REAL AF with Andy Frisella - 519. Q&AF: Fitness And Business Correlation, Disconnecting From Work & Fears When Starting A Business

Episode Date: May 22, 2023

In today's episode, Andy answers your questions on what's the most significant change he's seen in business as a result of getting in better physical shape, if you should continue to use the Power List while on vacation, and what were some of the biggest fears he faced when starting in business.

What is up guys, it's Andy Purcell and this is the show for the realest say goodbye to the lies, the fakeness, and delusions of modern society. Welcome to motherfucking reality, guys. Today, we have Q&AF. That's where you get to submit questions and we answer them here on the show. There's a couple ways you could submit questions. You could submit them by, guys, you can email those questions in to askandyanadyforseller.com. Or, now that we're on YouTube, you go on youtube uh you find the q and af episode you go hit subscribe you go down in the comments and you leave us a question and then we'll pick some

questions from there to answer on the show as well this is not a q and a show now this exact show is but this is actually a bunch of shows within the show that we call real af and uh today you're going to hear q and af um and then you're going to hear CTI. CTI is cruise the internet. That's basically what we do whenever we want to talk about what's going on in the world. We throw up headlines on the screen. We talk about them. Talk about what may be true, what may not be true.

We speculate on what it all means. And then we talk about how we can all be solutions to the problems going on in the world. Then we have real talk. Real talk is five to 20 minutes of me just giving you some stuff that I think you need to hear. And then we have full length. Full length is what you're used to seeing and hearing on other people's shows where they have a bunch of guests in the room or a guest and they have conversation. And then sometimes we have 75 hard verses. 75 hard verses is where I bring in someone who's changed their life via 75 hard, the Live Hard program. And we interview them and we learn from them and hear their story. So hard uh the live hard program and we interview them and uh we learn from them and hear their story so those are the basic episodes of what we do within the scope of real af

uh yeah and we got a fee okay and the fee is this um buy all my shit no i'm just kidding you don't have to buy all my shit i do appreciate it though um but no we don't have a fee we don't have a monetary fee for the show nor do i run ads on the show i could make eight figures a year running ads on the show very easily i don't do it because i don't want to answer to people about what i say on the show i want you guys to know that i'm not saying things because i'm getting paid to say them and i want you to get the authentic andy and um in exchange for that and the value i provide i just ask very simply that if you get value out of the show, if it makes you laugh, if it makes you think,

gives you new perspective, it teaches you new skills, if it helps you out, please share the show. And please share that particular show, okay? Like sharing one show out of every 100 that you listen to is really helpful for us. You know, we're trying to get this message out. We're trying to make a change. We're trying to help what's going on in the world.

And for that to happen, I need you guys to pay the fee so uh please pay the fee and if you don't like the show don't feel obligated to pay the fee it's very simple so with that being said what's up dude what's going on man i wanted to get your take on this because i know a lot of uh especially on youtube like i know the audience loves the ctis right it's weird dude super it's inverse because like on audio everybody loves the q and afs right and then on youtube everybody loves the ctis right it's it's fucking weird it's a huge it's definitely uh an interesting youtube is a whole new thing it's a different animal yeah different animal but we know that a lot of people like the the ctis just in general right what can can you can we

just quickly go into and kind of explain your vision about how these q a episodes tie in to the cti episodes and what the what that relationship should look like well yeah it's very simple look um you need practical skills you need practical knowledge you need to know how to operate and be successful. We all know that. That's what QNAF hits on. I help you guys solve problems based on my perspective of being an entrepreneur for 24 years and being a very, very, very successful entrepreneur for 24 years. Well, not for all 24 years, but at this point in time. And then, you know, a lot of people who are interested in personal development, they're like, oh man, I wish you would just do the personal development and leave the CTA. Well, dude, you guys that say that shit, you're the reason we're in this fucking mess. Okay. Just like a fish has to live in an aquarium and it requires clean water to live

in its environment, to be successful, to make a lot of money, to build a great life, to do all the things that you guys want to do with the personal development content, we have to have freedom in society. And because entrepreneurs have been so focused over the last 10, 12 years of just making money and being successful, and a lot of us have done very well, we've taken our eye off the ball of what's going on in culture and society. And it's a shit show if you hadn't noticed. And I know a lot of you guys would rather just look away and say, oh, it'll get better and someone else will handle it.

But I got news for you. No one's fucking coming to handle it except us. OK, so it's very simply you have to understand and preserve the environment, not the green environment. I'm not talking about the water and the fucking soil. I'm talking about your environment that you want to use to plant the seeds that are going to grow into your fruitful, fulfilling, rich ass motherfucking baller future that you're trying to create.

Okay. We have to have freedom. Has to, has to have, it has to be there. Without it, you can't grow. And the perspective that a lot of you guys don't understand is that, and I do understand this, and this is why we do these things. What I experienced for the last 24 years is a lot different than what you're going to experience for the next fucking 24 years if you don't change what the fuck is going on. And you will not be

able to do the things that I've been able to do over the last 24 years. So you guys who fucking cry to me and say, um, we stick the personal development. You're an idiot. You're not understanding that fucking without freedom, we will fucking not be able to do the things we're trying to do. And the fact that you're trying to stick your head in the sand and look the

other fucking way is the reason the rest of us have to try so fucking hard to fix it. So we would just appreciate if you would just take a little bit of simple interest in what's going on in your community get engaged to preserve freedom so that we all can go out and build the lives that we want to build it's very like in my mind it's fucking peanut butter and jelly but for some people they can't grasp the connection yeah so yeah can't have one without the other bro that's it's that simple so cti we're doing in-depth soil analysis and q and a's we're teaching you about the fucking c tell you how to plant the motherfuckers yeah right yeah it's a great relationship i just thought i thought that was important to bring up well bro i just get

i do get tired of you guys like real talk Like some of you guys to message me and say that shit. Like it's very fucking aggravating because you're showing a couple of things. You're showing that you're ignorant to what it takes. And then you're also showing that you're selfish. You're showing that you don't give a fuck about anyone else, but your exact results. Okay. And here's where the catch 22 for you is going to be is that because you're selfish You're not going to be able to grow yourself because you're not paying attention to the environment Of freedom that we must preserve to be able to do what we're trying to do so

Your ignorance and your apathy and your willingness to look the other way will eventually come to your doorstep and clip your fucking wings And that's what you have to understand. That's why we do it. That's why i'm so passionate about it that's why i'm willing to risk to do it that's why i fucking take the abuse to do it because it's fucking important because if we don't have freedom none of the other shit i talk about is even fucking relevant at all yeah super important i love that but yeah so it is q a so let's uh let's plant some seeds. Question number one. Andy, I've followed you since the MFCEO days. And I've seen you go. Those are coming back.

And I've seen you go from being overweight to being an amazing, fantastic physical shape. Say some more. Jack tan, juicy as fuck. Thank you. Keep going. Andy, I follow you on Instagram. I see you're doing 75 hard. You're putting in the work. My question is, what have you noticed has been the biggest change or improvement with your business as a result of getting in better physical shape?

Man, you know, I couldn't name one specific thing because all of it's improved. I mean, if I go back and count, like if you were to go back four years and see where we were four years ago to where we are now, it would speak for itself. It should speak for itself. Four years ago, we had, I don't know, fucking 100 employees. We've got close to 500 employees under roof here. I've got 200,000 square feet in the building we're sitting in. I've got 200,000 square feet going up across the street. I've got another 180,000 square feet going up across the street. Um, our, our company has grown multiple times over in those four years. Um,

so, you know, I mean, everything has fucking gotten better. Uh, but I would say if I had, if you made me like you put a gun to my head and you said, okay, what, what did, what's the thing that you noticed the most? Um, it's, it makes it a lot easier to lead. Okay. When you're in great physical shape and people know you handle your shit and they see you working and they see you doing all the work um people are not only inspired to do the same and hold a high level uh but they're also they also listen to you when you talk you don't have to raise your voice you don't have to say things more than once you don't have to have like these powwows to convince people like it's very simple it takes all the it takes all the questioning and all the, all the skepticism. Yeah. All that shit. It takes it and removes it

because people can see very clearly that you are who you say you are. And that there's a mutual respect built there because they will then continue to work. And so you see them working and then it just makes the whole environment work that much better. So I think the ability to lead and get stuff done at a quicker rate with less resistance, with less selling on why it's a good idea when you have a team is an invaluable benefit because it saves you so much time. It saves you so much anxiety and stress and frustration. Back before I took my stuff really seriously, it was a lot harder. You know what I mean? Cause I would have

people that were, you know, in much better shape to me living at a much higher level than me. And here I am thinking, because I'm the boss that they got to listen to me, which was true, but I had to give some convincing and like, you know what I'm saying? Like, it's just a better place to lead from. Like you lead from the the fucking front you don't lead from the back you don't you know like i i would say the leadership ability yeah you know it's just less it's less difficult you're not pulling against the grain and it's easy to get people coordinated and moving quick i mean and obviously i mean there's countless of other yeah benefits right you're sleeping better you're living better you're feeling better you're going to be able to live longer I mean, there's countless of other benefits, right? You're sleeping better. You're living better.

You're feeling better. You're going to be able to live longer, hopefully. I mean, there's all these other benefits. Dude, I think confidence is a big thing. Yeah. Like, you know, like, like, dude, when I look at myself, you know, and, you know, everybody's at a different level, right? This has nothing to do with I'm the fucking best physical specimen.

Like, there's fucking 50 dudes in here that look better than me. Right. There's, there's fucking dudes out there, you know, that look like motherfucking C-bomb. Right. Like, well, there's not many that look like him, but you get what I'm saying. Right. Like there's, it's not about the actual level of conditioning. It's about how close you're living to your top level of conditioning on a day in and day out basis. And that's mental and physical. And by living as close to your potential as you possibly can on a day in and day out basis, that instills a level of confidence that cannot be fucked with. Okay. Because like when, when I look at me or I have doubts about me or my abilities, I'm very simply asking myself a simple question. Well, who else is doing what the fuck you're doing? Who else is putting in the work you're putting in? Who else is planting the seeds that you're

planting? Who else is doing all this stuff? And the answer is fucking nobody. Okay. So it's very hard to feel doubtful or not confident when you can look around at all your peers and everybody else that you compete with. And you could say, I know know they're working hard but they ain't doing what i'm fucking doing yeah and like that gives you a and that's no disrespect bro that's just meet what i have to do to get to my level of optimization like i'm not a particularly talented or overly skilled individual so for me to operate at that high level i have to have my shit in order like it's not about me walking around thinking I'm the toughest fucking dude or thinking I'm ultra, you know, more

disciplined than all of you guys or whatever, bro. We all have our weaknesses. We all have our strengths. But for me to operate on a high level, being just a normal fucking guy that comes from the same place that most of you guys come from, I have to do that to be competitive because at this level, everybody's good. You know what I have to do that to be competitive because at this level everybody's good yeah you know i'm saying like everybody i compete with on this level is fucking they're fucking great at what they do whether it be in the any of the areas i'm in in business whether it be fucking uh my personal development brand whether it be my speaking ability like i am constantly competing with some of the best people at what

they do in the world all the time. And I have to be at a high level and all that shit or fucking my shit doesn't work. Right. Right. So I have to do it. It's non-negotiable and I, I, it's not, it's a requirement. It's not like a nice thing. You know what I mean? Absolutely. Andy, what, what do you say to the leaders out there or the CEOs out there that are in business, that have been in business for years? They're not in the best physical shape. Is there a valid argument to the, I guess, is this a valid argument, right? Like I've invested so much. I've just been focused on the business that I forgot about myself. For sure.

Right. Like, how do you address that? For sure. For sure. That's a valid argument. lived that life yeah like bro remember i was 15 years in the business now i had and by the way i grew up an athlete i played all kinds of sports at a high level my whole life it's not like i was this big fat piece of shit for my whole life right the business fucking started going i didn't know how to handle it i started coping with alcohol and fucking food um and you know i got fat real fat and uh i could easily see how someone could find themselves in that position and and at that time you know if i'm being honest you know i would if you would have asked me at that time like was it affecting me i would have

been like fuck no i'm i'm winning dude i'll fuck kick your ass even though I'm fat. Right. And I would say shit like that. But bro, the truth is, is that that wasn't true. That was an insecurity. I was projecting and I wasn't truly confident in myself and that was my defense mechanism. And so there's a big difference between pretending and actually being. And at that point in my life, I had to pretend because that's what it took to get the fucking job done. When you get to the level of higher business, everybody's fucking great. Like every, everybody. And they're all smart. And guess what they all do? They all take care of themselves physically and mentally fucking all of them. Okay. So I see it as a requirement. And if I were to say something to one of you guys out there who maybe thinks

Like oh that's bullshit. I would say bro. You're selling yourself way short because I thought I was that too I thought I was fuck. I thought I could do it all. I thought it didn't matter The truth is it mattered a whole lot and when I fucking got my shit together The company went fucking bananas and so not just this company But all the ones i'm involved with and everything I do speaking personal development brand podcast fucking my my actual companies like my life like fucking everything it's just it's like pouring gas on a fucking fire bro you need to create an inferno and you can't sit there and say well my little fire works just the same as that big inferno no it doesn't dude

i could cook marshmallows on my yeah okay bro like the score started yeah right like we're talking about a fucking nuclear weapon right versus your little fucking campfire like it's a totally different thing and people do have a hard time seeing that because when they're in it when you're when that's like bro when i was 350 pounds bro like like none by the way fuck all you people that didn't tell me you know what i I'm saying? Like you fucking people, like, I didn't know you too. Like you, you fuck people, all my fucking people close to me, you guys all fucking dealt with it. None of you said shit. I didn't realize I look like that. Now I look at the shit and I'm so fucking embarrassed. I can't even believe that I fucking even like went out of the house.

You know what I mean? So fuck you guys. That's why I tell everybody that you asked me the other day, do I tell people? Yeah, I fucking tell them. You know why? Because I know what it's like to not be told. So, you know, if that's you, you're leaving a lot on the table, bro. And I want the best for you and I, you deserve the best, but you got to develop yourself first. That's what I said on my story the other day we were talking talking about uh build yourself first you know all like on the last q and a f that we did you know i made a statement about uh these young guys making these podcast mics and like trying to put the content out before they actually build anything put in the cart before the horse and some some might you know some of these young guys they got a little offended right but guys i'm saying that from a place of love

i'm saying that from a place of like. I'm saying that from a place of like, Hey motherfucker, like I'm telling you so you don't waste the next fucking 10 years of your life wondering why nobody's listening to you. Nobody's listening to you, bro. Cause you don't represent the shit you're fucking saying. You haven't built the shit you're saying. You haven't even built yourself. So if you haven't built a business and you haven't built anything, bro, build yourself because that doesn't take very long. You can talk a lot about that. And a lot of people need that and And it's valuable. So like start there and start moving and the rest of the stuff will come. And that's all I was trying to say.

Like you guys that got upset with me. I mean, I get it, bro, but I still love you. I'm fucking trying to help you out. I don't want you to waste the next five years wondering why nobody's fucking clicking on your shit. You know what I'm saying? I love it, man. Andy, question number two.

I've been using the power list and built consistency, which has dramatically improved my personal and professional results. I have a vacation coming up, and I do not want to lose any momentum, nor do I want my family's vacation to be negatively impacted. The question is, Andy, do you continue to utilize the power list 365 days per year, or are there periods of time, like vacations, that you truly allow yourself to disconnect? I'm not good at disconnecting. I discovered a long time ago, and some people don't understand this. I don't expect them to understand this, but I am only happy when I am on offense. If I'm only happy when I'm creating, I'm only happy when

I'm building. I'm only happy when I'm making deposits into something like I have to be moving forward or I'm fucking miserable. And I guess maybe it comes from 24 years of just being conditioned to have to do that for survival. And a lot of you guys are going to say, well, that's unhealthy. Well, yeah, it is, but you know, there's benefits to come with it. Like I get to do whatever the fuck I want, whenever I want, with whoever I want, wherever I want, at any fucking time, I choose to actually do what I do. I like what I do. So there's benefits. I'm not going to sit here and say it's for everybody because it ain't for everybody. And I'm not one of these entrepreneurs that's going to sit here and tell you that everybody's

supposed to go out and become an entrepreneur. That's not true. It's statistically untrue. OK? It's 7% to 8% of the population, and only 1% of that fucking 8% is actually successful. So it's a very competitive game. Most people are going to be great entrepreneurs. They're going to be part of an organization.

They're going to contribute. They're going to make a lot of money. That's just as important as entrepreneurs, bro. And you can do very well with way less stress in that role. So I'm not good at disconnecting. And I know some of you guys will be like, oh, that's not healthy. That doesn't sound good. Well, you're not built like me. I'm sorry. And you can fucking throw rocks and you can say that's not healthy. And you can say all this shit. I don't fucking care because what makes me happy is moving forward. I like that. Well, eventually you're going to die. No shit.

I'm trying to cover as much ground as I can. That's the point. Um, nobody's going to remember that. Doesn't matter. You know who will remember it? I will remember it the fucking two minutes before I die. I'd be like, motherfucker, I gave it everything I got. Let's see what's next.

You know what I'm saying? So like, um, so personally, dude, like I, I try to keep what I, the practical answer to this question is like when I went to Mexico, uh, was for my first vacations since our honeymoon back in February, I enjoyed myself. I drank some beers. I ate some of their food. I fucking loved it. I had a good time, but I also did do my power list every day. It was just not the same power list that I would do, uh, if I were here. Yeah. Right. So I still got my workouts in, I still

did these basic things, you know, except for like, instead of me rucking, it was, it was a fucking hour walk in the sand, right? Like, like it was a little tough. That can be difficult to yeah no it definitely was bro it was but my point is is you you dial it back a little bit and and the way you dial it back just a little bit um it's just by accommodating yourself while you're there and then you you if you check the shit off you're keeping the momentum and you're continuing to win those days knowing that the standards are just a little bit different for those days so i'm not going to sit here and tell you bro you got a vacation fucking crush it dude right i get it like we have to have a normal life um and so what i would do in that situation and what i what i actually do do i said do do um i i

uh that's one of your fucking jokes over there brother get him a trophy yeah that's right go with two dicks so so so just you know make it for the day and and and try to win that day you know what i'm saying and uh and keep the momentum flowing yeah and it's interesting dude because you know i travel with you when when you go around um we've traveled quite a bit right and like even on those travel days you still like those days are still when like when most people would think of a travel day like oh it's gonna be a day off no like like you we're still able to accomplish every single thing that we get up i get up early that day yeah you make those i get a workout in before i leave the house okay uh we catch a plane first thing we

do when we get wherever we're going is we usually do the outdoor cardio i mean that's the routine for us when we travel like we go put our shit in the room and fucking do outdoor cardio and then whatever else and i stay on my diet and you know it's it's pretty easy like it just takes a little planning bro and some commitment and losing the idea that we have to have these like excuses like i used to dude i used to be so weak that i i i was like that like i would say oh well let's travel day so it doesn't count can't do shit yeah can't do shit i throw the whole day away because i was fucking flying for two hours didn't even make sense real shit yeah but like bro i was also the guy that would go to

a restaurant and not be able to control what I ordered off the menu. And while the menu sitting in front of me, I already know what I should order. I'm in my head while the stuff's going on. You know, there's this like crucial moment that's coming. It's when the waitress comes to your table or the waiter comes to your table and ask you what you want. And that whole time, this is how it used to go for me. I'd sit at the table and the whole time, it's usually with Emily, right? The whole time I'm sitting there thinking about what I'm going to say to justify what I'm about to order, which I know isn't good for me to her, to like make it sound like I'm really not breaking my shit. But like, this is what that one little exception and we'll

start it back tomorrow. Right. And that's how I got so big because I told myself that every fucking day, every day I was like, all right, well, look, dude, I'm starting tomorrow. So I got to fucking get it in today, bro. I'm going to order pizza. I'm going to order this. I'm going to get my Chinese food. I'm gonna get all the shit in. And I did that for like a fucking year, bro. Right. I was going to start the next day and the next day and the next day and the next day before you knew it, I got on that scale and I was three 50 and I was like, holy shit. And I remember when I got on the scale at three 50, dude, because the last time I'd been on the scale before that I was three 18. So I thought it's a big difference. I know. I thought I was like, I thought I knew I had put a look because you dude,

you know this cause you've been big before. Like when you get big, it's hard to tell how big you're actually getting because the clothes you're wearing a lot of times are like stretchy and like they don't, you know, it's, you're not like a, it's different.

And bro. So I thought I was like, I'm like, ah, I might be like 320. Like I might be like three 22, bro. I got on and saw that three 50. I, I I thought I was like, I'm like, ah, I might be like 320. Like I might be like 322. Bro, I got on and saw that 350. I fucking, it like fucked me up.

Like it was like a fucking, like, I was like, fuck, this is not my life. I'm not doing this. I left the gym because I weighed myself at the gym. I saw the 350. I fucking left. I went, sat in my car and I didn't cry, but I was just like fucking on that verge for like an hour straight. I gathered myself. I went back in the gym and I started fucking training and I never looked

back. And that was, that's, that's, that was it. You know, I just feel like most people, like a lot of people,

I don't know if it's a fault of their own or not, but like we just so quickly try to jump to the excuse to pull us out from doing the shit. We know nobody could tell us these excuses better than us. Who's going to sell you on the shit better than you. Yeah. Who, who could sell you better than you?

Nobody. That's why it's such a hard thing to get control of. That's why it's so important to get in control and control of. That's why I fucking made the program, the live hard program completely fucking free dude, because you fucking need it because you can't be free if you're not even free from your own thought process. If you can't even control your own urges and your own thoughts and your own internal dialogue, you're not free no matter what the fuck is going on in the world.

So, you know, that's why I push it. That's why I give it you guys for free. That's why I live that lifestyle. I live that, bro, I don't have to live this shit anymore. I'm already, I'm programmed. You know what I'm saying? So like I live it so people will see it and be like, what's that? Because I know it's going to benefit the shit, you know? So if you're interested in that, you go listen to episode 208. It covers the whole program for free.

It'll change your fucking life in a very short amount of time. And that's why I say build yourself first. Because if you you build yourself first that takes the least amount of time to do everything else takes more time so build yourself into a fucking weapon and then you'll be that much more productive which saves time off the journey that you're trying to go on love that man guys andy our third and final question andy question number three Andy, what were some of your fears that you had when you were first starting out in business? We're going back 24 years. And more importantly, how did you overcome them? I just filed my LLC and started my business banking account, and I'm scared shitless.

Good. You should be fucking scared. You should be anxious. You should be worried. You should be worried. You should be concerned You know what that means? That means you actually give a fuck about what you're trying to do Okay, everybody tries to preach this no anxiety. No stress low low drag Happy all the time shit, bro. When you really care about something you really want something to work You're gonna feel stress about it. You're going to feel anxiety about it. You know what?

It means that you fucking give a shit. OK, so first thing first, I say that's normal and I say that's great. All right. You should feel that way. Now, how do you deal with it? Here's how you deal with it. You go out every single day and you do everything you fucking can. That way, when shit's not materializing, you can look yourself in the mirror and be like,

I planted seeds today, bro. I planted the seeds and be like i planted seeds today bro i planted the seeds yesterday i planted the seeds before that in fact what did i say to you about three or four days ago getting out of my car at the end of the day uh you said something to affect most people look at their days as if like what did they get out when you should be looking at your days is what the fuck did you put in and what i say after that i said there ain't a motherfucker on this fucking planet that's planting more planting more seeds than me in the last fucking four months. Yeah. Okay.

Because I've been planting and I've been planting the seeds deep and plentiful. All right. And if you live like that as an entrepreneur, you have nothing to fear because eventually those seeds are going to sprout. Eventually those seeds are going to fucking produce fruit. And so you should not judge the entrepreneurship journey based off of how much sales you make, based off of how many customers you got, based off of the internet likes you today, or they don't like you today. You should be judging yourself and saying, all right, did I do all I can? Did I fucking plant all the seeds I could today? And if the answer is yes, that actually reduces your anxiety. That reduces your stress. That reduces this

frustration because you can look at yourself and honestly say, I'm doing everything I can fucking do. And bro, you can't do any more than you can do. You see what I'm saying? Absolutely, man. So like, bro, by doing everything that you can possibly do to move forward, which I give you all the systems on how to do it. You can't possibly have that much anxiety because like, what else could you do? Right. Like I was just out in the gym training, dude. And Daryl was out there and we were talking. Daryl's one of the best dudes in our fucking company.

No question. Works harder. I probably been ninety nine point 99.99 probably the hardest working dude here outside of a cup there's three or four of them he's one of them we were talking about this little transformation contest that we have going on inside the company and then also um outside and he's like what do you think and i'm like i don't he's like what do you mean i'm like well i've given it everything I could fucking give it, dude. If someone beats me, it means they fucking, they really fucking worked. You know what I mean? Like, I can't be mad about that. And you, it's the same way in business.

Like if you do everything that you could do and someone still beats you, you can probably learn some skills from them. You can probably learn a little bit of technical skill, but you can't really feel bad because you did all you know and you did all you're capable of. So like a great way to reduce stress and anxiety and frustration in business is just to do everything on a day-by-day basis that you could potentially do and then track it. This is why the power list is such an important tool because you can actually flip back through your notebook and literally see the wins day by day by day by day, right? So like in those moments of doubt where you're like, oh man, I don't know how the fuck dude, I don't know if this is working. I don't know if this is,

I don't know if I'm going to get paid. I don't know if this is ever going to work. I don't, fuck people don't like my shit. I got three likes on my video. Like all that shit that comes to you and you're trying to build a brand, you can go to that notebook and you can flip back the last, you know, however long. And you could say, well, fuck, man, I won all these days. Like, I just got to keep going. And that's the game. You know, most people just quit too early. Most people don't plant seeds on a regular day-by-day discipline basis.

And, you know, that's the whole game. Just do those things. It sounds like, correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like a lot of people just have this bad understanding of time, right? Like I'm hearing this and I'm thinking about the, like the story of like bamboo, right? Like it takes like 10 years or something crazy like that.

It takes five years. Okay, so the Chinese bamboo tree is a great example for success because when you plant it, it has to be watered and nurtured and taken care of for five years before it ever grows, all right? So think about that. You put this shit in the fucking ground

and you have to go out there and you have to make sure it has water, make sure no one digs it up, make sure it doesn't get fucked up. And if you were to go out there and in six months, you're like, fuck, nothing's happening. All right. And you dig the seed up. It ain't ever going to grow. All right. And what happens miraculously after five years of nurturing this seed, this thing starts to grow and it grows to 80 feet in like eight weeks, bro. Okay. So that's business. Business is the same way.

There's this, you plant the seeds, plant the seeds, water the soil, water the soil, and eventually the harvest comes. It's no different than a farmer, bro. If a farmer went out and planted this corn in the field and went out there the next day and he looks at it and he's like, well, that didn't work and walked away, what would happen? The whole planet would fucking starve. Okay. So understanding that things take time and sometimes they take a lot of time to actually start going. And when they start to go, they go real fast. That's a key understanding that you have to have. And it's a hard perspective to grasp and you never witnessed it. But I can tell you, I've seen this process happen over and over and over and over again. And by the way,

you've seen it happen too. You just haven't recognized that it's happening. You guys see some of these guys who come out of nowhere on social media, but you didn't see them for the fucking five or six years before that. You didn't see them doing their work five or six years, bro. Andrew Tate became the most popular motherfucker on the fucking planet. And he was doing content for fucking years before that. No one ever said shit about him when he was doing it. You see what I'm saying? Right. So, and, and that's just one example. You guys have all witnessed this we're seeing the results you see bro gary v fucking legend in the business and entrepreneur world bro gary was at the game for fucking a decade before you ever heard of him same for me 15 fucking years before you ever heard my fucking name you see what i'm saying it just takes fucking time dude and the. And when you get to a point where you adjust course too quickly, you're sabotaging your own success over and over. And this is what we see with a lot of young entrepreneurs. They try something, they get impatient. It didn't make them a million dollars in six weeks, okay? Like the gurus promise them. And they, you know, they, they then change the thing, right?

They go from that thing to the next thing that's happening right now. And then to the next thing, three months from now, to the next thing, three months from now again, and they repeat that process. Well, dude, if you repeat that process over and over and over again, nothing's ever going to produce for you because it takes longer than that. And it takes more expertise than that. And it takes more patience and it takes more skill. It takes more fucking everything, especially time. And so when you could grasp this and this takes, this is difficult to grasp if you've never seen it,

but you have seen it. All right. So just think about it. If that's, this is how it works. Listen to the people, bro. You don't hear, you don't hear genuinely successful people who have built things ever tell you they never, you never hear them say this. They never tell you it's going to be easy. They never tell you it's going to be fast. They never tell you it's going to be fucking, you know, this fun ride. They never tell you this shit. You know why? Cause it ain't. You only hear people who haven't built shit say those things. And the reason you hear them say those things is because they're trying to sell you something. This is their ticket to prey on your impatience to get you to give your money to them. That's their business. All right. So you never hear the real

shit from fake people. You only hear the real shit from motherfuckers like me or other people who have built undeniably successful things tell you the truth about it they tell you the truth they say hey it's going to be hard it's going to take a long time you're going to wish that you could quit a bunch of times you're going to fucking lose friends you're going to lose family you're going gonna lose fucking relationships. And it's gonna be the hardest thing you ever fucking did. That's just the reality. Bro, yeah. And anybody who's built something real will tell you that.

And it's only the fucking clowns that tell you anything different. So just to wrap this question up, Andy. So how do you, is there a tool that you use? Is there a skill that you develop? How do you operate with that fear? Like, how do you operate and still go plant those seeds with those fears that you have? I mean, dude, you were 19 when you fucking started this journey. Bro, you don't have a choice.

You don't have a choice. What are you going to do? Sit there and be scared? What are you going to do? Sit there and cry? You're going to sit there and whine and wish it was easier? If you want to get from here to there, where you are now to where you're trying to go, you have to understand that you don't have a fucking choice. You have to get up every single day and you have to plant the motherfucking seeds. And planting the seeds has to happen every day and happens to happen every day for years on end before it really produces fruit. And a lot of you young guys will go, that's the old way. No motherfucker. That's the sure way. Okay. You don't get it yet. You're, you're inundated with the fucking chat GPT and this hack and that hack and this hack. And you know, more than me at fucking 20 years old than

I do at 43 years old with a proven fucking track record Well, let me know how that fucking works out for you, bro Give me a call in fucking five years and tell me who was right Because i'll be fucking happy to tell you guess what bitch. I told you so I'm giving you the real blueprint here. It ain't easy. It ain't always fun It is a lot of fun sometimes but it ain't always fun. It's stressful. It's hard. It's anxiety It's scared and you have to. It's anxiety. It's scared. And you have to use all those emotions to push yourself forward. You have to say, bro,

if I don't do this, it ain't going to happen. If I don't do this, it ain't going to happen. Bro, when I wake up in the morning, I think of people that are trying to compete with me. And I'm like, well, if I don't fucking do this, bro, that motherfucker's going to catch me. And that's, that's what, so I fucking go, I don't have a choice. Right. So like, you just have to make it not a choice. This is what I talk about. Zero options mentality. We have a whole episode on zero options mentality. Um, I'll get that for you in just a second, but the basic premise is very simple. When in the beginning you do not have a real choice. Okay. Like you're broke. You got all your shit wrapped up in this. It's a real choice. Okay. Like you're broke.

You got all your shit wrapped up in this. It's something that you want to do that you're scared to do. And you start, oh shit. Oh shit is right. Okay. And then you got to go and you don't have a choice. In the beginning, it's real easy to operate on a zero options mentality because it's a literal truth. Where it gets tricky is whenever you start

to make money, you start to get more comfortable. You start to have a nicer house and some cars and some expendable income. And then you start to think you don't have to get out of bed and do these things. You don't have to. And this is where you get caught. This is where you lose. Okay. So cultivating a zero options mentality and keeping it over the long haul is a massive thing. You do not have a choice but to go. And if you do not go, you will lose. That's the choice. It's either stay in bed and fucking lose

or get the fuck up and plant the seeds and not see anything for it and do that again the next day and then the next day and then the next day for a few years at a minimum until you've learned some shit and those seeds start to sprout and then it gets a little more fun.

So what episode? It's MFCEO episode 89. For those of you that don't know, my original podcast is right there in the audio feed of Real AF. If you scroll all the way down to the bottom, you can get the complete MFCEO project library. It's 330 episodes of pure entrepreneur gold. And I don't think there's a better comprehensive library for a beginning entrepreneur than that podcast. It's complete. That's why I stopped it. Okay. Now I am bringing it back.

It's going to be a little bit different this time, but I'll have announcements about that later. But the point is, go listen to those episodes, bro. It'll teach you everything you need to know. I love that, man. I love that. Well, guys, Andy, that was three. I'll pay the fee. episodes bro it'll teach you everything you need to know I love that man I love that well guys Andy that was three I paid a fee yeah we're from sleeping on the floor now my jury box froze

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