Your Best, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO120
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Summary
I m tired of people telling me they re doing their best and yet, nothing is happening. I m sick of people saying things like "well I'm doing my best" and "I'm working so hard" when in all honesty, they have no idea what their best actually is because they haven t pushed themselves hard enough to achieve it.
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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 welcome guys today is thursday thunder and i want to talk to you about something
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that is pissing me off all day long i see people saying things like this well i'm doing my best
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i'm doing everything i can i'm working so hard look man how many of you can honestly look yourself
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in the mirror and say i am doing my best because if you can you're fucking lying to yourself
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all right you in all honesty have no idea what your best actually is because you haven't pushed
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yourself hard enough to achieve what quote unquote your best is the truth of the matter is this
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your best is a moving evolving changing scale because here's what happens when you start out
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as a little bitty tadpole and you don't know shit and you start swimming up the stream and you try
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to figure out life your best is very minimal because you don't have the skills okay but as you accomplish
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a few things and learn a few things and evolve a little bit what happens you sprout some legs you
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get some new skills you turn into a little bitty froglet okay and guess what now you can do other
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things besides swim up the stream life is no different and when you become a little bitty froglet
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guess what your best is now moved your best is now evolved your best is now down the road further
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than what it's from so for you to ever say in a whiny little voice i'm doing my best i don't know
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what's going on no you're not doing your best because your best is a constantly sliding scale
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you can always do better you could always do more you could always improve you could always find a way
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to get a better result and to sharpen your skills okay we talked about this in a podcast a few
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tuesdays ago take a simple tool like an axe the axe has three parts to it one you've got to swing
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the axe for it to be effective now if you don't swing the axe and you don't swing the axe hard enough
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guess what it doesn't make an effect you can't chop down no fucking trees with the axe laying on the
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ground everybody knows that it's common sense two you've got to chop the tree in the same spot over and
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over and over and over and over again okay everybody knows that because it's common sense
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to know that if you swung the axe all the way up and down the tree you're not going to do shit common
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sense three the blade's got to be sharp you could swing the axe all day long as hard as you want
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against the same spot over and over and over and over again but unless the blade is sharp you're not
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going to cut down any trees all right and those are the three things that are very consistent with
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how you operate on your journey to success no matter what success is you've got to work hard
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you've got to be consistent and you've got to constantly be sharpening your axe those are the
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three components that come down to being successful now here we are in the middle of january
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beginning middle of january whatever you want to say the second week of january and many of you like
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i said last week have already given up you've already relegated yourself to back to mediocre back
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to next month back to after this back to net after i have uh you know aunt martha's birthday party i'll start
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doing this because you're constantly kicking the can down the road because quite honestly you're too lazy
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to do the three things that are required for success and that's okay we need lazy people in the world too
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because i like to get my fries supersized all right here's the deal i am so tired of people telling me
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they're doing their best i'm so tired of people emailing me and saying andy i need your help i'm doing
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my best but blah blah blah well you know what if you're doing your best and blah blah blah nothing's
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happening guess what you're not hitting the tree at the same spot enough or long enough if you're
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honestly giving your all if you're honestly hitting the tree with a sharp blade if you're honestly
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working hard and swinging the axe hard eventually the tree is going to fall because you're not going
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to fucking knock it down with one swing and that's the fourth equation patience you've got to be patient
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you got to know that you're not going to knock down the fucking tree with one swing of the fucking axe
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you guys are always looking for not just you guys but everybody is always looking for that extra thing
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that extra thing that extra thing i'm going to read this book i'm going to buy this program i'm
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going to join this mastermind group i'm going to go to this seminar i'm going to i'm going to ask for
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this mentor i'm going to do this i'm going to do none of those things will replace you swinging the
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fucking axe okay you've got to get it through your fucking head there is no shortcut there is no easy
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way there is no way to make it faster there is no way to make it easier you've got to do the
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fucking work so don't send me an email whining to me about how shit ain't happening for you
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because it would be happening if you're doing all the shit right and if you were doing all the shit
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right you would not be emailing me saying oh it's not happening because you would see little bitty
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victories on a day-to-day basis the truth of the matter is is that most of you guys are hiding behind
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you're fucking you're the guy in the warehouse who's working with a crew of 10 guys who hides
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in the corner all day and tries to get by with doing a little bit of work can't go through life
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with that attitude and expect to be successful you can't go through life looking to do the minimum
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and get the maximum if you want the maximum you got to fucking do the maximum that's just the way it
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is and if you can't accept that success isn't going to happen for you bro it's just not going to happen