So, what’s the incredible power of not giving up?<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">First, you will build a super mindset. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">And second, you will build better habits. </li></ul>Yet, not giving up means you have to fail first. So, failing is not an option – it’s mandatory.

The Power of Not Giving Up

Do you struggle to build habits? You're not alone. Discover 4 powerful lessons learned from 5 years of habit-hacking fails. This isn't the typical self-improvement article! 

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Confessions Of My Habit-Hack Fails: 4 Powerful Lessons Learned From 5 Years Of Struggle

<ol><li>Grit is about maintaining the same top-level goal for a very long time.</li><li>GRIT has four psychological assets: (1) interest (2) practice (3) purpose (4) hope.</li><li>Gritty people perform more deliberate practice and experience more flow.</li><li>For paragons of grit, the long days and evenings of toil, the setbacks and disappointments, and struggle, the sacrifice—all this is worth it because, ultimately, their efforts pay dividends to other people.</li><li>Often, the critical gritty-or-not decisions we make are a matter of identity more than anything else.</li></ol>

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Mindsets, Philosophies, And Understandings Of Ultra Successful Entrepreneurs Like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and more

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The Psychology Of The Ultimate Entrepreneur 

"In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, athletes, students, and business people--both seasoned and new--that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called "grit." Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur "genius" Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success. Rather, other factors can be even more crucial such as identifying our passions and following through on our commitments. Drawing on her own powerful story as the daughter of a scientist who frequently bemoaned her lack of smarts, Duckworth describes her winding path through teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience, which led to the hypothesis that what really drives success is not "genius" but a special blend of passion and long-term perseverance. As a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Duckworth created her own "character lab" and set out to test her theory. Here, she takes readers into the field to visit teachers working in some of the toughest schools, cadets struggling through their first days at West Point, and young finalists in the National Spelling Bee. She also mines fascinating insights from history and shows what can be gleaned from modern experiments in peak performance. Finally, she shares what she's learned from interviewing dozens of high achievers--from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon to the cartoon editor of The New Yorker to Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll. Winningly personal, insightful, and even life-changing, Grit is a book about what goes through your head when you fall down, and how that--not talent or luck--makes all the difference"--

Understand yourself and those around you.

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In this instant New York Times bestseller, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed—be it parents, students, educators, athletes, or business people—that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls “grit.” Drawing on her own powerful story as the daughter of a scientist who frequently noted her lack of “genius,” Duckworth, now a celebrated researcher and professor, describes her early eye-opening stints in teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience, which led to the hypothesis that what really drives success is not “genius” but a unique combination of passion and long-term perseverance. In Grit, she takes readers into the field to visit cadets struggling through their first days at West Point, teachers working in some of the toughest schools, and young finalists in the National Spelling Bee. She also mines fascinating insights from history and shows what can be gleaned from modern experiments in peak performance. Finally, she shares what she’s learned from interviewing dozens of high achievers—from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon to New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff to Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll. Among Grit’s most valuable insights: *Why any effort you make ultimately counts twice toward your goal *How grit can be learned, regardless of I.Q. or circumstances *How lifelong interest is triggered *How much of optimal practice is suffering and how much ecstasy *Which is better for your child—a warm embrace or high standards *The magic of the Hard Thing Rule Winningly personal, insightful, and even life-changing, Grit is a book about what goes through your head when you fall down, and how that—not talent or luck—makes all the difference.

Angela Duckworth is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Angela Duckworth has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Angela Duckworth's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

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Grit

Big thinkers always attempt to maximize the use of their time. As a result, they primarily focus on only the highest value activities that will help them to bring their big ideas into reality.

Focus On The Highest Value Activities

Weaknesses are things we neglected and consistently focus on over a lifetime. They are not limitations, but rather opportunities for change.By challenging our weaknesses we naturally strengthen our ability to deal with the unexpected and develop our arsenal of skills and resources that can be used to tackle big goals.

Challenge Weaknesses

When conceptualizing big ideas, big thinkers take into account their personal strengths and abilities. By conceptualizing ideas that naturally support their strong attributes and talents, they increase their motivation and dedication.

Focus On Your Strengths

<ul><li>Focus on planning and starting small to avoid being overwhelmed.</li><li>Gather, all the necessary resources, tools, knowledge and support in advance and then consistently act big to reach your goals.</li><li>Build effective systems that will enable you to have ideas, accelerate decisions and support your creativity.</li><li>Take calculated risks and weigh up the consequences of your decisions before taking action.</li></ul>

Tips For Thinking Big

Consistently reframe your problems by expanding possibilities and perspectives. First see the problem for what it is, then twist your perspective of the problem in a creative way to help yourself brainstorm better ideas and solutions.

Consistently Reframe Problems

Big thinkers associate with other big thinkers who are ambitious, motivated and inspire others to think, act and be bigger than they ever imagined was possible.

Associate With Ambitious People

Routinely create artificial problems to strengthen your problem-solving ability and stretch your imagination. Artificial problems also have the benefit of at times leading to unexpected solutions for other seemingly unrelated issues.

Create Artificial Problems

<ul><li>The language you use reflects your thoughts. If your wording often focuses on complaining and worrying, then your life may reflect these words. Use an empowering language.</li><li>Don’t settle for safety. Think of goals that will help expand your comfort zone and stretch your imagination.</li><li>Thinking forward several steps and even years is key to big thinking.</li><li>Solution-oriented thinking involves asking effective questions that will expand possibilities to previously unconsidered alternatives.</li><li>Indispensable Qualities to thinking big: passion, courage, optimism, persistence, discipline, and enthusiasm.</li></ul>

Cultivation Is The Key To Thinking Big

To think big, find the time to think proactively about your situation. If you don’t you end up in reaction mode and that’s not conducive to finding solutions and ideas that address the larger aspects of an issue.Also, think of big problems as opportunities. The more often you solve them the better you’ll become at solving future problems.

Relish Time For Thinking 

Ignore the details at first, or what cannot be done. Instead, focus on the big picture and on the possibilities of bringing an idea to fruition. Later, you must ask effective questions that break down the idea into workable parts — making them practical and real-life scenarios.

Focus Only On What You Want

To keep yourself on target, motivated and moving quickly, you must continuously test yourself and your ideas. And this involves setting challenging time-frames that test your limits and stretch your comfort zones.

Set Challenging Time-Frames

<ul><li>Limiting habits: procrastination, immediatism, negative thinking, making excuses, solving insignificant problems, over-analyzing, perfectionism.</li><li>People criticize and judge the unknown and big ideas are often so.</li><li>Fears of failure and the unknown restrict us to small thoughts, decisions, and actions. </li><li>Lack of time turns us into small thinkers and immediatists. </li><li>Lack of incentives robs you of the motivation to stretch yourself emotionally or physically. </li></ul>

Barriers To Thinking Big

The key to shifting your perspective and developing the habit of thinking big involves stepping outside of yourself and into another persona — essentially becoming someone who will help you see things bigger, better and more creatively.You must also think from the perspective of having no limitations or fears and ask big questions persistently until the right answer comes to mind.

Think Like a Child

Thinking big implies setting goals beyond your comfort zone. The bigger the difficulty the bigger the thought.Keep in mind that setting unattainable goals is counterproductive. An unattainable goal can lead to stress, worry, fear, procrastination and a plethora of other limiting emotions and behaviors.

Set Goals Beyond Your Comfort Zone

Big goals are only achieved by those with the willpower and resilience to keep moving forward when others give up. Those who think big understand cultivating and cultivate these traits on a daily basis even when performing the smallest of tasks.

Strengthen Willpower And Resilience

... by trial and error and consistently analyzing things related to big ideas, until you've practiced enough your brain can easily establish unusual correlations and a global comprehension develops.Other ways to increase your capacity for thinking big include problem solving, performing optimizations, providing value to other, being ambitious and mentally trying the outlandish.

Develop The Habit Of Thinking Big

I dare you to think bigger, to act bigger, and to be bigger, and I promise you a richer and more exciting life if you do. - William Danforth The one major factor that separates the most successful people from the rest begins with a single thought.

Here's How the Habit of Thinking Big will Help You Achieve Your Goals

The hardest battles often come from within. Nothing meaning is achieved without struggle. Instead of thinking about how hard things are think about the incremental progress you are making over time.“Our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

Embrace Challenges 

Self Discipline is so vital in terms of achieving anything without that we lost in a sea.

6 Powerful Ways To Master Self-Discipline

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• Decide exactly what you want.• Write it down. Think on paper and make it tangible.• Set a deadline for the goal, set sub-deadlines if necessary.•List down everything you may need to do to achieve your goal.• Break things down into individual tasks, and arrange them in priority and sequence to form a plan.• Take action immediately. Do something, do anything.• Do something everyday that moves you toward your major goal.

1. Set the table

A round-up of useful sources to refer to when willpower gets low.

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Books

Beat Procrastination

21 ways to STOP PROCRASTINATING and get more things done in less time

The international bestselling guide to managing time and prioritizing tasks—in a fully revised and updated edition featuring 2 new chapters! There's an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning is eat a live frog, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you're done with the worst thing you'll have to do all day. For Brian Tracy, eating a frog is a metaphor for tackling your most challenging task—but also the one that can have the greatest positive impact on your life. Eat That Frog! shows you how to organize each day so you can zero in on these critical tasks and accomplish them efficiently and effectively. In this fully revised and updated edition, Tracy adds two new chapters. The first explains how you can use technology to remind yourself of what is most important and protect yourself from what is least important. The second offers advice for maintaining focus in our era of constant distractions, electronic and otherwise.

The motivational classic with more than 1.5 million copies sold will help you stop procrastinating and get more of the important things done—today!   There just isn’t enough time for everything on our to-do list—and there never will be. Successful people don’t try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure those get done. They eat their frogs.   There’s an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning is eat a live frog, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you’re done with the worst thing you’ll have to do all day. For Tracy, eating a frog is a metaphor for tackling your most challenging task—but also the one that can have the greatest positive impact on your life. Eat That Frog—Snapshots shows you how to organize each day so you can zero in on these critical tasks and accomplish them efficiently and effectively.   In this fully redesigned and illustrative edition, Tracy explains how you can use technology to remind yourself of what is most important and protect yourself from what is least important. But one thing remains unchanged: Brian Tracy cuts to the core of what is vital to effective time management: decision, discipline, and determination. This life-changing book will ensure that you get more of your important tasks done—today!

Brian Tracy is Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations.He has consulted for more than 1,000 companies and addressed more than 5,000,000 people in 5,000 talks and seminars throughout the US, Canada and 55 other countries worldwide. As a Keynote speaker and seminar leader, he addresses more than 250,000 people each year.Brian has studied, researched, written and spoken for 30 years in the fields of economics, history, business, philosophy and psychology. He is the top selling author of over 45 books that have been translated into dozens of languages.

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