Quit Fearing the Work, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO82
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Summary
What would you accomplish if you weren t afraid of doing the work? What would you do if you didn t have to do the work to get the results you want in your life? You can t do great things if you are afraid of the work.
Transcript
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Hey guys, what's up? You're listening to the MFCEO Project. I'm Andy, I'm your host, and
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I am the motherfucking CEO. Thursday Thunder time, bitches. Listen up. Here's the deal,
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guys. What would you accomplish if you weren't afraid of doing the work? I want you to think
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about that. I want you to think long and hard. A lot of people say that person's lazy. They say
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that person doesn't like to do things. That person likes to lay around. That person doesn't do the
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work. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But I would argue this. I would say there's a lot of people
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that appear to be lazy that are afraid of the work. It's not that they don't want to do it.
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It's that they build it up in their head as such a gigantic task and such a monumental effort that
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they are actually afraid of the fucking work. Think about someone who's overweight, who's 400
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or 500 pounds, and they're afraid to go on a walk or they're afraid to go to the gym. It's not that
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they don't want to do it. It's that they are fucking terrified of actually doing it for whatever reason.
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People looking at them, feeling uncomfortable, feeling awkward, not knowing what they're doing.
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Guys, I think all of us possess this at some level. I'm here to tell you guys, you will sell
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yourself tremendously short in life if you go through life afraid of the work. We can't do
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great things and become great things if we are terrified of the work. True champions in life,
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they embrace the work. They embrace the process. They like the sweat. They like the blood.
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They like the tears. They don't sit around and think about, you know what, man, I'd like to climb
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Mount Everest, but that seems like it would be really a lot of work and take a lot of time.
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So I'm just not going to do it. I'm going to do something else. Why the fuck do we do that?
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Why do we do that? You guys have to fucking clear all these pussy ass thoughts out of your mind
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about yourself, about your life, about what it is you want to accomplish in your career,
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in your personal life, everything, guys. Good shit takes work. That's just the way it is.
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And the hardest things in life are also usually the most rewarding. So every time you get a thought
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of how you want to achieve this great thing or do this great thing, or you say something like this,
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wouldn't it be cool to do blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and then you don't do that? Guys, you are
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selling yourself short of that experience that will ultimately dim the quality of your life for
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your entire existence. We do not live forever. We don't have unlimited time to do all these great
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things. And guess what? No, you're not going to fucking do it tomorrow. So why are you not doing it?
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It's because you're too big of a pussy to embrace the fucking work. All right? Success is hard.
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Good things are hard. Being a millionaire is fucking hard. But you know what else is fucking hard?
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Being broke as fuck. Being the guy who could have been. Living with regret. Those things are hard as fuck.
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Okay? And I would choose the work and success and all the things that come with it over the regret,
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the fear, the fucking anxiety of not living up to my potential any day of the week.
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But Andy, you know, success is a ring toss. You know, you might do the work and not get the result.
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No, motherfucker. You're thinking like an average person now. You're talking yourself out of the work
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in a different way. Okay? Success, like I've said, a trillion fucking times on this podcast,
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it's an equation of math. It's A plus B equals fucking C. It's 1 plus 1 equals fucking 2.
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It's 3 plus 3 equals fucking 6. I don't think I need to keep beating this horse. If you do the
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fucking work, you will produce the result. Now, will you produce the result in a day? No. Will you
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produce the result in a week? No, you won't. But here's what happens. You will move along the path
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and you will make mistakes. And when these mistakes happen, you will learn lessons. And because you
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learn these lessons, you will not make the same mistake over and over again. And once you go through
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enough time and once you go through enough fuck-ups, you know enough to actually achieve the result that
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you're after. Okay? It is very simple. But so many of you, because society jams the idea of luck,
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of circumstances, of fucking fairy tale stories down your throat, you still believe that it's luck.
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You still believe there's the magic godmother fairy of fucking success that comes down and sprinkles,
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you know, dollar bills on your fucking head. It doesn't work that way. And you can either choose
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to go on with your life, buying that story, or you could choose to embrace the fucking work
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right here, right now, and move down the path, take your beatings, get better from them,
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and become what it is that you are supposed to become. It's your fucking choice, guys. Take it or