REAL AF with Andy Frisella - How to Make The Clock Your B*tch (Time Mastery), with Andy Frisella - MFCEO145

Episode Date: May 16, 2017

How do you suck the marrow from every 24-hour period you live and work on this Earth? Is there a difference between working hard throughout the day and making the day work hard for you? In this episode of The MFCEO Project, Andy Frisella shares his tips and tricks for moving beyond time management to time mastery. Other people may have more brains, talent, or money. But everyone has the same amount of time in their day. To be successful, we have to learn how to make that time count.

What is up guys you're listening to the MFCEO project I'm Andy I'm your host and I am the motherfucking CEO guys this is a project the reason we call it a project is because we have a mission our mission here is to help people understand how to be successful. Okay. It doesn't matter if you're an actual entrepreneur, if you work within a company, if you cut grass, if you work construction, if you own a fortune 500 business, it doesn't matter if you're trying to get yourself in shape. We talk about a lot of different things here. All of the principles of success. Everything is practical. It's not just how to manage your cash flow, which is what we talked about last week.

It could be how to think a certain way or how to get yourself in a certain mindset. All of these things can help you in all of these situations. And we might be organized under the iTunes category of entrepreneurship or marketing or whatever the fuck they have us as now. But I'd like to tell everybody what our purpose is here. And our main purpose guys is to try to correct the societal errors that our society has fucking made for the last 20 years with people. Okay. Things like everybody's special. Things like everybody wins.

Things like everybody gets to be successful. And you don't have to fucking do anything for it. You know, all the bullshit that we all get tired of hearing about. So guys, is this podcast for everybody? Absolutely not. Is this podcast for people that are ruthless and hardcore and committed to trying to figure out how to be successful? Yes.

So guys, we don't charge anything. And I'm going to ask this up front. If you find value in what we do, if you find that you learned something or you enjoyed it or you're entertained, please bring us a friend. Let us know. Let people know about us.

We do all organic growth. We don't advertise this. And we've been able to maintain a top 10 ranking on podcasts, which is amazing, which is you guys basically spreading the word. So if you can continue to do that, if we continue to provide value, I would really appreciate that. As always, I'm here with my co-host, Vaughn the Impaler, the pastor of disaster. What's up, my man? What's up is that I polled the audience and asked them what random questions they'd like me to ask you. Yeah. I got a couple I think you'd like to answer.

So the first one is, what's your favorite non-full automatic rifle, striker or hammer-fired pistols? Wait, what? A guy's asking, what's your favorite non-full automatic rifle? Oh, a SCAR-17. SCAR-17?

Yeah, that's what I always shoot. I'm a believer that you shoot what you shoot best and I shoot that rifle really well. So, uh, I always like to shoot that rifle. Nice. Um, uh, as far as pistols go, uh, the HK VP nine is by far the best pistol that I've ever shot out of the box. Uh, Glock 19 is always a good go-to.

So how do you describe to non-firearm people why that pistol is so good? Because I can hit targets with it. You know what I'm saying? Everybody likes to argue about what this does and how this feels and this and that. At the end of the day, the job is to put bullets on a fucking target effectively, and that's what you do. So people can argue and say, oh, the trigger feels better with this, or the grip feels better with this. I shoot that gun well, and that's it. So that's why I like it.

Yeah. One question, and I'd be interested in knowing this. Actually, a lot of people have asked me this. If you didn't live in Missouri, where would you want to live? Or where would you want to travel and stay for any length of time? Man, you know what? There's a lot of places I really like. I really like Colorado.

I think Colorado suits me well. I like that a lot. I like the Gulfulf shore of florida uh we spent a lot of time between destin and pensacola growing up 30a huh 30a 30a yeah it's the highway yeah yeah dude the i love it down there like yeah awesome the sand is perfect it's white soft there's it's a little touristy and all that but you know i like that I like the Outer Banks, which is in the Carolinas. It's very beach town-ish. It's not, you know, it's like you walk around, you flip flops in your shorts and ride around

in a golf cart all day and enjoy the beach town. Right. I like all those areas. I think I would, I've never been, but I think I would like Wyoming and Montana. You told Ian you could live in tennessee yeah for sure i could live in nashville smoky mountains yeah i love nashville yeah um we went on my bachelor party in nashville i love nashville um dude and honestly this is i couldn't live there because of certain laws they have like the gun laws and the taxes right

but i actually do uh after spending significant amount of time out in california i do like uh like the hollywood hills area of california but i definitely don't think i could live there like all the time right it'd be a cool it's a cool place to visit for one or two weeks and then get the fuck out yeah but uh but i you know i never thought i would enjoy that area uh of the country at all. And I really do. But I just, I wouldn't want to live there all the time. Yeah.

I think if I had to pick another place to live, I mean, I like living here. You know, people don't understand it. But, you know, I don't think I would change my primary place of, you know, you have to visit here to understand why it's so nice. Yeah. You know what I mean? So everybody's like, oh, understand why it's so nice. Everybody's like, Missouri, there's nothing there. No, there's a lot here. There's values here. There's good people here.

There's a lot of shit that you don't find in other places. I'm naturally drawn to mountain type stuff. You've been to Fort Collins? Yeah, I love Fort Collins. I almost went to school there, actually. Very cool. At Colorado State. Oh, that's right, because didn't you get a scholarship offer?

Yeah. Man, how your life would have been different. Yeah, no shit. Crazy. But yeah, I like all those places. There's a lot of places I haven't been, but those are all places I've been that I like. I like visiting New York. I wouldn't want to live there.

I like it for like visiting New York. I wouldn't want to live there. Um, I like it for like two or three days. Uh, but, um, you know, get your grub on and get out. Yeah, exactly. Like, it's cool. You know, I like, you know what I like about New York dude is that there's always, it's, you can walk out anytime a day or night and it feels like there's tons of energy. Yeah. I like that.

There's more Italians in New York than LA, I'm sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So more of your people. Yeah, they are. Yeah. of energy yeah i like that there's more italians in new york than la i'm sure yeah yeah yeah so more of your people yeah they are yeah i'm definitely i think if people had to look at me i'm more of an east coast guy than a west coast guy but uh but yeah california is cool too it's just not it wouldn't be my primary thing so so what are we talking about today

today i thought we would talk about time management. I spoke on Saturday at the 2017 Physique Summit, which is a huge fitness industry event with some of the best trainers and diet coaches that present. And they had me speak, and one of the questions I got during the day that kind of got me thinking was how do you how do you manage your time and I answered it in a specific way but it got me the point of me explaining this is that it got me thinking about you know how normal people think about time and what they think and I think think that, you know, there's so many different ways to comprehend or organize or think about how you spend your time that it almost like confuses people. And I feel like people fall into the same old, you know, what their neighbors do

or what their peers do or what they're told they're supposed to do when it comes to managing time. When in reality, there is a lot of different ways to do that. You know, and at the end of the day, man, it's a huge asset to learn how to do this. You know, some people have, you know, more brains than other people. Some people have more talents than other people. Some people have more money than other people. But the one thing that we all have an equal amount of, and it doesn't matter if you're rich or poor or where you came from, black, white, yellow, red. Uh, if you grew up in a, in a trailer,

if you grew up in fucking Buckingham palace, it doesn't fucking matter. We all have the same amount of time. We have 60 minutes an hour, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year. And that's what we get. And you know, people, people come to me and they say, Oh, you know, Andy, you're the CEO of a bunch of different companies. You host a podcast, you're developing a personal brand, you do all this speaking, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. How the hell do you do all that? And, you know, when you have a thousand things coming at you at once, people have a hard time deciding what it is they're going to do and what the priority is. And that's what I want to talk about today is basically how to arrange your time

in a way to where you aren't a prisoner to the time. It's where you're mastering the time. And I don't think we've ever talked about that before. I don't think we have. It's such a huge topic, too, because I feel like so many people just don't have any concept of how to allow, or not allow, but take control of the time that's available. They get up in the morning, they go to work, they come home at 5 o'clock, they play with their kids for a couple hours, then they lay on the couch and watch TV and then they complain about how they have no time, you know, and that's not how successful people use their time. It's just not. That's how average people use their time. And if you're using your time like an average person, you can't really expect to be anything more than an average person, you know, and if that's what you want to be, that's fine. But that's not what this podcast is about. Right. So, um, I've got a number of points here, uh,

six actually that we're going to go through that are going to help people sort of comprehend and think about how they're spending their time and how to improve their perspective on what it means to take control of your time. Master your time. So not just management, but mastery. Yeah, exactly. And that's a huge deal. I think most people feel like time controls them. You know what I mean? That time is, is the master and they're the little peasant and they're a slave to the time. And, and that's not how it works. Um, successful people understand that, you know, we, yes, while we have a limited amount of time, I'm going to learn and understand and, and do the best I can to make that time work for me. And people find all sorts of

excuses to like slide around the time mastery subject. You know, they'll find excuses like, oh, well, you know, I got to have family work-life balance. Well, how do you define balance? You know, we've talked about this before. I don't define balance on a 24-hour scale or a seven day a week scale i define balance on a lifetime scale and are you taking a gamble by looking at it that way sure because you get run over by a bus tomorrow but at the end of the day it's working out pretty good for me you know what i mean i put 12 13 years in and for the last three or four years i've been able to do whatever the fuck i want and on my own schedule and I'm in control of everything that I do. And I think that's worth

the trade of giving up that first 10, 12 years of business. Right. On that score, you've said before that you mentioned looking at it from a lifetime point of view, you've mentioned that there's not one size fits all. You have to take to based on the phase that you're at in your life or the era that you're experiencing in your life. And it's going to look different for everybody depending on the dynamics of their life. Right. I think the most important thing to remember is that you have to figure out what works for you. You know, you have all these guys on the internet, especially on Instagram now, like saying, Oh, if you're not up by four o'clock you're a fucking loser motherfucker i ain't never been up at four o'clock unless it's to go on vacation somewhere and i gotta catch a plane you know what i mean my entire life i don't get up at

fucking four i get up at fucking nine maybe ten you know what i mean but i'm working till you know later in the evening then most people even stay awake so it's about working with like what works for you and most people are so locked inside the box they just can't even comprehend what that means right you know um but let's get on with the points here and let's kind of keep this focused uh the first point for time mastery principles that we're going to talk about is this. Let your obituary influence your agenda, okay? And I don't think many people think about this, but what do you want written about you when you die? You know, what's your overall vision for your life and your long-term goals? That is what you need to

keep in front of your mind when you make your power list. And if you haven't listened to episode 107, go back and listen to power list episode, uh, when the day it is, you have to think about what you want your life to look like. You know, when you're painting a picture and you're a fucking artist, or when you're sculpting a, uh, a mastery sculpture, that's going to last for hundreds of thousands of years, you don't just start chipping away the rock and see what fucking happens. You have an idea of what you want and that's what you work towards. And, you know, influencing what you want your life to look like is no different. It's the same thing. You're creating a fucking picture. You're creating a piece of art. So you have to break it down to what critical tasks do you need to perform on a day by day by day

basis for your life to end up looking a certain way. And I don't think people, you know, really think about it like that. I think most people think like on the seven day scale where they think like, oh, well, Mondays are tough. They suck. I'm going to like, I'm hungover, so I'm not going to work that hard. tuesday i feel okay so i'm working a little better wednesday you know we're halfway through the week i'll do some work today thursday they start winding it down because it's ladies night thursday night everybody knows that and then friday i'm going out my boys uh so i'm gonna do the minimum amount work that i can and i'm gonna get out saturday i'm hungover so i'm gonna drink a little bit to you know feel better so i'm not as hungover sunday i hung over. So I'm going to drink a little bit to, to, you know, feel better. So I'm not as hung over Sunday. I'm still hung over. So I'm gonna

drink a little bit more. And then, uh, you know, they start over again. And, and when you live like that, you can't expect great things to happen. You know, you've got to use your week. You've got to use your time given to you. And that includes Friday night, Saturday, Sunday. You know, it grave in mind, you're going to act every day rather than react. Because if you're just driven by the tyranny of the immediate and the urgent and whatever is happening in that day, you're just going to be reacting to things. Right. You know what I'm saying? And you're not going to be proactive. I mean, don't you think most people that are in, like most people anywhere live in far more of a reactive state than they do

in active state. Absolutely. Yeah. They're constantly reacting because they have no plan. They have no goals. They have no power list on a day by day basis. They haven't thought about what they want their life to look like. And because of that, they're just a, they're a ping pong ball. They're getting bounced around from thing to thing, to thing, to thing with no control of where they end up. And then they wonder why they don't end up where they want to be. It's, you know, and that's most people's lives. It's really an amazing thought that you're sharing and that your big picture should really help you organize your to-do list every day. Right. You know, but, but how many people do you know sit down and say, all right, this is what, this is what people say. Well, it'd be really nice if I, if I got to be, um, you know, a millionaire one day and it'd be really

nice if I got to live in a house like that one day. And you know, it'd be nice if I could pay for my kids college and take our family on vacation and do these cool things that other people get to do. That'd be nice. But that's where it stops. They don't actively say, you know what, I'm going to make a fucking plan to do these things. I'm going to make a plan to live in that house. I'm going to make a plan to drive that car. I'm going to make a plan so I could pay for my kid's college. I'm going to make a plan so we can go on vacations. And because they don't make a plan, it never happens. And then that's what they say. You know, they fall back on the idea of luck or, you know, circumstance or happenstance or whatever the fuck they tell themselves right

you know right it dawns on me though that that you believe in doing this because you really do believe what you've told us before which is that success is an equation so you believe in holding out the big picture in order to organize your i've had too many things powerless i've seen you know i'm saying yeah i've seen you see that connection that most people don't well it's hard to see that connection when you're on the front side of the mountain you know I'm saying? Yeah, I've seen- Like you see that connection that most people don't. Well, it's hard to see that connection when you're on the front side of the mountain. You know what I'm saying? When you've climbed your first couple little mountains and you've seen how it works, then it's easy to figure out that the way you get up the mountain is by putting one fucking

foot in front of the other. There's no teleporter that throws you up to the top of the mountain. Right. You know what I mean? You weren't fucking born there. You didn't pop out the vagina on the top of the mountain. You know what I'm saying? You fucking have to work and dude it's funny because i uh had a question on instagram yesterday do you ever get

tired of telling people to do the fucking work you sound like you're always repeating yourself you know what motherfucker i am always repeating myself you know why because there isn't anything to it besides that nothing the only thing there is is the fucking work do you have to think do you have to have a plan sure but at the end of the day if you don't fucking understand that it's one foot in front of the other it's it's a plus b equals c and if you don't execute like that on a regular basis you're not going to get anywhere and that's it so why the fuck do i have to make it sound like it's all complicated? Because it's not complicated.

My job is to make it relatable and make it understandable. And if that means telling people the same thing 40,000 fucking times, then that's what I'm going to do. Because otherwise it's not true. I don't think people understand how tempting it is for a person like you, not a person like you in the sense of your personality, but a person like you in the sense of your personality, but a person like you in the sense of your position to tell people, well, it's not really simple. And there's a really complicated process and I'm going to sell you that process. I mean, that's tempting because so many people do

it. They think, oh, you know what? I think people think that this is complicated. So I'm going to take advantage of their wrong thinking and just tell them you're right it is complicated i have this 62 step plan on how to how to do an amazing you know have an amazing life you know yeah well hey look man um people are always going to be looking for the shortcut you know what i mean you could go look for the shortcut or you can accept the truth for what it is and do the fucking work. And I'm going to bet you 99.99% of the people that choose to do the work are going to be far, far, far further in life than the people who are always looking for the shortcut. Right. It's just the way it is. Ironically, I think just doing the work is the shortcut.

It is the shortcut. Yeah. All the time you waste looking for the shortcut. And if you're doing the work, think about where the fuck you be. Right. You know? Right. So anyway, moving on point number two, uh, do one thing without thinking about the next thing. And what I mean by that is, you know, I've talked about the power list and one common abuse of the power list is trying to do several things at once. You can't do that. Okay.

Trying to do too much means that you are not going to get anything done effectively. All right. You're going to get a little bit here, a little bit there, a little bit here, a little bit there, but you're not going to finish the fucking job. And finishing the job is what fucking matters. That's why, like I say in the powerless episode, only five critical critical tasks per day after you get your five critical tasks per day You fucking your day is over you win the day Okay, because five is enough when you add up

365 days in a year. You have no idea the amount of progress you can make in that amount of time. So Understanding that Doing five things a day is a is a huge victory Because if you try to do 20, you'll actually do five things a day is a, is a huge victory because if you try to do 20, you'll actually do zero things a day is a big part of the process. You know, um, you can't, you, we only have so much attention to do things effectively. So when you try to divide that attention or that energy up into 20 things versus focusing on five, you're just not going to get them done. And this is a big thing people have because in the beginning of a process, they, they think, oh man, you know what? Instead of just doing five, I'm going to do

50. And if I do 50, I'll be that much further ahead and blah, blah, blah. You can't do fucking 50. It's the same. It's the same thing people think about working out, you know, instead of going in and working out for 45 minutes a day, I'm going to go in and work out for three hours and they go do that for three days in a row. And they're so fucking tired and beat and worn out that they can't even go back to the gym. It's counterproductive. So you have to do what's in front of your face. You've got to stick to the five critical tasks. You've got to focus on finishing those tasks and you can't worry about what's coming up next. Worry about today. Worry about winning today. Worry about getting the shit done today. And when you're shit done today and it

says I won the fucking day on your power list, feel good about today. Worry about tomorrow when you fucking wake up tomorrow. And that's how things happen. It's a cumulative effort. Okay. That makes sense. Do a little at a time with a whole lot of effort rather than a lot of things with a little bit of it. Right. Yeah. Right. It's a half-assed way of getting shit done. Right.

You know, and people think, you know, what usually happens is, is people will get, they will get more shit done the first two or three days. And they'll be like, oh, this is great. But then the third, fourth third fourth fifth day they're like getting burned out already because they're not able to get it done and then see one thing about the power list that people don't understand is designed to build your confidence and being effective so by winning the day every single day and you get your five critical tasks done you get to see okay um i'm winning my day 70 or 87% of the time. Well, if you don't get your 20 things done every day

and you look back over the month and you only got four days out of the month, you're not going to feel good. You're not going to feel like you accomplished anything. And that's a big part of what the power list is designed to do is to help you feel confident in your ability to be effective. That makes a lot of sense. It never really occurred to me before,

but you've really baked into the power list this concept of adherence. Right. You know, for people who don't know what that means, you might want to explain what adherence means. Well, in the physical fitness world, you know, doing that which you're going to be able to sustain for the longest period of time. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Doing something that you'll do is more effective than trying to do something that you won't do. Right.

It just always is. Right. It just always is. Right. So third point, be ruthless in working to minimize your transition times. And this is what I mean by that. When you move from one task to the next, there's going to be some transition time. It's just the way things are. You need to do whatever you can to minimize that transition. So for instance, if you have a sales call across town, you better understand that the most direct way to get there is going to be the fastest way to get there. Or if you have flexibility in your calls throughout the week, you need to

organize them in a way that minimizes your wasted drive time. So like, dude, if you have a fucking, you know, 20 minute drive, you get on the fucking phone and make your fucking calls in between. Okay. You don't just waste the time singing to fucking, uh, Migos in the fucking car. Cause you know, you think you're some sort of rapper like me, you know, you, you fucking use your time effectively. Uh, when you have meetings scheduled with your staff, you need to set the expectations up front and when you need to be done and the points that need to be covered. And when that time comes, you need to be fucking done. Don't let shit drag on. That should take an hour for three hours. That's how you get off track. Um, you know, I'm not telling, I'm not telling you guys to be like a jerk to your people,

but setting realistic guidelines and standards, uh, of what needs to happen, when it needs to happen, in the correct amount of time that it needs to happen is just an effective way to do business. It's not an emotional thing. It's just a way to stay organized, a way to stay on track, a way to keep people on track, and a way for them, for you to teach your staff to start respecting time as you should be respecting time. Okay. Are there times that you don't have to be as time conscious? Sure. But all successful people pay attention to these details. So you have to be cognizant of, of where your wasted time is and when you can allow for these extra minutes to sort of drag on, you know, so many people, I mean, dude, look at the time

that you spend on Instagram a day on Facebook a day on fucking Netflix, on the computer, on Amazon, on eBay, on fucking Google, on YouTube. I mean, dude, you had all that shit up, dude. You've probably got fucking three or four hours a day. You know, what, what could you have done with that? What could you have created with that? What could, what product could you have created? How many could you have shipped? How many people could you have called? How many people could you have emailed? How many people could you have created with that? What product could you have created? How many could you have shipped? How many people could you have called? How many people could you have emailed? How many people could you have met with? You know, we are not becoming masters of time. We're becoming slaves to time and technology

because it takes all of our attention away from the things that we need to do to be successful. And that's a bad thing, guys. So you have to understand that, you know, these little tools that we need to do to be successful. And that's a bad thing, guys. So you have to understand that, you know, these little tools that we have and distractions and all the shit, you've got to learn how to regulate it, you know, from top to bottom on a daily basis and be cognizant of what you're doing. I like what you said about setting the expectations for your staff. I mean, I can't, I mean, several times over the last couple of years,

I know that you've shown up and you've said, okay, guys, we need to do this in 45 minutes. But what I think is so helpful about that is that you didn't tell me after the 45 minutes were up, you didn't say, hey, I got to go. You set the expectation. I knew exactly how much time we needed to do things in. And then we were able to, you were able to just transition to the next thing. And I think a lot of leaders probably don't do that. They sit down the meeting, the meeting goes 45 minutes. And then because they didn't give their, their staff a heads up, all of a sudden they're like, Hey guys, I gotta go. You know? And so things, things happen abruptly and it ends up being a bad situation. Well, I think a lot of people meet for the sake of meeting on top of that. They don't even have a real agenda or something to accomplish. They,

they meet because it's a, it's a practice of business, you know, Oh, let's have a quote unquote meeting and let's get the fucking bagels and the Starbucks and let's talk, let's sit around and fucking small talk, dude, that shit is a waste of time.

It's playing business and there's nothing, dude, I got people that call here all the time. They want to have a meeting and this and that when dude, it could be a text or it could be a fucking email or it could be something that could be organized and solved without actually fucking meeting. And then you say, hey, why do we actually have to have a meeting? Well, I think it'd be good if we actually met in person.

Well, not for me it isn't. For you it might be, but I would just like to know the fucking point and get to it right now. And if you're trying to master your time so that you can be most effective, I would minimize the time you're meeting with people and maximize how effective the messages are. And that can be through email, phone call, text, real easy. Right. It seems really OCD to make sure that your GPS is giving you the exact, direct, most efficient route from one place to the next. But you've said all the time that successful

people, they pay attention to the details. And I think we very often assume that our GPS is going to always give us the direct route. I know mine doesn't. I sometimes don't even trust my GPS. But I think the fact that you're saying, if you can shave off five, 10 minutes, if you can find a better way to get from point A to point B, you got to do it. And if you're not mindful of those things, they add up. Dude, it's days out of your year. You know what I mean? Days. Um, point number four, this is a huge point. Okay. Make sure that you and the people around you understand the accurate and correct meaning of the word urgent. Okay. Here's the reality. Very, very, very, very few things that happen on a daily

basis are urgent. Okay. A lot of the fires that you'll be asked to put out really aren't fires. They're just little bitty issues that need to be solved throughout the day. They're clutter. It's, it's bullshit. It's a, it's a yes or no answer. And so many people in business try to make everything urgent that nothing is urgent. It's like the boy that cried wolf, okay? If you cry and cry and cry and cry about how important something is, especially if you're the fucking CEO of a company,

no one's gonna fucking listen to you. You've gotta know when shit is really urgent and you've gotta act with urgency on actual urgent shit. All right, I know a lot of guys who run companies that get all bent out of shape and get angry and I used to struggle with this too about everything being urgent. But if you act that way, your staff will become unresponsive. They won't respect you when you come to them with something that's actually urgent. They won't act in an urgent manner ever. They lose their sense of urgency. And now you have

a situation where you've got to make major cultural changes to fix it. Okay. That goes for you. It goes for your staff. It goes for everybody that is around you. You have to understand that urgency is so rare that you need to stop acting as if all these little fucking fires that happen, quote unquote fires that aren't really fires decisions that need to be made throughout the day are urgent. They're not, they're not fucking urgent. You need the sense of urgency to fall down through your employees so that when something actually urgent happens, they react in an urgent manner. Does that make sense?

And they don't bother you with things that are clearly not. Yeah. And this comes down to a lot of different ways, a lot of different things. Delegating to shit people correctly. A lot of guys won't delegate to their people because they're afraid they're going to fuck up. Well, if you don't allow your people to fuck up, how are they ever going to learn? And if they never learn, how are they going to get better? And if they never get better, how are you ever going to trust them to fucking do anything?

You know what I mean? Good question. You've got to look at like their little fuck ups as a, as a valuable lesson and investment in their education as an employee. You know, you can't just let people expect people to be perfect and be on their ass all the time. And then when they make a mistake, you jump down their throat and fire them because the next guy you bring is going to make the same mistake. And then you're going to fire him. And the next guy's going to come in, he's going to make the same mistake. You're going to fire him. Well, at what point are you going to realize that these people make that mistake and you either try to proactively fix it or let them make the mistake and learn from it so they

don't fucking do it again so that you don't have to keep fucking refilling that role? Yeah. Well, so, I mean, it goes without saying then that staff development, leadership development is a huge way to save yourself some time. Yeah. So if you invest the time in your people in the long term, you're going to end up saving yourself time. Yeah, but you have to realize that making mistakes isn't part of that investment. You know what I mean?

Like you have to allow people to make mistakes. And these same guys, the reason this falls into this point, the same guys who fucking bitch about everything being fucking top priority and urgent all the time are the same guys who don't understand that people are going to make mistakes right you know what i mean so uh why don't you recap the points real quick and then we'll move on to five and six yeah let's see jot them down okay so point number one let your obituary influence your agenda what's your overall vision for life and your long-term goals? That should help you order your power list. Number two, do one thing without thinking about the next thing. Don't try to do everything at once.

Do one thing and do it well. Number three, be ruthless in working to minimize your transition times. Clearly communicate time expectations to your staff and do everything you can to provide real structure and don't waste time that you don't need to waste. Number four, make sure you and your people understand the correct meaning of the word urgent. That way, you aren't constantly having people come to you and interrupting your personal workflow. And point number five, understand and remember that establishing a routine helps you avoid random distractions.

Okay. Random distractions are the fucking devil. All right. Facebook, Instagram, fucking YouTube, Google, eBay, all the shit that we find to get our attention away from what we're doing and take our focus. We all do this shit, me included, and we have to be fucking aware of it. You know, people want exciting lives with lots of daily variety and that's all of our need. We want to see this, we want to see that. And our attention is only becoming less and less focused and more and more broad as technology starts to take over. But at the end of the day, guys, lives with lots of daily variety aren't productive. It's the lives with focus that are productive. It's the people who understand that these random distractions have to be cut out for them to get things done, to be effective. All right. We have so many, so many

things could be classified as urgent or, uh, you know, come to us as fires or, uh, you get a text and, you know, from some friend and you spend an hour texting back and forth. We have, dude, we have so many distractions in our lives, guys, that it's becoming harder and harder and harder to stay focused. So you have to figure out a routine. And maybe that routine is from, you know, X time to X time, I'm turning my phone completely off and I'm going to focus on getting my five tasks done. Or maybe it's my five critical tasks need to be done before I turn my fucking phone on for the day. You know, however it is that you need to figure out how to stay focused, you've got to figure that out.

You know, for me, I turn my fucking phone off or I put it in another room. One of those two things. And that allows me to get what I need to get done. I'm so disciplined on getting my power list done that I literally won't even start interacting with people until it's done for the day. Like that's, that's why I don't show up here until, you know, noon or one o'clock because my routine, my five points are done before I even show up here. Cause I knew when I come here, I'm going to get bombarded with fires, you know, quote unquote fires, decisions to be made conversations. And it's going to distract

me from doing what I need to do. Umablishing that routine, which is going to be different for everybody is extremely, extremely important to being effective and getting shit done. Because if you can't figure out how to be effective and you can't figure out how to get shit done and you let technology and the distractions and the entertainment that we all have in our lives, you know, occupy our eyeballs and our thoughts and our brains, guys, you're going to have a really fucking hard time accomplishing anything. You know, 20, 30 years ago, our parents didn't have this shit. They just, they were able to be a lot more effective because they didn't have the distractions.

They didn't have fucking a whole entire internet in the palm of their hand 24 hours a day. You know, they didn't have connections to every single person they ever met instantly at the palm of their hand every single day. I mean, it's incredible what we have, but it's also an incredibly frustrating nuisance when you can't break away from it to be effective. And it's a huge hindrance. I remember years ago, it was kind of in vogue for companies to take their executives on special work retreats, you know, and they go out in the middle of Colorado or some exotic place. And have a campfire. Right. Well, and it was supposed to be this like intensive time that was supposed to be

more productive. But what they learned was that people end up being more productive in their just day-to-day routine. You know, if you take them out of their routine and you throw it, you know, kind of throw them for a loop, they're not as productive. I hate to put it this way, but when they're on the treadmill every day at work, that's when they're the most productive, you know? Right. I agree with that. I agree with that, man. Like, I mean, when I'm traveling, I don't do things the same way. You know, it might be 80% or it might be 70%. I can think about that with my fitness, especially. It's much harder to stay on a fitness program when I'm traveling, even though I whole week and sort of group together the things that you need to do that maybe have a common location? You know what I'm saying? Like some people have jobs where they're driving all over the place. But I would think that if people really thought about it a lot, they could structure their day to where they really are minimizing drive time.

They're doing all the things they need to do in South County in the afternoon. Yeah, I think most people do that. But how many people think about that? Or do they just react? I don't know. I don't know, man. My world consists of driving from my house to here and back. Because I do everything between those two things.

And the gym, right? Yeah, and the gym. But that's on the way. It's in between. So I don't know how people think about those kind of things you know uh i think that if that were me and i lived that sort of life that's how i would do things you know what i mean i would group everything together and and do them in groups but um but then again you know and this is going to sound like an ignorant thing to say, but it's the truth.

It's like I look at most people and I wonder how the fuck they even got out of bed today. Like how the fuck did you tie your shoes? Shit that seems like common sense to me and you is not common sense. It's just not. I see so many people on a daily basis that I wonder like how the fuck does this person operate in this world? I mean we all feel that way. Like you go to the grocery store and you know or the mall and motherfuckers walking down the wrong side of

the mall like you know like like dude just fyi everybody like when you're driving your fucking cart it's just like a road you know if you go to the right side and the other person goes the right side it works right you know but there's always that one motherfucker that comes down the fucking wrong side of the cart and then he's like looks at you like you're out of place it's like bro what the fuck you been smoking today you know what i mean or like you know the people who fucking walk three wide deep down the wrong side of the mall and they wonder why it's like causing disruption it's like how how do you not how are you not grasping this right you know what i'm saying? Right, yeah, absolutely.

But I just don't think the average person in America, that they're so drunk on their social media and bombarded. I don't know what they think. They're just not really thinking. They're just not mindful. I don't know how else to say it. Yeah, they lack complete self, they have zero self-awareness at all.

Yeah. So something that popped into my head too that I know that is true with you is that, in terms of structuring your day, I know you've said this before to me, is that you should have a contingency plan. So in other words, if you're driving across to some coffee shop to meet somebody and then they're 30 minutes late, you better have something that you brought to work on to be productive. Because if you didn't, that's common sense, isn't it? No. Tyler, why did you just laugh?

Because I know what you were going to say. It's actually quite the opposite. Yeah, I mean, it's crazy though. No, people expect you to. No, I think most people would think like this. I think most people in that situation, they would have 30 minutes to sit there and do nothing. They would play on their phone

and they wouldn't even think about sit there and do nothing. They would play on their phone and, and they wouldn't even think about the time they just lost. Or they would think, fuck that guy for being 30 minutes late. I just wasted 30 minutes of my time, but they didn't do that. They could have done so many things that to not make it a waste. So they just used the blame on somebody else.

So I don't really know what people think, man. I just know that. I just know that most people don't think like me because i fucking see it every day that's two and a half hours a week if you if you're going monday through friday on the work week that's two and a half hours a week you multiply that by 52 i'm bad at math but that's over 100 hours uh for the year which is like almost an entire work week that you've literally spent just frittering away dude look man look, man, I get it. Like, like when people ask me like how you

spend their time and I always ask them, well, tell me about your day. And then they tell me about their day. I I'm like, dude, you don't have nothing to do. What are you talking about? You know? And I'm not saying like, I'm the busiest fucking guy on earth. Cause I, I'm not, but I have become very effective at getting my shit done and and making that count and um you know and this actually leads into to the last point point number six you know leisure time isn't a bad thing but you have to uh you know learn how to be productive in a way that that allows you to have leisure time like dude i seriously spend like 50 of my day fucking off i'm serious so like when they ask me like i get all my shit done and i spend the other half of my day totally fucking off and then and then these people

bitch to me about how they have like literally one one hundredth of the shit to do that i have to do and they have no time to like for themselves i mean how is that possible and the reason it's possible is because these people don't know how to be effective they don't know how to get their shit done they don't understand the cumulative effect of time over the course of months and years okay and this goes back to what we were talking about a little bit ago. You don't have to accomplish 20 things a day or 40 things a day. You just got to do five things that matter a day. You've got to do five things that are going to make a difference a day. You've got to do five things that are actually going to move you forward a day.

Once those five things are done, they're done. I don't worry about six, seven, eight. I use the rest of the day to do whatever the fuck I feel like doing. Right. You know? I think the reason people have a hard time understanding that goes back to what you said many, many episodes ago. I think it was in the original Kill the Day or something like that

where you talked about that the whole corporate mentality is we've got to put in the time, we've got to put in the hours. And this idea that if you just put in so many hours, then you're going to get the job done. And you talked about the difference between quantity and quality. An hour of just working is not going to be as effective as an hour of working smart, you know, and knowing how to really suck the marrow out of an hour. Yeah. I mean, the thing for me, like when I say fucking off, like I'm still, like I still effective when I fuck off. Like fucking off for me is like coming to work

and joking around with our guys and messing around. It's not like I'm out like playing golf and shit. Like it's still effective work, but I mean, it's fun. You know what I mean? Like I'm not sitting down at my computer doing my shit is what I mean by that. Right. mean like i'm not sitting down on my computer doing my shit is what i mean by that right um but you know people spend so much time looking for the excuse of i have no time when they're not

even really that busy they're just not you know like you don't have that much shit to do right you just don't like and i understand if you have kit like you have kids and you want to spend time with them at night, that's fine. You should have no problem doing that, especially if you have a regular job. You know what I mean? Right. It shouldn't be that big of a deal. But people make it such a big deal. But, I mean, even that.

It's because they're not learning how to be effective, dude. I have two kids under the age of three. Yeah. But it's like you said. Dude, look, man. People look for excuse and everything right but what my answer to that is that you said it just differs in your in your life situations you said you never get up at 4 30 i have to and so and but that's okay it works for me yeah if i'm going to get anything done if i'm going to be by myself and yeah bro like when you

text me in the morning that's usually how i wake up you know what i'm saying which i'm fine well i've learned not to text you before no i got my fucking yeah i got my phone on silent but i mean like yeah i don't i don't i make up my own fucking system right and to your point at the beginning you've got to find what works to you for you but you have you also have to be willing to find what works for you like i i had to basically come to a point where I realized, all right, if I don't get up at four 30 in the morning, I'm not going to have the time. I'm not, I'm not going to be as productive as I want to be. So no. And like, dude, I'm not knocking people that get up that early because it is different, but you got to remember, I've designed my life a certain way for 20 years. Absolutely. You know what I mean? Like, uh, uh it's just i'm not knocking that no i know you're

not i never thought that i just was re-emphasizing your point i was just making a jab at like the fucking internet guys who say you have to do it like oh if you don't get up at 4 30 you're not effective well motherfucker my fucking uh my bottom line says differently right you know exactly uh and you've said this before but some people just literally have different temperaments they're just night owls some people are morning you know there are people who like to get up in the morning so i'm not a night owl but i'm not early guy either yeah i don't go to bed at fucking eight but i go to bed at like you know midnight you know what i mean um but, you know, the thing about the internet and like this is a little bit off subject, but not totally because I'm going to make a point with it.

And I said this before, but like there's so many people on the fucking internet that are selling the idea of something that they've never ever even accomplished themselves. You know, they're talking, they're writing all this shit about success and these long captions and all this shit. But what have they built? You've built an Instagram page. You know what I'm saying? You know, you're taking pictures of fucking cars and shit that aren't even yours.

You're writing books about how to become a fucking millionaire when you're not a fucking millionaire you know what i mean dude people need to do their fucking homework dude you know take into consideration it's not every not everything that you see online is the truth there are people out there that are lying straight up there are people out there that will take your money and have no problem taking it. Straight up. Selling you bullshit. You know, there's books going around on the internet that are written by fucking 20-year-old kids or 25-year-old kids that haven't even become a millionaire yet about how to be a millionaire.

Explain that. I can't i think one of the biggest mysteries to me in our modern culture is that there are people who wouldn't think twice i mean they wouldn't even give any thought to reading like for instance a guy that you really respect vince uh lombardi or john wooden and no but they'll read this no-name 25 year old shit on the internet when they ever built something he's never done anything those guys have proven the test of time or even somebody alive like a like a warren buffett or a tony robbins or somebody fucking phil knight or any of these real dudes they won't they won't research those guys lives they won't read their books but don't read this internet guru shit because he takes a

photo in front of a lamborghini i don't get it like dude that ain't even his fucking car they ain't even his plane you know what i'm saying like at least the shit i post on my shit is my shit right you know i mean fuck dude i i just don't understand it like we're living in the age of fraudulent mentors yeah we are we are dude 15 years ago there was dudes who were like infomercial guys like that yeah but those guys still had to have the money and they had to have experience to be able to fund those things. Now you don't even have to have that. Right.

You just got to have somebody or some connection to some fucking flashy shit and post it. And then you get to be some kind of expert. Right. That is the downside of the social media. The point of entry is so low. It's sad. Yeah. The bar is very low. low. It's sad. Yeah. The bar is very low.

Dude, it's sad. Like, it's sad that people are that fucking dumb to buy into that shit. Right. Like, it's sad. You know, and it's sad that there's people who will pay $1,000 for a fucking program from someone who's never built a real business. They've regurgitated a bunch of shit from other people who have actually done. I mean, dude, people who have actually built real businesses, like I can

name them. I think on one hand that I know on the internet, like Gary Grant Cardone, Gerard, Dan Fleischman myself Asian Steven Steve Mayer real entrepreneur he doesn't he's not really on social anymore but Bradley

I think the relevance to time management but that's it yeah that's it no yeah like the rest of these dudes

ain't real millionaires they're fucking fakers. You know, and I guess what I'm saying is, like, don't support their shit. Support, at least if you're going to buy somebody's shit, buy shit from someone who's actually built something. I'm not even selling anything. I'm just saying, like, I get tired of seeing people buy shit. That, you know, $1,000 program or $5, program, and they go out and put it on a credit card. And if you're going to spend that money,

spend it with someone who's done something. You know, Gary's done well. Grant's done well. You know, Grant has a fucking half a billion dollar real estate portfolio. The guy knows what the fuck he's doing. Gary runs a fucking $150 million fucking agency. Gary's like me.

He's built something from literally nothing to something. You know what I mean? Like, dude, support that. Right. Actual brick and mortar stuff. Yeah. What I was going to say is I think the relevance to time management is that if you invest your time and energy in people who have built things,

whose principles of operation have stood the test of time, in the long run, you're going to save yourself a lot of time. Yeah. Rather than these fly-by-night internet wonders, you're just going to waste your time. Yeah, there's a couple other dudes that we're not naming. Fabio from fucking Secret Entourage. PJ from Secret Entourage.

Those guys have built real companies. But I mean, outside that, fucking everybody else is full of shit. It's all theory. It's regurgitated bullshit. And the way they're making their money is by selling you fucking air, which is a program, which I'm not against if they're actually qualified.

I don't know, man. It just gets on the nerves. Guys, if you haven't connected with Andy yet on social media, he is Andy Frisella, big surprise, on Instagram, on Snapchat. He's MFCEO-1. And the Facebook is facebook.com forward slash Andy.Frisella. Or is it just Andy Frisella? It's no dot. No dot. It's andrewfrosella. Oh, it's andrewfrosella. So facebook.com forward slash andrewfrosella. And I don't think a lot of people know this, but there is a, I feel like there is a, it's definitely signature you, but there's maybe a little bit of a different flavor on Facebook than there is on Instagram. So if you're not following Andy on Facebook, you should be because you get a lot of different dimensions of the same dude.

Yeah, Facebook's a different platform. Content's different. It just is. I mean, we could do a whole episode on that. People who share their Instagram content to Facebook don't do very well because it's a different platform for a reason. It's also a different demographic. Yeah. Yeah yeah which is interesting because you have you have a pretty wide demographic that follows you there's more feedback yeah um there's more conversation yeah

you have to you have to you have to form your content a different way um it's different like you said so uh guys like i said in the beginning of the podcast, if you found value in the podcast, actually before we get to that, why don't you recap the points real quick for everybody? Okay, so number one is let your obituary influence your agenda. Number two is do one thing without thinking about the next thing. Number three is be ruthless in working to minimize your translation times. Number four, make sure you and your people understand the correct meaning of the word urgent. Number five, remember that establishing a routine helps you avoid random distractions.

And then number six was that leisure time is fine, but you have to work in such a way the rest of the time that it's okay. Yeah, your leisure time should be a reward for you being effective. Right. So. reward for you being effective. Right. So, so, um, we haven't said this for a while, but guys, we always appreciate a, uh, a review on iTunes. So if you, if you could share a review, just go over to iTunes. It's really easy. Just go to the podcast homepage on iTunes and just go. And I think I could be wrong. Some people have said you can't do it from your phone. So it might require a little extra added effort on your part, but we would really

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