WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE PERSISTENT?

By Matata Mercy

If i talk about persistence, what comes to your mind and how do you perceive the act of being persistent? I know what you are thinking when i mention persistent.

Striving vs. Persistance — Genesis Eakes International

You are thinking the ability to keep going and taking action even when you feel like giving up and moving onto something else.

When you are working on a goal that you feel very motivated about, you will sometimes feel inspired and other times, your motivation will evaporate into the air.

The truth is that it is not your motivation that will help you get the results but it is your ability to take action that will help you to get the results.

Persistence will help you to keep taking action towards your goals even if you are not actually motivated to take any action. Persistance will in the long run provide it's own motivation.

If you keep taking action towards your goals, you will start getting results and these results will motivate you to keep going.

 If for example you change your diet so that you can be able to lose weight, and you keep eating foods that help you to lose weight and your clothes start not to fit you well and you are losing about 20 pounds, you will be motivated to keep having the good diet simply because the results that you are getting are motivating you to do so.

The truth is that nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, there is nothing as common as unsuccessful people with lots of talent. 

Genius will not, unrewarded Genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated direlects. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. 

The slogan "Press on" has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race. That is what it means to be persistent.

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