Tag Archives: persistence

First of all, I wish you all health, wealth and success in 2021. The best use for a new year is as a reset. If you have fallen behind and lost direction, then this is a great excuse to refocus on what matters to you and get around to taking …

Do you know anybody who has not failed? I don’t. In fact, contrary to what you might have been taught as a child, failing does not mean that there is anything wrong with you. Actually, everyone has a major setback once in a while. Indeed, the more you interact with …

Henry Ford once said that if you believe you can do something, or you believe you cannot, either way you are right. Most of us achieve far less than we are remotely capable of simply because our belief filters get in the way of actions and performance. This is strange …

Have you ever been fallen so low… has life ever dealt you such a blow, that you felt you’d never get up? And maybe you don’t even want to? I know I’ve been there. Several times. Quite recently in fact. One such occasion was just out of university. I did …

So, about a month ago, a storm took out my Hifi/Home Cinema system. Various major components were critically damaged. A/V receiver, high quality CD player, Bluray/DVD player and more. Since I live in a country area with poor electrical protections, this kind of thing happens quite often. The irony is …

The myths and legends are filled with many obstacles that the hero must overcome before finally achieving the goal of the quest. In some cases, he or she takes a wrong turn and goes in the wrong direction for many years. Another trap may be that the hero ends up …

In his classic work, Think & Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill stated that 98% of people are in the jobs they have through indecision, i.e. because they never made the decision about what they wanted to do in their lives in the first place. Sadly, nearly a century later, we can …