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 nt 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.

Filed under: UNIVERSAL , AMBITIOUS, EMPOWER, GRIT, GROWTH, LEADERSHIP, TURBULENCE, WEAKNESSES, WIN

YOU DESERVE THE DEAL BUT HAVE A RIVAL TO COMPETE, WHAT DO YOU DO?

engaging in politics could become necessarywhen we have to compete  in order to prove our competency or uphold the truth. so how do you win or defend your basic position from politics of human nature?

STAGE A WAR ON THE RIVAL !

cause chaos, uncertainty, over-thinking, overreaction, emotion, overwhelm, error.

decrease their resolve, willpower, strategy, maneuver, choices, support, resistance.

by making faster decisions, sudden attacks, closing their access to outside, creating dilemmas, instilling doubts, send low detailed messages, question their motives as evil, irritate, distract, lure, criticise their alliance to isolate them.

SELF-DIRECT:

• expose to adversity. get tough.
• react ruthlessly.  fight fire with fire.
• have presence of mind in chaos. balance emotion with rationality.

ORGANIZE:

• go on a moral crusade. a cause to uphold.
• be righteous, clean from blame/targets.
• do not group-think.

DEFENCE:

• deter with a threatening presence of uncertainty.
• buy valuable time. retreat from responding.
• consider hidden costs of war- goodwill/revenge.

OFFENCE:

• uncompromising.
• chunk into defeatable parts.
• loose battles but win the war.
• target the enemy army’s mind & what it cherishes.
• or, instead winning, control the relation.
• pressurize on your terms in negotiations.
• avoid entanglements where there are no realistic exits.

UNCONVENTIONAL:

• dominate in disguise of submission.
• feed their perception & isolate them from what is going on.
• stay ordinary & hit line of least expectation out of blue.
• be elusive & lead them to chase into void.
• conquer small bits to elude attention.

if you have an army-

• inwardly declare war.
• tie their survival to the success of the cause.
• lead without constraining.
• participate without group-thinking.
• organize independent groups for controlled chaos.

alliance -

• while seeming to strive for everyone’s interest, further your own by compensating your deficiencies, do your dirty work, to fight your wars.
• if you want something, don’t fight, join them, to slowly make it your own or stage a coup at right moment.

Filed under: UNIVERSAL , WIN