Otherwise known as, why quit when you’re behind?
No, really. If you haven’t reached your goal yet, and you quit, you’ll never reach it.
Perseverance is the art of creating a goal and focusing on it — either on the long-term goal or on each step you need to take along the way — until you’ve reached it.
Sometimes, the goal is something like making it through another week. Sometimes, it’s writing a novel. Sometimes, it’s running a race, learning a new language, or raising a child.
Perseverance gets us through. Take it one day at a time, one step at a time — in my case, literally. Perseverance helped me relearn to walk, more than once. Perseverance is helping me relearn to run. Perseverance keeps me going.
What have you persevered at recently?
Great post. I needed this one today. I was sick last week so I fell really behind on Script Frenzy. I thought about just calling it quits for this year. But I will not give up. I can write 7 script pages a day to finish the script!
Oh, dear. I’m sorry to hear you were that sick! Definitely don’t quit.
I’m doing Script Frenzy, too. (I’m Erin_M_H over there.) I have all of 6 pages so far. If I don’t hit the 100-page goal, I’m okay with that. My personal goal was to try something different, to stretch myself as a writer, and I’m using this as a means to an end. It’s started me on the script, which I can continue working on, even after April is over.
Good luck with your script!
Another P word that I struggle with is patience. I want it to happen now, for the words to come out right the first time. If they don’t I don’t want to continue, but then I persevere and remind myself to have patience and in the end I reach my goals.
It’s the same every single time, the only difference being that now I make it through to the end whereas when I was younger I gave up.
Oh, I totally have problems with patience! (Don’t even ask me how many times I’ve checked to see if there’s news about an anthology I submitted to this spring . . . ) I try to use perseverance to make up for my lack of patience.