As we wind down the year we are often in a place of reflecting on what went down in the past year. Today’s show is on persistence and timing. I talk a bit about what went down for me in 2017 and the power of persistence. Many of you might have read The Power of Grit, by Angela Duckworth, and one of my favorite quotes from that book is, “Enthusiasm is common, endurance is rare.” 2017 was all about endurance for me, and that is a lot of what I talk about in this episode.

I rap about:

• Angela Duckworth’s The Power of Grit, and the power of endurance and truly overcoming something
• The very real struggle that is working towards our dreams
• The importance of giving yourself permission to feel deeply into *whatever* is arising

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Understand that in order to get what we want, we have to change
• Re-direct your beliefs and habits about your own success and orienting towards goals
• Understand the importance and practice of extreme ownership–owning everything that happens in your life

Links:

• Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
• William James: Habit
• Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
• Dana’s website

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• Exponential Growth + Collective Leadership: A conversation with Tracey Duncan
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Show Highlights:

• 4:23 – Cate discusses the need to embrace self change
• 14:20 – Tune in here for the discussion on ownership of one’s experience

Favorite Quotes:

• “Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.” – William James: Habit
• “Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.”  ― Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
  
• “Nobody wants to show you the hours and hours of becoming. They’d rather show the highlight of what they’ve become.”― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
• “I learned a lesson I’d never forget. The lesson was that, when you have setbacks and failures, you can’t overreact to them.”― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
• “Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.”― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance