<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/vicjohnson.jpg" width="115" height="156" alt="Vic Johnson - author and personal development speaker" class="alignleft size-medium" />In her outstanding book, &#8220;Choose the Happiness Habit&#8221;, Pam Golden writes: &#8220;Take the story of two brothers who are twins. One grows up to be an alcoholic bum. The other becomes an extremely successful businessman. When the alcoholic is asked why he became a drunk, he replies, &#8220;My father was a drunk.&#8221; When the successful businessman is asked why he became successful, he says, &#8220;My father was a drunk.&#8221; Same background. Same upbringing. Very different choices.&#8221; </p>
<p>The brothers chose different thoughts about the identical experience. Those thoughts over the years shaped the circumstances they now find themselves in.  <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2019/08/live-in-the-solution-vic-johnson/" title="Permanent Link: Live In The Solution By Vic Johnson" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":3372,"date":"2019-08-02T19:53:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T00:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=3372"},"modified":"2020-12-17T17:58:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T22:58:52","slug":"live-in-the-solution-vic-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2019\/08\/live-in-the-solution-vic-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Live In The Solution By Vic Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/vicjohnson.jpg\" width=\"115\" height=\"156\" alt=\"Vic Johnson - author and personal development speaker\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/>In her outstanding book, &#8220;Choose the Happiness Habit&#8221;, Pam Golden writes: &#8220;Take the story of two brothers who are twins. One grows up to be an alcoholic bum. The other becomes an extremely successful businessman. When the alcoholic is asked why he became a drunk, he replies, &#8220;My father was a drunk.&#8221; When the successful businessman is asked why he became successful, he says, &#8220;My father was a drunk.&#8221; Same background. Same upbringing. Very different choices.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The brothers chose different thoughts about the identical experience. Those thoughts over the years shaped the circumstances they now find themselves in.  <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2019\/08\/live-in-the-solution-vic-johnson\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Live In The Solution By Vic Johnson\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}