Discover the Secrets of True Perseverance
Copyright 2005 Abi Motala
True Perseverance is that strength of purpose that gives
you the power to accomplish a task without allowing
yourself to be turned aside from your goal either by the
initial difficulties involved, or by the obstacles that
present themselves as you progress with your work. It is a
form of energy which enables you to develop sufficient
strength of will never to be discouraged by the labour you
have to undertake in order to accomplish what you set out
to do.
True Perseverance is the art of marching directly forward
towards your goal, ignoring all setbacks as temporary
embarrassments, great or small, and focusing all your
energy on surmounting them. It is the quality found in
people of an enthusiastic disposition, who, once they have
discerned the favourable possibilities of an enterprise,
allow nothing to divert them and can never be defeated by
the occurrences that tend to hinder its successful outcome.
Obstacles, far from lessening the courage of such people,
seem rather to redouble it.
If you possess true perseverance, then you are the type who
is able to keep walking steadily on the path that you have
chosen, despite the pitfalls that you encounter along the
way. The fever of battle increases your strength tenfold
and the difficulties you meet merely sharpen your wits.
You know nothing of the weaknesses which serve to defeat
those whose feeble wills go to pieces at the first
encounter with opposing forces. You do not abandon
yourself to despair and cast all the blame upon fate, which
has nothing to do with it. Remember, almost anyone can
handle success, but it takes true grit to overcome
adversity.
True perseverance gives you the wisdom not to admit to your
own incompetence, and the will to attempt to change it into
energy that will achieve results. You know that everything
succeeds for the person who has will-power and self-belief,
and nothing can ever come to a successful termination in
the hands of the individual who deliberately ignores the
opportunities of making every favourable slant of fortune
serve its purpose.
Before you are able to maintain your course with tenacity
in one fixed path, it is indispensable that you know
exactly where it leads. Therefore, you need a clear vision
and a panoramic view of your goal. Your persistence of
purpose, then, inevitably brings into play the qualities
needed to hasten the accomplishment of the end that you
have envisaged. Vague and wavering ideas invariably lead
to decisions whose diversity is their weakness.
Your passionate focus is also the result of an idea that
you have pondered over and cherished in your mind until
such time as it has acquired sufficient vitality to be able
to transform itself into deeds. Of course, the first thing
that you must do if you find yourself in a position of
difficulty is to stop marching forward, not in order to
retire, but to give yourself time for reflection. The ends
you seek will always be the regulators of the decisions you
make.
Reasoning should be the foundation of all your enterprises.
The person who engages in a fight without first having
decided that such a step was necessary is beaten before
he/she starts. What soldier would think of going to war
without his weapons? In the struggle for success in life,
the battle is no less bitter than on the field of carnage,
and it is sometimes equally deadly.
The parent of all perseverance is the power of the motive
idea. When you are sufficiently informed about the efforts
that must be made, and when you have reflected in advance
upon the difficulties of the road ahead, it will be time to
take up the challenge and surmount the obstacles.
If you really and ardently desire to achieve your goal, you
must mistrust every suggestion that is alien to the main
purpose that fills your mind. You must not lose sight of
the fact that the effort of will-power that causes you to
make a certain decision is, for you, merely a transitory
state of mind.
In order that this state of mind may become definitely
established, it is necessary that it should produce acts
which will tend towards the accomplishment of your purpose.
The weaklings and the incapable are glad to give it the
name of "mania" or "fixed idea."
But fixity of ideas is an indispensable quality in the
achievement of results. The person who possesses the gift
of perseverance should, before elaborating the plan which
is to be perseveringly followed, do exactly what all
prudent travelers do at the time when they are about to
set out on a journey.
In those cases in which the action has been prematurely
undertaken you must not allow yourself to be haunted by any
thoughts hostile to the successful outcome of what you have
determined to do.
Additionally, before changing your original purpose, it
will be well for you to undertake a serious examination of
the facts involved, in order to prevent yourself from
embarking thoughtlessly upon a dangerous course, or, what
is a thousand times worse, arriving nowhere in particular.
About the Author:
This article is written by Abi Motala, CEO of Vista
Information Publishing Ltd and author of “How to Unleash
the Power of PERSEVERANCE”. Articles written by Abi have
been published in both business and IT magazines.
Abi has extensive business management experience at senior
levels within large companies, both in the UK and Western
Europe.
Having spent 30 years in business, he has personally
enjoyed many triumphs as well as endured many traumas.
During his business life he has built a significant network
of high achievers in many fields, and has witnessed the
impact of both success and failure on his business
associates and friends.
You can get more info at:
http://www.vipinfoweb.com/howtopersevere
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