Follow Your Blockers, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO125
REAL AF with Andy Frisella
Andy Frisella
4.9 • 33.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2017
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In entrepreneurship and in life, timing is vitally important. A good decision made at the wrong time is a wrong decision. Like a good NFL running back, you have to know when to let obstacles in your way pass--and when to move ahead and plow right through them. In this episode, Andy Frisella explains that while mastering the art of timing is very difficult, the very first step is to be aware of its incredible importance.
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| 0:00.0 | What is up guys you're listening to the MFCEO project I'm Andy I'm your host and I am the mother fucking CEO guys |
| 0:14.8 | It's been a few weeks. I've been missing Thursday thunders. I know but today |
| 0:19.7 | I've got an extra special Friday fire for you |
| 0:22.6 | I've got something I want to talk to you guys about that I think is extremely important |
| 0:27.4 | It's not necessarily motivational, but it's extremely valuable when it comes to entrepreneurship |
| 0:33.8 | portraying yourself as an entrepreneur practicing entrepreneur principles in your life no matter what position |
| 0:40.9 | You currently are and that is timing |
| 0:44.4 | Okay, we've never addressed this topic and I get a lot of questions on it |
| 0:48.2 | I was watching this Super Bowl like most of you guys were this past Sunday and I noticed |
| 0:54.2 | A lot of times when I was watching the Atlanta Falcons try to run the football in the third and fourth quarter that |
| 1:02.6 | They're running backs. We're not following the blocks. They weren't reading the reads they weren't seeing |
| 1:08.9 | Things happen they were not waiting for the the past to run |
| 1:14.6 | To materialize and guys if you follow sports you know that if you are running back and you're not patient |
| 1:22.7 | And we talk about that a lot aggressive patience, but if you're not patient to allow certain paths to open up |
| 1:29.1 | You're not a very good running back and this has the same implications in entrepreneurship and the problem with timing as |
| 1:37.9 | entrepreneurial principle is that it takes a lot of |
| 1:41.2 | Mistakes regarding bad timing to recognize when you need to let timing materialize |
| 1:47.2 | Okay, so I want to try to address this with you guys and maybe save you some time |
| 1:52.0 | Whether you're an employee who's asking for a raise or whether you're the CEO who's making a |
| 1:59.7 | Pivotal decision in your company's path |
| 2:02.8 | Timing is very important. All right, you have to learn to recognize when the right time to make moves is |
| 2:11.4 | You know we talk about aggressive patience. We talk about being aggressive. We talk about letting nothing stand in your way |
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