REAL AF with Andy Frisella - Showing Up Is Not Enough, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO72

Episode Date: June 16, 2016

There is an epidemic in America. From coast to coast, people think they can put in minimal effort and get maximum results. According to Andy Frisella, it doesn't work that way. Showing up is not enough. To be truly successful, you have to take pride in everything you do, pay attention to the details, and if necessary, go twenty extra miles. Put simply, you need to overachieve.

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 if this is your first time listening welcome this is not just an entrepreneurial podcast it is about becoming the CEO of your life. You might sit there and think, but I don't own a business, but I'm not running a business. Doesn't fucking matter. Here's the deal. You are your own company. You are your own brand.

You are in charge of the actions that you make, the decisions that you make, and the route that you take in life. And you have to understand that if you don't start taking control of it, you're not going to get anywhere. So that's what this podcast is about. We're cutting through all the fluff, we're cutting through all the Care Bear fucking rainbows and sunshine bullshit and we'll get right down to the point. Guys, this is Thursday Thunder. It's short, it's sweet, it's to the point. And today I want to talk about something that seems to plague our society and our workforce here in America over the last 15 to 20 years. And that is this, showing up is not enough. Okay, what do I mean by that? All right, you work your 42.5 hours a week,

you get there at nine and leave at five every day. You do a little bit of extra stuff, but not really. And most of the time you spend hiding from actually producing real work, real content, real value for your company. All right. Where is this going to get you? You think this is going to get you to a multimillion dollar bank account? You think this is going to get you to a multi-million dollar bank account? You think it's even going to get you to a hundred grand a year? No, because you're a fucking fry cook. And guess what? Fry cooks are replaceable every single day. There's millions of you people out there that can be fry cooks. All right. We're talking about what it actually takes to be successful. And when you show up to your job, whatever that is,

and you put in minimal effort, minimal execution, minimal thought, minimal creativity, you're going to get the minimum back. And that's the reality of being minimal. Okay. People who succeed in life, they don't look at the job they're in now and say, oh, you know what, this isn't what I want to do for a career, so I'm going to put in minimal effort. No, they come to work, they do the best they fucking can, they execute the best they can, they contribute the most that they can because they understand this concept. You are creating or breaking habits 24 hours a day with anything that you do, all right? Whether you're the CEO of a Fortune 500 company or whether, like I said, you're cooking

French fries at McDonald's, it doesn't matter. You are creating habits. And if you don't take pride in the habits that you create, when do you think you're going to flip the switch, all right? And what I mean by that is this. Let's say you do cook fries at McDonald's and you let the fries get burnt or you let the fries come out soggy and you don't give a fuck how the fries turn out. What are you creating? You're creating a habit of indifference, a habit of apathy, a habit of not giving a fuck about the details. And what do you think that's going to translate into the rest of your life? Okay, you're not going to go to the next job and automatically create these habits out of the blue that are going to create success for you.

Okay, you have to understand that taking pride in the details, doing the things that matter, whether they be big or whether they be small, is important now because those are the things that you're going to take with you into the next chapter and the next chapter and the next chapter of your life, all right? So many of you guys don't understand this concept because I see it in other companies. I sometimes see it in my company, okay? I'm not going to lie. We've got 130 employees. I see this shit in my own company sometimes. People think that showing up is enough and showing up is just not enough. All right. You could put your 40 hours a weekend. You could put your 60 hours a weekend, but what's ultimately going to matter is the time that you put in to yourself past the time that you're actually at work. Okay.

Are you reading books? Are you reading blogs? Are you watching YouTube videos that you can learn from? Are you learning how to personally develop the skill set that you need to do what it is you're going to do? My point here, guys, is that it's going to take more than what you think, all right? And I see so many motherfuckers come to work and play business. What is play business? You guys all know what play business is, right? I'm sitting at Starbucks, my fucking coffee, my fucking Mac computer, my Harry Potter fucking glasses. And I'm, you know, got my hipster shit on and I'm fucking pretending like I'm making shit. When in reality, you're fucking looking at Facebook, Instagram, and, uh, you know,

messaging chicks on the internet that you want to fuck. Okay. Let's be real here. There's playing business and there's creating shit, selling shit, meeting people, networking. All right. You have to produce things. You have to create things. You have to create value in what it is that you do. Don't come to work with your fucking Starbucks, sit in your cube nine hours a day and think you're going to ultimately end up being the vice president of the company no that doesn't work like this anymore the society and business that might have been the way it worked 50 years ago where you could work at a company your whole entire life and you know eventually become the vice president of whatever but the reality of

this economy and this society and this way that business is done now is that if you're not creating value, if you're not producing things that are invaluable to that company, or you're not producing products that are invaluable to your customer, if you actually own the company, you're not going to make it very long. Okay. So realize that there's a huge difference between being busy and being effective. Okay. Being busy is showing up, running around, telling everybody how busy you are and how much shit you got to have, having 15 fucking meetings a day and doing a bunch of shit that really doesn't matter versus being effective, which could be one tenth the amount of time and get 10 times more shit done.

Okay. And you have to ask yourself, are you busy or are you effective? Because pay increases, success, money, all the things that you want out of your career, they don't come from being busy. When people come to me and talk to me in terms of how many hours they worked, I don't give a fuck as a CEO. Okay, you can tell me how many hours you work till the fucking cows come home. I don't care. You know what I care about? What did you do? What did you create? What did you execute on? How much did you increase sales? How much did you increase productivity? How much did you make the company? How much more money did you make the company I care about those things okay so when you're talking to me about how many fucking hours you put in the way I look at it is if you have to put in that many hours and still not be effective you're fucking idiot that's what I think as a CEO okay so it's not about hours worked it's about shit done. Get it? Now, we could talk about this all day long, but at the end of the day, you're the one that has to understand this. So how could I make this

any simpler for you to take home? I can't. All right? There's being busy, which is 98% of the people on earth who think there's some sort of value in being busy. And then there's being effective. That's the 2% that actually come to work. They might fuck off seven of the nine hours of during the day, but those two hours that they actually work make a fucking difference. And that's what, those are the people that get paid. Those are the people that succeed. Those are the people that move up. And those are the people that drive fucking Lamborghinis. So if you want to be a broke motherfucker, keep talking about how busy you are. If you want to be a badass motherfucker drives Lamborghini, go figure out how to make shit happen.