REAL AF with Andy Frisella - 107. The Winners Gauntlet

Episode Date: April 15, 2021

You are not alone in your struggle, it’s hard for everybody right now. But how you act during these difficult times is what decides whether you are a champion or you're just like everybody else. On today’s episode, Andy talks about why the pain you are feeling is necessary for your success and how to keep going during tough times while others are distracted by chaos.   LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:   Book Andy to Be on Your Podcast Follow Andy on Instagram Follow Andy on Facebook Take complete control of your life - 75 HARD Get my raw & uncensored advice about success & life delivered to you daily!

I told my teacher, dumb bitch, I'm gonna get millions In the project, living, spoke it till existence Mode changed to 50, got more cars than did it I only weighed 180, but my watch cost 250 What is up guys, you listening? What's the intro? Oh yeah, alright, alright, alright Let's start that over

I told my teacher, dumb bitch, I'm gonna get millions In the project, living Spoke it till existence. Voila. Mode changed to 50. What up? Got more cars than diddy. I only weigh 180, but my watch cost 250. What's up, guys?

It's Andy Priscilla, and this is the show for the real. Let's say goodbye to the lies, the fakeness, and delusions of modern society, and welcome to motherfucking reality. Guys, today I have a special message for a special segment of this audience. It's not going to be for everybody, but it is going to be specifically for the people who are having a rough time right now, okay? And that's a lot of people, all right? Everywhere we look, we have negativity and impending doom being thrust upon us and put into our lives. Okay. The news fucking sucks. People fucking suck. Everybody is complaining. Everybody's

trying to divide everybody and, you know, argue over this or that or this. We have all this crazy shit going on with the pandemic. Dude, it's a stressful time. It's not a normal time. This is not normal. And you should remember that. You need to remember that what's going on in our world right now is not just difficult for you. It's difficult for everybody. Now, certain people might be doing better right now. They might be making money. Their job might be more secure or maybe things are going better for their fitness or whatever. Here's the point. This shit is stressful and it's wearing us the fuck out mentally. There's a lot of people out there who are struggling in spite of the fact that they're doing everything they know they should do. And that's who I want to talk to today.

Okay. Look guys, this shit pursuing success, becoming someone who is abnormal, becoming someone who sets the fucking standard for others, Becoming someone who shows the rest of the world what is possible is a very difficult path. You are going to have people shit on you. You are going to have unexpected circumstances arise. You are going to have the government fucking shut the country down. You are going to have all these things that you never fucking counted on come and smack you in the face over and over and over again. This is just part of being on that path. But here's what I want to point out to you all.

Every single one of you, every single one of you who is struggling right now, you need to understand this. What you're going through right now is necessary. What do you mean it's necessary? It's necessary because what's happening right now is you are forging the fucking skills. You are forging the determination. You are forging the grit. You are forging the fortitude. You are forging all the fucking things that nobody else is gaining because they're sitting on their hands and you're willing to push through. This fire you're feeling, this pressure you're feeling, this frustration you're feeling, this is what is going to make you into the weapon that you are going to become that will then build the life that you are out to build. I need you to understand this.

I call it the gauntlet. Okay. You cannot develop the skills you need to win consistently without going through the motherfucking gauntlet. All right. And a lot of times when we're going through this gauntlet, we self-pity, right? We talk about how unfair it is. We talk about how fucking hard it is. We talk about how nobody gets it. And guess what? All those things are fucking true. It's not fucking fair. Most people don't get it. Most people have no idea how fucking hard it is for you. And guess what? They're never gonna. So why are you screaming about it? Take this opportunity to recognize that the chaos in your life is actually forging you and improving you because you're choosing to press on when everybody else

is falling off. This is how you look at hardships. This is how you look at frustration. You look at it as a tool that's teaching you lessons that are going to become valuable to you maybe tomorrow, but for sure in the near future and other motherfuckers are not going to have them because they're not willing to push on. Okay. So if you're struggling right now and you're having a hard time and you're pissed off and you're frustrated, know two things. One, you're not alone. Two, this is necessary for you to get where you want to go. And if you quit, if you falter, if you stop, all of the pain will be for nothing. And you need to remember that. This is what champions do. This is what people who win perpetually do. They don't give a fuck

what's happening in the world. They don't let the distractions of the day pull them off course. Do those things make it harder for them to do it? Yes. But what does that mean? It means that we focus. It means we get more discipline. It means we prioritize and it means we keep moving forward because when everybody else is falling off, when everybody else is looking around at the chaos and the crazy shit and the social temperature and the pandemic and the economy and all these other things, we could put in a million things. While they're all stopping their progress and going into their little turtle shell, you still have your little turtle head sticking out of the shell, doing your little turtle fucking steps. And guess what happens? You end up 10

fucking miles down the road while they end up in the same fucking spot. This is what winners do. What you're going through, yes, I can empathize. I have a very hard time some days. Some days I don't want to do shit. Some days I don't do shit, but most of the days I do. So understand what you're going through, the pain you're feeling, it has a return if you're willing to recognize it. It will forge you. It will teach you the skills and it will equip you for reality when your peers and everybody else will be unprepared. And that my friends is how the fuck you win long-term.