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21 Feb 12
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Persistence is the ability to maintain action regardless of your feelings. You press on even when you feel like quitting.
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it’s not your motivation that will produce results — it’s your action. Persistence allows you to keep taking action even when you don’t feel motivated to do so, and therefore you keep accumulating results.
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If you simply keep taking action, you’ll eventually get results, and results can be very motivating.
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There’s no honor in clinging to a goal that no longer inspires you. Persistence is not stubbornness.
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24 Dec 11
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Persistence is the ability to maintain action regardless of your feelings. You press on even when you feel like quitting.
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Persistence allows you to keep taking action even when you don’t feel motivated to do so, and therefore you keep accumulating results.
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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.
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Persistence is not stubbornness.
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In order to make room for new goals, we have to delete or complete old ones.
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The hard part is consciously deciding to delete an old project, knowing it will never be finished.
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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.
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Persistence of action comes from persistence of vision.
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02 May 11
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Persistence is the ability to maintain action regardless of your feelings. You press on even when you feel like quitting.
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it’s not your motivation that will produce results — it’s your action
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If you simply keep taking action, you’ll eventually get results, and results can be very motivating.
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So how do you know when to press on vs. when to give up
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you’re going to be a different person each year than you were the previous year.
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Persistence of action comes from persistence of vision.
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14 Apr 11
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Persistence is the ability to maintain action regardless of your feelings. You press on even when you feel like quitting.
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it’s not your motivation that will produce results — it’s your action
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If you simply keep taking action, you’ll eventually get results, and results can be very motivating.
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It comes from a vision of the future that’s so compelling you would give almost anything to make it real.
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The value of persistence comes not from stubbornly clinging to the past
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23 Aug 09
Jonathan Holton persistance, when to quit and when not to, etc etc.
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25 Aug 08
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13 Aug 08
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28 Jun 08
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comes from a vision of the future that’s so compelling you would give almost anything to make it real.
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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.
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13 Sep 07
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23 Aug 07
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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.
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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.
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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.
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