We’ve talked about what perseverance is and why it is needed in order to achieve success in your life.
Today we’re going to look at what else is needed when you persevere…what is required so that you can achieve what it is you are striving for.
Observe two more things about perseverance: (a) Perseverance means stopping not because you’re tired, but because the task is done. Diplomat Robert Strauss quipped, “Success is like wrestling a 1,000 pound gorilla. You don’t quit when you are tired – you quit when the gorilla is tired.”
When you’re fresh, excited and energetic you work at a task with vigor. Only when you become weary do you need perseverance. Fatigue and discouragement are not reasons to quit, they’re reasons to rely on our character and keep going. We underestimate what it takes to succeed. When we haven’t counted the cost we approach challenges with mere interest; what’s required is total commitment!
(b) Perseverance doesn’t demand more than we have, but all that we have. Author Frank Tyger observed, “In every triumph, there is a lot of try.” But perseverance means more than just trying or working hard. Perseverance is an investment. It’s a willingness to bind yourself emotionally, intellectually, physically and spiritually to an idea, purpose or task until it has been completed.
Perseverance demands a lot, but here’s the good news: everything you give is an investment in yourself. Each time you do the right thing – work hard, treat others with respect, learn and grow – you invest in yourself. To do these things every day takes perseverance, but if you do them your success is guaranteed.
We’ve always wondered why there are only a handful of people that are truly successful in Network Marketing and Internet Marketing. Over the last year, we have gone more towards the internet and learning the secrets. The problem is there is SO MUCH information out there that you don’t know where to start. You invest in program after program and never REALLY learn how to get up in the search engines and benefit from that “viral” experience everyone hears about.
We have finally found a platform in which to learn the real truth and how it really works…but you know what? It takes a lot of time and perseverance to do what is necessary. We won’t lie to you – to benefit financially from the internet takes time, and in the beginning, a lot of effort. We can easily see how some people would just quit and not keep going, because 1) they’re not willing to invest the time to learn and they think it’s just too hard and not for them or 2) they get sidetracked by life and quit before they are able to see the results.
You need to decide what you want in life and you need to decide what you are willing to do to get it. There is not one successful person out there that didn’t sacrifice in the beginning in order to make it at the end. Everyone goes thru pain regardless of their talent and abilities. The ones that are successful are the ones that PERSEVERED to the end – the ones that wrestled until the gorilla quit.
So, we ask you – are you going to quit first or are you going to keep going until the gorilla quits??
To Your Success,
Mike & Kate Hagen