Hot as hell today in the gym like a sauna, but great training session. We pushed hard and made progress.
Been applying the “get to” philosophy lately when it comes to pushing myself, getting after it and raising the bar.
And that mindset has really helped me calibrate my perspective and get even more focused.
We “get to” put in the work
As opposed to we “have to”
Big difference you can apply to all areas of life in a positive way.
Grateful for the grind.
Have a productive week, my friends.
*go super light on this chest finisher and squeeze the hell outta the reps.
#GetToPhilosophy
#ironparadise
Rules are rules ✔️
Whoever drops cuss words in the Johnson household, must suffer the consequences of a nasty soaped up sponge in the mouth 🧼 🧽
Not surprisingly, the guilty one always happens to be Dwanta Claus 🎅🏾🤣🥃
Handshakes and eyes mean everything to me, as I know they do to this man as well.
General Randy George, Chief of Staff of the Army.
Pleasure to meet with you, General and thank you for welcoming us to DC to meet with you and your fellow Generals.
General Deb Kotulich
General Laura Potter
Looking forward to working with you and your team on the task at hand.
As always, thank you for your service and I’m sending you the bill for all the selfies I had to take in the Pentagon after our meeting.
$7 bucks + tequila.
See you soon, sir.
Respectfully,
Rock
Handshakes and eyes mean everything to me, as I know they do to this man as well.
General Randy George, Chief of Staff of the Army.
Pleasure to meet with you, General and thank you for welcoming us to DC to meet with you and your fellow Generals.
General Deb Kotulich
General Laura Potter
Looking forward to working with you and your team on the task at hand.
As always, thank you for your service and I’m sending you the bill for all the selfies I had to take in the Pentagon after our meeting.
$7 bucks + tequila.
See you soon, sir.
Respectfully,
Rock
I love the raw fucking emotion coming from this gigantic young man @iamlacolbytucker – who has overcome a lot of tragedies in his life only to become stronger.
I’m an open book when it comes to my mental health struggles and I’m always there for anyone who needs guidance and support — especially our young men out there who might be struggling to find their own way as the world feels like it’s on their shoulders.
By nature, us men don’t talk about our shit when we’re struggling. We’re supposed to be tough, strong and take care of everything and everyone.
Truth is, asking for help and being vulnerable isn’t a weakness- it’s one of our superpowers.
That’s controlling the controllables.
That’s putting in the work with our two hands.
I believe LaColby Tucker is destined for life’s greatness and I will always be rooting this young man on!!! 💪🏾
#XFL
#LeagueOfOpportunity
@danygarciaco
Mentality shift from “I got to” to “I GET to”
We get to work our assess off
We get to take care of & protect our families
We get to create opportunities for ourselves & others
We get to look people in the eyes & shake their hands.
We get to be kind
We get to be nice
We get to be authentic
We get to live free
We get to lift people up
We even get to say “fuck this” when we’ve had enough
The “get to” do something is a privilege
Gratitude always calibrates the strongest.
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 to you and your families.
Luv U and appreciate you
Grateful to all of you
Have some fun today
~ dj
Perspective shift that’s helped me this year.
We don’t HAVE to do anything.
But we can GET to do everything.
Big psychological shift that recalibrates our actions.
“we get to” all becomes a benefit & blessing
(even if it sucks;)
Enjoy your weekend, my friends
#saturday
#ip🎄🎅🏾
A great hang with @joerogan for our 3 hour chat!!
(we also had a kick ass workout for 3 hours earlier that morning 💪🏾)
Here’s the life changing decision I made to not pursue pro football anymore and instead decide to pursue my true passion – pro wrestling.
Which lead to a fucking massive and emotional fight with my dad over this decision.
Months later, Pat Patterson (my wrestling mentor) would casually just say “keep working” when he came to watch me in the ring and evaluate my talent as I was training.
Little I knew, he immediately called Vince McMahon and said “you gotta see this fucking kid”….
Months later Vince McMahon sends me to Memphis, Tennessee to learn the business of pro wrestling.
I’ll never forget Vince’s parting words as I walked out of his office…
“Hey, kid…. don’t go down to Memphis and cut your forehead up with razor blades”
(slicing our foreheads with razor blades was how we bled during matches back in the day🩸)
Crazy to look back on how it all started and the unpredictable roads I travelled.
One word comes to mind: GRATEFUL.
#joeroganexperience
#goodtimes
A lil’ Thanksgiving tickling of the ivory’s 🎹 🎶
with the two beautiful voices and talents of @laurenhashianofficial & @ericzayne and me just making up lyrics to an all time classic 🥰🙋🏽♂️
@billyjoel 🐐
I’m sure like a lot of you…
Ever since I was a little kid, if you told me not to do sumthin’— well you know the rest… 😈🎅🏾
Corporate exec:
“Hey Rock can you sign 5 Christmas boxes for our big @ZOAEnergy Dwanta’s Holiday Punch giveaway”
Me
“Sure”
Exec:
“And please don’t write anything inappropriate”
Me
“You got it”
Hold my tequila…
Love,
Dwanta 🎅🏾😈 🥃🎄
#merryfxxkingchristmas
#zoa
* link in bio☝🏾
It’s Dwanta Season! 🎅🏾
I invested in this financial company @Acorns because I liked the moves they were making for customers in the money space.
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#GrowYourOak
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#Dwanta 🎅🏾
Dwayne Johnson is a director of Acorns Labs, LLC.
Mana is all around us.
No matter what color we are or where we come from.
Its real.
And if you really pay attention to it and embrace it…
it becomes our shared superpower – all of us.
It’s a force that disrupts the world in the most positive and electric way.
#mana⚡️
Chopping it up with @joerogan about the summer of ‘97 before I became “The Rock”, my name was “Rocky Maivia” – I just tore a ligament in my knee and my @wwe career was completely failing as a rookie babyface. I started to consider a career in MMA with a new started fighting company, called PRIDE in Japan — where the athletes were making some pretty big money.
I thought I could take a year or so to commit to my MMA training and maybe I’d have shot. Maybe not.
But I wanted to make some real money.
At the end of that summer of ‘97 I was rehabbing my injured knee and got the call from Vince McMahon that wound up changing my life — he said I’m gonna bring you back BUT you’re gonna become a heel, join the Nation of Domination and call yourself The Rock.
Thank God I got that call, because my career as an MMA fighter in PRIDE would’ve lasted all of 3 minutes because those guys would’ve knocked my fucking jaw across the pacific 😂💀
But the lesson of all this that I did learn, is that the most powerful thing you can be is yourself.
I apologize in advance to @thechrisjanson & @officialhankjr for singing in keys that sure as hell don’t exist, but I sing from the heart + I got tequila so that always helps 😂🥃
I got the craziest stories out of Nashville when I was a broke 15yr old kid, hanging out on Music Row looking for a job and drinking (diet coke:) in those honky tonk dive bars- with this wild hair of an idea that I was gonna be a country music star.
There’s a lot of you out there fighting for your dreams, so keep fighting. Sometimes the things we think we want most in life, are the best things that never happen. Then you find yourself on different roads, fighting for different dreams and knocking on different doors — that eventually open.
God Bless Nashville & and God Bless that woman working at @tootsies_orchid_lounge that fateful night 😅🖤🥃
#johnsonandjanson #bocephus #bluesman
We’re getting there 🎶 🎹 😂
We did sing other songs too but got stuck on “just the way you are” cos we (me) kept screwing up the lyrics.
I gets a few @teremana’s in me and start making up my own lyrics 🤣🥃
Some real musical talent and amazing voices here with @ericzayne & @laurenhashianofficial!
Happy thanksgiving weekend, my friends 🥃
I’m always shook when the universe makes powerful stuff like this happen ✨
I was honored with the “Inspiration Award” at the @thegrio awards in a room full of icons as we celebrated and honored black excellence.
5 minutes before I took the stage I turned to my publicist and said “I’m gonna dedicate this award to my dad – he paved the way for me and all of us”
I took the stage and dedicated my award to my pops, the “Soulman” Rocky Johnson.
Here’s the crazy part 👇🏾🤯
As I was getting in my pick up truck, a man who was working the event, came up to me with two incredible vintage wrestling posters that featured my dad, and my grandpa, High Chief Peter Maivia and my wrestling mentor, Pat Patterson.
All three father figure influences in my life who have all now passed away.
Keep in mind, I made the decision to dedicate the award to my dad just minutes before I walked on stage, so no one knew.
It was all meant to be.
Reminder to stay grateful, humble & hungry.
A mana filled night I’ll never forget.
🛻🤵🏽♂️🤟🏾✨
ps – appreciate the kind words @99fabiancortez thank you for the posters and good to shake your hand brother.
Big @MakeAWishAmerica dayyyy!!! 🥳 👏🏾👏🏾🎅🏾
Want to share this mana with all of you today as it’s been on my heart ❤️ for months now!
Today, I have the privilege of granting wishes from beautiful kids from across our country!!
(most wishes ever granted in one day by anyone in Hollywood)
These kids are the real heroes and their families are the real superstars.
Lots of crazy and hard stuff happening out there around the world. Headlines are noisy and comment sections can be toxic — but this is the reminder that there is still so much good in this world.
Heart, soul, mana, smiles & JOY…
And these make a wish kids and their families are proof of that!
Here we gooooo!!
I’ll keep y’all posted ❤️🎅🏾
#dwanta
#makeawish
We created the “League of Opportunity” in our 2023 season of the @XFL 🏈
Creating a hungry culture for players to grab their opportunity and never let go.
I never made it to the @NFL but seeing our players ball out and sign NFL contracts this season was a very cool and very humbling “life comes full circle” moment for me as XFL owner.
Our merger has been approved by the Department of Justice — and now we all continue to work hard to create even greater opportunities for players, coaches & staffs in our 2024 season this spring.
Let’s get some.
Let’s work.
#xfl
#usfl
#owner
#2024
My full speech receiving the Inspiration Award.
Maybe there’s some takeaway value from my experiences that may help anyone watching.
If you’re lucky enough to become successful at something- go build more mountain and bring everyone with you.
Stand up for what you believe in
Don’t take no shit
And always keep giving back
This one’s for you Soulman,
thanks for paving the way 🕊️✊🏾
#InspirationAward
It’s true – “I’m pulling it out” are words I never say, what do ya want from me?
Brotha’s keepin’ it real 💁🏽♂️😂
My favorite part is you can hear my lead publicist say “Jesus Chriiist” off camera 🤦🏽♀️🤣
Life’s short, let’s have fun 😂😈
Take 2 🎬 💀
@acorns
#mightyoakcard
* link in bio ☝🏾 Dwayne Johnson is a director of Acorns Labs, LLC.
This is f’n crazy, cool & FUN 🤯🥃
The world’s greatest wax museum Madame Tussauds presents THREE NEW Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson wax figures for a TOTAL OF NINE around the world 🌎
London
Asia
Vegas
New York
Hollywood
Orlando
And now…
Berlin
Amsterdam
Dubai
That’s A LOT of bald head, dirty jokes and tattoos 😂🙋🏽♂️
I love meeting my fans all around the world and my Madame Tussauds figures are the next best thing to connecting with you.
It’s always my honor to work so closely with the awesome & talented Madame Tussaud team on every single Rock figure and its theme!
Come join me at Madame Tussaud’s, let’s raise some mana together and say cheers to gratitude, good times, dirty jokes and nine Rock wax figures that are sure as hell much cooler than the real human himself.
#ROCKSAroundTheWorld
@madametussaudsamsterdam
@tussaudsdubai
@tussaudsberlin
@madametussauds
@madame_tussauds_orlando
@madametussaudsusa
Don’t miss TONIGHT on CBS!
Grateful to have been honored at tonight’s @theGrio Awards with the “Inspiration Award”
Real privilege for me to share the night with these icons as we celebrate black excellence.
Illuminating our leaders of color.
Join the celebration TONIGHT at 8pm ET, on @CBStv and streaming live on @ParamountPlus.
A special acknowledgement of my friend @realbyronallen who continues to raise the bar and redefine what success can be.
From one blues man to another— love you brother @thechrisjanson for this one 🥃
Im gonna return the favor and in 2024 we’re finally singing a song together.
#bluesman #bocephus #jansonandjohnson
Our @teremana Mana Mobile continues rolling across our great country serving our First Responders & Health Care Workers 🇺🇸 🚌 🌮 🥃
Over 60 cities and over 40,000 served!
My goal is to roll into every major city in the 🇺🇸 and serve hundreds of thousands of First Responders & Health Care Workers!
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