Never, EVER SURRENDER!
Posted 12-30-2008 at 06:59 PM by DynamicMentalFitness
Tags concentration, courage, focus, persistence, success
Never, EVER SURRENDER!
A sterling fellow - a senior in this forum and outstanding individual - asked the following question regarding what to do about someone close who gives in to doubt and begins to try and convince YOU to raise the white flag of surrender as an entrepreneur:
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Its the typical scenario. You are working hard, learning marketing, doing as much as you can, spending hours and hours at it for a few years, and you've yet to produce an income that you can live on. You still believe that if you stick to it, keep working, that you'll finally figure it out and start making money.
One night your wife says "You've been at this for years, you'll never make anything" She has lost faith and has given up and her words have hurt you deeply. Perhaps you even have a fight about it and tell her that its better to keep working and failing than to just sit and watch TV.
What do you do?
One night your wife says "You've been at this for years, you'll never make anything" She has lost faith and has given up and her words have hurt you deeply. Perhaps you even have a fight about it and tell her that its better to keep working and failing than to just sit and watch TV.
What do you do?
If the bodies of those throughout history whose dreams were crushed by the 'well-intentioned, intimate sabotage' of those who 'love them so' were piled atop one another it would form a mountain so vast that it would block out the sun and tilt the earth off its axis.
I am not telling you what you should do.
I am telling you what I would do.
I would tell the wife of the scenario as it would be applying to me to never, ever speak those words to me again, and let her know that there is nothing, come hell or high water, that will stop me. NOTHING, and NOBODY.
I am not telling you what you should do.
I am telling you what I would do.
I would tell the wife of the scenario as it would be applying to me to never, ever speak those words to me again, and let her know that there is nothing, come hell or high water, that will stop me. NOTHING, and NOBODY.
I would never, never, never, EVER surrender.
I would move forward with infinite determination until the mountaintop is surmounted.
I would let any who would fall behind do what is in their nature to do.
I would utterly ignore the words of the faithless.
I would persist, I would learn, I would master, and I would WIN, no matter how long it takes.
Inevitably, there would be a crowd waiting at the victory line claiming they knew I could do it all along.
I wouldn't entertain a single regret if 'faithless friends' are not there at the victory feast to raise a glass in cheer.
I can tell you with total integrity that this is what I would do, because I have been in the exact same position, and it is what I did.
I found that life leans to greet such a focused mind with favor, and opens doors that grant entry only to TRUE BELIEVERS.
May fortune find you on your journey, which ever road you take.
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Well said my friend, there would not be a lot of the things that we appreciate, use and sometimes take for granted in life if these principles had been ignored by persistent and determined folks throughout history. The light bulb springs to mind, and also on a culinary note Kentucky fried chicken.
Sometimes on our journey to goals or pinnacles we do really need to take 1 step back to gain 2 forward to reach these destinationsPosted 12-30-2008 at 10:35 PM by Feral1
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it pains when your loved ones dont believe in you. I was in your shoes. ignore the pessimistic voices which derail your dreams. just keep on keeping on. no vision sprouting out of your heart can be unachievable God wouldnt allow that.
charlesPosted 12-31-2008 at 06:18 AM by charlesMumo
