Where to find your Grit...

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Grit is something you can recognize as present in a persons personality.
They are resilient people—the Gritty.
Embodying both perseverance and passion.
Never let failure win in any permanent way.
These people having the mental fortitude to get back up after repeatedly being knocked down.

To possess Grit means to be both tenacious and ambitious.
If Grit had a slogan it would be: “hard work can beat talent”.
Grit is considered one of the personality traits found amongst the most successful people.

Psychology is usually helpful in telling us about human behavior.
But Grit is considered a non-cognitive trait  by most accounts. 
So we do not know where Grit comes from.
Not knowing where something comes from makes it hard to reproduce.
Luckily, I do not think we need to.

I look at Grit as if it is a gene.
Something that is in our genetic code.
That “Grit” is not something we have to figure out how to create…
Because it is already there.
Something that lays waiting in our genetic code to be awakened if we are a carrier.
And I believe we are all carriers.

Grit is in you.
It is doing one of two things…
Driving you or waiting on you to wake it up.
So how do you wake it up?
I think it is different for everyone.
But you will know and everyone else will notice.

(Could feel like one or more of the following…)

You wake up your Grit when…

you stop having a limited vision of yourself.
you live your life by your terms.
you go out an fill your own work schedule.
you stop asking when it will be your turn and take your turn.
you stop letting self-doubt win.
you start running your business like someone is out there trying to put you out of business 24 hours a day.
you stop letting fear paralyze you.
you are at the worst place in your life and you decide “this right now” is not good enough for you.
you make yourself dress up and show up. 
you are done and you STILL get up and go prospect again.
you make yourself do any and everything you can, then do more.
you see every setback as a temporary setback.
you fail over and over and over and never stop trying.
you embrace your Grit constantly until it is just who you are.
You wake up your Grit when you decide you will continue going through any struggle to reach your goals.














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