Same principle applies to business and all other life areas.

Live Your Dreams,

Jill Koenig

Author, Coach and Motivational Speaker

Here’s an overview of that newsletter:

Ted Turner, world-class sailor and founder of the CNN television network, explains his success by saying:

“The secret of my success is that I never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”

In another age President Calvin Coolidge declared: “Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. 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.”

Winston Churchill said he overcame a multitude of defeats in his career by living out his credo of “Never, never, never, never give up.”

Polybius, a Greek historian, wrote, “Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous effort than before.”

But common sense teaches that it is very important to understand the difference between persistence and pigheadedness.

Persistence is an act of both logic and faith. It means making sure the goal is worth the cost and believing that it is possible to reach it by making the best effort plus a little more.

Pigheadedness, on the other hand, is to ignore reality and to continue to beat one’s head against a brick wall when the reward, even if it is won, is not worth the risk and effort.

Persistence means to set goals and reach them and then set more goals and reach them, recognizing that success is never finally achieved. Winners are always pursuing the next goal.

Chris, I hope this adds to the discussion.

I’ve seeing in practice how perseverance works because I never give up.
This is how I could do many things impossible to be done.
Perseverance needs resistance to attacks, offences and subestimation.
One has to truly believe he or she is going to succeed and continue working, without interruption.

By the way, I remember that in the last Olympic Games here in Athens the girl that won in certain race suddenly started to run faster than the others only in the last minutes, surpassing everyone, while she was not near the first line. It seems that she was keeping the best for the end. Her victory surprised everyone! I don’t remember her name…

It fits with what my half compatriot Polybius said: “Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous effort than before.”

This is really a very wise observation!

I always remembered the Henry Ford’s words - “Thinking always of trying to do more brings a state of mind in which nothing seems impossible” and recently achieved this: http://books.google.com/books?id=MrBi0ghiZN0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=german+memories+in+asia

This is really awesome.
Next time round I’ll up my article writing
by 1 more at the end of the week
special for my rants.

Sometimes, the routine
just makes me a little
impatient. Besides, who
knew article writing would
be so much “giving out”
incorporated from ones
life experiences and ideas.

By the way, I feel like my
fingers are pretty conditioned
to tapping away at the keyboard now.

I guess thats why would happen
when you lay down a 90 day plan
for any single writing strategy . LOL!

Cheers,
Vern

Thank you for reminding me that success is waitng for those who dare to take action and that massive action will bring rewards.

Lynne Lee

I’ve been feeling as if my efforts are for not lately. Thank you to all who contributed this one. You’ve encouraged me to keep my eyes on prize and run the good race.

Best wishes to all of us!

I love these motivational speeches you give Chris. They’re right there pushing me to go one more round.

Jan Verhoeff

Regardless, it does work. Doing one extra of anything puts you into a positive frame of mind, which enables the outcome to be positive.

t schaber