check my dms today and it said hey
00:32:15.100
bro i need some advice and i'm like all right well uh this dude i recognize this guy he comments on all my
00:32:21.220
shit he likes all my all my stuff all right you know i'll see what he needs i'm like yes and he uh
00:32:28.340
he writes back this long this long post and it says hey man uh i'm having a really hard time uh i'm
00:32:35.520
getting evicted out of my apartment um i've had two friends die in the last month uh you know i've given
00:32:41.760
most of my money to their funeral expenses i'm having a really really tough time seeing a light at the end
00:32:47.780
of the tunnel you know i don't know what to do i i feel totally out of control uh totally overwhelmed
00:32:53.860
and frustrated and and i feel like giving up and i take that shit serious you know what i'm saying um
00:32:59.960
you know i and he asked if i ever felt that way and i'm like well fuck yeah i felt that way i've been
00:33:04.200
clinically diagnosed with depression for nearly 20 fucking years so yeah it's a daily struggle for me
00:33:09.920
and so my last point is you know because i deal with this shit about burnout and frustration and all
00:33:17.200
this shit i gotta tell you guys the best thing that you can do to feel like that you you are regaining
00:33:23.740
control of your life is to take control of your health okay that's the one thing that you're absolutely
00:33:30.040
in control of no matter what you can make healthy choices on what you put in your mouth you can make
00:33:36.200
healthy choices about what you don't put in your mouth you can make healthy choices about your
00:33:40.380
exercise routines and so he asked me what he asked me what what he should do and i said all right well
00:33:46.700
start with this start eating right start exercising every day for at least an hour okay take control of
00:33:54.960
that i said go back and listen to episode 107 and start looking at the day don't look at the whole scope
00:34:00.680
of all the shit that you're you're you're telling me look at today everybody can win today everybody
00:34:06.700
can do what they need to do today not everybody can execute on the the 30-day plan or the five-year
00:34:15.060
plan or the 10-year plan today but you can win today and it's very simple and and getting in control
00:34:22.620
of your nutrition and your exercise routine guys that gives you a that that starts to build a sense
00:34:30.420
of control period so that you feel like you're in control of your life because everybody no matter
00:34:36.240
what the fuck your excuse is right now you are in control of what you consume and how active you are
00:34:41.720
no matter what i don't care if you're in a fucking wheelchair you can go do wheelchair sprints i don't care
00:34:49.180
you get everybody's in control of that shit and it's that it's valuable when we talk about burnout
00:34:55.660
because it's it's the thing that will spur the momentum for you to start to feel like you are in
00:35:03.140
control again because sometimes shit gets way out of line sometimes shit gets way way out of line
00:35:09.240
fuck dude 18 months ago i was 330 fucking pounds i was fat as fuck i was unhappy i was super depressed
00:35:16.340
i hated my life nobody knew that because i didn't fucking bitch about it i don't cry
00:35:20.320
but that's how i felt you know how i got shit back on track you know how i got shit my confidence
00:35:26.320
back you know how i got my sense of control back i started eating right and i started fucking
00:35:30.680
exercising period and if you're not doing that i don't care who you are you are going to have trouble
00:35:37.900
gaining control of your whole entire life it is the foundation and a lot of people give you this big
00:35:42.980
holistic your body is your temple blah blah blah blah and go hug a bunch of fucking trees but here's the
00:35:49.600
reality it's about mental control it's about discipline it's about cultivating belief in
00:35:55.640
yourself and all of us have the ability to create that when it comes to our diet and exercise
00:36:00.920
absolutely let me actually tack on one more point that i know and i'm giving people a little bit of a
00:36:07.700
tiny insight into one of the courses that you're developing um because i was just editing this point
00:36:14.360
which is here's another reason people burn out and that is that they get going things get hard
00:36:21.300
and little by little they start making little compromises ethically they start treating people like crap
00:36:26.920
and ultimately they end up having an uneasy conscience and that conscience weighs on them
00:36:32.640
because they're not good people and they're not doing what's right dude that's a huge deal because
00:36:38.260
you're you're always going to be your own your own enemy and you're all and and unless you're like a
00:36:43.300
total like head case um narcissist type personality you're gonna you're gonna feel bad about things
00:36:51.360
that you do that aren't right i i just had this conversation with my whole company last night
00:36:55.280
you know developing discipline developing integrity uh in your and belief in your own integrity is
00:37:02.020
extremely important because of what you just said it allows you to feel good about yourself
00:37:08.920
and takes a tremendous burden off of what you would normally feel guilty about you know if you're able
00:37:14.440
to look at yourself in the mirror and say dude i'm genuinely a good dude i do what i can i don't
00:37:18.520
bullshit people i do the right thing i wipe the piss off the toilet seat i put the shopping carts back
00:37:23.620
in the corral guess what you're gonna feel a sense of confidence about yourself and a sense of pride
00:37:28.600
that you are a good human and that's extremely powerful when it comes to you know morally feeling
00:37:35.240
good a and b avoiding the quote-unquote burnout absolutely i mean it's like you just said unless
00:37:42.520
you're a sociopath sociopaths are a little bit different but the vast majority of us the studies
00:37:47.280
are absolutely conclusive that you can try to suppress guilt but it will come out in the form of brain
00:37:53.240
fog it will come out in the form of fatigue it will come out in the form of all sorts of
00:37:58.080
psychosomatic anxiety right and guess what you cannot you cannot perform to peak level
00:38:04.520
in business or anything in life dealing with any of those you've got to always do you've always got
00:38:08.800
to do what you think is right and sometimes you're going to do things that are wrong with good
00:38:14.520
intentions and you've got to go fix those things too you got to go make them right so what so what
00:38:19.260
it seems like you saying i mean at least this is what you're saying in the in the thing i was editing
00:38:22.740
was so maybe the cure for burnout is just to apologize to somebody dude or to make something right look
00:38:27.720
look when you're holding a grudge when you're upset when you've done something wrong and and even if
00:38:34.900
the other person doesn't think that you know it's a big deal it's tremendously helpful for you to say
00:38:40.180
hey man i'm sorry bro i was wrong in that i should have done this yeah it lets you it's it's you letting
00:38:46.360
yourself off the hook it's you unburdening yourself you know and that's a big problem because i don't i think
00:38:53.220
a lot of people let their pride get in their way when it comes to apologizing or taking responsibility
00:38:59.480
when in reality it's no big deal man we're all fucking human like we all make mistakes let yourself
00:39:05.440
off the hook and say hey you know what i fucked up because not only is it going to remove the burden
00:39:10.080
from you it's going to create a sense of respect amongst the people that you're talking to as you're
00:39:14.800
a good fucking dude for doing the right thing right it's amazing i i would hope that not too many
00:39:20.300
people think this but there might be a couple people in the uh the listenership who think
00:39:24.320
why are you guys getting into that whole morality thing why you got to be the morality because it's
00:39:28.480
important and because it's good for business not only that it's it's yeah exactly you know it's
00:39:34.060
fucking important and it's important financially right like dude you're gonna make a lot more
00:39:39.320
fucking money right but people have a hard time getting that man a hard time they try to pretend
00:39:44.340
they try to pretend they're moral or pretend they do the right thing it's not the same as doing the
00:39:49.060
right thing right you know what i mean so uh yeah it would sound like we got people got a bonus point
00:39:55.640
yeah yeah that was a good one i like that well thank you yeah so guys uh with that being said
00:40:01.160
the contest just one more time testimonial contest one minute video youtube link email two testimonials
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at the mfceo project.com nope just the mfceo.com don't they both go the same place
00:40:16.480
probably not they do anyway okay the mfceo.com yeah all right testimonials at the mfceo.com
00:40:26.140
all right we'll just make that uh we'll agree there that's that's the email address one minute video
00:40:31.660
not five minutes not seven minutes part of of this is following directions if you don't follow
00:40:37.560
directions you make a seven minute video just what you're not gonna fucking win right all right
00:40:42.320
you've got part of being this is this is this is you getting creative like when i got my 4gt
00:40:49.740
they asked for a one minute video and dudes were making seven minute videos and 10 minute videos
00:40:55.680
and all this shit and none of those motherfuckers got cars and then they're pissed because they feel
00:41:00.700
like oh i did all this extra shit well you know what you didn't do you didn't follow fucking
00:41:04.140
directions because part of the one minute video concept was to get fucking creative and show what
00:41:10.680
you know what you could do in one minute this is the same thing i want to hear you i want to hear
00:41:17.140
you and see you and feel the progress you made in one minute not 10 minutes of going on and on and on
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