If you go through life quitting everything, you’ll never know success. If you’re going to taste the fruits of success, you’ve got to stick with something.
– Anonymous
We need to identify our core competency and find a platform to explore our potential. We need to choose a field of our choice and excel. We have to be clear about our long-, medium- and short-term goals. At the same time, we should have clarity on our life’s mission. We need to understand that life’s mission is different from goals. Mission is our understanding of the purpose of our life. It is a touchstone on which our goals will be tested. If our goal does not match with our mission, we will not be emotionally involved and committed in what we have undertaken to do.
While the above is true, the most important factor for success is our ability to stick on to a project for a sufficiently long period of time. There is an old adage: ‘Rolling stone gathers no moss’. So is a fickle-minded person. The bigger the goal, the more difficult will it be to reach. We may have to stretch all our resources. We may encounter problems and we may be tempted to give up. Or we may be anxious and impatient to see the result of our effort immediately. Sometimes, we may even evaluate our progress too early and give up disappointed.
It will be a good idea to audit our own ability to persevere and stick to a project and introspect if we have to improve on this personal quality.
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