When You Choose Effort, Everything Changes
How to Build Grit When Your Career Stalls — Reflections on Effort, Setbacks, and the Long Way Forwar
“Without effort, your talent is nothing more than your unmet potential.”
— Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
I didn’t write that quote, but I wish I had. It’s sharp. It’s honest. And lately, it’s been echoing in my head more than I’d like to admit.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been sitting with it — not as an abstract idea, but as a lived truth. This hasn’t been the easiest stretch for me career-wise. Starting a coaching business for the first time has tested me in ways I didn’t expect, and on top of that, I was recently told that a role I’d been eyeing — one that perfectly aligned with my background — wasn’t going to happen.
I won’t sugarcoat it. That one stung.
