REAL AF with Andy Frisella - The 4 Steps to a Perfect Day Every Day, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO230

Episode Date: April 12, 2018

How do you make every day great? Or even perfect? There are four steps. They involve productivity, learning, gratitude, & enjoying things that money can't buy. When these things form the core of your day, you're day is going to be f*cking awesome, even if there's all sorts of chaos and sh*t going on. That's important for entrepreneurs & overachievers, because as great as building businesses & making money is, the stress & the drive to dominate in everything you do can drive you crazy...if you let it.

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. Guys, the purpose of this podcast is to make you the motherfucking CEO as well. And guess what? You don't have to own a business to be that. You can be a regular motherfucker and be the motherfucking CEO of you. This is a personal development podcast that just happens to be in the business category. And you know why? Because we started out as a business podcast. But the truth is, is that running yourself is a lot like running a business and the core values and lessons that you need to know are parallel.

So while we do talk a lot about entrepreneurship and how to make some fucking money, which all of you love, and if you don't, there's something wrong with you. We will also teach you how to be successful in any area of life. All right, guys, today I have a very special Thursday Thunder for you. I'm going to tell you how to have a great day, not just once in a while, but every day. And I'm going to give you four specific steps that you need to do to have a great day. But before I get to that, I'm going to read some fan mail. And I love fan mail, especially ones like this. This one comes from Adam.

Adam says, hey, Andy, it's funny because I'm extremely successful. Your company is a fucking joke in the world of fitness. I feel for all the poor souls that are sucked into your subpar supplements. The only thing that I got from my email was that he owns a orange Lamborghini. Sit back and think about all the good that could be done with that quarter million dollars you spent on that car. What a fucking waste of time. You're a douchebag. Adam, I love you too, bro. Before I get into my response,

I am just kind of wondering what I did to make you so mad. Why are you so angry? But let me address some of your issues. First of all, the orange car you saw is a Ford GT, not a Lamborghini. It is one of a kind. It was 500K, not 250K. And to address your point, I am helping people by driving that fucking car.

And let me explain to your small peanut brain exactly how. I am inspiring the doers, the people who are going to go out. They are going to take action. They are going to build shit that matters. And they are going to employ a lot of motherfuckers, probably just like you, who hate everything else about their life. Those people are going to be the people that pay your fucking bills, people like me. So when you go and knock that and think, I'm not helping people, I have two choices. One, I can inspire more success.

I can drive what I want to drive. I can do what I want to drive. I can do what I want to do. I can live how I want to live. And I will inspire other people to do the same, which will be good for the economy. It will create more jobs. It will create more dollars that will eventually go into your pocket. That's just one way that I'm helping people. The other way I'm helping people is by driving that money into an American company where American workers are making fucking American products. OK, my money goes through their company. They pay some bills and eventually it makes it into other people's pockets. So that helps people too. But the main way people like me, who, according to you, are douchebags that drive $250,000 cars, but like I said, it was 500,000, the main way people like me help people like you

is by inspiring people that you work for, people who are going to create jobs and careers and impact you in a positive way. Now, could I take that $500,000 and give it to charity? Absolutely. In fact, I gave four times that amount of charity in the last calendar year. All right. So I could take that money and I could give it away, but I'd be giving it to people who are used to taking and not producing anything. And the long-term ramifications of that, while good on the instant gratification side of things are not good on the long-term. And I'm a long-term

player. I'm a fucking farmer. I plant seeds and harvest fucking crops. That's what I do. And so what I'm doing by driving that fucking car is planting fucking seeds of dreams into people who are going to go out and create jobs for people like you. So thank you for your nice love letter and you're welcome for inspiring whoever it is that you fucking work for. Now on to the meat of the podcast, which is how to have a great day, not just today, but every day. And by the way, keep the love letters coming. I love you guys. Step number one, I've got four specific steps guys, and you're going to want to take fucking notes on this. All right. Cause they're important. Step number one, the first thing you have to do

is go back and listen to episode one Oh seven. And you have to understand what the power list is about and you have to complete your power list the power list in short is about taking the five critical actions that you are going to work on that day that are going to advance you to where you want to be and doing them now you're going to hear a lot of entrepreneurs say oh dude you got to work fucking 30 hours a day and a 24 hour day and you've got to work 25 fucking days a week when there's only seven days in a week and they're going to talk all this shit about how hard they work bullshit. I'm lazy as fuck. Okay. I got five things I got to do every fucking day. And once those five things are done, I'm fucking done. I'm done. Okay. These days I'm usually done by

fucking 11am and anything I do beyond that is because I want to do it, not because I have to do it, all right? Now, in the beginning, your power list might take you all day. But I get into that in episode 107, so I'm not going to beat on that a whole lot. But step number one is to understand the power list and complete it on a daily basis. That's what's going to move you, like I said, to your harvest. It's going to get you away from planting

and into harvest as quickly as possible. Step number two, all right? And step number two, three, and four are going to be things that you guys haven't heard from me before. Step number two is learn something new, okay? I am a habitual learner my entire life. I enjoy learning from books. I enjoy learning from other people. I enjoy conversation with people that are different from me. I have made learning part of my character and part of my DNA. And I try to actively learn something new every single day. And the way that I do that, it's not just about business. It's just about anything. And the reason this is important is because when you make a habit of learning, you're creating an actual tool that's going to help you be successful. It's taking you from someone who thinks they know everything to someone who is a

perpetual, habitual student from everything. It makes you a sponge, okay? And this is a habit. So try to learn something new every day. The best thing that I've been able to do over the course of my adult life is that I read 10 pages of a book every single day. That best thing that I've been able to do over the course of my adult life is that I read 10 pages of a book every single day. That's my learn something new every day. Now, learning something new every day can also, like I said, be a conversation with someone that's different from you. It takes open-mindedness. You have to stop trying to win conversations and start trying to learn. And by the way, point number two will make you a lot happier. You become a lot happier when you're not trying to win conversations and instead you're trying to understand where people are

coming from. So that's, this is an important point. Learn something new every day. Point number three, take time to be grateful. All right. If you're listening to this podcast, it means you have a computer or a fucking phone. All right. That means you're better than 98% of the earth. All right. If you're listening to this podcast, it means you have a computer or a fucking phone. All right. That means you're better than 98 percent of the earth. All right. You have a lot of shit to be grateful for. You might not be where you want to be, but concentrating on where you are versus where you want to be and being angry and mad about that while can be productive oftentimes turns most people into bitter people. Now, personally, I thrive on negativity. I like when people talk shit, if you didn't notice already. I personally learn how to take that darkness

and take that anger and take that pissed off energy and turn it into productive action. But that doesn't mean I'm not grateful for everything else. I take specific times every day to think about my life, to think about the great things I have, to think about how fortunate I am. And I do that in the beginning of my day when I'm brushing my teeth. So I take, you know, two to five minutes to, you know, clean up my old chompers. All right. I use them a lot because I'm fucking fat and I like to eat. So it takes me a little bit to get them nice and blingy for you guys.

I hope you appreciate the effort. But while I'm doing that, I take time to think about how good my life is. All right. And I do that again before I go to bed. So I take at least two dedicated times per day to show gratitude and be thankful for what I have, who I am and, you know, all the good shit in my life and the good shit in my life. Isn't the Lamborghinis and the fucking, all the shit that you see on the internet. The good thing in my life is the people in my life, man. It's the people I get to go to battle with every day at work. It's my friends, it's my family, it's my puppy dogs. You know, it's, uh, all the, all the real shit that you guys have to, you know, that's the best shit in life. Um, you know, I'm not a big believer in that saying, you know, money can't buy happiness because money can make

you have a lot of fucking fun. And anybody tells you different is full of shit. But, um, the truly the best things in life are free, which brings me to my, my point number four, which is this enjoy something every day that money can't buy. One of my, my, my absolute best part of my day, the absolute best part of my day is when I come home from work and I lay on the couch. Cause it's like the first thing I do, man. Like I'm, I'm, I'm, you know, every day I'm kind of putting out fires. It's just part of being an entrepreneur. I go to the couch. I have my little spot, probably just like you guys do, you know, the same spot you lay in all the time over and over again. And every time within two seconds of me laying down, my dog, Charlie, um, will run up and jump on. She's 50 pound bulldog, English

bulldog jumps on my chest and starts licking my face. Like it's the, it's the best part of my day because it's the best part of her day. And I say this all the time. And if you know me, you've heard me say this, dude, I would trade everything. I have every fucking dollar. I have every asset. I have everything I have in business to, to, to, for that dog, just because I love it so much. And I'm just that much of a dog person because they bring so much joy that you just can't get anywhere else. And guys, you know, being able to truly appreciate things that you can't get from success and can't get from money, that's part of balance, right? Like we talk a lot about balance.

We talk about how to, you know, that, you know, balance is going to be for an entrepreneur. Balance is going to be weighted over the course of your life versus the course of a week. Like most people look at it or the day, you know, you're going to spend your first 20 years grinding your fucking ass off and after that things are going to change if you're if you're not an idiot okay and you're going to have more freedom you're going to have more time you're going to have more fun you're going to have more time for your family etc etc etc so balance we talk about that but there is something to say about having balance over the course of a day and, you know, enjoying things that money can't buy, taking some time to really appreciate what you have.

Those things matter. And those things keep us sane as entrepreneurs, because I know all of you guys are hungry and all of you guys want to make a lot of fucking money and all of you guys want all the cool shit and you want to impact people and do all the shit that we talk about. But if you go fucking crazy, OK, you're not going to be very effective. So yeah, so this is how I make sure I have a great day literally every day. One, I do my power list every day. To this day, I still do it, okay?

Two, I make sure that I learn something new. Absolutely, absolutely. It's a conscious effort of mine. Three, I take the time to be grateful and thankful. Okay. That sets the mood for the beginning of the day. And at the end of the day, it's something that I do every single day, no matter what. And guys, the truth is no matter how bad your shit is, you've got a lot to be thankful for. And four, I take time consciously to enjoy something that I can't get from money. All right.

So those are my four steps for making every day a great day. Guys, I appreciate all the love. If you enjoy the podcast, if you like the podcast, if you get value from the podcast, you know my fee. I ask it every show. What's the fee? If you're new, you haven't heard it. So this is what it is.

My fee is this. I don't ask for money. I will teach you how to make a lot of fucking money. I would teach you how to have an awesome life. I will teach you how to impact a lot of people. I don't ask for money. All I ask is this. Tell one friend per podcast episode that you found valuable. So if you got value out of this, to have a conversation with a friend, tag them in a post, let them know about me. That's how we grow this movement. That's how this movement grows. If you didn't like the podcast, don't fucking tell anybody. Tell me to fuck off. I don't care. Send me a love letter, whatever. But I'm not asking

for something without giving you something first. All right, guys, remember you can make every single day a great day. Complete your power list. Learn something new. Be grateful. Show some gratitude. All right. And enjoy something money. Be grateful. Show some gratitude. All right? And enjoy something money can't buy. I'll see you guys on Tuesday.