How to develop perseverance to achieve greatness (in your career and life)

Hey, in this video I'll talk about how to develop the perseverance you need to achieve greatness in whatever your focus is right now and whatever your big goal is. So whether that be in career, in your business, or in whatever your big goal is right now, that's what we're gonna talk about. So stay tuned. The first thing, be willing to suck at first. So this doesn't sound very fun, but it's part of the process. You can't really skip it. So for example, with interviews, Lots of people go on a few interviews and then they give up. So they say, this isn't working, this isn't going to work for me, I'm going to quit for a bit, I'm going to take a break, they say, or I'm going to stop for now. Maybe they want to make a career transition like some of my clients, or maybe they want to start a business. Maybe they send out a few resumes, they talk to some people, they get some interviews, but they don't get an offer, and then they get tired They get discouraged and then they quit. And then they come back to it. But by that time, they're demotivated, discouraged, and they're already thinking, ugh, this didn't work last time. I'm not going to be able to do it. And they repeat that pattern over and over and over again. And they just habitually stay in that pattern. So I've been there quite a bit myself, but I figured out how to achieve the success, how to keep in it, Stay in massive action, and that's what I'm gonna talk about today. The second really important thing is, is you need to evaluate the results. So evaluate the results that you are getting now. So say you go on an interview. What worked really well? What was really good about it? What didn't work so well? What would you do differently next time? That's where you start, and you evaluate yourself and how you showed up and what you'd like to learn from that experience. And you take those lessons And you go back out there and you do it again. Number 3, prepare yourself for the ride. So understand upfront that if you're trying to do something like make a career transition where you don't have a ton of experience at first, or you're trying to build a business, or you're trying to lose weight, or anything that's challenging, it's probably going to take longer than you thought it was gonna take. It's probably gonna be harder than you thought it was gonna be. And it's not easy. That's why a lot of people don't do it. That's why a lot of people give up, keep trying, but don't actually do it because they're wasting a lot of time giving up and they're wasting a lot of time not being motivated and not having the inspiration to keep them going. So just accept that it's gonna probably be challenging and that is okay. When you are buckled up for a challenging ride, you are a lot more motivated to go and find the things that you need in order to get through it. Find the information that you need and to just keep going until you get there. So for example, when I started my YouTube channel, in the beginning, no one was listening. I had 2 views on my first video and it was my mom who'd viewed it and me. And I tried to refresh the screen a few times so maybe I'd get a few more views. That's when it was hard. That's when it would have been really easy to stop and be like, okay, well, you know what? I tried and it didn't work. There are so many YouTube channels with so many people teaching about the same stuff. This is just not going to work. That was really easy to do. But that's when I really needed to keep going. Whenever that moment is for you, when it's hardest, whenever that moment is when your brain starts to kick in and tell you all that stuff, is when you need to redirect it and say, but this is what I really want. It's 100% possible. What would I need to think To keep going. Then your brain starts getting ideas, right? Number 4, so recognize that you have a higher brain and a lower brain and what each one does. So I'm going to explain that. Your lower brain, you may have heard of it before, has a bunch of names. It's called the monkey brain, the reptilian brain, the animal brain. It wants to keep you safe. So for example, when you go on an interview, it's going to be Kicking in that self-doubt. Your higher brain says, yes, we need to keep going on interviews because we want that end result. So your lower brain keeps you safe. It says, you got rejected at that interview. I don't think we should go on anymore. You know, just stay safe. Just keep the job you have. Just stay where you are. Everything is fine. You don't need to do any more. It's dangerous out there. And if you go do that again, you might die, right? Your higher brain says, but you really want more for your life, don't you? Like, don't you want to make more money? And don't you want to have more fulfilling work? And don't you want to help more people? And don't you want to work on interesting projects? Let's do that again, because we know we're going to get there. And then your lower brain is fighting with it saying, no, no, no, we don't have to, we can just stay here. It's safe, right? So recognize that your lower and higher brain have different agendas. And you got to get your higher brain to tell your lower brain to chill out. Okay, so recognize that that's what's going on, and that's our humanness, and that's our response. So our lower brain is there because, say, if we're being chased with someone with a weapon, you know, our lower brain is going to be like, get out of there, you know, you're not safe. And that's a useful response. But when it comes to going out on stage and giving a public speech, our lower brain's doing the same thing. It's saying, get out of there, that's scary, you might die, people might judge you. But You're really gonna be fine. That's just an emotion, right? So you can see lower brain has a very useful purpose, and it's good that we have it, but for most cases in our life, it's not serving us. So the way that we persevere is we get our higher brain to tell our lower brain to chill out. You know, I hear you, but I'm not listening right now because I know that, you know, the worst I can feel is a feeling, and I'm okay with that. So If you don't know me yet, my name is Natalie Fisher. If you're new to the channel, welcome. Please subscribe and leave a thumbs up if you like the video. If you didn't, give me a thumbs down, cool with that. And join me for my free workshop. I have a free workshop you can sign up for below. It's called How to Get Any Results You Want in Your Career or Your Business, and I'm gonna teach you the following. So the first thing I'm gonna teach you are the 2 components you need for success. in any goal that you're trying to achieve. I'm gonna teach you the main coaching tool that I work through with all of my clients for achieving their goals, for solving any problems that they might be having now. I'm gonna teach you how your thoughts and your day-to-day thought patterns on a day-to-day basis have been affecting the results you have now in your life, like what's showing up in your life right now, what's the— like what results you're producing and why, and how to change those results if you're not getting what you want right now. And then I'm gonna show you what the next steps are for you to move forward in order to get those results you want, even if nothing you've done so far has worked. All right, so I look forward to seeing you on that workshop. Click below, and if you'd like, I'll see you on the workshop, or I'll see you in the next video. Thank you so much. Have a good day. So if you like what I'm talking about on these videos, if you've checked out my website, www.nataliefisher.ca, you'll know that I am a business and and career coach. I help people to achieve those goals in their life, either get their dream jobs, start a business. I help you with those impossible goals, even if what you've tried in the past has not worked yet.