Grit isn’t a personality trait. It’s a system you can build.

You don’t need more motivation posters, hype, or “never quit” slogans. You need a practical way to keep going on hard, meaningful goals when your energy, time, and confidence are under real pressure.

In 7 Steps to Develop Grit and Determination, executive mentor Morgan Hale breaks grit down into clear, repeatable systems you can run in real life, on tough weeks, not just perfect ones.

Instead of relying on willpower, you’ll design your CCC dials:

• Clarity – what matters and what to do next
• Capacity – energy, support, and skill to keep going
• Cadence – a sustainable rhythm you can actually maintain

Across 20 short, high-signal chapters, you’ll learn how to:

• Turn vague ambitions into SMT goals (Specific, Motivating, Testable).
• Break big work into a Milestone Map with 48-hour checkpoints.
• Design an environment that makes sticking easier than quitting.
• Use 90/9 focus blocks and weekly pacing to protect deep work.
• Build supportive accountability that pushes you forward without shame.
• Protect your baseline with recovery cycles and green/yellow/red day rules.
• Grow belief using a Win Ledger, streaks, and “miss once, not twice.”
• Run 10-minute debriefs so every block improves your next one.
• Turn “I’m bad at X” into targeted 15-minute drills on your weak links.
• Prove progress with peer demos and small public deadlines.
• Lock everything into a 30-day grit plan you can repeat and scale.

You’ll build practical tools as you go:
a one-page Grit Dashboard, streak trackers, boundary scripts, accountability asks, checklists, and simple review routines that fit into a full life.

This book is especially for you if:

• You’ve started big goals and quietly abandoned them.
• You’re ambitious but tired, and don’t want to burn out (again).
• You lead people, teams, or projects and need grit that’s sustainable, not heroic.
• You prefer clear frameworks, scripts, and checklists over inspirational speeches.

Each chapter ends with:

• a quick win you can do in under 10 minutes,
• a 24–48 hour checkpoint,
• and a micro recovery ritual to keep your system running.

You won’t become a different person in 30 days.
You’ll become someone who:

• starts blocks on time,
• finishes more of what matters,
• recovers instead of crashing,
• and has hard evidence that your effort works.

If you’re ready to stop relying on willpower and start designing your grit, this book is your playbook.

Resilience, made practical.