It’s always much easier to give up, but people with grit can keep going.

Grit is showing up again and again to get really good at a specific passion by taking long enough time and continuous effort.

Not swerving from the big picture by restraining from jumping goals. Forcing to think of goals as continuous process and not as a single glamorous sprint.
Motivating yourself by relying on effort and not contending in your abilities.
Sustenance for the finishing 1000th step than the impulsive 1st step for strict consistency. Then , success becomes a matter of when,not if; inevitable,not luck

Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that’s what grit allows you to do.

Cultivating a gritty attitude:

1. try to make it on your own.Cut your purse strings and sponsors.[could be unrealistic in some instances]
2. clarify your goals, initially choose more attainable goals.
3. do only 70% capturing core concepts, possible in this given time. later fill-up the gaps during more relevant specific pursuits.
4. refuse interruptions, decline all that that doesn’t entertain your strengths.
5. use antidepressants for more general low mood.
6. gain knowledge through spaced repetitions. Work steadily. Never resist sleep when tired.
7. after experimenting with different strategies[routines,chunking to easiest starting task,deleting temptations], choose one that lowers your burn rate in the long run. Preserve health.
8. do not let external incentives to choke out your intrinsic motivations.
9. know the worst case, to control and work on ways to extend the deadline to current lifestyle [from debt,overwork, lack of growth].
10. think of inspiring daily heroes.

Navigating a storm:

1. Decide to enhance your leadership skills by testing yourself in the thick of crisis which is superior than leading in good times or studying others navigating troubled times.
2. Be willing to ask for help. Going alone won’t be effective; rely on a mentor, an internal management group and an external support group.
3. Stay true to your principles and implement permanent solutions without masking real problems to ensure a long lasting recovery and a sustainable future.
4. Express your vulnerabilities, concerns, doubts. This encourages potentially unforeseen problems to be voiced sooner.
5. Aggressively take action to make major changes that strengthen the organization, since it’s a rare opportunity of lessened resistance than at good times.
6. Rethink your industry’s strategy on the changing needs of your customers in these bad times.
7. Launch an unconventional strategy to emerge as a leader.
8. Make your strengths the basis of competition while exposing the competitor’s weaknesses. Go on offence to win now and reshape the market to play to your strengths.
9. Eliminate your weaknesses [slow bureaucracy] to be competitive.
10. Apart from keeping afloat, devise a post-crisis’s strategy.
11. Stress on sound execution. Assign the best people and keep them accountable for completion of tasks upto the minute detail while always keeping plans flexible and consistent to changing times.

There are opportunities that will be created that don’t even exist yet. Just be there. They’ll come. We are all on the road, and the end is not fixed.

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