Perseverance, A Potent Tool For Success

There may come to a point in your life when it appears as if everything you want to do is met with heavy resistance and you may even experience one form of setback or the other, but one thing is sure, if you do not give up, success is sure to be attained. Resilience simply means to bounce right back up and never quit in the face of challenges, oppositions, setbacks, and problems. The truth is that challenges cannot be avoided, but the greater truth is that you can bounce back from them. More so, the presence of challenges should be an indication that success is already around the corner, so keep holding on.

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The power of resilience is needed to effectively navigate through the storms of life. Life will not hand a prize to you which you have not paid the price for. So whatever comes your way should not discourage you from pursuing after your dreams but it should give you more motivation. There was a particular football match that I watched sometimes back and it explained to me the power of resilience. It was a league match where one of the teams lost their opening match to a team which everyone thought they should have beaten. This almost made them discouraged in the remaining matches. However, by their next match, they resolved within themselves to give it all it takes.

The next match came and they drew. In fact, it was becoming worrisome because they needed to qualify from the group stage. Well luckily, they qualified narrowly on the basis of "best losers." This was how they rekindled the fires of determination and resilience in them. They progressed from the "round of 16," made their way to the quarterfinals, and with so much determination, they won narrowly, then went on to semis and to the finals. In the final, something adorable happened. The other team was beating them until a few minutes to the end of the match when they equalized.

The fact they they had to equalized when everyone thought that they could not reignited their spirit of resilience. In fact, they saw it as if their life depended on it and gave in their best. Even when they other team was pressing to crack open their defence, they kept it strong and then the match entered extra time. Just moments before the blow of the final whistle that should have sent the match into penalties, they scored. A team that was initially down went on to win the match and as a result, they were crowned the winners of the tournament - a practical example of perseverance.

In life, there are many ways in which adverse and challenging conditions can arise, but how you respond to them is what will matter. Resilience demands that you learn to welcome and adapt comfortably in the face of challenges without cracking by them. There is always something to learn from challenges which can be useful in overcoming similar ones in the future. Resilient people do not see challenges as problems, rather they see them as necessary stepping-stones to help them achieve success. If you must achieve success, then you have to understand that there is no way to dodge challenges, rather you face them. It is in solving the problem that lies before you that your glory arises.

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It is worthy to note that being resilient does not mean denying the presence of problems, rather it means focusing on the solution and not on the problems, then having a positive thought about it. You cannot be resilient until you have effectively mastered your mind to think positively at all times. Your positive mentality will lead you to undertaking positive actions. In the midst of dark night, when everyone else is seeing darkness, the resilient people will still see the silver lining, then have hope that the dawn is inevitable. It is resilience that makes one to keep moving inside the tunnel with the hope of seeing the promised light at the end of it. So in life, if success is your aim, then resilience should be your lifestyle. Having a spirit of "I can do this," makes you to attempt any feat in life.

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