| Grit is the number-one factor of success. It’s not talent, title, wealth, or appearance. It’s grit, the ability to work hard for a long period of time towards a goal; to persevere, overcome, and keep moving forward in the face of adversity, failure, rejection, and obstacles. Success doesn’t happen overnight. Along the way a true leader will face countless challenges and will need Grit to find a way forward! If you don’t love it, you’ll never be great at it. If you don’t love it, you won’t work to overcome all the challenges to keep doing it. If you love what you do, you won’t quit when the world says you should. You will continue to show up every day, do the work, and discover that success created by the love you have inside you. If you have a vision for what you want and you know why you want it, you will work hard and persevere in order to achieve it. Your vision and purpose are greater than your circumstances and challenges. When you know your why and you know the way you won’t let obstacles get in the way. You will convert every obstacle into stepping stone. When you believe in a brighter and better future you will continue to take the actions necessary to create it. What you believe determines what you create. If you believe it’s possible, you will continue to work to make it happen. There will be times when your failures and challenges bring you down. There will be moments you want to give up. It’s during these discouraging times that you need more than positive thinking. You need faith and hope to keep you going. Faith keeps you focused on possibilities instead of problems. Hope keeps you moving towards the future instead of living in the past. When you get knocked down your resilience will move you to get back up. You will keep fighting for what you love, what you believe in, what you hope for and what you want. Even when your dream is killed a thousand times, you will keep reviving it and try one more time. The fear of failure is not a discouraging kind of fear but a motivational dose of fear that will make you to work harder. Combine this with a desire to prove yourself that you can do it and you’ll keep working to improve in order to reach your goal. All the great leaders , no matter how much success they have, still had a healthy dose of fear of failure and desire to prove themselves . It’s what keeps you humble and keeps you working to be great. Grit is that ‘extra something’ that separates the most successful people from the rest. It’s the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality. Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint. |
Ashok Mahajan
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