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Faizan
Many of us have on several occasions heard the saying "quitters never win, and winners never quit" and similar others. The place of persistence in the self-improvement message is well grounded and jealously guarded.
True, if one really wants to succeed at any task, one must be willing to stick to it when the inevitable obstacles begin to show up.You cannot go through life touching everything and pulling your hands off as soon as you begin to face challenges. It goes without saying that those who achieve a great deal in their endeavours are the ones who do not give up easily even when faced with lack of early success.
So persistence is good. But does that mean we must remain stubbornly resolute even when all the signs are showing that the probability of our succeeding even in the distant future is almost down to zero? I don't think so.
Unfortunately, this is what many of us who toil every day to transform our lives, our businesses and our relationships keep on doing. We find it difficult to stop pursuing dreams which have become nothing other than pipedreams.
Though we may hide behind the old persistence mantra and use it to justify our actions, there are often other factors which render us incapable of ditching whatever is not working in our lives.
In my personal experience, I've discovered that a strong emotional attachment to a once-profitable, most beloved business or a previously wonderful relationship could be the one thing preventing anyone from cutting their losses, dumping the whole show and moving in a different direction.
But there is a more sinister factor - fear.
The fear of being laughed at or being called a failure or a quitter is, in fact, responsible for many instances of people refusing to let go of doomed personal projects in order to take a different route.
True, if one really wants to succeed at any task, one must be willing to stick to it when the inevitable obstacles begin to show up.You cannot go through life touching everything and pulling your hands off as soon as you begin to face challenges. It goes without saying that those who achieve a great deal in their endeavours are the ones who do not give up easily even when faced with lack of early success.
So persistence is good. But does that mean we must remain stubbornly resolute even when all the signs are showing that the probability of our succeeding even in the distant future is almost down to zero? I don't think so.
Unfortunately, this is what many of us who toil every day to transform our lives, our businesses and our relationships keep on doing. We find it difficult to stop pursuing dreams which have become nothing other than pipedreams.
Though we may hide behind the old persistence mantra and use it to justify our actions, there are often other factors which render us incapable of ditching whatever is not working in our lives.
In my personal experience, I've discovered that a strong emotional attachment to a once-profitable, most beloved business or a previously wonderful relationship could be the one thing preventing anyone from cutting their losses, dumping the whole show and moving in a different direction.
But there is a more sinister factor - fear.
The fear of being laughed at or being called a failure or a quitter is, in fact, responsible for many instances of people refusing to let go of doomed personal projects in order to take a different route.
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