The Importance Of Persistence
- Always be willing to learn from failure.Â
- How you deal with setbacks will define you as a person.
- In the end, failure makes you a better and stronger person.
In life it is likely you will experience many setbacks. There will be times when everything seems to go wrong, and you feel like just giving up. These are the times you will feel at your lowest point, lacking self confidence and self esteem.
However adversity does not have to be this way. The truth is, everyone experiences temporary setbacks in life, but it is how you deal with those moments that ultimately define who you are, and how they affect you.
Persisting In The Face Of Adversity
Every man or woman who has achieved great things have all experienced setbacks and times when everything seemed lost, but their ability to persist in the face of those adversities saw them through and made them who they were.
In my experience I have found many times over that every time I felt like giving in, but kept going anyway, I soon succeeded in whatever I was trying to do. It was like someone, or something, was testing me to see if I really wanted it.
Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining
I think one of the most important lessons I have learnt in life is to try and see the good in every situation and stay positive.
Of course I would prefer if bad things didn’t happen to me, but when they do, I try and learn from them and use those experiences to make me a stronger person.
It’s often said that people succeed through failure, and its true. The more you fail in life the more you will learn and the quicker you will succeed.
However, you will only succeed if you persist through the hard times, and keep going no matter what happens.
Never Give Up
Life is full of surprises, and despite our best efforts we will all have to experience adversities at some point.
However often within these adversities lie valuable and important lessons from which we can learn and use to make us a better and stronger person.
You should therefore decide in advance to never ever give up, no matter what happens to you. Then let each setback motivate you forward to greater achievement, rather than letting it pull you back and prevent you from reaching your true potential.
If you are able to do this, and persist no matter what happens, in the end there will be nothing that can stop you.
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November 30th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
this is a great article.
no one is perfect, life can never be perfect.
its hard to realize that it’s ok to fall back sometimes.
its better to then get back up and face the problems in life.
December 1st, 2007 at 12:46 am
I think it’s more than ok to fail from time to time, i think it’s necessary and makes you a stronger and better person. We all fail in life, and no one ever does something perfectly the first time.
What make the winners different from the loosers, is that winners get up and try and try again, whereas loosers give up and feel defeated after their first failure.
Learning from failure is an important part of life. Take Thomas Edison for example, he failed 99 times before he finally succeed in making the lightbulb work. When asked about this he said he didn’t fail 99 times, he found 99 ways not to make a lightbulb!
Could you fail 99 times at something you wanted to achieve in life and still keep going? For most people the answer is no.
July 5th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Hi Martin,
First of all your articles are superb and I enjoy every bit of it. Currently I’m going through some serious financial problems. I understand my problems better than before and I’m confident of withering this sooner or later. The issue is quite often my wife suggest I take up any position
including security guarding so long I could find money. This sometime makes meto think my wife doesn’t trust my ability or she simply belittles me. I really try not to get angry or lose my cool. It’s not I look down the jobs
but merely do not want to compromise my belief that I could do much better things in life to be successful.
please suggest how can I overcome this problem?
July 5th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Hi Raj,
I actually agree with you, you should not compromise your belief in yourself. If you know you are capable to doing something, you should keep working towards that goal because eventually you will achieve it.
However sometimes we have to take different and unexpected routes to reach our destination in life. If you are going through some financial problems right now, then it may be a good idea to take the job your wife suggested purely as a source of income.
This does not mean you are giving up on your goal, but rather you are taking a different route to get it. If you need money, then this job could provide you with money you would otherwise not have. In the meantime you could still go after the job you want to get.
I don’t think your wife is trying to belittle you, or doubts your abilities, but if you are having serious financial problems then your number one goal should be getting a source of immediate income, so this is probably why your wife is suggesting you get any job.
Raj, I know this is probably not what you wanted to hear, but i would advise to stay focused on your goal and recognise the possibility that you may have to travel a different path to on the one you thought you were going to travel to achieve your goal. The destination will still be the same, its just the journey that will be different.
Martin