Know Your Limits, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO174
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about the importance of pushing through your mental and physical limits, and how you can overcome them. You are not at the mercy of other situations and circumstances, you are in control of your own success.
Transcript
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What's up guys, you're listening to the MFCEO Project. I'm Andy, I'm your host, and I am
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the motherfucking CEO. Today is Thursday Thunder. That means I've got something to say. I've
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got something to say that's going to make you think, and it's going to get you to move
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in the right direction. I want to talk about limits. Ever since I got into the fitness
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industry and I started learning about how to work out and how to eat properly, which
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was right as I graduated high school, which was the late 90s, I have always done something
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in my program that short-circuited, I think, my progress. That was every seven days or
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every six days, I'd have a whole entire cheat day. Usually on this cheat day, I would eat
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massive amounts of calories, and I would also drink. I've been able to, for the most part,
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with a few years gap, stay in pretty good shape, except for whenever I let myself get fat as
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shit between the years of 2012 and 15 or 16, I've been able to maintain pretty good shape.
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But as I got older, the more and more impact that cheat day affected me. It made more of
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a negative impact on my progress where I wasn't able to progress the way that I used to progress.
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And now I'm in my late 30s. You know, I'm working hard to get in shape. I'm working hard
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to do the things I need to do. But I've always had this limit. All right. I've always been the guy
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who's looking forward to the cheat day, looking forward to the quote unquote reward. And I've
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always taken one every six days, like I said. So that's always been instilled in my brain as a
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limit as a mental limit. I can't go more than six days without having a cheat day. And recently,
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because I learned that my body was no longer able to do the things that it was able to do when I was
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in my mid 20s or late 20s. I realized that I was going to have to do better than an entire cheat day.
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Okay. And so what I did was I forced myself to make it through that seventh day. And I had never
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been able to do that before. Never, never, never, never. I had never been able to make it through
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the full week without taking a cheat day. Never in my life. Okay. I forced myself to do it. All right.
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Then I forced myself to stay on the next day after that and the next day after that and the next day
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after that. And you know what happened? I developed a super, super strong sense of accomplishment and sense
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of confidence and control. Okay. And the reason I want to talk to you guys about this is because
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we always have limits in our brains that, and they are always mental. There are always things that stop
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us. There are points in our progress that we self-destruct. There are points in our progress
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that we want to stop. There are points in our progress when we tell ourselves, I cannot go any
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further. And you have to realize that when you hit these limits, these limits are what keep you
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insecure, what keep you feeling out of control, what keep you feeling at the mercy of other situations
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and circumstances. And my message to you today, guys, is to figure out what your limits are. Figure
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out where your limits are physically. Figure out where your limits are in your career. Figure out where
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your limits are in your relationships. Figure out what your mental limits are. Identify them and make
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it a point to push through. And I know that sounds cheesy. It sounds like some Rocky movie. Quote,
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unquote, push through your limits, man. You could do it. Look, there is a very strong psychological
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benefit of control and confidence that comes along with you pushing through your limits. When you take
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something that is mentally limiting, all right, I can't run more than a mile. I can't diet for more
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than six days. I can't work more than 60 hours. And you push it to the maximum. You are no longer
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someone who is at the mercy of that mental thought. You are someone who has taken that limit and fucking
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destroyed it to the point where you know that you are in control of everything that you do from that
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point on. Now, that seven-day diet that I had an issue with sounds like it's not that hard. But for
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me, and it might not be hard for you, but for me, that was a huge roadblock. A huge roadblock that I'm now
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over. And now I'm proud to say I've gone 18 days straight without a cheat meal or a cheat day.
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All right. And I've developed extreme confidence. I'm getting ready to leave to go to Las Vegas
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today as you guys listen to this. And I know that I'm going to be able to go to Vegas and I'm going
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to go there and I'm going to have fun and I'm going to eat some good fucking food and be a normal human
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for a couple of days. And when I come back, I know that I will be able to get right back on track.
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I don't have that doubt. I don't have that thought of, well, can I do it this time? I fucking know I
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can do it. And that is the value in having limits, identifying limits and forcing yourself, no matter
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how agonizing it may be, no matter how much of a struggle it may be, no matter how frustrating it may
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be, forcing yourself to power through what your perceived mental limits are. Okay. When you do that,
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when you take control of your progress and take control of what you dictate your limits to be,
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that's when powerful shit starts to happen. That's when your career starts to take off.
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That's when you start seeing physical development that you never saw before.
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That's where you start thinking things you never thought before. That's where people start responding
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to you in a way they never responded before. If you want to figure out how to accelerate your success,
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in any area of life, take a minute and think about these mental thoughts that are holding you back.
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Why aren't you successful? Why aren't you in shape? Why don't you have good relationships?
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What are the things that you tell yourself you can't do? And you need to make it a fucking point
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to go out and purposefully put yourself in those situations for no other reason than for you to push
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through them so that you can gain the control and gain the confidence that you're going to need for
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the rest of your journey. That's my message to you guys. Identify your limits, own your limits,
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push through your limits, and get stronger in every fucking way.
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How are you going to have a healing for you with the soul for me?