REAL AF with Andy Frisella - Your Best, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO120

Episode Date: January 12, 2017

"I'm doing my best." That's what people say all the time. But Andy Frisella asks, "what is your best?"  According to The MFCEO, "your best" is always developing, always evolving. That's why you can't ever really say you've achieved your best. Instead, you should be constantly pushing yourself to your best, which will always be just out of your reach.

What is up guys you're listening to the MFCEO project I'm Andy I'm your host and I am the motherfucking CEO welcome guys today is Thursday Thunder and I want to talk to you about something that is pissing me off all day long I see people saying things like this. Well, I'm doing my best. I'm doing everything I can. I'm working so hard. Look, man, how many of you can honestly look yourself in the mirror and say, I am doing my best? Because if you can, you're fucking lying to yourself. All right? You, in all honesty, have no idea what your best actually is because you haven't pushed yourself hard enough to achieve what quote-unquote your best is.

The truth of the matter is this. Your best is a moving, evolving, changing scale because here's what happens. When you start out as a little bitty tadpole and you don't know shit and you start swimming up the stream and you try to figure out life, your best is very minimal because you don't have the skills. Okay. But as you accomplish a few things and learn a few things and evolve a little bit, what happens? You sprout some legs. You get some new skills.

You turn into a little bitty froglet. Okay, and guess what? Now you can do other things besides swim up the stream. Life is no different. And when you become a little bitty froglet, guess what? Your best is now moved. Your best is now moved. Your best is now evolved.

Your best is now down the road further than what it's from. So for you to ever say in a whiny little voice, I'm doing my best. I don't know what's going on. No, you're not doing your best because your best is a constantly sliding scale. You can always do better. You could always do more. You could always improve. You could always find a way to could always do more. You could always improve.

You could always find a way to get a better result and to sharpen your skills. Okay. We talked about this in a podcast a few Tuesdays ago. Take a simple tool like an ax. The ax has three parts to it. One, you've got to swing the ax for it to be effective. Now, if you don't swing the axe and you don't swing the axe hard enough, guess what? It doesn't make an effect. You can't chop down no fucking trees with the axe laying on the ground. Everybody knows that. It's common sense. Two, you've got to chop the tree in the same spot over and over and over and over and over again.

Okay? in the same spot over and over and over and over and over again. Okay. Everybody knows that because it's common sense to know that if you swung the ax all the way up and down the tree, you're not going to do shit. Common sense. Three, the blade's got to be sharp. You could swing the ax all day long as hard as you want against the same spot over and over and over and over again. But unless the blade is sharp, you're not gonna cut down any trees, all right? And those are the three things that are very consistent with how you operate on your journey to success, no matter what success is.

You've gotta work hard, you've gotta be consistent, and you've gotta constantly be sharpening your ax. Those are the three components that come down to being successful. Now, here we are in the middle of January, beginning middle of January, whatever you want to say, the second week of January. And many of you, like I said last week, have already given up. You've already relegated yourself to back to mediocre, back to next month, back to after this, back to after I have, you know, Aunt Martha's birthday party. I'll start doing this because you're constantly kicking the can down the road.

Because quite honestly, you're too lazy to do the three things that are required for success. And that's okay. We need lazy people in the world too, because I like to get my fries supersized. All right, here's the deal. I am so tired of people telling me they're doing their best. I'm so tired of people emailing me and saying, Andy, I need your help. I'm doing my best, but blah, blah, blah. Well, you know what? If you're doing your best and blah, blah, blah, nothing's happening. Guess what? You're not hitting the tree at the same spot enough or long enough. If you're honestly giving your all, if you're honestly hitting the tree with a sharp blade,

if you're honestly working hard and swinging the ax hard, eventually the tree's going to fall because you're not going to fucking knock it down in one swing. And that's the fourth equation, patience. You've got to be patient. You got to know that you're not going to fucking knock it down with one swing. And that's the fourth equation. Patience. You've got to be patient. You got to know that you're not going to knock down the fucking tree with one swing and the fucking ax. You guys are always looking for, not just you guys, but everybody is always looking for that extra thing, that extra thing, that extra thing. I'm going to read this book. I'm going to buy this program and join this mastermind group. I'm going to go to this seminar. I'm going to, I'm going to ask for this mentor. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do none of those things will replace you swinging the fucking ax. Okay. You've got to get it through your fucking head. There is no shortcut. There is no

easy way. There is no way to make it faster. There is no way to make it easier. You've got to do the fucking work. So don't send me an email whining to me about how shit ain't happening for you because it would be happening if you're doing all the shit right. And if you were doing all the shit right, you would not be emailing me saying, oh, it's not happening because you would see little bitty victories on a day-to-day basis. The truth of the matter is, is that most of you guys are hiding behind your fucking, you're the guy in the warehouse who's working with a crew of 10 guys

who hides in the corner all day and tries to get by with doing a little bit of work. Can't go through life with that attitude and expect to be successful. You can't go through life looking to do the minimum and get the maximum. If you want the maximum, you gotta fucking do the maximum.

That's just the way it is. And if you can't accept that, success isn't going to happen for you, bro. It's just not going to happen.