WHY YOU MUST BE PERSISTENT IN LIFE

Regardless of  what you do in life- there will be times when things don’t go as planned, a period  when everything seems to be working against you, and times when failure become inevitable. however, during period like this, you feel like giving up, giving up your fight for success. But, as Benjamin Franklin said, “energy and persistence conquer all things.”

Do you know that Napoleon Hill wrote a whole chapter on persistence in his all time bestselling book (think and grow rich). This shows the power of persistency and why you need it in your life. In this post, we will discuss why you should be persistent and how to develop persistency in whatever you do in life.

Persistency is simply a state of mind that makes you do something continuously to achieve a set goal even though it is difficult or opposed by other people.
According to Napoleon Hill, persistence is gotten from will power.

What then is will power??

Willpower is the strong determination that allows one to do something difficult. The willpower is a skill we can learn and develop. It is like a muscle, it can be trained. Willpower is the Ability to exercise and control your will. Therefore, you can train your willpower to be persistent.

A good example of persistent persons are Mark Victor Hassen and Jack Canfield; the publishers of CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL(their first book). They took the book to New York and gave it to agents to sell, but the agents returned it saying they can’t sell the book. Then they took the book to the National book sellers association convention. Every single publisher(on each booth) turned them down. Until they met the 145th person Peter Vegso who said he would read it.

Peter read some of the stories and loved them, so he decided to give the book a chance, becoming Chicken Soup for the Soul’s founding publisher.
So, literarily they spent 14 months looking for a publisher and they were rejected by 144 publishers
Wow, can you see this???

That’s a pure act of persistency. They could have stopped and given up before 14 months, yet they kept trying. What if they stopped at the 100th publisher and decided they were going back home on the third day of the convention??. Yet they kept trying, kept searching, kept approaching because they believed in their purpose and goals. And they eventually found it.

9 REASONS WHY YOU MUST BE PERSISTENT

1. To achieve your purpose, goals and objectives:

Persistence help you to achieve you set aims and objectives. It makes you succeed

2. Most successful people have failed at least once :

Every successful person you can ever think of, have failed in one thing or the other.

3. To get knowledge:

Persistence gives you knowledge. The more you do something the more you know

4. To gain experience:

When you are persistent, you gain experience and expertise

5. To get better at what you do:

Being persistent gives you an edge at your field.

6. Execution of plans properly:

When you do something for a long period of time, you get to execute all your plans properly.

7. Stretching your Mental power:

Persistence stretch your mental and will power. You can stay on something long enough and keep going

8. To increase your way of thinking:

When you are persistent, the way you think changes.

9. Creating success stories:

When you are persistent, you will always have success stories.

10. To succeed at whatever you do

To be successful in any of your endeavors, you need persistency

HOW TO DEVELOP PERSISTENCE IN LIFE

According to Napoleon Hill, there are 4 ways to develop persistence

1. A DEFINITE PURPOSE BACKED BY BURNING DESIRE FOR ITS FULFILLMENT.

2. A DEFINITE PLAN, EXPRESSED IN CONTINUOUS ACTION.

3. A MIND CLOSED TIGHTLY AGAINST ALL NEGATIVE AND DISCOURAGING INFLUENCES, including negative suggestions of relatives, friends and acquaintances.

4. A FRIENDLY ALLIANCE WITH ONE OR MORE PERSONS WHO WILL ENCOURAGE ONE TO FOLLOW THROUGH WITH BOTH PLAN AND PURPOSE.(Accountability partner)
Brain Tracy said; Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed.

Conclusion:

You can develop persistency. To succeed in life, you need be persistent and consistent. Being persistent is very important to succeed at whatever you do.

I hope you’ve learnt a lot from this blog post. Start your day with persistent state of mind.
Be persistent.