How to Become Self-Aware And Unlock Your True Potential, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO169
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Summary
In this episode of The Momfucking Ceeo Project, I talk about how you can become more successful in any area of your life by holding yourself accountable for the things you are trying to accomplish. I also talk about the importance of accountability on a micro level and why most people fail to achieve their goals.
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 the
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motherfucking ceo guys uh normally on tuesdays we have a much longer podcast uh that's going to be
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you know typically an hour to sometimes even two hours long um and those are very helpful and i
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get that and i know you guys enjoy those but i started thinking over the weekend you know what
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would be the thing that would provide the most value to you in the shortest amount of time and
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i started trying to think about you know some key phrases some key ideas and concepts that i've used
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to you know work through the process of building something or becoming better becoming more
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successful in any area um one of the things that that i wanted to talk about was something that
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my friend mark bell and i talked about a little bit on our podcast that we did a couple weeks ago
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but more so on the phone him and i had hopped on the phone over the weekend and we were talking
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about uh different types of training and we were just kind of going back and forth and having some
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good conversations um spoke for about an hour or so and one of the things that we we talked about was
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the idea of holding yourself accountable okay a lot of people nowadays and entrepreneurs you follow
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all these entrepreneur guys and you hear them say self-awareness and you go self-awareness self-awareness
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self-awareness and they say that over and over again but how the fuck do you become self-aware
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right how do you develop that skill is it something you're born with is it something that you
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create is it something you can practice and him and i were talking and you know one thing that him
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and i have both done over the course of our lives without really realizing it until we kind of
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extrapolate it out by just talking to each other is something that's really simple and it's really
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simple for me to teach you how to do this too okay we all have our goals we all have big desires we all
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have the things we want that we want to accomplish but we also are realistic enough to understand that
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these things take time there's a process to them there's a level of patience to them and there's a
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level of accountability on a micro level on a day by day hour by hour level that most people just don't
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fucking have which is why most people never achieve their goals so guys what i want to teach you is a
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little phrase that i've used and a little phrase that mark has used to be very successful in all
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areas of life and it's something that you say to yourself okay and this is about guys holding yourself
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accountable it's about taking a step back and evaluating what you're doing on an action by
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action basis not even a time basis like a day an hour i'm talking about every little action all right
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and that's to do this and this is something that i want you to bury into your fucking brain
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for the rest of your life and if you can do that you're gonna find that your success comes a lot more
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quickly and a lot more easily for you and that's to do this when you're about to do something when
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you're about to take an action you need to ask yourself how is this going to help me how is this going
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to hurt me okay how is this action i'm about to take going to help me achieve whatever goal it is
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i'm trying to accomplish okay if that's in business how is watching the walking dead for seven hours a
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night that i just clicked it on netflix how is this going to help me get closer to my goal how is this
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going to hurt me get closer to my goal okay it's not going to help me a b it's going to hurt me because
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this is time i could be spending on personal development reading watching youtube videos
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learning new skills to be successful or working on my business okay and if you learn let's say you're
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on a diet you know how is this uh extra handful of uh raisins going to help me is it going to is it
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going to help me is it going to make me more healthy is it going to help me lose weight is it
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going to help me be in a better spot than i am today tomorrow or is it going to put me out of you
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know my caloric intake range is it going to you know be too much sugar for what i'm trying to do
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how is it going to keep me from getting where i want to go all right and and all these little things
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guys that people do basically mindlessly are what ultimately costs them their big dreams okay because
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your big dreams aren't built one in one day you don't just wake up one day and have a huge fucking
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bank account and wake up one day and you're ripped and and jacked and tan and juicy as fuck it doesn't
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happen okay it's little processes along the way and to control those little processes one of the
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ways that you can become self-aware is to step back and coach yourself by asking yourself how is this
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going to help me and how is this going to hurt me before every little action all right if you're if
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you're on a diet program and all your friends are going out to fucking eat you go out to eat and you're
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about to order at the menu how does this how does this decision help me how does it hurt me and do
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that on a micro level do it on a level that is consistent on an action by action basis and if you
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can put that into your brain and actually question yourself before you make these decisions guys it's
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going to be a lot easier and a lot more effective for you to follow through on what the actions need to
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be for you to hit your goals okay so that's the first thing how can this help me how can this hurt me
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the second thing that i want to give you guys is a phrase that is very very helpful
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to removing doubt in your goals okay and this is something that's very important all of us set
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these big goals all of us set these huge goals that we want to achieve all of us are trying to do
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these big things but we tell ourselves shit like this man one day i'm going to be a millionaire or one
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day i'm going to make five hundred thousand dollars or one day i'm going to make ten million dollars
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and we set these big goals one day i'm going to own a lamborghini one day i'm going to be
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financially free whatever the fuck that means for you okay and we set these big giant goals but then
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what we do is in our brain we tell ourselves this all right we say man i wonder if i'm going to
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actually ever hit that be a millionaire or i wonder if i'm actually ever going to be that guy
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who drives a lamborghini or i wonder if i'm actually ever going to be that guy that's
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financially free and not having to worry about his bills or i wonder if i'm ever going to be a guy who
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owns uh you know a 20 million dollar company or whatever your goal is or i wonder if i'm actually
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going to hit my my 50 pound weight loss goal and we start questioning ourselves guys and there's a
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problem with that because when we start questioning ourselves we're instilling doubt in our brains and
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especially in our subconscious that is keeping us from going full force towards the goal all right
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is it easier to go towards a goal that you know 100 you're going to achieve and pour all your energy
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into it or is it easier for you to pull back and not put all your energy into it and all your resources
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and all your time and all your knowledge because you think it might not happen because there's a
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slight doubt in your brain okay do you understand what i'm saying because big goals guys they take big
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energy it takes all your effort it takes all your your thought all your focus all your time and for
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you to go all in you've got to be able to remove the doubt and so guys i want to i want to teach you
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something that i learned along the road um that really helped me remove the doubt from my goals and
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you guys have heard me if you've listened to the podcast in the past you know that i 1000 know that
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we're going to build a multi-billion dollar brand out of first form i 1000 know that i'm going to be
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a billionaire one day it's not a question i don't doubt it and i'm going to teach you how to not doubt
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your goals either okay this is how i do this in a company with what i do on my daily critical task
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which if you haven't listened to uh win the day episode 107 of this podcast you need to go listen
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to that and start practicing what we talk about there but in addition to the critical tasks i
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perform a day i also perform a critical mental task whenever i think about the big goals that i have
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and that is what i do is i i don't doubt myself by saying man i wonder if i'm actually going to be able
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to build a billion dollar company or i wonder if i'm actually going to ever make a billion dollars or i
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wonder if i'm ever actually going to you know get down to 245 pounds which is my goal that's not what
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i say to myself my internal dialogue is not that way my internal dialogue goes like this i am in the
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process of becoming a billionaire i am in the process of building a multi-billion dollar company
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i am in the process of getting my shit together and looking like the fucking rock i'm already doing
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what it takes on a daily basis so think about your goals right now as i'm saying this whatever
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your big goals are and instead of saying i wonder if i'm going to achieve them say i'm in the process
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of achieving them and see how much better that feels to you okay it's going to remove the doubt
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it's going to put yourself in a position where you're able to push all your resources onto the
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fucking table which is what it's going to take for you to achieve these big goals so it's not just a
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mental you know mind game that i'm trying to you know tell you guys to trick on yourself i'm trying
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to let yourself teach you guys how to let yourself go all in without hesitation all right i'm teaching
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you how to really truly believe in yourself and guys it's extremely important because if you don't
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have true confident belief in your goals and i mean from your heart and we're i'm not even going to
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get into the metaphysical and quantum physical law of attraction you know aspects of this conversation
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i'm going to talk about the actual actionable aspects to what i'm talking about if you don't
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believe in your heart you're always going to hold some chips off the table you're always going to hold
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back your true potential you're always going to hold back what you could truly give and guys when you
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hold back what you could truly give you're not going to get what you could truly get and that's the
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problem so stop wondering if and start telling yourself you're in the process of and then use
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the daily critical task to make sure that you actually are in the process of you know so guys
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those are two phrases that i think can really help you guys free up some of your positive energy and focus
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and get yourself on the right track all right don't you know don't sit there and doubt yourself and think
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about all the things that you're doing ask yourself simple questions tell yourself simple statements
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how is this action right now whatever it is you're doing is your action helping you towards your goal
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or is it hurting you okay when you're about to put a big old pile of fucking french fries in your mouth
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is it helping you or is it hurting you when you're about to pick up the phone and make that call that you
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don't really want to make is it helping you or is it hurting you when you're about to go do cardio and you
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really don't feel like doing it is that going to help you or is that going to hurt you you know when
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you're about to read that extra chapter in the book tonight instead of watch the walking dead is that
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helping you or is that hurting you and if you can learn to ask yourself on an action by action basis
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you develop awareness of what you're doing and when you develop awareness of what you're doing
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you get into the process of executing on the right actions and guys the second part is you stop doubting
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yourself if you're following through on the first part and then you're following through on what we
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talk about in episode 107 you can follow through you are you could tell yourself that you are in the
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process of because you are in the process of you are executing on the daily critical tasks you are doing
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the things that it takes more often than not that are going to help you versus hurt you towards your goal
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and if you're doing those things that's what matters that's what's going to get you where you want to go
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that means you are actually in the process of becoming whatever it is you want to become just
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because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it's not going to happen and you guys have to let yourself
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off the hook with the doubt so that you could truly believe and so that you could truly go in
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on all in on all your resources in order to achieve your goals so guys that's my two points i wanted to
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share with you i know it's a shorter podcast it's not generally a uh motivation thursday thunder type
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podcast it's a very practical couple things here um and guys i want you guys to understand that you
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know being successful although it seems uh really fucking hard it's really not complicated man it might
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take some effort it might take consistency it might take time but the formula is very simple all right
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