If you strongly wish to succeed with anything in life, being persistent is almost always vital to that success. It doesn’t matter whether it’s in business, sporting activity or social life, persistency has an important role to play. Without persistency, it is all too easy to give up, tell yourself you’ll never master it and then go on to the next best thing.

The quality of persistency is something that has enabled man to rise above all animals and succeed in so many areas.

If it wasn’t for persistency, the world would today be a much poorer place than it now is. Have you ever thought that if it wasn’t for the persistence of Edison we may not today have electric lighting? For years his fellow scientists mocked his experiments to create an electric light bulb.

What was his reaction? He said that he hadn’t failed, he had succeeded many times in discovering how not to make the light bulb work. But he persistently carried on until one day, Bingo it worked! How many times must he have felt like giving up, but no. His persistency won through in the end. What elation he must have felt on that day. It had all been worthwhile! As Sir Winston Churchill once said “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm”

Always be enthusiastic about things you want to achieve without giving in. In another of Sir Winston Churchill’s famous speeches he said “Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense”.

So you see, throughout history mankind’s greatest achievements would never have come about were it not for dogged persistence on the part of the achievers. According to another well known phrase, “There is no gain without pain”

Persistence and self discipline go hand in hand. You can’t’ have one without the other.

Whatever it is you want to achieve, whatever goal you set yourself, you cannot and will not succeed without those two elements of persistence and self discipline. Whenever you’re working on your chosen subject, there will be times when your enthusiasm wanes. You will feel that you do not wish to carry on, you’re bored, and everything you try to do doesn’t seem to work. You want to give up and try something else. That’s the time when your self discipline has to “kick in” because if you do give up and then go onto something new, you’ll find that you’ll be doing that over and over again. You’ll be hopping, grasshopper like, from one project to the next and never getting anywhere. I know I’ve been guilty of that myself in the past.

The world is full of talented people, some with brilliant ideas who never achieve anything because they have lacked those two essential qualities of self discipline and persistence. Sometimes we can recognize the lack of those essential elements within ourselves. For instance….

Have you ever had a good (or even brilliant) idea about how to do or improve something and then sat back and done nothing about it, only to find that later on someone else has had the same idea, but who also had the self discipline and persistence to do something about it and brought it into reality, leaving you to say to yourself “But I thought of that ages ago”? Recognize something like that in yourself? I know I do!
The qualities we’re talking about apply to every form of human endeavor both great and small, whether it be to win over the person you love, in order for them to become your life partner to much bigger tasks like defeating the scourge of world terrorism. Persistence wins, OK!

If you strongly wish to succeed with anything in life, being persistent is almost always vital to that success. It doesn’t matter whether it’s in business, sporting activity or social life, persistency has an important role to play. Without persistency, it is all too easy to give up, tell yourself you’ll never master it and then go on to the next best thing.

The quality of persistency is something that has enabled man to rise above all animals and succeed in so many areas.

If it wasn’t for persistency, the world would today be a much poorer place than it now is. Have you ever thought that if it wasn’t for the persistence of Edison we may not today have electric lighting? For years his fellow scientists mocked his experiments to create an electric light bulb.

What was his reaction? He said that he hadn’t failed, he had succeeded many times in discovering how not to make the light bulb work. But he persistently carried on until one day, Bingo it worked! How many times must he have felt like giving up, but no. His persistency won through in the end. What elation he must have felt on that day. It had all been worthwhile! As Sir Winston Churchill once said “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm”

Always be enthusiastic about things you want to achieve without giving in. In another of Sir Winston Churchill’s famous speeches he said “Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense”.
So you see, throughout history mankind’s greatest achievements would never have come about were it not for dogged persistence on the part of the achievers. According to another well known phrase, “There is no gain without pain”

Persistence and self discipline go hand in hand. You can’t’ have one without the other.

Whatever it is you want to achieve, whatever goal you set yourself, you cannot and will not succeed without those two elements of persistence and self discipline. Whenever you’re working on your chosen subject, there will be times when your enthusiasm wanes. You will feel that you do not wish to carry on, you’re bored, and everything you try to do doesn’t seem to work. You want to give up and try something else. That’s the time when your self discipline has to “kick in” because if you do give up and then go onto something new, you’ll find that you’ll be doing that over and over again. You’ll be hopping, grasshopper like, from one project to the next and never getting anywhere. I know I’ve been guilty of that myself in the past.

The world is full of talented people, some with brilliant ideas who never achieve anything because they have lacked those two essential qualities of self discipline and persistence. Sometimes we can recognize the lack of those essential elements within ourselves. For instance….

Have you ever had a good (or even brilliant) idea about how to do or improve something and then sat back and done nothing about it, only to find that later on someone else has had the same idea, but who also had the self discipline and persistence to do something about it and brought it into reality, leaving you to say to yourself “But I thought of that ages ago”? Recognize something like that in yourself? I know I do!

The qualities we’re talking about apply to every form of human endeavor both great and small, whether it be to win over the person you love, in order for them to become your life partner to much bigger tasks like defeating the scourge of world terrorism. Persistence wins, OK!

Should you never give up on anything, whatever the reason?
Clearly, the answer to that question is NO. Remember Winston Churchill’s advice? You should never give in to anything except to convictions of good sense.

Good sense is the other element that is needed in order to be successful in any endeavor.

Do you know the story about Microsoft?
You know, of course that it is today one of the most successful and powerful businesses that has ever existed. Did you know that before Microsoft ever came into existence, Bill Gates and his business partner, Paul Allen, formed a company named Traf-O-Data, which they ran for several years? They eventually gave up on the idea for good reasons best known to themselves. They then formed Microsoft. The rest, as they say, is history.

The lesson to be learned therefore is to always have self discipline and persistence, but to temper that concept with good sense and if necessary to try again with the knowledge you have gained from the previous endeavor. That way, success will surely be yours.

Frederick Brooker is a writer and researcher in the field of self improvement. He has created a complimentary video that helps you overcome the worry of what people think of you. Without watching it you will probably never be able to experience life the way you deserve to. This brand new technique can change your life immediately" Go to www.banishyourfears.com to get it.