Showing Up Is Not Enough, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO72
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Summary
In this episode of The Momfucking CeeOo Project, I talk about how important it is to take pride in the work you do and the habits you create, because if you don t take care of the things that matter, then you're not going to get shit done.
Transcript
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what is up guys you're listening to the mf ceo project i'm andy i'm your host and i am
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the motherfucking ceo guys if this is your first time listening welcome this is not just an
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entrepreneurial podcast it is about becoming the ceo of your life you might sit there and think but
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i don't own a business but i'm i'm not running a business doesn't fucking matter here's the deal
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you are your own company you are your own brand you are in charge of the actions that you make
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the decisions that you make and the route that you take in life and you have to understand
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that if you don't start taking control of it you're not going to get anywhere so that's what
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this podcast is about um we're cutting through all the fluff we're cutting through all the
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care bear fucking rainbows and sunshine bullshit and we'll get right down to the point
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guys this is thursday thunder it's short it's sweet it's to the point and today i want to talk
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about something that seems to plague our society and our workforce here in america over the last 15
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to 20 years and that is this showing up is not enough okay what do i mean by that all right you work
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your 42.5 hours a week you get there at nine and leave at five every day um you do a little bit of
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extra stuff but not really and most of the time you spend hiding from actually producing real work
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real content real value for your company all right where is this going to get you you think this is
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going to get you to uh a multi-million dollar bank account you think it's even going to get you to a
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hundred grand a year no because you're a fucking fry cook and guess what fry cooks are replaceable
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every single day there's millions of you people out there that could be fry cooks all right we're
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talking about what it actually takes to be successful and when you show up to your job whatever that is
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and you put in minimal effort minimal execution minimal thought minimal creativity you're going
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to get the minimum back and that's the reality of being minimal okay people who succeed in life
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they don't look at the job they're in now and say oh you know what this isn't what i want to do for a
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career so um i'm going to put in minimal effort no they come to work they do the best they fucking can
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they execute the best they can they contribute the most they can because they understand this concept
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you are creating or breaking habits 24 hours a day with anything that you do all right whether you're
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the ceo of a fortune 500 company or whether like i said you're cooking french fries at mcdonald's it
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doesn't matter you are creating habits and if you don't take pride in the habits that you create
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when do you think you're going to flip the switch all right and what i mean by that is this let's say
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you do cook fries at mcdonald's and you let the fries get burnt or you let the fries come out soggy
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and you don't give a fuck how the fries turn out what are you creating you're creating a habit of
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indifference a habit of apathy a habit of not giving a fuck about the details and what do you think that's
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going to translate into the rest of your life okay you're not going to you're not going to go to the
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next job and automatically create these habits out of the blue that are going to create success for
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you okay you have to understand that taking pride in the details doing the things that matter whether
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they be big or whether they be small is important now because those are the things that you're going
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to take with you into the next chapter and the next chapter and the next chapter of your life
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all right so many of you guys don't understand this concept because i see it in other companies i
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sometimes see it in my company okay i'm not gonna i'm not gonna lie we've got 130 employees
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i see this shit in my own company sometimes people think that showing up is enough and showing up is
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just not enough all right you could put your 40 hours a weekend you could put your 60 hours a weekend
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but what's ultimately going to matter is the time that you put in to yourself past the time that
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you're actually at work okay are you reading books are you reading blogs are you watching youtube
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videos that can you can learn from are you learning how to personally develop the skill set that you
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need to do what it is you're going to do my point here guys is that it's going to take more than what
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you think all right and i see so many motherfuckers come to work and play business what is play
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business you guys all know what play business is right i'm sitting at starbucks my fucking coffee
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my fucking mac computer my harry potter fucking glasses and i'm you know got my hipster shit on and
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i'm fucking pretending like i'm making shit when in reality you're fucking looking at facebook instagram
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and uh you know messaging chicks on the internet that you want to fuck okay let's be real here
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there's playing business and there's creating shit selling shit meeting people networking all right
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you have to produce things you have to create things you have to create value in what it is that you do
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don't come to work with your fucking starbucks sit in your cube nine hours a day and think you're
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going to ultimately end up being the vice president of the company no that doesn't work like this anymore
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the society and business that might have been the way it worked 50 years ago where you could work at a
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company your whole entire life and you know eventually become the vice president of whatever
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but the reality of of this economy and this society and this way that business is done now is that
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if you're not creating value if you're not uh producing things that are invaluable to that company
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or you're not producing products that are invaluable to your customer if you actually own the company
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you're not going to make it very long okay so realize that there's a huge difference between
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being busy and being effective okay being busy is showing up running around telling everybody how
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busy you are and how much shit you got to have having 15 fucking meetings a day and doing a bunch
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of shit that really doesn't matter versus being effective which could be one-tenth the amount of
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time and get 10 times more shit done okay and you have to ask yourself are you busy or are you
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effective because pay increases success money all the things that you want out of your career they
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don't come from being busy when people come to me and talk to me in terms of how many hours they worked
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i don't give a fuck as a ceo okay you can tell me how many hours you work till the fucking cows come
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home i don't care you know what i care about what did you do what did you create what did you execute on
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how much did you increase sales how much did you increase productivity how much did you make the
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company how much more money did you make the company i care about those things okay so when
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you're talking to me about how many fucking hours you put in the way i look at it is if you have to
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put in that many hours it's still not be effective you're fucking idiot that's what i think as a ceo
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okay so it's not about hours worked it's about shit done get it now we could talk about this all day
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long but at the end of the day you're the one that has to understand this so how can i make this any
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simpler for you to take home i can't all right there's being busy which is 98 of the people on
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earth who think there's some sort of value in being busy and then there's being effective
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that's the two percent that actually come to work they might fuck off seven of the nine hours of during
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the day but those two hours that they actually work make a fucking difference and that's what
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those are the people that get paid those are the people that succeed those are the people that move
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up and those are the people that drive fucking lamborghinis so if you want to be a broke motherfucker
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keep talking about how busy you are if you want to be a badass motherfucker drives a lamborghini