REAL AF with Andy Frisella - August 04, 2015


Kill It Every Day, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO9


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 15 minutes

Words per Minute

211.79144

Word Count

15,939

Sentence Count

1,165

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

45


Summary

In this episode of the MFCEO Project Podcast, Ben Newman and Vaughn Kohler introduce themselves and talk a little bit about their backgrounds and how they got into the fitness industry. They also talk about the highs and lows of being hot on the track and cold off the track.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 All I do is work, work, work, never run the sidelines, I only hustle, I don't ever take
00:00:05.780 your day off, I only work, work, work, I don't mess around, kid, I only can't, can't,
00:00:11.660 what he never sees, all I do is work, all I do is work, all I do is work, all I do is
00:00:17.300 Hey guys, what's up?
00:00:18.460 I'm Andy, you're listening to the MFCEO Project Podcast.
00:00:22.980 If this is your first time listening, welcome.
00:00:25.360 Welcome, a little bit about myself, I started my first real business at the age of 19, it
00:00:32.840 was a sports nutrition retail store, I started with my business partner Chris, with $12,000
00:00:37.880 that we got from painting the stripes on parking lots.
00:00:41.280 Our first day in sales, we sold $7, our second day we sold nothing, our third day we sold
00:00:47.440 $22, it took us eight months to have a day over $200, and now here we are, 16 and a half
00:00:55.180 years later, with multiple companies that gross in excess of $100 million a year collectively.
00:01:04.660 So, the reason for the podcast, basically, I'm sick of all the bullshit out there, I'm
00:01:11.520 sick of all the fluffy, butterfly, sugar-coated, feel-good stuff, and we wanted to bring the reality
00:01:17.880 of business to you guys without the powder puff that has become so popular in today's society.
00:01:27.620 I'm not politically correct, I'm going to curse, I'm going to say fuck, I'm going to say shit,
00:01:33.300 I'm probably going to say pussy a couple times in terms of don't be, not in terms of the female genitalia.
00:01:39.200 You're going to offend several different people groups too, I'm sure.
00:01:43.220 I'm sure, I'm sure I'm going to offend some people.
00:01:45.600 But here's the reality, I'm a normal dude, all of us sitting here are normal dudes, and
00:01:50.500 all of us listening to this podcast are normal people.
00:01:55.280 I'm not going to be something I'm not, and I want to bring the ability to mentor you and
00:02:00.180 teach you and help you with the things I've struggled with, along with the guests that
00:02:04.500 we include. I'm here with my co-hosts, Ben Newman and Vaughn Kohler. What's up fellas?
00:02:10.800 What's going on? Doing good.
00:02:14.120 Guys, it's fucking hot. It is. I did cardio outside, I finally started my diet to get my
00:02:19.660 fucking fat ass back in shape. I saw your Facebook post about going up the hill. Oh my god. It was
00:02:24.420 amazing. Dude. Yeah. No, not amazing. Torture. Hardest shit ever, man. Yeah. Going up the hill,
00:02:33.260 I got about halfway up, and this hill is like 40 degree incline. It's about a mile. And I get
00:02:39.340 about halfway up, and I'm like, fuck, dude, I'm going to quit. And I stopped, I literally stopped
00:02:44.580 for about 30 seconds to catch my breath, and I looked down, and I'm like, I'm just going to go
00:02:47.480 down. It's too hot. And then I thought about Derek Weta, our athlete at First Form, who is an amputee
00:02:54.340 doing the mud run, and watched him do the mud run on crutches, and taking like three hours to do it,
00:02:58.840 where everybody else took like 40 minutes. And I'm like, dude, you are not this big of a fucking
00:03:02.840 pussy. You're going to fucking do this. And I did it. Well, you're looking, you're looking more
00:03:07.720 svelte these days. Dude, I got a long way to go. I go through that, though. I go through the up and
00:03:12.520 downs, you know, probably like everybody. Everybody gets hot on, on their work ethic, hot on, hot on
00:03:17.980 the track, whether it be in business, career, your physical, whatever it is. And then I go through
00:03:23.080 phases where I'm not as disciplined, you know. And I think that's like something that most people
00:03:27.140 don't realize is that's a normal thing for everybody. Even the most successful guys I know and
00:03:31.960 talk to will tell me the same thing. They go through phases where they're on it and then
00:03:36.700 they're off it. And most of the people I find that are successful are just very consistent in
00:03:40.600 understanding the fact that they're going to have those times where they're hot and cold
00:03:44.600 and knowing that, you know, trying to minimize the bad things when you're cold and trying to
00:03:51.100 maximize the hotness when you're hot, you know. Yeah. So I'm trying to get myself back in that hot
00:03:55.460 on the, on the physical aspect. And it's, you're in a, you're in a, it's fucking literally
00:03:59.960 hot. Like, yeah. Hot. You're in the middle of a 90 day, no, a hundred day challenge or
00:04:05.260 something, right? Yeah. So every year, he's got a swimsuit to get into. That's right. Every
00:04:09.980 year we do this thing in the summertime where we try to go a hundred days. And when I say
00:04:13.620 we, I mean my wife and then a lot of the guys here at the office, we do it together. But
00:04:18.200 uh, where we go a hundred days, no cheating or diet, no missing workout and no alcohol for
00:04:22.400 a hundred days straight. Last year I did it. I only made it like 43 days. Um, so I'm trying to
00:04:27.160 make it the full amount, but during that 43 days, I lost like 35 pounds. So is that, is that, uh,
00:04:33.360 is that a lot for you to go 43 days without alcohol? I'm actually not being funny. I'm,
00:04:38.020 I'm, I mean, normally, yeah, drink a lot, pretty normal person. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. I,
00:04:43.240 when I'm not doing that, I probably, you know, I'm good for some beers on the weekend. Yeah.
00:04:47.960 I don't know. I don't know what's normal. I mean, I, I've, I've cut down on alcohol personally,
00:04:51.940 but to completely eliminate it. I mean, I just enjoy it. I mean, I enjoy having beers. I enjoy
00:04:56.180 drinking. The one thing I don't like about it is in, yeah, what I don't like about, I love it. But
00:05:00.680 the one thing I don't like, and the bigger our business gets into more, it grows is it's not that
00:05:05.440 I, it's the, it's the two or three days after it's not that I'm hung over. I'm mentally unfocused
00:05:09.940 and I don't like that feeling, you know? And I never used to have that when I was younger, but
00:05:13.800 now that I'm, you know, getting into mid thirties and stuff and late thirties or whatever you want to
00:05:18.640 call it 36. Um, I feel like I don't recover mentally as well. I used to. What's your drink
00:05:24.380 of choice? Makers mark on the rocks. Ben, I do a Sapphire and tonic gin and tonic. Yeah.
00:05:33.260 Everybody always gets me blue label for a Christmas, you know? Cause they're like, Oh dude,
00:05:37.540 blue label. It's expensive. He'll like it. I fucking hate it. I want that makers. Yeah. I want makers,
00:05:42.320 man. 30 bucks a bottle. It's good for me. Have you been to the, uh, factory there? No,
00:05:46.900 but I heard it's awesome. It is awesome. I used to live in Louisville. Yeah. I heard it's cool.
00:05:50.860 Emily and I, Emily and I are going to do that sometime. So, but yeah. So can I mention something
00:05:56.740 real quick? It's just, it's just sitting on me is hearing you tell your story is how you chose to
00:06:02.100 give a perspective of somebody like Derek. And I think when you're going through tough times and I
00:06:07.360 mean, I've heard you say this in so many different stories is that you had a shift in perspective.
00:06:12.260 You said, because I'm facing adversity, I'm going to think about somebody who's done something tougher
00:06:16.740 than what I'm going through right now. And I was at the mud run, right? I saw Derek. We saw it.
00:06:22.060 Yeah. As soon as we're watching this, I'm like, how am I not going to finish this thing? Right.
00:06:25.920 When he's literally doing this without his press deck. And you know, what's funny about him is he
00:06:30.300 doesn't think that's a big deal. You know, he's, that's just him. He's just a competitive,
00:06:34.380 tough motherfucker. You know what I mean? And you know, that, that's why I chose the words.
00:06:40.180 I'm not that big of a pussy because I'm not going to sit here and put myself on that level
00:06:43.580 because I know, I mean, that guy's a special breed of human when it comes to being mentally
00:06:50.040 tough and physically tough. But it was definitely, I, you know, definitely getting to know him
00:06:56.900 and see what he does and all those things is it's a good, it's a good perspective to put
00:07:02.040 myself in place when it needs to be in terms of physical stuff. Because like I come from
00:07:06.760 background of athletics, we're like running and conditioning is usually punishment. So
00:07:10.880 I'm like mentally ingrained in my brain that running and doing shit like that. It's not
00:07:15.620 fucking fun for me. I fucking hate it. Yeah. I hate running. Right. It's I like lifting,
00:07:21.160 but I don't like doing the conditioning part. So, you know, breaking past that going from the
00:07:27.740 mentality of its punishment to going mentality of like accomplishing it has been somewhat of
00:07:34.040 a journey for me, you know, but I'm getting to where now when I do things that are hard,
00:07:38.340 I do like appreciate how you feel at the end. Derek's a former serviceman, right? Oh yeah.
00:07:43.860 Yeah. And that's how he lost. That's how he lost his leg. Yeah. He got shot through the knee
00:07:47.580 and then, uh, it would never like basically heal and they ended up amputating it. Um,
00:07:54.260 after the fact, not on the spot, but because it wasn't healing at his request. Yeah. He,
00:07:58.660 he chose to have it amputated. So those guys are really, really impressive. I was talking to a guy
00:08:04.960 one time, a Marine who was one of the most impressive guys I've ever met. And he said,
00:08:08.800 you know, when a Marine is happy, I said, when, and he said, when you're surrounded by the enemy,
00:08:14.220 your back is against the wall. It looks hopeless and there's no escape. That's when a Marine is happy.
00:08:19.880 I don't know, man. Everybody's got their own, their own, uh, their own things, I guess.
00:08:27.120 Well, just the point, the point in the world. Yeah. I mean, just the point he was saying,
00:08:30.800 you know, he, he wanted the challenge. He wanted the challenge. He wanted to overcome it. Yeah.
00:08:35.500 And I would agree with that. I said, you know, all the Marines that I know that I've gotten to know
00:08:39.240 personally all have a similar mentality in terms of, uh, their willingness to like take the challenge.
00:08:46.000 Dude, I don't think dude, Derek's the kind of guy, like,
00:08:48.520 I don't think you'd ever want to tell him like, dude, I don't think you do this or that
00:08:51.960 no matter what. Like, I think he would fucking do it just out of spite.
00:08:56.820 I think it's that, that mindset that the troops have, you know, when other people have this,
00:09:01.040 but the troops, it's incredible. It's that, that sacrifice to whatever it takes to just get it
00:09:05.360 done and a sacrifice to a bigger purpose. I remember a few months back, I was speaking in
00:09:09.960 Virginia beach and I had the opportunity to have dinner with one of the individuals from seal team six,
00:09:13.780 who was there on the bin Laden mission and sitting with him. He's, I mean, he's just a normal guy,
00:09:18.380 right? You wouldn't even meet him and go, Oh my gosh, that's the kind of guy who would have been
00:09:21.400 on this. I mean, he's just a normal guy having a great conversation. And I remember I said, what,
00:09:26.740 what caused you to make the choice to get into the service? He said, I was 17 years old on September
00:09:32.700 11th, the September 11th. I was 17 years old. And he said, I woke up in the morning on September the
00:09:38.160 12th. And I went to both of my parents and said, you're both signing up. I'm going to serve our
00:09:42.340 country. This will never happen on our soil again. And he was 17 years old. I mean,
00:09:47.020 the only way a 17 year old, I mean, you can even call him a boy, but I mean, a 17 year old man can
00:09:52.000 sign off because you have to be 18 is if both your parents signed and he went to his parents and he
00:09:56.340 joined the service and then committed to giving his best. I mean, the seals are the elite of the
00:10:01.020 elite seal team. Six are the baddest. I'm going to curse. Andy likes it when I occasionally curse.
00:10:06.040 Those are the baddest motherfuckers on the planet. And he's one of them. So just think about that set
00:10:12.640 starting at 17. And you know, we want to, we want to moan and complain. I can't do this. I can't do
00:10:18.840 that. Yet. I think just like Andy did today, each and every one of you, there is perspective. There's
00:10:24.000 a story. There's something that inspires you that when you feel like you can't go any further shift
00:10:29.060 to that perspective and dig down deep and keep going. Well, dude, I know for me, man, you know,
00:10:33.560 I was almost embarrassed to even share that because like it shows you how mentally out of condition I am
00:10:39.500 in a physical sense right now. Like I'm like, fuck, were you really going to fucking quit on
00:10:43.940 something as pussy as that? Like I was, I'm like, I'm like embarrassed about it. Now I'm hungry to go
00:10:49.240 out and do it over and over just to fucking do it because you broke through though. Right. So when
00:10:54.240 we, uh, when we hear stories about people like Derek or this seal team six guy that you mentioned,
00:10:59.040 we're seeing the final result. We're seeing, we're not the final, but we're seeing the result
00:11:03.640 of guys who have made specific choices with their lives. And a lot of those choices are,
00:11:09.500 you know, what they do on a day to day level, you know, how they become the people they want to be.
00:11:13.740 And I, I know Andy, we were going to talk about today's topic and might be a good time to introduce
00:11:19.080 that. Yeah. I mean the most fucking annoying thing I hear about, I get, I literally, I mean,
00:11:24.980 you know, we get thousands of emails. I mean the most annoying thing that I fucking hear on
00:11:29.780 Periscope on Instagram from people in person is I don't have fucking time. I don't have time to,
00:11:36.060 it would be nice if I could get in shape. If I had the time, it'd be nice if I could run a business.
00:11:40.780 If I had the time, you have the motherfucking time. Everybody's got the time. Okay. And if you
00:11:47.380 really don't think you have a time today, we're going to talk about how to make you have the time.
00:11:53.360 Okay. How to be effective, not how to be busy. You know, there's a fucking difference. Everybody in
00:11:59.640 this world is like, Oh, I'm so busy. And I think that like activity is equal to effectiveness,
00:12:05.920 you know, just because you keep yourself busy from 6am to 11pm running around with like your
00:12:12.040 chicken with a chicken with his fucking head cut off doesn't mean you're effective. Okay. What
00:12:16.620 that means is, is you're inefficient and you're not effective at getting the critical tasks done
00:12:21.100 that you need to get done. So what we're going to talk about today is how to get shit done period.
00:12:27.180 Hmm. You know, so what are you going to do? You're just going to break down your day.
00:12:30.540 I'm going to break down how to be effective. Okay. This, this, here's the problem. The problem
00:12:35.040 is, is that most people in society in for some reason, and I don't know what it is, they associate
00:12:42.440 activity with being busy or with being effective. They think that if they bustle and hustle, the
00:12:49.660 more hours a day, the more result they're going to produce. And it's common. You see this on
00:12:55.100 fucking Instagram all the time. You know, these, these fucking memes and these messages
00:12:59.980 about, Oh, don't ever fucking sleep. You know, I never sleep. I worked 26 hours of a 24 hour
00:13:06.020 day. You know, I worked 48 hour shifts. I do all this shit. It's all bullshit. Nobody
00:13:11.080 fucking does that unless they're snorting a pound of cocaine up their fucking nose every
00:13:14.520 fucking day. And that's it. That's the truth. Okay. You got to learn to be effective. You got
00:13:20.720 to learn to get your shit done. And the truth of the matter is, is if you become a master
00:13:24.720 of getting your shit done, you can have your shit done by nine o'clock in the fucking morning
00:13:28.900 and then your freedom, you got all this extra time to go do the shit you really want to do,
00:13:33.300 or you could do more because here's the truth. If you're concentrating all that energy on being
00:13:38.300 effective in a focused, concentrated manner, you will not have the mental energy to do that
00:13:43.700 for fucking 12 hours. It's impossible because that's what it takes to be that kind of effective.
00:13:48.280 And I don't know, dude, all the entrepreneurial buddies I know that work their balls off.
00:13:53.000 If I call them at one o'clock, they're done for the fucking day. They're ready to go fuck
00:13:56.880 off. You know why? Because they do more between fucking five o'clock in the morning and one
00:14:01.920 o'clock in the afternoon than you do in a fucking week. And that's what being effective
00:14:06.160 is. So the reality is, is the more effective you are, the more time you have. I think one
00:14:11.660 of the best examples that'll really paint a clear picture and kind of politely hit everybody
00:14:16.960 right in between the eyes for exactly what Andy's talking about comes from the book,
00:14:20.800 the four hour work week by Tim Ferriss. And Tim gives the example in the book. He says,
00:14:25.960 remember a time when you had two days to do 20 things, how long did it take you? It took
00:14:31.080 you two days. He said, if I gave you the same list, the same 20 things that had to get done
00:14:35.760 and I gave you two hours, how long would it take you to do it? The answer two hours. Why? Because
00:14:40.940 when you choose to be efficient, when you choose to lock into a mindset where I'm going to get it
00:14:46.860 done, you will find a way. And I agree with you. I mean, I know Vaughn's going to make me open up
00:14:51.620 about my disciplines and how early I wake up. But the reality is I get up as early as I do so I can
00:14:57.060 have breakfast with my kids so I can take my kids to school so I can have people look at me like,
00:15:01.380 does that dude even have a job? Yeah, I have a job. I just choose to be efficient so I can do the
00:15:06.140 things that I want to do with my time because when I work, I am working. I'm not just saying
00:15:11.200 it's going to be a 19 hour day. And I'm not just clocking in and sitting there with my fucking
00:15:14.920 coffee at Starbucks acting like I'm fucking busy and then sending out some bullshit invoice about
00:15:19.840 all these hours you worked. Dude, fuck that. You either fucking get it done or you fucking don't.
00:15:25.040 And if you're one of these people who likes to play business, like I like to say, people that play
00:15:29.520 business, you know what play business means? Play business means I fucking go into Starbucks.
00:15:33.720 I get my fucking latte. I open up my Apple. I, you know, I take my selfie and I say, oh,
00:15:40.500 getting the grind on, you know, I'm fucking playing business. No, playing business is fucking none of
00:15:46.500 those things. It's not your office. I don't even have a fucking office at this office building that
00:15:50.940 I fucking paid for. I don't have a fucking office here. You know where my office is right here on my
00:15:56.160 fucking cell phone. It's in my fucking truck. It's in my car. It's at home. It's in my bedroom when I'm
00:16:01.760 hungover. That's my office. I don't give a fuck. That's how business is about. You know what I'm
00:16:07.060 saying? That's not what being effective is about. You do these people that want to put on the fucking
00:16:11.280 the front of being successful in business. Dude, it's a fucking joke. And anybody who really
00:16:17.400 fucking accomplish anything knows exactly what I'm talking about. You know, you know what I,
00:16:22.420 you know what I love about Andy? And this is what I think all of you love about Andy is that he's just
00:16:27.340 giving it to you real. And I think a lot of people can say like, man, that is just like some serious
00:16:31.800 fire that you're bringing, but it's the truth. And I know that you care that much. Those individuals
00:16:36.540 out there who, when you hear this, you're like, you know what? That's me. We don't need you to send
00:16:40.980 an email in. We don't need you to raise your hand and tell us that it's you, but just choose to change,
00:16:46.180 choose to take your time back because it's your time and you can do something with it.
00:16:50.880 Well, and that's the thing is like people are sold on the idea. And this comes, I think,
00:16:54.660 from corporate America handing down this fucking, the old school way of business, right?
00:17:00.020 How many hours you put in this week? You know, and people are like, Oh, I put in 60 hours.
00:17:05.400 Well, that's really not the right fucking question. The right question is, and the question I asked,
00:17:10.400 what the fuck did you get done this week? Cause that's, what's going to move you forward.
00:17:14.480 Okay. So being busy from, and see a lot of people have kids and obligations, and this is where they
00:17:20.040 attack me because I don't have fucking kids. Well, number one, I don't have kids by fucking choice
00:17:24.120 because I knew what I had to do to get to where I am. So that'll be the next phase of my life.
00:17:28.940 Hopefully. Second of all, if you do have kids, there's no reason you still can't get it done.
00:17:35.040 There's millions of people out there that do that. Don't use your kids as a fucking excuse. Cause
00:17:39.060 you know, what's going to eventually happen is when you're fucking 60, you're going to say, man,
00:17:43.640 I'm fucking miserable. I'm broken. I never did the things I wanted to do because of my kids.
00:17:47.120 And how the fuck do you think that makes them feel? You're going to resent your own fucking
00:17:51.860 kids. Cause you didn't have the balls go out and do your own shit. It's bullshit. Right.
00:17:57.420 Where do you think we got this idea that it's handed down from corporate America, man?
00:18:02.420 Well, but even before that, don't you think there is something that we, we, we attribute putting
00:18:06.740 in time as working hard really deep into this because the reality is, is that if you're giving
00:18:12.080 your, your, this goes back to our podcast that went on, uh, today with Will Compton, if you're
00:18:17.880 giving people something passionate to work on and something that excites them and gets
00:18:21.960 them fucking pumped, they're not even watching the fucking hours they put in because they're
00:18:26.100 worried about accomplishing the goal. Right? So it comes down to the factory mentality. I've
00:18:33.060 got to force. I have a, I have a human element that is not a creative contributor that I have
00:18:39.400 to force to be here from the time of this time and that time for us to remain productive.
00:18:45.000 And they have to make 400 widgets per shift. Otherwise we're not going to make our money.
00:18:52.140 And, and that mentality gets then put on the office staff. All right. Who are supposed to
00:18:58.100 be creative, the heart, the lifeblood of your business. But here's the problem. You know,
00:19:02.860 when you, when you fucking lock your office staff and, and, you know, put them in terms of
00:19:08.200 hours worked, they're going to start thinking of in terms of hours work. They're not thinking
00:19:12.300 of productiveness. You know, here we have a time minimum where we have a time here that
00:19:17.420 you have to be here by in the morning, which is nine o'clock, which usually people are like
00:19:22.800 seven o'clock, but I want my guys and my, and my team to go out and get their workouts
00:19:26.920 in or whatever they want to do before they get here. That way they're not worried about
00:19:29.920 it. And yeah, and we don't have a leaving time. Some guys get their shit done. They leave
00:19:33.340 at three 30. Some guys are here till nine or 10 or even fucking midnight. Some guys spend
00:19:37.900 the fucking night on the fucking couches here. And that's the truth. But that's what
00:19:43.220 happens when you give people passionate shit to work on. They stopped looking at the hours
00:19:46.800 and they start looking at what they've accomplished. So, I mean, I think that the mentality comes
00:19:51.540 down from companies trying to put mindless shit on people and force them to fucking work,
00:19:58.120 you know, without allowing them or empowering them to be a creative part of the business.
00:20:02.760 They take the factory mentality and put it on the office, which is a terrible thing to do.
00:20:06.880 But I think that's where it comes from, from the most part. And then people get accustomed
00:20:11.020 to that, you know, because they're always getting asked, well, how many hours you work?
00:20:14.120 You know, cause like you go to the bar and drink with your buddies, you know, and they
00:20:16.680 want to brag about what they, what they did or like, Oh, I fucking worked 75 hours this
00:20:20.040 week. Why don't fucking give a shit? I like, I couldn't tell you, I bet. I couldn't tell
00:20:24.640 you the number of hours I worked in a week. And I, I, I couldn't, I couldn't years like
00:20:29.600 six, seven. I have no idea. I don't either. I know that all's I know is I get more
00:20:34.600 shit done between fucking Monday and Tuesday than most people get done in a month. And
00:20:39.460 that's what we're talking about here. We're talking about being effective because those
00:20:43.220 things that you get done that actually get done are the things that are going to drive
00:20:47.220 you forward. All right. So we're going to get into a couple of practical applications
00:20:51.560 of how to do that, of how to be effective. Okay. And it's, I'll start because I'll start
00:20:58.680 with what I do, but most people, when they think about being effective, it's like whenever
00:21:03.260 you take somebody who's completely out of shape and they think that they're going to
00:21:06.340 go out and run a fucking four miles today and they're going to eat just tuna and water
00:21:11.640 today. And then, you know, and they're going to lose all this weight that they had in a
00:21:16.160 day. And guess what happens tomorrow when they wake up, they can't fucking move. And they're
00:21:20.480 like, dude, fuck this. And they quit. So I think when it comes to being effective, most
00:21:24.700 people bite off far more than what they can chew from the beginning. And dude, being effective
00:21:30.200 and being efficient with your time is so simple. Who gets further? The guy who fucking is busy
00:21:36.040 and gets his fucking latte and goes to Starbucks and spend seven hours on Facebook and blah,
00:21:40.780 blah, blah. Or the guy who fucking makes five simple things that he has to do every single
00:21:45.840 day on a critical task list and gets them done over the course of time. And those things might
00:21:51.540 take two hours. So here's what I do. I create what's called a power list. All right. My power
00:21:56.340 list is five critical tasks, five critical tasks. And when I say critical tasks, those
00:22:02.660 five tasks may encompass different areas of life. It could be physical. It could be career
00:22:08.880 and they all mix in, but only five. All right. So they're not all five business. My list will
00:22:14.900 look like this for today. My list would be do cardio, 40 minutes of cardio, do my weight
00:22:23.200 workout, eat my six meals that are planned for me. That's, that's three of those are physical
00:22:29.060 for me today. My other two would be do the podcast and fucking call our manufacturer because
00:22:37.860 I had a question about something that we were working on a capsule product. That's it. Once
00:22:42.720 I do those things, I won the day. I won the fucking day. You know why? Because I moved forward
00:22:48.220 today. The rest of the day I got to go do whatever I want. You know what I'm doing this afternoon?
00:22:52.480 I'm going to pick up my new fucking Lamborghini. Nice. You know what I'm saying? I want to
00:22:57.580 fuck off for the rest of the day after this podcast. Cause the rest of my shit's done.
00:23:01.300 That's the reality of being effective. That's the reality of getting your shit done. When
00:23:06.560 you get it done every single day, those, those efforts and those tasks become cumulative.
00:23:11.620 Now tomorrow, those fucking three tasks, those two tasks of cardio and weights, you know, I
00:23:17.380 don't have to lift tomorrow. So it's going to be cardio. It's going to be eat my meals.
00:23:20.560 And the three other tasks are going to be probably business related. Right?
00:23:24.900 Yeah. A key word that you just used, I think is cumulative. And I think it's fair to say
00:23:29.020 that people who are compounding, it's just like compounding interest. But I think, I don't
00:23:32.160 think it's fair to say that people who are starting out are going to have more on their
00:23:35.380 list. No, that's my point. My point is don't overwhelm yourself with, with so much shit
00:23:40.100 that, you know, you're like, you know, I mean, okay, maybe it is seven things, but don't
00:23:46.760 fucking make it 70 things because those 70 things will never get done in one day. And
00:23:51.520 just because you do them, when you get to item number 27, your mental fucking state to
00:23:57.580 execute properly with the attention that needs to be applied to that task is now fucking
00:24:02.440 gone because you've already wasted it on the first 26 items. So what happens is, is that
00:24:07.680 when you try to do too much, your mental acuity gets rubbed in your enthusiasm and your passion
00:24:12.760 and your heart and all the things that make what your work fucking great, get numb down
00:24:17.400 to the point where you're producing less than quality work. Okay. So what happens when you
00:24:21.260 produce less than quality work? Guess who brings better work? Your competition or the guy trying
00:24:26.280 to get the same job as you or the guy trying to this or that, you know, not many bosses look
00:24:31.180 at an employee and say, Oh, the guy's here all the time. Dude, most good bosses at a good
00:24:37.020 company, good CEOs. They look at a guy and they say, man, that guy gets shit done. And there
00:24:42.080 is a difference. And that's the point we're trying to make here. So Vaughn's looking at me
00:24:47.680 right now. If you all could see Vaughn, cause he knows this is a topic that, uh, it gets me pretty
00:24:52.000 jacked up and fired up. And you know, Andy and I have so many similarities in this thinking. I go on
00:24:57.280 three principles a day. I break it down personal, professional, and of service to others. Many of
00:25:01.680 you know, I call this your prize fighter day. Well, and everybody, that's an important point before
00:25:05.780 you start going, everybody's got their own little system. All I'm doing is shit. I am not telling
00:25:10.480 you my system is the way I'm telling you what I do. And see that that's one of the things when
00:25:15.940 we teach this, the reason why it's called your prize fighter day is because it's about you
00:25:20.260 choosing what you want to do every single day based upon the activities that you know will create
00:25:27.240 victories. Now, Andy said it, what makes a win in the day? But if you pay attention, Andy wasn't
00:25:33.040 saying it's a win based upon a result. It's a number of sales that came through the door. It's a win
00:25:38.600 based upon the effort, the choices, the activity that he put forth in that day. So he can look
00:25:43.940 himself in the mirror at the end of the day and say, I intentionally got after it and I made the
00:25:48.600 right choices to be successful. When you operate in that vacuum, you will drive success and performance
00:25:54.500 on a level that you never knew was even possible for yourself. And not only that, the second most
00:25:59.640 popular question I get in our, in Periscopes or podcasts or email or whatever is this, how do I build
00:26:06.180 the confidence I need to be successful? Well, I'm telling you and Ben's telling you how to do that
00:26:10.760 right now. You build, I'll tell you the psychology behind it because I get so jacked up about this.
00:26:16.460 Here's the psychology. If you listen to what Andy just said with his day, all he's focused on was
00:26:21.060 that given day. The way the world has been constructed for you is to look up at the sky and
00:26:27.180 to say, you know what, I'm going to win today. How many points am I going to put up on the board?
00:26:31.200 And too many people are focused on the results rather than the work that gets the results.
00:26:35.060 So the reason why people lose confidence is because they wake up, they had a bad day yesterday,
00:26:40.000 they lost a business deal and they're still worried about it. As opposed to when you have
00:26:43.960 a mindset that Andy's talking about or what I'm talking about, it's really the same thing.
00:26:47.840 All you're worried about is the work that you can do today. So even if you made a monster sale the
00:26:52.620 day before, it no longer matters because it's your commitment with what you're going to do with the
00:26:57.080 day that you have. If you had a bad day before, that no longer matters. It's what you're going to do
00:27:01.380 it the day that you have. If you've got a big sale that's locked up for tomorrow, it doesn't matter.
00:27:06.520 It's about what you're going to do today. And if you compound your max effort in all areas of your
00:27:12.340 life, Andy just mentioned nutrition. Andy talked about personal. Andy talked about business. If you
00:27:17.800 break these things down and you compound them daily, day over day, over day, over day, I'll tell you
00:27:23.600 right now, it's impossible to not be successful.
00:27:25.780 No, it is impossible. And here's the, here's the point that I, you always say attack the process.
00:27:31.260 And when I first met you, you said that, and I, you would say that. And I was like, man,
00:27:34.900 what's he talking about? But I, but then when I, what I realized was that it's so fucking simple,
00:27:39.940 it's what I already do. And it's what all successful people do. And there's a, there's a little,
00:27:45.040 there's a little, and this is where a lot of people get hung up. There's a faith aspect to what
00:27:50.680 we're talking about. A lot of people have this thought in their head and I'm not, I'm not even
00:27:55.680 talking about religious faith. I'm just saying faith. Okay. Belief in yourself, faith. Belief
00:27:59.600 that the result will be there. If you do the work, a lot of people don't do the work. Cause
00:28:03.360 they have this thing in their head that they say, well, what man, what if I go out and I do all this
00:28:08.320 work for six months in a row and nothing happens? That's what they think. So they don't do anything.
00:28:13.480 And then 20 years from now, they're like, fuck, you know, I got fucked over by the world. No,
00:28:19.920 you fucked yourself over. But the, the, the scenario you just gave is that they gave up in
00:28:24.400 the six months. It took you 12 years before you really started making the money, but you kept
00:28:29.280 fighting for that purpose. When you give up in six months, that's what you get. You get nothing
00:28:33.500 because you quit. That's right. You continue to work and you continue to compound it, doing things
00:28:38.240 for the right reasons, serving people, believing in yourself and getting after it. If the purpose is
00:28:43.320 big enough and you got a good company that's doing good things, you will grow. Well, but I guess
00:28:48.780 what I'm trying to get at though, is that people, they have this doubt in their head. They like say,
00:28:52.740 well, if I'm going to do all the work, what if I do all this work and it doesn't work?
00:28:55.820 That's what they think. You know what I mean? And people have to realize that it doesn't ever,
00:29:01.560 ever happen ever. If you do the fucking work consistently over, that's why I say it all the
00:29:07.900 time. You know, the P the big difference between people who are successful and people that don't,
00:29:12.160 the people that are successful did the fucking work and they just did it consistently and they
00:29:16.320 did it longer. You know, it's when you say it's impossible to succeed or it's impossible to not
00:29:22.660 succeed when you do that, that's the honest to God's truth. And here's what I think where people
00:29:27.360 go in their mind. They say, oh, when you get to Andy's level and your companies are doing over
00:29:31.260 a hundred million dollars in sales, well, you don't have adversity and challenge. So you don't have to
00:29:35.100 go through what I go through. Let me be the first to tell you the bigger, the game that you want to
00:29:39.080 play in life, the bigger the adversity is, the bigger the challenge is. So Andy goes through a
00:29:44.120 challenge. If you don't think he has challenge, if there's a significant challenge or adversity
00:29:47.880 they face, what's Andy worried about? And not that he needs to be defended, but people may say he
00:29:52.700 doesn't have kids yet. But the reality is he's got 200 people that are on their team fighting,
00:29:58.680 putting food on the table for them to all work together for a common purpose. So let me tell you
00:30:03.040 what adversity is. Adversity is when something goes wrong and he's making a decision with Chris
00:30:07.080 and the team of leaders, that's going to come down on him, but he has to choose to respond.
00:30:12.000 And it's not easy every single day. He works his butt off. He goes through adversity, but he keeps
00:30:16.560 fighting. Well, and you know, Tony Robbins said something that stuck with me a long time ago.
00:30:22.240 I love Tony Robbins material. Um, but your, his quote is, and I believe I could be misquoting this a
00:30:29.540 little bit, but not by much, but your success is going to be in direct proportion to the amount of,
00:30:35.120 of, of discomfort that you can, that you can live with. So your success is going to be in direct
00:30:41.080 proportion to the amount of discomfort that you can live with. Okay. And so it's like, what that
00:30:46.520 means is that, you know, I get a lot of, you get a lot of people asking like, Oh man, I'm stressed
00:30:51.180 out. I'm freaking the fuck out. Cause I'm in business or I don't blah, blah, blah. And I'm
00:30:55.040 when's that going to stop? Well, it doesn't stop. You just get used to it. Okay. It's like getting in a
00:31:02.220 really cold fucking swimming pool. When you first get in, it's cold as shit. All right. And then you
00:31:07.300 get in a little bit more and it's still cold. And then you just jump in and you get in there.
00:31:11.780 And after 10 minutes, it's not cold anymore. It's just normal. And that's the same thing as living
00:31:16.460 with that uncertainty, living with that discomfort. All right. And you have to be able to tolerate that
00:31:22.900 or there's just no way you, there's just no way you can make it. So getting yourself acclimated to
00:31:27.660 the feelings of uncertainty and the feelings of what if, and then doing the work anyway
00:31:33.560 is the key to success. That's it. It's, it's the state of the mental breakthrough. And I believe
00:31:39.660 exactly what you're saying, making yourself uncomfortable speeds up the process of mental
00:31:43.340 toughness. And you, you have to know that it's going to be tough. You're going to be challenged.
00:31:46.900 One of my favorite stories when it comes to exactly what you're talking about, I had the opportunity to
00:31:50.780 hear the lone survivor, Marcus Luttrell speak twice. Damn. And I would love to hear that. Oh, I mean,
00:31:57.660 the two of you would get together so well, you know, you're 15 feet from the state. I mean,
00:32:02.320 this guy's as real as it gets. And I remember him talking about that. One of the first things
00:32:06.880 they do when seals train is that they may have a class that starts with 260 or 270 people. And they
00:32:13.220 are in the water doing water drills in the beach in San Diego, right? The hotel Del Coronado, where
00:32:18.660 you were recently, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Yeah. You're right. They're in that cold
00:32:23.300 water, right? Man, it is cold there too. And they leave them in the water. Literally,
00:32:27.560 you will have the trainers leave and not even say when they're coming back. And Marcus
00:32:32.300 said, there are grown men who have gone their whole lives saying, I want to be a seal. And
00:32:38.740 within 10 to 15 minutes of being in this ice cold, 50 degree water, they will get out of
00:32:43.580 the water. They'll ring the bell and they will quit. And you will have others who are peeing
00:32:47.680 on themselves to try to find warmth, hugging each other, doing whatever they can to stay in
00:32:51.940 the water. And he says, what's the most amazing thing about the people that quit is that if
00:32:56.920 you go five miles down the beach, the same beach, the same water, the same temperature,
00:33:02.020 there are children who've been playing in that water all day long. It's all in your mind.
00:33:09.520 You have to be willing to break through. If you tell yourself, if you tell yourself it's
00:33:16.800 over, guess what? It's over. And that's what I'm telling you. We just want you to hear is
00:33:21.900 that stop telling yourself that it's over. Stop telling yourself that you don't have time.
00:33:26.620 Stop telling yourself that you can't do it. Know that you have everything that it takes inside
00:33:32.120 of you to achieve the things that you want. And there's great teammates, mentors, coaches.
00:33:37.060 A lot of people said, Ben, I don't have money to hire you to be my coach. Well, then you
00:33:41.320 know what? We're giving you coaching right now. We're giving you mentoring right now.
00:33:45.240 But you have to accept it.
00:33:46.500 No, but dude, we're getting into a whole other thing here.
00:33:49.140 And I'm going to stop us real quick because I got to do a couple things and housekeeping
00:33:53.340 things before we go on. So I just obviously...
00:33:55.960 Vaughn, you dropped the topic. You got us hot here, baby.
00:33:58.420 I know. I can't believe that I was actually worried that you guys weren't going to be enthusiastic
00:34:01.880 about this topic before we started. But yeah, you've proven me wrong. But listen,
00:34:06.460 themfceo.com is the website. This specific episode can be found on themfceo.com slash p9.
00:34:16.080 Guys, connect with us on social media. Andy is at Andy Fursella for Instagram and Periscope.
00:34:23.180 He is mfceo-1 on Snapchat, Facebook, Andy Fursella. You don't do the Twitter thing, right, Andy?
00:34:32.020 No, I don't do Twitter.
00:34:32.660 Okay. And Ben is at Continued Fight for...
00:34:36.660 Periscope, Instagram, Twitter, pretty much everything.
00:34:39.700 Ben Newman for Facebook.
00:34:40.760 Ben Newman for Facebook. And I'm at Vaughn Kohler.
00:34:44.320 Before... I mean, I know you guys are probably going to want to share some other things that
00:34:47.360 are on your mind. But one of the things that I really did want to sort of regroup and restate
00:34:51.140 a little bit is that two words that you guys have both used again and again have been
00:34:55.580 consistency and cumulative, those two adjectives.
00:34:59.980 And just this whole idea of doing things every day, and that's how you don't get overwhelmed.
00:35:04.880 But Andy, I know you and I have talked about, because working on your book that's coming
00:35:08.920 out pretty soon, you have this sort of belief that when you do that kind of stuff, it begins
00:35:13.800 to create momentum.
00:35:15.240 Right.
00:35:15.340 And do you want to talk a little bit more about that?
00:35:17.120 I mean, so it's all about creating good habits, all right? And creating good momentum. You've
00:35:24.420 all heard it before, you know, oh, it takes 21 days or it takes 27 days to create a new
00:35:28.920 habit. The most successful people on earth that I've had the privilege to know or interview
00:35:34.580 or talk to all are habitually successful. And what I mean by that is that it's not a huge
00:35:44.180 effort for them to do these things that we talk about. It's just the shit that they do.
00:35:49.400 Okay. And by creating momentum and creating good habits, what you do is, is you start doing
00:35:57.160 things that are involuntary. You know, I've been doing this power list that we've been
00:36:00.660 talking about. And some days I do make the list in my head and don't write it down, but
00:36:07.200 I've been doing it for 16 years. Okay. When you start and I still have my notebook, I'll
00:36:13.560 bring it in next time from when I started. And it still has my list in there from every
00:36:17.960 fucking day. Okay. And I still use the same notebook. I just take the old pages and I
00:36:24.640 unclick the binder and I put new ones in. Same notebook I've used since we started on
00:36:28.700 day one. I still use it. Okay. But when you do this and you do it consistently enough,
00:36:33.940 and it's probably not 27 days. Okay. It's probably longer than that. But what will happen
00:36:39.520 is you'll automatically start doing it. And when you start doing some sort of effective
00:36:45.540 list on a daily basis and applying your energy to that list in a reasonable amount of time,
00:36:52.980 which is what the amount of time it truly takes to get done instead of playing business with
00:36:59.020 your latte. Okay. When you do that over and over and over again, it becomes a habit and you create
00:37:04.360 momentum and you're moving forward daily. All right. What happens when you move forward daily,
00:37:09.820 that doubt that you used to have, that you have in the beginning, well, what if I do all this work
00:37:14.220 and it doesn't work goes away. All right. And what replaces that doubt belief. Okay. And when belief
00:37:20.600 comes in and replaces that doubt, now you're dealing with something that is un-fucking stoppable.
00:37:25.700 You're dealing with a force to be fucking wrecking with in terms of success. There is not one thing
00:37:32.240 in my brain that I think that I would want to do that I don't think I can do. And it's not a matter
00:37:38.260 of, you know, when people come to me with business ideas, they say things like, well, do you think this
00:37:42.000 is work? That's the wrong fucking idea. You know what I say? You're going to make it fucking work.
00:37:47.760 All right. That's the entrepreneur mindset. That's the mindset of success. Take the path. Don't look for
00:37:53.420 the one of least resistance. Look for the one that you think you want to go down and you make it
00:37:58.120 fucking work. But the problem with most people is, is they never take the time to create the momentum
00:38:05.000 and the habits needed to have the belief that they are in control of that path. Okay. And that's
00:38:11.080 necessary part of the process. So, you know, it's all a cumulative cycle. You know, you work hard every
00:38:17.100 single day. You create momentum. You see the results. You enjoy the results. And guess what
00:38:22.520 you do? You go back and you work harder the next day. It's the same thing you were saying 10 minutes
00:38:26.500 ago. Yeah. This is how you start to build that confidence. It's how you start to eliminate the
00:38:31.120 doubt. It's how you start to create the momentum and the belief, which is the strongest part of it.
00:38:36.920 Now, I'm going to get off the, I'm going to get off here a little bit on, on the tangent.
00:38:41.500 Just a little thing about belief is that, you know, there's things about the human brain and body.
00:38:47.420 There are a lot of things that science does not understand. Okay. And one of the things that they
00:38:53.240 don't understand is how the metaphysical properties of actually believing things manifest. We're talking
00:38:59.560 about the law of attraction. Okay. But I could tell you from experience that belief, like true belief in
00:39:05.380 your heart that you're going to accomplish a goal is the number one most powerful thing you could ever
00:39:10.940 have. And most people listening are probably thinking, Oh, that sounds like some fucking
00:39:14.280 hocus pocus shit that you're not supposed to be talking about on the motherfucking CEO show.
00:39:18.860 But I'm going to tell you right now, the reason I'm talking about it is because it's fucking true.
00:39:23.200 You know, dude, I used to fucking have a picture when I used to, before I ever bought my first
00:39:30.780 Lamborghini, I had a, I had a, a file on my computer of exotic cars. Okay. And so I would go on Google
00:39:38.340 or wherever and I would snapshot screenshot photos of cars that I liked. And it was like my way of
00:39:43.520 kind of shopping for cars when I didn't have any money. So one day I asked Jason, um, who is still
00:39:50.060 with us. He's my right hand guy. He's, he's my number one dude. I say, Hey man, I want you to make
00:39:55.780 me a, um, an icon for my, my desktop, a custom icon. That's an exotic car. And I didn't tell him what
00:40:02.220 kind. I didn't tell him anything. Well, he made, um, you know, a custom, you know, I'm talking about
00:40:08.940 that looks like it's like a folder. It's like a little icon. You click on it and then a folder
00:40:11.940 opens up. Right. Well, he made one and it was a white Lamborghini. All right. So like, this is
00:40:17.400 like 10 years ago. So like four years ago when I bought my first Lamborghini, guess what color
00:40:23.600 it was? It was white. It was a white super Legera coupe, 2011 model. I got the car. I drove it for
00:40:32.380 like two months. I opened up my computer and I looked at the screen and I fucking forgot that
00:40:37.400 that was even on there. You see what I'm saying? And I'm looking at the icon and I'm like, I called
00:40:42.360 Jason in the office and this time I had, I said, dude, come look at this. I said, you're not going to
00:40:46.880 fucking believe this. Remember when you made this? Okay, dude, that, those kinds of things,
00:40:52.920 I don't know the science behind it and I don't care, but all I know is it's the fucking truth.
00:40:59.060 All right. So getting yourself in a position to believe that you're going to accomplish things,
00:41:04.120 surrounding yourself with success all the time, taking the time to create habit that is success,
00:41:12.400 all those things come together. And then all of a sudden, you know, you're doing your dream life
00:41:18.720 before you even fucking realize it. I think the thing that's so powerful is that what you're
00:41:22.600 saying has been affirmed by all sorts of different people, like from the secret people to, I mean,
00:41:29.420 in the Bible, there's a, there's a verse that says, as a man thinks, so he is. So this is like
00:41:33.780 rock solid truth, regardless of where the people are getting from. But the thing is though, is people,
00:41:37.280 people find excuses and we're talking about being effective with your time. But what I was going to
00:41:42.220 say before we went on the break for a minute is that we're getting into a little bit different of a
00:41:47.360 topic, which is people tend to try to find excuses wherever they can. And those excuses are always
00:41:56.280 intended to get them out of the work. Okay. So people are listening right now. They're like,
00:42:01.020 Oh, it sounds like hocus pocus. Or Vaughn just mentioned a Bible. I don't believe in the Bible
00:42:05.420 or whatever. People have a hard time believing before they see the result. But I guess, you know,
00:42:11.420 what I'm trying to say is, is that you have to fucking believe before you even start the work.
00:42:18.360 Otherwise you won't do the fucking work. Right. No, I, I, I'm going to challenge you. I don't
00:42:22.060 think we're off topic at all. The whole point. I think it all goes together. Right. The power list
00:42:25.980 is a daily restatement. Well, and the reason I call it a power list is not because of anything
00:42:31.660 more than it creates and gives you the fucking power to achieve your goals. So time management is
00:42:37.260 just the beginning part of it. So I keep a list just like Andy. Um, I typically call it my fire
00:42:42.560 list and the fire list literally every day on my calendar for years. It's at 9 PM every single day.
00:42:49.140 It's, it's the to-do list. And if Andy were to say, I need you to call me on August the 12th,
00:42:54.040 then I literally would go into that fire list, that to-do list for August the 12th,
00:42:57.780 you need to contact Andy and that's my to-do list. So every day when I wake up, I know exactly what I
00:43:03.580 need to do. You would be able to go in there and see everything that needs to be
00:43:06.900 leveraged to somebody on our team to help. Cause I don't do all this by myself and all of it is
00:43:12.120 detailed and organized. The organization is such a key cause it gives you an understanding of what
00:43:16.200 you need to do to get it accomplished on that day. And that for me, prize fighter day,
00:43:21.500 the critical list, it's all the same stuff. It's you becoming clear on what you need to do
00:43:25.880 in that day to be successful. And it's so basic that nobody can say, Oh, well, I'm sorry. I don't
00:43:31.440 have a mind for organization like you do, but I mean, it's very basic. It's not even being that
00:43:36.500 organized. It's writing down what you need to do. That's what I was saying a minute ago. People
00:43:39.700 fight. That's a fucking excuse, right? That's somebody finding an excuse in something. Oh,
00:43:44.560 Oh, I'm not organized. Well, you know what? I'm not fucking organized either. I don't even close
00:43:49.020 the motherfucking drawers and I get my clothes out of them. That's the truth. You know, dude,
00:43:54.220 it makes no fucking difference. We're talking about writing down a couple of things a day and
00:43:58.440 fucking doing them. Right. I think it's important to note that you're out of your five things.
00:44:03.600 Wait, who are you? What the fuck are you talking about? They were, there were things that are
00:44:07.820 progressing. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Tyler. They don't cover all the other shit that you're
00:44:11.580 doing that you have to do on a daily basis. Like your emails. No, that's right. I don't count
00:44:15.800 the basic shit. Okay. For me, when I talk about the physical, the reason I put the physical in
00:44:21.880 there is because it is not a habit for me at this time. It goes in and out of being habitual. When it
00:44:26.760 becomes a habit, I'm going to do it automatically. I move the fucker off the list and I get a critical
00:44:30.540 task replaced in there. That's actually a really good point to make, Tyler, because yeah, you're
00:44:36.080 right. I mean, there's the daily things you just know you have to do. He's the one who makes all
00:44:39.280 this happen. Let's give Tyler some credit. Yeah. So you know why he's, you know why he's coming in
00:44:46.280 with that good, good info. He's not wearing those salmon shorts today. Brain's not fogged up.
00:44:53.040 How was Vegas this weekend? No comment. Yeah. Yeah. So it was good. So, um, I'm going to,
00:44:59.080 I'm going to turn this in a little bit different direction. I'm curious guys. Cause there are a lot
00:45:02.720 of people who say that in order to help you to ensure that you're going to do your, you know,
00:45:08.420 five critical things on your list or your power list or whatever you call it. Some people suggest,
00:45:13.520 and there's some psychology behind this. There's some, some, um, surveys behind this or some research.
00:45:19.960 Some people suggest that you make your, your to-do list public. How do you feel about that?
00:45:24.280 You know, if you, if that creates the external pressure you need to succeed, I mean, I don't
00:45:31.040 think there's anything wrong with it. I don't, I don't know. I don't know. I, it kind of holds
00:45:37.160 you accountable. It does. I mean, it depends on how weak you are in that area. You know, for me right
00:45:41.460 now, personally, like I'm just, I, and as funny as it is that I'm in the fitness industry, but it just
00:45:47.420 goes to show you that when you don't practice the habits that you, you get weak in those areas. I mean,
00:45:51.700 there's times in my life where you couldn't get me to eat a fucking pizza or couldn't get me to have
00:45:55.660 a drink. And because I didn't do those things for so long, my strength went down just like it would
00:46:00.400 go down if I wasn't in the weight room. The one area of my life I've never let the strength really
00:46:04.400 go down as my business life because I, other people depend on me. So it gives the external
00:46:08.960 pressure that I need. I think external pressure is something that some people fucking need, you know,
00:46:13.040 for me making a post online about doing my work, you know, that lets people know. I don't necessarily
00:46:18.780 say, Hey guys, I'm going to fucking do this and hold me accountable. But at least people
00:46:22.900 know I'm making an effort that way. If they see me at fucking Billy G's or, you know, this
00:46:26.460 bar here locally pounding beers, they're going to be like, what the fuck, man? You know, I
00:46:29.920 mean, it makes me a little more accountable. I, you know, I, you know, I don't know. What
00:46:35.620 do you think, Ben? I think it really comes down to people's choice. I mean, for those individuals
00:46:39.500 that I coach or, you know, for those of you, you can actually get, it's called the men, your
00:46:43.840 mental toughness playbook. Everybody can get it for free at free playbook.net, but it really dives
00:46:48.120 down to you choosing the behaviors that you already know are going to make you successful.
00:46:53.180 So I don't necessarily think a survey is going to tell us what we need to do. And, you know,
00:46:57.760 the authors and speakers that do what I do when it comes to the topic of waking up in
00:47:01.720 the morning, you know, there's a lot of authors that they say, Oh, you have to wake up at 6am
00:47:05.480 to be successful. Now I think, you know, what you need to do to be successful. You know,
00:47:10.280 what time you need to wake up, you know, what's going to drive efficiency. It's you choosing
00:47:14.220 to not do it. So if you challenge yourself to wake up earlier, you challenge yourself to get
00:47:19.060 uncomfortable and do the things that you need to do to be successful. You will be successful.
00:47:23.780 But I think it's a matter of choice rather than saying, you know, you have to put it out there
00:47:27.700 to be accountable. If Andy's a guy who says for accountability, I have to put it out there. Then
00:47:32.100 I'd say, put it out there. It's about finding what works for you. That's what I'm saying.
00:47:35.780 You get up at fucking 3am. I don't get up till fucking eight, but you know what? I bet we still
00:47:40.440 get a lot of shit on both of us. And that's, that's all. Some people hear that I wake up
00:47:44.580 at three o'clock in the morning and they're like, Oh my gosh, that's crazy. You wake up
00:47:47.900 at three o'clock in the morning, but you know what? I also go to bed earlier than Andy.
00:47:51.580 Andy gets up with a mindset to hit that critical list and be efficient. So I don't care what
00:47:56.280 time you get up. Cause the reality is there's people listening to this podcast that work through
00:47:59.500 the night. That's what I'm saying. And you, you will see this. You will see people who
00:48:03.320 are like quote unquote motivational fucking gurus that try to define and nail down this
00:48:08.500 absolute. That's my point. You can't do that. No, you can't do it. Like, like what you're
00:48:11.920 saying about the putting it out there in public. That's, it depends on the person. Like there
00:48:18.020 is no fucking quote unquote way that cause I, cause I remember when I used to read that
00:48:23.360 shit and people would be like, Oh, you gotta get up at five o'clock in the morning. I've
00:48:27.140 never been a fucking five o'clock in the morning guy. It's just not me, you know, but, and
00:48:32.760 I might wake up at eight o'clock and most of you probably get up earlier than me, but
00:48:35.720 you know what? I'll bet by 10 o'clock I got more shit done than you. And that's not
00:48:39.140 being an asshole. That's just being effective. It's the amount of time. It's when you wake
00:48:42.980 up and you know, if you want more time and we can, we can go into that wake up earlier,
00:48:46.760 you can find more time. There's different efficiencies. I can go through the math on
00:48:50.040 that. It's actually pretty interesting to hear, but I think of our guy, big Ty Russ,
00:48:54.700 you know, Ty's a guy who there are times where he's going to work through the night. So
00:48:57.960 if I'm a speaker who tells you, you have to work up at 5am, I'd be telling big Ty, you
00:49:02.260 have to wake up when you're already up and working. It makes no sense. Right. So you have
00:49:05.640 to look at the parameters in which you're given for your life, whether you're working
00:49:08.960 for somebody else, working for yourself, and you have to determine what do I need to do
00:49:15.220 in this day to be successful? Well, if you feel like you're running out of time, get up
00:49:18.960 earlier. I'll give you a prime example. I don't care if you wake up at eight or nine
00:49:21.800 or six or three, wake up earlier. Yeah, that's right. And I'll give you a prime example.
00:49:26.320 You know, when Chris and I were running our retail store before we had first form and before
00:49:29.900 we had any of our other companies, it was just first form or just S2. I'm sorry. Our supplement
00:49:33.800 super stores. We, we would work the store. Okay. From, uh, eight 30 till nine o'clock at
00:49:41.260 night. You know, when all the planning and all the work and all the other shit got done
00:49:45.600 to build our other companies after nine o'clock, you see what I'm saying? Yeah. That's when
00:49:51.360 it got done. And so a lot, a lot of people here are listening, have regular jobs and they
00:49:55.500 want to become an entrepreneur. So they're asking questions like, well, where do you find the
00:49:58.920 time? Dude, you, you've, you've got to do what you've got to do to, dude, I get into
00:50:03.980 this a million for fucking seven hours straight, work your fucking job. When you're done with
00:50:08.980 your job, dedicate two or three hours at being extremely effective. And you could start your
00:50:14.720 own company while you work somewhere. I mean, it's, there's no excuse in that. There really
00:50:19.540 just comes down to no fucking excuses. You know, and we say that all the time, but that
00:50:23.560 is what it comes down to. If you really want it, you will find a way. And so what happens
00:50:27.360 is, is people come in and they say, well, you know, I'm tired whenever I get done with
00:50:33.420 work. Well, no shit. Everybody's tired when I get done with work. But how many people have
00:50:37.700 built companies when working a full-time job or two jobs or three jobs? Are you telling
00:50:41.880 me you can't run up that motherfucking hill? Like I just did this morning. I think what happens
00:50:47.160 is a lot of times people see the product and they think that it can't be that hard and they
00:50:52.880 don't realize that success is hard. They don't realize it's easier for somebody like you
00:50:57.240 or somebody like me or so. They have this story. It's internal dialogue. It's, oh, fucking
00:51:02.500 Richard Branson. Dude, I had a guy yesterday on fucking Instagram say, I, I, you're a fucking,
00:51:08.240 this exact quote, you're a fucking fraud. You know why? Because I've seen a million guys
00:51:13.120 just like you that got lucky in business and got lucky in business and then, uh, and then
00:51:21.500 turn around and act like you're going to be some sort of mentor. That's what his comment
00:51:24.500 was. And I, I fucking started to reply and then I thought about it. I'm like, you know
00:51:28.080 what? Fuck this guy. I'm just banned him because I'll dude, I'll straight up ban people. I'm
00:51:31.440 going to fuck. But I started to reply, but you know what my reply was going to be? And
00:51:35.420 what I thought about, you know what? You're right, dude. I was lucky. I was lucky to spend
00:51:39.620 all that time in the back of my store on a piss stained fucking mattress. I was lucky to
00:51:43.540 spend all that time learning how to fucking create value in myself and my business. I was lucky
00:51:48.680 to spend all that time learning how to actually help customers because without all those struggles
00:51:53.060 that I had, I wouldn't fucking be here. So you know what? You're fucking right. I am
00:51:56.700 lucky. Fuck you. Okay guys. So Andy, you talked about doing what works for you. Ben, your big
00:52:05.960 thing since I've known you, you even put them in all caps is own your success. Find the daily
00:52:11.440 habits that drive your success. So what, one of the things that I want to tease out a little
00:52:16.280 bit though, is that you guys, the assumption here is that people will actually spend a little
00:52:20.640 bit of time to figure out what works for them. So, cause I, in my opinion, the only way that
00:52:25.400 you want to figure it out, you figure it out by waking up 30 minutes earlier in a day, or
00:52:30.620 you go to bed 30 minutes later, take 30 minutes. You want to know how you figure it out? You
00:52:34.440 want an extra time. You run out of time. You don't have time to do something. Here's 30
00:52:37.200 minutes guys. Here's the math on this 30 minutes, 30 minutes a day, whether you take it in the morning
00:52:42.920 or at night times five days in a week is two and a half hours times four weeks in a month
00:52:47.300 is 10 hours. If Andy and I gave each and every single one of you listening and Vaughn and Tyler,
00:52:52.160 we said, we're giving everybody a gift. You're getting an extra day a month. It's an extra day
00:52:56.540 to be more efficient. If I gave you 10 hours right now, would you be more successful? And you know,
00:53:00.980 the answer is yes, but most people aren't willing to take the 30 minutes and do something with it.
00:53:05.000 And if you times that by 12, that is 12 days a year. That is more days than I had vacation time,
00:53:12.340 my first job out of college from Michigan state university. So it's all in how you break it down.
00:53:17.180 And most people, it's much easier to say, I don't have time than to actually look at your day,
00:53:22.440 find the time and actually go do something with it and compound to go do something with it with a
00:53:27.540 critical list day over day, over day, over day until you get what you want it. And then you set a
00:53:32.560 bigger goal and you keep fighting again and you keep surrounding yourself with guys like Andy who
00:53:37.000 motivate the hell out of you to give yourself a bigger vision to keep fighting. I like this topic.
00:53:42.180 I just, you know, I get a little fiery. Don't look, don't look at me. I dropped the mic at fuck you a minute.
00:53:45.640 Okay. Okay. So, uh, critical list, find out what works for you. What's the next? You got it. You
00:53:53.180 got another point. Anything else you guys want to add? Dude, Tyler, I'll make good on my promise
00:53:59.240 from the beginning of the fucking podcast. Don't be a fucking pussy. You know, quit telling yourself
00:54:04.340 you don't have the fucking time. Quit telling yourself that somebody else has circumstances that
00:54:09.480 are different from yours that make them super powerful. You know what you're doing? You're fucking
00:54:15.120 negating and disrespecting that person's work ethic and the price they've paid to get where they want
00:54:20.260 to go. In our business, our fitness business, supplement store, people come in and they say
00:54:24.640 this shit. Well, you know, Tyler, you'll laugh because you fucking, you already know what I'm
00:54:29.700 going to say. I was going to, I was going to chime in actually. So yeah, I do. Because everybody comes
00:54:34.240 in the store and they say this shit and it's so fucking offensive yet they don't realize how offensive
00:54:38.500 it is. They say, well, you know, I don't want to work out. I don't want to get too serious because
00:54:43.780 like, you know, I don't want to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger or anything. And I look at him
00:54:49.220 and I'm like, do you realize how disrespectful that statement is to somebody who's worked their
00:54:55.140 whole fucking life to do what it is? Their craft is. It's just, it's, it's, it's obscene.
00:55:00.720 I don't want to make too much money. It's like, it's like going in a fucking bicycle store and
00:55:04.880 buying a fucking huffy bike and saying, you know, I don't know if I want this bike because
00:55:10.800 next year I could be doing the tour de France and I'm not sure that, uh, my wife be happy with that
00:55:16.300 time off of work. I mean, it's the most arrogant, stupid fucking thing to say. So whenever you sit
00:55:21.580 there and you say, Oh, fucking Richard Branson got lucky or fucking, you know, Donald Trump got lucky
00:55:28.860 or whoever the person you pick and he got lucky or whoever, whoever you're, you are so you're,
00:55:36.480 you're being so fucking disrespectful to that person and what they sacrificed to be where they
00:55:40.820 are. And you sound like a total fucktard. That's the honest to God's truth. And don't edit that out.
00:55:46.800 Cause it's the truth. I don't, I don't edit anything. When I'm at dinner with people and they fucking tell
00:55:51.060 me, Oh dude, must be nice. Or that guy got lucky or this or that. Guess what? Guess who's never
00:55:56.280 going to dinner with me ever again? Ever. And guess who wants to, guess who I want to punch in
00:56:00.840 the fucking eye? It's the most ignorant thing you could possibly say. There's no fucking luck.
00:56:07.140 Luck is opportunity. That's all it is. Opportunity that's been executed on. That's it. That's all it
00:56:13.560 is. And to tell yourself, Oh, I don't have enough time. Or that guy's got it easier than me. Or what
00:56:19.460 if I do all this work and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's you being a fucking pussy. Get over it.
00:56:25.140 Period. I'm speechless. Well, it says, I mean, it's the same thing. Like, you know, when
00:56:31.800 you see these people at the, at your stores who say, do I want to make a shirt that says
00:56:35.740 MF CEO project on the back? So don't be a fucking pussy. I'm serious, dude. It's the
00:56:42.280 pussification of this whole, whole, you guys are all looking at me like I'm crazy. Maybe
00:56:46.220 I'm sounding crazy right now. You are crazy, but I'm just saying the whole, it's going to
00:56:49.440 sell the book, the whole fucking pussification of this society of like how to find these
00:56:54.560 fucking excuses in every, like some people, like dude, if finding excuses were a fucking
00:56:58.880 business, there'd be a hundred million times more millionaires because people are looking
00:57:03.480 at every nook and cranny of fucking every opportunity to find the excuse instead of looking for the
00:57:08.900 opportunity to execute upon, which is what you fucking call luck. It's disgusting. It's,
00:57:15.680 it's sickening. That's the whole purpose of this podcast. You know, I dude, I'm just, I'm
00:57:21.980 speechless because I'm so sick of fucking hearing it. I'm so sick of seeing it. I'm sick of people
00:57:26.800 seeing comments like, Ooh, must be nice. Yeah, it was fucking nice. Not getting paid for 10
00:57:31.660 motherfucking years. That was really fucking nice. When you were out fucking getting your
00:57:36.440 job, working your career for $40,000 and telling me to get a fucking real job must be nice. You
00:57:43.780 know, dude, I'm fucking sick of that language must be nice. They got lucky. They have special
00:57:49.600 circumstances, eliminate bullshit from your mind. Get it out of there because it's not
00:57:53.960 the truth. That's your justification for not wanting to do what the fuck it takes. You
00:57:59.140 know how many times during this business career that I've been in where I wanted to blow my
00:58:03.540 fucking brains out and I'm not being fucking, I'm not being, uh, I'm being literal where I
00:58:09.040 literally thought like, dude, I do not even want to fucking live anymore. You want to talk
00:58:13.760 about hard? All you, all these people see is the glory. They see the outside of what
00:58:19.020 people fucking do. They see the fucking nice house or the vacation or the car. And they
00:58:24.300 say shit that's so fucking obscenely ignorant and disrespectful without considering the price
00:58:30.400 that's been paid. And I guess what I'm telling you in this fucking two minute long rant is dude,
00:58:37.220 you're going to have to pay the price too. If you want it, there's going to be either, you're
00:58:41.020 not going to have an easy path. You know, the, the fucking society we live in perpetuates this,
00:58:48.020 you know, the get rich quick path. You know, you see all these fucking guys on Instagram saying,
00:58:52.240 Oh, I'm going to fucking make you a millionaire in a fucking week. Buy my fucking products. Buy
00:58:57.040 my this or that. Dude, that perpetuates the problem. None of that shit works. When was the
00:59:02.160 last time you saw somebody who is a, a fucking, you know, selling a lesson or whatever, and you
00:59:12.120 see their customers fucking yachts. You don't see it. You see their yacht. Where's their customers
00:59:17.080 yachts? And dude, these people buy into this shit over and over and over again, which is all time.
00:59:23.280 They could have been using to develop the success habit via the power list, you know, and having their
00:59:29.060 own personal victories, creating momentum, creating all the things we're talking about,
00:59:32.500 but they choose to try to look for the easy route. And it's just not there. I mean, do you know
00:59:38.940 anybody who has a fucking easy success is not easy. You go to any successful person. It's not easy,
00:59:44.920 but most people won't choose it. Here's what I find to be interesting. Right. And I'm not calling
00:59:49.580 anybody out cause we can't see your hands and we can't see the nods of your heads, but I've mentioned
00:59:54.440 a couple of times since I've been on this podcast and I've mentioned it online. You can go and get
00:59:58.780 the mental toughness playbook for free free playbook.net. It is the six proven mental training
01:00:04.920 tools that have been put to the test by Superbowl champions, NCAA champions, people running a hundred
01:00:10.220 million dollar companies, literally the exact same things that I would show Andy. If I were coaching
01:00:15.440 Andy, the same principles and it's free. You put in your name, you put in your email, you can have
01:00:19.640 it for free. And it's like, how many people have actually taken advantage of it? And the cool thing
01:00:24.020 about Periscope is I had a guy recently, I was doing a Periscope. He's in Japan. And while I'm
01:00:28.740 going live, he's like, man, I checked out the playbook. It's awesome. It's really helping me.
01:00:32.600 And I'm thinking, thank you for somebody who's actually downloading it. They're doing the work.
01:00:37.260 I'm not selling you the book. I have books that I could sell you go buy them on Amazon, but I'll give
01:00:41.940 you one for free. And it's the one that'll make the most difference in your life because the
01:00:46.020 principles that I write about in the books, I've pulled them out and put them in this playbook. And then
01:00:49.860 people want to call us and they want to say, what do I need to do to be successful? It's in the book.
01:00:54.180 Dude, it's the same thing I'm sitting here saying. People think there's some fucking secret that after
01:01:01.380 we turn the microphones off here that we all talk about, we're like, hey, you know, like here's the
01:01:07.380 real secret that we're not fucking telling anybody. We don't fucking do that. There is no secret. The
01:01:12.640 secret is what we're telling you. The difference is, is that you're choosing to do or not fucking do it.
01:01:17.700 And that's it. Yeah, that's my whole point. All these exercises, Andy's critical list. I call it
01:01:23.440 a prize fighter day. It's in that playbook. Prize fighter day morning. It's in the playbook
01:01:27.440 and how many people have downloaded it. Right. So we're literally saying, go get it for free.
01:01:31.620 And it is the guide that'll help you follow through on everything that Andy said on this
01:01:35.580 podcast. And I'd be interested to see of the, you know, six, seven thousand downloads a day that
01:01:40.540 this podcast gets, how many people would actually go and download that book when we're giving it to you
01:01:45.100 for free. And it might just be the difference in your life. And I'll give you, I'll give you two
01:01:49.100 examples. I think this will resonate well, because I want everybody to choose to take action on
01:01:53.840 something today from this time together we had. I had a woman from a fortune 500 company, an executive
01:01:59.800 contact me. She wanted to become a professional speaker and a coach. We get together. I said, how
01:02:04.220 often, how many times on a daily basis do you tell people that that's what you want to do? And she said,
01:02:09.220 I never tell people about it. And I said, well, what's your expectation that you're going to drive
01:02:13.200 business if nobody knows this is what you want to do? So I said, okay, let's set a goal to start.
01:02:17.820 I said, could you five times a day, whether it's email, phone calls, five times a day, let people
01:02:22.960 know. And she goes, well, I could give it a try. Well, long story short, that woman is no longer
01:02:28.260 trying to be a speaker or coach because she couldn't do it five times a day. It's not what she wanted.
01:02:32.780 She couldn't choose it. How easy was that to build the habit from there? Then you take a kid that had
01:02:38.420 hired me to speak when he was the speaking agent at a company up in Canada where I've done a lot of
01:02:43.040 speaking. This kid's now at another company. He contacts me. Hey, I'd like to put together one
01:02:47.620 of your boot camps that you do up in Vancouver. I give him action steps. This kid is solidifying
01:02:52.460 sponsors. He's putting butts in the seats because he wants it. So you have to hit that moment. Vaughn,
01:02:58.760 you tripled in terms of your business because you wanted it. That's all Andy and I are trying to get
01:03:03.580 across here. Yes, we get excited. Yes, we get fired up. We just want you to take the strength,
01:03:08.520 the courage, the conviction, the belief you have in yourself and just choose to go do something with it.
01:03:13.040 It's really not any more complicated. It's extremely frustrating for me when people say they want
01:03:22.560 it but can't follow it up with any action. It's the most fucking irritating thing on the face of the
01:03:27.040 earth because you don't need me or Ben or Vaughn or fucking anybody, Tony Robbins or any of these dudes
01:03:36.640 who dedicate their fucking lives to helping people to give you permission, quote unquote,
01:03:43.020 to succeed. You've got to give yourself permission. You've got to say, you know what? I do want this
01:03:50.460 and I'm going to go fucking take it because the reality is, is nobody, not me, not Ben, not Vaughn,
01:03:57.920 not anybody is going to come up and give you this fucking opportunity and say, oh, here you go,
01:04:03.680 my friend. Here's an opportunity for you to finally step out of your comfort zone and become
01:04:08.520 the successful person that you want to become. You've got to decide to do it on your own and the
01:04:13.380 way you decide to do it is not through your fucking voice. It's not through your affirmations.
01:04:19.340 It's through your fucking action. It's what you do. Okay. Which is why writing down five things a day
01:04:28.980 to go fucking do becomes extremely powerful because it takes you from a shit talker to a motherfucking
01:04:38.420 doer. And when you become a motherfucking doer and that's a habit for you, guess what happens?
01:04:44.980 Anything that you want. And that's the bottom line.
01:04:51.680 And I think that's the final word. Do you want to close with any other, uh,
01:04:59.160 I heard the mic drop pretty loud. Yeah. The mic dropped on that one. Uh, yeah. Like I said,
01:05:04.720 I've been speechless multiple times this, uh, this podcast. Fuck man. I mean, how many times we got
01:05:09.640 to talk about the same shit without making somebody get up and go do something? Yeah. Tell us what your
01:05:14.280 fucking actions. Don't tell me, show me. Yeah. We're in fucking Missouri. You know what Missouri
01:05:18.920 is? Show me state. That's right. I don't give a fuck what you say. It's what you do. And that's
01:05:25.100 the, what we're, that's what the world rewards. The world does not reward affirmations. It does not
01:05:30.840 reward talk. It rewards actions. And speaking, speaking of actions, you know, the reviews that have
01:05:38.500 been flowing in, it's a very humbling to read and the difference that this is making for so many
01:05:44.020 individuals. But, you know, rather than just sending the reviews that say, Hey, it was really
01:05:48.500 good. You know, if you want that accountability, like Vaughn talked about earlier, leave a review
01:05:53.500 and do what Andy just said. What was the action step? What did you do from what we just talked
01:05:57.820 about? Yeah. What did you do? Yeah. Hashtag power list. What's your, yeah, dude, what is it?
01:06:02.940 We're cause I want to summarize this one more time. All right. Look, the purpose of, of, of
01:06:08.780 defining the effective tasks that you need to take is for you to create momentum, power,
01:06:15.220 and a habit of success. It's to create confidence. Okay. And it's to create momentum forward.
01:06:22.720 All right. Execute on items one through five. Do that every day. Doesn't matter if it takes one hour
01:06:28.920 or two hours, it shouldn't take longer than three hours to do your fucking list. You know, it really
01:06:34.140 shouldn't do those things on a daily basis. Your confidence will fucking increase because you're
01:06:39.520 winning on a day by day basis. You tell yourself, look, I physically crossed off items one through
01:06:44.180 five. I won today. I got to win. You string it off. You string enough wins together. Guess what
01:06:49.040 happens? Winning becomes a fucking habit. All right. Then no longer are you struggling to get your
01:06:54.880 five things done. Now you're just doing them. Okay. Now you're a habitual winner on a daily basis.
01:07:01.260 And if you can habitually win for 10 years in a fucking row, what do you think your life's going
01:07:06.820 to look like? It's going to be everything that you've ever wanted it to be. You know, you remove
01:07:13.680 the quote unquote, what if out of the equation? What if I do all this work? What if I, what if the
01:07:21.100 rule doesn't reward me the way it rewarded him? You make adjustments along the way to create the
01:07:27.600 result. And I think that's the biggest point that people need to walk away from is that you are in
01:07:32.860 control of your destiny when you take the actions properly on a consistent basis. And, and Vaughn,
01:07:40.320 you're a past, you, you've been a pastor, right? How many times do people say it's in God's hands
01:07:44.920 and use that as a fucking excuse not to do anything as a faith is passive. I'm serious. No,
01:07:50.340 you know, you're right. But they think that this before, and I'm not, dude, people are like,
01:07:55.300 oh, it's all in the Lord's hands. I respect that. But what, you know what, if I'm the Lord and I'm
01:08:00.060 your fucking father, I want you to go out and live the best, most productive, happiest, most
01:08:05.020 contributing life that you could possibly live. And guess who has to get out their ass to fucking do
01:08:10.360 it? You. And that's the point. Quit finding excuses in every single little thing in order for you
01:08:20.320 to not move.
01:08:23.540 You said that about 2% of the people would actually do something. And that's pretty pathetic. But the
01:08:28.040 upside of that is if, if you're out there and you actually do act, you're going to be in the elite
01:08:32.500 2% that actually, that's the beautiful, achieve something is that people think most people are
01:08:36.920 not going to do this crowded. No, it's only fucking crowded at the bottom because everybody's doing
01:08:40.300 the same shit. They're talking a little bit, they're doing a little bit of action. They're not
01:08:44.080 creating a, you know, a lifetime habit of success. They're doing it for three months at a time. It's
01:08:50.660 very, it's crowded at the bottom. The further up you get, the less people are successful because
01:08:54.740 most people quit. And then it becomes, you got momentum, you've got cashflow coming in,
01:08:58.920 you have all these good things happening and it becomes easier. It just becomes different.
01:09:04.860 And people don't see that, man. They think it's like, I mean, there's really no way to describe it
01:09:11.200 without experiencing is the problem. You know, like, like people listening are probably like,
01:09:15.660 dude, this guy is so full of shit, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, this is how it really
01:09:19.900 is. He's lost touch with how things are. No, I'm fucking telling you how it really is. I'm telling
01:09:26.000 you the shit that other people won't tell you, you know, I don't know how to explain it. You know,
01:09:32.300 I'm not the most articulate guy. I fill in beautiful words with words like fuck, you know, I don't know.
01:09:38.100 I don't know how else to do it. Well, I do think, what else can I say? I think the phrase that Ben
01:09:43.360 uses does make a lot of sense. And it's a great way, I think, to sum this all up, which is attack
01:09:48.540 the process. Exactly. Every day, do a little bit every day. When you become a master of the fucking
01:09:51.060 process, you become a master of the result. Yeah. You know, and that's what people don't get.
01:09:55.780 Quit focusing on the million dollars and start focusing on the daily task it takes to make the
01:10:01.040 million dollars. Yeah. You know, it's a, the results are a byproduct of the process. So master the
01:10:06.720 process, master the results. Am I wrong or right? Amen, brother. Is this not what you teach? It's
01:10:11.560 exact. It's exactly what I teach. It's the same thing as doing a process that drives results. It
01:10:15.400 doesn't matter. Okay. Look at it like from a fitness standpoint, look at it from a fitness
01:10:19.360 standpoint. If you eat healthy every day, if you drink the proper amounts of water, if you lift and
01:10:24.020 do cardio every single day, what's going to happen? You're going to get results. Business is the same
01:10:30.680 thing. It's the same thing. I can't tell you how many people you see, right? They go online and they
01:10:37.460 announce, I'm going to go run a marathon, right? Great. You're challenging yourself to do it. They're
01:10:41.980 going to go run a marathon. And you know what? That same individual figures out exactly what they need
01:10:47.480 to do every single day, exactly what the training runs are to go finish the marathon. And you know
01:10:52.060 what? They go, they run, they finish the marathon, and they post the pictures on Facebook.
01:10:56.040 Yet when it comes to doing the same thing in business, breaking down what it takes on a daily
01:11:02.340 basis to be successful, they say, how do you be successful? And I always look and I say, go look at an
01:11:07.400 area in your life where you've done what we're talking about. When you trained for that marathon, all you
01:11:11.340 did was attack the process every single day. So don't come to me and give me an excuse and say you don't
01:11:16.200 know what I'm talking about. If you're competing in a bodybuilding contest, you're going to follow
01:11:20.640 through on what it takes to be at your best, to strip the weight, to cut the weight, to
01:11:25.700 do the extra reps that it takes to be successful. Just take that and correlate it to your business.
01:11:31.120 Attack the process, get after it, and you will achieve. Or your career inside of a company.
01:11:35.980 It doesn't always, you know, we talk about entrepreneurship so much here that sometimes
01:11:40.000 guys get left in the cold because they're in a, like, they're inside of a model and they're like
01:11:44.280 not an entrepreneur. But dude, being successful inside of a company is having an entrepreneurial
01:11:48.540 mindset. It's doing the same things. It's coming in and attacking your job with passion
01:11:53.280 and effectiveness consistently over the course of time. And guess what happens then? Then
01:11:58.880 you create value. When you create value, you create a power within you that means that your
01:12:03.960 company cannot get rid of you. And when your company can't get rid of you, guess who gets
01:12:07.300 to write their own fucking paycheck? It's all about the same. It's all the same. It's all
01:12:12.360 the same.
01:12:12.760 Yeah. You know, definitely.
01:12:15.420 But tying this shit together is, it doesn't matter. You could tie it together and we could
01:12:19.760 talk about it for, I mean, how much, I mean, people pay to hear the same shit over and over
01:12:26.460 and over and over and over and over again because they think it's going to kick them in the ass
01:12:30.600 and get them to move. And I guess that's good for, for us when we speak. But you know, I
01:12:34.800 would for one time like to see people go out and just fucking dominate because that's what
01:12:39.040 I, this isn't about the money. This isn't about building something for us. This is about
01:12:42.980 giving back and seeing people succeed is the biggest fucking reward that I could ever get.
01:12:48.980 I just want people to go out and fucking do it.
01:12:51.500 Definitely. Well, we want you to attack the process. And frankly, it's been a process, uh,
01:12:55.880 from the first episode until now. And we'd like to think that we're getting better and better.
01:12:59.740 That's certainly what we're trying to do. And a lot of it has been because of your help.
01:13:03.780 Thank you so much for the questions that you've sent in and the feedback. Uh, if you have,
01:13:07.820 if you continue to have questions, send them to askandyatthemfceo.com. Like I said, if you want
01:13:12.980 to hear, uh, if you want to link directly to this episode, it's themfceo.com slash p9. So, uh,
01:13:21.200 so yeah, guys, we've, uh, we've covered a lot of topics or a lot of angles of this topic and hope
01:13:26.020 you put it in the practice, but Andy, why don't you, well, Ben, why don't you sign off? And then
01:13:29.620 Andy, why don't you wrap us up? Everybody pay attention to what you can do in your life. Listen to
01:13:35.000 the message from today. We get this fiery because we care. Just choose to attack the process,
01:13:39.920 identify the action steps that are going to make you successful in your life. And then you go out
01:13:44.740 and choose to follow through on those action steps because of what it means for you and the things
01:13:49.180 you want in your life. Guys, it doesn't matter where you feel like it doesn't matter if you're
01:13:56.100 sick. It doesn't matter if you're hurt. It doesn't matter if you have one leg or one arm or one fucking
01:14:00.420 eye, or it doesn't matter. What matters is, and what separates the people who fucking succeed from
01:14:07.780 the people that don't is the people who execute on a daily basis, regardless of how they feel. I
01:14:13.420 have a feel, I have a saying that I use all the time, do it anyway. All right. So that's all you
01:14:19.240 need to do. That's it. You know, we could talk about this and that and this strategy and all this
01:14:24.560 fucking shit and plan it all out for you and make this beautiful fucking plan. But if you don't go out
01:14:28.740 and fucking execute it on the days you feel great, as well as the days you feel like shit and you'd
01:14:34.000 rather die than to fucking execute, then you're never going to make it. And that's it. It's executing
01:14:39.500 when you feel good. It's executing when you feel bad. It's making a habit of execution and that's it.
01:14:45.360 So I can sit here and talk about this all day, but it's on your fucking shoulders, not mine.
01:14:51.640 So get the fuck out there and do it anyway.
01:14:58.740 all I do is work.
01:15:03.880 All I do is work