Smart and persistent, the greatest virtue to success

21 182
Avatar for Fexonice1
3 years ago

Staying persistent is often confused with stubbornness, thee difference is that the first is intelligent, it means that we are looking for creative solutions and ways to achieve the goal, instead of taking one certain path which might not be the best solution or path to take. Sometimes what we see as stubbornness can actually be persistence mixed with smartness which we try not to give up on the creative ways to achieve our goals.

The greatest virtue to success is not knowledge or intelligence, but rather the courage and the persistence to move forward in spite of the pain of failure.

A lot has been written on persistence and overcoming failures over the years, but what I intend to present here, is that the greatest virtue to success is not knowledge or intelligence as many might think, but rather the courage and the persistence to move forward in spite of the pain of failure. Nobody is born with knowledge and intelligence, and we can’t let our ego convince us otherwise. After all, failures and their lessons are the building blocks of success. If we’re scared of the failures, then we’re scared of the success that could come by afterward.

Persistence is getting up one more time than you fall. It's staying positive, believing in yourself, even when everyone else has counted you out. Persistence is making something out of nothing. It's seeing an opportunity where no one else does, it's taking small steps towards your goals every day. Persistence is trying again even when it feels like you've tried before. Persistence is problem solving, it's working through the hard parts, it's persistence that allows us to break through any barrier that gets thrown in our way.

Throughout the whole life, we often want to achieve something, but not always can achieve it. Why is this?

It's because we do not pay enough attention to self improvement, we only live in the day to day business and forget about improving ourselves. We can't go on like this, in order to achieve our goals in the future, we need to be smart and brave enough in order to pursue our dreams in the present.

To be honest speaking, It's not an easy thing for us, especially when we are trapped in the monotonous life for a long time, but we must keep trying and keep improving ourselves.

When you want to do something, you need to find a way to do it. The biggest pitfall for us is just we give up easily, we can't take action at critical moment and we aren't smart enough. The tough road is the road of inventing something new and keeping improving oneself.

I’m a firm believer that if you set goals and put work towards those goals, then you will achieve them. That’s how it works, It doesn't matter who you are or what you do. If you don’t have a plan or a strategy to get from point A to point B, then you will never get there. If you want to be successful in life, in a business, a relationship, a hobby, whatever-figure out a plan to get there. It is so important to be determined and do whatever it takes to get what you want.

You have to have a great attitude and be smart about your approach. If you have the right mindset with the right plan it will eventually pay off. You just have to be persistent with whatever it is that you want to accomplish. Don’t give up easily and realize it’s going to take time and hard work to succeed at what you want to do.

You can’t wait for your vision to be realized; you need to build the habit of working every day to achieve results that lead you to achieve the goal.

When it comes to transforming your life and making the big changes you know you need to make, it can be easy to fall into the trap of thinking that it's soon enough that you should start living the high-quality life that you want. When you actually start living this new lifestyle, you will soon find out that the change process is harder than you could've wished for. Every day it becomes more and more of a challenge to sustain the commitment needed to change, without some deadline to motivate you.

This is the time to work smarter. Not harder. This is the time to build your habits. Learn how to maximize your routine to achieve the results you want. Make small changes over time that grow.

Learn to be smarter than you have ever been, and develop yourself every day, there is always something new that can help us achieve our dreams and goals faster than ever before.

This is the most important thing you can do. Consistency is hard and it takes commitment, that's why we shouldn't be wasting our time in the beginning. Be smart, be persistent, learn how to master your routine and progress with every passing day.

Bottom line

To succeed and accomplish your goals in life, you need to learn how to make incremental changes. One big change at a time. Don’t let yourself get overwhelmed. If you do, you might end up sabotaging yourself in order to achieve your goals.

Start with small actions, take action on your goals and implement changes that will eventually grow into habits that will make you strong and help you to achieve your goals faster.

Always know that your first actions are the most important actions of all, you will learn this the hard way at some point, so be smart and be prepared to do all you can, and stay persistently to achieve your goals.

15
$ 11.55
$ 11.15 from @TheRandomRewarder
$ 0.05 from @Jnavedan
$ 0.05 from @Princessbusayo
+ 11
Sponsors of Fexonice1
empty
empty
empty
Avatar for Fexonice1
3 years ago

Comments

Hi, my friend Yes, you are right in what you write. Perseverance is a necessary behavior for success. The more failures, the more learnings in how you will achieve your goals. Maintain a triumphant attitude even if you fall often. In the end, if you act like this, you will end up with the victory.

$ 0.00
3 years ago

A great reminder from sir Fexonise :). Thank you sir for writing this kind of topics. More to come please

$ 0.00
3 years ago

Thanks for this article. Persistence is of high benefit if it's charged towards the right channel.

$ 0.00
3 years ago

We need to get change to succeed , and never give up ❤️

$ 0.00
3 years ago

We should all plan properly and act at the time it is needed then success is ours

$ 0.02
3 years ago

What a bombshell! You carry a charisma of champions and in this article you adequately validated it by giving us the prerequisites of success. As if not a enough, you arrested us in the chains of consistency and persistence.

You are an architect. And you have built a skyscraper of success, not to wow us; but to elevate us to the top floor. I'm happy to be among those who have shared in this bounty harvest. Keep the pen bleeding, boss. I'm glad I read this article. 👌

$ 0.02
3 years ago

Your commendations seems to higher for me to accept, however, the words written in this article are equally for my consumption like every other person who read it.

$ 0.00
3 years ago

The humble one.

$ 0.00
3 years ago

I like to read motivational words and listen to people. Because I think such words give strength to people. At least a little help him in his life. I think this article of yours is like that.

$ 0.02
3 years ago

Thanks for the commendation

$ 0.00
3 years ago

Getting overwhelmed by little success get things complicated. Thank you for that sir.

$ 0.02
3 years ago

This is traced to my way of being. Persistence is one of my strengths (or perhaps a defect). When I get involved in something, I focus on that and until I do not achieve it I do not stop.

$ 0.01
3 years ago

Good to know that. We must keep pushing until we get what we aimed at.

$ 0.00
3 years ago

You are right when you say persistence is taken as stubbornness but I think the only difference is that with one, you are bound to achieve your aim especially when you do not give up but keep being persistent while being stubborn to do things might make you fail in some parts where you shouldn't because you aren't giving yourself break.

$ 0.02
3 years ago

You are right in some way, being persistent is often mistaken to being stubborn. The difference is that the former required intelligence while the later relied on grits. However, there can be a mixture of persistence and stubbornness working in a person at the same time. In this case, a person is not afraid to dare what everyone else ran away from, and in most cases you can make a big break this way.

$ 0.00
3 years ago

The journey of A thousand miles they say begins with a step. Working hard is not enough anymore, you have to work smart also

$ 0.02
3 years ago

Hard work sometime become a hard knock. We need to be smart to grab opportunities.

$ 0.00
3 years ago

I so love that portion on starting small. The idea of making giant leap especially in our attitude and self development is self sabotaging

$ 0.02
3 years ago

One step at a time, no matter how small it may be, as long as you moving you will get to where you are going.

$ 0.00
3 years ago

'Incremental changes'- this is what we need. Most of us do the same things and expect to see a big result. Thanks for the writing, I needed this dose of motivation. :)

$ 0.02
3 years ago

Welcome, happy to know you benefit from the article.

$ 0.00
3 years ago