Two Things That Destroy Forward Progress, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO66
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Summary
Holding on to your past successes and awards is holding you back from moving forward and achieving your potential for success. You're only as good as your last at bat, and that's why you need to stop holding on to them and focus on the task at hand.
Transcript
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hey guys what's up you're listening to the mf ceo project i'm andy i'm your host and i am the
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motherfucking ceo hey guys listen if this is your first time welcome this is thursday thunder it's
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a short podcast it's gonna come it's gonna kick you right in the nuts and then i'm gonna let you
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go do your shit you don't have to be a ceo to listen to this podcast guys if you you have to
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understand that the principles of entrepreneurship and success apply to everyone they don't just
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apply to people who run companies they don't just apply to people who are quote unquote ceos at some
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point in your life you're going to have to realize that being a person requires you to take
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responsibility for yourself and become the motherfucking ceo of you so that's what this
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podcast is about tell your friends tell your mom tell her i said hi here's the deal guys
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we're going to talk about two things today all right two things that absolutely destroy
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your forward progress your forward momentum and your potential for success okay the first thing guys
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is very simple and i snapped about this a few days ago some of you might have seen it i want to talk
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about it more in depth right now and that's holding on to your past victories all right so many people
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in life we all know these guys right they peaked in high school they were fucking prom king they were
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quarterback of the fucking team and they go through life and you see them 10 years later and they're
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they're sitting at the bar on a tuesday with their fucking male pattern baldness and they're like oh bro
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back in the day i was the fucking man and they can't pay their fucking bills they're driving a hunk of
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shit and they turn into a basically a complete uh accelerated version of themselves which is a
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douchebag uh and they haven't done anything with their lives right and we see these people all the
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time and the reason these people don't progress is because they they focus on the glory days they focus
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on the things they have achieved in the past and they don't let themselves work towards a better
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future and guys you have to be able to look at yourself and be honest with yourself on this
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if this is you you have to stop this behavior okay when you focus on what you did last year or what you
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did two years ago or what you did last month or the award i won at the company function or the uh the
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sales numbers that i hit and beat everybody on this on the squad or whatever when you focus on this
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shit guys that is energy that you could be putting into actually improving and focusing on the task
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at hand which is today okay champions don't soak in you know kobe bryant doesn't fucking sit there and
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talk about how many mvps he's won or how many championships he's won no the motherfuckers up at
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three o'clock in the morning practicing every day why do you think he is so great he's not great because
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he's great he's great because he puts the fucking work in on a daily basis and he wins every fucking
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day okay and you guys have to understand what i'm talking about and there goes my fucking text messages
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look too many people get hung up on what they did they they they got a raise they got promoted they
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were good at one period of time and when you guys get hung up on that it keeps you from moving forward
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all right and i see so many people that quote unquote used to be something become nothing and
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fade out and become irrelevant because they're not able to take their victories in stride and just say
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hey that was nice but today i'm back to work you know if you want to fucking award at your company
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banquet last week this week it doesn't matter if you won your sales your sales uh team's quota this
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last week this week's a new week okay just like they say in baseball you're only as good as your
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last at bat all right and that is what you need to focus on you cannot hang on to past victories and
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awards and all this shit and talk about how great you used to be because if you do that you're gonna
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not be great anymore and that's the easiest way i can say it all right so i see so many you guys
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especially business owners especially employees doing that because they are in a situation of
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you know i did this one time or i did this uh you know good thing last year and they think that
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carries them through and guys it's not going to carry you through it's just not congratulations on
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being good at one time but what'd you do today did you win did you lose that's what you need to be
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asking yourself and when you string wins together guess what you win when you string losses together
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guess what you lose and if you want to hear more about this the powerless podcast uh it's killing
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it every day it's back in the very beginning go back and listen to it i'll show you exactly how to
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win every fucking day so guys quit holding on to your past victories the reality is nobody gives a
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fuck except you anyway okay and concentrate that energy on becoming better developing your skills
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winning today so that you can continue to do the things that you love which is win shit
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all right two what is the other thing that kills success all right and it is this mentality guys
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especially especially for you guys who are employees looking to create value amongst yourselves
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within a company and some business owners do this too believe it or not but they have the mentality
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that they're going to show up they're going to put in their time they're going to do the bare minimum
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okay of what is expected of them and what they are paid for okay so there's a difference here that i
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want to i want to delineate for you guys all right there are people who show up to work and hide in the
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corner and don't do shit and expect to keep their job then there are people who show up to work put in the
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effort do what they're paid to do and then go home and talk about how great of a fucking employee or an
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asset they are to the company all right guys look newsflash you are paid to do that shit you cannot
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come to work and expect to do what you are paid to do and expect to become an extremely valuable
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extremely important extremely appreciated asset to a company especially a growing company that is
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moving forward guess what you're going to have to do more and nobody likes to hear that shit because
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they think oh that's more work well hey look look at it this way what you do and what you're expected
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to do pays the bills what you do on top of that and the investments you make at home and reading
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personal development extra shit that you could bring to the company ideas the extra things that's
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an investment in your future all right so you have what pays the bills now and then you have what's
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going to pay the bills 20 years from now all right and you have to think about that now so that in 20
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years from now you're not going back and saying man i wish i would have done that because that's
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something that so many young people think they they you know dude they got their 400 a month apartment
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you know they they go out on the weekends they fucking they've got wine they've got beer they've got
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a little weed they smoke it and they think they got life made and the reality is is dude you do not
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have fucking life made because if you don't put in the extra shit on top of what is expected and what
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you're paid to do you're going to be doing that same shit when you're fucking 40 because that the myth
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that that life is going to automatically manifest this whatever the fuck dream that is you have
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is not going to happen you're not going to flip the switch at 30 years old and have the big house
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nice cars and a fat bank account just because you wished it you got to put in the work now and that
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work uh compounds and accumulates and puts you in a position to have that opportunity when you are of
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that age if you guys are 20 years old and you're saying oh this guy's old and he's fucking blah blah blah
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i'm talking out of fucking experience this doesn't just happen so many of you young motherfuckers
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think that this shit just happens you think i'm gonna fucking show up i'm gonna put in my time and
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then i'm gonna fucking be rich and i'm gonna be balling like rick ross you know and fucking all
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these bitches that ain't what happens you know what you know what's likely gonna happen with that
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attitude you're gonna be 37 years old living your mom's fucking basement yelling at her for some
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motherfucking meatloaf that's what's gonna happen all right so guys you've got to do more you've got
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to become valuable you've got to understand that what you get paid to do is the minimum and everything
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on top of that is your investment in your future all right so we have quit holding on to your past
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victories and do more than what you're paid to do and i know there's some cynical motherfuckers
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listening right now saying but andy you're just a ceo trying to get your employees to work for free
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no motherfucker this is the way the world works the world does not reward people who do the minimum
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the world rewards people who do far more than what's expected to the point where i as a ceo have
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to look at those people and say dude i cannot lose that guy that guy's so fucking valuable to the
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company i cannot let him go i cannot lose him and whatever somebody else is gonna pay him i gotta pay
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him more because i cannot afford to lose him and that's the position that you should be looking
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to leverage as an employee right now okay and i will go back and listen to what i just said about
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five million fucking times all right guys so look stop holding on your past victories do more than
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what you're expected to do and you're going to be able to move forward and if you want an actual
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particular plan to go check this out go listen to kill it everyday podcast it's way back in the
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beginning i'm not sure which one it is because vaughn's not here to fucking rip that statistic
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off for me um and i'm here alone and i really don't know shit other than how to talk in this
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microphone so guys go do that stuff i'll talk to you on tuesday and quit being a little fucking bitch