How to Feel Better About Your Life Immediately, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO235
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about what keeps people feeling like shit and why it s not about making money, it s about being around other people and gossiping about other people. We also talk about why you don t have to be a technical entrepreneur to learn how to be successful.
Transcript
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I can stack them hunts to the roof. I ain't stopping till they stack to the moon. Without
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me, my family wouldn't have food. Anybody go against me gotta lose.
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What is up guys? You're listening to the MFCEO Project. I'm Andy. I'm your host and I am
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the motherfucking CEO. Today is going to be Tuesday thunder, all right? It's going to
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be short and sweet. Usually we do a longer, more practical podcast on Tuesday and a shorter
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podcast on Thursday. This week we're flip-flopping because I have a lot of stuff going on right
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now, all of which you're going to find out about very soon. But I have an important message,
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Dave. This is your first time listening. Basically, we don't charge anything for the content, all
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right? We've been ranked the number one entrepreneurial podcast by Entrepreneur, by Inc.
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Magazine, by a bunch of other iconic names over the last three years. We're consistently
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ranked in the top 10 iTunes and top 50 of all podcasts. And that's because we do something
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here that nobody else does, all right? Now, I don't charge a fee and I don't run ads. If
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you listen to other people's podcasts, they're going to talk about 15 fucking ads before they
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even get into the content. We don't do that here. I try to keep everything ad-free. I try
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to keep it to the point because I do this because I want to help you guys make positive
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changes. So when we say entrepreneurial podcast, that's a little bit misleading. Yes, we talk
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about entrepreneurship. Yes, the principles of entrepreneurship are the core of what we talk
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about here, but we are more than just entrepreneurship. We are personal development. We are success-based.
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We are mindset-based and all of those things are practical. So you don't have to be a technical
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entrepreneur to really get things out of this podcast. I think what you'll get most out of
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this podcast is how to think like an entrepreneur, no matter if you work for yourself or if you work
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within the organization of someone else's business. You're going to learn how to be successful and
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you're going to learn how to be successful in different areas of life. It's not just about making
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money. I love money. I love making fucking money. And anybody who says they don't love making money
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doesn't belong in this fucking show. So get the fuck out if you don't love making money, but there's
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other things that matter in life. And today we're going to talk about one of those things.
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Today, we're going to talk about what keeps people feeling like shit. And I could tell you,
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and I had a great conversation, uh, the other day with a friend about this. Um, we were talking
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about how successful people think and talk and what they talk about versus how the average person
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thinks and talks and what they talk about. And we started talking about how stupid some of the shit
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is on TV that we see like the fucking Kardashians. I have a lot of respect for them as entrepreneurs,
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but dude, come on. Like I don't, I could really give a fuck less what so-and-so said to so-and-so
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are these shows like the bachelor and this, all this shit that people fucking get so into and talk
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about. And the reason they get into this shit and the reason that that's all they talk about. And
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the reason they're so wound up in it is because most people operate on the premise of talking about
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other people. Okay. And what we're talking about here is gossip. All right. When you hear most
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people speak, they are going to overwhelmingly the majority of the time, they're going to talk
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about other people. They're going to say negative things. They're going to say positive things,
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but the premise of what they're talking about is always other people. And it's so weird to me
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that people spend so much time talking about concerning themselves with and getting wrapped into
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other people's existences. And this guys is why most people can never succeed because they're not
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focused on what they're doing. And I could tell you because I've lived in both worlds. I've lived in
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the world of just getting by and I've lived in the world of being surrounded by people who are just
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fucking crushing. And I could tell you from experience, successful people, while they still might
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gossip a little bit, they spend like 1% of the time saying, they might say, Hey, do you hear about
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so-and-so? And you'd be like, yeah, I heard that. And they'd be like, fuck, what a fucking idiot. Or
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yeah, that's fucking great. And then they go on talking about their big plans or whatever they're
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doing or whatever projects they're working on. And they start to talk about productive things.
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When you live in the, in the world of people who are struggling to get by a majority of their
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conversation is going to be spent gossiping and gossiping in a negative way. All right.
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Um, and I want to talk to you guys about how you can immediately make yourself feel better because
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guys, we spend so much time when we're, when we're in the zone of gossiping, uh, letting the gossip and
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letting the negativity suck our energy right out of us. You know, we only have so much energy and what
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we choose to apply it to makes the biggest difference in what our result is going to be.
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So when you, when you spend your time talking about other people in a negative aspect, and when you
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spend your time, uh, playing into the gossip, you've got to understand that you're applying
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your energy to something that it's not only not going to be productive, but it's going to put you
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into a negative mindset and, and eventually really just make you feel like shit. So what I want to
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cover with you guys is this, I want you to feel better immediately. And something that, you know,
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this month is mental health month. Something that can help you make, uh, feel better immediately is
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this number one, stop gossiping, stop. No one gives a fuck. Okay. And if you're around people that give a
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fuck, you're around the wrong motherfucking people. All right. If all you have to talk about is what your
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neighbor's doing or what your friend's doing or what so-and-so on TV is doing or what sports team
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did this or that, or this, this, this, that, the other dude, you have no fucking life. All right.
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Find something else to talk about. All right. Two, when you hear people gossip, when you have people
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bring gossip to you, when you have people bring you shit that doesn't serve you and is negative,
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be the voice of reason and try to give the other person that they're gossiping about the benefit of the
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doubt. Don't play into it and just agree with them and say, Oh yeah, I saw it. I was a piece of
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shit. Well, I fucked them. Why don't you try this? You know, I see what you're saying, but I could also
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see it from this person's point of view as well. You know, and maybe they're thinking this, this,
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and this. All right. And the reason that I want you to start doing that is because it's a way to start
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training people to not gossip to you. All right. People don't like when people disagree with them.
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They don't like when people start to be the friction in their conversation. They want you
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to play into it and they want you to say, Oh yeah, so-and-so they're such a bad person and they
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want you to judge right along with them. All right. And when you don't do that, what you're doing is
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training the people around you, some of which you can't really get rid of, right? Like your parents
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or your brother or your sister or whatever to not gossip to you because they know that whenever you say
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that you're going to actually be the voice of a different perspective. All right. And a couple
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of things are going to happen. Four things specifically are going to happen when you do
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this. Number one, you're not going to continue to absorb the negativity. All right. You're stopping
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the negativity from entering your mind and your soul and your body and draining you of all the energy
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that you would otherwise have to do productive things. All right. So you're not going to be drained
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by these long drawn out negative stories that people are pushing into your ears and into your
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brain. You're going to have that energy to do productive things. All right. This is very practical
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in nature. It's not just, Hey, you want to feel better. It's actually going to produce a better
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result because you're not being drained of energy that could be used to do productive things. All right.
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And number two, the second point of what's going to happen is you're going to respect yourself a lot
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more for having the courage to do the right thing. You know, it's wrong to gossip. You know,
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it's wrong to talk shit. You know, it's wrong to be the person who goes along with this stuff.
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So what's going to happen when you stand up and you say no more, I'm not doing this.
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And you start weeding out the shit from your life. You're going to feel better about yourself
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because you're standing up for what you know on the inside is right, which is going to help boost
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your self-esteem. It's going to help boost your confidence. It's going to help boost the belief
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that you have in yourself in the strength of the person that you are. All right. So you're going to
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respect yourself a lot more. Number three, the people who are gossiping to you are going to stop
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cultivating the negativity out of you. We all have negativity. We all have things that we hate about
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other people. It's just the truth. Anybody who says, Oh, I love everybody. They're full of fucking shit.
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All right. We all get annoyed. We all get angry. We all get pissed off. The key is to be able to use
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that to produce productive action. We talk about these pivots all the time. Somebody says something
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negative or does something negative that you don't like. What do you do? Do you pout and cry and whine
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like every average motherfucker out there? Or do you take the energy that they are giving you and putting
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it into productive action? All right. So when the people come to you and they gossip to you,
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they're going to stop just feeding you needless negativity over and over and over again. And it's
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going to give you an opportunity to use the negativity you already have for productive action.
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Okay. And the fourth thing that's going to happen guys is this, the people that are normally gossiping
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to you while they might get upset with you, while they might be like, Hey man, what the fuck?
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Whenever you stand up for what's right and don't go along with all the shit that they say at first,
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what they're going to eventually do is they're going to respect you for having a backbone.
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All right. And what that's going to do is place you in a place of respect and revere and leadership
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that you weren't in before. All right. It's a place of influence. A big part of becoming influential
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amongst your peers is doing the right thing and having the courage to stand up. People respect
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that even if they don't agree with it and they'll listen to what you say. All right. So if your goal
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is to be successful, if your goal is to be someone who leads, you've got to do what you think is right
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because other people respect that. All right. And by you going along with the, everybody else,
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and by you going along with all the gossip and by you going along with everything that everybody's
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saying, you're just another fucking sheep, you're not the shepherd. Okay. And that's what you want
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to be. So guys, the point of this is this may is mental health month. And you know, that mental
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health is a big deal to me. And I think one of the biggest things that I've done and the biggest
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things I observe amongst my peers at this point in my life is that they don't spend hardly any time
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ever gossiping. And if they do, it gets stopped right away. We have more important things to talk
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about. We have more important things to do and we can't afford to let our energy because life is so
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competitive and building a career is so competitive. We can't allow our energy to be used on things that
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don't produce a result. It's not an option. It's not, Hey, that's nice that we have extra energy.
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It's that we actually need the energy that we have available to us to push us in the right
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direction. And we can't afford to spend it on shit that doesn't produce a result. Okay. And the best
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thing about all these things we're talking about is that you're going to feel better too. You're going
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to feel better about yourself. You're going to feel more confident about yourself. You're going to feel
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stronger. You're going to have better self-esteem and you're going to have a more pure spirit and soul
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because you know that you're doing what's right. And guess what? Other people are going to respect
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you for it too. So stop gossiping, put a stop to the gossip, be the person who stands up and says,
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no, I don't agree with that. Or Hey, maybe you're not looking at the whole picture and start doing
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what's right. And you're going to find yourself in a better position all the way around. I love you