In Others’ Words: Failure is Never a Certainty
The older I get, the more I value perseverance.
I wasn’t much of an athlete growing up. The first sport I got involved in? Tang Soo Do, a form of martial arts, when I was 18 years old. Yes, I was intrigued by the discipline, but I also thought the instructor was cute. *Blush*
While I took exams to advance in karate, I didn’t care much for competition. I left that to my younger brother, who was much better at martial arts than I was. Much, much better. He now owns a successful martial arts studio. ‘Nuff said.
Sports is just one of the ways we learn about persevering … how certain failure can become surprising success if we don’t quit. There’s the academic arena, when learning doesn’t come easy because you just don’t get a certain topic — that would be math for me — or because you deal with a learning disability. Relationships provide endless opportunities to persevere: family … friends … business … and those people who are like emotional sandpaper in our lives.
You’re not going to get through life without facing endless opportunities to choose to persevere … or quit. To stay with whatever challenge you’re facing, the one that seems so hopeless, so fruitless, and see the situation become worth all your time, all your effort, all your prayer, all your determination.
Even if things don’t turn out the way you hoped, you were successful because you persevered to the end. You didn’t quit.
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