REAL AF with Andy Frisella - CLIMB THE PYRAMID: The Plan for Powering Through to the Top, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO257

Episode Date: August 23, 2018

What's the #1 key to success? People want to act like it's mysterious. Gurus who don't know sh!t want to complicate it & make the answer sexier than it really is. The fact is, the secret is simple: DON'T QUIT. The people who succeed in life...the people who advance up the pyramid of success..are people of endurance. They are patient, power through pain after pain, & adjust & adapt & improve themselves...until they reach the top.

I can stack them hundreds to the roof. I ain't stopping till they stack to the moon. Without me, my family wouldn't have food. Anybody go against me, gotta lose. What is up, guys? You're listening to the MFCEO Project. I'm Andy. I'm your host, and I am the motherfucking CEO. All right, today is Thursday Thunder, and I've got something very important to talk to you about, like I always do on Thursdays. But before I do that, remember that we have an iTunes reviews contest going, all right? Screenshot and email your reviews to contact at andyforsella.com with the subject line

review contest after you go make the review. Whatcom with the subject line review contest after you go make the review. What's the prize for the review contest? The prize is coming out to St. Louis, Missouri, staying at the Four Seasons, going to a five-star dinner, hanging out with me

so we can help you kick ass at whatever it is that you're doing. And we're going to do that in the next two weeks. Not the actual trip, but we're going to pick the winner. All right. So if this is your first time listening to the MFCEO project, what is a motherfucking CEO? And you may be thinking, well, I don't know. Well, the answer is this. The answer is we are all motherfucking CEOs. We are people here who take command, who take control, who make decisions that are conscious and deliberate about our lives. We work to make ourselves and the people around us better through our actions. We are not people who get our lives dictated to us. We are not people who take whatever anyone else will give us. We go out and take what the fuck we want. That's what an MFCEO

is. And that's also why we have been ranked in the top 10 business category for nearly three years straight because we talk about the real shit. We don't talk about ideal things. We talk about real things. Okay. And most people spend all their time talking about the way things should be and the way things aren't and why they can't get ahead. And they take actions that are based upon this fucking world that doesn't even exist called idealist unicorn land. And that's how they operate. While real people like us, we actually recognize the way the world is and we take appropriate actions to succeed in the real world. And then by the way, if we want to fix things, we use our success in the real world to make the real world more ideal. You should probably go replay that again

because that's what this world is missing. Now, what I want to talk to you guys about today is something that has been on my mind and I've covered this in the past before, but it is, it is, is really on my mind a lot lately because I've got a lot of, um, DMs and emails and, and, and I guys, I read, uh, a lot, all the emails you send in on Andy for sell. I read, um, sometimes I don't check my DMS, uh, and I read them, but I won't respond cause I don't get fucking time to do it. And that's just the truth. But something that I see consistently across the board is the idea that there is no place for you in whatever it is that you're in, okay? Whether you're starting a new business and you think, well, there's already X amount of this out there. I can't do this

because of them. Or you're in a company because really, dude, there's only two ways to be successful. Let's be real. One, start your own fucking business. We're talking about financially successful. Maybe three, okay? Be born rich. Two, which none of us are. Two, go start a business. Or three, become such a valuable part of the company that you work for that you're rewarded financially very well. All right? And a lot of you guys are in that third category and that's okay because what we're going to talk about right here is applicable, just like everything we talk about, is applicable to both two and three categories. People who want to start their business and people who want to become a highly valued asset to the company they work for.

Now, I've seen this a lot. And I see it with both groups. I see people thinking that there is no room for them. They might be working in a company and they might be sweeping the floor and they look ahead and they say oh man There's so many great people in this company. There's no way there's going to be room for me to build a valuable career And so what do they do? They they do the job half-ass. They don't take pride in what they do. They don't work to become a valuable asset of the company because they don't believe it's going to pay off. And what happens is their thoughts become a self-fulfilling prophecy. They think it's not going to work,

so they don't work. And then the plan that they have doesn't work, all right? And we see this all the time. But I'm here to tell you something. I want to explain to you the idea of how this plays out conceptually so that maybe you can have a little more belief in yourself than what you have at this current moment. I want you to imagine a pyramid, okay? And at the base of the pyramid, the widest part, that is year number one all right and for

you guys that are working in the company sweeping the floor or for you guys starting a business it doesn't matter this is year one and in year one there is tons of people who are trying to start a business or who also doing the same job you're doing in your business you You're coming in, you're the lowest common denominator. All right. The competition is immense because the barrier to entry at this level is fucking zero. All right. So then I want you to think about the next level of the pyramid. All right. And this pyramid, this level is people who stick with that job or whatever it is, their company or their idea or their mission or their whatever for five years. All right. Now, obviously the second section of the pyramid is not as big as the base of the pyramid. And what this represents is the people

who quit in the first four years. All right. And so now you're competing with less people for the same thing. Okay. And by the way, you've learned five years of skills that are going to help you be more effective. All right. And so then let's look at the next section of the pyramid. The next section of the pyramid is way smaller than the second section of the period and only a quarter the size of the first section. And the third section of the pyramid is people who stayed there for seven years. And what happened? Half of the people from the second section now quit, which means you're competing with less and less people. All right.

And ignore the years. This could be one, three, four. It could be, you know, one, two, three years. It doesn't matter. The point that's being conveyed here is that as you stick with something, the competition becomes less and less because other people quit. All right. And this is why most people spend their entire lives going from job to job to job to job or an entrepreneurship idea to idea to idea to idea. Because they are part of the group, the mass, the majority that quits at the base.

So they can never get anywhere because they don't put in the time and they don't learn the skills that would allow them to succeed at whatever it is. So what are we really talking about here? We're talking about fucking endurance. We're talking about being able to put up with more pain than the next guy. We're talking about being able to be more patient than the next person. We're talking about being able to learn more skills on a daily basis and take more pride in your job on a daily basis than your coworkers. We're talking about people who will not fucking quit. And I get asked this all the time when I do interviews for other podcasts what's the biggest secret to success don't fucking quit

that's it and I know that sounds overly simple and I know that doesn't sound like oh I can make a fucking million dollars in one fucking day and I know that doesn't sound like buy my course and you'll be rich in three months because all of that shit is bullshit. The only fucking truth that you need to know about being successful is that you need to have fucking endurance. You need to have grit. You need to have the stick-to-itiveness to persevere past the point that your competition will. And your competition could be other companies. It could be your coworkers. But you are in a competition whether you want to recognize it or not. You have to understand that as you go further, your competition gets less and you become more skilled. So it becomes easier to defeat your competition the longer you're in the game. And a lot of you guys, I love millennials, man.

My whole company's made of them. But a lot of you guys just don't understand the concept of being patient. You don't understand the concept of that it's going to take years for you to build a successful career. Years. And the reason that you don't understand that, and it's not your fault, by the way, the people who created the technology that you were born and bred and grew up in created a world for you that was fast, that was easy, that was quick, that was instant. It involves things like getting your food quick, calling a fucking Uber and they're there in two seconds, texting, emailing, social media, seeing your friends everywhere. Everything is fast and

fucking easy now. And for that reason, you didn't grow up with the understanding that some things, regardless of technology, are going to take you years. And being successful financially is one of them. It's going to take years. It's not going to take one year. It's not going to take two years. It's not going to take three years. It's going to take a fucking decade or more. And that's the truth. That's the shit nobody wants to tell you. Because if I were to tell you that, hey man, why don't you buy my program and you could fucking be successful in 10 years? What are you going to say? You're going to say fuck off. Because most of the people aren't willing to stick with shit for 10 fucking years. But that's the truth. That's why success is so rare. That's why people

who have success will tell you all the same shit I'm telling you right now. You got to have grit. You got to have endurance. You got to understand that it's going to take time. And while that time is passing, you've got to be aggressive. We talk about it all the time. Aggressive patience. You got to learn as much as you can while you're doing it. You've got to hustle as hard as you can on a daily basis. You've got to fucking practice your skill on a daily basis to the point where you're better than everybody else. That's the key to success.

Your competition is going to get less and less the longer you go. Your advantage is going to get bigger and bigger over everybody else. And let me tell you something, when you've been doing something for 10 years and you know the ins and outs and you have real skill, you're fucking valuable anywhere you go, anywhere you go, not just in that company you work at now. So a lot of people will say to themselves, well, I'm not going to do that because my company doesn't believe in me. My company doesn't believe in me My company doesn't Grow the way I want, you know what?

It doesn't matter if your companies grow the way you want it to grow or have a position for you or this or that Because the skill that you're going to learn by doing what i'm talking about over the course of a fucking decade is going to be Valuable anywhere you fucking take it And that's it.