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If you’ve been here a while, you know I work with high achievers.
Different industries. Different talents. Wildly different personalities.
A kaleidoscope of brilliance.
Recently, at a dinner party, someone asked me:
“If your clients are so different - what do they all have in common?”
Not why they come to coaching - but who they are.
I loved that question.
My first instinct was to say transformation, because every client I work with is moving through a powerful transition.
But that wasn’t it.
So I paused. And then it hit me:
Every single one of them is successful.
Not the same kind of successful - their definitions are personal, nuanced, rich.
But still… undeniably high-achieving.
Then came the real question:
“What makes them that way?”
My answer was instant:
Grit.
Not luck.
Not being the smartest in the room.
Not raw talent, or even motivation.
Grit.
The quiet engine behind every “overnight success" and extraordinary life.
The separator. The difference-maker.
The reason some dreams live and others fade.
High achievers don’t win because they never fall.
They win because they refuse to stop.
They hold a long-term vision and they stay with it.
They fall, recalibrate, and rise again.
They persist when others pause.
They stay in the work long enough to see it through.
That’s grit.
And here’s the part most people miss:
Grit is not innate - it’s built.
It’s a muscle.
It’s trainable. Expandable.
Strengthened through structure, clarity, accountability, belief, and resilience.
Many of my clients don’t walk in with unshakeable grit.
They build it (or uplevel it) - and then everything compounds.
So if you don’t feel like you have “enough grit” to hit your next level - good.
It means you’re human. And it means there’s room to grow.
Coaching isn’t about handing you motivation.
It’s about helping you build the stamina, clarity, and inner strength to become unstoppable.
Because grit isn’t the trait of the chosen few.
It’s for the few who choose themselves.
“Minimum Unbreakable Standard” Practice
Grit isn’t earned in grand gestures.
It’s built in the tiny promises you refuse to break.
Pick one micro-commitment you will do every day, no matter what.
Tiny on purpose.
No heroics required.
Examples:
- 10 minutes toward a primary goal
- 1 uncomfortable email or conversation
- 5 minutes of breathwork
- 1 page of personal development reading
- 10 pushups / 1 mile walk / 5-minute mobility
Then do it for 30 days.
Traveling or home.
Tired or energized.
Motivated or not.
Zero negotiation. Zero excuses. Zero drama.
Because the task isn’t the point -
who you become is.
You are wiring:
Perseverance > preference
Identity > mood
Self-trust > circumstance
You are teaching your nervous system:
I do what I say I will do.
That is grit.
And once you build that, your goals stop feeling elusive
and start feeling inevitable.
If you’re ready to build the structures that make your ambition inevitable, let’s talk.
Your next chapter deserves intention and stamina.
🔥 Onwards.
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