Last week we burned the excuse arsenal.
You saw the lies. You named them. You made a decision.
Good. That was step one.
But here's what most people don't understand:
Killing the lie isn't enough if your environment keeps feeding you new ones.
This week we go after the drag.
Step 2 of the Draw The Line framework: Kill The Drag.
And it starts with understanding something most men completely miss:
Your environment is not neutral.
It's not just the background of your life. It's not passive scenery.
Your environment is casting a vote for who you become. Every hour of every day.
The people you spend time with—vote.
The content you consume—vote.
The routines you follow—vote.
The spaces you inhabit—vote.
The conversations you have—vote.
And those votes add up. Silently. Constantly. Whether you're paying attention or not.
Here's the problem:
Most men have never audited the votes.
They've never stopped to ask: What is my environment actually voting for?
Is it voting for growth—or comfort?
Is it voting for discipline—or distraction?
Is it voting for the man I want to become—or the man I've been?
You already know the answer. You just haven't wanted to look at it.
I didn't look at it for years.
I had an environment that was perfectly designed to keep me exactly where I was.
Friends who validated my excuses. A phone that stole my mornings. Routines built around comfort. An entire life structured around staying the same.
And I wondered why nothing was changing.
The environment was working perfectly. Just not for me.
This week, we're going to audit every form of drag in your life.
The people. The devices. The routines. The invisible agreements.
Not to make you feel guilty. To make you see clearly.
Because you can't outwork a bad environment. You can't out-discipline it. You can't white-knuckle your way past it.
You have to change it.
You don't rise to the level of your goals.
You fall to the level of your environment.
Time to find out what yours is actually built for.
Done negotiating.
-Joel