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The Fortitude Chronicle: A Weekly Digest of Athletic Determination
You’re Always Becoming Someone. Choose Who.
Colin Jonov
December 22, 2025
The Fortitude Chronicle: A Weekly Digest of Athletic Determination
Welcome to The Fortitude Chronicle, a weekly newsletter devoted to helping you enhance mental fortitude and conquer life's challenges.
In this week's edition, I discuss how everyone is a constant work in progress.
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You’re Always Becoming Someone. Choose Who.
We’re all in the process of becoming.
No one you admire is a finished product. They’re just further along in their becoming than you are.
The mistake most people make is treating identity like a noun instead of a verb.
“I am this.”
“I am not that.”
As if who you are today is permanent instead of a temporary snapshot.
You’re not a fixed thing. You’re a moving pattern.
Every choice you make—what time you wake up, how you respond to stress, what you consume, who you spend time with—is a vote for the person you’re becoming. Not in some abstract, motivational sense, but in a very real, behavioral sense. Repeated actions harden into habits. Habits harden into identity. Identity hardens into your life.
Most people underestimate how malleable they are. They say “I’m just not disciplined,” “I’m just anxious,” “I’m just not a leader,” as if they’re reading off a birth certificate instead of describing practiced patterns. The truth is harsher and more hopeful: you are rehearsing the same version of yourself every day.
Becoming is uncomfortable because it requires grieving old versions of you that were good enough to get you here but not good enough to take you there. It means outgrowing environments, relationships, and stories that feel familiar but keep you small. It means accepting that “this is just who I am” is usually code for “this is who I’ve decided to stay.”
The process of becoming isn’t about adding more—more goals, more hustle, more noise. It’s about sharpening. Subtracting what blurs you. Saying no to what dilutes you. Choosing, over and over, to act in alignment with the future you instead of the convenient you.
You will never be a finished product. There is no final form, no moment where growth is complete and the work is done.
The only real question is: who are you actively becoming—on purpose or by default?
Two Quotes
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
“The tighter you squeeze something you’re afraid to lose, the more you’re losing control of it.” – Morgan Freeman
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Best Regards,
Colin Jonov, Founder & CEO Athletic Fortitude
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