Becoming an Unbeatable Person

“It is impossible to defeat a person who never gives up.”
Unknown

“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”
Rick Pitino

Today I want to blog about perseverance—a characteristic that is critical for anyone who truly wants to be successful. Perseverance is a strong mental attitude, a nearly fanatical approach toward achieving something. Perseverance is not something we are born with necessarily however it is something we can develop and learn. Perseverance is an undying enthusiasm and passion for what we want. It impels us to never stop pursing or ever get deterred toward achieving our goals regardless of what may come. Hence, perseverance is a quality of a winner.

We cannot deny the fact that people are more successful when they never give up. In Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture he talks about how each of us will face “walls” when we are trying to accomplish something great. He explains that these “walls” are placed in everyone’s path to separate those who truly want it from those who do not. Those who preserver eventually scale the walls and come off triumphant while those who do not, allow the “walls” to force them down another path. For this reason, a lot of people are not successful in life because they simply give up when they come against a wall. Realizing that accomplishing anything worthwhile in life will require us to overcome challenges and to scale “walls” will motivate us to keep trying when times get tough.

Without perseverance, we will accomplish little and with it, we can accomplish anything we put our mind to. Many go through life afraid to work hard or step outside of their comfort zone because they don’t know what to expect. They fear the unknown and/or they fear failure. They fail to believe that anything good we are engaged in will only build us regardless if we ever reach our goal or not. Committing ourselves to achieving something great and persevering toward accomplishing it will deeply enrich and increase our satisfaction in life.

True perseverance is a unique quality and living in our “show me NOW” society, I believe it is a dying breed. Today, many people will persevere for a time until eventually they become distracted, tired, apathetic, lazy, or weak and they lose everything they’ve gained. This inability to endure causes avoidable stress, depression, and failures in life. When we choose to persevere, we are choosing to be successful.

Our personal level of determination and perseverance will have a huge impact on our life. Perseverance takes a great deal of will power, confidence, patience, and discipline but if we can learn to persevere we can accomplish anything we put our minds to. Because truly it is impossible to defeat a person who never gives up…