The Transformative Power of Grit: The Passionate Pursuit of Hard Goals

Overcome obstacles and achieve success by tapping into your Authentic Grit — the passionate pursuit of hard goals that inspires you to take positive risks and flourish

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Earlier in my life, I had the formula for finding success all wrong — and suffered greatly as a result. That is one of the reasons I now feel so compelled to work in the field of motivation, goals, happiness, and grit.

Through failure and an early-adulthood reboot, I learned how to do what was necessary to find the right goals and summon up the perseverance to achieve them. Along the way, I also developed grit. My experience taught me that grit is definitely not a quality reserved for the select few; it is available to anyone who wants something so badly that they won’t let anyone stop them until they’ve gone as far as they can, often achieving or coming close to that which they sought.

As a young girl in a privileged setting in the suburbs of Washington, DC, I was smart and talented according to IQ and other outward