A story first
The checklist is in the cockpit before the emergency is.
The Apache has a procedure for everything that can go wrong in flight. Engine fire. Hydraulic failure. You run it before you think, because you ran it a hundred times before you needed it.
Nobody hands you that card for the hard season at work. What most of us got instead was a single instruction: push harder. So we did, and we called the exhaustion commitment. I did it for years, in the cockpit and later in the boardroom, and I watched good people burn down doing the same.
Then I spent two years interviewing the women who led at the highest levels of the military for The Grit Factor. Not one of them described grit as grinding. Every one of them described a practice.
Pressure doesn’t build character. It reveals the habits already there.
That’s the whole webinar, really. Which habits, how to start them small, and how to tell real grit from the thing that looks like it and costs you your health.
