REAL AF with Andy Frisella - March 31, 2016


Luck Is a Four-Letter Word, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO57

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luck
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Andy Frisella
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Too many people fall back on the term "luck" to describe the circumstances of someone else's success. You see people who do big things and you automatically say, "Wow, that guy's so lucky. Wow, she s so lucky that that happened. That guy's very lucky." Well, let me tell you, there is such a thing as luck, but it's a big difference in how that sounds and the metaphysical implications that stand behind it.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, what's up? You're listening to the MFCEO Project. I'm Andy, I'm your host, and
00:00:20.760 I am the motherfucking CEO. Guys, it's Thursday Thunder time. You know what that means. Short, 0.98
00:00:26.780 sweet, to the point. Look, I'm going to get right to it. There's something that really just gets on
00:00:34.640 my nerves every single time I see it, every single time I hear it, every single time I read it, okay?
00:00:42.220 And it's a four-letter word to me. It's a word that I don't believe in. It's a word that I despise.
00:00:50.080 It's a word that pisses me off when I see it written or when I hear it spoken. You know what
00:00:55.800 that word is? That word is luck, all right? Too many of you and too many people in society
00:01:03.340 fall back on the word luck, not knowing the circumstances of someone else's success.
00:01:10.280 You see big things. You hear big things. You see people who do big things, and you automatically say,
00:01:17.400 wow, that guy's so lucky. Wow, she's so lucky. Wow, that's so lucky that that happened. You don't
00:01:26.200 fucking know that. You're assuming that. And let me tell you how insulting that sounds to somebody 1.00
00:01:31.980 who has literally grinded their fucking dick off to build something worthwhile, okay? 0.99
00:01:37.900 I'm going to ask you one thing from this podcast is to substitute from now on the word luck for the 0.99
00:01:46.960 word fortunate, okay? Don't say, wow, that guy's so lucky. Say, hey, that's a fortunate dude. He's very
00:01:55.780 fortunate, okay? There's a big difference in how that sounds and what that means and the metaphysical
00:02:02.420 implications that stand behind your belief system when you say that. When you say, oh, that guy got
00:02:09.740 lucky, you're telling the universe and you're telling yourself subconsciously that you believe
00:02:14.640 that you are not in control of your circumstances. And guess what? If that's what you believe, you
00:02:19.300 aren't. But when you say, hey, that guy's very fortunate, you know what you're saying? You're saying,
00:02:25.660 I believe in control. I believe that I am in control, and I believe that the consequences of my
00:02:31.680 actions are in my control. And there is a big difference, not just in how you sound, because
00:02:38.600 you sound like an ignorant asshole when you say people are lucky that have worked their asses off. 1.00
00:02:43.200 But there's a big difference in what the universe hears and what will play out when you use the 1.00
00:02:47.600 different terms of fortunate versus lucky. So I'm going to ask you guys to please stop using the word
00:02:53.020 luck when you talk about other people's success and use the term fortunate. It's going to help you out.
00:02:59.120 It's going to help out your results, and it's going to make you sound like not an asshole, okay? 0.98
00:03:04.240 So is there, because right now I know there's this guy right there, he's listening, he's saying, 0.95
00:03:08.620 but Andy, there is such a thing as luck. There is luck. Well, no shit there's luck. Like when you're
00:03:14.200 riding your bicycle down the road and a car hits a puddle of oil and does a donut and misses you by 0.97
00:03:21.760 an inch like we all see on these videos on Facebook, that's fucking luck, right? But going to work every 0.93
00:03:27.160 fucking day for 20 fucking years and grinding your ass off and then becoming a multi-millionaire, 1.00
00:03:33.200 that's not luck, all right? That's action and result. That's action and reaction. That's not luck, 1.00
00:03:39.940 okay? You weren't there pointing at this dude who has the fucking life that you want. You weren't 0.99
00:03:46.180 pointing out how lucky he was when he couldn't pay his bills. You weren't pointing out how lucky he was
00:03:51.240 when he got evicted from his house trying to build this business. How about when he made less than what
00:03:55.880 you made for the first 15 years holding on to his dream? You weren't there saying he was lucky?
00:04:01.060 How about at night when he's crying to his wife about how stressed he is and how hard his life is
00:04:06.420 and how he's going to be homeless if he doesn't pick up the results at work? You weren't fucking 0.98
00:04:11.800 there saying, oh, he's lucky? You weren't there when he couldn't take a solid shit for five years 1.00
00:04:16.380 saying, oh man, that dude's really lucky or when his girlfriend left because he's a loser? Or how about 1.00
00:04:21.360 when he's working at 2 a.m.? Or how about when he's working on weekends and holidays when you're
00:04:25.060 out celebrating with your family? Where were you? You weren't saying he's lucky, okay? You don't know
00:04:30.940 what lucky is because you don't know the fucking story. So quit using the word luck and start using 1.00
00:04:35.520 the word fortunate. It's going to do you a favor. It's going to do you a service in how you think
00:04:41.140 about results and it's going to make you sound like not such an asshole because there's nothing more 0.99
00:04:46.380 insulting to somebody who grinded their ass off than when someone says, he got lucky or 0.99
00:04:51.420 you're so lucky. It makes me want to punch you in the fucking eye. All right? Quit using the word 1.00
00:04:56.720 luck. Quit believing in luck because it doesn't exist in terms of action and reaction and start
00:05:02.760 believing in work. Start believing in fortunate. Start believing in results that come from your
00:05:07.900 actions. And when you do that and you wholeheartedly believe it, guess what? That's what starts to
00:05:12.920 happen. 99.9% of the people on earth use luck as an excuse. Okay? They do nothing. They plan
00:05:20.940 nothing. They execute on nothing. Yet the guy who executes is lucky. No, motherfucker. He did the
00:05:27.440 work that you didn't fucking do. And then you hide behind luck as an excuse. Don't be one of those 0.99
00:05:33.020 people. Don't be one of these pussies in life who uses the word lucky as an excuse, which is most of 1.00
00:05:40.600 society. Okay? Your success is going to come down to the results of the work that you do. It's not 1.00
00:05:46.840 going to come down to the success fairy, giving you some fucking luck, sunshine up your ass. That's not 1.00
00:05:53.960 what it's going to come down to. Okay? So take the word luck, replace it with the word fortunate
00:05:58.960 and start believing that. And then you're going to see magical things happen. Okay? And we talk about
00:06:05.860 the magic. That's how the magic happens. The magic happens by doing the fucking work.
00:06:10.560 All right? So take luck, flush it down the fucking toilet, quit being a bitch, and I'll see you next 1.00
00:06:15.800 time. 1.00
00:06:16.100 All I do is work.
00:06:36.660 All I do is work.
00:06:39.560 I know it's working