Time to get your journal out and spend some time writing about the following questions today (and, really, over the next week — if you want a fuller experience with this):
Why is taking the first step to persevere so important?
What factors may help you to take the first step?
What can you gain by persevering in your personal and professional life?
Of course, I can speak only for myself…but it really takes a lot to get me to quit on something I am interested in or passionate about. I have to have exhausted every avenue I can imagine to make something work before I move on. And I rarely have a Plan B! I generally approach things with this mind set — I may not know everything I need to know, or everyone I need to know, and I may not feel as if I have every resource will need right in my immediate grasp, but I trust that those things will become available as I need them, I will learn along the way…and unless it’s nuclear physics or brain surgery, it doesn’t occur to me that I can’t succeed.
So…if it’s a true passion, I just keep going!
What about you?
