About the Episode
Are you a hard worker or a mediocre person who spends your life settling in one phase? It’s time to think about how motivated you are to achieve your goals. Because the harder you work, the greater you will become. This week’s episode features Brad Ritter. Brad is one of the world’s leading experts on performance and author of the best selling book, ‘School of Grit: Unlock Your Potential Through Purposeful Adversity,’ Join us as we discuss morning routines, box breathing, visualization, monthly milestone challenges, leadership vs. following, accepting failures, and more.
Starting the conversation, Brad shares the birth story of his book. He shares how he joined the SEALFIT KOKORO camp for civilians to grow grit from the outside. He further explains what limits he wanted to pass being elected to such a challenging program.
Whether you know it or not, you have a morning routine. It could be ordinary things like getting up and going to work. Brad shares the importance of having morning time for yourself. A time when you can do what you like. It could be reading, writing, working out, or anything else that defines you. Brad also explains why that kind of routine is worth the time.
Visualization is simply imagining your success in something. It may be a little thing in your life, but when you visualize the victory, the finishing line of something, it can’t be compared to anything else. Brad shares his thoughts on visualization, one of the four elements of mental toughness.
The concept of the IDEAL day is from Brad’s book, and it generally means taking stock of any day throughout the week. In the following conversation phase, Brad breaks down what IDEAL stands for, how to set up an ideal day, and how he normally sets up his day. He further dives into how you can accomplish goals by making habits consistently over time.
We must accept failures in life because if we can’t accept them, we fail to triumph one day. Brad shares how he feels about the ability to accept losses in life. Only failures will teach you to work hard on something, says Brad. He further shares how he wants his children to taste failure so they can learn from them.
Wrapping up today’s conversation, Brad talks about one habit he changed recently, which became a game-changer in his life and drove the relationship between him and his wife to a new level.