Category: Grit

The Challenge of Doing Hard Challenges

May 23, 2022
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This year, I’m doing a series of 40-day discomfort challenges, as a way to continue my training in falling in love with discomfort and uncertainty. It’s a training I’ve been doing for 1 1/2 decades now, but I’ve been deepening into it even more in the last 5 years. And now I train others in…

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Grit and Gumption: They’ll Take You to the Stars

April 29, 2022
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For nearly 30 years, a woman has worked in a laundromat here in town, helping customers with the machines and washing and folding loads of drop-off laundry. Julia moves and talks slowly, her eyes have that weary, half-lost look often found in people her age, and her face is worn with care and wrinkles. When…

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Four Practices to Boost Your Resiliency

February 6, 2022
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Challenge, change and failure are a normal part of life. The question is, will we cope or crumble? Emerge stronger or weaker? Resilience is described as the ability to adapt well to adversity or change, and to sustain good health and energy when under constant or acute pressure (Reivich & Shatte, 2002; Ungar, 2019). It is not a…

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