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My story, My hustle and how it all started...

What is a hustler really? To some people it has a positive connotation and to others it may be negative. There are definitely several ways to look at it. I prefer the positive way. Not everyone is born with the hustle gene in them but you can develop this so called strategy over the years. For myself personally It's definitely genetic and being Jewish helps :) I truly do believe that there is such a thing as a Jewish mentality and you don't have to be Jewish to have it.

My father is the most hard working man I have ever met. He practically works 18/7 (sleeps for 6 hours) and absolutely loves it. It's what drives him and makes him happy. Fortunate for him he's an artist and truly loves what he does and has talent. Now that he is older for him it's more about the actual work than the hustle and thrill of making money. But long before this when he was younger he got his hands onto anything he could to make money. His story is quite interesting and I recently found out about it.

He wasn't very book smart, never really enjoyed school but he did finish college as an engineer. He then worked a bit in that field but didn't quite like it. One day he was traveling in St. Petersburg I believe it was and went to a museum and really loved this painting called "Blue Boy" by Thomas Gainsborough. He then thought to himself what if he makes copies of this painting for those who can't afford real ones but would make the frames himself. So that's how he started his frame business and he would sell at little boutiques all over Tbilisi, Georgia. His frames were selling out weekly. He was making more money in 1 day than most people were making in one months salary.

This was his first hustle break and he was younger than 18 I believe. He then had this fire in him and just went on to do his art work, then also traveled to Turkey to do other business of export and import of electronics and anything possible that he knew he could flip and make $ on. I grew up in a pretty wealthy environment when I was a kid. I didn't really know this til about a year ago when we watched some old tapes and it all came to me. Yes I've seen childhood photos of our life and it did seem pretty good but It never hit me, that wow I actually had everything as a child.

Fast forward to when I was 8 years old. My parents left everything behind to move to Los Angeles and we had to really start from scratch. It was a different life but my dad continued to keep going on his hustle. It was definitely different and a downfall from the life we had before, but we made it through. Today it's all good and that's all that matters.

I always paid close attention to my dad and his worth ethic and it was always instilled in me to be independent, I think it's also part of my personality. I started working when I was 12 years old and never stopped ever since then. I didn't love every job I had, but I gave every job I had my all. I always tried to succeed and in every single job I usually moved up as much as I could. Yes it was about making $ back then to pay for bills and that's it but because I had that work ethic early on when it came to making more $ at better jobs I learned to save and not just make $ to pay bills. I then started doing side jobs while I had full time jobs and the thrill of being able to keep growing is really what drove me. My mom always tells me "you'e just like your dad, money always sticks to you" but she knows that it's because we truly work really hard, it doesn't fall from the sky into our lap by luck! Luck is like a referral. It may get you where you want to be but in order to stay you have to work hard.

This post is getting long and I know no one has the type of time to sit here and read it all so I'll save some of my accomplishments and job growth for another post. But You should definitely get the point of what a hustle is and how to keep growing and pushing! trust me if you work hard people will always notice and when the RIGHT people notice, you will win, you will earn respect and you will most definitely grow in your success! I've had this happen to me first hand so I'm speaking from experience!

Xx,
MKG

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