REAL AF with Andy Frisella
980. Q&AF: Maintaining Discipline, Gratitude Vs. Drive & Feeling Behind
22 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: How can I break the cycle of on-and-off discipline?
What is up, guys?
It's Danny Priscilla, and you're listening to the show for the realest. Say goodbye to the lies, the fakeness, and delusions of modern society, and welcome to motherfucking reality. Guys, today we have Q and AF. That's where you submit the questions. And we give you the answers. Now, you can submit your questions a few different ways. DJ's going to tell you how.
Hey, guys. The first way is you can email your questions in to askandy at andyfrasella.com. You can also drop your questions in the comments of the Q&AF episodes on YouTube.
And where are the Q and AF episodes now?
Brand new, uh, brand new page, man. That's Andy for selling motivation on YouTube. Make sure you guys are subscribed to that one as well. Yep. Yep. It's all the, uh, get your ass better. Yeah.
It's all the Q and AFs. It's all the real talks, all the 75 hard verses. And the main YouTube page is going to be for a CTI. Yeah. So,
uh yeah so this is your first time joining us this is q a f we also do a number of different formats of the show shows within the show is what we like to say uh we will have our cruise the internet live actually tonight at 7 p.m central so you check that out um do that a few times a week Then we have Real Talks. Real Talks is just 5 to 20 minutes of me giving you some real talk.
And then we have 75 Hard Versus. That's where people who have completed the 75 Hard program come on the show. They talk about how they were before, how they were after, and how they used the 75 Hard program to transform their lives.
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Chapter 2: What is the balance between gratitude and the drive for improvement?
If you're unfamiliar with 75 Hard... It is the initial phase of the Live Hard program, which is available in its entirety for free at episode 208 on the audio feed. So if you just scroll down the audio feed, go to episode 208, you'll find it. There's also a book. The book is available at andyforsella.com. It's called The Book on Mental Toughness. Great book. Sell the shit out of it.
Still not required. If you want the program for free, get it episode 208. The book just has a lot more in-depth information in it. Speaking of 75 Hard, for those of you, I know everybody's talking about what they're going to do after the New Year's. We have a massive, massive, massive, biggest ever group of people starting 75 Hard at the New Year. So do it with us, man. Change your fucking life.
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What's up, dude? I thought we had to do something special for tonight's live. Yeah? Yeah.
Chapter 3: How do I manage the feeling of being behind in life?
But there has to be. I want to wear it. So I've been doing some trying on things. Yeah. And I tried on a really awesome suit that you got me. It fits beautifully. Yeah? It fits beautifully. And I feel like it would be a nice reward for the people to see. But there has to be something in it from them. You know what I'm saying? What's the buy-in? To see you in a suit? Yeah.
No, to see me in that suit, though. Oh. You know, that special one.
Oh, yeah?
No, not the birthday one. I don't know, man. That's later. You know what I'm saying? We got to have something. We got to have something, dude. People have been asking for it, but like... Hey, what are you drinking over there, dude? Dude... This is the best one. You know what? I'm not going to lie. It's actually pretty damn good.
Chapter 4: What is the significance of awareness in maintaining discipline?
Bro, it brings me back to when I was a little kid. I used to love Hawaiian Punch. Yeah, me too. And this is carbonated Hawaiian. I don't know if I can legally say that.
I don't know what it's called.
Paradise Punch, dude.
When are these rolling out? Right after the first of the year, they'll be on the shelves. So we've got that and the- Grape's got to watch out, bro. And the silver lightning coming out. Yeah, grape's going to have- I call it white lightning. You know, people didn't like that one. But yeah, we got those coming out. I actually haven't tried the silver lightning, but I did try the punch flavor.
Holy shit, man.
That paradise punch is fucking- It's really good. It's a punch of paradise. It sure is.
A punch right in the mouth. That's right. A little paradise. Anyway. Yeah, man. It is good, dude. It is fucking. You know, a couple guys on the team out at UFC, they've been trying it, and I've been getting texts about it, dude, and they're like, damn.
Yeah, this is going to, like I'm telling you, Grape's going to be in second place. There's no doubt about that. Yeah.
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Chapter 5: How does discipline relate to achieving long-term goals?
Yeah, because it is in first place. That's your swirl talking.
Yeah. Oh, man.
Well, yeah, man. You good? Feeling good? Yeah? I'm good, man. Let's make some people better today. All right. Let's do it. Shall we? Guys, I got three good ones. Let's dive into these. Guys, Andy, question number one. Hey, Andy. Andy, I'm 32. I've got a decent job, a family that depends on me. And on paper, I should be grateful. But I feel behind and frustrated all the time.
I'm disciplined for a few weeks, then I fall off and hate myself for it. How do you stop the cycle of starting strong and then disappearing on yourself? Oh, man.
You know, that's something I think most people struggle with. That's actually one of the biggest reasons that we started developing the operator standard, which doesn't really do anybody any good right now because it's closed for quite some time. It's going to be invite only when we open it back up. But.
um that won't be for a while but that that system actually does what we're talking about here but the reality is it comes down to awareness okay we all struggle with this we all know what that's like we've all been disciplined at certain points we've all been undisciplined and those ebbs and flows are consistent amongst everybody across you know whoever is trying to practice discipline and that's why
discipline is hard.
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Chapter 6: What mindset shifts are necessary for ambitious individuals?
That's why it is something that most people struggle with. And the biggest thing that you have to really understand is to become aware when you start to slip. Okay. Like right when you start to slip, you have to be able to identify it. And when we think about like 75 hard and live hard, that is one of the skills that it tunes up.
Anybody who's been doing it or done it or live that lifestyle, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Okay. When you first start off, you know, it's a little bit of work. Uh, it gets a little bit harder. It gets a little bit harder. Then it starts to feel easy once you catch momentum. And, um, Then at a certain point in the program, it gets hard again because it becomes very monotonous.
And this is a reflection of how life sort of hits us with these little, I guess, sneak ups of us being lazy and how it starts is that when things are going well, they're going well, and then they tend to get harder again and we start to slip, all right? And so what you have to do is to start becoming aware Not only when you start to slip, but what causes you to slip? Okay. Like what is it?
Where are you at? Who you with? Yeah. Yeah.
What is it you're struggling with? What starts it? Is it, is it food? Is it a night out with the homies? Is it, uh, you miss a couple workouts, all of those things, even though it might seem like nothing, that's where the slip starts. And so, uh, This idea that you can just become disciplined and you're gonna stay disciplined your entire life is not real for most people.
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Chapter 7: How do I know if my business idea is viable?
Discipline is a perishable skill and it's totally normal to go in and out. And that's why we have to be aware that it's a perishable skill so that we can recognize when it starts to happen and keep the slide from going any further immediately, all right? And when we think about like, what people mostly think about discipline.
Most people think discipline is something that they're born with or something that they can create, but then we'll stick. And neither one of those things is true. Okay. Discipline comes from the repetitive action of holding a standard that is high and that retrains your brain to acknowledge when things are hard for you to push through them anyway. And,
That that's just not a natural thing for people to be aware of based upon, you know, how we're taught about discipline and what most people think it is. Like I said, you know, people think that, you know, you're either born with it or you're not. I thought that for a long time or that once you have it, it stays. And. Those things are not true. You have to practice it every single day.
And one of the things that you can do to reframe this slip from happening is that you could start to understand the reality of how discipline is built. Okay. Everything matters. Every little thing. When you see something that needs to be addressed or something that's inconvenient or something that, you know,
that you know needs to be done and then you walk past it without addressing it, you're taking away, you're making a withdrawal from your discipline skill set every single time. That could be something simple. That could be seeing a shopping cart in the parking lot rolling around and you recognize it as fuck. That's not good. But, you know, that's not my shit. I don't need to handle that. Right.
That takes away from your own discipline. As silly as that sounds, you know, for a lot of you guys out there, it could be something that is as simple as not replacing the toilet paper whenever the toilet paper rolls empty. OK, these are like little bitty things that nobody thinks about when they think about discipline.
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Chapter 8: What practical steps can I take to ensure success in my endeavors?
And when you don't really understand the dynamic of it being an account that you put deposits in or take withdrawals out of, it becomes where people can't really recognize where these slides start to start to happen. So like when you truly understand what discipline is all about, when you truly understand that the smallest things can cause you to slide back
to who you were before, you start to value that momentum and that discipline a little bit differently. And you start to recognize when things need to be addressed, that when you don't handle them, you're walking away and you're like, fuck, that just cost me, right? So I think a lot of it is just awareness about how it works, How you put deposits in, how you make withdrawals out.
And just like a bank account, dude, you're going to want to deposit way more than you withdraw. Otherwise, you're going to end up with a negative balance, which is what puts people in this place of frustration, doubt, misery, you know, looking in the mirror, hating their life, feeling frustrated about where they're at.
When you just start to really understand it, it really brings a new perspective to the little things that help keep this discipline tuned up high, right? People, a lot of times they think, you know, I'm gonna be disciplined, I'm gonna go out and run 100 miles. That's not how that works, dude. It is little things compounded over time that you know need to be done and doing them.
It's not just keeping promises to yourself, which is what everybody likes to say. It's about identifying how it actually works and then operating within those rules. And most people just overlook it. And that's why they find themselves sometimes at a very high place and then a very low place. But I could tell you as someone who has...
developed a very very strong bank account with discipline before i really understood that i was in the same boat as this person was i would get get good get bad get good get bad things would go well then they would go bad and i kind of thought it was just like up to the universe like things are going well now things are going bad now i've got momentum now oh i don't have momentum
When you start to realize that you're in control of all of that, the game changes. And honestly, this is why the book is such a good resource, the book on mental toughness, because it really explains this in depth. To the other point that he made about always feeling behind, look, dude, ambitious people are gonna always feel behind. They're gonna always feel like they're struggling.
They're gonna always feel like they're not doing enough. We as ambitious people don't have the luxury of being able to coast and be happy with ourselves.
no matter how much money you've got no matter how good of shape you're in no matter what you're working on or what impact you're making if you're an ambitious person you're going to always feel like you're not doing enough but that's a hell of a lot better place to be than the someone who thinks oh i'm doing everything i can really they're not doing okay so one person has unsatisfaction
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