Build Your Grit: It's The Best Predictor of Success!"
"I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful … from the non-successful … is pure perseverance." - Steve Jobs
A very happy Winter/Summer solstice to you all. And I wish peace and many blessings — whatever event/holiday you celebrate. I was brought up in the Christmas story, so please accept my wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Peacefu, Joyousl New Year!
I know most of you are about to switch into celebratory mode, but I wanted to hit on the topic of "grit"— the passion, practice, and perseverance needed to create great results!
One, because I felt it would be a good seed to plant before you started thinking about New Year's resolutions in a couple of weeks.
Two, because a great new TEDx talk by the developer of the Grit Scale, Angela Duckworth has just come out.
Finally, because I just came across an amazing example of a young woman demonstrating great grit, and a short video about her challenges, gritty ways of overcoming then and some remarkable successes.
If you didn't read the original pieces on "grit" and want to, you can find them on mythis blog. Just scroll down to the Aug 21 and September 13th postings.
But, if you don't feel like reading right now, do watch these two amazing videos Getting, grasping, seeing and practice the basics of grit could help you change your life and create what matters most to you.
Angela Duckworth on “Grit”
Amy Purdy - Living Beyond Limits
In the first, Angela describes what "grit" is, how she came to measure it and why it is the most accurate predictor of long-term and high-level success we currently have.
In the second, Amy describes suffering a debilitating disease, falling into depression and then grittily pulling herself out of it, standing up for herself and her dreams and pursuing them with passion, much practice and perseverance and a great deal of great. Heart-warming!
Here's what a Simply Success newsletter reader said about these two videos when viewed together:
"Those are two great (well perhaps beyond great.....oh how I have come to despise the way we use the word awesome) videos. She and so many others are so inspiring in the ways they live their lives that it inspires me to try and make the best out of the remaining life I have. I must learn to see that my advancing age and comfortable complacency would be best viewed as just one of those borders "to be pushed off from" as Amy so eloquently said. Great vids!" – Dr. Chuck, Bahia de Bandera, Mexico
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COACHING INFO PACKAGE AND F.REE COACHING CHAT --------------------------------------------------------------------------------– It's almost New Year's and time for resolutions.
This year, would you like to choose to create meaningful results — results that truly matter to you!
And develop a powerful and gritty organizing framework, and set of "creating" skills that greatly increase your chances of sticking with your resolve and following through to the completion of your results?
And experience the wonderful feelings from completing the great changes in your life, work, relationship that doing so will bring?
If so, send an e-mail with "Coaching Results Package" in the subject. I'll send you my fr.ee 7-page info package. No obligation! No pressure!
NOTE: Please flag your message as "highest priority" or "most Important". I do this from the "MESSAGE" menu and "Priority" in my email program.
I'll be taking time off between Dec 22 and Jan 3, but will be checking my email for your requests. The rest, I'll be mass deleting. So make sure to flag your request "priority!" Thanks!
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Here's testimonial from a satisfied coaching client:
"When I started with Bruce, I was scattered, and disorganized. I had no clear focus, but felt I wanted to create something good. His structured but flexible way of helping me develop the framework and skills of creating was really great. And then he helped me apply them to creating a new job for myself, my dream apartment and a very wonderful relationship. I'm so happy that Bruce is my coach!" – A. F. Swennson, Seattle, WA
And you? What's your dream? What do you want to create? Do you have the grit? If not now, when? -----------------—
QUOTABLE QUOTES ——————————————————————————— “It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.” — Jessamyn West
“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” – George Sheehan
“It takes a little courage, and a little self -- control. And some grim determination, If you want to reach the goal. It takes a deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the battle, If you really want to win. There's no easy path to glory, There's no road to fame. Life, however we may view it, Is no simple parlor game; But it's prizes call for fighting, For endurance and for grit; For a rugged disposition and don't know when to quit.” – Jessamyn West
“Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.” – Anthony J. D'Angelo
“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.” – Elbert Hubbard ------------—
Enjoy the videos. Think big about your resolutions, or as the old saying goes, "Set no small goals, for they lack the power to stir our souls." I hope the vids stir our soul a little.
So have a wonderful holiday season. Think about trying out coaching in the New Year, and upping your chances of creating the best year ever!
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Bruce *************************************************** Copyright (c) 2011 by Bruce Elkin. All rights worldwide reserved. --------------------
Bruce Elkin Success coach. 22 years personal life coaching experience. Clients on 6 continents. Author of 4 books and ebooks. Full Profile & Contact Information...
