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Powerful Persistence Strategies

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Powerful Persistence Strategies to Achieve Success
By Barbie Zabel
Aug 17, 2007
The first persistence stategy is taking responsibility for all of your life. It 's the first step toward having a successful and fulfilling life. Stop blaming others, stop making excuses, and start changing your actions and reactions to events and opportunities in your life to those of a positive nature.

Understanding that everything you are experiencing today is the direct result of the choices you made in the past makes it easier to start taking 100% responsibility for all of it. Once and for all, vow to give up complaining and start soaring into positive action in the direction of your dreams.

Responsibility is really about control (not blame). Do you want …show more content…

Within every road to successful achievement are buried invisible land mines you 're almost certainly going to step on. When you do, don 't panic! Remove yourself from the situation, step back and ask yourself these three questions:

1. "What are 3 ways I can move over this obstacle?"
2. "What are 3 ways I can move under this obstacle?"
3. "What are 3 way I can move around this obstacle?"

Give yourself the time necessary to find the answers. They are there, but only when you look for them!

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on ' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race." ~Calvin Coolidge

Persistence Strategy 3 - Be willing to do whatever it takes.

Within the achievement of every dream lies a multitude of walls, barriers, setbacks, delays, and overwhelming challenges that were leaped over, crawled under, sailed around, and charged right through to overcome. Practice, determination, consistence, persistence (and then even more practice!) are absolute requirements on your path to ultimate …show more content…

The knowledge and acceptance of this truth plus your willingness to do whatever it takes adds the extra push you need to persevere in spite of any temporary pain along the way. Lasting benefits

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