Perseverance and persistence

In my last post, I mentioned discipline as one of the qualities necessary for success. In this post, let us look at another important quality. This important quality is perseverance or persistence. Perseverance is defined as steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement. Miriam-Webster dictionary defines perseverance as a quality that allows someone to continue trying to do something even though it is difficult. While another online dictionary defines perseverance as not giving up. It is persistence and tenacity, the effort required to do something and keep doing it till the end, even if it is hard. 
     All the definitions point to the same direction. The belief that what one is doing must be successful and therefore, should not abandone it. It is obvious that we must have failures along the way, but what we cannot do is abandoning the task. Abandoning your project means admission of failure and the end of the journey. There can be no success without perseverance. This is because everything we do in life is just trail and error. We make corrections or adjustments as we move along. These adjustments require patience until we get the job nearly perfect. This nearly perfection or excellency in whatever you do is what drives success. 
     The lesson we learnt from the Olympics is that those who won the gold medal may not the best, but those who dedicated more and had more persistence to reach near perfection. What these qualities have in common is sacrifice. many do not wnat to make the necessary sacrifice to reach success. There is no way out. Some price must be paid in order to reach success. Think about it!       
     





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