"Grit And Resilience Is The Future Of High Performance"

"Resilience is the ability to find the inner strength to bounce back from a set-back or challenge." - Unknown 

We are seeing a shift where 'resilience and grit' are key points when talking about personal development and effectiveness.  This is because its considered a crucial factor to achieve personal and team high performance, effectiveness, leadership and success. 

  "Grit and Resilience is the new creator of High Performance" 

 Resilient and grit is a one big differentiator for those who want to develop and move forward quicker, those not willing will stay in the same place. Building your resilience and grit is a constant journey and the ability to positively move forward no matter what is the key. 

 Here we look at 7 fundamental steps to creating grit and resilience that will lead to personal and team high performance. 

 Step 1. The compelling reason why? your compelling reason why is your ambition, values and motivations to do what you do.

Your drive and your why needs to be as powerful as your desire to breath or eat. Creating this motivation is critically important as this will enable you to find maintain courage and energy to keep pushing forward on a daily basis.

Ask yourself, why do you get out of bed in the morning? What is the purpose to do what you do? Why is that purpose important to you? What will success mean about you? Is that meaningful or important to you? Are you truly adding value to yourself and your bigger picture? If the answer yes - ask yourself for what purpose(s)? Is why you are doing what you do good enough for you? If it is then this is great, if not - ask yourself questions such as; if today was my last day would I really chose to do this? For what purposes our outcome do i do what I do and why is that important to me? based on everything, whats missing? what else have I not considered or are aware of? 

  “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.” -Eric Thomas

Step 2. Define your goals. What is your 10 year, 5 year, 3 year and 1 year ambitions, goals or visions? What would that mean for you if you achieved them? What would that give you that you don't have right now? With no barriers, what would you long for? Based on your vision of your future, what do you see, hear and feel for your future? How do you break this ultimate goal into bite sized daily, weekly and month goals? Crucially, have you focused your activity so it contributes towards your most important goals? What daily habits and things do you do that may detract away from your important goals? Identify them and avoid them if possible or re-design and re-direct them.

We all need long-term, powerful goals to help us pass the short-term obstacles”. - 
Jim Rohn

 Step 3. Plan priorities. Clarity is power, what 1/2/3 things can you do today, this week or month that would have the biggest positive impact  towards your goals?. Ask yourself weekly, based on my important yearly goal, what am i doing well? what do i need to do differently to increase and re-direct performance or results? What do I need to start doing that I have realised I need to do? what do i need to stop doing? what do i need to continue doing? Disciplined time management will increase your effectiveness, maintain the momentum so it becomes an automatic driving force in your working life. 

Keep a record - document your thoughts and findings in notes. or use a tool such as wunderlist.com. 

“The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.” -
John Wooden

 Step 4. Involve others. Who do you know that you would value providing you some suggestions about how they feel you could improve what you do? feedback is the breakfast of champions so, how could you gain and learn from any feedback? what would you need to do? read? learn? what new knowledge do you need to acquire? Who do you know that could push you? Do you have an accountability partner? do you have a coach? a mentor? Think about your circle of influencers, and think about  5 people you would have in it. What value do these people add to you? what value do you add to them? based on your why, how do they positively impact this? what are their key strengths and what is their relationship with you? How can you best support them? how can they best support you? Having a circle of influence and choosing that wisely is important, you need people who are going to congratulate, challenge and coach.Over time this builds knowledge, charterer and ultimately pushes you through challenges which in turn makes you more confident and resilient. 

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – 
Jim Rohn

 Step 5. Personal responsibility. Take full responsibility for yourself, no ifs, no buts or maybes. Accept responsibility for your own life. Remember, its you who needs to get you where you want to be. No one else.

Take the time to look at where you are and ask yourself...

"Did I make an appointment with myself to be here? What part of me do I need to let go to create the next chapter in my life?" Hold yourself to a higher standard and know that you hold the key to your own future! - Les Brown

  All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you." - Wayne Dyer

Step 6. Self belief. The fundamental key is self-awareness, mental programming and confidence. What are you doing to develop yourself? Are you naturally limiting your beliefs to prevent you getting you closer to your important goals and if so, why? What is your strategy to develop these areas? what new knowledge could you acquire? What workshops, professional groups or networking could you join or attend?

Work hard and invest in yourself, flood your mind with relevant content and learning which will contribute the most to where you want to be. By improving the immediate you will be contributing to creating the person you want to be in the future. 

  I (Adrian Hales) trained with Carl Froch who is '' 4 time super middle weight world boxing champion" 

This is what he said about self belief and why its so important.  CARL FROCH SELF BELIEF

 BELIEVE IN YOURSELF - Motivational Video

Step 7. Take action. Taking action and not being afraid of failure - failure isn't failure its valuable feedback. Taking action is important when it comes to achievement, if you don’t act you will just stay in the same place. Identify what action you need to achieve, place it into a task list and just act without over indulging - don't allow limiting beliefs to kick in, don't give those negative thoughts your time. Just think about why you are doing this, connect back to your reason why. Ask yourself, if I do this - will it get me closer and add the most value? What are the positives of doing this? What are the positive consequences?.

Remember...

"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons." - Jim Rohn