The Idea of Success, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO132
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about the most important piece of advice I ever got regarding success and how it's about making a list, calling the list, and doing the work instead of looking for excuses to not go out and do the work.
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what's 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 joining us welcome this is thursday thunder
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and on thursday thunders i'm gonna take your fucking face and i'm gonna punch you in the
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fucking mouth because there's so much pussification in society right now that to be completely honest
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i just can't fucking take it everybody has their own special circumstances everybody is a delicate
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little fucking snowflake everybody has special feelings it doesn't fucking matter we always
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talk about on this podcast that success is an equation is a one plus one equals two a two plus
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two equals four a plus b equals motherfucking c that's what success is about okay and all you guys
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who fucking look for excuses in your feelings in your mood in your situations it doesn't fucking
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matter all that matters is you go out and you do the things you need to do we talk about this a lot
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we talk about you know how to succeed and how to build something and how to become something and we
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talk about the lack of there being magic and the lack of these lucky people and the lack of this thinking
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success is something that success is something that happens to people versus something you create
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and guys still to this day i get numerous emails a daily basis asking me questions and these people have
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been following the podcast from episode one now we're 132 episodes into this podcast as of today
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and they're still emailing me questions questions questions questions what do i do about this what do
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i do about that what do i do if this happens what do i do if so and so says this what do i do if my
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employees do this what do i do what do i do what do i do and guys let me tell you i want to share with
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you the best piece of advice that i ever got regarding success and i got it from my dad my dad
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said something he used to always say something to me and chris and my brother all of us make a list
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call the list win now make a list call the list win now make a list call the list win now and that's
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how he would say it and he would get it in your head to where it would be in that exact rhythm and
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that's why i'm saying it in that rhythm make a list call a list win now why is that the most important
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piece of advice i ever got because at the end of the day guys that is what success is about it's
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about making a list of tasks it's about doing the list okay now he would say call but what he really
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meant was do the fucking list when do you do it you do it right fucking now okay and you motherfuckers
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asking all these questions after i've given out literally 132 fucking episodes of content
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asking questions asking questions that's a question shows that you're trying to avoid action you're
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trying to avoid going out and doing it for whatever reason maybe you were raised a certain way maybe you
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have anxiety maybe you have fear maybe you're not an entrepreneur maybe you just like the idea of
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success and i'm gonna bet that most of you that haven't fucking done anything are the last thing
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i mentioned you are in love with the idea of success you want the big car you want the big house you want
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the private jet you want the stacks of cash you want the nice watch you want the hot fucking spouse
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you want the fucking american dream but what you don't want is to have to earn that dream over the next
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10 15 years of your life 20 years of your life because if you did want to earn that dream
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you would understand that i've given you everything i could possibly fucking give you
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in this podcast i have taught you everything that you need to know i have shown you everything you need
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to fucking see i have not hold anything back and i have given myself freely as someone who has built
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a large company from the fucking ground up now when i started in business i didn't have fucking google
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i didn't have fucking uh the internet where i could go watch youtube videos or listen to podcasts
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i we didn't have that shit you guys have so many fucking resources at your disposal that i didn't have
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it's disgusting and the fact that you're still looking for more information more more more more
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more asking more more more more questions instead of going out making the list calling the list when
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now aka doing the fucking work is disgusting to me it's disgusting why the fuck are you even listening
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to this why are you following all the fucking podcasts or all the gurus and whatever the fuck you want
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to call them why are you liking their shit why because i'm gonna tell you right now if you're not making
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the list calling the list when now this isn't for you
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you guys have to understand going out and building something is going to require you to actually do shit
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and i don't give a fuck what any of these internet motherfuckers say that are trying to sell you
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a thousand dollar fucking courses when they haven't even built the fucking company themselves
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this shit is going to take time this shit is going to be hard this shit is going to change your life
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and at the end of the day you're going to be better off for it but that better off for it doesn't come
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before a lot of bullshit and it's insulting to me that so many people think that this shit is going to be
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easy they look at people like myself or other people who have built businesses over the course of
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a decade or two and then they expect to do that same thing in three years
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you don't have the skills necessary you don't have the relationships in place
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you're setting unrealistic fucking expectations in a bad way i'm all for setting unrealistic expectations
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but there's also some realistic nature to them you guys can't just be in love with the
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fucking idea of success you can't be in love with you know the results and not be in love with the work
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because creating the results requires you to be in love with the work you have to love the process you have to
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love the daily grind you have to love the lessons learned you have to love the little victories you have to
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love the experiences that the journey provides you have to love the relationships you have to love the whole
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thing to produce the result that you are in love with you can't just be in love with the idea you can't just
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be the person who wants to be the quote-unquote guy or quote-unquote baller you gotta fucking do a lot of shit
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that nobody ever fucking sees or thanks you for or reward you for or gets acknowledged for a long fucking time
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it's delayed gratification and if you want a fucking real life example of delayed gratification
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go to a fucking gym on monday at five o'clock then go to the gym on wednesday at five o'clock
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then go to the gym again on friday at five o'clock and i will bet you that the people that are in the
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gym on friday at five o'clock are also tremendously more successful financially than the people who aren't
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the people who dropped off because they understand that everything takes dedication everything takes
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time everything's a process and it's not just a nine to five monday through friday effort it's a fucking
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lifestyle business and fitness are very much the same it's a 24 hour seven day a week commitment
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and you guys who are fucking trying to you know talk about being an entrepreneur and and examine the
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content so in depth and ask 47 trillion fucking questions and this and this and this and this
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you guys just need to go out and fucking do shit you need to go make a fucking list and execute the list
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like we talk about on episode 107 win the day and go out and fucking do that i don't know how many more
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times i can even fucking talk about this you know listen to the listen to the information that's out
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there utilize the fucking google machine and go out and fucking and make shit happen it's not that fucking
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hard well let me rephrase that it's not that complicated it is going to be hard but dude i'm
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gonna tell you right now 10 years goes by in the snap of a fucking finger
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and where do you want to be in 10 fucking years
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because if you don't do it you're likely going to be in the same spot
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it's no different than new year's resolution person who decides they're going to lose 40 pounds
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in january and then june comes around and all their friends are at the fucking pool and they're
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embarrassed to take their shirt off and they're like fuck i wish i would have done the work
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you guys can't love the idea of success i can't expect the idea of success unless you
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love the idea of the work and there's really not much more to success than that
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make a list call a list win now that's really it now we could talk about all the intricacies and
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all the details and all this that and the other but at the end of the day it's about execution
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it's about doing things whether you feel like them or not you know we have a lot of people nowadays
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who fucking emotionally flake out oh i didn't do that because i was fucking depressed because my
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fucking dog died or oh i didn't do that because i was depressed because my girlfriend left me
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or oh i didn't do that because uh you know i was hung over oh you know oh you know everybody's got a
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fucking excuse as to why they didn't do it but at the end of the day it doesn't matter how you feel
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all that matters is that you do and so many of you guys are looking for this extra thing this extra
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thing that tells you that what you're you know what you need to do is something different than the work
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and that thing doesn't exist and every fucking second you spend looking for that thing is another
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fucking second that you're taking away of a wasted life where you could be contributing to producing
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the life that you want by just accepting the fact that the work has to be done and it has to be done
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for years you don't just snap your finger and have a fucking 10 million dollar company or 100 million
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dollar company or a million dollar company it takes fucking time and i don't know if you guys are like
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watching too many of these internet motherfuckers or what they tell you oh i'll fucking buy my program
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for five thousand dollars and i'll teach you how to fucking do this and you'll be rich in 12 months
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like if you really believe that there's something wrong with your fucking brain yeah i mean you're you're
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you're really a dumb motherfucker that's the honest to god's truth if that's what you believe if you
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believe that you can go out and buy a program become a fucking millionaire in 12 months doing it
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you deserve to fucking lose all the money whatever it is you spend on that
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accept that it's going to take time accept that you're going to have to do the work accept that
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it's going to be hard and then it becomes a lot easier it becomes a lot more realistic to deal with
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okay make a list call a list win now if you do that and you do it every day and you do it every day
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for the next couple years dude you're going to be in a huge huge awesome position of progress versus
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where you are now it's going to be night and day you may not be a fucking millionaire but you're
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going to be much improved over where you are so you have to quit looking for the instant and you have
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to understand that the delayed gratification is going to be much more rewarding and much more powerful
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okay quit looking at the end result and thinking that because you don't drive this kind of car or
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live in this kind of house or have this kind of lifestyle that you're some sort of fucking failure
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dude most of the people that have those kind of lifestyles fucking work their balls off whether
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they're an athlete or entrepreneur or whatever you know is there people who have that lifestyle that
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fucking flaunt it and and fake it and and tell you there's something that they're not so that you'll buy
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some shit from them and make them more money absolutely but it's up to you to be smart enough
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to recognize that and it's sad to me that so many people aren't you know quit looking for the easy
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route and just accept that it's going to take time accept that it's going to take work accept
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that it's going to be hard and dude go fucking do it
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