What Got You Here Will Not Get You There, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO161
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about a common mistake that stalls out people's progress, and how to fix it. I also talk about how to develop the skill set that will get you to the next phase of your life, and the skills you need to develop to get there.
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 the
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motherfucking ceo guys today is thursday thunder uh as a reminder tuesdays more practical thursdays
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uh kicking the balls that's what we do here uh today i've got something important i want to
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bring us a friend all right guys look here's the deal um i want to talk to you today about something
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that stalls out people's progress over and over and over again it's a common uh mistake it's a common
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fumble that people make with their lives um and every single time i see someone stalling out okay
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they start out they've got some good practices they've developed some good habits they've they've
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created some value they've created some momentum they might be making some money okay they're making
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a little bit of money they're excited they're doing good but all of a sudden everything stops
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okay and all of a sudden what they were doing before isn't working anymore they don't know what's
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going on they don't know how to fix it and they don't know what to do from that point forward
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and guys to that i want to say something to you that you need to always remember okay what got you
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here will not get you there all right what got you here will not get you there all right that doesn't
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matter if it's a fucking diet if it's your finances if it's a relationship everything is constantly
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evolving all right and what has gotten you to this point in your life whether you're miserable
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whether you're wildly successful it's not going to get you to that next level okay you've got to
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realize that you have to evolve your skill set you have to have positive inputs you have to do your
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homework you have to do things that are going to create and and fertilize and help cultivate new
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skills new ideas new strategies and this is a good problem that that to face because what it does
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is it creates a situation where you have to learn what true entrepreneurship is about entrepreneurship
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and thinking like an entrepreneur is about change it's about what's next it's about seeing a thousand
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yards past the guy who you're competing with who is looking at two yards in front of them you've got
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to be able to anticipate you've got to be able to look at the future and and anticipate what's going
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to happen all right and a lot of you guys because you're you're of robotic nature and there is a lot of
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good information out there you're going out you're following someone's plan which is a good idea why would
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you not follow someone's plan who's already successful just make sure you do the homework
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that they are actually successful you're following their their diet program you're following their
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financial program you're following their entrepreneurial their career path you're emulating
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them whatever you want to call it they're role modeling them and you get to a point where things are
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not working anymore now what now what do you do well because you've handicapped yourself by not
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paying attention on your own and just copying someone else you don't know what the fuck to do
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and this is a common problem amongst people's progress this is what stalls them out and when I tell you
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what got you here will not get you there you have to realize that in life in business and anything
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that's going to be worthwhile you are going to have to develop the skill set that you need for the
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next position or the next phase now you won't get to the next phase first and then develop that skill
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set you've got to be constantly evolving you've got to be constantly improving and nobody is going to
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come to you and pay you to do that that's going to be on you you know just like we had homework when
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we were kids you have fucking homework now your homework is not to go sit on the fucking couch and watch
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television your homework is to go read about successful techniques or learn successful
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techniques or find a mentor that could teach you these new tools that are going to help you get to
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that next position all right and a lot of you guys think that if you keep doing the same thing over and
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over and over again even though it stopped working that it will restart working again that's not the
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case okay each set of skills is going to get you to a certain point each level of hustle of will of action of
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work is going to get you to a certain level and then you're going to require more or different or it's going
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to require more effort or different technique or more skills or different skills and you're going to have to be
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able to see that and understand that when you continue to beat this dead horse which is essentially what you're
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doing which is your skills that you've already had and established for a long point in time you can't
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expect for your life to continue to get better you can't expect for your career to continue to get
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better you can't expect for your relationship or your physical health to continue to get better
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it's gonna it's gonna take more it's gonna take adjustment it's gonna take adaptation it's gonna take
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you evolving and you guys can't be scared to change every single person I talk to that is in this
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situation they're scared to change because what they did before worked so well and I guess that's
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a natural feeling right you did some things that worked really well and you're scared to evolve from
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that point forward because it took you so long to find the things that worked so well in the first
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place that you're scared to move away from it but guys what I'm here to tell you is you will only get
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to certain levels with those skills and those work ethics and those techniques and those beliefs
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you're gonna have to expand you're gonna have to think differently you're gonna have to do different
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things you're gonna have to put in more work you're gonna have to put in different kinds of work
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you're gonna have to read more you're gonna have to educate yourself more you're gonna have to do
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things that are gonna help you create a new you and guys if we look at history and we look at people
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who you know in the music industry for example people who have been able to be around for 30 40 50 years
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in the music industry you know bands like Aerosmith artists like Madonna those people have been able
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to recreate themselves over and over and over again if they keep doing the same thing if they keep singing
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the same songs if they keep looking the same way guess what nobody is gonna pay attention it's the same
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thing in your life if you keep doing the same thing that you're doing or the same thing that got you
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to where you are right now you're gonna stall out you're gonna become irrelevant and things are going
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to fucking quit working for you and then what then what are you gonna do and this is especially important
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if you run a company and it's especially important if you're the guy who sweeps the warehouse floor at the
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company because involvement and growth and change is a huge part of getting to the next level all right and
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you can't expect to be you know go from the the the one million dollar company to the ten million dollar
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company doing the same shit that got you to the one million point you're gonna have to adjust those
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techniques to handle scaling to where all of your employees and all of your help and everybody else out
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there can can can start to implement these ideas as opposed to the actual techniques that you develop that
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started the growth in the first place it's a culture thing okay and if you're doing it for yourself if
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you're a guy in a warehouse sweeping floors right now or you're the janitor or you you have big aspirations
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you're starting on the ground floor you have to learn the skills that you're gonna need for the job you
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want today that means you're gonna have to take an interest in that job on your own today it means
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you're gonna have to learn how to do the things that you would be doing that are gonna pay you more and
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evolve you more and progress you more today you don't wait until that opportunity comes because
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guess what guys that opportunity is never fucking coming for you opportunities don't just come
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opportunities are created by people who know how to take action who know how to evolve who know how
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to grow into those positions and they do that on their own time they do that on their own ambition
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they do that because they want to fucking win they don't wait for somebody to come and say hey here's this
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great opportunity for you how the fuck am i supposed to know as a ceo that you can handle a great opportunity
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if you don't show me that you've already done the homework to learn the skills it doesn't work like that
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guys it doesn't work like that you've got to prove it on your own you've got to take initiative you've got to
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take action you've got to do the things you need to do now to show that you're worthy of that
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opportunity and number one starts with doing whatever it is that you do now perfectly and it
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ends with showing that you can do all these other responsibilities as well as take care of your own
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business guys being successful is hard making a lot of money is fucking hard i don't give a fuck how
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many times you see on the internet that it's easy or how many times you see you could do it in 12 months
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or how many times you could see you could do it from a fucking beach with your feet up drinking a
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fucking corona all right that's not how it works in the real world and you could spend the next 10
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years trying to do it like that and make it the easy way or you can actually listen to what i'm telling
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you now and you can work your way through and in 10 years you're going to be a hell of a lot