About PERSISTENCE
In 1953, a lowly beekeeper from New Zealand received fame, recognition, and even a knighting for a task that no human had ever accomplished up until that point.
That man was Edmund Hillary, the first person to reach the peak of Mount Everest. However, this wasn’t his first attempt.
There were only two factors that carried Hillary to the top of that mountain, and everything he needed was umbrellaed by these two factors: Desire, and persistence.
His desire and persistence allowed him to bring his body into the physical condition needed to achieve this unrealistic goal.
It drove him to find a guide that was willing to die to see his goal to fruition.
It drove him to find the funding and support required to even attempt this goal.
These are the exact same factors that you need to achieve whatever mountain it is that you are attempting to climb.
Any successful person will tell you that persistence is absolutely essential to climbing a mountain and changing your results.
Most of the world, or nearly 100% of the world, has chosen to remain in the foothills rather than develop this strength.
They may dream of fame and fortune, but those only come after a high price has been paid, and most all of us are more comfortable sitting in the foothills rather than paying this price.
Persistence is the unique strength required to maintain integrity and positivity throughout the countless rejections you will receive along the way along with the rest of the obstacles that lie in wait in this fast-moving and ever-changing world.
It does not matter what goal you are trying to achieve.
Find a worthy ideal.
Become emotionally invested in it.
Make the DECISION WITH CONVICTION that you will achieve this goal regardless of how many people tell you to quit.
If Edmund Hillary had quit after failing to climb Everest in 1951, nobody would have thought him a quitter.
If he had stopped after failing in 1952, nobody would have thought him a quitter.
Edmund Hillary had countless reasons to not try again in 1953.
At any point he could have declared that it was too cold, too windy, too little oxygen, too low visibility, or any other number of reasons that climbing Everest wasn’t possible.
And he would be right about every single one of them.
This is also true of our personal mountains to climb.
Perhaps you don’t have the time in your day to complete your task. Perhaps you don’t have the education.
Maybe the reason you aren’t living the life you want to live is because of the grandfather of all excuses; “I don’t have the money”.
If you were to use any one of these reasons for not living the life you desire, there are very few people in the world that would fault you or think of you as a failure.
These are all viewed as incredibly sound reasons to not live the life you wish you were living.
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The fact is that you have the exact same amount of time in the day as anyone else that has achieved their lofty goals.
The fact is that humans tend to quit at roughly 30% of their potential.
And the money? A bee keepers salary is roughly $30,000 a year in 2021 if the keeper maintains 200 or more hives. Certainly not a lucrative career.
It costs roughly $45,000 to climb Mount Everest. If a beekeeper were to desire to climb Everest, it could take decades to acquire the money to achieve such a task.
But that didn’t stop Edmund Hillary.
When you become emotionally invested in an idea and you make the decision that you WILL accomplish that goal, the money will always show itself.
If money didn’t stop Edmund Hillary from reaching his goal, why would it stop you?
If nearly all of us are unwilling to develop persistence and actually do something that we want, then the majority of us must be lost, or at least misguided.
If the people in your life aren’t willing to wake up and see why you have chosen persistence, don’t let them pull you into their trap.
When you come in contact with these individuals, let them serve as a triggering mechanism to mentally double your commitment to yourself to be persistent.
How do you become persistent?
Persistence is not developed by accident.
You were not born with it, you cannot inherit it, and there isn’t a single person in the world that can develop persistence for you.
The only prerequisite to persistence is desire.
It begins as a habit formed from a desire to meet a goal.
STEP ONE: You have to fall in love with a worthy ideal.
That’s it.
You have to truly fall in love and let that burning passion and desire for your goal consume you and magnetize you to every part of your ideal.
When you are 100% committed, the persistence will come natural.
The idea of quitting becomes a disgusting thought and anyone who tries to stand in your way or slow you down had better watch out.
Obstacles and problems may present themselves at every turn, but through persistence you will prevail every time.
Almost none of us have ever truly given consideration to what we want.
Perhaps we’ve never even given it a single thought.
But until you find something that you are willing to lose friends and money over, you haven’t found the thing that you are willing to persist for.
Make your desire to succeed as strong as your fear of failing and you will persist.
Decide that you will become laser-focused on what you want and that nothing will stand in your way.
