REAL AF with Andy Frisella - 851. Q&AF: Dealing With Stress, Setting Healthy Boundaries & How To Find A Mentor
Episode Date: March 10, 2025On today's episode, Andy answers your questions on how to effectively deal with stress, how to get healthy boundaries so that you don’t get taken advantage of, and how to find a mentor to help you l...evel up in life and business.
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All right, what's up, dude?
What's going on, man?
Nothing.
Yeah, we were just talking to,
I really do think for some reason
this daylight savings kicked my ass.
Yeah.
I don't know why.
It's fucking ridiculous.
I've been doing it for 30 years,
but it's just like this one for some reason it got me
Bro I I was thinking about this. Mm-hmm. I
Think that the powers that be
intentionally
Make it dark during the winter
So that we're all depressed. Yeah, and we're less productive less sunlight
I am less way less motivated way less
productive
In the winter months and I am in the summer months and way less happy
Yeah, it's that seasonal depressive disorder. Whatever you I need a light bro. Lgb something. Yeah. Yeah
Oh
Bro did you see the comments on that short which one other on the we'll talk about tomorrow, okay Yeah, it was funny. No, but yeah, I mean, so I don't know maybe maybe so maybe that's what it is
Like it's getting us out of that. Ick, you know, yeah, I don't know dude
But I can tell you this I
Would like it to be sunny until nine o'clock at night.
Dude, that'd be nice.
I like that.
That's my favorite time of the year, dude.
When it doesn't get dark until like 9.15.
Yeah, bro.
That's the shit.
Yeah, I feel like days were longer
when I was a little kid, man.
You know, like, you know,
because we were out till the streetlights came on.
Yeah, what were you doing?
Shit, you know, stuff.
Yeah, stuff, stuff you can't talk about?
Stuff we can't talk about, you know. What was stuff stuff. You can't talk about stuff. We can't talk about you know
What was your what was your what did you like to put like what kind of games?
Did you guys play when you were kids? Oh?
So we had this one game where we would so like my where I grew up that it was an apartment on a hill
I'm being serious. I'm getting dead-ass serious
And so there was like no my apartment for family flat
There was an alley and then there was this elementary school next to me
called Gunlock, okay?
And so my friends, you know, because we was on a hill,
like we had retained like this massive retaining wall,
right, and then the elementary school was their recess yard,
which like dropped fucking 30 feet.
Yeah.
And so what we would do is we would like go up on our porch
and usually every day around like, you know,
after school, about an hour after after school we call it the crackhead
parade because your crackhead off the off the no they would like come by like
you throw it off a 30-foot drop no we just throw shit at him okay yeah that's
the game you play bro and who could hit it and then we would run because they
were fast they're all hopped up on grow I'm listen that's like 110 octane bro. You you're asking me about my childhood. I'm telling you what we did
We threw shit at crackheads man. They were in front of you guys didn't play any games man
Yeah, we didn't like that was it then we you know
We take our bikes and stuff that we would you know get ownership of and we put like
Battles in the back tire.
So basically everybody's bike was a community bike.
Yeah, it was a community bike.
Yeah, that's why we didn't care.
We didn't care, we didn't care.
That's a nice way to say it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you know, put little plastic bottles in the back tire,
you know, roll around like a little gang and stuff.
Oh yeah, make it sound like a motorcycle.
Yeah.
You know, my friend put it in his front tire once,
and then like.
That's kind of the same stuff we did, bro.
Yeah, it's the same stuff. We did it
We did the same thing ride our bikes build like a little ramps and shit
Yeah, you know and then we played a lot of baseball, but we would mattress flip
You ever like do acrobat shit on mattresses that were like, you know people threw out now and shit. No, yeah
Well
We play baseball regular kids
Do we probably played five million games
of fucking baseball in my backyard.
Like that's all we did.
Played baseball every fucking day
with tennis balls and a broomstick.
Yeah, there's a name for that.
Like there's a name for that.
Well, there's cork ball,
which is where it has like a little bitty cork ball.
It's like the size of a golf ball and then a wooden stick.
It's really hard to play.
OK, because I've seen it play with tennis balls and they burn them.
I never seen like a torch and stuff.
I don't know. It's weird. Yeah, it was awesome.
Yeah. But I mean, you know, like I said, bro, I mean, cultural differences.
Same, same. Yeah. Yeah.
All right. Well, let's make some.
I was trying not to make any jokes. I'm proud of you. They serious. Yeah, it's good day tomorrow's joke day
Mm-hmm. So let's let's get on with it holding them all in till tomorrow. Yeah, that's right
Yeah, guys, I got three goings for you man. Let's let's knock these out
guys, Andy question number one Andy
whenever I'm stressed I
number one. Andy, whenever I'm stressed, I numb myself with distractions, strolling through my phone, porn, or drinking. I'm fully aware that these
things don't actually help, but they're my default. I want to learn healthier ways
to handle stress, but I don't know where to start. How do I stop turning to quick
fixes and start dealing with stress in a productive way?
Okay, well first of all
This is a really good question because a lot of people struggle with this and I think if you put it in different terms
It's very easy to make the adjustment that you're looking for and the terms
That I would put it in is that you have to realize
that you are losing the game of life to a fucking screen okay you are losing the
game of life to a screen you are losing the game of life to women who have no
idea who you are and don't give two shits about you. You are losing the game of life to an inanimate object of alcohol.
All right.
What this means is, is that you have to develop discipline.
You have to develop the ability to recognize when it is you fall into this trap and how
to get out of it.
So the answer here is twofold. One, it's awareness.
If you don't know that you're falling into these things, they can capture you and you
could get sucked into the vortex for half the day. And that happens. But since you're
asking the question, I would say you're already aware that it's a problem. Okay. So you've already conquered that. That's a great thing.
The next part is, is the part of action where you,
the first time that you think of it, the first time that it arises,
the first time you're like, Oh shit, I'm scrolling or I'm letting it distract me.
You need to get up and go do something that is productive towards your goals.
And the reality here guys
is that the reason this happens so frequently to people is because they don't have a clear
cut plan for their day. All right. They set a goal and they say one, three, five year
goal and they don't actually break that down into critical tasks
that you need to execute on for that day. And so if you have a plan and you have five
critical tasks, like we talk about in the power list, which you can get for free, it
is the ultimate productivity method. It's the only method that I know of. And by the
way, it's free that will guarantee you that you get where you want to go in life
guaranteed, okay
If you execute it, so if you bring it back to a day by day by day plan
Now you know what you have to do
And if you haven't done the things that you have to do you shouldn't be scrolling you shouldn't be scrolling, you shouldn't be drinking, and you shouldn't be looking at porn, okay? I'm not here to judge any of those things. I'm
just saying you want to get here, you've got to eliminate these distractions because you're
competing against people who have already figured that out and are giving all of their
effort to this. So you have to understand, you're already behind because you're doing
these things and you're competing against people who have already solved this problem
And got it under control. So
Be aware
Understand how to recognize when this happens work on your discipline work to develop
Your ability to make the right decision when you know the decision needs to be made and it's not the thing that you want to do
And you can use 75 hard to do it. Everybody that uses 75 hard and does
it the right way. They understand what I'm talking about. This will fix that problem
for you and then know what you have to do for the day. And if you know what you have
to do and you execute on all five tasks, then scroll on your fucking phone. Okay? Like just understand
it's okay to do some of the things you don't have to work 40 hours out of 24, man. It's
okay to do things that are a waste of time that you enjoy after the things that are critical
to getting you where you want to go are checked off the list
And so this is how you solve a problem like that
Ultimately, dude, it should piss you off that you're losing the game of life to literal inanimate objects like that's
like to me
That's where my mindset changed. All right when I was 350 pounds and I realized that I was losing
the quality of my life to literally food and beer and all I had to do was to not do something
to change my whole life, which was mean not to reach out and put that shit in my mouth.
Okay?
And that thought process, like I can handle losing sometimes to somebody who's really good and really works hard.
I respect that.
But I can't respect myself when I know I'm losing the game of life to things that have no literal power at all.
And I'm giving them all my power.
So, I don't know
if you're wired like me but that pisses me off and that makes me want to you
know get in control of my game and then you have to understand too guys that
discipline is a perishable skill if you don't practice it regularly it goes away
there's not one thing you're gonna do that's gonna develop discipline and then
it's just gonna stick for your whole life okay if you don't practice it it goes away when
you practice it it gets stronger it's no different than training for an event or
training to play an instrument or training your body you're training your
mind and you know the more you train it the stronger it gets and if you cease to
train it it gets weak and that'll go on your whole life. Let's
talk a little bit about stress right because he's mentioned in that like he
does these things when he feels stressed. How do you look at stress? How should
people look at stress? Like what's the thing about stress
nobody really wants to talk about? That they're not actually stressed most people are stressed because they have anxiety
About things that they know they should do that they lack the ability to do and it drives them crazy and then causes stress
So when we think about like how stress affects us
It's a very negative thing
But the reality is is you're far less stressed
when you're executing on the things
that you know you need to do,
than you are when you're not doing those things.
And there's basically like a paradoxical type
of thought process here.
Because people think that when you're stressed,
you need to take a break.
And then by taking the break,
it pulls you further from the things
that you know you need to be doing,
which creates anxiety and creates more stress
So it becomes a cycle that you can't break out of unless you actually go do the things
You know, you're supposed to do so that's what stress is really about for most people and I understand there is stressful
Situations there's things like you lose your job or you go through a breakup, but those are temporary things
Those are things that happen to everybody.
And that's called fucking life, man. And so life's not going to be easy.
And also I will say that the expectation of being stress free
amplifies people's stress level. Okay.
So when you start to expect that you should be able to go out
and achieve something and then feel no stress, the minute you feel stress, you get this amplification
that happens. Cause it's like the expectation is that I'm going, I should feel good. I should
feel not stressed. I should feel easy. And this should be, and I should be able to do this and not feel these things and
Then the minute you start feeling it you're like, oh shit, dude. I'm so stressed
Yes, so do we end up in this in this cycle and the cycle can only be broken by having the proper
Expectations. Okay life is fucking hard building something is hard becoming something is hard creating
something is hard.
These are all hard things and having the expectation that's going to be easy only makes it that
much harder because every time the expectation is broken, you freak the fuck out.
All right, so we have to understand that there's going to be stress either way, dude.
If you're going to go down the path of working hard building something creating something becoming something
It's gonna be fucking stressful and it's also going to be stressful
Sitting at home not being able to pay your bills or know how you could fill your car with gas
Okay, so there is no path to anywhere in life that doesn't come with stress and anxiety and the
expectation that's created by all of these, you know, internet wizards who know everything
about everything, but you know, magically haven't done anything. They try to tell you
that you're supposed to go through life feeling peaceful and calm and all this shit. Well,
dude, I'd be real. I don't know
anybody that's built anything relevant to what you guys want to do with your lives that
has built, uh, you know, anything that, you know, we would, any of us would say, Oh man,
that's fucking amazing. That walks through life, you know, like Buddha stress for you.
Broke cause stress drives you to action. All right, most people don't do their best work until they have to do their best work.
They don't execute properly or at the highest level until their back is against the wall
and stress is bearing down on them and then they have no other opportunity or choice but
to act.
Okay, and this is what I call zero options mentality.
When you are a young person and you are not young in the game of entrepreneurship
You could be 50 and you start out trying to build these things
You don't have an option right now
Okay
so you have to go out and you have to survive and then as you become more successful and
As you start to make money and as life gets a little comfortable
And as you start to make money and as life gets a little comfortable
You have to trick your mind into believing that there is no other option But to execute you have to and that could come from a lot of different places
That could come from putting extra pressure on yourself so that you do feel like your backs against the wall that could come from
Taking the focus on self. I want to make all this money to the team.
I want my team to be successful. I'm responsible for their families.
I'm responsible for their kids' schooling. I'm responsible for what they eat.
I'm responsible for what they live. And as you, as the owner of the operator,
when you take all that pressure and put it on you,
you think it makes you more stressed? Absolutely.
But do you think you produce better results?
Absolutely.
So stress is not necessarily a bad thing.
It's just how you leverage it in the proper way
and then understanding you're gonna have it
no matter what you do in life.
I love it, man.
I love it.
Let's roll to question number two.
Andy, I've always been the nice one,
the person who avoids conflict and goes along
with whatever makes other people happy.
But lately, I've realized that I let people walk
all over me, both at work and in my personal life.
I struggle to speak up for myself,
and when I do, I feel guilty afterwards.
How can I start setting boundaries
and being more assertive without feeling like I'm being selfish?
Yeah, like a true type B personality here. Uh, I don't know what the type would be
But I think we all deal with this at some point in time, you know
You have to be like a sociopath to not care about how other people react to the way that you react to them so I could understand how someone who is
naturally passive and easygoing
Can feel awkward about setting boundaries because I think we all struggle with that in certain areas of our life. So
Here's the reality dude
You are responsible for you and you are responsible for your actions and you have a right to set boundaries
to where people cannot walk all over you take advantage of you and
when they try to make you feel guilty for setting those boundaries you have to realize that that is a
Red flag for their character that's saying these people are trying to manipulate me
They're trying to get me to do something that I don't want to do and doesn't feel good to me for their benefit. And so when you start to set boundaries
around things, really what happens is, is it kind of shows you who's who in your life.
And a lot of people, you know, they never set boundaries and they do end up getting
walked all over their whole life. And I could tell you people that get walked all over their
whole life, they can't make any money, they can't get successful,
they don't have respect from their peers because they don't respect themselves. So you have
to understand that when you set a boundary, it's not wrong. You should, everybody should
have healthy boundaries. Everybody else has boundaries. And one thing you should realize
is all these
people that you're afraid of hurting with your boundaries, they don't give a fuck about
taking advantage of you because you don't have any, do they? So you should think about
that. If these people were really good people, they wouldn't press you the way they press
you. They wouldn't step on you, but they're not. Okay. Most people have a human nature of how much can I get until they
hit that wall of a boundary and that's where the respect starts. So if you want respect
and you want to be treated properly, you have to stand up for what you believe when you
believe it. And, uh, you could do that in a very polite way. You know, this isn't mean.
Like you said, you know, I want to be nice. All right, bro,
but you got to be nice to yourself. All right. And being nice to yourself starts with not
letting other people step all over you because you're an easy going person. Don't let your
easy going natural personality get in the way of having healthy boundaries because if
you do, nobody's going to respect respect you so we have to understand dude
Saying no is a skill and a lot of times saying no
You could say it a nice way, but like if they're
Pissed off or if they have a problem or they get weird fuck them who cares you got to take care of yourself first, bro
You could drive yourself crazy. They supposed to be there anyway then I
That's what I think.
I think there's natural respect.
I think the best quality human beings
can sense other people's boundaries
without them having to be set.
And I think when really good people
are starting to encroach on a boundary
and they feel it, they will say something like,
hey dude, look, I know this is a little bit extra,
but can we do this or can I know this is a little bit extra, but can we
do this or can I do this or can I don't, they'll, they'll tread lightly because they care about
your boundaries and usually they're reflective of their own boundaries. So like if I'm going
to ask somebody something that I know they're going to be a little uncomfortable with, I'm
going to acknowledge that upfront. I'm going to acknowledge that up front. I'm gonna say hey man
Look, I'm not trying to make it weird, but
Bum bum bum right right and and if they say no you say okay cool totally got it, dude
I respect that but that's the way adults communicate
And you need to learn that or you will continue to get stomped on your whole life
And if you do you're gonna be at the end of the totem pole or the bottom of the total pole everywhere you go.
Now, I think a lot of times too,
a lot of people kind of build these monsters
up in their head of like what these situations
are gonna be like, right?
Now, like for this person, you know,
I don't know how old he is, he didn't say,
but let's say like this has been him his entire life
and he's just now having to start setting these boundaries.
Can we clear the monsters?
I mean what would you say the percentage of people that are gonna respect him setting these new boundaries for the first time ever?
What what's it actually gonna be versus what he might be thinking in his head?
I have 99% of people are gonna respect it and there there's gonna be 1% of people that are like what the fuck dude
I thought we were blah blah blah. Those people aren't your friends. Okay, and then here's the other thing
You got to understand dude if you do not
Set those boundaries
What ends up happening is is you end up bitter because you look at the world as the world is abusing you
You look at the world as the world is taking advantage of you
You look at the world as if they're they hate you and it causes you to get super pissed and the reason
That you're super pissed and you feel this way isn't the world
It's because you're not naturally standing where you should be standing on your limits
Right nobody don't give a shit about you like you give a shit about you
Well, you know, unfortunately there is a lot of people who are very selfless
Yeah
there's a lot of people who are so selfless and so good
that they allow themselves to be taken advantage of
because they think they're not trying to rock the boat.
And they're like, well, so and so struggling with this.
They make an excuse for everybody.
And dude, I'll be real, dude.
I used to struggle with this big time.
And you got a big heart, dude.
Yeah, bro, I care about people.
And dude, I've learned at this point in my life And you got a big heart. Yeah, bro. I care about people, you know, and and dude like
I've learned at this point in my time in my life that like almost everybody
Almost everybody I'm around now is
Respectful, but it wasn't always that way dude. I learned that by getting taken advantage of
For years and years and years and
years and dude saying no is a skill that is necessary for you to be a leader, for you
to be great at anything you do, for you to be respected and most importantly for you
to respect yourself. Okay. If you go home every day and you look in the mirror and you're
like, fuck dude, I let all these people step all over. What, day and you look in the mirror and you're like fuck dude I let all these people step all over what how can you look in the mirror respect that dude?
You can't it's impossible. So we have to understand that
Respect for self comes first and respect for self comes from developing discipline doing the right thing
Executing on what we need to execute when we don't feel like executing on it,
and then having boundaries and saying no to things that you don't want to do.
And your life gets a lot easier when you get comfortable doing that.
Yeah, that's real, man. I love it.
Well, guys, let's get our third and final question in here.
We got question number three.
My question for you, Andy, is about business mentors.
How do you locate a mentor?
For background, I am 25.
I run a small, fast growing business
in the auto parts industry.
I'm about five years in business.
I've started to get this feeling of no man's land.
I don't necessarily have a business mentor. The closest thing
for me is continually listening to your podcast and using the tips and advice to provoke my
own thoughts and relate that to where I am day, week, period of time in business. Is
there a point in business where you feel it's crucial to have a mentor or is it not necessary?
Interested in your thoughts on this?
The easiest way to get where you wanna go,
the fastest way to get where you wanna go
is to talk to someone who's already been there.
All right, if you're trying to forge a path
to this destination that you've never been to,
it's like trying to cut the path
through the forest with an axe.
It takes a long time, it's really fucking hard, it's like trying to cut the path through the forest with an ax. It takes a long time.
It's really fucking hard. It's really exhausting. But if you could find the guy who's already
been there, that guy's going to say, Hey, no, no, no. Here's the path, bro. And he's
already cut all the trees on the way there and he knows the path. So having someone who's
been where you want to be is invaluable.
It's very,
very important that you find someone to follow even if it's passively following
them. Meaning like you're watching from a distance.
That's what it was like for me. Okay. We didn't have social media.
We didn't have the ability to, you know,
learn from people who have actually built businesses.
I had to find people and sort of watch them and analyze them from afar.
And I'm glad it was that way because what it did was it taught me how to think.
I would look at someone, I'd say, I wonder why they're doing this.
I wonder why are they doing that?
How is this affecting that?
Did they make the right to sit?
What if they would have thought that?
So it created this analytical business habit of thinking through all the
options, which I think today is probably my best skill.
I wouldn't have learned that as effectively as I did if I had someone
telling me exactly what to do. So you
could have one just like you listen to me and there's other people out there
who have done what you want to do I'm sure on social media they probably done
exactly what you want to do. I would pay attention to what they do, how they do it,
try to figure out why they do it on your own. Then I would go out and I would make an investment in your own
education. Now people go out and they spend hundreds of thousands of
dollars to get a education quote unquote from major
universities that are taught by motherfuckers that have never done the thing
they are teaching. And that's very much so how the internet is today too.
We have thousands of people out there teaching
skills about how to do things that they've never done.
Okay. And in a university, it's the same. It's the same shit. All right.
So it's nothing new for someone who's never done something to resort to
teaching and then taking the money for teaching versus making a business that actually works.
So a lot of these internet quote unquote business gurus are full of shit and you shouldn't listen to
them. The ones you should listen to are people who have built actual things, who sell actual
products, who have been doing it for a long time, who have hundreds actual things, who sell actual products, who have been
doing it for a long time, who have hundreds of thousands if not millions of
customers, who have employees, who have built actual businesses, who understand
how to market because they've built big brands marketing. All of these things can
be vetted out by paying attention.
Is this person making all their money selling coaching or is this person coaching because
they've been successful in other businesses?
One of them will make an amazing mentor to you.
The other one will be a waste of your fucking time.
Okay.
So ask yourself qualifying questions, figure out who you need to you know talk to and and resonate with and learn from
Who's actually done the thing or something very close to what you have done, right?
Maybe they didn't run. What do you say auto parts? Yeah auto parts
Maybe they didn't run auto parts, but maybe they ran a different kind of business
That sold widgets and then they vertically
integrated all the widgets and then you can look at that model and say, well, this will
work over here.
All right.
So business doing business and talking about business is two different things.
The internet is totally infested with frauds who charge money for things they don't know
and you can't find their companies. you ever notice that when you see these guys
And they talk about all these businesses
You you can't ever see them. They're never there. They're never they're never at their headquarters
They're never they never show their actual businesses. That's a red flag, bro. You follow me. I'm in here every day, dude
I'm showing you all the shit. I got going on, you know
so I'm here every day dude. I'm showing you all the shit. I got going on, you know so
You just got to be smarter than these fucking predators dude, and there's a lot of them on the internet
Let me ask you this just about you know, cuz I mean you've been in business 26 years
Well, hold on the the point I'm trying to make here is there's two ways you can fucking learn from it
You can learn from observation or you can actually get hooked in by making an investment in your education.
And the answer is you should do both.
Yeah.
Now let me ask you,
because you have been in business for 26 years,
and I guess my question is more about like the evolution
of business transparency, we'll call it, right?
Has it always been this way where you have, you know,
these owner operators, these CEOs that are so willing to show the deal, right? Like, was it always been this way where you have these owner operators, these CEOs that are
so willing to show the deal, right?
Was it always like that?
Because I mean, I don't know.
You've been in business.
What do you mean, always like that?
Were business owners always so eager to share the past?
Business owners usually aren't eager to share because they're busy running their businesses.
Okay? Eager to share yeah, because they're busy running their businesses. Okay
I'm probably one of fucking five people on the internet that actually operate real businesses. Yeah real talk. Yeah. All right
Now I understand, you know, there's ways to get started right I'm not
knocking the kids that are going out there and, and trying things and then failing and, you know, learning the pro learning, how to do e-comm and all these are valuable skills and you can do these things.
But what I am knocking is the 19 year old motherfucker that,
that thinks he knows everything about business teaching 17 year olds to do it,
or the guy who doesn't actually have a, uh, uh, an actual business,
but he's got a big flashy lifestyle and he's like, Hey, let me fucking you pay me and I'll I'll make you
A millionaire like dude, that's bullshit. Okay, so
I
Don't think
that
It's ever been in my
26 years
It's just different bro
Like I had to read books about people and that's what I would recommend that you guys do
Like I read books about Sam Walton about Warren Buffett about
Phil Knight, you know all these different guys who were I mean dude, I'm and I'm talking dozens and dozens of them
Yeah, all these entrepreneurs and by the way weren't or um
Sam Walton's fucking you guys should all study Sam Walton that dude that dude was a true business
Innovator he was obsessive about being better
everything that that guy did is really the the substance that creates massive success and I
Learned a lot from him. It was actually the first book I ever read
It was like it was called the American Way or Walton's way or some shit. It was a, it was a great book and I read it
when I was a kid. I've read it many times since, but you can read dude about all these
guys and there's tremendous, dude, I've read a lot about Trump, you know, like people said,
Oh, Trump got a million doc bro compared to what Trump built a million dollars is like if someone would have gave me a thousand dollars, right?
It's
There's just a lot you can learn from from from the information that's out there dude
And I wouldn't rely on AI I wouldn't a lot of the shit on AI is not even accurate, dude
You guys don't understand that like it's it's given information that isn't true
And then you guys listen to it's it's given information that isn't true and then you
guys listen to it and it's not there. I mean it's good for some things but I can
identify things that you ask it that are highly inaccurate because I'm an expert
in that field. So we got to be discerning about where we take the information and
there's plenty of information to either find a mentor or create one in your mind
who is sort of like somebody that you look up to that you try to learn from There's plenty of information to either find a mentor or create one in your mind
who is sort of like somebody that you look up to, that you try to learn from,
that you try to emulate. And, uh, you know, I would do all of those things.
I would read books, obviously. Okay. It's part of the live hard program.
Every fucking day you should be reading something that is going to be geared
towards pushing you down the road further.
I'm not talking about 50 shades of fucking bullshit. I'm talking about, I'm talking about
stuff that you're going to learn things from. Right? You should be reading 10 pages a day.
That keeps the mind stimulated. It keeps you creative. It keeps you focused on where you're
going. I would find people who are doing things and then I would like stalk the
fuck out of them. Not like literally like I wouldn't show up their house. Legally.
Yes. I would read everything you can read. I would learn everything you can
learn. I will watch every move they make and I would try to dissect why they're
making said moves. All right. You can this is valuable because it teaches you
how to think. If if you're watching someone and
They're making moves and you don't understand it. You should be like, why are they doing that?
How did they do that? Because you know that the interest of them making that decision
Is in their best interest in their mind. So what are they thinking?
Why would they do that?
right that can teach you more than anything in my opinion, because it teaches you how to solve
problems and it also teaches you how to steal good ideas from your competition before they
ever hit the market.
There's a lot of companies that would be smaller than you that make really good decisions,
but when you're a bigger company, you have much more audience.
You can look at that and say, well, that's a great idea.
And then when you do it, it's going to seem like you did it first. And that's
something that is very, that's a whole nother topic because bigger companies do it to bigger
companies all the time. So, um, there's a catch 22 there. Like you could do it to some
people, but they're going to do it to you too. Right. Um, but you know, analyzing like
we're talking about, and then also then also you know spending your money on
Fucking learning more, you know, a lot of people are unwilling to make simple investments in their future like bro
If you're you know, a lot of these programs are a hundred, you know, 200 300 bucks a month and you say oh my god
I can't afford that well, that's two nights out a month the fuck you talking about you're not willing to stay home for two nights or three nights a month and you say, Oh my God, I can't afford that. Well, that's two nights out a month.
The fuck you talking about? You're not willing to stay home for two nights or three nights
a month and learn how to get better so that you don't have to worry about going out to
eat and looking at the menu or worrying about putting gas in your car. Like, bro, you have
to make those investments and you have to equate them to what you're actually giving
up. Like, bro, you're actually giving up like rope
What are you giving up for a hundred bucks a month one night out? Maybe?
What do you two pizza deliveries versus what do you stand to make that's what I'm saying, bro Like and there's lots of little programs that you can get into
That can help you know, that's what our day is we we deal with
You know small medium and large business
We we deal with
You know small medium and large business
Owners who you know they pay a monthly fee and we get in there and we teach them how to do things and then they Connect in the community so like
You know I would be open to that
I think that's a good thing if you're learning from the right people and if you're learning from the wrong people it can be
A very bad thing. Yeah, I love it man. Well guys. I was three. All right guys. Let's go out kick some ass. We'll see you tomorrow
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