Speaker 1: Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
Speaker 1: performance through strong human relations, team building, and golajieving. This
Speaker 1: is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host Paul Fellovledo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode four thirty two. Today's episode is about grit,
Speaker 2: about pushing through when you don't want to, about standing
Speaker 2: tall when everything in you wants to lie down. It's
Speaker 2: called don't let the hard days win. Every leader, no
Speaker 2: matter how experienced, has had one of those days. You
Speaker 2: know the ones. I mean the day when the team
Speaker 2: misses the mark, the emails never stop, the pressure is
Speaker 2: up and the patience is down. The day when you're
Speaker 2: wondering why you ever said yes to leading in the
Speaker 2: first place. But let me say this clearly, the hard
Speaker 2: day is not the problem. Letting it win is. The
Speaker 2: difference between strong leaders and struggling ones isn't about avoiding
Speaker 2: hard days, It's about how they respond to them. So
Speaker 2: let me give you three ways to make sure those
Speaker 2: tough moments don't define you. Number one, anchor yourself in
Speaker 2: a bigger why. When the day is throwing punches, you
Speaker 2: need something stronger than a to do list. You need
Speaker 2: your why? Why do you show up? Why do you
Speaker 2: say yes to the role you're in? Why do people
Speaker 2: count on you? Your why is what helps you push past resistance.
Speaker 2: It's the reminder that today is one chapter, not the
Speaker 2: whole book. And if you're not sure of your why,
Speaker 2: take sixty seconds tonight and write down what matters most
Speaker 2: to you in leadership. Not your title, not the paycheck,
Speaker 2: but the impact, the change, the responsibility you've chosen. Hard
Speaker 2: days don't stand a chance against a clear purpose. Number two,
Speaker 2: win the micro battle. Here's the deal. You don't have
Speaker 2: to win the whole war today. You just need to
Speaker 2: win the next ten minutes. Hard days feel overwhelming because
Speaker 2: they hit us from all angles, so you fight back
Speaker 2: in small, tactical ways. Answer one email with clarity, Make
Speaker 2: one phone call that turns the tide. Pull one teammate
Speaker 2: aside and check in on them. Drink water, step outside,
Speaker 2: take a breath. The secret here is motion. Action creates traction,
Speaker 2: and once you start moving forward, the weight of the
Speaker 2: hard days starts to shift. Leaders don't always need a
Speaker 2: full comeback plan. Sometimes they just need to do the
Speaker 2: next right thing. Number three, don't let emotion make permanent decisions.
Speaker 2: Hard days come with emotion, frustration, doubt, sometimes even anger
Speaker 2: or shame, and that's human. But what's not okay is
Speaker 2: making permanent leadership decisions from temporary emotional states. Don't write
Speaker 2: your resignation letter in your head. Don't assume you're failing.
Speaker 2: Don't start pulling away from your team because today felt heavy.
Speaker 2: The storm is loud, but it always passes. The dust
Speaker 2: will settle. You'll feel different tomorrow. That's a promise. Your
Speaker 2: job as a leader is to ride the wave, not
Speaker 2: drown in it. And let me tell you something personal.
Speaker 2: I have had hard days as a leader that almost
Speaker 2: knocked me out. I've sat alone in my office questioning
Speaker 2: if I had anything left to give. But I didn't
Speaker 2: let the hard day win. I got up the next morning,
Speaker 2: put my leadership shoes back on and walked straight back
Speaker 2: into the fire. Why Because that's what leaders do, not
Speaker 2: because they're fearless, but because they refuse to quit when
Speaker 2: it matters. So here's my message for you today. If
Speaker 2: you're having a hard day, don't quit. If you're in
Speaker 2: a storm, don't panic. If you're doubting yourself, don't believe
Speaker 2: every thought that comes into your head. You're stronger than
Speaker 2: this moment, you're tougher than this task, and you've survived
Speaker 2: one hundred percent of your worst days so far and
Speaker 2: today won't be any different. Don't let the hard day win.
Speaker 2: This has been the seven Minute Leadership Podcast and I
Speaker 2: thank you for listening.
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