15 Dec 2025 · 1 min
Your upbringing shapes you but doesn't define you. Two men raised by an alcoholic father made opposite choices: one stayed sober, one didn't. You can choose to work harder today than yesterday, one hour or one rep at a time.
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You have to look back at your life and ask yourself, who taught me how to work? Or who taught me how to be lazy? Think about it now. If you study my content and you watch whether it's Mindset Monday or something else, I'm always talking about, like, the tale of the two, right? And I love the story of the two young men that when asked, hey, tell us about your life. One says, well, I don't drink. And the question was, why? And he said, well, because my father was an alcoholic. And then the other one was asked, well, tell us about your life. And he's like, well, my life's been pretty miserable. I'm an alcoholic. I really struggle with this addiction. Well, why? Because my dad was an alcoholic. So they were both raised in the same exact environment. One chose not to drink. One chose to be just like his pops and drink like crazy. You get the choice. So if you're listening to this right now, and you're like, wait a minute, that's kind of heavy. Like, you know, who did impact me the most when it comes to work ethic, right? Who was that person for me? Did they teach me to work harder, to be a grinder or a hustler, whatever. You know, whatever phrase you want to use that sort of exemplifies, like, someone that is willing to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes until it works or not. You still got to make the choice from today, moving forward. You could say, I choose to outwork my competition, or I'm going to put in, you know, one extra hour every single day, one more rep every single day inside the gym, whatever it may be.