We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Tre Tate a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Tre, thanks for sharing your insights with our community today. Part of your success, no doubt, is due to your work ethic and so we’d love if you could open up about where you got your work ethic from?
Definitely my father, God rest his soul. He was much older than the majority of my peers fathers growing up, so he was already retired by the time I came into the world, but found a passion in sales. Him becoming a salesman was really just an excuse to talk to any and everyone without my mom telling him to hurry up. He absolutely loved people, he loved to help.
When I was a child, at times he would drive around searching for me while I was playing with my friends so we could go handle business. I absolutely hated it of course, I was child. His words were “watch what I do, watch what I say, I won’t always be here & it’s my responsibility to teach you everything I know”. He was not only grooming me to be a man, he was grooming me to be an entrepreneur also.
So I have been blessed to have Massif Fitness Training for 10 years now. I was 21 years old when I began, I’m now 31. I credit my father for pouring his work ethic in me which has allowed me to be successful.
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
Personal trainer is my title, but changing & impacting lives is what I do! From weight loss, weight gain, rehabilitation, nutritional guidance, etc. I take what I do very seriously simply because I love it. Also, when someone trust & believes in you to guide them in becoming a better version of themselves internally and externally, that role isn’t something to play around with.
The most exciting part about what I do is being able to witness the journey my clients go through. Changing your lifestyle completely is not easy, so of course you’re going to have ups and downs, but its the realization of “If I don’t quit, I won’t lose” that’s beautiful. The refusal to settle & be complacent leads them to becoming a completely different version of themselves.
I always say, the true transformation is in the mind! Whatever you think and say controls the performance you put out, once that’s changed, you are changed!
The reason why I named my company Massif Fitness. A massif is a chain of mountains grouped together, and in life we all have a chain of mountains we have to climb in order become a better version of ourselves. We may slip, we may fall, but if you don’t quit, you won’t lose!
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
1.) Work Ethic – Prevents comfortability, develops your hunger to be better, and keeps you consistent!
2.) Passion – if you’re passionate about a career, then you’re never truly working, you’re waking up doing what you love. In this country we work more than half of our lives, and so many people have worked careers that they were not passionate about, which should make you ask yourself “am I living or am I just surviving?”
3.) Faith – You MUST have faith. Things will not always go as planned or expected, but faith keeps you uplifted in the dark times when yo can’t see the light, faith is remembering what God has brought you out of before and reminding yourself that if he did it before he can do it again.
My advice to those who are early in their journey would be to trust your instincts, follow your heart, don’t allow fear to consume you, and surround yourself with winners who want to see you win as much as they do! I’m truly thankful for my success, but If I had understood this earlier, I would be much further than where I am.
To close, maybe we can chat about your parents and what they did that was particularly impactful for you?
That’s a tough one, because they did a lot as I look back on the 18 years I had with them.
I’m going to say allowing me to dream. I always had big dreams growing up, like having a clothing line, owning properties, being a professional athlete, the list goes on and on! But they always made me feel like I could accomplish it, they never made it seem like it would ever happen or out of reach. Allowing me to dream allowed me to believe in myself, and without believing in yourself it’s tough to make dreams come true.
PARENTS!! Allow your kids to dream, doesn’t matter if it sounds ridiculous to you or not, those dreams are in your child for a reason, you never know what extraordinary things they will do when they believe.
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