Mindful Grit is Perseverance
Perseverance. It is a great word. Saying it makes you feel driven.
Grit. Similar to perseverance, is also a word that when you say it or think it, you feel it.
If you have Grit, you Persevere.
On her website KimRoberts.Co Kim shares " Perseverance seems super-human in the face of never-ending hold-up."
This is something which relates to many of us. When we are faced with a challenge we are unsure we can meet we feel that digging deep for grit and perseverance is a super-human task we cannot muster. The thought to keep going can be a daunting one. We just don't want to do it anymore, not when giving up seems so much easier.
On her website Kim also states that perseverance is showing-up. The beginning of perseverance is simply to show up.
Kim also shares two other things she feels are important parts to perseverance. She states that we need to set intentions. Know what you want to do. Set it as your intention. This gives you your goal to work toward. This creates the plan.
Before you show up and set your intentions Kim shares that you must first commit/recommit to a mindfulness meditation practice.
Why? Good question.
Research shows that mindfulness helps us develop grit. And as we have learned, grit is perseverance.
Mindfulness encourages us to act with awareness and intention. Awareness and intention have been shown to be predictors of consistency. These are all key aspects in developing grit.
Mindfulness is an amazing tool which helps us navigate setbacks while sustaining interest and focus on a goal.
Mindfulness helps us learn; better, calmer, and more productive ways to reevaluate a situation.
If we practice mindfulness we can learn to visualize a setback and work on positive ways to maintain expectations.
Mindfulness keeps us in the moment, resets experiences, suspend judgment, address anxiety, gain control, and prevent catastrophizing. A daily mindfulness practice can also help us learn the difference between a downward spiral and an upward spiral. Mindfulness helps change our inner voice to one of encouragement and determination and can helps us keep commitments.
On his website RonRutland.com, Ron shares stories of his various journeys in life. One journey began June 20, 2013 and lasted 27 months. For 27 months Ron biked across 75 Countries with the goal of making it to the 2015 rugby world cup in England.
Ron shares that he quite his corporate job, sold his belongs and started his bike journey in South Africa; just him, a backpack, and a bike.
As he shares about his experience Ron states that during his trip two things got him through; mindfulness and perseverance. Ron shares that he did not simply practice mindfulness but rather feels he became mindfulness and this built his perseverance.
With the start of a new year and many resolutions being made (and wanting to be kept...perseverance perhaps) let's set an intention toward mindfulness.
