Do you want to unleash the power of persistence?
Persistence is a funny thing. We have it in abundance from the moment we are born, and then little by little it is stripped away from us, and we choose to give it away without so much as a whimper.
Have you ever seen a child trying to take their first steps?
They always fail before they succeed, they always stumble and fall before they get to grips with walking.
The child does not try to walk two or three times and then decide to quit, no, he steels himself, he has no concept of failure, he only focuses on the fact that he wants to walk, he is determined to persevere, and there is no force on this earth that will stop him,
He does not take no for an answer, he does not entertain the concept of failure, he just keeps on keeping on until he gets his desired result.
As adults we have forgotten how to use our perseverance muscles.
We attempt something once or twice and then quit, and every time that we quit we are causing atrophy to our perseverance muscles, we are weakening ourselves from the inside out.
In an ideal world it would be great to master everything the first time you tried it, but it is not an ideal world, you are not that lucky.
However there is hope for you.
Think of any of your accomplishments and you will realise that none of them were accomplished without failure along the way, nothing worth having ever comes easy, and if it does come easily to you, you fail to appreciate it.
The first time you took a driving lesson you couldn't get the hang of it, you thought to yourself that you were destined for public transport, (well, I did anyway:) but you persevered and passed your driving test. (fourth time was a charm for me:)
To unleash your perseverance approach life with the mindset of an 18 month old child, (without the temper tantrums, you know who you are!) refuse to let life get the better of you, refuse to settle for the scraps from the table of life, keep on keeping on and you will persevere in the end.
