REAL AF with Andy Frisella - March 16, 2017


The Idea of Success, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO132

Topics
success and action
Hosted by
Andy Frisella
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Episode Stats


Length

14 minutes

Words per minute

164.61

Word count

2,357

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Harmful content

Misogyny

4

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Toxicity

98

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Hate speech

54

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Summary

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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.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 what's up guys you're listening to the mf ceo project i'm andy i'm your host and i am 0.75
00:00:11.120 the motherfucking ceo guys if this is your first time joining us welcome this is thursday thunder 1.00
00:00:20.020 and on thursday thunders i'm gonna take your fucking face and i'm gonna punch you in the 1.00
00:00:26.240 fucking mouth because there's so much pussification in society right now that to be completely honest 1.00
00:00:34.700 i just can't fucking take it everybody has their own special circumstances everybody is a delicate 1.00
00:00:41.820 little fucking snowflake everybody has special feelings it doesn't fucking matter we always 0.98
00:00:50.860 talk about on this podcast that success is an equation is a one plus one equals two a two plus 0.99
00:00:58.180 two equals four a plus b equals motherfucking c that's what success is about okay and all you guys 0.99
00:01:07.480 who fucking look for excuses in your feelings in your mood in your situations it doesn't fucking 0.99
00:01:15.320 matter all that matters is you go out and you do the things you need to do we talk about this a lot 0.99
00:01:24.880 we talk about you know how to succeed and how to build something and how to become something and we
00:01:32.820 talk about the lack of there being magic and the lack of these lucky people and the lack of this thinking
00:01:39.300 success is something that success is something that happens to people versus something you create
00:01:43.600 and guys still to this day i get numerous emails a daily basis asking me questions and these people have
00:01:56.200 been following the podcast from episode one now we're 132 episodes into this podcast as of today
00:02:04.920 and they're still emailing me questions questions questions questions what do i do about this what do
00:02:12.980 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
00:02:20.560 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
00:02:27.300 you the best piece of advice that i ever got regarding success and i got it from my dad my dad
00:02:34.560 said something he used to always say something to me and chris and my brother all of us make a list
00:02:42.960 call the list win now make a list call the list win now make a list call the list win now and that's
00:02:54.700 how he would say it and he would get it in your head to where it would be in that exact rhythm and
00:02:59.940 that's why i'm saying it in that rhythm make a list call a list win now why is that the most important
00:03:06.480 piece of advice i ever got because at the end of the day guys that is what success is about it's
00:03:12.820 about making a list of tasks it's about doing the list okay now he would say call but what he really 1.00
00:03:19.120 meant was do the fucking list when do you do it you do it right fucking now okay and you motherfuckers 0.99
00:03:25.220 asking all these questions after i've given out literally 132 fucking episodes of content 0.99
00:03:30.740 asking questions asking questions that's a question shows that you're trying to avoid action you're 0.94
00:03:36.520 trying to avoid going out and doing it for whatever reason maybe you were raised a certain way maybe you
00:03:42.000 have anxiety maybe you have fear maybe you're not an entrepreneur maybe you just like the idea of 0.55
00:03:48.380 success and i'm gonna bet that most of you that haven't fucking done anything are the last thing 0.94
00:03:55.700 i mentioned you are in love with the idea of success you want the big car you want the big house you want 0.99
00:04:02.660 the private jet you want the stacks of cash you want the nice watch you want the hot fucking spouse 1.00
00:04:08.360 you want the fucking american dream but what you don't want is to have to earn that dream over the next 0.99
00:04:16.920 10 15 years of your life 20 years of your life because if you did want to earn that dream 0.99
00:04:24.460 you would understand that i've given you everything i could possibly fucking give you 0.96
00:04:30.800 in this podcast i have taught you everything that you need to know i have shown you everything you need 0.96
00:04:38.880 to fucking see i have not hold anything back and i have given myself freely as someone who has built 0.98
00:04:48.160 a large company from the fucking ground up now when i started in business i didn't have fucking google 0.98
00:04:56.420 i didn't have fucking uh the internet where i could go watch youtube videos or listen to podcasts 0.99
00:05:02.160 i we didn't have that shit you guys have so many fucking resources at your disposal that i didn't have 0.99
00:05:09.780 it's disgusting and the fact that you're still looking for more information more more more more 1.00
00:05:16.800 more asking more more more more questions instead of going out making the list calling the list when 1.00
00:05:23.620 now aka doing the fucking work is disgusting to me it's disgusting why the fuck are you even listening 1.00
00:05:34.780 to this why are you following all the fucking podcasts or all the gurus and whatever the fuck you want 1.00
00:05:42.240 to call them why are you liking their shit why because i'm gonna tell you right now if you're not making 0.99
00:05:48.580 the list calling the list when now this isn't for you 0.99
00:05:54.460 you guys have to understand going out and building something is going to require you to actually do shit 1.00
00:06:05.600 and i don't give a fuck what any of these internet motherfuckers say that are trying to sell you 1.00
00:06:10.280 a thousand dollar fucking courses when they haven't even built the fucking company themselves 1.00
00:06:15.220 this shit is going to take time this shit is going to be hard this shit is going to change your life 1.00
00:06:23.320 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 1.00
00:06:28.440 before a lot of bullshit and it's insulting to me that so many people think that this shit is going to be 0.99
00:06:35.560 easy they look at people like myself or other people who have built businesses over the course of 0.99
00:06:40.520 a decade or two and then they expect to do that same thing in three years 1.00
00:06:44.900 how arrogant of a fucking person are you 1.00
00:06:47.480 you're not that fucking good yet 1.00
00:06:51.540 you don't have the skills necessary you don't have the relationships in place 1.00
00:06:57.680 you're setting unrealistic fucking expectations in a bad way i'm all for setting unrealistic expectations 0.99
00:07:06.760 but there's also some realistic nature to them you guys can't just be in love with the 0.99
00:07:13.560 fucking idea of success you can't be in love with you know the results and not be in love with the work 0.87
00:07:19.980 because creating the results requires you to be in love with the work you have to love the process you have to 0.99
00:07:28.240 love the daily grind you have to love the lessons learned you have to love the little victories you have to
00:07:34.200 love the experiences that the journey provides you have to love the relationships you have to love the whole
00:07:41.340 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 0.99
00:07:48.140 be the person who wants to be the quote-unquote guy or quote-unquote baller you gotta fucking do a lot of shit 0.98
00:07:56.880 that nobody ever fucking sees or thanks you for or reward you for or gets acknowledged for a long fucking time 0.99
00:08:03.760 it's delayed gratification and if you want a fucking real life example of delayed gratification 0.99
00:08:11.020 go to a fucking gym on monday at five o'clock then go to the gym on wednesday at five o'clock 0.98
00:08:18.060 then go to the gym again on friday at five o'clock and i will bet you that the people that are in the 1.00
00:08:23.460 gym on friday at five o'clock are also tremendously more successful financially than the people who aren't
00:08:29.760 the people who dropped off because they understand that everything takes dedication everything takes 0.98
00:08:34.900 time everything's a process and it's not just a nine to five monday through friday effort it's a fucking 0.97
00:08:41.540 lifestyle business and fitness are very much the same it's a 24 hour seven day a week commitment 0.94
00:08:52.160 and you guys who are fucking trying to you know talk about being an entrepreneur and and examine the 0.98
00:09:01.240 content so in depth and ask 47 trillion fucking questions and this and this and this and this 1.00
00:09:07.800 you guys just need to go out and fucking do shit you need to go make a fucking list and execute the list 0.99
00:09:14.340 like we talk about on episode 107 win the day and go out and fucking do that i don't know how many more 1.00
00:09:25.140 times i can even fucking talk about this you know listen to the listen to the information that's out 0.99
00:09:32.000 there utilize the fucking google machine and go out and fucking and make shit happen it's not that fucking 0.99
00:09:37.640 hard well let me rephrase that it's not that complicated it is going to be hard but dude i'm 1.00
00:09:46.560 gonna tell you right now 10 years goes by in the snap of a fucking finger 0.99
00:09:50.720 and where do you want to be in 10 fucking years 0.99
00:09:55.120 because if you don't do it you're likely going to be in the same spot 0.99
00:10:01.100 and you're gonna be wishing you had
00:10:03.660 it's no different than new year's resolution person who decides they're going to lose 40 pounds 0.98
00:10:10.120 in january and then june comes around and all their friends are at the fucking pool and they're 0.99
00:10:16.520 embarrassed to take their shirt off and they're like fuck i wish i would have done the work 0.99
00:10:19.060 it's the same thing only it's life 0.99
00:10:21.160 you guys can't love the idea of success i can't expect the idea of success unless you
00:10:29.100 love the idea of the work and there's really not much more to success than that
00:10:34.380 make a list call a list win now that's really it now we could talk about all the intricacies and
00:10:42.700 all the details and all this that and the other but at the end of the day it's about execution
00:10:47.740 it's about doing things whether you feel like them or not you know we have a lot of people nowadays 0.94
00:10:54.460 who fucking emotionally flake out oh i didn't do that because i was fucking depressed because my 0.98
00:11:00.460 fucking dog died or oh i didn't do that because i was depressed because my girlfriend left me 0.99
00:11:04.060 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 1.00
00:11:12.520 fucking excuse as to why they didn't do it but at the end of the day it doesn't matter how you feel 0.82
00:11:16.460 all that matters is that you do and so many of you guys are looking for this extra thing this extra 0.99
00:11:25.060 thing that tells you that what you're you know what you need to do is something different than the work 0.51
00:11:33.160 and that thing doesn't exist and every fucking second you spend looking for that thing is another 0.98
00:11:39.980 fucking second that you're taking away of a wasted life where you could be contributing to producing 0.98
00:11:47.540 the life that you want by just accepting the fact that the work has to be done and it has to be done 0.99
00:11:53.220 for years you don't just snap your finger and have a fucking 10 million dollar company or 100 million 0.98
00:12:00.280 dollar company or a million dollar company it takes fucking time and i don't know if you guys are like 0.99
00:12:07.160 watching too many of these internet motherfuckers or what they tell you oh i'll fucking buy my program 0.99
00:12:11.920 for five thousand dollars and i'll teach you how to fucking do this and you'll be rich in 12 months 1.00
00:12:17.280 like if you really believe that there's something wrong with your fucking brain yeah i mean you're you're 1.00
00:12:24.160 you're really a dumb motherfucker that's the honest to god's truth if that's what you believe if you 1.00
00:12:29.900 believe that you can go out and buy a program become a fucking millionaire in 12 months doing it 1.00
00:12:34.140 you deserve to fucking lose all the money whatever it is you spend on that 0.99
00:12:37.480 accept that it's going to take time accept that you're going to have to do the work accept that 1.00
00:12:44.720 it's going to be hard and then it becomes a lot easier it becomes a lot more realistic to deal with
00:12:49.840 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
00:12:58.540 for the next couple years dude you're going to be in a huge huge awesome position of progress versus 0.92
00:13:06.580 where you are now it's going to be night and day you may not be a fucking millionaire but you're 0.96
00:13:13.860 going to be much improved over where you are so you have to quit looking for the instant and you have 0.96
00:13:19.340 to understand that the delayed gratification is going to be much more rewarding and much more powerful
00:13:23.840 okay quit looking at the end result and thinking that because you don't drive this kind of car or 0.99
00:13:29.740 live in this kind of house or have this kind of lifestyle that you're some sort of fucking failure 0.99
00:13:34.020 dude most of the people that have those kind of lifestyles fucking work their balls off whether 0.99
00:13:39.040 they're an athlete or entrepreneur or whatever you know is there people who have that lifestyle that 0.99
00:13:44.300 fucking flaunt it and and fake it and and tell you there's something that they're not so that you'll buy 0.99
00:13:49.900 some shit from them and make them more money absolutely but it's up to you to be smart enough 1.00
00:13:54.840 to recognize that and it's sad to me that so many people aren't you know quit looking for the easy 0.98
00:14:01.860 route and just accept that it's going to take time accept that it's going to take work accept 0.98
00:14:05.720 that it's going to be hard and dude go fucking do it 1.00
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