Perseverance.
Continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition.
-Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Aloha to my Family, My Friends and everyone else who has taken a moment to stop by.
I am going to talk about PERSEVERANCE today. Well... I am actually going to let a few quotes do most of the talking for me.
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
Life is full of hardships and "defeats" but it is only a failure if you view it with negativity. IT IS A FAILURE if you lay down and drown yourself in self-pity. IT IS A FAIL if you lash out with negativity at the PERCEIVED people and/or things in your life that you blame for YOUR DEFEAT. YOU FAILED. Not anyone or anything else. YOU.
Maya Angelou. Tells us that even in DEFEAT you have not FAILED if you RISE FROM IT. She believes that DEFEAT is necessary. It is. It is called LIFE LESSONS. Rise from YOUR DEFEAT and LEARN FROM IT. What happened? Do you have all the information necessary to RISE from IT? LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES and DON'T LOOK BACK.
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
Never "walk back". FORWARD. GO FORWARD. Let go of the negativity of the past. Let go and learn from the failures of life and MOVE ON. Without MOVING ON you will never MOVE FOWARD. As President Lincoln says here, you do not have to move fast; you just have to start MOVING.
“When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.”
So you have picked yourself back up. You are moving and PERSEVERING! Do you feel like giving up? SURE YOU DO!!! Are You going to GIVE UP? FUCK NO! Whether You are working toward the betterment of yourself, your business or/and your family and friends... whatever AWESOMELY GOOD THING you are working toward... STICK WITH IT! President Roosevelt says to HANG ON! I say, "LEAD THE WAY!" Tie on more rope, ribbon, thread... and KEEP GOING!
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Can you imagine if Edison had just given up? What if the creator of the LIGHT BULB had thrown his creation against the wall in frustration and given up? No light bulb? I am fairly certain someone would have figured it out but IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT? Someone else to figure IT out? NO! PERSEVERE!
“NEVER GIVE UP
No matter what is going on
Never give up
Develop the heart
Too much energy in your country
Is spent developing the mind
Instead of the heart
Be compassionate
Not just to your friends
But to everyone
Be compassionate
Work for peace
In your heart and in the world
Work for peace
And I say again
Never give up
No matter what is going on around you
Never give up”
This gentle spirit sums up my thoughts exactly. Even in your struggles remember to act with compassion toward all. WE ARE ALL WORKING THOUGH LIFE. WE HAVE ALL HAD OUR OWN STRUGGLES, DEFEATS and FAILURES. Be compassionate to everyone because they are just like you. I can only hope that though EVERYTHING that we can all learn to PERSEVERE in and with HAPPINESS, LOVE and COMPASSION!
I will leave you with a poem by Rudyard Kipling in "If: A Fathers Advice to his Son."
Perseverance,
Cousin Pili
“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!”
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