Persistence

Our theme for September is Practices for Living in Spiritual Alignment.

Today's topic, Life's Preservers, Perception, Perseverance, and Persistence.

So let's start with perception and define that.

So perception is like the compass, how you interpret your reality, the process of organizing, interpreting and making sense of sensory information or ideas.

Eventually, you become unstoppable.

Persistence is its own reward.

Every time you force yourself to persist on a task, whether it is large or small, you feel happier and better about yourself.

When you go the extra mile and do more than you are paid for, or more than is expected, your self-esteem goes up.

Also self-reliance.

Persistence is easier when you're not dependent on other people.

When you have a plan or a business or a strategy that you're reliant on other people and they continue to let you down, persistence is much harder.

So find ways to be self-reliant.

So the last thing I want to kind of talk to you about, besides the fact that persistence is a difference maker and that it starts in your mindset, is that persistence is really a decision.

And this leads us to that third pillar that I was talking about.

Persistence is a decision.

to act in spite of your mood, to act in spite of your mood.

Here's the second thing.

Persistence is self-discipline in action.

And self-discipline is the fundamental quality of a great personality.

Everything we say really depends on having the discipline to do it.

Um-

Persistence.

That's what I heard through that story as well, just this almost ob- objectively delusional persistence towards a goal.

And I, I don't know if those words are correct because, in that situation, I, I question whether Anvil's success was ever really making it or the journey itself was the success.

I think persistence is like-

Argh

... like, under the picture of the, like, little kitten hanging off the branch, it's like, "Persistence."

[laughs]

And again, it all comes down to the same thing.

Persistence or doing is the only thing, whether you have the motivation or not.

But if you get free motivation from other people, definitely use it.

Absolutely.

Well, I'm going to give you a very simple answer.

When I was 21, I saw a sign hanging in a restaurant, and it was a quote from a past United States president, and it was entitled Persistence.

And it said, nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Talent will not.

Education will not.

The world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

The phrase press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.