No Matter What, Make It Happen (For the 4th of July), with Andy Frisella - MFCEO156
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Summary
It's the 4th of July and it's a day to remember those who have done selfless things to set up the platform that you have now as an American to go out and create awesome shit not just for yourself but for your family and the future generations of your family.
Transcript
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what is up guys you're listening to the MFCEO project I'm Andy I'm your host and I am the
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motherfucking CEO today is the 4th of July all right and I've got a special short podcast for
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you guys because I know you guys are out celebrating the 4th and you're out you know
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hanging with your friends uh drinking beers having a good time barbecuing as you should be
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but one thing I want to address with you guys and I think it's an important message that we all
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think about not just today but every day and this doesn't just go for Americans the points I'm making
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here are relevant to all our listeners across the world you know we've got listeners all over the
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world we have listeners in literally like a hundred countries this goes for you guys too so just because
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this is an American holiday try to take the points that I'm going to speak about and apply them to
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your life okay so guys here's what I want you to think about all right this country the United States
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of America was founded on the shoulders of men who believed in something important they believed in
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something better they believed in a better life for their families they believed in a better life for
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themselves they believed in a better life for the future generations that were going to come
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to this potential country at the time and the risks that those men had to take were enormous
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the likelihood of failure was enormous how were they going to liberate themselves from a country that
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was much more powerful than they were how were they going to unite people how were they going to bring
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people together how were they going to do all these things that I'm sure most people thought were
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impossible okay and guys you have to think about every single idea that has been materialized in the
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course of humanity that has been meaningful that has been impactful that has actually meant something
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to the world all of them seemed impossible all of them got laughed at all of them that got told they
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were going to fail but yet where does all the great shit that we have in our lives come from it all comes
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from people who in the face of massive adversity decide that they're going to move forward regardless
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they're going to make the thing that they want to happen happen no matter what anybody says no matter
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how many times they get laughed at no matter how many times they get called crazy no matter what
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they are going to make this happen and that is what you guys have to understand nobody out there has it
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easy none of the ideas that you think about are going to be easy none of the people out there doing the
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shit that you want to do had an easy path they all had to deal with these things guys and the point I
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want to drive home with you guys today on the 4th of July is this there have been hundreds of thousands
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if not millions of people in the course of the history of this country who have done selfless things
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to set up the platform that you have now as an American to go out and create awesome shit not just
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for yourself but for your family and for the future generations of your family all the success in this
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country has been based around people who think about legacy they think about what their life is going to
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mean and what they are obligated to do to make things that they do matter okay and I want you to think
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about that guys because far too often we as Americans as people as people of the earth think very selfishly
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about ourselves okay and when you think about success and when you think about what you want to build and
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when you think about the things that you can do if you're doing it just for yourself it is far easier
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to fail than it is to succeed but what about not doing it for yourself what about doing it as an
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obligation for all these people who have come before you to create the opportunity that you have in life
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okay your parents your grandparents your great great grandparents the people that came before them
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the people that you've never even thought of that have given themselves selflessly for you to have an
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opportunity what about also on the other side of that the people who are going to come after you
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your children your great grandchildren and far generations beyond what can you do to help that
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what can you do to pay homage to those people what can you do to improve and thank the people who have
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worked for you and you don't even know their fucking names that's what obligation is about it's not
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about you it's not about driving a fucking nice car it's not about making trillions of dollars it's
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about thanking the people that came before you by not wasting your opportunities and it's about not
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wasting your opportunities now so that the people that come after you can see what is possible
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far too many of you guys think about yourselves you think about what's it going to mean to you you're
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far too selfish in the way that you see the world when if you would actually open your eyes become a little
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more selfless look at the world in a less selfish way you would understand and see the pressures that
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have come from the past and the pressures that will apply to the future and you will be much more
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motivated your success will mean much more to you your work will be much more to you and you will find
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it that much easier to succeed because of all those things so stop making it about you yes today is the
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fourth of July yes we're celebrating the birth of the greatest country in the history of earth
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but here's the deal guys what do you have to celebrate what have you been giving what have you been
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contributing because ultimately that's what make this country great it's not about what you take it's about
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what you fucking give and I want you guys to remember that shit not just today but all the days of the year when
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shit gets hard when you want to quit when you want to fucking call it in and say oh I've had enough
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remember there's been thousands and hundreds of thousands of people have come before you that have
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sacrificed for you to have this opportunity and there's going to be thousands and hundreds of
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thousands of people after you that you could potentially inspire by capitalizing on the opportunity
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you have now success is an obligation it's not an option