Last week we talked about Grit and why we need grit if we are going to be successful. We talked about the difference between motivation and grit. This week let’s take a step into how we can become more gritty.
Did you know that grit isn’t about being the toughest person in the room? Most people think that to be gritty we need to have some special training, be an elite athlete, a special forces operator, etc. In fact for those that want to be gritty we just need to train our minds.
How to change our minds to rewire how we approach The one who fails, recalibrates, and keeps swinging. The one who turns down the noise in their head and tunes into something stronger.
If you’re serious about becoming unshakeable, this part matters more than all the rest.
Let’s get into it.
Rewire the Voice in Your Head
The most dangerous thing you’ll face isn’t the set-backs. It’s the story you tell yourself about the set-backs and yourself.
Too many people have focused on getting a trophy for showing up and this has made us a little soft. We have not had to push hard for some time and we want the easy button.
It’s actually our brains that intentionally look for the easier path. It is designed to make us efficient, spend less calories, find the less resisdent path, conserve energy. When I read the book “The Comfort Crisis” earlier this year it was a very thought provoking insight on how our brains function.
Through the journey in the Arctic on a hunting trip sleeping on the ground, in a tent…(we camp in the Holiday Express). This author tells how he has learned about our bodies and how the mind finds ways to make us more efficient and comfortable. This is why as a society we gain weight year after year by choosing to do the not so hard things. We instead look for the easy button like GLP1 insulin shots to magically lose weight (for most people).
The Good News
Grit is like a muscle and can be trained. It takes time like losing my “Dad Bod”, these days. it is taking the hard road, leaning into the tough conversations, and not running away from challenges. We need to look at difficult times as well as set-backs as a way to grow out grit muslcles. it does not happen overnight, but we can grow it over time to build the gritty muscle that looks at challenges as a way to improve instead of fear.
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