Perseverance is striving and trying with unfailing acts of patient effort. It indicates that continuos toil, exertion, strain, drudgery, travail, and work be applied, activated, practiced, put use, and adjusted. To persevere means that you try and try again. It means that you don’t stop until what you sought and worked for is accomplished. It means that you don’t stop until you are successful. When you try hard enough and long enough and your efforts don’t produce your aim, then perseverance implies that your efforts be adjusted. Try again another way, then another, and another. Practice until whatever it is that you want to accomplish is achieved, until it is completed, until you have reached success.
It is imperative that as you persevere you avoid feeling sorry for yourself when you goals seem as though they aren’t being accomplished. Keep a positive attitude. It is easy for negative thinking to be transformed into self-pity. It is easy to get stuck in self-pity and wallow in it. In order to avoid wallowing in self-pity; don’t focus on the bad. Don’t focus on the things that have not happened yet. When you get caught up in self-pity, you lose your perspective. Don’t focus on those things for which you have no control. Above all, avoid the trap of comparing yourself and your life to others. Don’t focus on how much better someone else appears to be doing.
You can get caught up in the trap of self-pity very quickly and without being conscious of it. If this happens then shift your perspective. Look around you. Think about those things for which you can be grateful. Life can always be worse. Consider the things you have in your life, the things that have gone well for you that you have taken for granted. Think about those things that others would love to have, to be, or to be able to do that you have and are able to do.
Another way to shift your perspective is to do something for someone in need. Visit a sick relative, assist a helpless neighbor, volunteer at a food pantry to feed people who have no food. Take a bag lunch and a blanket to a homeless person living on the street with no shelter from the rain. Visit the hospital and read a story to a child who has no legs, no arms, or who is dyeing from a terminal disease. Think about your blessings, count them and thank God for them one by one.
- Smile and find something in your circumstance to laugh about
- After you have prayed up, thanked God for what good there is in your life, and praised Him for his goodness, get out and mingle with people greeting them courteously. Be enthusiastic. Call a friend or relative, but not to complain about your life, instead to offer encouragement and your help.
- Think about your goals. Dream, aim high, and engage in thoughts that help you see your success.
- Don’t make excuses. Adjust your plan, act on it, and work it. Put forth effort.
- Be focused and single minded as you work. Be dedicated, disciplined and committed. Appreciate what you do, love your work.
- Strive for excellence but be humble and open-minded about it. Be open to change and don’t be afraid to take risks.
- Don’t be judgmental of others. Learn to forgive and forget. Develop a loving attitude. Be sympathetic and compassionate to others.
- Learn to accept adversity and disappointment. Lean to overcome them as you come out feeling stronger. Whether good or bad, let every experience be a learning experience.
- Be your own critic. Recognize your faults and your mistakes, acknowledge them and strive for self- improvement.
- Keep your face and focus on God, live each day performing good in which he can appreciate.
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