Don't just do what is REQUIRED to be GREAT. Do the UNREQUIRED. The work others can't see, won't do, they don't want to talk about. That the highest performers choose to make and priority. #UNREQUIRED #TheSTANDARD⚒️

I was the shy kid ‎ I dont have a single photo of me with my shirt off on my phone from 2-10 years ago because I knew I wasnt happy. ‎ I just pushed it to the side and didnt confront it (the wrong thing to do I know but im only human). ‎ It wasnt until years had passed and nothing had changed that I knew I had to do something. ‎ I started hitting the gym religiously, but kept failing. ‎ Over years of trial and error I finally started seeing results. ‎ Now I have a much higher level of confidence because I know what I have put myself through. ‎ Has anyone experienced something similar?

Here is a great beginner split that I used to get started ‎ Day 1: Chest/Shoulders ‎ Day 2: Arms ‎ Day 3: Rest ‎ Day 4: Back ‎ Day 5: Legs ‎ When progress seems slow just remember that it will take time. ‎ In 3 days you wont notice much change but in 3 months I guarantee you will be shocked. ‎ Let me know if you need anything else.

CURIOUS... How many of us in the Academy here have completed or attempted 75 Hard?

Hi, my name is Patricia. I am 48 years old and I have spent the last 47 years pretty much wasting my life. I have always felt that I was not good enough strong enough capable enough to have a better life. Somehow, I learned to believe I didn’t deserve more no matter how hard I worked I wouldn’t be able to make anything of my life even as a child. I do not recall having self love for myself. I didn’t even feel like I could take care of myself. I always thought I needed somebody else to help. Take care of me. I definitely played the victim role, I obviously became comfortable there because every time I would start to go for more in my life stand up for myself believe I deserved better all too quickly. I would run back to that. I was not good enough. I do not have very much that I am proud of in my life. I have two children and two grandchildren. I am very happy to have them in my life but I do not feel I was a good role model for them not physically or mentally I credit my mom and dad for helping me care for them. I believed I couldn’t do it on my own on October 25, 2021 We got the diagnosis that my partner of 18 years had pancreatic cancer The reason I say 47 years wasted was because I got to stand by his side as I watched him suffer and fade away. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life, but it is also probably one of the most proudest things I’ve done standing by him till his last breath holding him in my arms as his spirit left his body on October 14, 2022 he didn’t even make it a year and that was with them finding it at stage one. He is not the only one that died that day I dug myself into the darkest hole of my life. I had no faith in life or God at all anymore most days I didn’t even want to be alive and wouldn’t you know it nine months later, I would lose my stepson that I helped raise to addiction that broke me pretty much I blamed myself question if I could’ve been there more for him that I wasn’t the only one that lost TONY and was in pain shortly after that I ended up in the hospital for four months needless to say my health mentally and physically was on a downward spiral. I felt like I was on a roller coaster nightmare that I couldn’t get out of.