Perseverance is the ability to move forward with no sign of progress. A person is tested for perseverance, usually at the beginning of the journey, when he or she has only an idea and a specific plan to achieve the desired goal, and the results are not yet available. His progress towards the goal is based only on vision and pure enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm is only inherent in the first time and is usually quite a favorable period, because enthusiasm is a very strong positive emotion that attracts successful events. This period is called the auspicious beginning. Everything is going well.
But then the person should pass a test of perseverance.
In such a period it is very easy to give up and retire. That's what losers do. They never succeed in serious enterprises, because it takes at least 1 year to develop something worthwhile. This is another secret of successful people: they have unshakable perseverance.
This perseverance is based on will power. Your ability to withstand failure and disappointment is a measure of the success that awaits you. Perseverance is the iron quality of successful people.
Often your perseverance turns out to be the most important quality on the way to success. It may prove to be the only quality that provides you with an advantage over others. The most important quality you can develop in yourself is the ability to be persistent in a difficult situation.
When you show perseverance in achieving a goal in a period of turmoil and failure, which you inevitably experience at different stages, you show yourself and others self-discipline and self-control. In this way you show that you are not jokingly committed to achieving the goal.
Lack of perseverance is possible for the following reasons
- Realization of "other people's goals". By "other people's goals" I mean goals where the soul and mind are not the same. The soul says one thing, the mind is quite different. Without the consent of the soul, you will suffer, going to the goal. In order to achieve such a goal, you need to have perseverance and power of will of Gods. And when you achieve such a goal, you will finally be able to understand that you do not feel joy, or the feeling that something is missing. Because each person is unique, each person's soul is striving for something different. And a person looks at others, he likes what they have and tries to achieve the same. This is not his goal at the moment. Perhaps the soul and mind will come together in unity in relation to this goal, but later, when other more important goals are realized.
- Weakness of character
- Laziness.
- Stay in the comfort zone. That is, a person is in such a state at the moment in time that he is satisfied with everything in life, and he does not want to leave this "comfort zone", because on the way to something else will have to face many obstacles.
- Fuzzy vision, lack of goals and dreams
- Weak intention or desire
Perseverance lies in the consistent implementation of the objective. Episodic and periodic actions do not produce results.
Remember: Half the effort does not produce half the result. It gives zero result.
- Determine a goal where the soul and mind are united.
- Find a concrete plan of action to implement the plan
- Mind is not subject to the negative influence of other people
Conclusions from Napoleon Hill's book "Think and the Rich" after analyzing the success of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison: "I found nothing else that could suggest the source of their phenomenal ability to achieve what they wanted, but perseverance.
WINSTON CHURCHILL'S SPEECH TO THE STUDENTS
One day, when Winston Churchill was very old, the university near his hometown invited him to give a speech to the students to give them guidance in their lives. It was a great event for England. People came from afar to see the greatest and most famous Englishman alive at that time. They said that he was going to give his most important speech, which concentrated all the wisdom of his long life, which he would try to convey in words. Thousands of people filled the largest lecture hall of the university to the point of failure and waited intensely for the great man and his speech. Churchill stood up, approached the microphone and shouted: "Never give up. Then 30 minutes. calmly stood at the microphone looking at the perplexed students. Then he shouted again "Never give up". And again, I circled all those present and shouted louder for the last time: "Never, never, never, never, never give up. And headed for the exit. He never said another word.
Gradually those present began to understand: Churchill did not want to speak anymore, because he could not say anything, at least approximately as important, anymore.
Not to give up was the motto of his life.
Do it with your motto, and your success is guaranteed!