Persistence is the power that I like and I love to say. With that dramatic start to this article, I tell you this: the most direct, persistent, and consistent route to a goal is the best, anything that is indecisive and wandering is the worst. What I mean is that the least talented person with the most persistence is better than the most talented person without the determination and persistence of the desire to want to succeed. It’s like the old story or “thread” about the tortoise or the tortoise and the rabbit or the hare. The rabbit had all the speed in the world, a quick intellect and all, but it was misused under the false assumption that these things would win the race even if that animal was indecisive and lazy. Whereas the tortoise had a work ethic that surpassed the rabbit anyway through sheer persistence. So, I repeat the first line as a meaningless double entendre with this addition: I like and love to say that persistence is power, but persistence and determination combined with all the gifts, speed and talents of the rabbit have a invaluable power for the person. who has it persistence, decision Y talent the kind necessary to be fully successful it is the genuine triple threat and the most dangerous reality of all, because with the awareness to succeed combined with the talent to succeed, that invincible reality without weakness emerges.
You see, Claude Myron Bristol touches on what I mean in his book “The Magic of Believing.” That’s what makes a little book like that an immortal work. Still, the mind used fully and correctly is the substance of power. Everything else is wasted time.
What I mean by wasted time is talent without discipline and persistence to not give up, unless it’s a temporary abandonment to change approaches in a creative way that uses imagination to do something even better than the original approach can. achieve or wanted to achieve. After all, Harold Sherman’s key to happiness is first to relax and then to be creative, like the book he wrote: “Your Key to Happiness.” So with that being said, I believe the key to happiness is to persist until you achieve it, never give up, just change your focus, and realistically persevere in any circumstance.
When we simply do what we do for the money or the reward, we are “doing life.” When we love what we do and are consciously rewarded in every way, we are truly living. So when I say that doing and living can be the same thing, I just wanted to bring it to your attention as you read. My real answer is that doing life is different from living life. Really living life is always better anyway.
A little boxing trivia to wrap this up: Ken Norton came to life saying he was in boxing solely for the money, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr./Muhammad Ali lived life by a genuine example. Every report, biography, and autobiography I have read or seen about them bears out these realities. Doing is not a mission, living is a mission!