It's not going to happen if you don't try

Perseverance is the art of holding on when everything else tells you to let go. What keeps a person striving for success when they keep coming up against brick walks, setbacks and downright failure? Developing perseverance requires in the main just one thing. A dogged belief in one’s goal and purpose. If you truly believe with all your heart that you are meant to achieve something, then you will.

You won’t mind the long hours spent striving. You will ignore the naysayers and listen only to the voice in your heart that says, “You can”. You will use whatever means is necessary to achieve the impossible. You will use every failure as a lesson, even the brick wall as a chance to jump higher.

“Perseverance is inside every one of us. It just requires belief.” There are so many live examples to see. Henry Ford is a classic example of persistence winning through. The first automotive company he set up failed. In the second, he was forced out by the shareholders. Even the third company was at the brink of bankruptcy when Ford found a group of investors to bail him out, creating the billion dollar company we know today as the Ford Motor Company. Their assembly line method of building cars went on to revolutionise the industry.

Another great example is of JK Rowling, the creator of the wildly successful ‘Harry Potter’ books, was divorced, jobless, a single mum, living on welfare and suffering from depression when she tried to sell her first Harry Potter novel. She was turned down by the twelve leading publishers in the UK before finally selling it off to a small publisher called Bloomsbury who only offered her a ￡1500 advance and printed a thousand copies – five hundred of which ended up in libraries.

The only thing happens when you not give up with my life experience is that you get better and better for more challenges and one day you succeed. ‘Harry Potter and The Philosophers Stone’ went on to win the Nestle Smarties Book Prize and the British Book Award for Children’s Book of the Year. To date the book has sold over 107 million copies and the series around 450 million, making JK Rowling the most successful living female author in the United Kingdom.

Always remember that as long as you are alive anything Is possible. The only valid excuse you have to give up is if you are dead. As long as you are alive and healthy and of course free you have the choice to keep trying until you finally succeed. But be Realistic because the chance of mastering something the first time you do it is almost non-existent. Everything takes time to learn and you will make mistakes and we need to learn from them.

Remember Michael Jordan, arguably the best basketball player of all time. He attributes his success to all his failures. He just never gave up even when he knew he had missed over 300 shots and had missed the winning shot of the game many times. Every time he got knocked down he got back up again.

And who can ever forget the quote “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”. Muhammad Ali is one of the best boxers the world has ever known. He suffered only 5 losses while having 56 wins and was the first boxer to win the lineal heavyweight championship three times. This is a guy who literally knows how to get knocked down and get back up.

Last but not the least, the man who created 'The Marathon', it was very long ago an Athenian herald was sent to Sparta to get help when the Persians landed in Greece. It was said that he ran 240 km in 2 days and after that he ran 40 km to announce the victory of the Greeks only to collapse and die on the spot from exhaustion. If you ever feel like things are difficult, imagine what it would be like to run 240 km in 2 days. Of course please don’t try that because you might die from it, but use it as an inspiration. Stay blessed! #kishoreshintre #possessedbywritingspirit