All Annotations of Self-Discipline: Persistence[Preview]

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• Is your plan still correct? If not, update the plan. Is your goal still correct? If not, update or abandon your goal.
• Persistence of action comes from persistence of vision.
• The pursuit of personal growth has long been a stable constant for me, even though it’s paradoxically in flux at the same time.
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  Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
  > Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “Press On” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
  
  - Calvin Coolidge
• Persistence is the fifth and final pillar of self-discipline.
• it’s not your motivation that will produce results — it’s your action.
• The hard part is consciously deciding to delete an old project, knowing it will never be finished.
• you’ll eventually get results, and results can be very motivating.
• Persistence will ultimately provide its own motivation.
• Persistence is not stubbornness.
• Can you identify a part of your life where you’ve demonstrated a pattern of long-term persistence? I think if you can identify such an area, it may provide a clue to your mission — something you can work towards where passion and self-discipline function synergistically.

• So how do you know when to press on vs. when to give up?

  
  

  Is your plan still correct? If not, update the plan. Is your goal still correct? If not, update or abandon your goal. There’s no honor in clinging to a goal that no longer inspires you. Persistence is not stubbornness.

• comes from a vision of the future that’s so compelling you would give almost anything to make it real.
• identify a part of your life where you’ve demonstrated a pattern of long-term persistence? I think if you can identify such an area, it may provide a clue to your mission — something you can work towards where passion and self-discipline function synergistically.
• The value of persistence comes not from stubbornly clinging to the past. It comes from a vision of the future that’s so compelling you would give almost anything to make it real.
• Can you identify a part of your life where you’ve demonstrated a pattern of long-term persistence? I think if you can identify such an area, it may provide a clue to your mission — something you can work towards where passion and self-discipline function synergistically.