Tips for Success

Lessons along the way

Grit

A number of successful people attribute their success to their staying power ability to remain on task. To continue to work toward your goal, long after it has become boring. Boredom brings disillusionment and a wish to abandon the goal for another bright and shiny (and more easily obtainable) goal.

You’ve heard the expression; wash, rinse and repeat. Learning to abandon uncompleted goals can fall into that category.

There is no substitute for the grind. Before you start know the grind is on the road pushing back on you from reaching your goal. Know that new bright and shiny goals will tempt you away from your work with the promise of “easier” attainability.

So what do you do? When you are considering what goal to pursue, choose a worthwhile goal worthy of your time and effort, even when the work gets boring and it's a grind to continue. If the goal is not worth that effort, choose a goal that is. Asking yourself, what one goal could I set that would have the greatest positive impact on my life, is a good place to start.

Other goals will always tempt you away from your current goal, you can say, yeah, I’ll get to that, right after I reach this goal.