THE VIRTUE OF PERSISTENCE

The Virtue of Persistence

The Virtue of Persistence

Persistence is the breath or the inner strength that enables us to successfully undertake the things wisely over the course of our journey. Those who are persevering are with high motivation and a deep sense of commitment that prevents them from abandoning the tasks that they have started, and encourage them to work until the end. To persist is a great help to be well disciplined, yet resolute in their actions (Simon, 2002).

Persistence is a quality common to people of solid character, many of them leaders in their field of action, far from being intimidated or meets the challenges of adversity; they magnify and intensify their efforts with great determination to achieve the real objectives they have set. If we believe in what we do and we somehow get the patience to overcome the obstacles we face along the way. If person do not lose sight of the future goals, while fighting against fatigue or discouragement, we feel in our being incomparable when we have the fruit of our human endeavor before us. Through persistence, the good intentions become reality. Many times we begin a project or enterprise and do not spend even a couple of weeks before we give it up and leave it to be forgotten.

This can happen throughout our lives in many ways. From major projects and ideals of this important the ingredient required is persistence, because it easily ensues times when we tend to leave and postpone those ideals in exchange for more immediate and fleeting satisfactions. Fears, phobias and uncertainty are big brakes to implement the virtue of persistence, however, the certainty of purpose, self confidence and a firm belief or faith that we will achieve our goals, with a view and long-term mission, are powerful fuel for exercising our will and to implement persistence.

A person can drink large amounts of alcohol because he likes to drink, but no matter what long term harm it is causing to the body long term damage. Psychological or spiritual myopia causes us to do great nonsense in our lives just to get instant gratification. The point is that with persistence, we have the strength to not get carried away by how easy and comfortable it is to let go things, in exchange for something bigger and better in the future.

If we see life with superficiality then we let ourselves be led by the immediate things. When we talk about persistence, worth taking a role and purposes articulated clearly our short and long term. The problem with goals is to always say "what" but not "how." On the other hand, sometimes not familiar with our capabilities to set goals that we can actually achieve.

Any project we undertake should be accompanied by an account of the means that we will get that job. If we fix a broken pipe, we need tools, and would be very foolish to lose heart because we could not reach the pipe ...