[ACADEMIC] Chapter 21: Persist Until You Succees

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“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill; great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.”

Every great success in your life will represent a triumph of persistence. Your ability to decide what you want, to begin, and then to persist through all obstacles and difficulties until you achieve your goals is the critical determinant of your success. And the flip side of persistence is courage.

Set Priorities On Your Fears

With regard to your predominant fear, write the answers to these

three questions:

1.      How does this fear hold me back in life?

2.      How does this fear help me, or how has it helped me in the past?

3.      What would be my pay-off for eliminating this fear?

The future belongs to the risk takers, not the security seekers. Life is perverse in the sense that, the more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

There is a poem by an anonymous author that I think everyone should read and memorize and recite to himself or herself when tempted to quit or to stop trying. This poem is called Don’t Quit.

Don’t Quit

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will.

When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill.

When the funds are low and the debts are high.

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh.

When care is pressing you down a bit.

Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns.

As every one of us sometimes learns.

And many a failure turns about

When he might have won had he stuck it out:

Don’t give up though the pace seems slow —

You may succeed with another blow.

Success is failure turned inside out —

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt.

And you never can tell how close you are.

It may be near when it seems so far:

So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit —

It’s when things seem worst that you must not QUIT.

Persist Until You Succeed:

1.      Identify the biggest challenge or problem facing you today on the way to achieving your biggest goal. Imagine that it has been sent to test your resolve and desire. Decide that you will never give up.

2.      Think back over your life and identify the occasions where your determination to persist was the key to your success. Remind yourself of those experiences whenever you face difficulties or discouragement of any kind.

3.      Resolve in advance that, as long as you intensely desire your goal, you will never give up until you achieve it.

4.      Look into every problem, difficulty, obstacle or setback for the seed of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity. You will always find something that can help you.

5.      In every situation, resolve to be solution oriented and action oriented. Think always in terms of the things you can do right now to solve your problems or achieve your goals, and then get started! Never give up.

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