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You know, some people don’t know when enough is enough. Pushing and pushing and pushing a bit more until they break through. While others scoff, achievers brush it off and apply even greater focus on their goal. I know pushing through perceived limits works. Having a healthy level of skepticism is fine if it helps you to be realistic enough to avoid major disasters. A little skepticism may serve you in planning stages but it doesn’t give you the wind under your sails or feed the burning desire that helps you achieve. Trying, failing, assessing, learning, trying again. It’s a cycle. Learning by persisting makes us better, more deserving of success. Take this man – a real-life example of ultimate persistence to He was the son of a very ordinary man. He had rudimentary education. His mother died when he was only nine. He worked in a grocery store at 21. At 22, he decided to open his own store and as bankrupt a short time later! When he was 23, he stood for a seat in parliament and was defeated. He was broke again at 25 when he attempted to build another business. When he found his true love and proposed, she died just before their wedding. He suffered a nervous breakdown and studied part-time for 6 yrs to become a lawyer. Please note, mental sickness is not a pre-requisite to a law career, but working as a lawyer may cause the condition ;-) When 29, he tried for parliament again and was defeated a second time. He tried again at 34 and again at 37 - defeated both times. Finally he married, had four sons and three died. He was defeated in parliament once again at 39. That didn’t stop him from trying yet again at 46.... and at 49! Do you think he listened to the scoffers around him? Do you think he bowed to pressure to give the career as a politician away? No! He kept trying! Finally at the age of 52, Abraham Lincoln became the President of the USA. This man was one of the greatest and should give us motivation to address what we really want to do, what we would want to do if we hung in there and worked the Success Cycle. My point is this, the number of times we actually succeed is based on the number of times we try and not give up!! Yours in abundance! The Richest Man
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